cazssiew

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s actually not true, ‘ground apple’ is a common name for different sorts of tubers in a number of different languages, going back to the latin ‘malum terrae’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Complex Creation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The inability to use words to say stupid shit does confer a certain air of wisdom, however.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft develops ultra durable glass plates that can store several TBs of data for 10000 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the blade runner sequel had something like this too.