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  • psud@aussie.zonetoThe Far Side@sh.itjust.works28 January 2025
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    22 hours ago

    Interesting that your pronunciation is listed as predominantly US, but Larson lives and lived in Washington state and pronounces it the way I and presumably the rest of the Commonwealth do

    Neither of us can say the other is mispronouncing the word, it is said both ways

    How did we get that way of saying it? The French version of the word has a circumflex over the e (crêpe) I’m not up on French pronunciation but I suppose that influenced how it was pronounced in English

    Edit to add: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crêpe#French

    The French pronunciation




  • psud@aussie.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzGTFO
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    6 days ago

    For those who don’t know, the green end of the spectrum has more power than the red end. It can push electrons, make chemistry happen, and damage cells.

    Red light is so low energy you can use it as a safe light when working with black and white film

    The colour of light that can give you a tan or turn cholesterol to vitamin D is ultra violet, further to the green end than green or even blue


  • psud@aussie.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzGTFO
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    6 days ago

    Plants managed to use their ability to pull carbon out of the air to kill almost everything else alive at the time

    They pull out carbon from carbon dioxide, and dump the oxygen*

    Which turned out ok. It’s called the great oxygenation crisis

    *That which they don’t use, I don’t know if they used it back then





  • psud@aussie.zonetoMemes@lemmy.ml*Sheeple* (updated)
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    7 days ago

    America is doing something wrong to have so many fail to vote

    Australia has 90 to 95% voter turnout

    We hold elections on weekends

    We use a single transferable vote, so you can safely vote for who you actually support

    We have a rule that you must vote, enforced by a tiny fine