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@futurebird all the ones that involve the divorced couple getting back together were done to the death back in the 1980s.

@futurebird it all began with Rube Goldberg, in my view.

@futurebird the long house of the backrooms is called long double house

@futurebird then there are explementary colors, which some swear by, and others view as too colorful for polite company.

@futurebird I have shelves (probably not enough shelves), but chairs, tables, beds, etc, are banned from my personal spaces.

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knowest thou thy numbers, as thou knowest thy beasts, even unto the number six hundreds and threescore and six, thou shalt know thy numbers ...

all joking aside, I think we are saddled with an education system, a culture, and most importantly, a mass media culture, which has evolved to make people hate numbers.

@futurebird I didn't know, but I guess if one knew how to look, it was appearant.

@futurebird sharks are only winning because the supporters of extinct clades fought amongst themselves, instead of uniting behind a single candidate.

@futurebird the Devonian swamp would be full of weird bugs, many belonging to groups that aren't around any more. Of course, so would the shallow Ordovician seas of the Hudson bay.

@futurebird history is innocent. I blame the future.

@futurebird right? I totally expected Felis chaus, but Curtis Sliwa, what the heck,

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I guess for me it all started with seeing speed as change in position per unit time. Position is 𝑥, time is 𝑡, 𝑑 is change, and / is the relationship between the two, and so speed is 𝑑𝑥/𝑑𝑡 .

And then seeing acceleration as change in speed per unit time.

@futurebird dunno. Maybe some kind of selective agar, laced with some kind of toxin that makes it inhospitable to lots of organisms. A weird media in which only weird thing grow. That's what tumblrs would really be into, I think.

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place value without zero seems almost as confusing as semantic distinctions between tabs and spaces.

@futurebird brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "information wants you to pay me a dollar"

@futurebird For most of my life, I thought self-driving vehicles would require purpose-built roads, designed and built for self-driving vehicles, and not allowing human drivers. Even now, I'm not entirely sure modern self-driving efforts have found a way around that requirement. (I suspect trams probably carry more people than self-driving cars even today.)

@futurebird do you mean, back in the early 2000s? Or the 1990s?

@futurebird well, the usually offered etymology is that they come from the same Italian word ... : ) A doublet, as the linguists say ... ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublet_(linguistics) )

But "galleria" usually refers to a covered area with shops, while "gallery" usually refers to some place art is exhibited, whether for sale or for public appreciation.

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some of the "great sea serpent" reports of the 18th and 19th centuries were probably whales. But often poorly understood whales, such as the sei whale, or the beaked whales.

some of the "great sea serpent" reports were probably sea turtles dragging fishing nets they were entangled with.

some were probably due to oarfish, which are truly odd-looking, very thin and long fish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oarfish