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Captain Hygiene posted:A fact I learned today on these very forums is that "cenobites" is actually just a general term for members of a particular religious community. So all those weirdos in Hellraiser weren't given a made-up name that sounded cool, it's just an actual term that describes their nature as basically being dimension-traveling monks. Correct, they are the literal opposite of the monks that deny themselves all pleasure, down to being evangelical about it
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Captain Splendid posted:The app icon on my phone for the clock displays the correct time. On my phone, the icon for the Clock app is the only part of the app containing a clock. Within the Clock app, there are timers, alarms, other things, but no clock.
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Oct 24, 2022 17:56
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The calendar app icon also displays the day and date as well. At least on iPhone anyway
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Oh that's funny, I thought folks were talking about iphone stuff but my android clock app's analog clock icon does keep time after all. I have no idea why, since its full digital clock/calendar display is already on the home screen by default so I've never had a reason to even look at the icon before now.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Oh that's funny, I thought folks were talking about iphone stuff but my android clock app's analog clock icon does keep time after all. I have no idea why, since its full digital clock/calendar display is already on the home screen by default so I've never had a reason to even look at the icon before now. I think the only reason is "a software engineer thought it might be cool" which is kind of cute in this era of algorithms and shareholders demanding only the most revenue-generating features. Someone just looked at the icon and noticed that to depict a clock you also must depict a time, and decided that it might as well depict the actual time 
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Sir Lemming posted:I think the only reason is "a software engineer thought it might be cool" which is kind of cute in this era of algorithms and shareholders demanding only the most revenue-generating features. Someone just looked at the icon and noticed that to depict a clock you also must depict a time, and decided that it might as well depict the actual time This happens way more than you might think. Engineers don't tend to be into making exactly what someone else tells them to make, and will absolutely do cool poo poo as a way of pushing back.
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The location of Mt Sinai is known. I had a fair bit of jewish education growing up, so the fact that I never learnt this and never thought to look it up until 10 minutes ago, in my 30s, is a wee bit mind boggling.
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Lady Disdain posted:The location of Mt Sinai is known. The Wikipedia entry says it’s still unknown, and has multiple possible locations.
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Oct 26, 2022 11:40
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Lady Disdain posted:The location of Mt Sinai is known. There is a mountain called, in the present day, Mt Sinai. There is a mountain in the book of Exodus called Mt Sinai. They are not necessarily the same place. Wikipedia lists at least 12 possible candidates for the Exodus Mt Sinai, including the modern Mt Sinai. Personally, it seems to me that the author of the story was clearly talking about an active volcano, which rules out most of the candidates including the modern Mt Sinai; but no one really knows whether that's the case, or even if the authors of Exodus were talking about a real mountain at all. There's lots of stuff like that when it comes to religious history; places that have been "traditionally" identified with places described in holy books but don't necessarily have any evidence behind that claim.
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Oh, well, that's what I get for only giving the wiki entry the most cursory of glances. That's basically what I'd been assuming until now. Thanks.
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It took me over 30 years to figure out that shampoo needs a lot of water to lather up properly. I was able to better than halve my shampoo consumption by just adding more water.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:It took me over 30 years to figure out that shampoo needs a lot of water to lather up properly. I was able to better than halve my shampoo consumption by just adding more water. I'm not 100% on this, but I read somewhere that bubbles don't actually do anything. It doesn't mean that lathering doesn't do anything, just that the bubbles you get from lathering soaps and such are mostly for show, the result of added chemicals that just produce bubbles, and are at best an indicator that you've lathered properly.
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doctorfrog posted:I'm not 100% on this, but I read somewhere that bubbles don't actually do anything. It doesn't mean that lathering doesn't do anything, just that the bubbles you get from lathering soaps and such are mostly for show, the result of added chemicals that just produce bubbles, and are at best an indicator that you've lathered properly. Eh... More that suds alone won't clean because they don't have enough water. Soaps make water softer, to get "between" the contamination and the surface being cleaned.
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The foaming effect does make it easier to get coverage of whatever you're washing. Especially for hair, it's handy.
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Oct 29, 2022 19:38
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I just wish it were real poo. I'm worth it!
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doctorfrog posted:I'm not 100% on this, but I read somewhere that bubbles don't actually do anything. It doesn't mean that lathering doesn't do anything, just that the bubbles you get from lathering soaps and such are mostly for show, the result of added chemicals that just produce bubbles, and are at best an indicator that you've lathered properly. Soap forms bubbles dude.
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That's a sure fact, ant!
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Baron von Eevl posted:Soap forms bubbles dude.
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poo poo ya got me
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zedprime posted:Oh yeah then explain noted not-soap, toothpaste. I like cats!
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zedprime posted:Oh yeah then explain noted not-soap, toothpaste. They add soap so it makes bubbles. Is the soap doing something to help? Probably not, and it makes things worse for some people.
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Lady Disdain posted:The location of Mt Sinai is known. Slightly related, Mount Olympus is a real place, and Psychro Cave (where Zeus was born) is real too.
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Raised on a mountain, born in a cave, lightning and loving is all that Zeus craves
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Brawnfire posted:cave [...] craves You can do better than this.
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I only found out about a week ago that when the Romans were coming up with gods they just took Zeus as father of the gods, which I knew, but the name I hadn't thought about: Zeus the father -> Zeus pater -> Jupiter.
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doctorfrog posted:I'm not 100% on this, but I read somewhere that bubbles don't actually do anything. It doesn't mean that lathering doesn't do anything, just that the bubbles you get from lathering soaps and such are mostly for show, the result of added chemicals that just produce bubbles, and are at best an indicator that you've lathered properly. You don't even need shampoo or soap to clean your hair properly! I went about two years without using shampoo, only conditioner. White girl wavy hair. I use shampoo bars now for convenience. The Curly Girl Method works really well but Lorraine Massey is a hack who likes to find ingredients to ban so she can sell her own brand of haircare, which coincidentally don't use that particular ingredient! So you have to be a bit selective about who you believe.
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credburn posted:You can do better than this. Perhaps I don't want to
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Unkempt posted:I only found out about a week ago that when the Romans were coming up with gods they just took Zeus as father of the gods, which I knew, but the name I hadn't thought about : They didn't take it from Greek, but multiple cultures have a "sky father" god. Ancient Hinduism has Dyauspitar
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Unkempt posted:I only found out about a week ago that when the Romans were coming up with gods they just took Zeus as father of the gods, which I knew, but the name I hadn't thought about : And Zeus is cognate with Deus.
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And "Deus" is cognate with "dies/diem" (day) So then you get Thursday, which in most Romance languages is "Jupiter's day" Giovedi, jeudi, jueves, dijous etc Go far back enough and Thursday is "sky sky"
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Captain Splendid posted:And "Deus" is cognate with "dies/diem" (day) Except our weekdays are named for norse gods. Thursday is Thor's Day.
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RFC2324 posted:Except our weekdays are named for norse gods. Thursday is Thor's Day. Anglo-saxon gods, technically, but they're the same ones the romans syncretised with their own. Tyw - Mars Wodan - Mercury Thor - Jupiter Frigga - Venus And also Just Saturn because why not I guess
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RFC2324 posted:Except our weekdays are named for norse gods. Thursday is Thor's Day. Yeah. Someone was like: "Oh, your thunder god is Jupiter? Ok, I guess it's Thor's Day then" Guess what etymology of Tiw for Tuesday is, though.
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Captain Splendid posted:Yeah. Someone was like: Oh duh, I completely misread your OP as saying we somehow linguistically got from jupiter to thursday, my bad
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The versions of Dead Man's Party and several other Oingo Boingo songs I'm most familiar with are live (well, live in-studio) performances and the album versions are
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The studio recording of Bob Seger's "Turn the Page" sounds real bland and lifeless.
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Same for the studio take of I Want You To Want Me.
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Captain Splendid posted:Yeah. Someone was like: Wouldn't that be Wednesday though. sky father gods and all?
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Well drat, you're right! Better go back to the 9th century and let Egbert of Wessex know, he won't want to look silly
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Trabant posted:Wouldn't that be Wednesday though. sky father gods and all? no because it was done from the roman understanding, and the romans generally equated odin to mercury (travel, magic) despite his being the father of the gods--they just figured "oh, the germans hold mercury as their highest god"
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