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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Can't believe it's been 805 years without Adelaide II of Büren 😞

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

These restrictions are going to make some people on safe supply go back to street-level, and reducing diversion is going to just make the street-level supply more toxic than it already is.

But hey, gotta break a few eggs (kill a bunch of innocent people) to make an omelette (slightly reduce the gangs' profit margins)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yes and no. It means Frosti's daughter because her father's name is Frosti (Frosti is conjugated to Frosta to mean Frosti's). All Icelandic "last names" work like that: made from the father's name and 'dottir' or 'son'. The name Frosti comes from a dwarf in the Eddur and yes is derived from the Icelandic/Old Norse word frost.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

Also the impact risk corridor passes through states that are poorly equipped for large civil defence operations: Ethiopia and the CAR are in civil wars, Yemen is in a civil war with the majority of the country under the control of an unrecognized government, and the South Sudanese government is quite week—being at peace only for the last 5 years

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Author-date systems create line noise that makes text hard to grok. Numeric systems (with or without footnotes) don't have that problem. Honestly I don't see the point of author-date. If a a paper is really important then it should be referenced in prose, otherwise "(Kowalchuck et al., 2018)" doesn't tell you anything more than "[11]"; you're still gonna need to look it up in the bibliography. And that looking up is actually made harder: finding [11] between [10] and [12] is easier than finding Kowalchuk between Kowal and Kowalski or whatever other names happen to be there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

We already have that technology it just sucks. Look up plant microbial fuel cells

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Hot take but imperialism is bad actually. We shouldn't be looking to replace the Americans' grip with another great powers'.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

My favourites are Nqwebasaurus thwazi and Yi qi

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

((sweet potato) chips) vs (sweet (potato chips))

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

what's more sciency: the cycle that controls the majority of ocean ecosystems and one that even hobbyist aquarium keepers need to learn, or the niche one with potash?

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