OfSanguineFire

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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
There is hardly any grain-cultivating population in the world that doesn’t have dumplings of some sort. Interestingly, however, the Romanian term colțunași is from Italian by way of Modern Greek, so it cannot be more than a few centuries
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
I have been in Poland for much of the time since the war started, and while I have read news articles about this supposed new term pierogie ukraińskie , I don’t think I have ever seen it in the real world. The pierogis served at milk bars,
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
I agree that krówki are rather little known outside Poland and the GP’s post was daft. But I was amused to find krówki from Poland sold in several towns in Chilean Patagonia, which I guess is a testament to modern shipping-container based t
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Indeed, from a couple of friends who moved to Finnish Lapland, I know the frozen north is a great place for exercise in the winter because of all the skiing and fatbike opportunities, with a network of free shelters stocked with firewood so
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
When I saw the title, what instantly flashed in my mind was Ibsen and Hamsun. Only then, as I clicked through, did I think about Fosse or Knausgård. Long before Norway became a wealthy oil nation, it had authors known on an international le
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Most sugar in my own backyard originates from beets, but I see I was wrong about it being most sugar worldwide. Wikipedia[0] gives a figure of 30% of world sugar for 2013. If crude juice is extracted in Brazil and refined in Canada, I’m sur
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
I had known simp from tales of carnies (in carnie slang it was used for the suckers who lose money on rigged games) and so when I first saw it on Reddit as used by frustrated males, it was easy to make the connection. See etymology 1 at W
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Most sugar today comes from beets and is extracted through an industrial process. Drug cartels rely on things like gasoline because they are commonly available, but if there were not criminal sanctions on the process, then it’s possible som
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
All this does is split the fanbase, because for every person who likes phone-free events, there are others who feel that phones are an essential part of life and phone bans are a boomer relic. But for musical scenes like classical music or
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
A s.o. loving to take photos can be a source of tension. I travel most of the year and take lots of photos. Sometimes for my own personal memories, sometimes for travel-blogging purposes. For the latter, I wanted my photos to be informative
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
In the real world, the #1 selling point at the moment is merely that the fediverse is not Twitter. The supposed freedom of running server instances is an exaggerated benefit. Being federated with the big instances is essential for reaching
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
The founding generation of the fediverse may operate with definitions of “sysop is malicious” and “bad behavior” that make little sense to most of the world. For example, back when centralized blocklists were still in vogue, some insisted t
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
What computer-like devices still use AAs? The only ones I can think of are some of Garmin’s GPS units. (There the user-replaceable battery, in a standard format you can buy from any developing-world shop, is seen as a big plus by many users
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
A forum on a single common topic can still create a filter bubble. For example, I know some music and outdoor-sports forums where the participants now post about not only those topics, but also a limited spectrum of US political rants or so
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Last time I read such an HN comment thread, one poster claimed that Sci-Hub was morally wrong because “how will peer reviewers get paid if people just pirate the papers?”. Tell me you don’t know anything about academic publishing without te
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
As appalling as Bush’s actual actions toward Iraq were, his pronunciation of Iraq is a pretty common one for his generation of US English speakers. I suspect that if you looked at 20th-century editions of authoritative US English dictionari
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
My concern with scholarship on the fediverse would be clash between academic cultures, and potential exclusion. Some fields of the humanities in some parts of the world do not have the absorbing interest in race/sexuality/gender&#
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
> scholarly societies are still organized around paid journals. They aren’t necessarily. In some branches of linguistics, history, and archaeology, for example, the major journals are still published by learned societies or national acad
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> You don’t generally hear about killings within the traffic of any other commodity such as vegetables Of course you do, especially if you’re in Mexico where the cartels have now expanded beyond drugs. A web search for "mexican cart
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
I wonder how much universal basic income, or at least a stronger economy, could spur FOSS development. I feel like the 2008 crisis and the rise of the precariat put a permanent dent in the phenomenon of non-professional devs maintaining fre
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Even if the modern math notation with a minus sign is a fairly recent invention, subtracting 5 from 3 has made sense to human beings since the dawn of civilization, because that is how debt works.
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Why not just get a spice shop to mix up the various spices for you, and then you can just sprinkle the masala mix on any generic crisps?
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
We know of cases where, due to living early years in isolation, a human being was prevented from learning full-fledged language, e.g. Genie.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Within the Central and Eastern European mountaineering scene that occasionally does expeditions to the Eight Thousanders, there are plenty of climbers who do not come from wealthy families. After all, such intergenerational transmission of
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Gathering information on friendly democracies, or watching what all the parties are doing in civil wars, is not a violation of US law. Espionage between states is rarely a violation of the law of the state that is doing the espionage. The “
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
> What does reclaiming the banjo as an African instrument mean? The contemporary objection from some circles to “cultural appropriation” isn’t generally that group X is taking some aspect of culture from group Y. Rather, it is that group
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by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
People post the archive links, so it is fine. Enjoying paid content without paying has been a common thing in the hacker community all the way back to the days of warez on Usenet and BBSs.
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> I'm convinced that North America will only get its act together when gasoline reaches $9.00/gal. What if North America successfully moves from petrol-powered cars to electric ones, and autonomous vehicles get rolled out, and
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> There's nothing innately wrong with the idea of colonizing these worlds. That is a subject of disagreement. Kim Stanley Robinson depicted a coming clash between proponents of Mars colonization and keep-it-untouched environmentalis
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Quite a few reasons to be concerned. Moxie left Signal and at least one of the new board members has a US government background. The update methods allow issuing a compromised update to targeted users. And while Signal still claims that “in

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