Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years

• Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Okay, let’s start with Helium (named after the sun)

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s a celestial object, not a place. The sun is traveling at 230 km/s around the galaxy. It’s not a “place.”

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    • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The sun is a place. The moon is a place. Earth is a place. A specific location on the earth is also a place.

      Anything you insert into a sentence describing the origin point of something traveling is a place.

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      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Okay, then how about renaming every element that’s named after a nation-state?

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