It always bothered me that they never made an "unsolved problems in history" page.
There are thousands of unsovled problems in history (including some very basic things. It's generally assumed that Sumer was the first empire, or nation as we might call them today, but no one's too sure when cities started banding together.)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
"Hand-lamps" actually seems more intuitive to me than either of the other terms, somehow. Think about it.
"Flashlight" refers to the very early technology, in which the lamp could only shine for a few second and thus had to be flashed in short bursts. It doesn't make sense with modern flashlights, because steady-burning flashlights have been a thing since the early 20th century.
"Torch", to me, implies a flame of some kind. I guess the idea is that it's an "electric torch", but that still strikes me as a strange thing to call it...though this may just be my American mind at work.
Another Carbonism seems to be calling any hole, regardless of size, a "crater". Though with a somewhat shorter gap between the T and R than would normally be given for the word. So it's more like "cratre" in pronunciation.
'Torch' isn't something i've ever questioned. i guess in a sense it's weird - you can't torch something with an electric torch - but that's just etymology. i mean, for that matter, 'torch' itself derives ultimately from the Latin 'torquēre' meaning twist, but a flaming torch is still a torch whether or not it's twisted in shape.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Amusingly, I never questioned "flashlight", either, until I was sitting around a couple days after Christmas playing with my new flashlight and it dawned on me that the bloody thing doesn't flash.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
actually the unique local language is one of the few things I like about this town.
There's a tendency to always spell the word "zinc" in all capital letters too. I'm not sure where that came from but I suspect Horse-Head Industries' old zinc plant in the area (mostly known for poisoning the entire ecosystem of Blue Mountain) has something to do with it.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Motivational, that's the word I was looking for.
"Motivation" and "inspiration" have a tendency to get twisted in my mind, sometimes.
Also I wish more flashlights had flashing modes, though I can understand why most don't.
Bad Publicity: Reduce the AP of an enemy unit by 5+1d8. Brisk Cancellation: Target enemy unit's last used ability is negated and cannot be used for the next 3 turns.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
On a whim--probably because I was thinking about language differences--I set my traffic light to use the UK-style sequence, with red and amber briefly displayed together before green.
It's funny, because I don't think this particular model was ever sold in Europe. It's manufactured by Siemens, but it's a design they inherited from Mark IV/Automatic Signal when they purchased that company in 1997.
(As an aside, I don't know why collectors call it the "UK" sequence, when it seems to be used in plenty of other countries as well.)
I have heard repeatedly that we have family in Japan, but I don't really know anything about them.
I have met several cousins who are Japanese-American, but there are other more distant relatives that are apparently full-blooded and still live there. I've also been told that one's a "priestess", but I'm not sure what to make of that statement.
Deactivating a generator loop without the correct key is like repairing a watch with a hammer and chisel; one false move and you'll never know the time again.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
One thing I do wonder, though...why doesn't the American sequence use the red/amber overlap?
Anorak ramble:
Spoiler:
Many early fixed four-way signals in North America used overlaps because they were wired for all four ambers to light up at once. So during the change interval, one street would be seeing amber and green while the other street would be seeing red and amber.
At some point, as things became more standardized, the overlaps went away entirely. But I have no idea why that decision was made.
also we like to fight over which one of our thirty zillion ancestries is the best.
The people on the far left side of the tree who are Sicilian like to claim they're related to the Gambino crime family, but no one is entirely sure if that's true or not. Meanwhile the Russians, Dutch, and Swedish all like to claim royal descent, the Brits are barely there so I have no idea what they think about anything, the Ukranians hate the Russians and the Germans hate the Dutch. I think the Kenyans and Japanese are probably just confused as to why all the white people are fighting. If they get "confirmed", I'm sure the Jewish portion of our family will do the same.
oh there's like a drop of Navajo in there somewhere because one of our ancestors who used to live in I wanna say Arizona married a native american woman.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I don't know all that much about my family history, though sometimes I wish I did.
One of my uncles apparently did a bit of research a while back and found out that, unsurprisingly, my dad's side of the family were slaves in the American South.
As for my mother's side of the family, well, they all seem to assume they're Irish because their last name starts with "Mc". *shrug*
...god my knowledge of my own ancestry is pathetic.
Well, families are complicated things. With so many lifetimes, they'd have a job not to be.
Mostly it's the pretention that irks me.
We haven't owned land in the family name for almost 800 years, and there are plenty of people in my family who still like to act that being the Baron-in-Stead-of-the-Queen of god-knows-where, Holland actually means anything. This wouldn't be excusable even if half the titles these people give themselves weren't just straight made-up. (Example: Viktor himself holds the title "Archduke of Aumensberg". Even though there is no such place.)
Even disregarding all of that, some of my ancestors were despicable people. We're talking slave owners and rail barons here. These aren't folks to be emulated, they're to be despised.
...god my knowledge of my own ancestry is pathetic.
i know the feeling.
afaik my ancestors were mostly English Methodists, but i also have Scottish, Jewish and i think Welsh ancestors if you go back far enough. Even my closer living relatives are scattered all over Great Britain.
my surname is actually French, but for all i know that might have been in the country since the Norman conquest.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I realized after I posted that that it sounds like I'm calling the English boring.
I was trying to make a joke on the fact that my name, in addition to being English in the sense of "originating in England", is also an everyday word in the English language, but that joke doesn't work unless you already know that second part.
A lot of my folks would really like us to not be Jewish, unfortunately.
Ouch. :/
With the pretension of being "classically European" comes the "we don't want to be related to the barbarian races of the world"-style racism too. This is why I hate family gatherings and generally hang out with my weirder cousins when I'm made to go to them.
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I've heard people around here call them "hand-lamps", which I have never heard anywhere else.
Honestly there seem to be a lot of weird regional things about carbon county, like boszo.
Question your own assumptions, or the assumptions of other people, and see where that takes you.
Look at lists of unsolved problems and have a crack at one that interests you.
Experiment scientifically with everyday things and record your discoveries.
It always bothered me that they never made an "unsolved problems in history" page.
There are thousands of unsovled problems in history (including some very basic things. It's generally assumed that Sumer was the first empire, or nation as we might call them today, but no one's too sure when cities started banding together.)
here Centie
no one is entirely sure if this is writing or the neolithic signage that predated writing.
Get cracking!
actually the unique local language is one of the few things I like about this town.
There's a tendency to always spell the word "zinc" in all capital letters too. I'm not sure where that came from but I suspect Horse-Head Industries' old zinc plant in the area (mostly known for poisoning the entire ecosystem of Blue Mountain) has something to do with it.
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Bad Publicity: Reduce the AP of an enemy unit by 5+1d8.
Brisk Cancellation: Target enemy unit's last used ability is negated and cannot be used for the next 3 turns.
I have heard repeatedly that we have family in Japan, but I don't really know anything about them.
I have met several cousins who are Japanese-American, but there are other more distant relatives that are apparently full-blooded and still live there. I've also been told that one's a "priestess", but I'm not sure what to make of that statement.
I'm rambling about stuff again yep.
i've said this before, but i sometimes wish i knew more about my family's history. i don't know who to ask, though.
dude's name is Viktor.
He's numbered too. It's like Viktor VI or something. His full name is ridiculously long.
My family knows how to do one thing well, which is pretend we still live in the middle ages where long-ass names and stupid titles mean stuff.
At some point, as things became more standardized, the overlaps went away entirely. But I have no idea why that decision was made.
also we like to fight over which one of our thirty zillion ancestries is the best.
The people on the far left side of the tree who are Sicilian like to claim they're related to the Gambino crime family, but no one is entirely sure if that's true or not. Meanwhile the Russians, Dutch, and Swedish all like to claim royal descent, the Brits are barely there so I have no idea what they think about anything, the Ukranians hate the Russians and the Germans hate the Dutch. I think the Kenyans and Japanese are probably just confused as to why all the white people are fighting. If they get "confirmed", I'm sure the Jewish portion of our family will do the same.
oh there's like a drop of Navajo in there somewhere because one of our ancestors who used to live in I wanna say Arizona married a native american woman.
Mostly it's the pretention that irks me.
We haven't owned land in the family name for almost 800 years, and there are plenty of people in my family who still like to act that being the Baron-in-Stead-of-the-Queen of god-knows-where, Holland actually means anything. This wouldn't be excusable even if half the titles these people give themselves weren't just straight made-up. (Example: Viktor himself holds the title "Archduke of Aumensberg". Even though there is no such place.)
Even disregarding all of that, some of my ancestors were despicable people. We're talking slave owners and rail barons here. These aren't folks to be emulated, they're to be despised.
afaik my ancestors were mostly English Methodists, but i also have Scottish, Jewish and i think Welsh ancestors if you go back far enough. Even my closer living relatives are scattered all over Great Britain.
my surname is actually French, but for all i know that might have been in the country since the Norman conquest.
My surname is pretty interesting because there are several possible origins for it and none of them mesh well with my family's "official" history.
A lot of my folks would really like us to not be Jewish, unfortunately.
My mom's has roots in Germany
Ouch. :/
i can outdo you there: i am English.
i may have mentioned this before once or twice
Dunno
My dad was born in Texas in 1955 or 1956
Interesting.