• Cloudless ☼
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    962 months ago

    Better keep it low profile, or some tourists will try some bad ideas.

  • Zier
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    452 months ago

    This is the rock that keeps the Earth right side up. If you knock it off we flip upside down and Australia gets to rule the planet.

      • Flying Squid
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        42 months ago

        If cats could read and open doors, they would collectively go to Finland to push it over with a huge mass of pure cat power.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 months ago

          With some levers, definitely doable. With just paws? Eh.

          Also, cats can definitely open doors. Not all cats, but I know a few.

          • Flying Squid
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            12 months ago

            I’m talking doors to the outside so they can escape to Finland to knock the rock over.

            • @[email protected]
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              12 months ago

              I get that’s what you meant, but technically the way it was worded…

              And the cats I know are cats who frequently roam outdoors and are Finnish. Perhaps they’ve just not seen this post, as outside cats rarely doomscroll.

              • Flying Squid
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                12 months ago

                Indeed they don’t doomscroll much. See my first point, re the fact that cats can’t read.

                • @[email protected]
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                  22 months ago

                  Being literate isn’t a requirement for scrolling though, although I do hesitate on how much “doom” applies to things like this.

                  But that’s clearly an indoors house-cat, so my hypothesis that outside cats doomscroll less is still valid.

      • RandomLegend
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        12 months ago

        You understimate the sheer amount of “i-want-to-push-over-things-energy” of a cat.

  • key
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    222 months ago

    Is there a country that uses a different thousands separator based on unit?

    • @[email protected]
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      232 months ago

      Yes, in a lot of places a period is used for order-of-magnitude separation and comma is used for decimal places.

      In this title the use seems inconsistent.

      • @[email protected]
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        172 months ago

        Either the rock weighs exactly 500kg to an impressive precision and has been there for eleven thousand years or it weighs five hundred thousand kg and has been there for exactly 11 years.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 months ago

        Right, i think he’s asking if there’s some culture where the inconsistency is designed based on unit. So, for example, period for years, comma for weight.

        I think it’s simply an error. Maybe AI generated?

    • @[email protected]
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      2 months ago

      Finland uses space for thousands (and comma for decimals), so an article in Finnish would have 500 000 kg

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      I don’t care how long it been balancing there I wouldn’t dare stand that close to it, be just my luck it pick that moment to shrift.

    • @[email protected]
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      462 months ago

      The ice sheet covering northern europe started to melt away, and with that we got what is called “glacial erratics”. Rocks had traveled from once place to another, and then settled. In Sweden we call those “giants throw”, because it was assumed that the only way those big rocks could be where they are was if a giant had thrown it.

        • @[email protected]
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          42 months ago

          I think we have the same terminology then, we also call them “flyttblock”. Is there a story behind them being called Devil’s rock? It sounds very finnish to me to be honest.

          • @[email protected]
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            72 months ago

            Well “hiisi” translates to “devil” but that’s very much a political translation as far as such things existed back then.

            Translating “Hiisi” as “the Devil” is quite a fuck-the-pagans translation.

            Hiisi (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈhiːsi]; plural hiidet [ˈhiːdet]) is a term in Finnic mythologies, originally denoting sacred localities and later on various types of mythological entities

            Hiisi was originally a spirit of hill forests (Abercromby 1898). In Estonian hiis (or his) means a sacred grove in trees, usually on elevated ground. In the spells (“magic songs”) of the Finns the term Hiisi is often used in association with a hill or mountain, as a personage he also associated with the hills and mountains, such as the owner or ruler of the same. His name is also commonly associated with forests, and some forest animals.

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiisi

            I think “the Fae” would be a more accurate translation, theology-wise.

          • @[email protected]
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            52 months ago

            It’s not literally devil (paholainen) but Hiisi, which is something similar in finnish mythology which obviously doesn’t have a translation.

            It’s likely simply “only devil could have brought that stone here”

    • @[email protected]
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      122 months ago

      it was actually around 11025 years ago. i first heard about this in 1999, and it was 11000 years then.

  • Chris
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    112 months ago

    If that was a comma, it would be way more impressive…

    • Veloxization
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      152 months ago

      Finland is not close enough to the edges of tectonic plates, so if we get earthquakes here at all, they’re barely noticeable.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 months ago

        so if we get earthquakes here at all, they’re barely noticeable.

        …and caused by the sea bed rising after it was compressed because of the weight of the glacier during the ice age

        • Veloxization
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          22 months ago

          Being in the middle of the large and relatively stable Eurasian plate does help, though. The Mediterranean region, being closer to the edge region, does experience quite a bit more, though, and some strong ones have historically been felt all the way up here, too.

  • @[email protected]
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    92 months ago

    The age sends my imagination racing, I wonder if there was a Proto-Indo-European name for it, as a remote curiosity/enigma.

    “They say that somewhere up north, half a moon beyond the most remote village, there is a large stone put on top of another by the hand of the Earth Goddess herself.”

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago
      1. Rock is in the floor

      2. Ice age ends, water floods dirt around the rock away

      3. Rock either rolls down or stays

      We have lots of these in Austria and at least here this is how they became like that.