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[–] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

would all integers necessarily be irrational in base π?

[–] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

They also lay tens of thousands of eggs at once.

[–] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Yeah, there was a whole movement to get them to move to what is now Liberia (or Haiti, or Panama). Even Lincoln supported the idea. Although, he did eventually abandon the idea due to, among other complications, his refusal to implement any plan that made it compulsory, so... at least there's that?

[–] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is actually a result of changes to our larynx and stuff, which allows us to make such a variety of sounds when speaking. In other animals (and human babies), the air and food tubes are physically separated at rest. But in humans, our epiglottis can't properly keep things separate because our larynx is further down in our throat.

So, I'm gonna have to deny this request on the grounds that it will necessarily break the speech feature, which many of our users depend on heavily.

[–] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

Eh, not totally. Some languages have phonemes that are completely absent in other languages, and some phonemes (especially vowels, though sometimes consonants, eg: "r") are different enough that a transliteration can never do them justice. Although, I guess transliterating into the international phonetic alphabet would do the trick...

[–] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

If they hadn't capped the number of representatives at 435 over a hundred years ago, we wouldn't be in the situation where a vote from Wyoming carries 3.7 times more weight than a vote from California. By my math, if the 435 cap was abolished, we would have 143 more electors generally sprinkled among the more populous states. I still agree that the EC is outdated, but it's not even operating the way it was designed.

[–] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You aren't wrong: for most of human history infant mortality and lack of vaccines for childhood diseases pulled down the average, but if you made it to adulthood you could expect to live a normal length of time. IDK what the life expectancy was back then specifically (Tolkien undoubtedly saw huge improvements in medicine and pharmacology during his life), but germ theory had already been well established by the time Tolkien was born and they had antibiotics. So, that's not the whole story in this case.

Tolkien fought in World War I when he was in his 20s, and an absurd number of his friends and peers died. That war (and the flu, which broke out towards the end of the conflict and almost certainly spread more quickly and widely thanks to the close quarters and movement of military forces) had a huge impact on demographics.

Tolkien is in the solid red line in the graph below: https://shs.cairn.info/article/E_POPSOC_510_0001?lang=en

(Edit: the British military was also doing this thing called "pals battalions", where you'd serve alongside people from your town. Which was allegedly good for morale, but meant that the people you saw die were people you'd grown up with and that one bad day of fighting could wipe out an entire town's military-aged male population.)

[–] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

And some girls want to look at boobies, too.

[–] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

If i recall, the main trick is to make sure there aren't any sharp corners or other places that are close enough together that arcing can occur. But there might be some additional stuff, like coatings and other design choices that are necessary to promote even and effective heating (otherwise the microwave will heat the bowl instead of the food since the radiation won't pass through metal like it does with plastic, paper, or glass).

[–] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

IDK if you're asking for mobile or not, but I downloaded Yomiwa earlier toady (android) and it has pitch intonation.

[–] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Me too, the shape is just so perfect for so many things. I bought some recently at the Vietnamese market nearby. They have fancy little roses surrounded by a filigree pattern printed on them and say "English" on the handle in some Victorian-looking cursive font lmao. I love them.

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