Dasus

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 38 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

"Israeli foreign minister indirectly threatens a foreign ambassador who's spoken out against the genocide"

Yeah the message here is pretty clear.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Estonia at least is richer than it used to be so probably importing a lot while growing, and that puts it in negative? While sharing our Nordics wasteful way of life of flying to holidays and eating tons of beef and driving everywhere.

But what are they doing in Mongolia? Perhaps it's growing as well, and similar stuff happening? Importing a ton? Idk.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Oh no, not all of them. I'm just too lazy to write a more accurate sentence.

-ium is a commonly used Latin suffix for elements. The name for platin cones from spanish "platina", 'little silver'.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

We have a draw.

The first name proposed for the metal to be isolated from alum was alumium, which Davy suggested in an 1808 article on his electrochemical research, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I've seen it compared to salt, but that's about it.

Yeah, that's about it. Obviously what it brings is different but yeah I'd say the amounts you use are comparable.

Uncle Roger perhaps overdoes it a bit. I used to use some sort of dries mushroom umami mix that's found in all the shops here, but it wasn't as good and even a little moisture near the spices in the kitchen and it would clump up. So I got a bag of msg from an asian store.

5/5 got to say.

MSG was considered like a synthetic additive for ages, but it's completely natural. It's a sodium salt of glutamic acid, a naturally occurring amino acid. Not that something being "natural" makes it healthy (god I hate the naturalistic fallacy), but still, just wanted to point that out.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

But all the other elements are -iums as well, so aluminium makes more sense.

Regards someone from neither country

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I mean just for an "umami kick", you could just go to the same store and pick up a bag of MSG.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago

Really?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterskin

Also, there was an ice age. Not everyone lives in scorching climates. Theres fresh water around me 247/365. As waterskins are somewhat recent probably, in terms of evolutionary history.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

The worst part wasn't the experience itself. Hell — I've had trips that felt scarier.

The worst part is people questioning that it ever happened and straight up ignoring it.

So you've helped me more to deal with that particular trauma than my mom, who went "well I couldn't know what happened there" as in implying "perhaps you did something to deserve it", actually causing most of the related trauma.

So yeah. Thank you.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Yes, and?

Nordic (or Finnish/Swedish at least) "sandwich cake".

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Having slept outside in -40, in an unheated (there were attempts but the too late and too small a stove to make a difference), windy tent, when I had to open my bedroll with significant amounts of violence to even have a "bed" to sleep on — I would humbly like to disagree.

Even though some of these summer nights I would definitely want an actually cool bed, never have I ever dreamed of having to sleep in those circumstances.

No such thing as too cool — but definitely a thing as too cold.

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Core of... THC?

Anyway, seemed magical enough. Now it's kind of lost it's magic though. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

Shran uses a set from a Finnish designer, called "Ultima Thule". It's also featured as a world on the show, iirc. (I'm midway through rewatch, but Ultima Thule is definitely a world in the ST universe.)

The name come from ancient times, meaning roughly "Ultimate North", and referring to various places that no-one can really agree on.

Anyways, the other glass is also Finnish, and also used in ST: Enterprise. Whenever Archer has dinner in his quarters or they're having cake at Malcolm's bday, therr these glasses are: https://star-trek.design/glassware/tapio-goblets-by-tapio-wirkkala-for-iittala

(I wonder if this is related to my alcoholism flaring up anytime the episodes with the glasses come up.)

 

I made a joke about how Russia was a bit behind in video game tech in the 90's and got banned, lol.

 

I'm listening to Stromae, Pomme - Ma Meilleure Ennemie (from Arcane Season 2) Lyrics w/ translation.

And one line is "Mais comme dit le diction: Plutôt qu'être seul mieux vaut être mal accompagne."

French (sorry for butchering some of the letters, I've a Nordic layout), roughly for "But as the saying goes: Better than alone, is to be in bad company."

Reading that, I remembered a Spanish line from last weeks episode of "The Day of the Jackal": "Mejor solo que mal acompañado."

"It's better to be alone than in bad company."

A difference in views between the French and the Spanish, eh? Anyone here who's got some view on it? I'd be interested to hear a view from someone who intimately understands both cultures.

 

Also, from the lyrics: "Team by team, reporters baffled trump"

 

I had more screen space for reading with my Nokia 3310.

 

Just something MAGA-people seem to have a hard time with sometimes. Probably not as much when Americans are speaking to themselves, but as a non-American, sometimes it's challenging to get "those people" to admit that there is indeed anything wrong with the US. As in they won't accept a single criticism, and will loudly proclaim "America is the greatest country in the world", while wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, which for me pretty explicitly means America isn't great, if it has to be made to be such again.

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