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- Comment on German public radio and television (SWR) just published a whitepaper about the fediverse: "Chancen des Fediverse für Journalismus" 3 days ago:
There have been Finnish politicians joining Mastodon in in the last few weeks.
- Comment on How long would it take a black Hole to fully absorb a person from event horizon to center of the earth style? 5 days ago:
Does that still mean that the concept of “time” is not defined in a useful (human-understandable) manner in a black hole?
- Comment on How long would it take a black Hole to fully absorb a person from event horizon to center of the earth style? 6 days ago:
Doesn’t a black hole stretch time in a really weird manner? That would mean that no sensible answer can be given to the question. It could easily be that it takes either one billionth of a second or a trillion years, depending on where you are standing when observing the occurrence.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 1 week ago:
I can’t make head or tails of who would be fighting whom in that war.
If a WW was to break tomorrow, it would probably be because of Trump making true his threats to attack NATO in order gain definite control over Greenland?
Probably USA would be its own side without allies?
Then there would probably be NATO as one side, most likely with Australia and Japan on the same team as NATO. And, I’d say, probably all of Southern and Central America.
And the Russia and Iran with China? Pakistan would probably be on their side, so India would seek something else. More likely NATO than USA?But then again, WWIII would be such a big deal that it feels weird imagining it might end up a three-sided war. The loosest piece on this board is USA… If it allies with one of the sides, will that side be that of NATO or that of the Russia?
Hm. Well, if it allies with China and the Russia, it gets super difficult for NATO to keep shit together. Then again, the Canadian border is not all that far away from DC, and Latvia is not far away from Moscow. We’d probably also have Ukraine on our side, and they can teach a lot about modern warfare!
All in all: If USA manages to ally with someone, that side is likely to win. If it remains alone, it will probably lose. I would say that in a situation where USA doesn’t ally with anyone, NATO would be the side losing the least.
But, in the end nobody wins in a war.
- Comment on Many Years Ago, I Told A Nuclear Power Loving (Eventually Employee) Friend that I Heard that China had Solar Panels that Charged Even Off The Moon Light… 1 week ago:
So, less than a square metre of our planet’s surface is radiating enough energy to power a 4W led bulb? Not bad, actually!
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 week ago:
They are having a conversation in the Fediverse.
Nuff said?
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 week ago:
Why what?
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 week ago:
Sorry, I did understand all of the words in your comment, but not what you actually meant with it. Could you paraphrase, please?
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 week ago:
So does Finland:
(Except in internal timetables of bus companies, that typically run until 30 o’clock, as it still officially counts as the same working day)
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 week ago:
Have you noticed how common it is for buses and trains to leave at 23:59? The idea is to make it clear what evening the train is really running.
In Finnish we call noon “12 o’clock” and midnight “0 o’clock”. Makes things a lot more clear.
And the first hour of a calendar day is indeed 0:00 until 0:59:59.99.. Since there are only 24 hours in a day, there cannot be a “24:30”. (Except in internal timetables of bus companies, that typically run until 30 o’clock, as it still officially counts as the same working day) - Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 week ago:
I know it’s called that way, because I’ve seen the same movies. But was SolidShake meaning his comment sarcastically, meaning that “There was no way for me to know that most of the world uses the normal clock” or without sarcasm, meaning “I had always assumed that most of the world uses the normal clock.”
He could really mean either one. I could probably delve into his comment history and make some kind of a psychoanalysis based on those comments? But, meh.
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 week ago:
Yeah. Which is what I said. 11:59:59.9999999 is indeed AM. And then comes a tiny sliver of time that is precisely at the border, but a trillionth of a picosecond after that, you’re in the PM world. After the infinitely short moment that is the actual precise noon.
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 week ago:
Why?
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 week ago:
In general?
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 week ago:
Everything after midday is PM. 12:00:00.00000001 is after midday. Therefore it can only be PM.
That’s the logic I use :)
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 week ago:
I would be interested in knowing whether this was said with sarcasm or without. Because both are plausible!
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 week ago:
Depends on what you mean with “showing time”. They won’t be showing the correct time, that’s true. But.
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 week ago:
in the Southern hemisphere logic flips completely.
In the southern hemisphere they think Australia is suitable for human life.
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 week ago:
At least some North American indigenous peoples say something akin to “with the sun”. And I think in yoga terminology they have a similar phrasing, or am I mistaken?
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t blame the Babylonians for us breaking the good standard and going 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 instead of the 58, 59, 100, 101, 102 that works just fine. They were first, we are the ones who added a new system aside the old one instead of replacing it.
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 week ago:
If that was the case, we would now be talking about 48 h clocks vs. 24 h clocks.
18:40 pm on the 24h clock would equal 36:40 on the 48 h clock.
You would still not know whether it’s night or day just looking at the time. - Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 week ago:
Clocks were sundials.
If you can see the time, it’s not night.
- Comment on xkcd #3194: 16 Part Epoxy 1 week ago:
Isn’t this what Lembit Funk was telling about when teaching us about that archaic musical instrument?
- Comment on N. Korea drums up renewable energy use amid sanctions-caused electricity shortage 1 week ago:
What a weird way of writing a news article!
overcome days with insufficient sunlight by switching to wind power generation to produce electricity.
So, they basically turn on the wind when there is no sunlight? And if there is enough sunlight, they don’t need it to be windy, so the wind is not kept on?!
Obviously the idea is that the reader figures out that this is just North Koreans saying North Korean things. But yes, solar power is nice because you can rely on it. And it makes sense for a country in a situation such that of North Korea. - Comment on Why is kissing? 2 weeks ago:
Cheeks are a part of the human body where the different pheromones are easiest to record. They telll information about the immune system, and hold the “personal smell” that everyone has (and which isn’t really a smell at all, because pheromones are observed with a different system than actual smells are). When you get your nose near someone’s cheek, you record a lot of personal data about them in your subconscious.
You receive information about how healthy your children would be likely to be, and also your subconscious gets irrefutable proof of “I am currently very close with person __.”
Plus the other reasons mentioned here. But the most important one is that it’s a way to get your nose near their cheek.
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