the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

randomly, thinking about @niss::bip
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have you ever noticed that the three most common types of pasta sauce are referred to by the three colors of the italian flag?

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Green sauce (pesto), white sauce (dairy-based), and red sauce (tomato based)
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seriously if anyone knows how they got kangaroo from ragnarok please tell us, this has been bugging us for over a decade
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The three types of mistranslation:

- The "Actually that one's cooler", as in Homunculus -> Holmcross in Wild Arms (referring to a type of ancient humanoid robot)
- The "I see where you were going but that's kind of hilarious", as in Solomon -> Salmon in Ys II's Palace of Salmon
- The "How the fuck", as in Ragnarok -> Kangaroo in Tales of Phantasia

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@matoakit did you read our profile before sending that follow request?
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seeing people complain about "mastodon" (meaning fedi) due to a *complete* misunderstanding of anything to do with it just feels, i don't know

makes me sad people don't want to give this platform a chance. like we wouldn't be who we are today without this place and these people and it feels bad seeing people not even make the effort

but also maybe it should be easier? maybe there are problems in explaining what feels obvious to us since we've been here since what, 2017? and have seen all the stuff that resulted in things being how they are today
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I know it's probably because we don't look at the federated timeline and only post unlisted but, we have seen very few new people and interacted with even fewer
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hey you, reading this

you're good
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gender
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we just had a ninety minute power outage that started less than *two minutes* after the part of the remote meeting they needed us for ended

that was good timing. i mean i still don't like not having power when it's freezing out but it would have been even more of a problem if it had happened earlier
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Ξ is a weird letter
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it makes sense in context

someone thought Antiochus was dead and used that as an excuse to try to oust a religious authority that Antiochus had instated and who was rumored to be corrupt (though it's hard to say whether he actually was, given this all happened over 2000 years ago; this is about the Maccabean revolt)

so when Antiochus heard about this and responded, it was relevant to say that they were wrong about him being dead
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"Hearing this, Antiochus, who was not dead, misinterpreted this factional infighting as [...]"

I like the idea of just randomly reassuring your readers that the people you're talking about were not, at the time, zombies
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Thinking about that study announced a couple days ago where they showed that bees enjoy playing with wooden balls

i appreciate bees
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neat thing we just learned: apparently olive oil fluoresces neon red under a blacklight
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