AEsheron

@AEsheron@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Đere’s no escaping us, broðer.

  Once upon a time, English both used thorn, the character you are replacing, and eth, the one I just used here. One was used for words like that, this, there, and the other was used for thin, thank, and throw. That didn’t last very long, linguistically speaking. The quickly became interchangeable, and thorn rapidly became the most popular one. But I think if people want to bring it back, we should bring them both back. And while we’re at it, we should bringing back the “four form system.” IE, we used to have two different ways to say yes or no, those two words were specifically used to answer a negative question. Current English leaves negative questions impossible to answer with a single word wothout ambiguity. “Will they not go?” cannot be answered with only yes or no in Modern English’s 2 form system. But with a 4 form system, we had yea and nay for general usage. “Will they go?” Yea means they will, nay means they won’t. But with the negative form of the question, “Will they not go?” Yes means they will, and no means they won’t. Over time yea and nay were both dropped and yes and no became universal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was used all the way up to modern English. It was one of several characters that just got dropped because they wanted to use fewer when the printing press was adapted for English. Back then it was kind of the wild west for spelling, especially when printing words that used those characters. For example, sometimes they would just replace the character with a not often used one that was obviously a stand-in from context because it just didn’t fit naturally, in this case before “th” became the standard replacement, “y” was often used. One of the most commonly used examples that most people don’t realize is “ye,” as in “ye olde pub,” etc. While “ye,” pronounced as it is spelled, was used as a less formal “you,” “ye” in this context was understood to be pronounced as “the.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Stellaris is a space 4x game that uses energy as a universal currency. The Endless Space games are also 4x games that use ancient nanomachines called Dust as currency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Black Holes...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC, the biggest uncertainty is about the singularity. I don’t know if it’s still true, but my understanding was that the consensus is that it isn’t really a true point of infinitely dense mass. That is how our current models say it must be, but many assumed our current models are incomplete and that more accurate ones will show that it must have some volume. And given the extreme nature of them, any updates to our models might have some significant repercussions in other aspects of them too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Black Holes...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Time is relarive to your frame of reference. You are always the source of your own frame of reference, so you can never feel the effect of time dilation on yourself. At worst, it would look like the universe outside the horizon started to accelerate to unimaginable speeds. But you would never feel trapped in an unending, at worst that is simply what it would look like to us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried naming the states from memory as a European⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So is New York City, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried naming the states from memory as a European⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My first thought was to scan it to see if they at least got Boston in the NYC section. Only to realize NYC is not in NYC but is actually in Nomansland.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uhh...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The original was on a patch with 4 figures, all a single color. This variant was floated for the MTG circle jerk subreddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨D E A L⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dietary calcium is great for preventing stones, actually. Calcium is bound to a couple different things that cause stones, but the body actually makes those things specifically to bind with calcium. When it happens where it is supposed to, this is a good thing. If you are low on calcium, these things get flushed, and may get trapped in the kidney. Then any calcium that passes through may bind to it. Having higher calcium intake helps prevent them from building up in the kidneys to begin with. Though extremely high amounts of calcium from vitamin supplements etc can increase the risk of getting stones, but high calcium diet is one of the best defenses against them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨D E A L⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is actually not an excess of calcium that’s usually the problem, calcium deficiency is actually a greater risk for most. While yes, the most common types are both chemicals that are in part calcium, the body is meant to produce them, just in different parts of the body. Usually, a deficiency in calcium allows those other compounds that should be used up in other places to be flushed through the kidneys, possibly building up. Then incidental calcium that does move through the kidney binds to them there. Higher dietary calcium intake is associated with a sharp decline in stone risk, though extremely high intakes from vitamin supplements etc do increase risk. But in general, it is an excess of the things that bind to calcium that are the things to avoid, apparently almonds are pretty much the worse thing ever, with a fairly distant second being chocolate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I have rejected increased cost games for this very reason. But Nintendo is one of the few companies I believe would do it to cover their costs instead of just preying upon general apathy towards inflation since covid to jack up profit. They are too rich for my blood at the time, but if I had the income to splurge this would be one of a vanishingly small number of places I would be willing to put up with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That explains a lot⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure the whole point of this article is we have confirmed tiny black holes do rapidly evaporate. We’ve theoretically known that any black hole just about our sun’s mass or smaller will spew more Hawking Radiation than it can consume mass and will shrink. And this process should accelerate as the mass shrinks. This seems to be the first expiremental evidence to support the well established theory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants $3 million⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the glass, the metal frame was being slowly destroyed though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants $3 million⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The planet broke before the guard!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time travel is easy, it's just lame⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even more specifically, if we are talking a temporal teleport, then this shouldn’t be a surprise. Most mainstream fiction uses teleports for time travel, pop out of one time and into another without experiencing the time between. As opposed to the device Farnsworth made in The Late Philip J. Fry, where they actually just change speed through time instead of skipping through it. In the latter case, you shouldn’t have to worry about this issue at all. But with a teleport, any teleportation device is simultaneously a temporal and spatial teleport, due to causality and the nature of spacetime. So any teleport would need spacetime coordinates, not just spatial or temporal coordinates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a winner⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been a long time, but I very much remember it being played as the powers that be are simply afraid to acknowledge that V is back. They do attack Harry’s story some to help justify keeping their heads in the sand, but that didn’t seem like the point to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They just don't write good fantasy like this anymore.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be a bit more precise, people did sometimes carry swords on their back, but generally not into battle. It was more comfortable for travel, but impossible to draw, so when they were expecting trouble they would move it to the hip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gives a piracy history lesson⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Theu saw the writing on the walls. They knew the big dogs would want a slice of the streaming game and they needed to pivot before the rug got pulled out from ubder them. Hulu was already being constructed when they were recalling shifting into making their own products IIRC. It wasn’t just VC that got them to their golden era, they also relied on the industry bot taking streaming seriously enough and giving them deals that they never would today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have what it takes to become a geologist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahhh, OK, I see it now, thanks very much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have what it takes to become a geologist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel dumb, I don’t get the ace bit. Was it just slang, like he’s cool, and then they swerved it? Or was there something that actually made the commentary think they were asexual in the image? Now I feel dumb and old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Halloween Botany⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There is evidence to show that violet does actually weakly activates red cones too. This is because the violet light starts creeping up to double the frequency of the lower end of the red sensitivity, and so it can actually successfully activate it very weakly. There are other factors that can lessen or even fully negate that effect though, it’s all kind of fuzzy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What bug is this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not a bug. It’s a feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think his issues more stemmed from academia and the rat race within it, not so much the ethical issues of mathematics and what they can lead to. Just shitty crabs trying to escape the bucket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name generator⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Teet Stracos I think. Which might be one of Luke’s buddies on that island…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name generator⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Chackin Meese

  Cheef Balupa

  Joppie Sloe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men: What sequence do you fellow to dry your body off after showering or bathing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Using a single sheet towel.

  B, A, using one whole side of the towel. Then fold it in half with the dry side out. Shoulders/begin C3, C4, C1, finish C3/C2, D2, D1, E1, E2, F, all with one side of the towel. Then flip it and use the dry outer side to do a quick pass in the same order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon starts asking questions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It has as the sole cause. But when you have a couple big spinny bits, there is going to be some gyroscopic effect, and it does help keep it upright. It just can’t on its own, it provides a small assist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They don’t think it be like it is, but it do!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But fish don’t exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Venom vs Poison⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is also true. Poisonous doesn’t specifically mean “dangerous when eaten” when talking about the substance. It is an insanely broad category. It basically just means the substance is harmful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Socialism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sapient, not sentient. Sci fi has co-opted the word, but sentient basically means able to feel emotions. There are plenty of sentient species right here at home. Sapient is the word sci-fi usually wants, there are no known sapient species aside from humans. Though some may argue that a couple other animals may qualify, it’s a very fuzzy concept that is hard to identify with a being unable to communicate abstract concepts.