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isyasad

@ isyasad @lemmy.world

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  • What are your most recently visited Wikipedia pages?

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  • Mine:

    • Bugsnax
    • Sigmund Freud
    • Doug Ducey
    • Racial discrimination in jury selection
    • Jaguar
    • City of Gastronomy

  • What is your up- & downvote behaviour?

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  • I don't have strict standards, but generally:

    • usually upvote someone who responds to me with something substantial, even if I disagree
    • downvote things that are antisocial (self-hate/self-harm, antinatalism, misanthropy)
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  • What length of hair did you have?

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    What were some computer programs and games you grew up with?

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  • Whatever you are... MAKE ME A PIZZA (Zoombinis)

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  • Geoff Lindsay is great

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  • The improvised Country Roads scene may be my favorite moment in any Ghibli movie

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    1. Only Yesterday - Probably my favorite movie ever. It's so authentic and personal and real.
    2. Spirited Away - Really emotional and dramatic and surprisingly NOT overrated at all.
    3. The Wind Rises - Feels very personal while also feeling broad and important.
    4. From Up on Poppy Hill - I love complicated family situations, and I like the aesthetics and music.
    5. The Secret World of Arrietty - The philosophy of the characters in this one is actually really interesting.
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  • I like every season, but summer the most for longer days.

  • Grid or List?

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  • If you could create an additional day of the week, what would you name it and why?

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  • If you could create an additional day of the week, what would you name it and why?

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  • Yes but if I remember correctly, each of those Norse gods are correlated with the Roman gods who share names with planets, which is how you can draw a connection between the planets and weekdays for English. The same connection exists in many languages across the world including Spanish, French, Hindi, Japanese.

  • If you could create an additional day of the week, what would you name it and why?

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  • The gods that the weekdays are named after also have associated planets, so really every day is named after a celestial body already.Ex: Saturday is obviously Saturn Day, Thursday is Thor's Day, with Thor being the equivalent of the Roman Jupiter, so Thursday is indirectly Jupiter Day, etc.

  • If you could create an additional day of the week, what would you name it and why?

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  • The days of the week come from the Sun (Sunday), Moon (Monday), and classic 5 planets (Tuesday = Mars, Wednesday = Mercury, Thursday = Jupiter, Friday = Venus, Saturday = Saturn). This makes more sense in some other languages, for example Spanish: marte / martes, mercurio / miercoles. Saturn = Saturday though is almost obvious.

    So if there were another day in the week, I have no choice but to either:

    • name it Earthday
    • name it after Uranus, the next discovered planet

    This gives us precedent to create up to 10 days per week by including all 8 planets plus sun & moon.

  • What were you surprised to learn wasn't actually normal?

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  • Yeah it's definitely more reasonable than maybe it seems.

    As kids we had pretty similarly sized feet. And I don't think I noticed if the socks I was wearing were too big or too small anyway, even now I have some socks that are bigger or smaller than others.

    And my parents had their own socks, so the sock basket was just for me and the sibs.

  • What were you surprised to learn wasn't actually normal?

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  • Sharing socks. My family used to have a sock basket next to our shoes. You didn't own your own socks, you just grab a pair when you need them.I mentioned "the sock basket" offhand to a friend in elementary school and she thought it was crazy. That's when I learned that not every family has a community sock basket. Looking it up though, I find a couple reddit threads from people with the same experience (and people replying that it's weird) 🤷‍♀️

  • If money was no object, where would you be booking your next holiday?

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  • I get that the environmental impacts are pretty significant. I looked it up and it seems like aviation is like ~3% of worldwide emissions and while that's not really the biggest number I've ever seen, it is pretty significant.I just think it's equally unreasonable to condemn air travel in general when the alternatives are equally unreasonable. If somebody wants to go on a trip, what should they do? Months-long zero-emission backpacking journey? Never visit anywhere your whole life? Wait for your country to build high speed rail?

  • What's the longest you've gone without eating?

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  • I totally lost my ability to tell whether or not I was hungry. I don't keep a regular meal schedule anyway so it was hard for my body to adjust back, I think.

  • What's the longest you've gone without eating?

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  • 32 hours after making a dumb bet. It messed up my appetite for months afterwards. I got $20 though. Not worth it.

  • In what countries do you have family members?

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  • That's a strange assumption to make. No, they are not all taxi drivers, shop owners, or carriers of anything especially heavy, to my knowledge.