NikkiDimes
@NikkiDimes@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 3 weeks ago:
The solstices are a Western idea that has been propagated through European colonialism and conquest. They are now widely accepted around the world, but this was not always the case.
Cultures like India, Japan, and natives in Australia or Northern Canada (as a small handful of examples) have historically split the seasons into as few a 6 seasons and as many as like 24. Then, there are some cultures in tropical climates that simply use two.
Your general feeling comes from what you know, and what you know is limited to your personal worldview.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 4 weeks ago:
Technically correct
- Comment on New social experiment 4 weeks ago:
/NotPr0n
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 4 weeks ago:
Interesting thought, but not all cultures historically broke the seasons into four parts as is common now. The current common four season status quo is very Euro-centric.
- Comment on Help, what have I found 1 month ago:
…heroes in a half-shell* 😋
- Comment on Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations 2 months ago:
…What are the inconvenient truths?
- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 2 months ago:
HTTPS used to be very expensive and out of reach for most smaller orgs. Let’s Encrypt brought easy mass adoption and changed encryption availability on the web for everyone.
- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 2 months ago:
Yeah, I uh…I think that’s kinda what this whole conversation here is about
- Comment on Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations 2 months ago:
Maybe they were humans who’ve realized how dumb they were and ceased posting? One can hope, anyway…
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 2 months ago:
If it’s not sunny where you live, then you just get electricity from where it is sunny. It’s really really simple
Yeah, really, really simple. Wait, what are transmission losses?
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 2 months ago:
Take shrooms and watch as the divisions between the little bits break down into absolute chaos :D
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 2 months ago:
Have you ever swiped on your phone, but the screen doesn’t move (due to end of content, or unknowingly being an unswipable screen), and you feel your eyes jerk automatically in reflex, predicting the movement that didn’t happen?
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 2 months ago:
And then there’s the rare moment when you think they have it so you let go and it falls to the floor 😭
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 2 months ago:
To be fair, I’ve been on there calling the fascists and Trump apologists out. The pennies they get from ads pale in comparison to the fact I bought a Tesla years ago womp womp 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🫤
- Comment on Tiger Predators 2 months ago:
I hear what you’re saying, and you’re 100% correct, but I think most people will realize it’s a figure of speech, and easier to say than “Via the process of gene mutation trial and error over many, many generations of Tigers, spots have developed on their ears that look like eyes, resulting in predation from behind being discourged.”
- Comment on Crunchyroll just Committed a Federal Crime. 2 months ago:
Just went down the rabbit-hole of the acquisition of MySQL as I was bored. What a fascinating story.
Dude who made originally made it in 1995, Michael Widenius, named it after his daughter My, hence MySQL. He sold it to Sun for $1 billion in 2008. He then turned around, forked the software, and produced MariaDB (I always wondered why it was named that) starting a new organization around it in 2009. It’s functionally nearly identical, often able to be used as a drop in replacement, assuming you aren’t using new features developed after the fork. Last month, he sold it again to some private equity firm (yay…). What a guy.
Unfortunately, he’s run out of daughters to name software after and already used his son’s name for something else, so we might be at the end of open source community driving DB solutions from Michael.
- Comment on Please be patient. 2 months ago:
No, E=mc^2^ is the equation of converting mass to energy. Nothing is being destroyed, but simply changing state.
- Comment on Please be patient. 2 months ago:
I mean…if energy can not be created nor destroyed, it kind of lends to this hypothesis… 🤔
- Comment on Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says. 2 months ago:
For saying hi of course c:
- Comment on Get good. 2 months ago:
I have taught my kids to communicate with me entirely in Morse code via blinking.
It’s perfect as it’s nigh impossible to be interrupted, and back-talk doesn’t matter because they look too stupid to even get upset about.
- Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces 3 months ago:
That was a previous satellite. This one appears to still be unknown if I’m not mistaken.
Makes me wonder if we have some Kessler Syndrome on it hands…
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 3 months ago:
The web didn’t die after the dot com bubble burst. The AI bubble will burst, but a smaller niche of companies will continue to exist.
- Comment on Nobel Prize 2024 3 months ago:
Weeeell, sheeiiiiit
- Comment on Magic Mineral 3 months ago:
😬😬😬😬😬😬
- Comment on I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences 3 months ago:
QR codes have built in redundancy and error correction though
- Comment on After 11 years, Xbox One emulators are finally coming to PC - but they're not actually using emulation at all 3 months ago:
So…software emulation…
- Comment on You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first 3 months ago:
I think imminent natural disaster trumps that just a tad bit.
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 3 months ago:
I can’t speak for that device in particular, but I’ve been using a Galaxy Fold for a few years now and the crease is literally nothing. In most cases, you’re looking dead on at the phone and you can’t see it. If you’re outside it becomes slightly more noticeable, but the bright glare from the sun in general makes for more of a problem than the crease.
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 3 months ago:
L+ratio on Lemmy. That’s crazy.
- Comment on Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars With Just a License Plate. 3 months ago:
Fucking wot