Bishma

joined 2 years ago
[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

I heard once that in the early days of printing (and literacy) most of Europe's reading material was made for or by the church. And one of the things that was very popular at various points in the 16th century were books of hymns, many of which contained old latin hymns turned Christmas carols. It doesn't explain the lack of New Years songs, but it may be why we continue to have so many Christmas songs compared to every other holiday.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago

It's 2 short of "nice"

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago

J'onn J'onzz disapproves.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

All hail ~~hypnotoad~~ frog

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This terrible chemical directly caused the pressure increase that lead to Chernobyl.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

On Lemmy these viral things consume the site for about 3ish days every few months, then fade into lore. The first one I was here for was when were were all obsessed with not pooping for 3 days. There were the beans. There was a longer one where almost every post on the site was some reference to Saddam Hussein's spider hole. There was a period where every upvoted post had to contain one or more black cats.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago

That void kitty is Dr. Ketzer, I will not be convinced otherwise.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

Electronics / microcontrollers.

Took just a few months to go from, "I can make a wifi connected weather station for like $20 in components!?" to "oscilloscopes cost how much?"