the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

tamarind is nice, honestly
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Why do elementary schools and children's educational tv and such, at least in the US, always seem to use "cat" vs "dog" as an example of opposites?

Or is that some kind of false memory?
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this method has been used in a number of attempts to pin down where language families originated, but that's generally Pretty Hard due to the sheer amount of additional influences over thousands of years
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something i think is really neat is that you can kind of determine where a language originated by looking at where the dialects are most diverse

like in the US and the UK we both speak varieties of English, but whereas you may find very similar dialects across broad regions of the US, you may get cases in the UK where two towns less than twenty miles apart can barely understand each other
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fun fact: the coldest place in the universe is, in all likelihood, on earth

this is not just a joke about cold weather; the coldest anywhere else in the universe ever gets is approximately 3 K, because that's the temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation

meanwhile on earth, laboratories studying Quantum routinely chill things to very low temperatures with cryocoolers, some of which get to fractions of a millikelvin
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https://www.furaffinity.net/view/44517457/ this reminds me of @owashii@plush.city and @artemis@vulpine.club
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when you look at standard mains electrical plugs, i kind of feel like the British ones are undeniably the best, they just have every safety feature you could want

except for the fact that they will always rest prongs-up on the floor and they're probably the only thing that hurts more to step on than a lego
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coyotes are pretty cute
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i think bip is very cute
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okay apparently it might be the third oldest, there's a pretty wide uncertainty on the age estimate of rivers, for obvious reasons
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apparently, there's a river in west virginia, virginia, and north carolina called the New River

it's the second-oldest river in the world

whoever named this thing needs to learn what "new" means
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ah, it has "pepper extract" in its ingredients list.... *after* sodium benzoate, which if you know much about food preservatives you know that *VERY* little sodium benzoate goes into stuff, you barely need any of it for the preservative effect
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i don't know if this is actually an old brand of soda or if it's just trying to look like an old brand, but we got a bottle of this fancy soda that calls itself "macfuddy's, the distinctively strong pepper elixir" and claims to "cure timidness and satisfy the daring"... and claims to be "luck-infused" whatever that means

tastes alright, nowhere near as strong as you'd expect from what it claims though. can't taste the pepper at all, though, mostly get a cherryish flavor with a hint of cola. Weirdly, slightly reminiscent of cough medicine while drinking it, but doesn't have anything close to the horrible aftertaste cough medicine is infamous for, which makes it actually not unpleasant?
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you've heard of macaroni and cheese

but have you ever thought to try macaroons and cheese?

(don't)
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aaa i like this picture so much

sorry for boosting it repeatedly but aaa
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i was just reminded that hushpuppies exist and now i want some, but how the hell are we going to get some in *oregon*
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three legs makes sitting cross-legged rather awkward

seiza would probably be more practical but that's pretty uncomfortable
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random thought: would technomages use plug-in air fresheners instead of incense?
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having three legs is nice

you should try it sometime, if the idea appeals to you!
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