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  • I prefer a good, old fashioned, no bo-shit, big stick.

    I mean … sai … its not like everyone has finely crafted throwing stars lying around, but kama(n) farming tools?

    Much more practical.

    ((Apologies for the rough final pun, doing my best lol.))

    more explanation

    ((Kama were basically used as small, single handed scythes for rice farming, bo just literally means ‘staff’ and the original use of sais, as I was told by my Karate Shihon, was that they were basically used , one in each hand, to easily pierce a baled up bundle of crops and then toss them into a cart… though as with a lot of Okinawan Karate history, that may be apocryphal, none of that is well documented … because Karate isn’t actually Japanese in origin, it is Okinawan, it was the self defense style invented by Okinawans resisting Japanese imperialism with just their farming implements, and a lot of their recorded history got destroyed))

    ((the sai pun is supposed to be that it sounds like sigh))


  • I don’t know enough about specific kinds of epoxy/glues… but has anything actually been reported as to… is it just the wrong kind of glue? applied improperly? combination of both, and/or other errors?

    Given that it affects … basically every cybertruck produced, im guessing its not just one guy or one shift that’s incompetent, and more likely a fundamental manufacturing process/materials problem, management or c suite incompetence.








  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.ziptoFediverse@lemmy.worldBluesky does federation-washing
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    4 months ago

    Yep.

    Its ‘federated’ as long as you ignore a single massive chokepoint controlled by one company that allows them to block/ban/censor users of any part of the system.

    So functionally, their ‘federation’ system is actually just a false marketing/propoganda campaign that may also result in crowd sourcing some server costs.

    It’s psuedo-federation, along the lines of a psuedo-historian or psuedo-scientist: They pretend to be something they are not, in such a way that makes them seem trustworthy when they are in fact not.







  • Kinda sorta.

    The actual accent itself doesn’t sound the same, but I think you’re getting at how it came to be.

    The PNW dialect/accent is basically a subset of the Californian dialect/accent, with a few differences.

    It arose as being very close to ‘General American’ because it was the last, or latest part of the US to be settled by significant numbers of English speakers, and is an amalgamation of the accents of English speakers from many different pre-exsting American dialect regions.

    People from the PNW often do not even realize that they have an accent, as it is so close to a sort of normalized middle ground of other US American English accents.

    TransAtlantic accent/dialect specifically arose because of the technology, as you say… and also I think a bit from social circles of basicslly upper class NorthEasterners who had enough money to regulalry interact with actual UK English speakers themselves, whereas PNW accent/dialect seems to not have arisen intentionally, and isn’t as strongly tied to the upper social class of the region.

    Seattle and Portland’s first major population booms were the result of the Alaska goldrush near the end of the 1800’s, with basically lower class people coming from all across American (and other parts of the world) either using them as a last port to stock up and buy supplies before heading north, or setting up a business to sell those supplies to those people… and a whole lot of them returned to Seattle or Portland after the Alaska gold rush.

    https://pacificupperleft.com/does-the-pacific-northwest-have-an-accent/