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This doesn't really make sense because children have all their administrative and logistical needs taken care of by their parents, and most people then have years of singledom before they find a long term partner who could potentially support them.

@Morgue_XiiV @andronauts @Kuuhaku3993 "English" is a bit different because there is a hard "g" sound after the "ng" sound (like how "finger" doesn't rhyme with "singer"). These would be spelled differently as Filipino words (which is another complication for native English speakers).

@andronauts @Kuuhaku3993 or "English" lol

I don't get why English speakers struggle so much with the "tsu" sound. It's literally the same as in the word "sports". It's not like they pronounce it "spors" like how they say "soonami"

@Misesean1 @rebeccajfaust @whitokki @GraphCrimes And 22/7 is a more accurate approximation than 3.14!

@rebeccajfaust @whitokki @GraphCrimes 22/7 is a common approximation of pi

Do dd/mm places celebrate pi day on July 22

@minervas_muse It's not about the money, it's about the structure. Please just add 30% onto the price so we can all be happy that every patron is contributing the same as we are.

The thing is, Euro tourists aren't ignorant of tipping. And they get really mad when you point out that it's actually a good deal for many servers- suddenly a "oh, so someone deserves a middle class income for bringing me a drink?!" Yeah, buddy. Welcome to America. We're rich

@PixelatedH2O @VincentC_Dev @Noahpinion But in, say, Italian or Arabic, "savoury" (as in is a dish that is not sweet) is translated idiomatically as "salato" (salted) or "māliḥ" (salty).

@SamLovesHummus @VincentC_Dev @Noahpinion Salty and savory are completely different

Americans just replaced the word "savory" with "umami", without ever thinking about what either of those words mean

@Lord_Steerforth @grahamscheper Williams undoubtedly lifted from Holst, Stravinsky etc, but it goes too far to say he has no original voice - his jazz piano expertise clearly influences his writing, his use of polychords, octatonic harmonic and chromatic planing, etc, are more than the sum of their influences.

@grahamscheper The difference between John Williams and Holst is that Williams recycles whereas Holst innovated. The score for Star Wars is great film music, but it's largely a pastiche of 1930s film scores, which were in turn a pastiche of 1890s classical music. There's no original voice.

Would someone in the Classical music sphere explain to me why composers of movie soundtracks get sneered at? I find that kind of music extremely enjoyable, even for movies I’ve never seen, and structurally I really cannot tell the difference between eg. Williams and Holst.

@PixelatedH2O @VincentC_Dev @Noahpinion Savoury just means food that is not dessert-like sweet. For example, you could say "do you want a sweet or savoury pancake?" and there's no implications the savoury pancake would have any umami flavour. Some languages use "salty" to refer to the same concept.

@VincentC_Dev @Noahpinion Umami and savory are the same thing

@jrmamana @ttroyscar There are loads of guitar solos I can play without thinking on a Strat, but on a steel string I'd have to put in a lot more concentration and effort to get the slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends and dynamics right due to the increased tension and action.

@SamLovesHummus @ttroyscar why invent stuff like “there’s completely different muscle memory.” that’s just not true at all

i remember as a kid when i'd tell people i was learning the guitar they'd always ask, "electric or acoustic?" what's going on there

@jrmamana @ttroyscar Electric guitars have significantly lower tension, lower action and narrower fretboard; innovations designed to make it easier to play lead lines. There's completely different muscle memory, and different things that make sense to play on the two instruments.

@ttroyscar there is not a significant difference in technique. what do you even mean? there are different *techniques* amplification etc. allows. but playing the guitar will be mostly the same. there is no disputing this. playing the one will mostly allow you to play the other. you're wrong

@simonmaechling @cra5hed But they're both called "vitamin B9" or "folic acid" to the layperson or average physician.

@cra5hed You show different chemical compounds.

I want to tackle a nonsense claim. "Natural is Safer" Sounds comforting, right? But it’s based on fear, not facts. It’s tempting to think that because natural substances have been around for billions of years, they’re inherently safe, while synthetic chemicals are not. But this reasoning doesn’t hold up under scrutiny. Let’s break it down: It implies that “natural” = “safe.” That synthetic chemicals are harmful because they’re "new". The truth? Nature doesn’t care about your safety. Arsenic, cyanide, and botulinum toxin are 100% natural. And deadly. Meanwhile, many synthetic chemicals are inspired by nature, like life-saving insulin or penicillin. Here’s a perfect example: Natural and synthetic vitamin C are chemically identical. Whether from an orange or a lab, both are ascorbic acid. Your body can’t tell the difference - processed exact same way. What actually matters? The dose makes the poison. It’s not about whether a substance is “natural” or “synthetic.” It’s about how it’s used and how much you’re exposed to. Whether a substance is ancient or newly created doesn’t determine its safety. Science, testing, and proper use do.

@Fringe_Centrist @alexgrenier @simonmaechling Sure, that's true in principle, so then the claim would be "in practice, the contaminants in synthetic citric acid make it worse than (or at least not identical to) naturally occurring citric acid." For example, for someone who has a hypersensitivity to mould.

@alexgrenier @simonmaechling Contaminants are an entirely different problem and “natural” substances are not immune to it.

@OfSymbols @eff_hey I had to hold my phone right to my ear to realise he's saying "protecting our people" and not "protecting... um..."

@eff_hey Idk how sound balance seems to be so impossible

absolutely perfect uncut distilled Starmer to make a war porn video that's like a cheap imitation of a US one, mostly just consists of helicopters taking off and landing, and has his awful reedy nasal voice over the top of it

@triiiquery @wet_stench That's how it is in the UK, we don't consider a T-shirt a type of shirt (just like how root beer isn't a type of beer and a female isn't a type of male).

@wet_stench Your criteria disqualifies the T-shirt from being a shirt?

sometimes you will be on a clothing website and in their menu they will distinguish between "shirts" and "tops". this is not a distinction that has any meaning for me and it is my firmly held belief that i am not alone in this

@dunksworth @mattbramanti No-one wants American pizza; it's like the pizza we serve our schoolchildren in the canteen. A plain Neapolitan pizza base has more flavour.

@mattbramanti The rest of the world wants American pizza but calls it Italian. They consider beer to be German but the American rice lager is the most popular style in every market.

the eurofag can't define "American food" for the same reason the fish can't define water 100+ years ago, we took his native cuisine, made it more broadly appealing, and exported it back to him today, he doesn't even recognize a smashed meatball between slices of bread as a hamburger he yearns for the baconator

@mcdonnelljp @lost_nomad__ I mean, the current UK monarchy descends from William I whose campaign of subjugation (the "harrying of the north") was so violent and brutal it has been categorized as genocide by modern scholars.

@lost_nomad__ In England they were ‘gift-givers’.

This is a common misunderstanding. Royalty mostly did NOT start as ‘warlords’ that muscled their way into power Kings became kings by being mediators between disparate groups. They were master diplomats

@s8mb Volvic is quite unusual in how soft it is for bottled water, almost any other brand would have much higher mineral content!

These sachets of minerals, to be added to low-mineral water (Sainsbury's own brand is almost like distilled water), make a crazy difference to the quality of pourover coffee. I had been using Volvic, and thought my coffees were tasting flat and lifeless – now they're great!

@owenbroadcast @QuasLacrimas You'd probably enjoy the documentary Shock and Awe by Jim Al-Khalili youtu.be/Hn7uB2hrh_c

@QuasLacrimas without looking it up im honestly unclear why amateur “really playing with electricity” took off in the 1800s. clearly people noticed static electricity beforehand, but in the 1800s random guys were able to shock themselves reliably and all that. just extra materials around?

Just so we’re all on the same page, if you take a massive iron rod, align it north-south, beat with hammers until it’s magnetized, and then attach it to a water wheel so it spins around, that generates electric current, right? Doesn’t every rotating magnet generate a current?

@TheArsenalDan @sofiagusto13 @hanavrose @Darren76780228 @lifeinchaos_ Not been given to 13-14 year olds routinely since 2005. Mia Goth would be slightly too young to get it on a routine basis.

@sofiagusto13 @hanavrose @Darren76780228 @lifeinchaos_ Every single person in the UK has this. It’s called a BCG and is to prevent tuberculosis. You have it when you are around 13 years old. Stop speculating about a place you’ve never been to and know nothing about.

This is actually the universal mark of the non-Westerner.

@LeadingEdgeTLE @leveragedbets Immediately before the dividend, the market prices the share based on various factors *plus* the imminent dividend, and immediately afterwards all the other factors are unchanged but now there's no dividend to expect, so the fair price should differ by the value of the dividend.

@leveragedbets why does the stock drop 6% ?

Just tried explaining to someone when a stock pays a 6% dividend that means the stock drops 6% a year and they make nothing. Didn’t go so well.

@DBSteiger @Andy_Ross1962 @SandyofCthulhu Warp drives violate basic tenets of General Relativity arxiv.org/abs/2105.03079

@Andy_Ross1962 @SandyofCthulhu Not physically, but in theory. Nothing in physics tells us it wont work.

Did you know that no train can ever go faster than 60 miles per hour, because humans cannot breathe at such a speed, and all the passengers would suffocate? This was proven science in 1830-40.