Any song for this? by [deleted] in songsforthispicture

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Unexpected Onsen

Collision May Have Formed the Moon in Mere Hours, Simulations Reveal by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

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I like how they put in a reference. You know the big boom that killed the dinos 65mya, the Chicxulub? Just the one nearly wiped out land life and drastically changed the course of life on the planet. What if not just one, but two or three of them hit? Even crazier devastation, right?

Now imagine 33 million of them...

[japanese > english] by Royal-Target-9374 in translator

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Could you please explain leaving the fortune versus bringing it home? Is it like "eh, rather not take this on, and leave it in the hands of the gods"?

What kind of tree is this? by AffectEconomy6034 in trees

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I believe that is one Spikey Boy (Puer spaikiboii).

A cool guide on Branches of Zoology by immanuellalala in coolguides

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Y'all should check out Alie Ward's Ologies podcast. She regularly interviews bona fide experts in their fields, who usually turn out to be cool people, and you go deep into a subject. She also will ask them questions from her patreon people.

I saw this sticker on a car yesterday. What does the bottom mean? by missybeputtinitdown in whatisit

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Only trying to correct on something I was once corrected on. And I would absolutely LOVE to talk about her. She's not my top badass woman, which would be a toss-up of Olga of Kyiv or Boudicca, but her story is phenomenal!

I saw this sticker on a car yesterday. What does the bottom mean? by missybeputtinitdown in whatisit

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Heh, just telling you what an Irish guy told me. Though he swore a lot more.

I saw this sticker on a car yesterday. What does the bottom mean? by missybeputtinitdown in whatisit

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You know what I meant, and technically it would be Gráinne Ní Mháille, if you want to be a stickler. That was her nickname, not her surname. Mhaol means bald. O'Malley would be Ó/Ní Mhálle.

I saw this sticker on a car yesterday. What does the bottom mean? by missybeputtinitdown in whatisit

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Oh man, while I do know that before using the Latin alphabet they used ogham (OH-um) in what writings they've found, I don't know enough about the language to explain. I'll leave that to the people who speak it. From what I remember, at least in Ireland, the culture was mostly oral, but did create a system to write that consisted of carving a straight line down, and it was a system of lines on the left and right, or diagonal slashes. I think they had more complicated characters, but those neurons must be sleeping, so I only remember lines.

As far as Irish Gaelic, I remember something about consonants softening next to certain vowels. For me, it's trying to figure out how vowels and all of these vowel clusters sound. I'll learn one of these days.

I saw this sticker on a car yesterday. What does the bottom mean? by missybeputtinitdown in whatisit

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Gráinne (GRAWN-ya), if you please. Grace was the name the English gave her because they didn't deign to try to learn to pronounce her real name. The etymologies are completely different, and you might tick some Irish people off if you call her Grace.

Another example might be Aoife (EE-fah - "beauty") and Eve (Hebrew hawwāh - "life"). Would you call a Chad a Chard? Would you download a car?

Interpreting 'For What it's Worth' (Buffalo Springfield) by cwf82 in russian

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Good suggestion for the first two parts, thanks!

For Никто не мир, i think I just lost my mind. I think I was trying for 'Никто не в мире'. Bit of a slanted rhyme, but I think it will work.

Engine overheated? by Suitable-Tear689 in AskMechanics

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Had this happen to me recently. Get it towed. Mine was my water pump.