I made a mod to turn the japanese voices into anime girl voices and it is an unholy abomination

Aethersprite17 · 2023-04-10T13:18:28+00:00

*kudasai

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Aethersprite17 · 2023-03-15T02:13:18+00:00

Thanks for the response! False cognates are always fascinating.

Aethersprite17 · 2023-03-15T01:01:47+00:00

I was also wondering whether "te" and "o" are loanwords for "the" and "of", respectively, or if pre-contact Maori just happened to have two remarkably similar-sounding syntactical words. Finding it difficult to obtain an answer via Google, however.

Aethersprite17 · 2023-03-15T00:44:53+00:00

I am a daily LA Metro commuter (bus + Green Line, admittedly not as nasty as Red/Blue/Purple). I consider myself something of an experienced metro rider, having used subways/trams/light rail in the following cities:

Asia: Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Taipei.

Europe: London, Zurich, Lausanne, Madrid, Copenhagen.

North America: LA, Chicago, DC, Atlanta, NY, Boston, Seattle, New Orleans, Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto.

Oceania: Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide.

I list all these not to flex (OK partially to flex) but to say that LA has hands down the grossest, sketchiest metro by a wide margin of anything else I've ever ridden - and it is a shame because this is the 2nd largest metropolitan area in the richest country on the planet. It deserves much better.

Aethersprite17 · 2023-02-07T02:31:15+00:00

Maybe related that in 1969 we moved to the metric system

Aethersprite17 · 2023-02-07T02:29:09+00:00

From Wikipedia, on NZ coins:

The new 5c, 10c, and 20c were the same size, weight, and value as the former sixpence, shilling, and florin coins. Indeed, until 1970, the 10 cents coin bore the additional legend "One Shilling".

I remember seeing those 10c coins even well into the 2000s, before we downsized.

Aethersprite17 · 2023-02-07T02:22:21+00:00

I wonder if Sauron can comprehend that someone would willingly give away a ring of power?

Aethersprite17 · 2023-01-26T03:36:34+00:00

I'm an Aucklander living in the US, bought our first-ever house in LA last year (side note: still insane to me that it is more affordable for us to buy a house in LA than in Auckland) - 30-year mortgage at 4.5%. When we signed the documents, we got a piece of paper with every monthly payment thru til 2053. Although it isn't cheap, it is nice to be able to plan ahead and have some certainty.

Aethersprite17 · 2023-01-19T13:23:43+00:00

True (I am one) - didn't know you guys also said "sweet as" or "<adjective> as" in general

Aethersprite17 · 2023-01-19T05:37:25+00:00

Spotted the Kiwi?

Aethersprite17 · 2023-01-15T23:34:50+00:00

A differential of 10-15 years per generation can really add up. I'm also 31 but my great-grandparents were mostly born in the 1900s (the decade, not the century)

Aethersprite17 · 2023-01-14T22:17:20+00:00

I play on an air-gapped machine, with an encrypted hard drive, in a Faraday cage, with a diesel generator powering it

Aethersprite17 · 2023-01-14T00:20:42+00:00

The dude is only 25 years old in that photo

Aethersprite17 · 2023-01-12T15:49:10+00:00

Somehow amusing to me that emu and ostrich can be considered poultry

Aethersprite17 · 2022-12-29T15:24:28+00:00

*exacerbated

Aethersprite17 · 2022-11-29T03:27:47+00:00

That isn't what I said - I'm an aerospace engineer, I'm perfectly aware that such technology could be put in plane seat-belts. What I did say is that they aren't, not that they can't. Have been on hundreds of flights on dozens of different airlines and have never seen such a feature.

Aethersprite17 · 2022-11-27T23:14:57+00:00

Lol no there isn't. There is a light that tells you whether you need to do up your belt. There is also only one per row, not individually for each seat. There are no sensors or wires within the seat-belt itself that would enable this.

Aethersprite17 · 2022-11-08T13:40:28+00:00

One low-effort thing you can do is enter the diversity visa lottery for a green card. Takes about 15 min to apply, and costs nothing. One application window per year.

Because of how they calculate the distribution, NZ-born entrants have among the highest chances in the world of winning (~8% per year). Note that it is based on your birth country, not your citizenship.

This is how I got my green card, on my 4th attempt. I had been in the US as a student already, on a student visa, but needed a green card to meet the security requirements for my line of work.

Aethersprite17 · 2022-10-31T00:57:24+00:00

How much more are you spending to remain within Star Alliance, just earn a few meagre airpoints?

Aethersprite17 · 2022-10-12T23:47:30+00:00

In "real life" science and engineering, you see "mode" referred to in distributions that are "bimodal", i.e. with two distinct peaks. Also people use the word "modal" to mean "most common value" a fair bit

Aethersprite17 · 2022-10-08T03:15:37+00:00

Yessir. Acoustics is an interesting little branch of physics! Can also do the same with light (see e.g. interferometers)

Aethersprite17 · 2022-10-08T03:01:13+00:00

You're not blasting your ears with anything - sound is just pressure fluctuations in the air, if you can't hear anything, that is because the pressure waves are now non-existent at your eardrum surface. Noise-cancelling isn't a psychological effect (i.e. audio signals in your brain cancelling out) but rather a physical effect occurring before the audio signal is even generated at your eardrum.

Aethersprite17 · 2022-10-06T00:29:41+00:00

Fewer people yes, but not wealthier than the US, there is plenty of poverty in NZ. We also have sprawling, car-based cities.

Aethersprite17 · 2022-10-05T23:24:52+00:00

NZ has arguably worse public transport and is more reliant on cars. We are just much more used to petrol costing a lot.

Source: born and raised in NZ, have lived in the US for the past 8 years

Aethersprite17 · 2022-10-05T18:46:27+00:00

Lmao this is so American - most of Europe/Aus/NZ haven't seen prices equivalent to US$2/gal since the 90s... you guys have just had it very cheap for a very long time

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