keepcarrot [she/her]

Ah well, we know what you meant 👍

*wind (whoops)

I can’t believe the surgeon made a mix up, it was supposed to be an everything else surgery

Me, reading the news: “I wonder if its that same aircraft”

Can’t believe they made Stalin political. 😡😡😡

I tend to forget about my many half-finished projects unless I can see them, so most horizontal surfaces are set up and have a project of some sort on them. I have added more bench space and plan to add more. It does mean that if I have drive to do a task, it’s already set up and I don’t have to worry too much about takedown either. I could probably stand to dust more (or more often than when I move house).

Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot of tools and odds and ends in drawers, cupboards, toolboxes etc. But like, if a work piece has glue drying on it (say), it will probably live where that is happening until I next work on it.

Trash migrates to the appropriate bin quickly. I have been depressed (and am still) and have had dirty dishes and trash pile up a little, but I really don’t like insects or errant smells in my space, so I usually stay on top of it.

I just kinda remember roughly where things are. I have tried to be more organised, but I wind up losing things until I next open the very logical place I put something.

I do clean up for rent inspection, but my current place doesn’t have them.

EDIT: When I have housemates I tend to match their level of organisation in shared areas. I seem to wind up doing all the dishes for some reason.

Text things are extremely data light. All of wikipedia’s text is smaller than a 2k movie. There is absolutely data stuff happening in the background on the server that makes it more complicated, but the actual piped data that goes from a google search result is actually quite small (though larger than it used to be).

Video is at the other end. There’s only so many things you can do to a video to reduce the amount of stuff you send to the user (and a lot of the things you do put more strain on the user’s computer to interpret what you’ve sent).

Music, singular images, video game data, and mass data tend to be somewhere in the middle, though context does matter for each of them.

Comparatively, sending videos and storing videos for later use is many times a more resource-expensive task than sending an image, forum post, email, weather updates etc.

It doesn’t have to be ads before videos, but it does have to be something (subscription services, the page itself being littered with ads, state backing etc).

It was always just a slogan for separation from the British Empire.

I think the core issue is that I don’t have enough social clout to get people to change messaging platforms.

I remember I used to have Pidgin, but facebook closed the messenger API (I think, this was a while ago) How does this work?

I remember the main complaint against me was trying to fall asleep on the floor during a flight to Japan.

I wear both when angle grinding (at the same time). It cuts out the higher frequencies fairly well. Don’t fly much though.

In order to counter the Trump bot accusations going on this thread:

The Trump appointed Supreme Justices are conservative stooges that are clearly just trying to ram through as much conservative stuff into the justice system as they can. The cagey abortion rights the US enjoyed (though sometimes not in practicality) were abolished, which is bad. There were in fact a lot of posts about this on hexbear at the time it was happening. You can now search this if you so desire.

Trump escalated sanctions against Cuba. This comes up from time to time, but he’s obviously not in a position to directly affect this at this precise moment, though the cudgel of “swing state” Florida Cubans is used to avoid any de-escalation.

Trump-supporting state legislatures are escalating attacks against trans people, both as a practical threat (bigots can attack trans people under the assumption that their state’s law enforcement won’t do anything about it) and as a legal escalation to remove any federal protections for trans people. This is also bad. Trump is also partly running on this. This comes up frequently on hexbear.

Trump didn’t succeed in the wall (which itself has had varied response amongst his supporters), but he did increase funding for ICE, expanded detention camps etc. This comes up when it’s in the news, but Trump specific policies don’t tend to be news regarding this right now for some reason.

Trump’s tax cuts for certain sectors and the ultra-wealthy. idk why you’d think hexbear would support this?

and so on

I’m not sure why I’m doing this. I’m not sure why people are surprised that a news aggregation and commentary site tends to talk about things that are currently happening as opposed to things that happened three years ago.

But someone else might get land, silly tankie

Yes, I am the butterfly

Or people who just happen not to be in/around Illinois

From the largest lemmy instance before reddit did the thing. Weird, huh.

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What do you use a mile for? One km is about a 15 minute walk.

2nd of October seems the same as intuitive as October 2nd to me.

For whatever reason, I know that one mile is 1760 yards or 5280 feet, but difficulty comes when doing anything with those numbers (e.g. How many yards in 5.2 miles? How many meters in 5.2 km? One is definitely easier to do). Maybe my chosen vocation of Engineering means I encounter unit conversions more frequently than most people. I dislike the weird combination of gauge vs 1/xths of an inch that pops up time to time (drill and screw diameters). I don’t see how one mile is more intuitive than one kilometre as a distance.

I’m not sure about the meter vs yard, they are almost the same in terms of intuitiveness as well as actual value.

I just took a measurement of my fingers and my little finger nail is about a cm wide and my foreknuckle and index knuckle separation is about an inch.

I use inches in wargaming because I grew up with warhammer miniatures which classically come on 25 mm bases, though they’re switching to 30 mm to increase the size of infantry miniatures. At a certain point there’s a balance between battlefield resolution and readability, which 25 mm bases seem fine for.

Weights are even more baffling. I think I know what an ounce is, but I hate trying to multiply it out when Americans say something is 14 ounces or something.

I know what pints are because of beer.

Temperature is annoying for both because you have to find the little symbol not present on my keyboard.