DharmaCurious
@DharmaCurious@startrek.website
- Comment on Clock logic 6 days ago:
Dammit, that wasn’t supposed to post yet. I’m still in the process of revising! Lol.
- Comment on Clock logic 6 days ago:
There was a metric clock after the revolution, it didn’t last long, because it was bad. It made the day (as in, the 24 hour day) 10 metric hours long, and contained 100 minutes and 100 seconds. Meaning a metric hour is about 2.24 standard hours. Having only 10 hours in a day meant it was harder to schedule things, and you had to be much more precise. 10 is also just not as divisible as 12 or 60. There’s a reason why base 12 systems have staying power, even when they’re converted into base 10 and feel clunky.
My suggestion for a better metric clock, still keeping the standard base 10 of metric, would be to divide the day into daytime and nighttime hours, and giving each of them 10 so it feels all nice and frenchy. 100 minutes, 100 seconds.
That makes the metric hour about equivalent to 72 standard minutes, and the metric minute about 43 standard seconds
1 metric second would be a little less than half our current second.
The day is nearly divided into two segments, daytime (DT) and nighttime (NT) that parallels the am/pm system. I don’t particularly like this, as I prefer a 24 hour clock in our currently system, but it’s still an improvement on the actual metric clock from the revolution.
Now, if you want an actual improvement, and not just a clock that goes well with your other systems of measure, you’d need to attend on my Ted Talk on why we should transition to base 12 for everything (not go to the American/imperial system, but actual base 12. As in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, X, E, 10). The meter can stay the same physical length, the dozenal kilo would balance a scale with old one, but divide everything in the new system, giving us significantly more ways to divide things evenly, and keeping the nice round “10s.”
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Couldn’t students just generate a paper with ChatGPT, open two windows wide by side and then type it out in a word document?
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 week ago:
Y’all need to stop offering me this, I’m gonna take one of you up on it. I want out of the south :(
- Comment on Foolproof advice 1 week ago:
Ha. She’s one worth crying over. Lost her in April, and I don’t know that I’ll recover. Hug your loved ones. ♥️
But I will tell you, she taught me how to steal fantastic cheeses, and we never went hungry again. Haha.
- Comment on Foolproof advice 1 week ago:
Would marry that farmer. No questions asked, no long engagement. Straight to the court house, we’re getting hitched.
- Comment on Foolproof advice 1 week ago:
My mom and I used to steal fancy cheese for each other. God I miss that woman like you can’t believe. 10/10 mom and person.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 week ago:
Personally I was only 14-16 for like 5 years at most
- Comment on Like a heart 1 week ago:
Lmao. That stands for leaded and regular. Sheesh.
- Comment on Elevator Art 1 week ago:
Honestly, that’s fucking genius. They should do murals on elevators doors that change as they open
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 week ago:
Provided I don’t get stuck in a camp before then, I’m about to start nursing school. Once I have a BSN I’m getting my ass to a blue state. In the meantime it’s SC and TX D:
- Comment on Good news. :) 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, at this point, I think when is the more accurate term. Balkanization is coming, I’m pretty sure
- Comment on Good news. :) 2 weeks ago:
Said it before and I’ll say it again: if Cascadia ever looks like it’s gonna become a thing I’ll drive myself there and be homeless rather than live in the US with a weakened and even more right wing Senate and house.
- Comment on holup 2 weeks ago:
This is the way. And I sleep HOT. I will uncover my whole body and leave my feet covered. I cannot sleep with uncovered feet
- Comment on YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, you’re pretty out of option for an older iron on patch. Curved needles are your best bet if you’re comfortable using them. I hate using them personally, another reason I’ll unstitch and hand sew it back together. I’ve got a machine to do some of the heavy lifting, though
- Comment on YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment 2 weeks ago:
Iron on patches are your friend for areas like this. Curved needles as someone else suggested also work.
But because I hate my hands, I almost always just unstitch the pocket and lining, sew the patches on, and then reconstruct the pocket and lining. Probably don’t do this, I get hyper fixated on projects and do things the long way round.
- Comment on Press F to pay respects 3 months ago:
If you are into solar punk slrpnk.net has been amazing for me. Due to some weird timing with the admin being out of town when the servers went down they’re down right now for a bit, so I’m not sure when they’ll be back up and running. But the current situation is a hiccup, not a consistent issue. I love the server, and if anything, the community reaction to the admin being unable to fix this for a few weeks has made me love it even more.
- Comment on Vomiting Emoji 3 months ago:
You rock! Thank you!
- Comment on Vomiting Emoji 3 months ago:
It works for me on Whatsapp, but not on Eternity, the app I use for Lemmy. Wonder why. Thank you for answering though! I’m old enough that I rarely actually use emoji, and just go with emoticons, but this is cool to know!
- Comment on Vomiting Emoji 3 months ago:
I will completely forget to come back and check this, but if you get an answer, would you mind hollering at me and letting me know?
- Comment on where are worker rights parades? why are we focusing on very limited issues? 3 months ago:
That’s one of the reasons I didn’t comment on the post itself, and only replied to another person. Because I can’t quite tell which way OP was leaning on that, and I didn’t want to be uncharitable.
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 3 months ago:
I’m a communist. I don’t mean to say I’m here because of the leftist population (though, that is nice sometimes, but as in any lefty heavy place there’s infighting and bullshit), but rather I have certain values that guide my decision making process, and one of them is not supporting massive corporations and shitty services when possible. Lemmy is an alternative to reddit that doesn’t benefit the same class of people as reddit, while actively benefiting the people who actually use it.
- Comment on where are worker rights parades? why are we focusing on very limited issues? 3 months ago:
I feel like ever since the term shifted from “gay liberation” to “gay pride” (and eventually to the more inclusive LGBTQ+ pride) it has hindered the movement in a lot of ways. Liberation tells you what this is about, pride tells you… You’re proud? Good for you. Lots of people are proud, but not all people need liberation (or, at least, not everyone thinks they need it).
I vote we go back to calling it Liberation, and instead of bickering over why people are at the queer event and not a workers event, we start organizing monthly or bimonthly events, a queer/LGBT liberation event, a women’s liberation event, a worker’s liberation event, Hispanic Liberation event… Let’s pepper the calendar with parties and parades and protests while drilling into people’s minds that we are all deserving of respect, autonomy, and liberation.
Not sure how well I said all that. I’m about 5 boozy horchatas in, and I hate to do the “as a gay man” thing, but I feel like I should mention I am, in fact, a gay, and I quite enjoy pride and what it stands for