Tlaloc_Temporal

joined 1 year ago
[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 hours ago

Arabic numerals came to Europe from India via Arabia. The Sine function does too, but it's name is garbled and doesn't mean anything.

Venetian blinds came from Persia via Venice.

Spanish Flu was everywhere, but everyone at the time was lying about it due to being at war, except for Spain.

Many First Nations peoples are known by what other peoples called them (often pejorative names) rather than their name for themselves.

Words usually aren't authoritative declarations of truth, but rather snapshots of what was a useful distinction to someone somewhere a some time. Did the French think their style of kissing was a unique cultural phenomenon? Will Skibidi be known about in 500 years? No one documents graffiti, was it "discovered" by Pompeii?

We live in a truely unique age, where nearly any question can have a relavent answer of some kind in moments. We can see people streaming everyday things from around the globe, or find the best research about what we know about ancient people's daily lives. Is any of this worth carving into a monument though? How many copies of an archeological journal are going to survive the ages vs copies of Game of Thrones? I'd say there are countless things about our lives we think are special to today that even prehistoric people did, it just isn't notable enought to build monuments to or copy manuscripts of.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

Did you know my profile picture is a Windows Vista background? I didn't until a few months ago.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Because vampires can't cross boundaries without permission, the answer is no, they can't come in until allowed in.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

1mm? Dude, the scale is in the image, that's 150μm, one tenth that size. That viola is only 50μm long.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I have an app that does that on my S8, but it's definitely not official support.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Ah, so it's the IRS that was the wrong target. I see.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Are we?

GE made nearly 7 billion dollars in 2023. Do you know how much tax they paid? They didn't, they got a refund of over 400 million dollars.

Tell me again that tax evasion isn't a real problem.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Well yes, that makes sense and all, but it's not nearly as fun as saying mojo is directly controlled by heart health. Or that cancer causes cell phones, or that people named Killian cause air bag recalls. They're obviously wrong and ridiculous, and that's funny.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This does insinuate that a high-risk of heart attack causes sexlessness.

Better stock up on advil.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

And the alternative to doing that is what? This whole story was started because of windows and windows antivirus being inflexible.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah the pointer is handled differently so the old packages don't work, and I couldn't find an updated package possibly because no one has bothered to write one yet. It's perfectly understandable and not an issue whatsoever.

Trackpads are handled much better though.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My very first experience with Linux last year was switching from X to Wayland to get my touchpad to work properly. The only thing I've noticed that doesn't work on Wayland is that mouse following cat.

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