Created 2/9/19 by Gabriel Bosslet (@gbosslet) with revisions based on feedback by Joseph Hyder (@JosephHyder), Giovanni Pavolini (@gpavolini), and Randy Curtis (@JRandallCurtis1)
I build and repair instruments. It matters a lot to me. Proper measurements determine if the instrument stays together and plays in tune. Play any stringed instrument with the intonation off by 1/64 and you well hear it. The metric system reduces computation time and errors. But, like you said, it doesn't matter to you. Okay.
If you make and repair musical instruments you work to fit, not a ruler. It is much more accurate. Except frets which should be with a square root of 12 ruler not one marked in a normal unit (I've never seen one of these!). Or more likely you use a machinist tool which is marked in thousandths not fractions.
Don't get me wrong, I use metric for engineering. However most of the people who say metric is better are using incorrect arguments.
This is your seasonal reminder that all acorns are edible. Some need processing, others do not.
In October, I will do a thread on Southern Live Oak, Quercus virginiana. These don’t need processing but do need to be steamed in their shells to remove the nut. Last year, house moths ate most of mine so they need to be well-sealed and frozen after shelling.
@Brendanjones@jblue@silphium@plants Would like to recommend the book "Nature's Garden" by Samuel Thayer here. There's over 50 pages about acorns with lots of pictures of the ones to avoid, weavil issues, processing techniques, as well as history and what to do with them.
The problem with good, fun, easy to read books is they're done too fast. Now I have to wait years for another Thursday Murder Club book as I finished “The Last Devil to Die” in a couple days.
I guess the economy really isn't going well because my apartment complex just sent out an email advertising a service that provides financing for paying your monthly rent
It’s finally happened. Trump’s business empire is on the verge of total ruin as his decades-long practice of fraudulently inflating his property values led a NY judge to CANCEL the business certificates of the Trump Organization entities.
Kudos to NY Attorney General Letitia James for bringing this all to light and achieving accountability against Trump. He’s a fraud. He’s a rapist. And he’s a clear and present danger to our democracy.
But justice has caught up to him, and it is glorious to see.
@georgetakei
Eric T**** posted on his father's #FascistHomeland social media site this it should be perfectly legal to commit massive (bank) #fraud as long as people benefit from that fraud.
Is there ANY question this is EXACTLY what his father was thinking when he orchestrated #Jan6? 🤔
Wróciłem niedawno do "Lata leśnych ludzi" Rodziewiczówny. To jedna z pierwszych "dorosłych" książek, jakie przeczytałem gdzieś na początku podstawówki. Nie jest to może cud literatury, język momentami napuszony i przegadany. Jak byłem mały, podobała mi się bardziej przygodowa część powieści.
Ale sama koncepcja jak na początek XX wieku zaskakująco nowoczesna. Mamy na przykład chyba pierwszą w polskiej literaturze postać wegetarianina, czyli Rosomaka:
"Uważam, że chcecie urządzić dziką indyjską ucztę, pożreć tego trupa, no i ten grzech odchorować. Wolna droga! [...]
— Od dawna już mięsa nie jadam i coraz większy czuję doń wstręt."
Delighted (and a little daunted!) to have just signed the contract for conducting research on #Hoey ‘s #LexicalPriming theory and its application to Japanese at the University of Bologna! It’s rather a leap from (im)politeness, but all the more exciting. Any reading suggestions on previous studies on the topic are more than welcome @academicchatter@linguistics
🔌🚗 In #Frankreich soll es für Menschen mit geringerem Einkommen ab 2024 ein Leasing von E-Automodellen ab 100 Euro pro Monat geben. Das Angebot soll sich auf in Europa produzierte Fahrzeuge beschränken.
Die Maßnahme ist Teil eines großen Klimaschutzplans. Präsident #Macron kündigte zudem einen Zuschuss von 700 Mio. Euro für den landesweiten Bau von 13 S-Bahn-Linien an.
Frankreich will damit den Ausstoß von Treibhausgasen bis 2030 um 55 Prozent im Vergleich zu 1990 senken.
@dougiec3@pluralistic Peg lowest paid workers' wages to a fraction of the highest paid executive's total compensation. Maybe somewhere in the neighborhood of 1:20, although even that seems kind of absurd. But way better than the 1:200+ zone we're in right now.
Dual booting Droidian and AOSP Vanilla ROM on spes
Tried #Phosh on @droidian, not disappointing at all! Will be daily driving it, but will have Android as backup (hope so don't need it).
Using bootctl to change slots