This is Mur @mur2501@qoto.org

#introduction 🤝 I'm an #aerospace engineer working at #NASA #MSFC 🚀 .

My hobbies:
#homebrew 🍺
#mead 🍷
#bourbon 🥃
#3dprinting 🖨️
#pickleball 🏓
#golf ⛳

My Sports Teams:
#NFL - #Titans ⚔️
#CollegeFootball - #Auburn 🐅
#CollegeBasketball - #WDE 🦅
#CollegeBaseball - #WarEagle ⚾
#MLB - #Braves 🪓

This is me moving over to Mastodon.ART. I'm a Finnish UX/UI designer who should feel at home here. I don't have much of an idea what I'll be posting yet, or if I'll be mainly enjoying the creativity of others. My own art is a hobby, which progresses at a glacial pace, but you may end up seeing some of it. #introduction

I see that people with hearing aids are kind of panicky about their hearing aids.. There's someone at my place now who's slightly hard of hearing, so she's got hearing aids. When I needed her to help me a little bit with something outdoors, she was like nonono, it's raining and my hearing aids shouldn't get wet!

I said there was a simple solution then, just take them off for a bit. Oh nonono, she couldn't possibly do that. They need to stay on!

Wtf? They're just hearing aids, man. It's not like your life depends on them. I'm frigging deaf, I'm living proof that not being able to hear isn't going to hurt you. Let alone not being able to hear for 5 minutes. :P

I kind of remember this bit from my own past when I still wore hearing aids. 90% of my time was spent worrying if the battery was still full enough for me to hear something. Fucking things, I should've gone fully deaf sooner.
#Deaf #HoH

A population density map of India. This was by far the longest population density map render.

Well, except for furry France, which still holds the record. I should share it here.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

The German word "nee" means "no" (slang for "nein").

The word "ne?" is used like a question tag.

Both combined - "Nee, ne?" - can mean

- I can't believe this is really happening.
- No he didn't, did he?
- That isn't true, is it?
- Are you kidding me?!
- No way!
- That's gotta be a f*cking lie!

Enjoy our language, ne?

The German word "hören" means "to hear". But it has funny relatives:

anhören = to listen
zuhören = to listen (a bit more active than anhören)
umhören = to ask around
abhören = to wiretap, to auscultate
überhören = to not hear
erhören = to hear and react to (eg. a plea or a prayer)
gehören = to belong to
angehören = to be a member of
satthören = to get enough of hearing

Should I rather aufhören*? OK.

Enjoy our language!

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*aufhören = to stop

#TheGermanWord