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Anne C. A. Baanen, number plumber

i propose a new EU law that all robots and other thinking machines should have a sensor installed so we can give them headpats

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@Vierkantor i think they would pass it if you can convince them that it's better for the environment

Kitty 💾🏳️‍⚧️​

@Vierkantor@mastodon.vierkantor.com this is something I could definitely get on board with, sign me up!

Ari ΘΔ

@Vierkantor Also LED indicators around near their cameras/speakers to show when they are blushing

Anne C. A. Baanen, number plumber

imo the title for graduating in astronomy and cosmology should be Master of the Universe

Anne C. A. Baanen, number plumber

thinking about becoming polyamorous so I can love like 10 pride flags at once

Anne C. A. Baanen, number plumber

xkcd on 14 competing standards but it's competing polyamory pride flags

Anne C. A. Baanen, number plumber

the etymology of "marshrutka" (soviet minibusses) is pretty cool: маршру́тка < маршру́тное такси́ (routed taxicab) < маршрут (route) + такси́ (taxi) < De. Marschroute (marching route) + Fr. taxi < Fr. marche + Fr. route + De. Taxameter (payment meter) < Frankish *markōn (to mark (out), press with the foot) + Lat. rupta (broken) + Lat. taxō (feel, appraise, charge, judge) + AGr. μέτρον (measuring tool; length; poetic metre) < PGc. *markō (border, edge) + Lat. rumpō (to break) + Lat. tangō (to touch, to hold) + PIE *meh₁- (to measure) + PIE *-trom (tool) <

so if you undo all the clippings and sound shifts: a marshrutka is a tool for measuring how to touch the border of breaking

the etymology of "marshrutka" (soviet minibusses) is pretty cool: маршру́тка &lt; маршру́тное такси́ (routed taxicab) &lt; маршрут (route) + такси́ (taxi) &lt; De. Marschroute (marching route) + Fr. taxi &lt; Fr. marche + Fr. route + De. Taxameter (payment meter) &lt; Frankish *markōn (to mark (out), press with the foot) + Lat. rupta (broken) + Lat. taxō (feel, appraise, charge, judge) + AGr. μέτρον (measuring tool; length; poetic metre) &lt; PGc. *markō (border, edge) + Lat. rumpō (to break) + Lat....

Anne C. A. Baanen, number plumber

(i should probably have bothered to re-read this post because it has a couple of writing mistakes but it already took like 20 minutes to write so meh.)

Anne C. A. Baanen, number plumber

you call yourself a free software fanatic, but I bet you still live in a proprietary house

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Hörskäperseinen rakkaasi

@Vierkantor i'm not sure, tbh, because around when this house was built it was common to use a small set of generally available drawings and whatever construction material one could get hands on, but i don't really know if the drawings were publicly available or sold as proprietary.

public availability could really well be the case, as these houses were the most important element in post-wwii rehousing project.

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