Bertuccio @ Bertuccio @lemmy.world

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No idea why you've got any downvotes.

This is very true. You have to search for actual maple syrup in the US.

EDIT: Yeah. I know how to find actual maple syrup, folks. There was a time long ago when products actually looked like what you were buying and weren't all imitation crap. There was no such thing as corn-syrup labeled "breakfast syrup" or "maple-flavored syrup" or "Real syrup" in giant bold text and "with maple flavor" in tiny font somewhere distant.

Stop defending deceptive product labeling.

It's easier to just pick up security bits at any hardware store...

Random idiots that don't know hardware stores exist

Despite all my rage I am still just a cat in a rage.

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With that way of thinking any hate group can just remove every useful word by simply misusing it and having hapless people carry water for them trotting out the ole "language is mutable" line.

You know. Like they're doing.

"Put eyes on X" is pretty common that I've seen.

Did the recipient eat it?

"Subcom" sounds like a bad movie genre or a very niche porn fetish.

"How do speech bubbles work?"

I generally like Edgar Allan Poe, but this meme is why "Sonnet - To Science" is a bad take. (EDIT: Sorry I can't figure out how to format it correctly here)

Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!

Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.

Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart,

Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?

How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,

Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering

To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,

Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?

Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car,

And driven the Hamadryad from the wood

To seek a shelter in some happier star?

Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,

The Elfin from the green grass, and from me

The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?

everyone*

*Exceptions may apply

It's always good to have life on your team.

Gen AA

The particulate matter, specifically heavy metals, go through the roof.

There's also a bunch of paperwork involved in removing those measurements from the pollution data sets with a rule that gives a pass for fireworks.

Yeah. Gen Z is getting boring.

Can we divide out the next generation already so we can make the same claims about them we've been making for 500 years again?

And for those wondering, it's just a very slightly better version of Bud and only then if it's really fresh. After two weeks on the shelf they're equally shitty.

Time up to days isn't even that bad - it's just base 60 because we get that part from ancient Mesopotamians who liked base 60 for the same reasons people like 12 (but maybe went a little overboard?). Since 12 is a factor of 60, going to base 12 would make hours-minutes-seconds jive better with other numbers. Only changing to base 12, a half day would be written as 10 hours, full day 20 hours. An hour as 50 minutes. A minute as 50 seconds.

I think there's no helping higher than that - there's no relation between months and days or months and years - they're separate cycles that we just smushed together one day and refuse to separate. And days and years aren't related in a convenient integer. Some things would coincidentally work out - 2 years could be written as 20 months - but for the most part there's no way to line it up nicely.

This is where the French messed up not using base 12. We could have had the best of both worlds.

I think it's safe to say no one loves Iroh as much as he deserves.