Just an ordinary myopic internet enjoyer.
Can also be found at lemmy.zip, lemmy.dbzer0, lemmy.world, and piefed.social.
Formerly found at Kbin.social.
Transitioning this account to lemmy.zip because of the impending lemm.ee shutdown on 2025 June 30
Can’t remember exactly why I put a profile picture here, but I guess I was thinking “oh, someone might use the same username I use in some other instance, so I guess I’ll put something to differentiate.”
Whether or not that actually hurts my own statement, I’ll leave it for the others to decide. I think posting/comment volume + striking username (and profile picture) + unique voice = recognizability. I think only have one of three, so… IDK!
I don’t think I’ve done anything that would warrant that, but thanks!
Pakalat-kalat lang ako. Kung saan lang mapagtripan. 😅
Bihira lang din akong magpost kasi madalas wala rin naman akong masabi o maidagdag.
I’m just hanging around at random places. Wherever my fancy takes me.
I rarely post too, since I rarely have anything to say or add.
Thanks…?
Let’s see when we meet each other in some other corner of Lemmy.
Oh, I use that too on my mobile app (Voyager). I am starting to think that once the total votes reach some threshold, either I’d encounter them consistently dishing out hot takes, or I’m primed to think their take is hot and spicy.
For some of the really prolific posters, yes. But there are also lurkers like me.
I doubt anyone can recognize me when I comment or encounter a comment I made.
I love bread crust, but I can understand why people might not like them. It occupies a middle ground between “bread” and toast. It has some earthy flavor (that I like in toasted bread), but it is also softer than toast (which I can appreciate).
Thus, I think it might be the “worst of both worlds” for some people: too soft, tasting off, etc.
I love them all though: pizza crust, bread crust, toasted bread, toasted pizza crust, toasted bread crust.
apat (4), lima (5), anim (6), pito (7)…
The lip-touching streak breaks for just one number: walo (8) and another streak starts with siyam (9) all the way to siyamnapu’t-siyam (99) by how two-digit numbers are pronounced. For example: labing-isa (11), walompu’t-walo (88).
(I think) there’s a lip-touching streak that is longer than this: walong daan at siyamnapu (890) to siyam na raan siyamnapu’t siyam na bilyon, siyam na raan siyamnapu’t siyam na milyon, siyam na raan siyamnapu’t siyam na libo, siyam na raan siyamnapu’t siyam (999 999 999 999).
But the Earth isn’t a plane.
Sure, human scaled patches of the Earth’s surface can be approximated by a similarly sized patch of a plane, but if we’re talking about tiling the entire surface of the Earth with buildings, it can actually be done using twelve pentagons or twenty isosceles triangles. We just need buildings whose footprints are roughly 1/12th and 1/20th the Earth’s surface respectively.
For the pentagon, that’d be around 510.07 × 10^12 m² divided by 12 = 42.505 × 10^12 m². With the Pentagon building having seven floors, one such building would have roughly 297.541 × 10^12 m² of floor space.
For the triangle, that’d be around 510.07 × 10^12 m² divided by 20 = 25.503 × 10^12 m². Assuming this building has seven floors like the Pentagon building does, it’d have roughly 178.524 × 10^12 m² of floor space.
The good thing about dividing into triangles, however is that it can be subdivided into four similar isosceles triangles, which can be applied recursively down to a far more realistic scale.
Doing that, we can subdivide the original triangles sixteen times yielding the following:
25.503 × 10^12 m² / (4^16) = 5.937 × 10^3 m²
And since the area of an isosceles triangle is equal to s²(√3)/4 we can rearrange things to find the side length of a compound with area of 5 937m²
s = √(4A/(√3)) = 117.103 m
I think that’s a human-enough scale for buildings.
In total, there’s 85 899 345 920 such buildings, covering the Earth.
If one such building has 7 floors, it’d have at most 41 559 m² of floor space.
EDIT:
Hit enter too soon. Additional proofreading.
Damn, I discovered a small mistake in the calculations partway through. Corrected.
I wonder if answering “I don’t know, I haven’t checked” would count as:
Those among them lacking in morals would make bank (or influence, whatever is afforded to them) justifying that government’s actions according to US constitutional law.
I’ve never thought the poop knife will come back to relevance in this manner. Never!
Rinse and repeat.
It’s okay if there are patch notes, right? Right??
incredible defense → non-credible defense → ncd
For those people like me thinking “WTF is a worry stone?”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worry_stone
Worry stones are smooth, polished gemstones, usually in the shape of an oval with a thumb-sized indentation, used for relaxation or anxiety relief.
Something one would fidget with when worried, I suppose.
That last paragraph of yours just made things click for me.
I’ve been wondering what kind of government will potentially do this. While it’s a pretty good idea in general, I don’t think any government will be able to shoulder the costs while earning the ire of the companies (media companies, etc.).
I mean, yeah, I also dislike having to restrict access, but I’ve just accepted it as a fact that such an institution must face. The decision on those restrictions would fall on the library/archives institution, so long as they are not running afoul of laws. So, I guess in the US, it’d be on the Library of Congress or in the case of the UK, the British Library.
Of course, it doesn’t do a thing to address your concerns, which as far as I am concerned, is very valid. And this is why I think piracy should exist, to keep such institutions honest. Sure, the national library here won’t allow me to research xyz, but other sources exists.
In a more philosophical POV, such institutions existing along with other entities (pirates, or what have you) allows for a check, and provides future historians a means of verifying information.
To be clear, I also fundamentally disagree on the concept of restricting access to information. And I think a lot of librarians and archivists agree with both of us. But for such an institution with such a service to exist, restricting access might be an evil they’re forced to accept.
I guess, to be honest, I don’t think such an institution will be allowed to exist, even with such restrictions in place.
EDIT: Typos and minor changes.
This would have been the job of the national archives and/or the national library.
Where I live, the government has a law stipulating that one copy every published material has to be submitted to the national library. I suppose a similar law exists for a lot of other countries, and extending this law to non-print media (like movies and TV shows) shouldn’t be controversial.
Regarding material deemed harmful and/or illegal, I think it should still be collected, but access would be restricted. If need be, access could be restricted to “premises-only” like what is done in a lot of university libraries.
Having this online library of material doesn’t have to mean that pirates have to be stamped out. I think this works best with the pirates keeping the government-sponsored media library honest.
However, what I think would be more plausible is an offline library of all the media that country has produced, with limited off-premises access afforded to researchers and others. That much, I think, would be allowed by the real powers that be.
There was a similar thread from a year ago, I thought it was from you. But nope. It wasn’t you.
And it only gives you the votes you give while using Voyager. If you’re using Lemmy via other platforms (like desktop/laptop) or other apps, of course it won’t give you the full picture.