todzi, to history German
@todzi@historians.social avatar
Eka_FOOF_A, to space
@Eka_FOOF_A@spacey.space avatar

Q: Is that a metric or imperial butt load?
A: Royal butt load.

emill1984, to cs2 Polish
@emill1984@101010.pl avatar

Za ok. 10-15 minut pierwszy mecz na - naszymi pierwszymi rywalami brazylijczycy z

Streamy:
https://www.twitch.tv/pgl
https://www.twitch.tv/izakooo

@esport

video/mp4

emill1984, to cs2 Polish
@emill1984@101010.pl avatar

No i poznalismy wszystkie zespoly, ktore od 17 marca w Kopenhadze beda walczyc w pierwszym turnieju Major (klubowych mistrzostwach swiata) w erze Counter-Strike 2.

Zaskoczenia po amerykanskich kwali? Na pewno (ktore niegdys bylo wysmiewane jako typowy, beznadziejny przedstawiciel sceny polnocno-amerykanskiego CS-a) pokonujace i eliminujace z walki , ktore - troche podobnie jak - wpompowalo gruba kase w sklad i narazie nic im to nie dalo. Ale z drugiej strony, Liquid to bardzo swiezy sklad, wiec to jeszcze o niczym nie swiadczy.

🇵🇱 w pierwszym spotkaniu zagra z Brazylijskim - nie powinno byc trudno, ale... ;)

@esport

jstevenyork, to random
@jstevenyork@mastodon.social avatar

So I bought an LED shop light yesterday and I was just looking at the installation instructions and it says to install two ceiling hooks 44.08 inches apart. There are no instructions. That bugged me, and I assumed it had been manufactured overseas in metric and would translated to a round metric number. It translates to... 111.963cm. WTF?! Even if you assume rounding errors, why 112cm? Not 100 or 120 or even 115? WHYISTHIS!

paninid, to history
@paninid@mastodon.world avatar
bodomenke, to iOS
@bodomenke@hessen.social avatar

Safari converts automatically into human readable units.

Nice, didn’t know that.

monkeyflower, to space

The significant implications of using the Metric System.

Luccus, to america German
@Luccus@chaos.social avatar

1l of (4°C) water weighs 1kg.
1kg (of anything) is 1000g.
1g of water is 1cm³.
Stack 1000 1cm³ blocks to get a 10m high column.
This column exerts a pressure of 1 bar at its base.*
To heat it by 1°C, you would need 1kcal.
And 1N would accelerate it by 1m/s every second.

I had to google how many inches are in 7 feet.
And I think that's stupid.

chrisoffner3d, to random

George Washington's dream of a country where men are free to choose their own system of weights and measures is alive and well. 🇺🇸🦅

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk

nando161, to journalism
@nando161@kolektiva.social avatar

the usamerican (& western media more broadly) is assiduously and rabidly pro-israel. this is not because "jews control the media", it is because the usamerican media is rabidly pro-all of the usa's client states and eager to fall behind the state department line as has been proven time and time again across countless conflicts . pointing this out is not antisemitic.

hanse_mina, to philosophy
@hanse_mina@nafo.uk avatar

Rumors are once again circulating that certain allies, mainly the United States, are seeking a peace agreement with Russia.

As always with indirect statements, such as leaks to the media, these must be taken with caution. But certain trends are confirmed by diplomats this author has spoken to in confidence.

There can be no peace with Russia, just as there could have been no peace with and in 1945.

https://cepa.org/article/there-can-be-no-peace-with-russia/

Private
AnnalesHSS,

How did a Portuguese become a saint, whose worship is still strong today?

In a stunning fine-grained, , Margherita Trento (EHESS) weaves together all the threads of the and of a Jesuit in the early-modern encounter in the south of the subcontinent.

👉 "Martyrdom, Witnessing, and Social Lineages in the Tamil Country (17th-18th c.)": https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annales-histoire-sciences-sociales-english-edition/article/abs/martyrdom-witnessing-and-social-lineages-in-the-tamil-country/8C80008A9F920E96A26AFD64CCB77A83

@histodons

usluck, to memes
@usluck@channels.im avatar
RememberUsAlways,
@RememberUsAlways@newsie.social avatar

@usluck

Sigh. The history of measurement is actually quite interesting and explains how nature and early agriculture trade drove much of the imperial measurement system.

vs

"In 1836, the United States Department of the Treasury formally adopted the Winchester bushel as the standard for dealing in grain and, defined as 2,150.42 cubic inches, it remains so today."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_measure

gebrauchskunst, to chile German
@gebrauchskunst@layer8.space avatar

https://arteptweb-a.akamaihd.net/am/ptweb/116000/116000/116002-000-A_SQ_0_VA-STA_08126970_MP4-2200_AMM-PTWEB-60692549332045_28Szjz7Bzz.mp4

Bis 15/08/2026

Der Kampf um 1/3
der

wollte den chilenischen Staat modernisieren u. die Armut bekämpfen. Doch.... organisierten ..wilde Streiks,
u.
drehte Chiles den Hahn ab.

Als sie begriffen, dass sie mit en Methoden nicht ausschalten konnten, bereiteten sie den vor.

e

InayaShujaat, to random
@InayaShujaat@paktodon.asia avatar

Blocking anyone who tries to rationalise why it’s okay for an instance to have language rules. That’s just next level bullshit, and I’m having none of it.

hanse_mina, to TeslaMotors
@hanse_mina@nafo.uk avatar

Musk exposed.

" was also growing increasingly uneasy with the fact that his technology was being used for warfare. That month, at a conference in Aspen attended by business and political figures, Musk even appeared to express support for Vladimir . “He was onstage, and he said, ‘We should be negotiating. Putin wants peace—we should be negotiating peace with Putin,’ ”"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule

GeriatricGardener,
@GeriatricGardener@kolektiva.social avatar

@hanse_mina isn’t the only well-known uber-wealthy helping to sustain the permanent war complex!

Jeff ’ “ Is Investing in -Assisted in : Since 2014, Amazon has been pouring $billions into , contributing to illegal settlement programs and the relentless of . Israel’s dystopian end goal: to compile biometric profiles and security ratings for every resident of the West Bank.”

via Ahmad in @jacobinbot

https://jacobin.com/2023/08/amazon-ai-israel-palestine-apartheid-surveillance/

farhanasultana, to maui
@farhanasultana@mastodon.social avatar

What is happening in & elsewhere is , where & oppression, exploitation & control create conditions of worsening .

A couple of readings to help more comprehensive understanding of these components related to :
🧵⤵️

  1. What is climate coloniality: https://www.farhanasultana.com/climate-coloniality/

  2. What is climate justice: https://www.farhanasultana.com/critical-climate-justice/

  3. What is decolonizing climate governance: https://tinyurl.com/yc2avxr7

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etaski, to fantasy
@etaski@mastodon.online avatar

The "Take No Prisoners"
Get it here! :ablobcatbongo: https://storybundle.com/sfwa

Today’s

William L. Hahn's

THE RING AND THE FLAG (Shards of Light Book 1)

Newly-graduated officer Justin is convinced he has no future. When he's assigned a secret mission to rescue the from the brink of , he could be literally correct.

@bookstodon @bookstadon @fantasy @sffbookclub

loshmi, to Vienna
@loshmi@social.coop avatar

Giving a talk tomorrow, Jul 13 on history and contemporary in the at UniKonstanz. It will take place via Zoom (link below).

Do you want to know why certain historic buildings are restored, and what that has to do with rising rent? Are you interested in and cities? Do you care about post-industrial ? Come check it out!

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-137438?title=imperial-history-and-contemporary-gentrification-in-the-balkans&recno=4&q=Balkan&sort=newestPublished&fq=&total=13

@histodons

avatar, to ukteachers
avatar, to writing

God’s Bootstraps

https://eldraeverse.com/2023/06/26/gods-bootstraps/

-effectives -transcend -a-day -legions -mechanics

itnewsbot, to random
@itnewsbot@schleuss.online avatar
autonomysolidarity, to random German
@autonomysolidarity@todon.eu avatar

Frontex, das wohl als eine von der EU eigens zur gnadenlosen Bekämpfung von Menschen in Not eingerichtete Agentur bezeichnet werden kann, baut die Überwachung immer weiter aus.
Mit Millionensummen werden hier neue Überwachungs- und Kontrolltechniken an den Schwächsten und Wehrlosesten erprobt und verfeinert.
Wir sollten nicht zulassen, dass immer mehr sichtbare und unsichtbare Grenzen um uns herum gezogen werden, die uns alle zu Gefangenen machen!
Mauern einreißen! Frontex versenken!
FÄHREN statt Frontex! No Borders No Nations!

https://www.golem.de/news/grenzueberwachung-frontex-installiert-kameras-in-der-stratosphaere-2209-168566.html?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=twitterfeed&utm_source=twitter.com&s=35

EU-Empfehlung an Griechenland : Frontex-Drohne darf erstmals im zivilen Luftraum fliegen

https://netzpolitik.org/2022/eu-empfehlung-an-griechenland-frontex-drohne-darf-erstmals-im-zivilen-luftraum-fliegen/

autonomysolidarity,
@autonomysolidarity@todon.eu avatar

"

Reported To Be Among Thousands Dead Or Feared Dead
According to spokesperson Matthew Saltmarsh (InfoMigrants), "The floods caused a mass displacement, adding to the number of people who were already displaced before Storm Daniel hit the country. However, estimates of flood-induced population displacement are not available yet."
Before the disaster, 46,000 Internally Displaced Persons () lived in the devastated eastern part of the country, where more than 1,000 Refugees are registered with the UNHCR.

However:
"UNHCR is aware that a larger number of forcibly displaced people that are not registered with UNHCR live in the areas hit by the storm and flooding", says UNHCR

30% of the estimated 705,746 Migrants hosted by Libya live in the eastern part.

Libya has been serving as border extension for 's with its and policies:
, , , illegal , , Rape, , Extortion, Exploitation, and other kinds of heinous "
From:
https://t.me/vbnmgdst/5766
via @Niusha

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