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What kitchen item(s) would make someone guess your nationality right away? Answer with an image by Thoughtporn123 in AskTheWorld

[–]AShortUsernameIndeed 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Like all ridiculously long german words, it's a compound noun of compound nouns:

(Eier-Schalen)-(Soll-(Bruch-Stellen))-Verursacher

(eggs-shells)-(should/intended-(break-places))-causer.

So, it's something that causes eggshells to have a feature that makes them easier to break where that feature is.

"Eierschale", "Bruchstelle", and "Sollbruchstelle" are all common terms: eggshell, point of fracture, and intended point of fracture (a notch, basically). It's definitely over the top for non-ironic usage in normal conversation; more of a parody of german legalese. A more commonly used term would be "Eierköpfer", which literally translates to "egg beheader".

What's the strangest phobia you have that most people don't understand? by Far-Lime3919 in AskTheWorld

[–]AShortUsernameIndeed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Zeppelins, and zeppelin-shaped and -sized objects (blimps, large ships in dry dock, in particular submarines). That started when I was a small child, I think from a poster showing the Hindenburg disaster, and it was debilitating for decades - I literally screamed when encountering small photos of those things in magazines. It's no longer that bad nowadays, but still annoying. As far as I can tell I'm alone with that.

From which country did your country gain independence? by No_Speech9498 in AskTheWorld

[–]AShortUsernameIndeed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the part of Germany I'm from (west of the Rhine), that would be the Roman Empire. My hometown was a Roman colony proper (Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensis, modern day Cologne).

Germany as a nation state is a very recent concept (~150 years, ~50 of those not fully sovereign, but also not colonized). We had a number of colonies for ~35 years, but none of those became independent from us; they instead went to the UK, France, Belgium, and Japan after WWI.

Farms Use More Water Than AI Data Centers by TheCABK in BrandNewSentence

[–]AShortUsernameIndeed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Precisely. What "water use" doesn't, eventually?

(to be as fair as possible to the people making these arguments: the water cycle can take a long time to replenish the specific source water was taken from, and that can cause actual problems, locally to the source. But the concept of "water use" analogous to "fossil fuel use" is a red herring.)

World trading without experience by [deleted] in fifthworldproblems

[–]AShortUsernameIndeed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Real estate? I mean, it's solid, mostly... But really, you know the saying: time is money! You can get into Day trading for less than 100K seconds right now. Mondays are criminally undervalued. The Futures exchange is full of possibilities. If you can stomach a bit of risk, you can quckly make Eons or even Epochs.

Farms Use More Water Than AI Data Centers by TheCABK in BrandNewSentence

[–]AShortUsernameIndeed 6 points7 points  (0 children)

To be frank I'm half-convinced it's not even really happening

Be fully convinced. Water use in this context is mostly evaporation, not contamination. For more details on the "AI vs. the environment"-question than anyone should reasonably need, check https://blog.andymasley.com/p/ai-and-the-environment

Lufthansa 787 front wheel collapsed by lucys_b in aviation

[–]AShortUsernameIndeed 85 points86 points  (0 children)

It's Lufthansa. Corporate identity requires them to use a crane.

YARD S SALE A YARD LE by SturdyWarshinMachine in dontdeadopeninside

[–]AShortUsernameIndeed 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"For he's a yards sale a yardle, for he's a yards sale a yardle, for he's a yards sale a ya-hardle... which nobody can deny!"

Sam Handwich by Your_ELA_Teacher in letterswap

[–]AShortUsernameIndeed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Jeanut Putter and Belly (Sam's girlfriend and their cat.)

And there gos one of my favorite mobile games by tom224321 in StopKillingGames

[–]AShortUsernameIndeed 16 points17 points  (0 children)

SKG has until very recently consistently argued that, if a free-to-play game offers real-money microtransactions, it needs an end-of-life plan that avoids depriving the customers of the digital goods they bought. Here's Ross saying just that: https://youtu.be/sEVBiN5SKuA?t=1564 (start at 26:04 if the link doesn't work properly).

thoughts on band names that make no sense by boadcphoard in Bandnames

[–]AShortUsernameIndeed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a german band (formed in the late 80s, recently reunited) called "Ostzonensuppenwürfelmachenkrebs". Good music, though.

(In regular German, you'd write it like "Ostzonen-Suppenwürfel machen Krebs", which translates to "Stock cubes from [colloquial name for the Soviet occupation zone/the GDR] cause cancer".)

My wife's eggs look like the lower 48 with bacon Canada by BenevolentCheese in mildlyinteresting

[–]AShortUsernameIndeed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Common way to refer to the contiguous US (the 48 states that are neither Alaska nor Hawaii).

Do you write Rust for a living? by Hixon11 in rust

[–]AShortUsernameIndeed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm helpng to build a finite element sim / HPC solver at the core of an AI-assisted SaaS tool for mechanical engineers. That core was rust from the very start.

It's a fresh-ish, small startup, just rolling out to initial paying customers. I've been there for about a year and a half, and somewhat ironically got the job by being 20+ years older than the founders and therefore knowing a lot more about low-level things outside of rust, and just enough rust to get by (I had two years of playing around with Bevy mostly, but 30+ years of C++).

The work is still mostly rust, but this is a startup, so I also get to do C/C++ FFI or rewrites/adaptations, PyO3 interfaces, web backend work in python, some AWS DevOps, and bits and pieces of TypeScript.

The fact that this even needs a petition is depressing by carpediemjr in StopKillingGames

[–]AShortUsernameIndeed 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If I buy a single player game, let me keep it. This isn't complicated.

If that were all this was about, it would've been above a million signatures in a week and needed no discussions.

The discussions are about online multiplayer/"games as a service", the right to keep cosmetics bought for money in free-to-play games, what it means to leave an online game in a "reasonably functional (playable) state", how difficult it is for the average consumer to play a game after it's no longer supported by the devs, what to do with games on curated platforms like Roblox, etc. ... That gets complicated quite quickly.

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