• @[email protected]
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    This is also unironically a good way to get more comfortable spontaneously speaking a language you’re learning. Don’t know the word for refrigerator? Cold food box. Don’t know how to say yawn? Tired sound. Etc. You’ll be more or less understandable and people will probably tell you the word you need when they figure out what you mean.

    • Aa!
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      Well if the language is German, there’s probably an 80% chance that you get the right word this way

    • @AngryCommieKender
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      Yep. I don’t speak Spanish. Learned all my extremely limited Spanish in restaurant kitchens. When I walk my dogs, and one of the many Spanish speaking Mexicans that lives nearby looks nervous, I tell them, “Perro es bueno por hombre. Perro es no bueno por otra Perro.” They understand what I mean even though I just butchered that sentence.

  • @hoch
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    A vanilla mocha latte with soy milk is just a 4-bean soup

    • @BertramDitore
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      341 year ago

      Drink it from a cup made of soy paper and you’re still just holding beans.

      • @Donebrach
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        Can’t believe you forgot Lima beans you moron.

      • Blyfh
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        Am I stupid or is the vanilla flavor extracted from the bark of the tree, not some beans? Do vanilla plants even have beans?

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          21 year ago

          Nope, vanilla beans are a thing.

          Maybe you’re thinking of cinnamon, that comes from the bark

          • Blyfh
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            Right, I was thinking of cinnamon. But when I picture vanilla extract, I see this small dry and black stick that doesn’t even resemble a bean.

            • @[email protected]
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              Yeah they are weird beans, more like a pod I guess. But I think the ones you see used for food have been dried. I’m actually not sure what a fresh one looks like

    • @surewhynotlem
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      The ol’ Deviled Creme Egg. Haven’t had one of those since college.

    • @Aceticon
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      I feel you’re underselling our bag of water, organics and calcium sticks nature…

    • Affine Connection
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      That’s more like fish and amphibians. We do things internally.

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      The way transistors and integrated circuits are made is called lithography. Stone scribing. If you describe it that way, electricity sounds like magic.

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        31 year ago

        Magic circle transcribed in nano meter scale sounds even more magical than the magic itself

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      Electronics are magic boxes of poisonous green crackers with black rectangle bugs crawling on them.

  • Afghaniscran
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    World? I think you mean pressurised, life-sustaining, mud, water and rock ball.

    • @Nurse_Robot
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      Gas is mostly derived from bacteria. Something like 10% is from multicellular organisms. Carbon based bacteria was around exponentially longer and made up more biomass

  • @MissJinx
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    If you ever played a survivor game you know. 2 stiks, 1 rope = a Houe

  • FunkyMonk
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    TO Think such a horrible thing would be uttered by a member of my own family…