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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (7 children)

What does this mean?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You had to go out of your way for that. Not common sense. It's still not water.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My definition is that if it's something that common sense would call water, it's water. This is the simple trick that defeats all stupid questions.

In your example, brine isn't water because it's brine, you even said that in the example.

And if you add food dye to a glass of water, it's water but colored. Even with you yourself wrote the example implying that it should be water.

The oil with chalk emulsified in water has nothing to do with milk, what does it matter that it looks like milk. And as you yourself implied, it should not be considered water, but an emulsion of stuff.

And notice how I avoided talking percentages, I simply questioned your own common sense. You didn't even think about it, and yet your common sense made the solution clear in your examples.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

But even a genie can't replace the water in milk with milk because it doesn't make sense, so that cannot be the genie's interpretation of the wish

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If I recall correctly, there's a feature request for that open somewhere

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Zelenskyj and Beppe Grillo's "moVimento 5 stelle"

I guess there's at least three... Huh

P.s. for a left-wing party this PARTEI thing you speak of has the most right-wing name I've ever heard

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is there a scientific way to prove this? Or am I to just trust your words?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I can think of at least two times a European comedian founded a party and the party won the elections.

Which isn't much but it's weird it happened twice

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

Today I discovered a new website

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Cool game, would recommend

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

Anyone who's a bit inquisitive about what words means will notice that "transform" means "changing shape", and that the teeth that look like dog fangs are called "canines". At that point, "caniformia" obviously means "dog-shaped".

Specialistic terms don't need to be easy for the layman, but to be explicative for the specialist. I can say that "a complete lattice is the generalisation of the power set of some domain" which is a phrase composed entirely of English words but if you haven't studied anything about abstract algebra you don't knkw what it means, but that is a phrase made for math students, not for any random guy.

Also those Latin terms are literally international terms, a Russian biologist will say "Canis lupus" to an Icelandic biologist and they will understand. So you really have nothing to complain about. Just be glad that Linnaeus used an agnostic language for international terminology instead of using his native language (Swedish) like the anglophones do.

P.s. you know that Mussolini had all commonly used foreign words and names translated to Italian? And to this day Italian children don't study Francis Bacon and René Descartes, but Francesco Bacone and Renato Cartesio.

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