Regna

Regna, 10 months ago

Thank you, I had forgotten some of the memes and jokes from that era.

Regna, 10 months ago

What the article doesn’t mention is that the train driver/engineer was worried that the terrain under the tracks was weakened by the weather and rain. The driver got in touch with the command centre and they agreed to the suggestion of lowering the train’s speed, which meant that the derailment wasn’t as dangerous or critical as it could have been otherwise.

Also, the brook Susabäck (bäck = brook) is not a river. It is a brook. “The rustling brook river” sounds like “DVD disc”.

Regna, 10 months ago

Yes, sarcasm. There are plenty of smaller news sites, but (at least in Sweden) many are struggling due to lack of paid subscribers or ad revenue, not due to explaining whether they have tracking or third party cookies.

Regna, 10 months ago

In order to be accurate, most of the news communities want the headline of the post to be the same as the one in the article. And as the news sites use “slam”, well…

Regna, 10 months ago

Go by the study. And then if there are other studies, look at the combination of them. Ignore the articles speculations, they do not undermine a study that was supposed to look at “how much micro and nano particles of plastics are released and we’re subjected to when microwaving food in plastic containers”.

Regna, 10 months ago

Managed to misreply. Was intended to reply to your comment, but ended up as reply to post.

Regna, 10 months ago

I disagree regarding lying down for bed. Never teach your body to associate the relaxation of meditation with sleep. Unless you only need it for immediately before you sleep to calm your mind.

I can now have mindfulness while doing activities (not driving ofc). Your body will do what you teach it, and I’ve stopped falling asleep meditating when I removed it from bedtime.

Yes, the world needs more meditation.

Regna, 10 months ago

Mindfulness for me, now, is to be aware of myself and my surroundings. It started with meditation during a one year chronic pain remedy program, and helped with learning to deal with all the noise that comes up (pain, stress, intrusive thoughts). To not ignore them, but to observe them. Detach myself somewhat and just “look” at it. This helped me to eventually do this during monotonous activities: brushing my teeth, doing dishes, combing cats, vacuuming, even emptying litter boxes. Then to external activities where I am observing the things outside and inside me: waiting in line, sitting on the bus, hiking, drinking tea at a café.

When I exit the state I feel a bit more refreshed. If I need more, and have the ability, I will go and sit in my favourite spot and meditate deeper.

Regna, 10 months ago

Not in any way surprising, pretty much every square inch of viable land on the British isles has probably been lived on within the last 2000 - 3000 years.

We have similar discoveries in the south of Sweden, we joke that “you can’t throw a rock in a field or forest without hitting ancient ruins and relics”.

Regna, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Edit: Apparently I didn’t RTFA, this is about farmWORKERS, not farmers. My point still stands about farms and agricultural practices further down. However, a scale of agriculture that requires extremely low paid, often illegal work force with no rights, is not a sustainable practice either.

The main issue is that you need a serious scale of operations to be able to earn money from agricultural practices, and that leads to a fairly monocultural crop, subsidies for certain crops and cog-in-the-wheel operations. So it is already heavily affected by industrial corporations. This is not just true for the US, it’s like this in the most part of the developed world. So the “family farms” tend to get outcompeted even when the farmers are pretty much working round the clock, and still with decreasing rewards and increasing loans while they have occasional crop failures. So it doesn’t surprise me if the next generation wants to experience life that isn’t a constant toil.

There are already “hobby farms” as well, not only run by rich people with horses and McMansions.

And then there is a homesteading movement, where families go the other way. They want to escape the rat race and settle down, have more time with their kids and be self-sufficient. Some even do it in an extremely frugal way, some in an eco way with permaculture instead of monoculture. Some are even ex-farmer progeny who want to get back to their roots in a smaller scale.

Regna, 10 months ago

Looks like one.

Regna, 10 months ago

This looks delicious.

Sorry for the stupid question: I know that I could search it up on the internet, but how was it a roll? Looked like folded bread/banh mi/bao with a few sauced lobster bits up on top. Was it before the pre-roll?

Regna, 10 months ago

It was probably a wonderful reuse activity to create this with kids.

Regna, 10 months ago

Very exciting.

Phone friendlier links: Archive.ph, Archive.org

Just wish I hadn’t opened that site in Safari on iPhone first, putting it in reader mode crashed it so hard I had to restart my phone.

Regna, 11 months ago

Dead-easy, they aren’t locked to a permanent object, just move them behind the car, and then they’ll neither be stolen nor your fault if someone else parks their hoods into the bikes.
Move the offending bikes past the car

Regna, 11 months ago

Another one was planned and given permission for today, Thursday, July 20th. So they were egged on beforehand.

Regna, 11 months ago

I too love the Password game! Please save Paul! I truly care about him! ^Truly!^

(Sorry, I sometimes like to post really bad comments…)

Regna, 11 months ago

… so you’re telling me I need five slots for spoons?

Salt/caviar spoon, coffee spoon, tea spoon, dessert spoon, tablespoon

spoilerSalt/caviar spoon, coffee spoon, tea spoon, dessert spoon, tablespoon

I’m a monster who separates only the tablespoon into a separate compartment.

Regna, 11 months ago

How do you feel about forks in the same slot?
Pickled herring fork, sandwich/dessert fork, table fork, pickle/crustacean fork

spoilerPickled herring fork, sandwich/dessert fork, table fork, pickle/crustacean fork

Although, I have to admit I keep these in three separate slots.

Regna, 11 months ago

There are two more spoons I lack in this collection. But no, I just like this series as it’s semi-retro, and I thrift it at second hand stores and at auction sites.

I was joking otherwise, just wanted to throw my punch in this discussion. :D

Regna, 11 months ago

Beautifully said.

Regna, 11 months ago

Omg, I just found out there are two more forks I don’t have! Going to waste a month tracking them down… (Ignore me, this reignited my sometimes-pastime of completing my cutlery, just wanted to share some of my joy.)

Regna, 11 months ago

The long ass skinny one is great for pickle jars on the dining table. We love pickles.

The herring one, well, it’s called “sillgaffel” in Swedish. We do use it when we eat pickled herring, but also for olives and other small delicacies served in small bowls instead of using tooth picks to pick them out.

The “sandwich” one is accompanied by a “sandwich” knife, and are intended to be used for appetizers, and according to an older friend, single sandwiches with ham and (sometimes melted) cheese would be served as appetizers occasionally.

There are dessert forks as well, but they are rare. There are proper crustacean forks too that I would like, as they’d be useful.

There also are supposed to exist fish forks (and fish knives) in the series as well, but I kind of stop before that.

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Regna, 11 months ago

The parking disc commonly looks like this:
Swedish/Finnish parking disc

The sign that states times for free parking can look like this:
Parking sign.

My parking disc is digital and once I set the current time and date it’s supposed to be a set-and-forget as it automatically sets the (rounded up) time to when I arrived: Automatic parking disc

Regna, 11 months ago

Precisely, thank you. I was going to post an image, but whenever I added the image when posting the post stalled. Fixed now.

Regna, 11 months ago

In large parts of Europe, the onus is on the car driver/owner to follow the parking rules, either the common street ones or the privately owned ones.

I can’t remember the exact time I parked any more, but let’s say I parked at 10:25. If I had a manual parking disc/timer, I would have set the time manually to 10:30. Then I would have been able to park for two hours from the time on my parking disc/timer.

My automatic timer had crept forward for some weeks, so when I parked it rounded off to one hour later, 11:30, which I didn’t think of to check.

When the parking attendant went by my car, he/she looked at the current time, and the time my parking disc/timer showed was one hour later than the current time. And as they don’t show date of parking, I was in the wrong for
a) having parked there the previous day, or
b) having set the time wrong on purpose, which is also a finable offense.

Regna, 11 months ago

The automatic ones have to be approved to be legal, there is a limited set of models that are approved in different countries, and they’re recognizable. Plus, parking attendants can take pictures and see if the car is in the same position with a new time when they pass by an hour later.

However, there exist battery driven parking discs that look like normal manual ones, that you set the time manually and then it adjusts every half hour. These are illegal though, and you’ll get fined and possibly even charged legally for using them if discovered.

It’s also illegal to go back to your car every X hours to move the manual disc time forward if the car isn’t moved.

Regna, 11 months ago

Sweden allows for half hours in setting the time rounded upwards, so if I arrive at 11:32, I can set the time to 12:00. But not to 12:30.

This varies from country to country though, some (France?) allow 15 minutes, some (Norway?) require the exact time.

Regna, 11 months ago

The first is formatted according to sidebar suggestion, the second as a shorthand, the third was Lemmy.world’s autocompletion from the second:

• Thrifty
• !thrifty
• !thrifty

Was hoping that at least one of them would survive.

Regna, 11 months ago

The first link was made local /c/ according to sidebar suggestions. The two other, see my reply to unknowing8343.

Thanks for the tip of @Thrifty, I had been looking for something like that. Still learning.

Regna, 11 months ago

The first link worked correctly in other Lemmy instances, but not kbin. Second link redirected to Lemmy.world from all instances I tried it on. Third link was broken from the kbin side.

Regna, 11 months ago

The first link worked correctly in other Lemmy instances, but not kbin. Second link redirected to Lemmy.world from all instances I tried it on. Third link was broken from the kbin side.

Regna, 11 months ago

And I love squeaky cheese. To each their own.

Regna, 11 months ago

Thanks. It’s helpful, uBlock Origin etc didn’t do much on my mobile devices, but I haven’t looked into Firefox or the other ones for the mobile devices.

Regna, 11 months ago

There is one thing about it being voluntary to create. But they’re pushing YT Shorts down both content creators and viewers throats.

As a former teacher and mentor, I agree with the thought to make content more interesting and digestible for the younger generation. What I don’t agree with is packaging everything into mindless kick-rewarding (dopamine hitting) bits, like Candy Crush, One armed bandits or Tik Tok videos.

If you package too much study content into this kind of easily digestible and forgettable bits, you have to remember: it flows out from their minds almost as fast as they spent the effort to see it… maybe it lasted longer if they shared it with their friends/network, but the lesson you wanted them to absorb will mostly disappear faster than the time it took you to create it.

We work (and should work) to create (at least some) lasting impressions that educate. The most memorable moment that one of my study groups had with one of their “cool TikTok and Fortnite savvy” teachers was when they did candy flossing after it stopped being cool. What lessons he taught? They couldn’t remember if it was English or Math.

Sorry for my rant. I digressed.

Regna, 11 months ago

Yeah, on my Linux and PC units I have good Chrome extensions. Still helpful, thanks!

Regna, 11 months ago

Yeah, the easiest option for Google/YT would be to keep Shorts to the Shorts category only/mainly, and keep the ability for users to opt out of Shorts in the platform’s players. That way, creators who want to push 5 to 30 second videos instead of 10 - 200 minutes would still get their 15 minutes seconds of fame.

But now, they aren’t just pushing Shorts on us viewers, they are forcing channels to do Shorts to get better visibility.