Hegar

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 12 points 9 hours ago

The rich will never feel save while we, their victims, have privacy.

They know better than even we do how much reason we have to be plotting against them.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a pretty common welsh name, so australia and the UK have plenty of bryns.

That 'y' is a dead giveaway that it's welsh. Llewellyn is another one. The welsh for wales is cymru - "kimree".

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 7 points 3 weeks ago

Nah it's pronounced brin

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 27 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

In high school there was this one guy, Bryn, who i didn't like but he hung out with us and prevented other bullies from targeting our goth weirdo circle. I've always described jupiter as earth's bryn.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is such an elegant observation.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 30 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Fahrenheit is demonstrably better for describing temperature as experienced by a human.

It's just not though. F uses a wider range of numbers to describe common outside air temperature, but more numbers =/= better.

I've lived in both F and C countries and farenheit is not easier, more intuitive, more sensible or better in any way. A number is a number. The extra precision of F is not super useful - no one can really feel a 1F difference. The freezing point of water does make a huge difference, so knowing above/below zero C is useful, but above/below 32F is no harder.

This argument that F is somehow more suitable for human temperatures is something you see online, but as someone comfortable with both i can say there is functionally no difference, except that metric is compatible with the rest of the world.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 16 points 1 month ago

My parents' terrier would give in to this dark urge all the time.

Sometimes we have to wake up and throw a tennis ball for her. She'd grab the ball and keep barking for ages, but at least that way it was like a trumpet with the mute in and we could all get back to sleep.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago

Cloacal gifting.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Future archaeologists will be left to ponder the ritual significance of this object. Why were so many people buried with this grave good?