i was present a few months ago when my best friend found out that outlier isn’t pronounced “oot-lee-yay” and i haven’t been the same since
“average person thinks outlier pronounced oot-lee-yay” factoid actualy (sic) just statistical error. No person thinks outlier pronounced oot-lee-yay. French Canadian Georg, who has mispronounced word for 39 years, is an ootleeyay adn should not have been counted
Today I was talking to a new friend who I think reads a lot of medieval lit about a social dynamic where I feel like a courtier, and I very tentatively said “cor-shur” because I’ve never heard the word pronounced irl
and she looked – she has a very polite face, and I glimpsed agony on it for about two seconds before she said, “There are about four different ways people pronounce that, but none of them are what you just said”
seeing the terms “bad rep” and “good rep” applied to media that was created by and for an in-group makes me want to eat glass
“not sure if this is a good representation of the trans community :/“ right well a trans person made it, and they made it for other trans people, so. perhaps that logic is not applicable here. must we live our entire creative lives under the watchful eye of Cisgender Scrutiny? how can you compare self-expression to willful misrepresentation lmao
Uncharismatic Fact of the Day
With
Chrysina limbata
around, you won’t need a mirror! This species has an especially shiny exoskeleton, reflecting up to 97% of the light that hits it. In the wild, the mirror-like reflective surface may fool potential predators into thinking the beetle is just a drop of water- effectively serving as conspicuous camouflage.
(Image: Close-ups of Chrysina limbata by Michael Farmer)
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Listen.
If you are ever flung back in time, reincarnated, step through a portal into another world, or in any other way turned into an isekai protagonist...and you want to know what a centimeter is...
If there are honey bees (presuming they are honeybee-sized, and not like gargantuan monster bees), start constructing bee frame boxes. Make the gaps progressively, incrementally, minisculely larger and larger. You will find some of them get glued together, usually in the too small and the too large category areas.
You will also find some of them that are not. In the range of the smallest to the largest that are not, you will find your 6mm to 9mm range.
Measure it all carefully. Divide it up appropriately, with the smallest gap getting 6 portions, the largest getting 9, and compare those portion sizes to each other. Once you are certain that the 6mm is 2/3rds the size of the 9mm, add 1 more mm to the 9mm gap, and that is your centimeter.
With the centimeter established, you can now establish a meter (100 centimeters).
Once you have established a meter, you can establish time itself. Make a pendulum that is 99.4cm from its pivote point at the top to the bottom of its weight (any weight, so long as it holds the string straight). The unique property of gravity on Earth (or an Earth-like world) is that it takes exactly 1 second at this length for a pendulum to swing from side to side.
You now have established a way to calculate time.
Once you have established a centimeter and a meter, you can establish metric volumes (a cubic cc or cc = 1 ml, and 1000 of those gets you a liter, which is very close to 1 quart for measuring (if you absolutely need imperial measuring standards for cooking: 1 quart = 4 cups, 4 tablespoons to 1/4 cup, ao 16 to a cup and 64 to a quart), 3 teaspoons to 1 T, etc) 1 cubic centimeter of water at room temperature (65F-75F ish) at or near sea level weighs 1 gram. 1 cubic liter of water at the same temperature range & elevation weighs 1 kilogram.
Neat, huh? So! Now you have a consistent way to measure length, weight, volume, and time, and you may now re-create whatever science you may need in your new environment with a standardized system of measurements in a very easy to calculate base-10 system.
All thanks to the honey bee.
Sweet!
Anonymous asked:
how do you feel about those goldfish that play football (soccer)
plaguedocboi answered:
If this is what pro sports were I’d watch them
So what this paint company does is take iron pollution from abandoned mines that are polluting soils and rivers and makes iron based red pigment paints out of it.
Basically they realized hey no one's cleaning this shit up, it's polluting the streams, killing all the fish, making the water undrinkable and there's a huge market for it so why not make money by cleaning it the fuck up?
They remove this stuff by the industrial bucket load from the rivers. The idea is if it's in a painting, if it's in your home, it's not poisoning wildlife.
anyway its cool as shit, please support tf out of these people https://gamblinstore.com/reclaimed-earth-colors-set/