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we always thought the period was first and then the ellipsis for some reason?

it doesn't really matter though of course
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when you end a sentence with both a period and an ellipsis,
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hmm. question for fedi people, particularly those outside the US: do posts talking about apple cider using the AmE definition thereof (what we call apple cider is what the rest of the world calls unfiltered apple juice, there's no alcohol in it whatsoever; "apple cider" in the rest of the world refers specifically to an alcoholic beverage) need a CW for alcohol?
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good quote: "cellulose doesn't just grow on trees, trees grow on cellulose" (from the youtube channel explosions&fire)
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polls which are basically a foregone conclusion, part IV:

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polls which are basically a foregone conclusion, part III:

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polls which are basically a foregone conclusion, part II:

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polls which are basically a foregone conclusion, part I:

the Hearth :ms_agender_flag: boosted

I'd like to talk on here more, but I'm not sure how to do that.
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hey, discord has image descriptions now, nice
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IR cameras are neat.

Did you know the lenses for thermal cameras are made of solid germanium? Because glass is opaque to anything beyond NIR, and thermal cameras work at much longer wavelengths (and germanium is transparent to those wavelengths, but with a high index of refraction)
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I wonder if Sony still uses the Trinitron brand for anything
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also apparently gryphons in heraldry always seem to look very upset
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we just got absorbed into wikipedia learning stuff about heraldry and holy fuck that's a lot of complicated and arbitrary rules and everything is in pseudo-french
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we have no idea how much this costs, but expect it would be in the thousands, as atomic clocks usually are well over a thousand and a miniaturized one probably costs more.
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oh wow, they make atomic clocks on a chip now (well, basically. it's the *size* of a somewhat large IC at least)
ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en
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