Let’s eat, grandpa!
Let’s eat grandpa!

I don’t feel so HD yet.

No? UTC by definition doesn’t know time zones.

Let’s say the European goes to work at 8 o’clock UTC. The American in this example goes to work 6 hours later at 14 o’clock UTC. Both now exactly when the other one is in office. Time zones aren’t needed here.

Time zones are an invention to keep the zero hour (for hour counting) at about the same local time - midnight. Midnight was easier to determine that UTC (or GMT). A peasant could do it in a day without the help of expensive tools everywhere on Earth. As a matter of fact almost each city in medieval times had its own local time. To get that sorted out they where clustered into time zones.

Time to nerd this shit! 🥸

There were several counting systems:

• In Old Egypt and in the medieval times they counted 12 day hours from sunrise to sundown and another 12 night hours from sundown to sunrise. A lot of systems do/did that because one tracked the sun and the other tracked the moon and the stars. It’s more like as 12 + 12 hours system instead of a 24 hours system.
• In the Babylonian system the day had 24 hours, beginning at sunrise. The name has nothing to do with the ancient Babylonians though. 🤷‍♂️
• The Italian system was the same as the Babylonian system but began counting at sundown. This is also the case in the Hebrew and Islamic calendar. Btw that’s the reason why Christmas night starts at the 24th of December in some countries (like Germany) and the 25th of December in other countries (like USA). The former converted from the old date/time system to the modern done while the later just went ‘Nah! We’ll do what the Bible says.’
• The ancient Babylonians had danna, double hours. Hence a day had 6 day and 6 night dannas.
• Then there are still used 12 hour clock dividing the day in ante meridiem (before midday) and post meridiem (after midday). It is mainly used in Britain and countries that were ruled by the British Empire.
• There’s the current 24 hour clock starting and ending at midnight.
• There is the Julian Day where the counting -again- starts at sunrise. It is still used(!) in astronomy.
• There is Rammesses II’s hour calendar where the number of day and night hours changed depending on the month. June-July had 18 day and 6 night hours. December-January had 6 day and 18 night hours. Why does a country near the equator need 18 day or night hours? It’s not that the day and night length change that much during the seasons. 🤷‍♂️
• The Chinese calendar changed several times. Each day started and ended at midnight (like today) and initially was divided in 100 ke (1 ke = 14.4 minutes). Later that number changed to 120 (12 * 10), 108 (because 12 * 9) and 96 (12 * 8). When they also introduced double hours, ke became 15 minutes long. The double hours started counting at 23:00.
• And many more.  
   

Also it isn’t a bad idea to work less hours in winter so you can experience the sun at all.

In the times before the light bulb work could only be done during the day. Candles made from beewax were too expensive for the peasants. If they used candles instead of kindling they were made from tallow and created a lot of smut and didn’t gave much light. That made them a bit unpopular. I wonder why? 👤
At least in my country work days were divided in morning, midday, afternoon and night. You worked your field during the morning, went to market at midday, did handyman work and chores during afternoon and slept during night time.

I like the tape. Won’t hold but also won’t fall apart especially if you want to remove it. The right kind of mixture to make yourself hate yourself. :D

That was the one from before. It’s probably cached on your device until you reboot it or the app.

The green one!? Can’t you see my avatar pic?

Dude! I just picked a new avatar 2 hours ago from that screen! And now you post it here.

The chance for that was so incredibly low!

Reminds me of Dragon Age: Origins.
- Cut scene starts.
- Camera shows some guy: “Please you have to help me! My daughter needs <random items> for her wedding this evening. Fetch them for me immediately!”
- Camera switches to my party.
- All of them wearing heavy armor, carrying big and nasty weapons and still soaked in blood from top to bottom from the last battle: “Sure. By Andraste, let’s go!”

Curves have entered the chat.

This doesn’t explain why a truck can drive at double digits mph with the trailer up.

Torque.

But yeah a safety feature would be easy to implement. It could be a buzzer that goes off or a enforced max speed of like 10-20 mph as long as the trailer isn’t locked in the down position.

Old English catt (c. 700) “domestic cat,” from West Germanic (c. 400-450), from Proto-Germanic *kattuz (source also of Old Frisian katte, Old Norse köttr, Dutch kat, Old High German kazza, German Katze), from Late Latin cattus.

The near-universal European word now, it appeared in Europe as Latin catta (Martial, c. 75 C.E.), Byzantine Greek katta (c. 350) and was in general use on the continent by c. 700, replacing Latin feles. It is probably ultimately Afro-Asiatic (compare Nubian kadis, Berber kadiska, both meaning “cat”). Arabic qitt “tomcat” may be from the same source. Cats were domestic in Egypt from c. 2000 B.C.E. but not a familiar household animal to classical Greeks and Romans.

The Late Latin word also is the source of Old Irish and Gaelic cat, Welsh kath, Breton kaz, Italian gatto, Spanish gato, French chat (12c.). Independent, but ultimately from the same source are words in the Slavic group: Old Church Slavonic kotuka, kotel’a, Bulgarian kotka, Russian koška, Polish kot, along with Lithuanian katė and (non-Indo-European) Finnish katti, which is via Lithuanian.

Source

So… our word for cat is derived from a 2000 year old latin word that itself probably derived from an earlier word from somewhere in Northern Africa and/or the Levant. I guess the people then didn’t pick the name by the sound it makes.

They can’t be sold as hot dog because the sausage isn’t boiled. A bratwurst is always fried or grilled.

I never saw such a ‘light’ hotdog. No matter where I went they always sold them with everything I wrote.

A hotdog by definition always contains a boiled sausage stuffed inside a bun or something similar. A currywurst isn’t a hotdog. It comes with fries and no bun Also that Germany variant in the pic isn’t one. It’s just the plain old delicious Bratwurst and Sauerkraut.

The standard hotdog you can find in Germany consists of a bun and sausage with ketchup, mustard, crispy onions, pickles and sometimes cole slaw.