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  • And to explain the connection a little further:

    • "Al" stayed the same, obviously
    • The "arismi" bit was influenced by Greek "arithmos"
    • The "Khw" bit went through several sound changes, going from Khwa > Kho > Go

    The name "Al-Khwarezmi" is also basically just "of Khwarezmia" in the first place, so the entire time we have been naming the way youtube decides what to show you after a place in Uzbekistan

  • Also, she should be able to remove herself from the conversation if she wants to. If she's at work then she can't do that, for example, but if you're at a public park then she can just walk off. At least that's how I think of it. Obviously I don't ever want to make someone feel like they have to if I'm just trying to chat, but the point is if they have the option then it should be way less likely to wind up that way

  • Other people have already given more useful answers, but this thread is the first time I've learned that it's "Thank God" rather than "Thank Goodness". It was only an occasional presence in my life when I was a child, my grandmother would sometimes take me and my siblings there. Both her and my mother were faaaaiiiirly devout Catholics and raised us as such, and they called it "Thank Goodness It's Friday" when they had cause to use the long version

  • Mr Burn

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  • I don't know anything about what she talked about before or after the trip, but it actually is a well-established phenomenon that going to space causes a notable shift towards feeling more connected to humanity in general

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect

  • No, it isn't.

    Mixed member proportional has regional list candidates that compensate parties that are underrepresented in seats compared to their popular vote within that region. Regardless of how your preferred candidate does, your vote affects the regional results. New Zealand uses this at a national level, and Germany and the UK both have it in some sub-national elections

    Party list proportional has you vote for a party rather than a candidate, and each party gets a number of seats proportional to the number of votes. If your preferred party doesn't win, they still get some seats. If they do win, your vote still gets them more seats. Absolutely loads of countries do this method.

    In a single transferable vote system, you rank the candidates. If candidates get enough first-choice votes to meet a given threshold, they're elected. Any surplus votes go towards the voter's next choice, potentially electing them. If your first choice is the least-popular, they're eliminated and your vote goes to your next choice. Either way, the vote isn't wasted. Ireland and Australia use this.

  • I think with this carton you can get a weight-balanced arrangement for any number of eggs except one and seventeen. So whatever you do at the start and end of the carton, it better involve at least two eggs

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  • Is that sort of wrestling actually a sport? It seems like anything with scripted results is more of a stage play to me. Which is totally fine if that's what someone wants to go see, it's essentially just the theatre counterpart to an action movie

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  • I think a lot of us rugby fans who see American football try to watch it like rugby too. The impression I get from talking to Americans is that going to the football is a day out (or in) wth friends and you're only actively watching sometimes with regular breaks for food and the like

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  • Well sometimes it'a fun to see people be really good at things, and sometimes it's fun to get invested in something with other people

    Doing your own sports is good, obviously, but the two aren't mutually exclusive unless you're completely out of free time

  • Alright @Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com @Flax_vert@feddit.uk here we go. I picked up some of my cat Alaric's favourite treats so we could get that authentic "give me food" sound as I kept them away from him.

    I went with a virtual amp instead of the actual pedals so that I could show the exact same clips with and without amplification. I tried replicating something like the two pedals that are visible, but I couldn't get it to work with the stuff that I already have so I just went ahead and dialed in a general death metal-ish tone of high drive distortion > Marshall JCM 900 with the mids scooped > a little tiny bit of reverb > a 4x12 cab. The clip has ten seconds of guitar recorded straight into the computer, the exact same guitar clip but with the amp turned on, then Alaric, and then the same clip of Alaric but amplified. Headphones warning, it is quite loud

    https://vocaroo.com/13XyCW2raFOE

    Also a picture of the star vocalist, of course