Zagorath

If you’re submitting it to Lemmy as a post (or Reddit, if you still use that), just don’t share the short URL at all. Get the full www.youtube.com/watch?v= link for maximum compatibility with cross-post detection.

Change it to /watch?v= to have the normal standard YouTube URL. Since comments have no such detection, feel free to use the short URL there.

Yes, and avoid the youtu.be short links for the same reason.

Yeah, it’s actually extremely common here in Australia. Major sporting events and other special occasions are often opened with a “welcome to Country” ceremony, performed by an Indigenous Elder.

Smaller events, from the weekly City Council meeting to radio programmes to some Australian Twitch streamers, will often include an “acknowledgement of Country” made by a non-Indigenous person. A simple statement like “I would like to acknowledge the Yuggera and Turrbal people who are the traditional custodians of the land on which we are gathered, and pay respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.”

Keep an eye out, if you’re interested, for the opening ceremony of the Brisbane 2032 Olympics. Or any other sporting events that might come to your attention that are located in Australia.

I get it for the security force. But his lawyers’ official response (and via them, his own official stance on the situation) is to call the whole impeachment and arrest warrant illegal in blatant violation to Korea’s constitutional process. It’s positively Trumpian.

Yikes

His lawyers have described the warrant as “invalid” and “illegal,” and said that the presidential security force could arrest police trying to execute it.

Sound like anyone else we know?

The thing is, the time zones aren’t necessarily related to the lifestyle. A siesta at 1 on the current clock is identical to a siesta at 11 on a more natural clock. But either way you have a siesta when the sun is near its peak.

Midday is 12:00. If you want to refer to solar noon, call it solar noon.

In Australia, the term “country” can also mean which Aboriginal land you’re on. Sort of equivalent to an American saying which Native American tribe’s “nation” they’re in, I think.

That’s the thing though. Spain’s time zone is so far ahead of where it should be, for most of the year the hottest part of the day really is around noon. When stupid-pretendy-time is in effect (which a quick google tells me is 7 months of the year), solar noon is at 10 am in Spain, which means clock noon is at 2 pm, roughly the hottest part of the day.

There’s also the fact that local factors have an effect. Closer to the equator, the hottest part of the day tends to be earlier. Humidity can have an effect, as can the amount of concrete and asphalt versus earth and trees.

If you’re with someone like this, the best course of action is to write down what was said in person and email it to them after the meeting, saying something like “just confirming these were the takeaways from our recent meeting”. If they have a legitimate reason (one their superiors will accept) to tell you not to do that (and they have the power over you to give that order), then ah well, at least you tried and you’ll at least have that on the record. But it’s also quite likely that they’re trying to pull a fast one that their bosses wouldn’t be happy with.

Of any game? Codenames. Was playing with family when the clock struck midnight.

Of computer games, it was probably Kerbal Space Program, which I’ve just started to get into again over Christmas for the first time in years.

That article is just as useless as the comment it replies to, because it fails to acknowledge the fact that marking the start of the season with the solstice is only a convention that some places observe. Others do not.

It’s a convention. And not one that everyone follows. In Australia we use meteorological seasons, which start on the first of the month. So today is precisely one third of the way through summer.

Because of what you said, I do think that the way we do it is better. It puts the solstice (the day literally called “midsummer”) closer to the middle of the season, and also makes more sense because it puts seasons aligned with the human calendar.

Ultimately, the 4 seasons are a human invention and we can choose where we put them.

Edit: meteorological seasons start on the first of the month. The name for when you start on the solstice/equinox is astronomical seasons.

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I hope you’re not storing time in floating point.

Tildeverse?

Platforms actually do get more leeway than is usually thought with DMCA takedown requests. If they believe it to be fraudulent, they have every right to disregard it. That’s a fact they conveniently try to downplay because they want people to think they have no responsibility for their actions.

There is no expectation of privacy in public.

By which I mean that things like blurring a house from Street View are unreasonable.

Um actually a word’s etymology does not define its modern usage. 🤓