Kornblumenratte

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easter can't come soon enough. ⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Well, they did use ropes, so this technique would work.

I’m not entirely sure that there are no religious fanatics who reenact the crucifixion. Using ropes for fixation and putting nails through the center of the palm, they would avoid crippling their hands severely.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Only problem – which year? They’ve got different lengths.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Just use the speed of light as base and measure the distance in time units (implying *c). 100 psc (lightpicoseconds) are a bit more than 1⅛ inch, 4 ~ 1 mm, 1 nsc (lightnanosecond) is 1 foot or 29.9 cm, 1 μsc (lightmicrosecond) ~ 299 m. Would be totally possible. Within city boundaries we should introduce a speedlimit of 1 pc (picolightspeed), pretty easy to implement.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Come on, you are able to analize words! Fun is obviously fun, and ding is obviously an abbreviation for dingbats, so fun-ding is having fun with dingbats!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fix the problem just change the parameters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
If you were used to analog clocks, you’d read the remaining time just off the clock. As you would just read the time off it – no need for any translation or comparison, just one glimpse and you’d know it. For several decades this superiority of analog clocks was a main argument against the use of digital clocks. Digital clocks are more precise, though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
That’s just a fancy way of commenting on the intended types, no static typing though.

Python will happily execute:
```
six: int = 6
six = "Hello World!"
```
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one bright second⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
IIRC, the current theory is that stars do not move apart, but that space itself expands, which generates the impression that they move apart.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do boycotts work?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Well, back in the day they successfully ousted Mr. Boycott by boycotting him. So at least the first boycott successfully worked.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’d say all of history until 1968?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Here is a good video explaining the trend: youtube.com/watch?v=0arvnAlV_C4
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3147: Hiking⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Friction cooling.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump posted this in Truth.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
They will. Autocrats love public applause, and what public applause is greater than a 90+ % vote? Or do you know of any autocracy that does not have a ritual of approval called elections?

Well, granted, military dictatorships usually don’t do this election thing. With all this ICE buildup, Department of War renaming, declaring war on gangs while redifining the Venuzuelan government as gang, and this Chipocalypse stuff Trump is cosplaying more and more as an unhinged warlord. I’m afraid you might be right.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump posted this in Truth.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Next US presidential elections.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump posted this in Truth.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
There will be elections. All autocrats love elections. Being reelected with 90+ % just feels too good to not have them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
This image is far older than generative AI.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tea is basically just salad water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I stand corrected.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tea is basically just salad water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Tell me more.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tea is basically just salad water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
TIL, thanks.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tea is basically just salad water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Salad is called salad because it’s salted - it’s right there in the name. Salt is basically the only required ingredient, and it’s usually missing from tea. Furthermore, the stuff that is salted (and nowadays dressed) to become salad is usually fresh stuff, not dried and fermented.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit's getting real⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m afraid another form of governing rule would not change the exploitation of the environment, animals or people - humans always exploited the environment and animals regardless of the system of government or economics. We’d need a cultural shift from an individualistic self-centered culture to a culture that accepts our position as one part of a complex interconnected ecological and social network.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit's getting real⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Farming has an far greater impact on the ecosystem. There is no way to live for humans without completely reshaping their environment. We evolved as an invasive species.

If you’re moral argument to call for a boycott of honey is honey bee’s impact on the ecosystem rather than their enslavement and exploitation to humans, your only reasonable moral course of action is Fruitarianism using only fruits growing in the wild - basically an Orang Utan or Gorilla lifestyle. That choice has been made some 4-5 million years ago, when our ancesters became an invasive species in the savanna and began our first reshaping of ecosystems. Good luck reversing that choice.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit's getting real⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m glad you asked. Fruitarians have an answer to that moral dilemma.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried naming the states from memory as a European⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

And it’s far to rural…

Sorry, Appalachia does not exist in European mental maps.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit's getting real⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
💯

It has to do with the exploitation of insects.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨holee shiet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Well… black holes are not cool, either.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨holee shiet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I doubt this would work. The sun runs on hydrogen fusion. Adding water is just adding fuel to fire.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA for those in America⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Cats are the dominant species. Well, actually ants, but cats are a close second.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You got it, buddy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Otorhinolaryngology was born in the 1850s, though, not 1700s.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You got it, buddy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Taint is a bit inaccurate, I’d say. It’s actually “Schamlippen”. “Scham” meaning “shame” and was also used as an innocuous or rather less derogatory word to refer to this area of the female body that may not be spoken of. “Outer and inner shame lips” just stuck and is the colloquial expression for labia majora and minora.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
They did not use coal back then – I’m not sure whether it was even known to the Mediterranean culture. Forests were plundered for shipbuilding. Crude oil was only available as naphtha in the Middle East, barely enough for the local fishermen to pitch there boats and for the Byzantines to use in their flamethrowers. Furthermore, crude oil was not used in steam engines — you cannot shovel a heep of oil under a kettle. Fuel existed, yes, but they had no access to it.

All it would have needed is fixing the steam exhaust and have it drive a shoveled wheel.

So a completely different machine? Shoveled wheels were invented centuries after Heron. Even if they played with such a setup – an open, non-pressurized turbine has no usable power. To use steam, you’ll have to pressurize it, and the technology to tame high pressure was only developed to build cannons that do not burst.

In the history of the steam engine, the fuel supply was available before the engine. IIRC, Watt’s incentive for the invention of the steam engine was the need to drain coal mines.