keepcarrot [she/her]

I think the core issue is that I don’t have enough social clout to get people to change messaging platforms.

I remember I used to have Pidgin, but facebook closed the messenger API (I think, this was a while ago) How does this work?

I remember the main complaint against me was trying to fall asleep on the floor during a flight to Japan.

I wear both when angle grinding (at the same time). It cuts out the higher frequencies fairly well. Don’t fly much though.

In order to counter the Trump bot accusations going on this thread:

The Trump appointed Supreme Justices are conservative stooges that are clearly just trying to ram through as much conservative stuff into the justice system as they can. The cagey abortion rights the US enjoyed (though sometimes not in practicality) were abolished, which is bad. There were in fact a lot of posts about this on hexbear at the time it was happening. You can now search this if you so desire.

Trump escalated sanctions against Cuba. This comes up from time to time, but he’s obviously not in a position to directly affect this at this precise moment, though the cudgel of “swing state” Florida Cubans is used to avoid any de-escalation.

Trump-supporting state legislatures are escalating attacks against trans people, both as a practical threat (bigots can attack trans people under the assumption that their state’s law enforcement won’t do anything about it) and as a legal escalation to remove any federal protections for trans people. This is also bad. Trump is also partly running on this. This comes up frequently on hexbear.

Trump didn’t succeed in the wall (which itself has had varied response amongst his supporters), but he did increase funding for ICE, expanded detention camps etc. This comes up when it’s in the news, but Trump specific policies don’t tend to be news regarding this right now for some reason.

Trump’s tax cuts for certain sectors and the ultra-wealthy. idk why you’d think hexbear would support this?

and so on

I’m not sure why I’m doing this. I’m not sure why people are surprised that a news aggregation and commentary site tends to talk about things that are currently happening as opposed to things that happened three years ago.

Yes, I am the butterfly

What do you use a mile for? One km is about a 15 minute walk.

2nd of October seems the same as intuitive as October 2nd to me.

For whatever reason, I know that one mile is 1760 yards or 5280 feet, but difficulty comes when doing anything with those numbers (e.g. How many yards in 5.2 miles? How many meters in 5.2 km? One is definitely easier to do). Maybe my chosen vocation of Engineering means I encounter unit conversions more frequently than most people. I dislike the weird combination of gauge vs 1/xths of an inch that pops up time to time (drill and screw diameters). I don’t see how one mile is more intuitive than one kilometre as a distance.

I’m not sure about the meter vs yard, they are almost the same in terms of intuitiveness as well as actual value.

I just took a measurement of my fingers and my little finger nail is about a cm wide and my foreknuckle and index knuckle separation is about an inch.

I use inches in wargaming because I grew up with warhammer miniatures which classically come on 25 mm bases, though they’re switching to 30 mm to increase the size of infantry miniatures. At a certain point there’s a balance between battlefield resolution and readability, which 25 mm bases seem fine for.

Weights are even more baffling. I think I know what an ounce is, but I hate trying to multiply it out when Americans say something is 14 ounces or something.

I know what pints are because of beer.

Temperature is annoying for both because you have to find the little symbol not present on my keyboard.

Does Russian? I feel like it does the same thing through genetive cases tho