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  • Stern@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/…/Toy_Biz,_Inc._v._United_States

    Also the X-men aren’t human. Kinda makes the court system feel like the baddies tho

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Is there even a botanical definition of vegetables?

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  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Fruit the botanical term and fruit the culinary term are just not the same word. Similarly to how theory means something different in science and in colloquial speech. That’s just how language works.

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    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨52⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      More people ought to learn about the programming language concept of namespaces. Generalize from that and you realize that every domain of discourse has its own namespace of words that have different meanings from those same words outside the domain.

      My favourite is math which has loads of wonderfully generic-sounding terms such as rational, irrational, radical, real, imaginary, complex, group, ring, field, category, set, operator, element, and unit which all have radically different meanings from the everyday senses of those words.

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Okay, but the ruling is totally sensible inasmuch as it applies to ā€œpurposes of tariffs, imports and customsā€. Tomatoes by and large aren’t being imported for their botanical value; they’re being used for food. This ruling exists so corporations can’t ā€œum ackshuallyā€ their way out of paying their fair share.

    But that’s too sensinle; in reality, this unanimous ruling that I never bothered to spend five seconds researching independently (I am very intellectually superior) was just ā€œle Americans uneducated ecksdeeā€.

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    • oo1@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      ā€˜Fruit de la mere’ is obviously just some attempted tax dodge.

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  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Botanically, sure, but from a culinary perspective they’re used like a vegetable.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      As they say, intelligence is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

      (That’s the saying, but IMO it’s wisdom to know and intelligence to not do it, maybe I’m mixing things up).

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      • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨43⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Knowledge and wisdom is the one I’ve heard before.

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    • just2look@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t think vegetable is a botanical term. So fruit and vegetable aren’t really mutually exclusive.

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      • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah I mean, mushrooms get lumped into the vegetable category most of the time and they’re a fungus!

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    • Gyroplast@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s just science as applied by engineers.

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