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Dharma Curious
Dharma Curious @ DharmaCurious @startrek.website
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How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?

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  • To your second question, the direction of clockwise is mostly influenced by sundials. In the northern hemisphere the shadows move in a clockwise direction, and so the early clocks made in the northern hemisphere mimicked that. In the southern hemisphere it's naturally reversed, but because so much of that hemisphere is either empty ocean or colonized lands, the clocks move in the same direction. Bolivia had a sort of flash in the pan moment in the news about a decade back for reversing their clock direction on a big central clock (think like big ben) as a way of staking their independence from a colonial past.

    On the first question, I have no idea. But in Sweden they use terms that translates to "with the sun" and "against the sun" but I don't remember what they are without googling it.

    • Evangelicals look out the right, everyone else left. Seems like solid urban design.

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  • Fun fact: near where I live is an adult superstore. Think Walmart, but for buttplugs, a porn theater, and hookup booths.

    Directly next door is a church and the largest cross you've ever seen. It's routinely photoshopped to make it look like the cross fell and impaled the sex store whenever we have a bad storm.

    • Pronunciation

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  • Can someone please record themselves pronouncing it like this? Lol

    • What is an absurdity that has been normalized by society?

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  • Capitalism.

    • [meme] Trains -- not driverless cars -- are the future of transportation

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  • I've thought about that, too. How very rural people way back when may not have known or cared what empire they belonged to. I read years ago about a region France that routinely got double taxed because no one was really sure if they were French or German, and it was just easier to pay your taxes to both collectors than fight it. A society like that, yeah, they may not care so much about the empires collapse. But us? Even in the most rural areas of any 'western' country, the difference would likely be huge. No sanitation department, no internet, no electricity. And because, especially in the US, we have never developed a sense of personal responsibility to our communities or any kind of solidarity, we are unlikely to weather that particularly well. There'll be no spontaneous eruption of communal gatherings and a sense of building a better community. They'll be bastards hoarding shit and people shooting each other because there's no one to stop it. :(

    • Just leave Mr. Broccoli alone... on the holodeck

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  • Exactly!

    • me_irl

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  • Love this. But does anyone else feel like it's reading backwards?

    • Pixelfed is adding Groups, similar to communities, which will federate with Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon

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  • I just made an account on literature.cafe last night. :) Haven't gotten around to logging in and doing anything yet, but I like having a couple alts to see unique local feeds and such, and yours looked so interesting! I love how federation allows for those kinds of interest-specific instances. Can't wait to explore yours. :)

    • I'm a little bored of Lemmy. I'm going to go browse Lemmy.

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  • I have Jerboa, sync, connect, summit, and liftoff. Each is logged into a different account on a different instance. I like being to scroll through local timelines. On Reddit, I had several different accounts I used for different interests. Lemmy isn't quite big enough for that yet, but different local timelines are interesting, and allow me something to do when one has down time.

    • How are slavery reparations fair?

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    • How does everyone feel about iPhones?

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  • Damn, really? Anywhere to follow the progress? Not a techie, and I do not understand GitHub. Lol. Mastodon account or lemmy community to follow?

    • What would happen if a law was passed that said all content determined via algorithms had to be open source?

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  • Curious as someone who absolutely does not understand things. Would it be possible to create an open source algorithm that could be used successfully? As in, you view certain types of content, similar content is recommended, home feeds are personalized, et cetera, but without the generally horrible shit that comes along with algorithm feeds currently?

    • Just leave Mr. Broccoli alone... on the holodeck

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  • No. The Romulans allow level 12. But if you do go to the gamma quadrant, they allow for Blatant Unrepentant Sinner Level 10. But no humanoid has ever survived it. Major Death By Snusnu vibes.

    • Just leave Mr. Broccoli alone... on the holodeck

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  • Debauchery level 11 is outlawed in federation space. Even the Breen do not allow level 11! I have heard that Grand Nafus Rom is preparing to outlaw it in Ferengi space as well.

    Riker once tried level 11. He was never the same afterwards.

    • The even less ethical solution is something alike SNWs "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" first servant kind of thing

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  • Brain and brain! What is brain‽

    • Just leave Mr. Broccoli alone... on the holodeck

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  • Why do you think I ordered debauchery level 9?

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  • Get a large communist movement going in your town. The rich are terrified of actual communists. They'll flee to England.

    • Just leave Mr. Broccoli alone... on the holodeck

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  • My guess is that on a star ship you're only allowed a certain amount of time, and there are probably some kinds of rules about the... Nature... Of the programs that the computer won't let you override.

    At quark's it's probably just too expensive. Pay by the minute. Only the horniest can afford to spend that long in there.

    If we figure out this whole telemere lengthening thing and I live long enough, though, I fully plan on figuring out how to have my own holodeck. And I have no shame in admitting that I will be using holoporn programs. Especially since you can use your voice to create a program.

    "Computer, generate debauchery, level 9!"

    • This is what's commonly known as "bedroom eyes"

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  • If it's done right, yeah.

    • Australia’s internet providers are ditching email, to the disgust of older customers

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  • Sadly, that's well outside what I can realistically pay. Money is... A little tight. Lol.