the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

with great power comes great heat

Why is "bananas" ("he's gone bananas!") the colloquialism for "out of control"? bananas are not that weird or out of control a fruit.

Now, durians, those are out of control

one of these days we really do need to write that linguistic analysis of circuit schematics..

the only real downside is that Haber's name is stuck to it. and Haber was not what you would call a good person

One of the best things is that, though Fritz Haber designed the process intending to use it to create chemical weapons to harm people, the Haber process is now indispensable to producing fertilizer, and without it the world would not be able to support anywhere near the current world population

I like taking things designed for awful purposes and repurposing them for good

http://www.politiscales.net/en_US/results/?s0=67&t0=17&t1=31&e0=40&e1=24&m0=69&b1=5&b0=88&c0=79&p0=71&anar=67&j0=62&j1=5&femi=48 if you want to see for some reason! This mostly aligns with expectations, no real surprises here. There were a few questions I didn't know how to answer though

Honestly, people are taught about the benefits of communism from a young age--who hasn't been told about the virtues of sharing? I wonder why it's such a divisive topic among adults.

there are a lot of little touches in the FFVI that make it really my favorite of the series. you play through it but then there's still so much more nuance you can go back and find

It's possible, easy even, to completely misunderstand the dynamic between Edgar and Sabin and especially the significance of Edgar apparently randomly having a double-headed coin to trick Setzer with

Something I really like about final fantasy vi is how the ending theme ties together Locke and Celes's themes

Combining that with how Locke and Celes seem to be getting a romantic Thing for one another in the story

was the amino acid threonine named by someone who just really liked the number 309?

nanoblogging: like twitter, only you're limited to a single character per post

why are nylon standoffs so fun to fidget with

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*shows up to the concert with an array of multimeters and an oscilloscope*

"Do you play an instrument?"
"Yes, the Fluke 87-V, thought I've been considering branching out to a classic 45."

bleebp

For some people, gender is something they are.

For other people, gender is something they do.

Neither of these is right or wrong, and I love that people are starting to acknowledge that.

there are a number of jokes about a (presumably drunk) person talking to a police officer and saying "ossifer" instead of officer. It occurs to me that this is actually a proper formation from classical roots; ossifer could mean "bone-bearer", which would make it an appropriate term to call any vertebrate.