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@heatherhorns but like, i wonder if an elf would think the same, like it's weird that the game has a bunch of different races of regular old elf
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@heatherhorns elder scrolls has at least the redguard, nord, imperial, and breton peoples, and there might be more

there's also a bunch of different elven peoples too, which in that universe includes dwarves (but dwarves had a Weird Thing Happen and may or may not be extinct now, depending on how you define "extinct")
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@heatherhorns if we're talking elder scrolls... what do you mean "two"? there's at least four and that's just what we can think of off the top of our heads
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@monsterblue hourlyzards
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@scruss @marnanel@queer.party That's one we've never heard before, and I think our boss would be annoyed if we didn't give at least one decimal point when doing efficiency calculations! There's a big difference between 99% and 99.4%.
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@scruss @marnanel@queer.party After that you start talking in ppm (parts per million) and ppb (parts per billion). And then you just start using scientific notation because talking about a dopant concentration of 1.5e-16 makes a lot more sense than talking about 150 parts per quintillion
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@mawr i wish we even knew

if we miss a dose for some reason it's *awful* but it also feels like we don't get a lot out of the meds because we still struggle a lot with stuff

and we don't have a baseline without withdrawal symptoms to compare to because we've been on this as long as we can remember
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@heatherhorns melissaphobia (fear of people named melissa)
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how you know you're on the official USPS website, more than anything else
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@artemis@vulpine.club @Lotherme who says it hasn't
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@artemis@vulpine.club there are a lot of musical and character-design references to diamond/pearl, it's great

also it's an alternate timeline, because pokemon does that a lot
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@gardevoir i would have thought the punch hitbox would be small enough you couldn't reach the nut!
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@gardevoir to be fair the nut out of a tree seems fairly obviously not possible (or not practical) to us--the punch doesn't have enough reach, right?
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i don't really know why but we kinda like that the genus of ginger is called zingiber
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@pup_hime wow. there's a lot of greats on psx and ps2 and they're just, ignoring almost all of them
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@relee (artificial grape flavor is just methyl anthranilate, a compound that makes up a very minor part of the flavor profile of a few specific varieties of red grape, but also a minor part of the flavor profile of things like citrus fruits and apples. it's just called grape flavor because the person who discovered it thought it smelled vaguely like red wine or something like that)
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@relee That's also why grape flavored candy and soda is so common--it was the first artificial fruit flavoring (let's just ignore the fact that it tastes nothing like grapes)
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@kobi_lacroix It's still the second most expensive spice, second only to saffron (and cinnamon is close behind)

it's just that artificial vanilla is real cheap and good enough for basically all industrial uses.
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today we learned: vanilla is a new world plant, so until the late 15th century at the absolute earliest no european, african, or asian cuisine ever used vanilla

that's a little hard to believe with how ubiquitous it is today! just about every recipe for anything even slightly sweet has a tiny bit of vanilla in it these days
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