the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

It was just pointed out to us that the characters in the smash melee character select screen that have their portraits slightly lower are exactly the clone characters and no others: Dr. Mario, Falco, Pichu, Roy, Young Link, and Ganondorf, all directly adjacent to the character that they're a clone of.

For some reason this never occurred to us before.
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mm, mongolian chicken... <3
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i'm kind of curious and it was going around a little while ago so uh

do you have a crush on us?

followup, only answer if you're British: television ________

poll for british people: computer ________

Huh. Today we learned about the Aharonov-Bohm effect, which demonstrates that just knowing E and B at a point isn't enough to know how a particle at that point will be affected by the electromagnetic field

Specifically, it shows that a particle can be affected by a strong electromagnetic potential even when the particle does not go through any area of non-zero field strength

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*hands you a bucket full of electrons*
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putting monday at the beginning of the week as european calendars do is weird to us
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@AKAHayling@elekk.xyz I keep wanting to ask you, what does nWo mean?
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Otters know where to find the best shellfish because they have good mussel memory.
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it's kind of weird that the vowel in the english -ed past tense ending is never pronounced, but can be pronounced when the meter of a poem or song demands it and it doesn't sound odd to native speakers.

also the difference between the words learned and learnèd which i think is the only case of a diacritical mark being used in a native english word
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The ampersand & is itself a ligature of the Latin word et, which also means and.
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today we learned that they use a different symbol in Greek instead of an ampersand: ϗ, which is a ligature of the Greek word και, meaning and
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What exactly is the "is this anything" meme? I'm not sure we understand what it's trying to say.
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90s RPGs can be very obtuse sometimes. How were we supposed to know without looking it up that "the cave east of town" means "go west, then south, so you can come around back northeast and reach a hidden cave" instead of "head east and go into the cave" (you can't) or "find some secret way further into the tiny cave that's on the east side of this town that someone's running an armor shop out of" (there isn't one)?
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When something alludes, that's an allusion. Does that mean that an illusion is when something illudes?
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