Warl0k3
@Warl0k3@lemmy.world
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 19 hours ago:
is a thing just because time always tends towards 5:43 and one we pass it, we use the next 5:43 as a target.
Yes exactly, which is why I said you may be overthinking it when you were trying to interpret it as anything more than this. The Equinox were a critical time for the calibration of sundials, hence why I chose them.
just because you can’t admit that you heard precession of the equinoxes in the past and misremembered it.
But, why? It would have been perfectly valid to bring up in the original context - you yourself brought up the complicating factor of minor celestial events in it’s applicability to - and “progression towards the equinox” is a fine-if-slightly-florid way to describe the passage of time towards a significant event. There’s no reason for me to have done that.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 19 hours ago:
The significance of the equinox in premodern calendar systems is pretty well established - stonehenge is an easy example of how it was taken into consideration, and was used to mark out significant dates.
How can time itself progress towards equinoxes, which are points in time?
I think you might be overthinking what I said. To highlight the absurdity of your question: One day comes after another day. Eventually, on one of those, days the arrangement of celestial bodies wherein the length of the day equinox will happen. From wikipedia:
An equinox is equivalently defined as the time when the plane of Earth’s equator passes through the geometric center of the Sun’s disk.
We’ll reach that arrangement again as time progresses. The progression of time, will bring us to the point in which that arrangement occurs. If you would prefer, “progression towards the equinoxes” is a slightly less florid way of expressing the same concept.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 20 hours ago:
You understand that it’s just a description, right? It’s not a term.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 21 hours ago:
No, I mean the progression towards the equinoxes - historically the equinoxes were the common way to demark calendar dates, and as a result they’re a useful reference point. Not universal, of course, but still frequently used enough to be useful.
I get you’re arguing because, well, this is the internet and I contradicted you. That’s how it works, our egos are too tied up in our comments alone and it’s too easy to read any tone into a comment that we’d like. We get heated. So in that spirit, let me be explicit that I’m not trying to be rude to you when I say this: You’re oversimplifying the metaphor to make your point.
For example: I’ve been sitting around for a full day, but the damn clock says only twelve minutes have gone by.
You adjust a sundial in the morning, and then can read it from there (assuming it hasn’t been jostled) - but you still have to be aware of the rules and conventions of the system, and work within it’s boundaries. If we arbitrarily dismiss critical parts of it’s operation, there will be no meaning in anything we have to say. The territory of things like “clocks don’t measure time, they measure circles and everything we derive from them is thence wild and baseless speculation”, literally true and I can defend that position until we both die of carefully-measured old age, but so over-reduced as to be completely meaningless.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 22 hours ago:
So no, you don’t - you’ve forgotten to calibrate the sundial.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
This is some spectacular persecution fetish, my god.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 day ago:
Yeah, which is why I explicitly clarify that that’s not a justifiable reason for them to be harassed.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 day ago:
See the problem here is that’s not… at all what I said. And you’re trying to claim moral superiority based off flawed claims. Drag is extra weird, and that’s fine on it’s own - what’s not fine is forcing their fetish on other nonconsenting people, something they have expressly made clear that they do.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 day ago:
Trying to play off being a jerk to someone over a two paragraph response here as somehow having passed value judgement just makes you look like you enjoy being mean.
If this is really what you’re like, twitter is right over there and they love this kind of behavior.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 day ago:
Why would you want to throw a car without wheels into the water? Why wouldn’t you just use a boat?
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 day ago:
Correct, its a boat.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 day ago:
A publicly accessible forest is an excellent example of a third space, well done.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 day ago:
Man it sure is easy to claim victory when you refuse to engage with the other person, ain’t it? But well done for puttin’ me in my place, I sure am humbled to know that someone who balks at reading 179 whole words might disagree with me…
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 day ago:
We have those, they’re called boats.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 day ago:
Okay, it was a bad one.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 day ago:
IDK if that one’s exactly comparable, drag has repeatedly clarified about it being explicitly a fetish thing (not just a furry thing) and while they are annoying as all fuck even without the cringe neopronouns, the real issue there is how incredibly not okay it is bing people into your fetish without their consent. Drag is a dip and, while a lot of the hate they get is probably based around hetero-normative societal values and really isn’t justified on that account, the pronouns only exacerbate the pushback they get about their wildly toxic behavior, they don’t drive it.
The thorne thing is just annoying, and would probably be a non-issue if the person doing it weren’t so incredibly eager to draw attention to it and then start fights by spouting rhetoric that at this point they have to know is wrong.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 2 days ago:
Even if you find one where there isn’t an emphasis on tithes or donation, that’s not exactly a space set up for public socializing. It’s a private space, used by a dedicated and defined group, for socializing within that group. Outsiders may be welcome, but they’re only welcome within that structure.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 2 days ago:
No u
- Comment on If I shut off the internet how many days do you think it would take before people lose their minds? 2 days ago:
What was?
- Comment on If I shut off the internet how many days do you think it would take before people lose their minds? 3 days ago:
Oh that’s it, that’s the good stuff I crave.
- Comment on If I shut off the internet how many days do you think it would take before people lose their minds? 3 days ago:
I clearly am not able to shut down all of the internet again
That sure reads like them fantasizing they personally have the power to personally turn it off. But It ain’t my fantasy, and I think this isn’t really the salient point here.
- Comment on If I shut off the internet how many days do you think it would take before people lose their minds? 3 days ago:
Yeah they’re a real piece of work.
- Comment on If I shut off the internet how many days do you think it would take before people lose their minds? 3 days ago:
Wait, whats being compared that’s different?
- Comment on If I shut off the internet how many days do you think it would take before people lose their minds? 3 days ago:
Man, probably not good when someone that’s been advocating for complete systemic segregation of the mentally ill and who thinks people dont “deserve” a chance at happiness starts fantasizing about having the power to shut down the internet. What, was the open fatphobic projection not enough for you?
- Comment on If I shut off the internet how many days do you think it would take before people lose their minds? 3 days ago:
Op is either a bad troll (likely) or a complete lunatic. Either way they’ve been unabashedly advocating for the mass segregation of the mentally ill and that people don’t “deserve” a chance at happiness all over their posts lately. They’re also a wannabe gun nut.
Probably best just to let them wallow in their own muck.
- Comment on Another day of AWS outages 3 days ago:
Aaaahahaahaha, oh it’s beautiful to see. Yeah, move my DMs to the cloud NOW why dontcha? Ohh, Amazon’s uptime is super reliable well guess what
- Comment on Here we go again... 3 days ago:
Eeh, this one has potential. It’s almost all the original crew (inc. the writers and the non Joss showrunner!) getting a chance to go back and tell more stories in a project they all loved and that’s had a lasting cultural impact. There’s a difference between people passionately revisitimg a sequel, and the gutless corpse of something being draped over a generic script and set loose on the unsuspecting villagers to milk them for all they’re worth like has been happening so much with Disney and Paramount lately (fucking Starfleet Academy)
- Comment on another TUI 4 days ago:
Yes, I believe we’re all aware of what it means, but thank you for trying to keep up…
- Comment on another TUI 4 days ago:
Man, if only there was a precedent for people putting the mentally ill into camps based off the raving and unfounded standards put forward by a charismatic yet unhinged vegan…
- Comment on another TUI 4 days ago:
I don’t care what you think.
… unless I think ‘mentally unstable’ things lol.