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@structuredsucc "Gundam" isn't a generic word for giant robot!
Its like a brand name, like Ferrari. Most mecha in the Gundam anime franchise aren't even Gundams.
The generic term for a mech from the Gundam franchise is "mobile suit," and statistically the most common mobile suit is a Zaku. They made so many of those things.
It's the Kleenex effect all over again!
People use the brand name as if it's a generic, and it can even end up with the brand name losing trademark!
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@structuredsucc most women poop during vaginal childbirth and the nurse usually just wipes it away without comment
And it's normal, healthy, and completely okay! No one should feel ashamed about it
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Wait wait! Wait! Like in colour? Like black tea is actually visibly red or is it ONLY a classification thing?
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When you brew what's called a black tea in the Western countries it is a liquid of red-adjacent colours, isn't it?In Chinese it is literally named "red" tea, thus it is classified as a red tea when the Chinese tea categorization is used (which is common in loose leaf specialty tea circles). But in the West it is known as black.
However, in Chinese there is another category of "black" (or "dark") teas, liquor of which is way darker and at times doesn't pass through the light.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_tea
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When a roller coaster's track goes upside down it's not always called a loop. The actual term is "inversion" which encompasses a wide variety of loops, rolls, and combinations thereof (for example a "cobra roll" is two half loops connected by a pair of twists in opposite directions such that the track looks like the outline of a cobra's head).
Bonus fact: the distinctive clacking noise as one gets pulled up its lift hill is not caused by the chain itself, but rather a ratchet besides it designed to catch the ride vehicle so it doesn't fall back down and crash into something in the event of a malfunction.This is an entire world of information I didn't know existed, but of course it does.
️There must be so many variations of inversions between all the combinations. Is there a standardized taxonomy?
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@structuredsucc You can make enjoyable music with any cheap synth.
My partner full-heartedly agrees. They would also like to be able to make a synth lol
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@structuredsucc You don't need an expensive camera and lens to take great photos.
I wholeheartedly agree! And a little bit of knowledge about composition can go a long way
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Completely agree! Bees are the helpful, friendly joy bringer, imo. Wasps are just flying anger needles
Also, ants are really closely related to wasps! If you see flying ants and you compare them to wasps, you can definitely see the similarities
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@structuredsucc chickens don’t require a rooster in order to form & lay eggs. Only need a rooster for fertilizing eggs for potential chicks to form.
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@structuredsucc Shaking a Polaroid has always been pointless.
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@structuredsucc Crochet is one stick, knitting is two or more. And the fabrics only look alike when you go out of your way to make them similar. It's not hard to tell them apart.
This one used to be a pet peeve of mine, but I've gotten better with it thankfully.
I crochet. I can't knit at all. They have such different strengths and weaknesses
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@structuredsucc you can motivate plant growth by redirecting where the sap flows. This is why cutting branches off a tree (and other plants) can make the remaining branches stronger and yield more fruit in many case.
But did you know that you can also do it more subtly, not by cutting off everything above, but by making a small incision in the bark just above where the branch meets the trunk or main branch it branches off from? Fascinating.
This feels like arborist wizardry to me! You are saying words and I'm nodding along, but I don't have the faintest idea how this works or how one would do this. I'm just in awe that this is something that is known and can be done!
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@structuredsucc A ship sails faster with the wind abeam than behind. Sails function like airfoils and generate forces beyond just wind speed at that point of sail.
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@structuredsucc The conservative and slow-moving nature of #Debian is a feature, not a bug. When mass delusions - like the AI gold-rush - seize the IT industry, Debian holds its course, a bulwark of sanity and steadiness in a churning sea of narcissism and recklessness. #Linux
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@structuredsucc The conservative and slow-moving nature of #Debian is a feature, not a bug. When mass delusions - like the AI gold-rush - seize the IT industry, Debian holds its course, a bulwark of sanity and steadiness in a churning sea of narcissism and recklessness. #Linux
@d1 @structuredsucc Debian isn't always the conservative distro everyone paints them to be. A perfect example is when they decided to adopt systemd when at the time only Red Hat and Arch used it. Their vote to adopt it was the catalyst for nearly every other major distro to adopt it. That's setting a trend, not being conservative.
Slackware is a more accurate example of conservatism in Linux.
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@structuredsucc It is possible to be a techie and still be interested in the business side, helping make people's work lives better.
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The common trolley problem is actually part 1. In part 2 you can save five people by pushing a fat man in front of the trolley to stop it.Many will pull the lever but not push someone. The point is to examine where the difference lies, despite being Mathematically identical.
Also Theseus' ship is part 1 of 3.
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When you brew what's called a black tea in the Western countries it is a liquid of red-adjacent colours, isn't it?In Chinese it is literally named "red" tea, thus it is classified as a red tea when the Chinese tea categorization is used (which is common in loose leaf specialty tea circles). But in the West it is known as black.
However, in Chinese there is another category of "black" (or "dark") teas, liquor of which is way darker and at times doesn't pass through the light.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_tea
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermented_teaSo interesting! I feel a wikipedia rabbit hole coming on
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@structuredsucc A ship sails faster with the wind abeam than behind. Sails function like airfoils and generate forces beyond just wind speed at that point of sail.
Wait, what? Really? So, it isn't just about catching wind?
I know it's more complicated because tacking (sp) into the wind is possible, but I haven't the faintest idea on how to apply any of that
