the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

redrafted to fix a word omission oops

today's bad idea: applying SI prefixes to money

"this candy bar is 2/1€, or 500m€ each"
"i wanted a new computer, but at a price of 2 kilodollars I think i might prefer a used one"
"sony has annual profits of multiple terayen"

aaaaaaaa that feeling when you notice a typo and want to delete+redraft but multiple people have already boosted it

(yes i looked up sony's market data for this)

today on felthry learns things it didn't know were different are different: apparently american pancakes are very different from british ones

why are bananas curved anyway

consider: straight bananas

if you think about it, a bridge over a river is just a very short pipe that people can go over the top of.

I kind of want to know whether the lyrics of this one piece of music are actually japanese like I suspect or some other language or just vocalization that isn't in any language

but i don't know anyone fluent in japanese, at least not closely enough to be comfortable just asking them to do a favor even as minor as this

which fits with its usage in AmE, it's just weird seeing it applied to something that isn't a person

another thing I am learning about british english: apparently "butch" is more than just a type of lesbian presentation in BrE and it means... "tough"? "strong"? something along those lines

i still don't understand why we call deutschland germany and call people from the netherlands dutch instead

for some reason i'm watching youtube videos of a british person reviewing kitchen gadgets and i have learned so many things that have different names in this person's dialect of english

apparently zucchini are "courgiettes" which I guess is borrowed from french

also they pronounce taco as /tækoʊ/ instead of the american pronunciation /tɐkoʊ/, which is weird because generally the american pronunciation has the more front vowel when it comes to /æ/ or /ɐ/ or /ɑ/ sounds (like in "bath")

"This is apparently called a ballpoint pen, and they claim it works like a fountain pen that you almost never need to refill."

"See, you take this 'soap' and rub it onto a bit of cloth called a 'washrag' and apparently it magically makes the cloth work like a strigil? I've heard it's really good, though, so I'll give it a try at least."

I wonder if anyone's ever done a series of youtube videos where they review ordinary things as though they were some new technology

"So this thing, they call it a fork, is apparently for poking into food and bringing it up to your mouth? I don't know about you, but I tend to use my hands for that, or a knife if it's something messy. Don't have high hopes for this one."

I seem to have ended up watching a lot of youtube videos by british people lately and I keep learning little minor differences in things we've taken for granted and being very surprised; for example, apparently they don't have sticks of butter over there

Induction motors, or Transformers That Spin

the word "quincunx" sounds kind of lewd somehow

randomly wondering: why do people age wine for decades but beer only for a few weeks max?