Nowadays my main account, but other @Deebsters are available.
Zaatar is both the name of a herb (Hyssopus officinalis) and a spice mix, containing the herb along with sumac, salt, etc. Mostly references to zaatar are about the mix as that’s what normal people actually use.
The herb is quite strong, is like a slightly bitter mint, and is also used in Chartreuse and absinthe.
We will implement a new Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider (FASP) that will allow sharing storage and media processing between servers.
This is pretty big too, as the cost and legal risks of hosting this user content is high. They’ve clearly thought about the media moderation problems too:
We will build a reference implementation of a Automated Content Detection service, again as a new Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider with an open protocol.
This will allow server owners to opt-in to use external tools to scan content for spam, illegal materials, etc in order to help them fight bad actors; they could self-host these tools if they choose to do so, or share the infrastructure with other servers for better efficiency.
Another problem is that system requires agreeing on what a week is, and there’s disagreement over if Sunday starts or ends the week.
Tell me more about these bunkers, let’s Streisand this.
Three downvoters don’t realise what comm this is in.
I had to look it up too. You might want to stop reading after the Kangaroo paragraph.
Kangaroos are born after less than a month, and then climb into the pouch, attach to a teat and stay there for half a year before being ready to face the outside world.
Spotted Hyenas gestate for about 110 days and then have to make it though the mother’s pseudo penis, which can tear with first-time mothers (fatal to her) and can suffocate the cub (fatal to them) with cubs of first-time mums only having a 40% chance of surviving birth.
When Shakespeare mentioned it in Romeo and Juliet it was already old. The proverb “a cat has nine lives, for three he plays, for three he strays, and for three he stays” is older than the USA. Nine is often seen as an magic/auspicious number in Anglo-Saxon culture, which the US is very influenced by.
The multiple lives thing goes back to the ancient Egyptians, who believed cats were divine creatures and were incarnations of the goddess Bastet (who had the power to reincarnate herself nine times). The Bastet link makes me think that nine is the “right” number of lives.
I’m rewatching Voyager atm and you get whiplash from how inconsistently they write her character.
This gives me hope that, while we’re going to suffer as a species planet, there’s enough sanity and selflessness remaining amongst humanity that we’re not going to snuff ourselves out. I like that they’re learning from COP, and making changes like just needing a majority, not being unanimous.
I couldn’t find which the 85 countries are, anyone have that info?
The gallery’s “download” buttons link to images that end in ~large.jpg but if you change them to ~orig.jpg you get the original images (they even still have the EXIF data).
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Seems it’s one of those definitions that only survives in a idiom:
The extended sense “piece of sport, trick” (1590s), survives mainly in the phrase the jig is up (attested by 1777 as the jig is over).
Thanks, I accidentally a word
Hopefully the techies don’t destroy all the backups and it can be put back online once this current madness is history.
Pure water has a pH of 7.0, which is neutral, although it will draw in C0₂ from the air and form carbonic acid so I guess you’re technically right. Sea water is slightly alkaline.
I don’t think you can now. I really dislike the new three-dots menu, now it’s hidden a bunch of functionality behind the “More” submenu solely to give an overly large amount of space to other options.
btw for others, If you don’t see the “Secret Settings” section, you can enable it by tapping on the Firefox logo a few times (it’s in About Firefox).
I would like to see more finely-grained feedback than just “no”. Particularly as it forces the voter to justify why they’re downvoting.
Some posts/contents are bad because they’re spam, abusive, or against the rules, or in the wrong place - downvoting these is useful crowd-sourced moderation, particularly for things that don’t warrant a mod report.
Some are just indisputably wrong and it’s a useful signal that the poster is talking rubbish. Then there’s the grey area.
Sometimes it’s just that the poster’s opinion is unpopular, and people are downvoting to suppress views they disagree with - I think that’s not a good thing for a discussion and encourages echo chambers. I like the idea of one of the downvote options being “I disagree” and that basically not doing anything.
I believe Piefed let’s you restrict downvotes to people that are subscribers. I think that’s a good solution to idiots downvoting from all just because they’re not interested in or understanding the post and/or the community it’s in. I also wonder if people even understand that they’re not training an algorithm, just dragging people’s posts down.
Playing the harmonica.
Your mouth cavity forms part of the instrument (like the body of an acoustic guitar) so you need to precisely control your lips, tongue, jaw, etc on top of the usual embouchure skills that you need for a wind instrument, while also being sure to only use the hole/holes you want. You get different notes when you blow and draw (suck), so you must control your breath so the note doesn’t squeak - unless you’re doing that on purpose, which lets you play notes outside the key of that particular harmonica. You also need to balance your in and out breaths so you don’t get too full or empty of air (a few notes have both in and out options to help with this).
I’m very bad at the harmonica.