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Pons_Aelius, (edited ) in In which scenario would you last longer before being outed as a time traveller?

Scenario 2 is where you would be outed as a time traveller.

Scenario 1 is where you would be outed as a witch.

Not sure witch would happen first.

scottmeme,

Well with scenario 1, it would be fairly quick because people speak way different now than 500 years ago.

grandpaST, (edited )

They will also likely speak way different in 500 years than we do now. We have an idea what 1523 English sounded like. 2523 is uncharted territory.

Boozilla,
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Hell, I have trouble understanding young people right now. I’m not trying to dunk on them, I’m just old.

Zorque,

No cap frfr

sour,
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61 6D 20 73 6F 75 72 20 2E 5F 2E

Pons_Aelius,

Why are you sour?

sour, (edited )
@sour@kbin.social avatar

because random name generator

Pons_Aelius,

We have an idea what 1523 English sounded like.

In the early 2000s the Globe in London did productions of Shakespeare in the original pronunciation.

Here is how the opening of Romeo and Juliet would have sounded.

OneStepAhead,

Pretty neat. I think I caught about half of that. I’m now wondering what percentage of that was more difficult to understand than an average persons speech. I don’t generally talk in iambic pentameter or what-have-you. The flow of the words for something like this is likely making it harder to understand than “regular talk”

livus,
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That sort of reminds me of West Country. Yarp.

Pons_Aelius,

He does for this in.

Yes, there is a definite similarity there.

livus,
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I agree. Also, if the climate catastrophe unfolds as predicted, there will be a return to intense regionalization of dialects because people will live in smaller groups and have less contact with outsiders.

Can_you_change_your_username,

European colonization of America wouldn't have started yet so a majority of Americans wouldn't even be on the same continent. Most of us wouldn't even speak the same language as our ancestors. My ancestors would most likely understand English but wouldn't speak it as their primary language. That may somewhat disguise the dialect difference but would cause all sorts of other problems. They may be actively fighting a war with England or they may be in a period of uneasy peace getting ready for the next war with England.

Pons_Aelius, (edited )

For real shits and giggles:

You get dropped exactly where you are now, just 500 years ago. All the European descended people not living in Europe are (very likely) in for a bad time.

livus,
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Probably not a bad time in the places that had never seen them. It's only the people who they'd already been dicks to by 1523 that you'd need to worry about.

I actually looked this one up, there was no settlement of any kind right on this spot, so I'd have time to sort myself out before approaching a settlement a few days' journey.

Can_you_change_your_username,

I'm in western Appalachia. There were no human settlements here but I might run into a group of hunters. I feel like I'm pretty decent in nature. I've been hunting, hiking, and camping in this area my whole life. With no modern equipment I give myself about a week. Most likely cause of death: Snakebite or eaten by wolves.

grandpaST,

Ya, that’s why I worded it that way. I wouldn’t survive a week landing in midwest North America in 1523. Assuming civilization somehow continues for 500 more years, you would attract much less attention in scenario 2.

intensely_human,

You could play dumb.

name_NULL111653,

That would be an interesting one, because I speak enough old norse and Latin to pass as a foreigner from the far east (until they realise I don’t speak Arabic). But 2523 English will be unrecognizable, and worse, they’d probably recognize our “old” English. It’s like if Shakespeare showed up today, vs some guy from the future who barely speaks English and pretends to only speak an uncommon foreign language.

ChonkyOwlbear,

Scenario 2 you could probably get away with being a dumbfuck foreigner.

blackstampede, (edited )

Unless 500 years in the future travel has been so easy for so long that all cultures have merged into one. Then you’ll be the only foreigner.

NeoNachtwaechter,

Scenario 1 is where you would be outed as a witch.

Unlikely, since I am a man :-)

Pons_Aelius,
NeoNachtwaechter,

Ok 80% of me can survive then :-)

BradleyUffner,

They get to pick which 20% of you to burn though.

PP_BOY_, in Gifts for young kids who are really into airplanes?
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He’s 3, don’t overthink it. When I was 3, one of those Balsa wood gliders was the most fun thing in the world.

Pirate_lemmy_arrrrR,

I can’t seem to find them on Amazon, but there used to be those air pump powered planes that were a lot of fun if you had the room to fly them.

otter,

This is the first thing that came to mind. I used to get them at the dentist as a kid

www.amazon.ca/…/B07WHM33X1

Didn’t realize how cheap they were, maybe I’ll get more…

Chobbes,

These things are so awesome. I had one once and it’s burned into my memory far more than it should be.

bionicjoey, in What's a sci-fi or fantasy book or series that you want to see adapted as a movie/television series?

I’ve long wanted Terry Pratchett’s Discworld to be made into a series. I used to think it wouldn’t be possible because of how much the humour relies on the narrator, but after seeing the (IMO successful) Netflix adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events, I think it is possible.

IonAddis,
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I think it’s possible, but that none of the attempts so far to do so have had the type of success I’d like to see.

Some of the BBC for-television adaptations have been ok. And some series haven’t.

Transcendant,

I’m pretty sure there have been a few books adapted, nowhere near enough though! More, more please.

en.wikipedia.org/…/Category:Discworld_films_and_t…

lazylion_ca,

I’d like to do a series that takes place after the books where Vimes son goes to the Assasins academy and befriends a fellow student who doesnt realize he is a born wizard. I envision five seasons with each season taking up about 3 to 5 years in story. This allows the actors to age gracefully and gives time for quality writing instead of rushing to get a season out before someone gets pregnant or starts balding.

Each season would follow them through their late teens and 20s as they live and thrive in Anhk-Morport. First season would be them at the academy. Second would be them in the Watch. Third would have them part ways as young Sam advances in the Watch while the other starts working covertly for the Patrician.

It’d generally be villain of the week with some over-arching storylines, showing them solving the same mystery from different perspectives, while mostly having each others back even when its not obvious.

Eventually it would culminate in young Sam taking over the watch from Carrot, while his friend finally faces the music and joins UU.

I’d like to throw Carrot and Angua’s daughter in there too, but that might get in the way of one of the potential storylines. Also I don’t want it to be a Harry Potter clone.

redditron_2000_4,

Good Omens showed how well his work can translate to the screen. Just focusing on Ankh Morpork and Vimes could be a great series.

IonAddis,
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My entry into Discworld was Guards! Guards! and I’d love to see a really good rendition of that. I know a lot of people loves Vimes, and I do too, but I also love Carrot and his werewolf girlfriend and I’d like to see Carrot being Carrot.

I think Susan’s story as the grand-daughter of Death could be great, too.

I know Neil Gaiman has a great deal on his plate shepherding his own works onto the screen, but I wish he magically had a bit of extra time and energy to do something (besides Good Omens) of Pratchett’s.

LadyLikesSpiders, in What are your experiences with polyamory, first or second hand?

I’m monogamous myself, but personally know two different polyamorous relationships. 1 is pretty damn good, and the other is rife with drama. Besides that, I tangentially know of others, and all of those are rough, though since I’m hearing of these from mutual friends and acquaintances, I could just be getting the juicy drama and none of the good parts. Could very well be that my info on those are bad

It does seem to mirror the general expectation, though, that most are unstable, and I wouldn’t call it surprising. Relationships are complicated, and anything that has more moving parts is going to be more complicated. I’m not trying to suggest here that monogamy is the way to go by any means–different people have different wants and needs, and some people are just good for polyamory. I just think that a working arrangement like this is tough to pull off

Besides, this gets asked a lot about polyamorous relationships, but there are so many fucked heteronormative relationships, and you never see the argument that monogamy is wrong, so yeah. Just whatever makes you happy

BananaTrifleViolin,

True although I think most relationships are unstable and have drama particularly when young, which is why people can move through so many. Most people have multiple relationships in their lives until they find someone that works (or keep going). That's seen as normal.

I think there is a bias when people look at poly relationships as they seem novel and if they fail it's easy to say it was because it was poly. But if a 2 partner relationship fails it's "normal" and we accept all the reasons like "I didntnlove them anymore" or "we grew apart" etc.

captainlezbian,

There’s also the fact that in polyamory ending is not necessarily a failure for a relationship. Monogamy has an expectation of forever or certain circumstances. But in polyamory it’s sometimes acknowledged that a casual relationship can end in everyone having gotten everything they wanted out of it and deciding to move on.

LadyLikesSpiders,

Yeah, I just think the poly relationship has more places where things can go wrong. In a monogamous one, you need to two people who like each other and are compatible. In a poly, even with only 3 people, you need A and B to be compatible, A and C, and C and B. Adding one extra person into the mix complicates the relationship 3-fold depending on the nature of those relationships. They don’t all have to be in a relationship with one another, but you’re still adding more avenues for drama and collapse in one relationship, not to mention how one relationship could impact the other. If A is having drama with C, the frustration of that failing connection could also impact their relationship with B. I think it’s easier to fail not by any sort of moral failing of polyamorous people, only that the nature of those relationships is inherently less stable through its myriad of moving parts

But there is for sure an element of bias, where heteronormativity gets a pass for being the standard

captainlezbian,

Yeah you can hold a bad traditional relationship together with duct tape and societal expectations indefinitely. You shouldn’t but there’s no kaboom or juicy details. Polyamory has more room for the failure to be catastrophic instead of a slow long decay to a couple snidely commenting on each other in a retirement home.

TheDoozer,

Most of the heteronormative relationships I’ve known of or experienced were rife with drama and problems, so I would assume poly relationships would be, too. Even if the rate is the same, you’ll be at least twice as likely to end up with a shitty relationship in a poly relationship (with at least one partner), right?

Doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with poly relationships, only that there’s plenty wrong with people.

SpaceNoodle, in What is your favourite floor cleaner liquid and why?

I prefer emacs

hddsx,

I have yet to meet a single person in real life who uses emacs

SpaceNoodle,

Well, I used to.

Spastickyle,

I’ve been using vim or vi for decades! Mostly because I still can’t figure out how to exit the editor.

Grabthar,

Me too. I once opened vim in my kitchen and couldn’t get back out for a month.

altima_neo,
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Se that’s why I just use Windows. Until they freeze up and then I can’t get out

RvTV95XBeo,

Idk man, I’m more of a nano guy myself for most things.

SpaceNoodle,

I actually use nano in the terminal, I just wanted to reignite the old flame war

Cqrd,

Sounds like a nano user to me

NeoNachtwaechter, in Turn a plural into a singular to ruin the title of a movie, book or album

Snow White and the Dwarf

psychothumbs, in Why are most memes on Lemmy from 5-10 years ago?

I think lemmy skews a lot older than reddit, we are reliving our internet youth

rosymind,

I’ll be 40 in a few months. I think for people who grew up at the beginning of the internet, we know how much things can change and how quickly.

My guess is that we’re less willing to put up with bs changes, and more willing to move on because we know something’s popularity doesn’t neccrsarily make it the best choice.

I think that by adulthood into mid-life and older, adults care less about what their friends are using and more about how well things work for them. That’s certainly the case for me

cabbagee, in Why does eating a frozen ready meal alone feel depressing even tho it's objectively good that I can have nice warm food easily

Add some love to it. Put it on a plate, add a sprig of whatever, eat with a fancy fork, whatever it is that makes you happy. It’s a little gift of love to yourself. Soon after living on my own I realized I could eat whatever I wanted out of those big wine glasses. So… I did. Juice, yogurt, cereal, mac and cheese. I liked how it looked and it was a small thing that made my day brighter.

Lesrid,

I prefer eating ice cream out of tumblers, guess it’s like those paper cups from froyo places.

detalferous, in What are some companies that deserve to be boycotted to death?

Ticketmaster

TauZero, in why do & ampersands never display properly in titles?

There was some scare in lemmy development circles recently about script injection vulnerabilities. The various apps and frontend developers “solved” the problem by peppering untrusted user input with escape sequences all over the place. User submits post? Escape title! Receive new post from a federated instance? Escape title!

Obviously if you escape the title twice and display once, it will show up weird. The problem is that the various devs haven’t agreed yet which parts of the messaging protocol are supposed to be already escaped and which are not. Ideally all user input should be stored and transmitted in raw form, and only escaped right before displaying. But due to various zealously-cautious devs we get this instead:

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/252a4900-b06e-469a-82af-a747a718ac17.png

archomrade,

This was a really informative comment, thanks!

Synthead,

There’s a difference between cautious and incorrect. It’s broken. If they’re that concerned, where are the unit tests?

intensely_human,

Content showing up weird in federation sounds like a good use of integration tests to me

TauZero,

They incorrectly broke it because they were overzealous.

intensely_human, in Do the right wing women in relationships with right wing guys think it's like a draco malfoy thing where they're a good guy underneath?

I think if you’re curious about conservative people you should meet some

Dkarma,

Oh we see them on the street corners throwing their seig heils already and whining about how everything is woke.

You obviously completely missed the point of the question. But this is all you ever get from conservatives, really. Bad faith debate.

Notice this guy didn’t actually defend them or answer the real question just trolled and said “do your own research”

3h5Hne7t1K,

all you ever get is bad faith debate

My fellow homosapien, the question is framed in the baddest faith imaginable.

Dkarma,

Observations based on past experiences are not bad faith. Get a clue.

intensely_human,

That’s why you should meet them. There are probably conservatives in your friend group that are afraid to mention it, because they know it’ll make you think of them as people on the street corner throwing nazi salutes.

Dkarma,

Afraid to mention it… why because they can’t defend their deplorable belief systems so they try to darvo? Lol. I know plenty of conservatives. Very few are good people. Mostly selfish and judgy.

Here’s a perfect example. My last friend I found out was conservative I found out because she was complaining about welfare queens and food stamps DESPITE THE FACT SHE HAD BEEN ON FOOD STAMPS TOO!

These are not good people they are selfish and dangerous and borderline authoritarian as long as they are in charge. The instant they’re not they’re Uber oppressed in their own minds.

Tons of them showed up to see JFK rise from the dead. These people are the biggest suckers.

intensely_human,

I already told you why. Not repeating myself

Dkarma,

Not asking u to. Just showing everyone else reading how selfish and foolish conservatives are at heart.

jasory,

Totally convincing with a single anecdote. Oh, wait your audience is fellow dolts, carry on…

bootloop, in What are some companies that deserve to be boycotted to death?
@bootloop@lemmy.world avatar

Bayer-Monsanto, John Deere, Nestle

stolid_agnostic, in What's an amusing thing to say before going under general anesthesia?

Nothing pisses off a nurse than some smart guy trying to be funny. I speak from experience.

Window_Error_Noises,
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Then I’m glad I know my entire team, going in, and they’re all remarkably empathetic to their terrified, high-risk patient! Chances are, any final words through twilight sleep will be a last sentiment to my spouse, in case I don’t make it through. After my tight-five, of course, using the IV pole as a mic.

stolid_agnostic,

This was the nurse assigned to that specific shift and had nothing to do with the team that was doing the operation. I think her job was only to do intake and get you set up in a bed/etc. When asked what I was there for, I smiled and said “a lobotomy”. To look at her face, I had just insulted her grandmother’s apple pie.

AeroLemming,

Weird reaction. Maybe one of her ancestors had a lobotomy or something and she thought someone sent you to fuck with her.

stolid_agnostic,

I took two points away from this:

  1. She has no humor/had a bad day/etc
  2. They are all about the process/procedure and me making a joke broke the line of movement

Either way, it seemed a stupid reaction and I felt very poorly about her ever since then. It’s been maybe 12 years and I still think of it sometimes.-

AeroLemming,

You are hereby granted external permission to stop cringing at that memory. Some people just react poorly to humor, that’s not on you.

stolid_agnostic,

Thanks for that, I hadn’t thought of it in those terms. Shockingly, being given permission somehow helped? I’ll have to remember that the next time I see someone in distress.

Window_Error_Noises,
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I could easily spew up the angry contents of the rabbit holes that are lobotomies, and their horror, but yeah, I also agree that that’s a weird reaction. I chuckled. I may have to reserve your comment for my next intake at the neurologist, depending on the vibe in the room (but also not, cause those folks professionally monitor how well my brain is functioning lol)

boyi,

How do you get to know the entire team? It’s hard for me to imagine as the ones you interact with are the surgeons and anesthesiologist as they will talk to you in the ward at some point in time when making their round. But the surgery nurses only stay at surgery theatres or operating rooms and don’t do any round at wards. Patients won’t likely know them.

stolid_agnostic,

I can’t imagine why people downvoted you for that. What you said is how the vast majority of interactions would operate.

boyi, (edited )

People want to a feel good story I guess. My question doesn’t aligned with that.

Not that I know each of them as buddies, but at least by face and bedside manner

By the time patients arrive at the operating room, all they see are people in mask. Patients can somehow recognize their doctors through their voices and characters. The nurses - there are no points of reference to recognize them. If these nurses happen to walk in front of the patient outside of the operation room, it will be with almost certainty the patients won’t recognize them.

When OP explain they know them by their bedsite manners, how could that be possible? Which hospital has surgery nurses who happen to function as ward nurses (bedsite)? Or, which hospital has the convenience to allow their surgery nurses to meet their patients at wards, which is not their normal place of work. Not only that it’s not normal for surgery nurses to do that, it’s abnormal.

I try to imagine the SOP of the hospital where the surgery nurses were able to show themselves to OP, damn, I still can’t. I am really out of loop.

I’ll get downvoted again for this. I’ll take it with pride.

Window_Error_Noises,
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  • stolid_agnostic,

    I’ve been on your side here, but no need to be mean about it.

    stolid_agnostic,

    It does seem that in this case the person was receiving extensive specialized care and had a team formed specifically to attend to their needs. It wasn’t just going in for your regular surgery, in which case your version is more likely.

    boyi,

    yeah. that could.explain it. my knowledge and experience is not enough, made me out of the loop.

    Window_Error_Noises,
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  • dingus,

    Hoping the best for you

    dingus,

    Jeez. Medical staff can have senses of humor too. Not everyone is a robot or the same person.

    Treczoks, in Tech workers - what did your IT Security team do that made your life hell and had no practical benefit?

    The network has been subnetted into departments. Problem: I, from development, get calls from service about devices that have issues. Before the subnetting, they simply told me the serial number, and I let my army of diagnosis tools hit the unsuspecting device to get an idea what’s up with it. Now they have to bring it over and set up all the attached devices here so I can run my tests.

    shasta,

    Surely IT can make an exception for you or create a VM with multiple NICs for you.

    Rand0mA,

    Or configure a local port on the dev vlan… Sounds like a corporate environment where the many IT teams dont talk to each other, or network team are hiding out in a comms cupboard.

    argentcorvid,
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    Oh my… no.

    211, in What's a secret that you're keeping from your partner/significant other that you're taking to the grave with you?

    How much my flute cost. (It’s from my fun money, and a bargain for what it is, but still.)

    Minarble,

    You don’t want to flaunt flute failings

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