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Sunshine duration in hours per year in c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
[–] Skua@kbin.earth 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The American one seems to match this, which has "National Climatic Data Center's U.S. Stations 1961-1990 Monthly Normals for the Atypical Climate Elements" as its source.

The European one seems to be from this Wikimedia Commons user, but they never specified their source beyond "according to national data"

What's your dream car? in c/casualconversation@piefed.social
[–] Skua@kbin.earth 2 points 6 days ago

They're actually not bad for space! I'm about 1.9m / 6'3", and while I'm not that heavily-built I'm definitely not unusually slim. It wasn't roomy for sure, but I fit just fine. The lack of a roof did at least mean that headroom wasn't a concern

I did once have to back out of a purchase of a second gen Toyota MR2 because I was too tall. That was a deeply disappointing day

What's your dream car? in c/casualconversation@piefed.social
[–] Skua@kbin.earth 1 points 6 days ago

I'm in the UK where people do have an unfortunate obsession with SUVs but we mostly don't have the really enormous American ones. Since our roads tend to be significantly narrower than American ones - especially in rural areas and older towns - when you do see one of those big trucks like a Hummer or something they just look like they got lost and are now stuck

What are your favorites? How do you like them? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
count! in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] Skua@kbin.earth 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Couldn't tell you, I'm afraid. I only know about the game because I happened to be in a pub where it was on the TV at the time

count! in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] Skua@kbin.earth 42 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Those are the names of the German footballers (soccer) that scored to make probably the worst defeat the Brazilian team has ever suffered

What's your dream car? in c/casualconversation@piefed.social
[–] Skua@kbin.earth 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Much as I do agree with everyone talking about public transport here on an actual sensible and rational level, I do still like cars and driving no matter how much I agree that the world would be a better place were they rendered irrelevant.

So in the spirit of the question: the Morgan Supersport. It looks magnificent, Morgans are supposed to be great to drive, it's quite small and still fairly luxurious, it's pretty fast but not so fast that it becomes functionally unusable on actual roads, and the company still describes itself as a coachbuilder so you can tweak every little detail to your pleasing

What's your dream car? in c/casualconversation@piefed.social
[–] Skua@kbin.earth 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There's a place near-ish me that offers them for hire for a day. They're every bit as fun as you'd expect. Exhausting, but fun

Finally witnessed somebody use ChatGPT instead of socialising in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
[–] Skua@kbin.earth 7 points 1 week ago

Mate i fuckin love crows no AI was involved

Finally witnessed somebody use ChatGPT instead of socialising in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
[–] Skua@kbin.earth 8 points 1 week ago

Octopus is a solid choice. For me, it has to be a crow:

  • Very intelligent
  • Can goddamn fly
  • Hang out with their friends a lot
  • Do a lot of stuff just for fun
  • Natural stylish goth look
  • Capable of mimicking most sounds, choose to just yell at things anyway
British Airways crew mistakenly booked into a sex dungeon and were kept awake by 24-hour orgy. in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] Skua@kbin.earth 77 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The Sun is an insult to the craft of journalism and should not be posted anywhere

Why, just why? in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] Skua@kbin.earth 8 points 1 week ago

They don't. These people think that we shouldn't accept any asylum seekers at all and should immediately reject all of the ones currently applying

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Most credible 6th generation fighter patent (infosec.pub)
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Eleventy-one (infosec.pub)
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Comparing brewer's yeast and baker's yeast (infosec.pub)
 

I brewed two rough versions of this sahti recipe over the winter, the only difference each time being the yeast that I used (and any mistakes that I made). The first batch used Mangrove Jacks M42 ale yeast, the second used a sourdough starter made over the course of two weeks with Bioreal fresh organic yeast and some basic bread flour. Each one was clarified with fungal chitosan, although I can't say I was particularly impressed with the results - it seems to have killed the ability to form a head without really clarifiying it much. Each also got a small amount of priming sugar in the bottle and at least a couple of weeks before drinking (save for a pint for me during the bottling process).

Appearance: Basically identical.

Process: The brewer's version fermented for two weeks, the baker's for one. I would have left it for the full two weeks, but it had clearly stopped any significant activity by that point.

Alcohol content: The brewer's yeast went to about 5%, the baker's to about 2%

Scent: The juniper is predominant in both, but significantly more present in the baker's version.

Flavour: The situation with the scent is reversed here, surprisingly, and the brewer's version has a much bigger presence of that fresh and resinous juniper. tasankovasara on this community described their own experience with baker's yeast as being banana-like, which I think is a reasonable description. It's not a powerful presence, but it's definitely there.

Mouthfeel: I was surprised by how different this was. The baker's one is far more astringent. Not unpleasantly so, by any means, but significantly more. Additionally, it has done far less with the priming sugar, having only the faintest hint of carbonation. I assume that was simply a case of the yeast not tolerating the level of alcohol and having virtually nothing left to work with on the sugar.

Overall it was a worthwhile experiment, but I think I will keep doing it the non-traditional way with brewer's yeast. Sorry Finland. I promise not to do it in your country. I would be interested in trying out kveik yeast as a halfway point, though. I used an ale yeast simply because I wouldn't have been able to keep the demijohns as the higher temperature that kveik wants, so that may have to be a summer project.

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North Emuroca (infosec.pub)
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[Post Rock, Australia] We Lost the Sea - Departure Songs (2015) (media.kbin.earth)
 
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Sharing a few photos from my wanderings around the country. It's alright here (imgchest.com)
 

I'm no master photographer, I'm afraid, these were all taken on my cheap phone. Fortunately the subject matter does a lot to make up for it

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Is Paris the city of love? Are Italians the masters of romance? No, says Britain, for here we have heart-shaped pizza with processed cheese on it (infosec.pub)
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It's windy in the Shire today (i.imgur.com)
 

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2025/storm-eowyn-brings-90mph-winds-as-it-starts-to-impact-the-uk

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Google has only mapped the shape of the river Sepik on the Indonesian side of the border (media.kbin.earth)
 
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Making sure I have some sahti this Christmas, because nobody sells it near me (infosec.pub)
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"If fascists want to get themselves killed fighting imperialists, that's fine by me" - a defence of fascism, apparently (media.kbin.earth)
 

Thou shalt not criticise the Russian invasion of Ukraine on .ml

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I made gin! (infosec.pub)
 

Shoutout to poleslav for telling me to ignore the thermometer and giving general encouragement. My distillation efficiency was absolutely terrible and I got the balance of juniper and hibiscus way off, so it's sweeter than I intended, but it's definitely pleasantly drinkable.

For those that can't read my handwriting, it was a super basic barley mash to make the base alcohol, then juniper, hibiscus, rose, and elderflower as botanicals.

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