Notices by Wolfe Silver (wolfe@terrible.city)

are there any german citizens on here who have any experience using the new transgender name change law and would like to share?

@lulu in Standard Grindr Speak i'd call this "open to everything, depending on chemistry", which is one of the common accepted answers

@lulu because they don't want to be tied down by a capital r Relationship? because they're some kind of aro? because romance makes them anxious and they think it's not worth it? because they always get tired of their partners after about that long?

@lulu

why not just say aro: a lot of people don't have the vocab for it or feel like that word doesn't accurately describe their situation or feel like it's too politically charged

why still look if it makes you anxious: it could be that what makes them anxious is when it drags on for too long! that's usually the case with the men who break my heart 😎

people who want nsa sex: usually just say nsa sex, or "fun" in grindr code

@lulu i feel like there's just this hidden assumption that we look for the things we like?

@lulu i think that this does make some sense

some people are not willing to have any kind of long term romance at all and it's good to be upfront about it

some people are looking to find someone they can spend the rest of their life with and it's good to be upfront about it

if i know i want a long term partner and im not interested in a 3 week fling and the other person knows they're interested in a short exciting fling and not interested in any long term romance, it'd feel like a waste of time for both of us to even go out on one date

@lulu source: too fucking many men who weren't upfront about only wanting a 3 week fling,

@lulu like it's ok if you wanna go with the flow but personally im about as flowy as naxal ayalon in august

ah yes /ɹ̃ʷ/, definitely a good and normal sound for the letter R to represent,

the letter R sometimes represents a vowel sound in every major english dialect and that should come as no surprise given that half the anglosphere calls that letter /ɑː/

ok what do you call that letter? R

oh we call it /ɑː/

wait but doesn't that get confusing with that one? A

oh no no that's obviously /ej/

wait /ej/? what's that one then? E

i mean that's obviously /iː/

uhhhh ok so what do you call that one? I

duh? it's /ɑj/

which is different from /ɑː/

yes

which is a consonant

correct

ppl w plush sonas be like:

capitalism is the best system

ein aufzug fährt aufwärts und ein abzug fährt abwärts

i wasn't even the one who discovered this, but i don't remember who did (and mastodon basically doesn't have search, so i'll never know)

in europe, the efficiency of cars is measured in liters-per-100km

liter per 100km = 1000 cubic cm per 10,000,000 cm
= 1 cubic cm per 10,000 cm
= 1/10,000 cm squared

which is in fact a unit of area

sure it's nice to be all mathematical and create this wacky unit, but what does "my car has a fuel efficiency of 0.0011 square centimeters" mean in the real world?

if we were to pump fuel directly into the engine, with fuel flowing in at the same speed that the car is going, then our fuel pipe would need a cross-sectional area of 0.0011 square centimeters

suppose you're driving a car that uses 11 liters of fuel for every 100 km

11 liters per 100 km = 11,000 cm cubed per 10,000,000 cm
= 0.0011 cm cubed per cm

i.e. for every centimeter that the car inches forward, uh, i mean, centimeters forward, it needs 0.0011 cubic centimeters of fuel

if we need to give our car 0.0011 cubic centimeters of fuel every time it drives forward one centimeter, then a pipe with a cross-section of 0.0011 **square** centimeters would exactly do the trick, so long as the fuel inches forward exactly one centimeter every time the car does

i.e. fuel flows into the engine at the same speed that the car drives forward, and the pipe we're using to fuel the engine has a cross-sectional area of 0.0011 cm squared

looking forward to when i start driving electric cars and need to incorporate watts and joules and newtons into my calculations