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Dunno in Brazil as a whole but at least in my city, school uniforms are default. They’re simply taken for granted, not a “conservative vs. liberal” matter. Each school picks its own, but it usually boils down to a shirt, baggy pants, and a jacket (most schools cut you some slack on really cold days to swap it with a warmer one).
Glacial = anhydrous. People call it this way because pure acetic acid has a rather high freezing point (16°C), and it looks a lot like plain ice when frozen. (It still stinks vinegar once you open the bottle though.) But once you add even a bit of water, the freezing point drops considerably, so acetic acid solutions don’t show the same “ice”.
So in colder days, you need to rewarm it back into a liquid. Then people get really sloppy (I know it not just from that professor’s anecdote, but from watching it). They say “I’m just rewarming it, and it’s just acetic acid, what could go wrong?”. Well, it’s still a big flask of a corrosive, volatile, and flammable substance.
In the meantime, the same people doing dangerous reactions like nitration (it literally explodes if you let it get too hot - spreading nitric acid, sulphuric acid, and some carcinogenic solvent) “miraculously” pay full attention, obsessively taking care of the temperature of the ice bath.
Part of the advice that I mentioned in that comment chain is that - smaller dangers are still dangers, do not underestimate them.
Long story short: someone else’s advice ITT reminded me a uni professor talking about a student hurting themself with glacial acetic acid. That reminded me how often I’m using alcohol vinegar for cleaning (alcohol vinegar is basically one part of glacial acetic acid for 24 parts of water), but I don’t see people doing it often - instead they often buy expensive cleaning agents that they use everywhere as “magical” solutions.
Most “rules of thumb” become awful advice when used indiscriminately.
People assign slightly different meanings to the same words. You need to acknowledge this to understand what they say.
Words also change meaning depending on the context.
When you still don’t get what someone else said, it’s often more useful to think that you’re lacking a key piece of info than to assume that the other person does.
Hell is paved with good intentions. This piece of advice is popular, but still not heard enough.
Related to the above: if someone in your life is consistently rushing towards conclusions, based on little to no information, minimise the impact of that person in your life.
Have at least one recipe using leftovers of other recipes. It’ll reduce waste.
Alcohol vinegar is bland, boring, and awful for cooking. But it’s a great cleaning agent.
Identify what you need to keep vs. throw away. Don’t “default” this indiscriminately, analyse it on a per case basis.
The world does not revolve around your belly button and nature won’t “magically” change because of your feelings.
You can cultivate herbs in a backyard. No backyard? Flower pots. No flower pots? Old margarine pot. (Check which herbs grow well where you live.)
It’s Latin and it says we must all die
There’s no “must”: it states for a fact that you’re to die, not that you should/need/must.
A rough translation would be “remember that you’ll die”, or “remember that you are to die” (keeping the infinitive). Or even “remember death”, it’s close enough in spirit.
fons: egomet, latine loquor.
I usually twist this into “memento mori, quoque uiuere” (remember [that you’ll] die, also [that you’ll] live).
Like, not trying to become worm food full of regrets is nice and dandy, but remember that you’ll suffer the consequences of a few of your actions while you’re still alive.
Another from chemistry: “small dangers are still dangers, don’t underestimate them”.
This was in my first uni. The person saying that mentioned how he never saw students harming themselves with cyanide, nitration solutions (sulphuric+nitric - highly corrosive and explosive) or the likes. No, it was always with dumb shit like glacial acetic acid skin burns, or a solvent catching fire.
Not common in general usage nowadays. Perhaps it avoided the shift?
PEBKAC
Every time that I see this acronym I’m tempted to pronounce it as ['rʲefkas], then I remember “ah, it isn’t Cyrillic”.
Isn’t lol short for “laughing out loud”?
Wiktionary lists both “laughing out loud” and “lots of laughs”. Nowadays though it’s neither; on a pragmatic level it doesn’t convey “I’m laughing” / “I laughed”, it conveys amusement and/or lack of seriousness, depending on the context.
I don’t even recall pronouncing it in loud voice. In English I simply say “what you see is what you get”, and in Portuguese or Italian I rephrase it. (Although I remember at least one person calling it ['vizi 'vige] in Portuguese. And I was, like… “what?”)
What else is it supposed to be?
Mine are “lol” and “lmao”. I get what they originally meant, and I get why most people use them nowadays. It’s just that they often signal “I have nothing to contribute, but still expect people to read my crap”.
As a second (third?) place, “WYSIWYG”. If you’re going to coin such verbose acronym, might as well sub it with an actual word, like, dunno, “transparent”.
EDIT - “lol” = “lots of laughs”, “lmao” = “laughing my arse off”, “WYSIWYG” = “what you see is what you get”.
EDIT2: as another poster correctly pointed out, “lol” also originally meant “laughing out loud”. Perhaps even more than “lots of laughs”.
It’s used so frequently for offences that I’m not surprised at that.
Your version of the 8th would literally undo all religion
It would undo the myths, I think. Morality and religious practices might survive depending on how much they rely on said myths.
and a bit of science
It would perhaps demote a lot of theories back to hypotheses, but that’s actually good IMO. A good scientist should embrace the doubt and treat it as a respectable enemy, not hide from it like a catfish in the mud.
The five missing ones are:
Bonus: the original version of the 8th was
The current 8th (Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour) is a forgery. Some assumer got called out over and over because of the older 8th, since he really liked to make shit up, so he restricted it into near uselessness. Source: I’m Lucifer, I know it. :^)
I meant “decrypted”, not “decompiled”. (When I wrote the above I was sleep-deprived.)
I mostly pick visual novels apart, to know how to reach one or another specific route. From that I’m somewhat used to read Python code - or at least Ren’Py code.
Given that I stole this from a programming community, it shouldn’t be too far off from true.
(Caveat lector: I’m not in the IT industry but I’m often messing with bash scripts and decompiled python code.)
Create your account through old.reddit.com; when it asks you for an email, simply press “next”. And, if you need an e-mail provider for some other reason, protonmail.com doesn’t ask you for your phone number.
That said do you really need a reddit account?
No, but simply looking for something and then remembering that it doesn’t exist makes me feel stupid.