ilinamorato
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- Comment on kingdom come 2 days ago:
I only have the most pedestrian understanding of the IPA from a single class in college (which was a long time ago), so I’ll admit I just grabbed the IPA for “fruit,” “vegetable,” and “fudge” to bridge between the two. It looks good enough to my eyes to be at least reasonable.
- Comment on kingdom come 3 days ago:
Ah, once again, nature refuses to be easily categorized! Thanks.
- Comment on kingdom come 3 days ago:
The culinary classifications have no scientific basis, but they do have an anthropological basis. They’re not completely meaningless.
Who is “we”?
I was basing that on a misunderstanding: I thought that the word “vegetation” being an archaic term meant that it was no longer used, but yeah, I was incorrect there. I appreciate the correction.
- Comment on kingdom come 3 days ago:
I am actually…kind of just like this at parties. So, you be the judge.
- Comment on kingdom come 3 days ago:
Excellent to hear. That’s what I was hoping for!
- Comment on kingdom come 3 days ago:
I’m so glad that this problem isn’t just limited to English.
- Comment on kingdom come 3 days ago:
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
A properly grown tomato absolutely can be so flavorful, sweet, tangy, varied, complex… that you could just eat it like an apple.
I am sad to say that, although I’ve heard of this, I have never had the pleasure of eating such a tomato.
Finally, to throw more insanity on this terminology dumpster fire…
Corn.
As a native son of Indiana, I have to say that’s the thing that breaks pretty much all of my categories. I lived the first twenty years of my life thinking that it qualified nutritionally (ugh, that’s another part of this terminology dumpster fire…the food pyramid. shudder) as a vegetable, which it…doesn’t really.
So… ketchup… is then roughly a tomato/corn smoothie, made primarily from two… frui-getables.
Great point. “Tomato smoothie” is already a term that makes me feel a little bit queasy, but adding in the corn…
Fruigetable.
Beautiful. fɹud͡ʒ.tə.bəl, I think, incidentally.
- Comment on kingdom come 3 days ago:
Oh dang, I hadn’t even considered that! I wonder if that’s the same across all fruits we tend to eat raw.
- Comment on kingdom come 3 days ago:
Awesome, thank you for the correction. I appreciate your expert review!
- Comment on kingdom come 4 days ago:
Oh–and thanks! I think that’s praise, at least.
- Comment on kingdom come 4 days ago:
Alas, it’s all me. I…tend to be a bit verbose.
- Comment on kingdom come 4 days ago:
Definitely interesting. I wonder if there might also be a little bit to the fact that botanical fruits are basically just the best way to house seeds so that they’ll have some energy to grow when planted, which means that it’s independently evolved in a lot of different plants; so the culinary diversity of “fruits” is much greater.
- Comment on kingdom come 4 days ago:
The whole fruit/vegetable controversy only comes because we’re trying to use two different domains of terms interchangeably: botanical terms and culinary terms.
Tomatoes (and squash, and pumpkins (which, side note, are a type of squash), and cucumbers) are botanically fruits, but culinarily they’re most commonly used as vegetables because they tend to be less sweet, particularly when raw. Mushrooms are botanically…well, I guess they’re botanically “n/a”, as they’re not a part of the plantae kingdom, but whatever–they’re typically considered botanical, so they’re “botanically” fungi, but culinarily they’re most commonly used as vegetables (or, interestingly, as meat replacements).
We get into the same linguistic confusion when we start throwing around “peanuts aren’t nuts, they’re legumes!”–botanically, yes, peanuts are legumes, but culinarily they’re most commonly used as nuts. See also: “green beans” are botanically pods, not beans, but we use them culinarily as vegetables; and many “berries” are botanically something else but we use them culinarily as berries; meaning they’re often left whole, mixed with other berries in the same dish, and go well with cream in cold summer desserts.
The whole thing is a misguided exercise in pedantry; “technically burritos aren’t sandwiches, they’re meat-sacks!” They’re both, and we instinctively understand that trying to compare the two terms is silly because “sandwich” is a culinary term and “sack” is not.
Another funny part of this is that pedants are trying to say that tomatoes are (botanically) fruits and not vegetables, but the closest thing to a definition we have for “vegetable” botanically is “literally all plant life and maybe also some fungi,” so tomatoes are clearly both fruit and vegetable botanically. Plus, they’re culinarily used as vegetables, but can also be used as fruits in some cakes, pies, sorbets, and so forth (and isn’t ketchup just a tomato smoothie?), so tomatoes are clearly both fruit and vegetable in culinary terms as well.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 1 week ago:
Yep. There was one on the Sunday comics page every week when I was a kid, and I learned how to do it then. I never understood the people who can’t do it, or thought it was fake.
- Comment on Minecraft Creator Says That If Buying a Game Is Not a Purchase, Then Pirating It Is Not Theft 2 weeks ago:
Well, what do you know, even a racist clock is white twice a day.
- Comment on My spoon is too big. 2 weeks ago:
Heh. Vine.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know where you get the idea that that’s what I was saying here. I was talking about Trump supporters, and I don’t think many of them are Democrats.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 2 weeks ago:
No, there are at least two other types:
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The uninformed. Keep in mind that the vast majority of people in the US are completely uninformed about any of this. I’ll regularly see posts by people who I think of as more or less intelligent and aware of world events who will nonetheless be completely in the dark about what Trump is up to.
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The propagandized. There are a ton of people for whom the anti-Democrat propaganda has worked, and who will “hold their nose” and vote against the person they’ve been told is a baby-killer or whatever. They don’t support Trump in everything he does, but they’d rather him than someone who wants to put political dissidents in a gulag. They don’t see the irony now, because the propaganda doesn’t tell them about CECOT.
I also am fully willing to believe that there are others who aren’t against or for him, but they definitely aren’t particularly loud.
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- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 2 weeks ago:
have you seen any Trump fans start to come around at all?
I have, but it’s not exactly common. And it doesn’t always change their minds entirely.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You misunderstand me, as the other comment notes. I’m talking about actual change: “The New Deal,” capitalized: the relief, reform, and recovery of the 1930s, not “the new deal,” lowercase, that they just passed.
- Comment on Which one are you? 2 weeks ago:
Chaotic Good. Though more often I’m a “ride-it-into-the-corral” guy.
- Comment on Which one are you? 2 weeks ago:
OP is saying that they like to zip-tie the cart, not that it’s in any of the images; and they’re asking what alignment that would fall under.
- Comment on Which one are you? 2 weeks ago:
Karma is typically connected to Lawful Neutral.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Well, it’s either that or American Revolution II: Electric Boogaloo, so I hope so too.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
it’s never getting back to port
In the event of an actual crash, a lot of these “nevers” will get re-evaluated. The New Deal consisted of a lot of “nevers” that all got passed because people didn’t want a repeat of the first Great Depression; I’d expect a similar snap-back after the second Gilded Age finally burns itself out.
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I guess that’s pretty subjective overall. In any case, they’re not so great now.
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 5 weeks ago:
Ok, I’m not familiar enough with any of those to know what that means in this context. But in any case, weren’t his contributions to those games all ages ago? M&M in particular came out almost 30 years ago, right?
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 5 weeks ago:
WotC was already pretty awful before the Hasbro acquisition, as I recall.
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 5 weeks ago:
People have been complaining about WotC’s executive meddling in D&D and MTG for as long as I can remember, since before the 1999 Hasbro purchase. D&D 3e, mostly written after WotC acquired TSR but published shortly after Hasbro acquired WotC, was panned so badly that they dropped 3.5 just a couple years later. And 4e (including the first OGL fiasco) happened when Hasbro didn’t care about WotC because they were all-in on the Michael Bay Transformers movie. In fact, up until Stranger Things and Critical Role, Hasbro seems to have considered WotC the “Magic: The Gathering Money Printer” and done most of their meddling on that side of the house.
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 5 weeks ago:
How much do we actually know about what Crawford is like outside of the WotC machine? He might be perfectly competent but held back by executive mismanagement.