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Warmer Winters means pests that previously couldn't survive over the cold season are going to be literally literally everywhere, by the by. So we should get to eating bugs toot sweet because plant food will be unavailable (to us) soon enough.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Warmer Winters means pests that previously couldn't survive over the cold season are going to be literally literally everywhere, by the by. So we should get to eating bugs toot sweet because plant food will be unavailable (to us) soon enough. This has been happening in my neck of the woods since the 70s. We have a bark beetle that mainly attacks pines, but historically, a lot of the wintering larvae died in the extreme cold. Weeks of -40, you know. But it just doesn't get that cold anymore, or at least not for more than a week or so, which isn't enough. While under normal circumstances a healthy tree could shake off the beetles (and the symbiotic fungus they bring with them), no tree can survive the heavy, heavy infestation that results when there are just Too Many Beetles. They die. There are no pines in city limits anymore because about fifteen years ago they cut them all down because they were dead and presented a falling risk. Entire forests are dead. You can only see the scale of the destruction from the air. Miles and miles and miles of dead pine trees. This is a forestry town, and there's been a movement to market the wood from the dead trees (which admittedly does have an interesting blue tinge from the aforementioned fungus), but no one wants to talk about why the beetles, which are native to this area and have been here for centuries, at least, suddenly destroyed the ecosystem they were part of.
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Mar 16, 2021 21:48
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Well yeah global warming isn't a new thing. I remember a big Colorado potato beetle scare from when I was a kid (they contained it by basically nuking from orbit). 2012 saw the first time they over-wintered here for certain so  one of the best crops you can grow here.
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Mar 16, 2021 21:56
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In short: everything is going to gently caress.
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Mar 16, 2021 21:57
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3D Megadoodoo posted:In short: everything is going to gently caress. I'm doing my part to prevent this
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christmas boots posted:I'm doing my part to prevent this Godspeed
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Might be useful somewhere else, but not here in the "somewhat obscure trivia you just stumbled across" thread That was kinda my feeling (we all have different thresholds for this sort of thing, and in a thread full of fun shared facts and armchair etymologists it seemed more appropriate than it might be elsewhere), but I'm very sorry for the derail and I hope we can find peace as we turn the page to page... 294. I am excited by language, and often my exuberance takes the form of wanting to share what I know for fun or help or whatever. And I know that language evolves and it can be very personal, too; along with that natural selection there is also the fact that parts of a language can't live on their own. So if you like something in it - variety, an underutilized feature, anything - USE it, spread it around, ensure its survival or don't complain when it vanishes. I try to be very positive with it and excite others. For example: I say short-lived with a long "i" (it comes from the noun life, not the verb live, like buck-toothed or light-skinned), and sometimes I get some looks, but I think it's really neat. I try not to get on people's cases if they use a short "i", especially since that is quite widespread, but if I'm in conversation with someone who also seems interested in the topic, I'll bring it up. rydiafan posted:I hate that neither refrigerator not Frigidaire have a D before the G, but fridge does. A high school friend of mine wrote fridge as "frig", like some sort of food jail. He was an oddball, though. (Remember WordPerfect, the word processing program? He put the emphasis on the last syllable, as in the verb. Couldn't be talked out of it.) Since I didn't really contribute any content before: Only in the last few years did I realize why A New Hope is the subtitle/episode name of Star Wars (IV). Obi-Wan Kenobi was the Rebellion's ONLY hope. And now it has a NEW hope in Luke. (Another IV subtitle, though maybe not a correct theory: Star Wars IV: The Voyage Home seems to be titled after the return to Earth after the almost odyssean events of the movie and III before it. But last week, if not before, I noticed that Kirk, seeing the new Enterprise, says "my friends, we've come home." Between the literal destruction of the old Enterprise in III and the three-movie theme that Kirk belongs on a ship instead of in an office, I wonder if that's the home the title means, or at least an additional layer.) Edit: Gaius Marius posted:drat Disney is really loving with the franchise now Harvey TWH has a new favorite as of 13:59 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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after hearing "Down on the Corner" on the radio for about the billionth time, I finally kept the idea of looking up the lyrics in my head long enough to actually follow through with it, and what I figured out is that there is nothing wrong with my ears nor am I especially aphasic: John Fogerty is just exceptionally mushmouthed in that song and there is no way even a native English speaker could parse that nonsense without a written guide
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Pastry of the Year posted:after hearing "Down on the Corner" on the radio for about the billionth time, I finally kept the idea of looking up the lyrics in my head long enough to actually follow through with it, and what I figured out is that there is nothing wrong with my ears nor am I especially aphasic: John Fogerty is just exceptionally mushmouthed in that song and there is no way even a native English speaker could parse that nonsense without a written guide It's more difficult for native speakers to parse unclear or unfamiliar ways of speaking.
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Even if it was easy to tell exactly what the words were, I think most people would still assume that they're mishearing it and look up the lyrics anyway because it's so weird.
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Mar 17, 2021 13:01
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I like the term "food jail" quite a lot
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V94Awpirdoo If you were Australian there was a pretty coherent cover that would play between kids programs.
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Pastry of the Year posted:after hearing "Down on the Corner" on the radio for about the billionth time, I finally kept the idea of looking up the lyrics in my head long enough to actually follow through with it, and what I figured out is that there is nothing wrong with my ears nor am I especially aphasic: John Fogerty is just exceptionally mushmouthed in that song and there is no way even a native English speaker could parse that nonsense without a written guide That’s what singing in a fake Cajun accent will do for you.
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John Fogerty took annunciation (or is elocution the word I want?) lessons from that guy that sang "Louie Louie."
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The annunciation is Gabriel's announcement that Mary will give birth to the son of god; enunciation is saying words clearly and correctly; and elocution is saying them with the inflection that fits your meaning. I've always been bad at that last one: on video playback I always sound like I'm on the wrong side of the uncanny valley. Fogerty's got nothin on Stevie Nicks. He's trying to put on a silly accent. She's just... like that. e: Also, the original Louie Louie was perfectly intelligible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-2CKsaq5r8. Not really sure what the Kingsmen were going for. flakeloaf has a new favorite as of 14:01 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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Hyperlynx posted:I like the term "food jail" quite a lot It’s more of a death row if you think about it.
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Part of the deal is that they were so new to recording that the singer was standing on his tiptoes and yelling trying to reach the overhead mic And then the FBI got involved because it was supposedly obscene. Somewhere I heard a good podcast about it e: this one https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/lost-notes/louie-louie-the-strange-journey-of-the-dirtiest-song-never-written
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Oil companies have known about global warming since the late 70s they just don't give a poo poo.
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a kitten posted:Part of the deal is that they were so new to recording that the singer was standing on his tiptoes and yelling trying to reach the overhead mic Something about the FBI investigating dirty lyrics really cracks me up. It's amazing how much American culture changed in 30-some years between say 1960 and 1990.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Oil companies have known about global warming since the late 70s they just don't give a poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lgzz-L7GFg
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Sucrose posted:Something about the FBI investigating dirty lyrics really cracks me up. It's amazing how much American culture changed in 30-some years between say 1960 and 1990.
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Square dancing was/is super common in American high schools. This is because Henry Ford was a huge racist, and he was afraid of jazz, so he pumped money into school programs so that students wouldn't get into music and dancing that was actually good. That's not the Stuff I Can't Believe I Just Found Out. He wasn't scared of jazz because of its connections to the African-American community, as I had originally thought. He was scared of jazz because he thought it was invented by Jewish people.
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I went digging for an excellent old post on the subject and found it was yours! Platystemon posted:Excerpts from Popular Mechanics, March 1912
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CleverHans posted:I went digging for an excellent old post on the subject and found it was yours! Newspapers around the world quoted just the caption from page three forty one and I first came across a scan of one of those. The full story in Popular Mechanics turns out to be far more interesting. I do have a bad habit of just inlining images and quotes and not putting enough text in the post to make them searchable, so let’s tag this one: global warming, climate change, popular mechanics, 1911, turn of the century Platystemon has a new favorite as of 23:54 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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Global warming was known back in like the 1890's or something. Don't worry though, we still got another hundred years or so. I'm sure we'll invent magic or something by then.
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Opting for the guilty gear future I see
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FreudianSlippers posted:Oil companies have known about global warming since the late 70s they just don't give a poo poo. Ahh. Guess what happens in the mid 70's? The Venera probes land on Venus and transmit images of the surface back to earth. Humanity is presented with images of a planet transformed into a blasted baking greenhouse hell; and a lot of very important and very rich people take this as a cue to Think Of The Shareholders.
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Pastry of the Year posted:after hearing "Down on the Corner" on the radio for about the billionth time, I finally kept the idea of looking up the lyrics in my head long enough to actually follow through with it, and what I figured out is that there is nothing wrong with my ears nor am I especially aphasic: John Fogerty is just exceptionally mushmouthed in that song and there is no way even a native English speaker could parse that nonsense without a written guide When it's the poor boys of Japan, you can eat those happy feet
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Alizée and Aaliyah are not the same person. One of them is even alive!
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Maha posted:Alizée and Aaliyah are not the same person. One of them is even alive! For a long time I kept thinking Ashanti was dead, because she is ALSO not Aaliyah.
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It's Friday, not Monday. PRO TIP Folks, when you're going in for the vaccine first time, prepare to possibly lose several days due to fever.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:It's Friday, not Monday. I'm banking on that to get rid of a few of the 300+ sick leave hours I have
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3D Megadoodoo posted:It's Friday, not Monday.
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Yeah I've been hearing reports either way, plus the second doses being worse (or again, doing nothing). Definitely adding in a couple recuperation days when I get mine scheduled.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:It's Friday, not Monday. Maybe you lost 4 days ..... on the other hand, maybe you gained three days 
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Captain Hygiene posted:Yeah I've been hearing reports either way, plus the second doses being worse (or again, doing nothing). Definitely adding in a couple recuperation days when I get mine scheduled. My fiancees boss told everyone they're only allowed to get it Friday after work or a Saturday because they can't afford everyone getting sick from it
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3D Megadoodoo posted:It's Friday, not Monday. "It was not Monday anywhere in the world when he posted this" Jerry, you realize you've been posting the whole time, right?
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My understanding is with the two-shot vaccines if you do have a bad reaction it may be due to the vaccine interacting with antibodies you already have, so if you feel sick after the second dose it's the antibodies you've built up from the first dose, but if you feel sick after the first dose it's because you already had COVID and developed antibodies.
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Baron von Eevl posted:My understanding is with the two-shot vaccines if you do have a bad reaction it may be due to the vaccine interacting with antibodies you already have, so if you feel sick after the second dose it's the antibodies you've built up from the first dose, but if you feel sick after the first dose it's because you already had COVID and developed antibodies. Interesting. Yeah I just had my first dose yesterday and felt absolutely nothing. My uncle had the second dose and was apparently horribly sick for 48 hours. He also doesn't have a spleen though, I dunno if that would make any difference.
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