Paraneoptera

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[–] Paraneoptera@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Great grandfather's sister's grandson is your second cousin once removed. That guy is the second cousin of one of your parents because they share great grandparents with one of your parents. A grandparent's sibling is a great aunt or great uncle to you. A great grandparent's sibling is a great great uncle or great great aunt to you.

[–] Paraneoptera@sopuli.xyz 21 points 6 months ago

I think it goes back to Fannie Farmer in 1896, who wrote the first major and comprehensive cookbook in English that used any kind of standard measurements. European cookbooks mostly used vague instructions without any standardized weights or numbers before that. At this point in the industrialized world standardized cup measures were relatively cheap and available. Scales were relatively bulky, expensive, and inaccurate in 1896. So the whole tradition got started, and most of the major cookbooks owed something to Fannie Farmer. Cookbooks that used standardized weights probably got started in other countries much later, when scales were becoming commonplace.

[–] Paraneoptera@sopuli.xyz 7 points 7 months ago

This is true. And in communities around the world where suicide is stigmatized, there is heavy pressure on authorities to record deaths as "accidental" rather than suicide. In fact, this is borne out by statistics in which you see higher rates of death attributed to accident in such communities, once you control for other variables. This is especially the case in societies in which there is social shunning of entire families who have lost someone to suicide. The coroner in these communities may worry with good reason about serious mistreatment of families if there is a public record of suicide. It's also not unreasonable to think that this misreporting may play into the gender divide in suicides. If different sexes tend to use different methods, some of these methods are much more ambiguous and easier to record as an accident than others.

[–] Paraneoptera@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

All this evidence is against time shifts, not against daylight time. The click shifts are undeniably bad, but the evidence against permanent DST is weak.

[–] Paraneoptera@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

This is a good point. These position statements treat standard time as though it is synonymous with circadian alignment, which makes some bad assumptions. Fundamentally the bad assumption is that if there is light in the morning people will be exposed to it. Most people go from a curtained bedroom to a windowless office or classroom, and don't get much sun exposure in the morning whether the sun is up or not. It's arguable that the only thing that matters is whether the sun's up during free time, which for most people occurs only in the early evening.

[–] Paraneoptera@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's the other way around. The hour "gained" (shifted from morning to evening) in the evening is in the summer. Permanent DST would mean sundown at 5pm in the winter for you.

[–] Paraneoptera@sopuli.xyz 9 points 8 months ago

Plausible. What's definitely true is that the George association has zero support from any reputable published source, and is just speculation.

[–] Paraneoptera@sopuli.xyz 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, it's bogus. This is some speculation that someone put in Wikipedia but there's no published source. It's just a folk etymology that some enthusiast thought was endearing. Not a single reputable source will substantiate this, like most folk etymologies.