If you say "1.5 degrees celsius" most will hear one of two things:
A: 1.5°F, which they will further reduce to "nothing," because you can't really feel it. "A degree or two" means nothing.
B: ZERO, because they hear "small number I don't understand."
USE. FAHRENHEIT. AT. AMERICANS.
For real. "2 degrees (C)" means "basically nothing" but "4 degrees (F)" is "huh." It's something Americans know they can feel. Americans know the difference between 68F and 72F.
@moira: Can we likewise ask that Americans stop using pounds, gallons (especially gallons) miles, feet, fahrenheit and all those other deprecated units when pretending to talk to a global audience? Or just drag themselves into the 20th century.
@xi_timpin what makes ounces insane is that it's not "dry" vs "liquid" specifically it's that it's "weight" vs "volume."
i have PERSONALLY bought shit labelled in ounces and grams and thought "oh good it's in grams I can cook with weight" and SURPRISE IT WAS VOLUME OUNCES AND THE MAKER THEMSELVES DIDN'T KNOW ANY BETTER AND CONVERTED TO GRAMS.
so okay people were asking about my headcanon shit
I have a pointless amount of headcanon about this movie. Not the least of which being the IT crowd shutting down everything as fast as they can in order to get the situation under control, followed by slowly picking the pieces back up and putting shit back together.
And when they're doing that they find out that Computer has been fucked up for a while. Like, seriously for a while, and that's why there are big sections of the city which are broken and so on.
@moira
It's very cool to read. Thanks for your patience and sharing.
I have a PLA printed Honda logo that's been hanging on my motorcycle for 6 years and still looks brand new. I expected more degradation. @bart
ludicrous print settings, 0.12 layer height, bizarre angle and Silk WHite to try to create the vertical lines effect visible in the live-action appearance of Mariner and Boimler in SNW.
i remind everyone that the house republican clown show is live on c-span and the vote to remove the speaker is next. if you’re into clown shows, now’s a good time to start streaming. #uspol
Again, a bit more seriously: this really is Republicans demanding the same things Republicans have been demanding, and using Republican tactics to do it, which is: rule by minority, in this case, by a minority of the minority. No compromise, no such thing as a “loyal opposition”to work with, and if they don’t get it, they’ll break the House.
It’s “our country to rule, or no country to rule” writ ever more small.
because imperial is NOT american just mostly the same because AMERICAN TRADITIONAL is still on the fucking QUEEN ANNE BARREL and not the later larger barrel adapted by the British Empire after the American colonies won independence and from which all other volume units are derived
I was in a discussion today with @TechConnectify and @feditips about reply toxicity here, and I've tried to make all of that into a coherent post.
I want to go to #MastoDev with a version of this, but need to let it sit overnight and probably rewrite it. But I also think it's something anyone interested in non-corporate-controlled social media needs to think about, because a fair number of people go "influencers, fuck 'em" and that's... not how I think this needs to be understood. If you don't care about them, fine, but care about their followers who will follow them away.
Because like it or not, if you want to go against corporate-owned social media, you need these people too.
I don't think it's a good idea to design a social network around the needs of people with exceptional numbers of followers.
If you want to mainly have one-directional traffic, there are already many broadcast media available for people who want to follow rather than interact.
The idea of social networks is supposed to be about accounts being treated equally regardless of how many followers you have, especially on the Fediverse.
I grew up in OH, you see and thought that bagels were... baked. And that was because every "bagel" I'd ever eaten was baked ... because that's what the bagel shops thought too.
Finding out about this was like having a hole into a new dimension blown through my world.
@futurebird@moira
for about 6 months I lived near a place that boiled their bagels in salt water and roasted their coffee beans on site. Place smelled wonderful.
then they went out of business, and someone else bought the name, and the building, and ran a totally different sort of place that didn't do either of those things, but it lasted for about 13 years.
If you're not aware, Mastodon 4.2 will directly break relay.fedi.buzz, the relay many small instances like mine use to pull in posts from other instances based on hashtags used.
Guy I knew had a phrase, "can't stand prosperity." It refers to people who can't take good news, who have to turn it into bad news.
That's a lot of you. STOP IT.
See link. Is this a complete victory? No. Is it a step? Yes.
The response of a lot of lefties is "that's not perfect so it's shit, and you're shit for being happy about it." Not those exact words, but close, and it's exactly the attitude.
If that's not what you mean you react that way, then here's the correct response:
"Fuck yeah! Now let's make them do [the next step]."
Because "that's shit and you're wrong for being happy?" THAT'S NOT ANALYSIS, THAT'S SELF-SABOTAGE AND AIDING THE ENEMY.
This is legitimately a huge problem with the political left.
It's a form of purity culture. If a politician, company, law, whatever is not perfectly ideologically pure, then it's completely worthless and not worth supporting at all.
It's like we have all these #Exvangelicals on the left and literally the only thing they kept when they walked away from the religion they grew up with was the purity culture.
i wonder if there is a japanese woodworking channel somewhere with someone using exclusively traditional european tools one of which is branded "catholic"
@moira it's a Stanley #45 combination plane. You can stack in a number of cutters to make up molding profiles and move the fence to land that profile anywhere up to about 5" from the edge of board.
Of course they don't make them anymore and they are highly collectable.
OKAY. Stopping point on the Northshore Bike Map, connecting the latest Seattle and brand new Eastside map.
I've added everything I know and I've stumbled upon a bunch of things I didn't before. This has been educational.
I've also labelled a bunch of stuff, added replacement labels for certain attractions that had their labels obscured, and made a couple of corrections.
I'm not including the sidewalk/path hybrid along Ballinger because while sometimes it sure does feel like a path most of the time it's just "sidewalk."
DO YOU KNOW ROUTES I DON'T?
Tell me about them! But only if they're public. I've not included a couple of trails here because they're private.
This came up in discussion: the bike lockers at Lake Forest Park Town Centre are still there, but are NOT operational. They're sealed shut but for whatever reason haven't been removed.