Dunno if you’re German or Austrian or something, but in Vienna there is a Ziegelmuseum whose curator studies the history of bricks, how they were made and used and whatnot. They have a long list of brick makers in Austria, when they were active and so on.

If you’re in another country, they could maybe help get you in contact with a historian local to you.

Could help you learn more about your mystery brick.

Fellow Viennese person detected, must post song Workers Of Vienna https://youtu.be/A95Gu39oBrI

I’ll use the cliche meme of “I was today years old when I learned where the name comes from”. Just made the connection when I read this article, and I love Pulp Fiction.

But I too am not a native English speaker. Just always accepted the clunky acronym as the reason for the name.

Why does Athens have a USA flag and English text?

Two things can be true at the same time. Palestine is a horrible place for us queer folks, and Israel is committing atrocities against the Palestinian population.

I remember a talk a few years ago where someone engineered controlled detonations to destroy a single server in a rack without damaging any surrounding equipment. Was pretty fun to follow the engineering.

Fuck shopping centre employees amirite folks?

Hello Melbourneians? Melbourneites? Person from almost the other side of the world here.

How come this community is so active on Lemmy? I haven’t seen any other city pop up on my feed as often as yours. You regularly get more than a hundred comments each day in these discussion threads.

Oh for sure. When I joined, servers and communities dedicated to specific countries or even cities had a bit of activity. Used to see a lot of German, Austrian, french, Dutch, Australian and NZ content in my feed. Now only the Germans and Australians, sometimes.

It is though? Sure, you can’t just throw it on a compost pile and wait a few weeks for it to rot away. That’s why leather is processed (tanned) in the first place, otherwise it would be a pretty useless material.

But it will biodegrade. In a few years instead of thousands of years like plastics.

It’s not just here, it’s everywhere. That’s why people like me are so sour about it.

Nein danke, ihr seids nicht das einzige deutschsprachige Land.

I’d love to have one if I had the space. My toilet is roughly one square meter. For illustration purposes, that size, only less grungy. These are leftovers from how they used to plan apartment buildings in the late 19th century in Vienna.

Hell I’m a cis man and I would feel strange without it.

With the :3 :3 at the end it’s good enough for most purposes as far as I know? 14 characters including special chars and numbers will do.

ssjfwj @///@

also would be an acceptable password in my eyes. Keep `em coming.

Thank you for generating new passwords on demand.

May I offer my friends grumpy cat? Sparks more joy than USA politics.

Dear little gay people in my phone, please post more cats, less USA politics.

In the railway context an engineer was the person who worked the engine.

In German the word comes from Latin roughly meaning inventor. Presumably the general usage of the word engineer in English has the same etymology.

So? The majority of the rest of the Christian world follows the Pope.

I have worded my definition of my sexuality badly, you are right. What I am trying to say is that I am not straight if I am not exclusively attracted to “the opposite” gender. If I am also attracted to my own gender, and ones outside the spectrum, I can’t be hetero.

I’m just sick of bi erasure in queer communities, being belittled by being called “half gay, half straight”. Or even “oh you’re just a cishet who wants to fit into queer spaces”.
No. I am bi. Not half this, half that, not pretending. Maybe pan if one wants to follow strict definitions.

I genuinely did not know about people who define themselves as non-binary men or women, could you help me understand? That breaks all I’ve learned from the admittedly few enby people I know, whose entire goal was not being binary.