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[–] square@lemmy.zip 2 points 19 hours ago

Check out Mr. Confidentially Incorrect over here. An eclipse is exactly the definition you posted, I'm not sure how you could read it so wrong.

[–] square@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The earth (one celestial body) is partially obscuring the sun (another celestial body) relative to the Blue Ghost lander (the designated observer).

It's an eclipse.

[–] square@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If the sun passes in front of the moon, we've got a fucking problem.

[–] square@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Get a shower drain with a removable catch basket, even if it means having tile work done. It will pay dividends in the future lack of plumbing bills.

Unless you rent, then encourage her to brush her hair in the shower.

[–] square@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, adding in- as a prefix often does mean that, but it can also mean in, on, or into (among others) as a prefix or just part of the core word. And in this case inflammable comes from adding the suffix -able to inflame, a word that already starts with in- in it's into meaning. And one definition of inflame is "to burst into flames."

[–] square@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm not sure this is correct, but I've heard that flammable and inflammable being used as synonyms is recent. Originally, inflammable meant able to burst into flames without a significant ignition source. Like a pile of oily rags or something that could catch fire because it was left out in the sun or just got too warm.

[–] square@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

When I've traveled internationally, both during his first presidency and recently, people would occasionally ask me what I thought about him. I would tell them and they would often say something like "that's what everyone I've talked to seems to think," in a somewhat accusatory way (or maybe my embarrassment makes me a little paranoid,) like we are not being honest.

And I basically say what you just said. Sure, there are probably a few trump supporting liars among those you've spoken to, but for the most part, trump supporters are incurious people, scared of everything, and not interested in experiencing new things and places.

A trump supporter (he would just say Republican, but there is no difference imo) I work with just took his family on an international vacation for the first time about a month ago. He went to Costa Rica and stayed in a resort. When he got back and people asked him about it he would say "it's great, the resort had everything you need, there were lots of English TV stations with American programming, tons of 'normal' food, and everybody in stores spoke English" (in the little strip of stores right outside the resort designed to give just the right amount of 'local flavor' without being scary). That's about as adventurous as I imagine the average magat to be.

[–] square@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Apparently the term "long pig" for human flesh originated because we taste like pork. I wonder if butchered cuts of human look like pork too.

[–] square@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 days ago
[–] square@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wasn't aware of that. Are there plans to remove them from places like this memorial, or is it just contemporary uses that are banned?

[–] square@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't disagree, but it is the symbol the honored dead fought under. In context I think it's fine, but if you're using it today, that's different.

[–] square@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In my experience, in context people often do drop the "the Great" and just say Alexander.

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