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@crowlad@beach.city I couldn't say! maybe they sold it as "non-alcoholic apple cider" and then the "non-alcoholic" part was redundant?
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@crowlad@beach.city the reason for the difference is:
1- alcohol was illegal in the US for a few years in the early 20th century
2- the method of making it is identical, the only difference is whether you leave it to ferment or not--you don't need to add any external yeast or anything (they do pasteurize the apple cider sold here so that it can't ferment on the shelves though)

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it's a rather pleasant compound, very useful and not very toxic
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manganese dioxide
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@SwooshyCueb for some reason we wanted one of those as a kid

i have no idea what we ever would hae used it for
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@SwooshyCueb i think it was determined that there was no real advantage and no video supported them anyway
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@zetasyanthis because it feels wrong without the extra period to denote that it's the end of the sentence? i dunno what the style guides say but when you end a sentence that trails off we always use four dots
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why are pears like 50% sand
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@noiob i don't think that's necessarily a german vs english thing as much as just, some people do four dots and some do three
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@packbat we do too, but one of those periods is the period and three of them are constituents of the ellipsis
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@noiob we certainly don't use the unicode ellipsis, just three periods

and ending a sentence is always four periods for us
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we always thought the period was first and then the ellipsis for some reason?

it doesn't really matter though of course
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when you end a sentence with both a period and an ellipsis,
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hmm. question for fedi people, particularly those outside the US: do posts talking about apple cider using the AmE definition thereof (what we call apple cider is what the rest of the world calls unfiltered apple juice, there's no alcohol in it whatsoever; "apple cider" in the rest of the world refers specifically to an alcoholic beverage) need a CW for alcohol?
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good quote: "cellulose doesn't just grow on trees, trees grow on cellulose" (from the youtube channel explosions&fire)
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