Dharma Curious (he/him)

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  • Yorkshire. Jodie Whitaker’s accent. Fucking love it so much. The way she says radio in the Tesla episode? OMG. I love everything about it.

    Also genuinely love Indian accents, and several southern US accents, but not all of them. Not a big fan of Appalachian or west Virginian accents, Kentucky can okay depending on the region, and coastal Virginia is pretty good. Western Virginia (not west Virginia, but the mountainous western portion of Virginia) can be grating to me.

    Charleston accents are chef’s kiss, and the accent I was born into until I forced myself into a general American accent as a kid



  • The whole idea behind it was radical unity, internationalism, and bringing disparate people together on equal footing. Instead of me speaking a language I’ve known since birth, and you speaking a language you are just capable of understanding, and both of us trying to plead our case to the government, the idea is that we would all have an auxiliary language to compliment (not replace) our mother tongues, and we would both be capable of making yourself understood equally.

    Those ideals don’t really jive with hard nationalism and pseudoscientific ideas around superior races




  • Esperanto! Yes, there are better conlangs, yes, it’s eurocentric, and yes, there are ways to improve it or even come up with something better. But it has a cool history, it’s tied to socialist movements and anarchist movements, it is fairly easy to learn (especially for speakers of European languages), it’s grammar is super simple, it uses a system of root words and affixes that make me think of Legos, and it has real, native speakers already, meaning it is a living language that has changed over time, and is fully capable of being used exclusively to communicate efficiently.

    Plus, the fascists fucking hate it






  • Honestly? Terrifying. Not to get all "mark of the beast"y or anything like that, but they’re not going to have to force us to get brain-computer interface chips, people are going to line up for them and pay for it willingly. And then after a while, actual thought crimes become a real thing. I don’t want to live in a world where I have to worry about the encryption level of my brain. I don’t want Dear Leader, whoever that may be at the time, knowing if I like them.

    10 years ago, this would have exited the hell out of me. Now? All I can think about is how fucking terrifying it is.






  • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.nettoFoodPorn@lemmy.worldHealthy snack idea
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    16 days ago

    “Healthy” is sort of subjective, especially in an era where prepackaged snack cakes and cookies and all manner of processed foods are super common, and often far more available than fresh alternatives. Is this healthier than just eating a handful of spinach leaves or a bowl of riced cauliflower? Likely not. Is this healthier than opening a package oreos, saying you’ll have 2, and then eating the entire thing while binge watching something on Netflix? I have no idea. I assume so, maybe I’m wrong. But this take effort and time to make, so you’ll probably eat fewer of them, and not snack on them absent mindedly as you would with something that took zero effort to obtain. Plus, this looks like it tastes way better




  • I’ll post this as a thread if it’s beyond your scope to answer, but you seem like a smart person who might know a thing I have absently wondered about many times.

    Balloons eventually fall back to the ground after the helium escapes. But let’s say you made a theoretical balloon that couldn’t allow the helium to escape, it’s perfectly sealed. Now, let’s say that the material it is made of is also as light as a regular balloon, but our near-magical material is also capable of withstanding extreme cold (like, outer space cold). Would it just float into space? I know that when we shoot rockets up there’s a lot of heat from the friction, but if something is moving slowly, that wouldn’t happen, I don’t think? But can a slow moving thing escape earth?

    Tell me, oh great and wise Heliumancer, tell me the secrets of the light-gas!