keepcarrot [she/her] @ keepcarrot @hexbear.net

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My OT sometimes brings her therapy golden retriever and it's always a treat. Very big and friendly but low energy

Old lifeboat from the r/chapotraphouse banning 3 years ago. It almost instantly became the largest lemmy instance at the time and so the devs next bunch of patches were optimising so our servers weren't crash constantly. I think that state of affairs kinda maintained until the reddit blackout. Officially, it's non-sectarian leftism, but practically speaking it's a more shitposty less serious lemmygrad with way higher throughput. Also for a non-trans focused space online, it's very trans.

The name itself was just the meme that was popular on r/cth at the time of shutdown ("Look at this dope ass bear

Because of the load and a few other things (I don't remember, I'm sure there was drama), there was a lemmy fork that only recently got reintegrated, but it means hexbear is now federated into the lemmyverse.

From the largest lemmy instance before reddit did the thing. Weird, huh.

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Was on r/cth, was on the lifeboat discord which wasn't functional for me, migrated to chapo chat which was instantly the largest lemmy instance by a couple of orders of magnitude in terms of posts per day and active users. Not been too outgoing in this space, sometimes I go to lemmygrad or lemmy.ml if I run out of content.

I don't want to be my LinkedIn self :'(

What do you use a mile for? One km is about a 15 minute walk.

2nd of October seems the same as intuitive as October 2nd to me.

For whatever reason, I know that one mile is 1760 yards or 5280 feet, but difficulty comes when doing anything with those numbers (e.g. How many yards in 5.2 miles? How many meters in 5.2 km? One is definitely easier to do). Maybe my chosen vocation of Engineering means I encounter unit conversions more frequently than most people. I dislike the weird combination of gauge vs 1/xths of an inch that pops up time to time (drill and screw diameters). I don't see how one mile is more intuitive than one kilometre as a distance.

I'm not sure about the meter vs yard, they are almost the same in terms of intuitiveness as well as actual value.

I just took a measurement of my fingers and my little finger nail is about a cm wide and my foreknuckle and index knuckle separation is about an inch.

I use inches in wargaming because I grew up with warhammer miniatures which classically come on 25 mm bases, though they're switching to 30 mm to increase the size of infantry miniatures. At a certain point there's a balance between battlefield resolution and readability, which 25 mm bases seem fine for.

Weights are even more baffling. I think I know what an ounce is, but I hate trying to multiply it out when Americans say something is 14 ounces or something.

I know what pints are because of beer.

Temperature is annoying for both because you have to find the little symbol not present on my keyboard.

More annoying to do on mobile (desktop is just middle click)

Hexbear nods

When this happens, I reload, which seems to return me to where I was in the feed. It's a workaround, but it would be nice to just press the back button

Does Russian? I feel like it does the same thing through genetive cases tho

This is the final refuge of the person that uses Chinese stat's to prove Uigher genocide through some sort of numerology

Interesting person to meet, probably risky

Still there though?

It's possible the store owner also owns the store location maybe. Massively reduces throughput necessary. Could also be a fence?