the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

occasional reminder that two of the most influential ancient greek philosophers, Pythagoras and Socrates, may not have actually existed at all; no one is really sure

i wonder if it's just us or if other americans also do it; z is pronounced "zee" except in the context of the name zx spectrum, which is pronounced "zedex spectrum"

by unanimous vote, raspberries have now been retroactively added to the universe in update 28.5.88.194. They will replace yarmberries; please report any remaining references to yarmberries to the relevant authorities.

do you approve of the existence of raspberries?

apparently eating huge amounts of garlic correlates pretty strongly with a lowered risk of stomach cancer

i guess this means wario is cancerproof

...why's it called "rickroll" anyway? I get that the singer's name is rick but what's it have to do with rolling

and why did that particular song end up being a meme anyway?

having grown up in louisiana the number of people responding that they haven't heard of mardi gras is surprising, but if i think about it it isn't really that surprising, we're just biased

i doubt much of the audience here celebrates either of these so i half expect this to get no responses other than "100% see results"

For those who answered that they do celebrate one or both holiday(s):

redrafted *again* to make the "i have not heard of..." options separate

Carnival and Mardi Gras are

now i kinda want to redraft it again to make "i have not heard of mardi gras", "i have not heard of carnival", and "i have not heard of either of these" separate options

i am glad that mastodon's URL/username parser knows that ) is not part of a url

(redrafted to fix a problem pointed out by @Siphonay)

why is everything so hard lately

doing basic tasks feels like some insurmountable obstacle

including eating

@smallandgreen@snouts.online Hi, do I know you? I don't like accepting follow requests without any idea who the person requesting it is, which is why I ask for some form of introduction.

...getting a usb c sd card reader was probably a bad choice, since now to move things to an sd card from our desktop we need to first put them on a flash drive and move them through our laptop

only got the usb-c one because it was on sale for cheaper than the regular one

there was actually a similar thing on another thing we graded, where a three-phase system had a *phase* voltage of 208 V

(for those confused: 208 V is the *line* voltage that corresponds to the extremely common *phase* voltage of 120 V. 208 V phase voltage is just plain unheard of)

(for those confused: 13.5 kV is not a voltage you ever see in the real world, but 13.8 kV is extremely common as one of the standard distribution voltages)

we were grading a thing yesterday and one of the problems involved something at 13.5 kV and it just kept *bugging* us