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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
According to that Wikipedia article:

The furlong was historically viewed as being equivalent to the Roman stade (stadium), which in turn derived from the Greek system.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The French actually kicked out so much trash during the Revolution. Time units did stick around though, but at least they tried.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I properly and safely clean smartphone?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Other people have already given sensible suggestions, but I’ll mention one group of chemicals that can damage your phone: bases.

If your phone has aluminium parts, highly concentrated bases will begin to gradually dissolve them. Hopefully nobody was thinking of using dishwasher tablets to make a soap solution for your phone. That’s a bad idea, since the resulting solution has a very high pH-value (base). What about the power used for washing clothes? Same thing. Even regular hand soap is also basic, but it’s nowhere near that extreme.

Exposure time also matters. If you just wipe the phone with a damp cloth, the time will be very short. If you really want to damage the aluminium parts with hand soap, it’s going to take an absurdly long time to do anything. However, those dishwasher tablets are different beast.

Temperature matters too. These kinds of reactions happen faster if you heat up the solution.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
That’s a Babylonian thing. They were obsessed with highly divisible numbers like, 12, 24 and 60. Basically the opposite of prime numbers, which are super annoying to divide. Babylonians wanted their numbers to as nice as possible when dividing. For example, 60 is particularly nice since it’s not absurdly large, but when dividing it, you have lots of options.

All of this was long before the decimal point and calculators were invented, so divisibility was a big thing back then. Thanks to the babylonians, we have super messy time units now. Thanks to the Romans, we also have super messy units for length, weight and volume. That’s not a huge deal though, since basically nobody uses those any more.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you record yourself talking to someone and then watch the video... it feels very weird... like a bizzare out-of-body experience...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Ok, I can imagine that sort of thing has already happened. Pople do make absurdly long videos, so you could be looking at a month long editing taks. However, most people probably don’t isolate themselves from the rest of the world to that extent, but it is possible. Let’s say you have an autistic youtuber who can easily get lost in editing. They just focus on editing 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, talk to nobody, put the phone on flight mode etc. Yeah, I can imagine that. Besides, nowadays you also have self checkout machines at supermarkets, so you can also skip the eye contact thing entirely when restocking the pantry.

Under extreme circumstances like that, you should gradually forget what your own voice sounds like. Would it take, weeks, months or years? Who knows.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you record yourself talking to someone and then watch the video... it feels very weird... like a bizzare out-of-body experience...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
But that would have to go on for an extended period of time to work. You don’t forget your own voice in a week.

People who make videos and podcasts may wear headphones, but often they leave one ear open for reference. If you cover both ears, you end up talking so loudly that you can hear yourself, which isn’t really helping with the audio quality.

In order to fully isolate yourself from your own voice, you would have to always wear ANC headphones while talking. I guess that could be doable when making videos and podcasts. Another option is to isolate yourself from the world so you don’t even need to talk to anyone.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you record yourself talking to someone and then watch the video... it feels very weird... like a bizzare out-of-body experience...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Probably not. My guess is that you would consider that voice just as unfamiliar as the voice of some Rando you’ve never met before.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you record yourself talking to someone and then watch the video... it feels very weird... like a bizzare out-of-body experience...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, the reverse would be super freaky. However, arranging circumstances like that would be very hard. Like, how do you prevent yourself from hearing your own speech for an extended period of time? Either way, that would be quite an experience once you switch back to normal and you can hear yourself normally again.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you record yourself talking to someone and then watch the video... it feels very weird... like a bizzare out-of-body experience...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
How long did it take to get used to hearing your real voice?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you record yourself talking to someone and then watch the video... it feels very weird... like a bizzare out-of-body experience...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It’s unfamiliar, that’s all.
Normally, you don’t hear what your voice really sounds like. You hear a distorted version because your mouth and your ears are connected to the same body. When you get used to the distorted version, you begin to consider it normal. When you hear the real one for the first time, it sounds unfamiliar.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do bats have an option on their phones that turns photos upside down automatically?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The batphone doesn’t take pictures.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There aren't any ancient ruins with crazy traps and riddles⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, but that requires iron, redstone and slime.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There aren't any ancient ruins with crazy traps and riddles⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Step 4. Build a massive underground structure with tunnels, caves, catacombs, lava, angry spiders and secret doors.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If tomato is a fruit then lasagna is a fruit tart.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
And there you go! Lasagna is now officially a tomato cake.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If tomato is a fruit then lasagna is a fruit tart.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yum. Raw salmon toast!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There aren't any ancient ruins with crazy traps and riddles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Step 2. Hide the money
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There aren't any ancient ruins with crazy traps and riddles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
And then there are those secret doors where you pull a lever and the wall opens up on its own. What kind of mechanism would be reliable after all these years?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There aren't any ancient ruins with crazy traps and riddles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Well the pyramids at Giza were said to be cursed. Turns out, it was just gross occupational safety violations, but the effect was largely the same. If you breathe a thousand year old pathogens, you’re going to get sick.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If tomato is a fruit then lasagna is a fruit tart.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Plot twist: tomato is a berry

Spoiler
But only botanically speaking. In gastronomy, words have no logically consistent meanings. Anything goes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If tomato is a fruit then lasagna is a fruit tart.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Not only is that deeply cursed, it also exists.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If tomato is a fruit then lasagna is a fruit tart.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Getting closer. What if you think of pasta as type of unleavened bread. It’s made of wheat flour after all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If tomato is a fruit then lasagna is a fruit tart.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Keep on going. Eventually you’ll prove that lasagna is a sandwich.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a chance to look through?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
If you haven’t needed them for such a long time, they probably weren’t all that important anyway.

Same goes for all the physical items in my home. If I haven’t needed something in a long time, there’s a good chance I never will. This is how I reduce digital and physical clutter in my life.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a chance to look through?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
When I asked this question, I found out about raindrop.io. It’s a service where you can dump links and go through them when you feel like it.

The idea is, that if you know you won’t be checking a specific tab today, you can just save it in raindrop instead. I don’t like to have lots of tabs open anyway, but there are some sites I like to save for later. Stuff like vacation planning can produce twenty tabs just like that, and I’ll just throw them all into raindrop.

Most of them are sorted into logical categories, and I’ll go through them when I remember to. For example, vacation planning will be useful later. When that time comes, I’ll start opening all those links I’ve accumulated over the months.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In order to be allowed to drive, you don't just have to promise to pay if you hit someone, you have to pay in advance in case you hit someone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve already paid so much money. How many people am I allowed to hit now? I still haven’t got anyone, so I feel like I’m missing out.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Lemvotes is a pathway to many discoveries some consider to be depressing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you truly had a problem with what I post, then block me, but you don't because I entertain you.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
What you’re looking for is !goodoffmychest@lemmy.world
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If social media apps had existed in 1933, history would not have unfolded differently. If anything, it would have been significantly worse.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I was thinking of this scenario as dropping the Internet of the 1990s on a feudal system. If you used the Orwellian spy machine of the 2020s instead, it would probably get pretty dark, just as you said.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If social media apps had existed in 1933, history would not have unfolded differently. If anything, it would have been significantly worse.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Why though? I think the Arab spring says otherwise.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If social media apps had existed in 1933, history would not have unfolded differently. If anything, it would have been significantly worse.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Echo chambers would have been far more effective. Algorithm curated feeds would have amplified all extremes when further. If you think fascism went too far under Mussolini, just think how that would have looked like when everyone is scrolling fearbook and upvoting @ilDuce.