Kev 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿,🇬🇧,🇪🇺,🇺🇳,🕊️,💊,🖖 @kevfrost@qoto.org

@OfficialABBA@octodon.social petit bourgeouise or Grande bourgeoisie?

@Alby is this a quiz to identify those that know parliaments?

@arteteco no, not asking for a definitive answer; just whether my suspicion of crop planting timing differences between civilisations generated the discrepancy between lunar and solar calendar adoption

@arteteco just considering options for why muslim calendar (and others) is lunar while western is annual. One key reason for adopting a calendar is you guide subsistence farming. If 10th century BC Britons planned crops in January or July they would starve.

If this is less of an issue for equatorial climates, then annual calendars aren't needed and better to sync everyone to changes in moon?

@arteteco Food crops at my latitude take a year to grow, so harvest in Autumn needs to last 12 months. In more equatorial areas, where there's little seasonal variation how long do food crops take to grow?

Any horticulturals/botanists on here? I have a sociological idea to explore

If you ever feel sad, listen to a Swedish death metal band attempt a cover version of Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood

#polymath

@commandelicious Fab, thanks.

@kimberstreams@wandering.shop they emit a gas that turns speeds up decomposition of other fruit https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/12014/is-it-scientifically-verified-that-bananas-will-ripen-faster-when-kept-in-a-bowl

@tasnyx What have you been doing all your life?

@commandelicious Amazon are doing Iain M Banks?

@sproid@mastodon.technology Previously I used keepass?

@sproid@mastodon.technology Not sure I have any favourite genre. Mostly sci fi and action I suppose

@sproid@mastodon.technology big last pass user (chrome add-on and android app). Love it

Hi all,

Inspired by a life hacker article I'm giving mastodon a second go. I'm a pharmacist from North England, with interests in tech, movies and liberal progressive politics.

#introductions