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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 07:42:35 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   PG&E delenda est

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 07:45:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     They haven't destroyed an entire city in a while (and they should not be praised for that) but they fucked up my houses power and network today, thanks to a couple extended power outages that might have damaged some equipment

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 08:09:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     The part of my brain that enjoyed university is trying to get me to translate "pacific gas and electric" to Latin so the whole phrase can be appropriately roman and the rest of my brain is trying to beat that part with hammers because that's too much work

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 08:27:43 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     OCEANUS PACIFICUS OESTRUS ET ELECTRUM DELENDA EST

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 08:29:24 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     that's "Pacific Ocean Heat & Amber must be destroyed"
     Amber, because that's where the word "electricity" comes from.
     "heat", because the latin word for "gas" is just, uh, "gas", and they don't have one for gas as in heating gas. So I just used "heat", but then I intentionally mistranslated which meaning of heat I was using. It really should be "Oceanic Pacificus Calor Et Electrum"

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 08:31:52 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     fun fact you may not know: The latin word for "and" is "et" and "&" is just how you write "et". Write "et" and stylize it enough into a ligature and you get an ampersand.

     And the name is a corruption of "and per se and", as in "And, by itself, (the word) And", as it used to be recited after X,Y,Z in the alphabet.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 08:37:21 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     anyway I specifically translated "heat" as in "mating season".

     *kisses* for the werewolves and omegas

   • lily 🏳️‍⚧️ (tauon@possum.city)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 08:37:48 JST lily 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @foone@digipres.club oh hey look, another transfeminine individual who likes old technology, knows latin, and the history of the ampersand

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 08:52:02 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Ian Douglas Scott

     @ids1024 good point. I don't remember enough of my latin courses to tell if you're right or not.

   • Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 08:52:03 JST Ian Douglas Scott

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     @foone Ah, the state motto of Northern California.

   • Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 08:52:03 JST Ian Douglas Scott

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     @foone Maybe "oceanus pacificus" should be a genative here ("of the pacific"). So "oceani pacifici". I believe two nominative nouns following each other implies they have the same referant. Swapping the word order to have the genative at the end might be more natural, but either is correct.

     "Oestrus electrumque pacificus" could work too, maybe. (Not sure if "-que" would be natural or odd here as an alternative to "et".) Like "senatus populusque romanus".

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 08:57:54 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     better Latin translation:

     https://kind.social/@laogeodritt/113517983004935946

   • A Republic, while we kept it (arensb@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 09:04:36 JST A Republic, while we kept it

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     @foone I admit I don’t know any Latin, but would there be a case or a declension or something in there?
     It’s just that I would have expected something like “Oceani Pacifici” rather than “Oceanus Pacificus”, for “Gas and Electricity of the Pacific Ocean” rather than “Pacific Ocean, Gas, and Electricity”.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 09:04:36 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • A Republic, while we kept it

     @arensb possibly, except that it's a company name. The cases can be a little weird there.
     But quite possibly! it's just been too long since I took my latin classes for me to remember

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 10:17:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     My roommate is now trying to fix the network IN THE DARK because OUR POWER IS OUT FOR THE THIRD TIME TODAY.

     (the network equipment is on a UPS. The lights are not)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 10:18:27 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Also we discovered that our garage door's emergency battery is fucked. Good to know now, rather than when the house is on fire

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 11:00:34 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Michael Cook

     @foobarsoft yeah I think california has a requirement for garage door openers to have batteries, because of the risk of fires and power outages after earthquakes

   • Michael Cook (foobarsoft@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 11:00:35 JST Michael Cook

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     @foone I had no idea that was even a thing. I’ve only ever seen manual opening for power outages (saw your other comment on this).

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 11:22:50 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • æ ⎎

     @astrid apparently google up to "a few years ago" (which I heard back in 2019ish) had a bunch of emergency crisis centers for the network SREs, which were fully stocked with caffeine, snacks, and liquor. lots and lots of liquor

   • æ ⎎ (astrid@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 11:23:11 JST æ ⎎

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     @foone this may sound like a shitpost, but if you think about it ... a crisis management centre without a reliable source of caffeine is factually underequipped

   • æ ⎎ (astrid@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 11:23:13 JST æ ⎎

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     @foone is the coffee maker on redundant power though, because that is definitely safety-critical equipment