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@cassolotl@queer.party I just chucked Meeus' work into spreadsheet form really

If you find a copy of his Astronomical Algorithms (by say, following this link http://www.agopax.it/Libri_astronomia/pdf/Astronomical%20Algorithms.pdf ) there's a whole bunch of techniques for calculating lots of stuff like this, don't know which ones would be helpful for paganism but it's worth a look through

@cassolotl@queer.party there's a lot of magic numbers in there and Meeus don't explain shit but it works

@cassolotl@queer.party I know you didn't mean to but this nerd sniped me hard

Here's a spreadsheet that works out which day the solstice/equinox falls on for a given year, feel free to nick it wholesale

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p7_mpGG0A4V8Srnn_6LloW0OeyMfIuQlNvwh2qKqBpk/edit?usp=sharing

It's using an algorithm from Meeus' Astronomical Algorithms, it'll be accurate for the next thousand years, accurate enough for a few centuries past then

In Ireland, a man called "Prawo Jazdy" racked up over 50 driving offences

Nobody could work out how he was getting away with this until the Irish police made a startling discovery

That "Prawo Jazdy" was Polish for "Driving License" and a load of Irish cops were reading IDs wrong

Polish and Irish driving licenses both have the exact same format

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson go camping and pitch their tent under the stars. During the night, Holmes wakes his companion and says: Watson, look up at the stars and tell me what you deduce.

Watson says: I see millions of stars, and even if a few of those have planets it's quite likely there are some planets like Earth, and if there are a few planets like Earth out there, there might also be life.

Holmes replies: Watson, you idiot. Somebody stole our tent.

I hope they are anyway

there's only so much bronze and forest green you can look at

I think bold colours might be very in this year

4 new versions of the Carl F. Bucherer Patravi TravelTec in blue, green, yellow, and orange that have just been announced

These look kinda interesting, the Breitling Endurance Pro

Thermocompensated SuperQuartz movements, COSC rated, case made out of something called Breitlight (your guess is as good as mine), compass bezels, and a pulsometer scale

Comes in 5 different colours, you know I'm a sucker for orange

@InspectorCaracal @Waces I mean yeah, that as well, but some of the phrasing gives me the vibe that they're not only doing that

@Waces I wonder if it's a translation thing?

I've not been able to find anything going chinese-english (because I can't speak chinese) but I've found advice for going english-chinese that when naming your products it can be easier to do feature-based translation rather than try to translate the brand name

so in the example I found "Abbott Healthcare’s glucose test strips, FreeStyle Precision Xtra" is translated to something along the lines of "help care well better model glucose machine"

@spidercycle no worries, it's one of those things people might not usually think of when posting so I just like to remind people any time it pops up

@spidercycle hey, would you mind putting any spinning text behind a CW please

it can sometimes set off photosensitive epilepsy so we try to keep that stuff as opt-in as possible

@colon_three although the tea and biscuits is a fair cop to be honest

@colon_three oh yeah, I suppose so

and "oh! do you know the queen?!"

@colon_three being english might be a bit shit but I suppose we can be thankful that we don't have random yanks who took a 23 and me test larping as us

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