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  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoRPGMemes @ttrpg.networkRunes
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    2 months ago

    They have “ray of frost”. They can understand “radiation”. Not necessarily what is radiating but the word itself is old.

    radiation(n.)

    mid-15c., radiacion, “act or process of emitting light,” from Latin radiationem (nominative radiatio) “a shining, radiation,” noun of action from past-participle stem of radiare “to beam, shine, gleam; make beaming,” from radius “beam of light; spoke of a wheel” (see radius).

    Tldr “radiate” is like 1500’s whereas “emitter” is a fairly modern word, from the 1880’s.





  • Imagine having that smart-arse teenager be that annoying for like, a few decades.

    Or just… the emotionality that comes with hormones. Although one would imagine since elves do end up being more wise and whatnot, that they sort of start gathering more wisdom even though it’s slower to start with. As in, they’d be horny like a teenager for a decade or two, but they’d learn to somewhat manage it after the first five years.


  • I have like a huge pile of letters from some twat lawyers sending threatening letters about copyright.

    The sad thing is most people I asked say “I would pay”. This was like more than 10 years ago when I first got some of them.

    The Pirate Party in Finland tried informing people of them being just threats, but Finns are really complicit people and afraid of breaking any rules, so I’m sure these twat lawyers made thousand, tens, maybe even hundreds of thousands. With Finland’s tiny 5m population.

    https://holda.fi/kiristyskirje/

    Basically what happens is some company in Germany which owns the rights to some B-class show or just a porn film even, then they upload it to an open torrent site. Wait for people to download it (remember the didn’t give permission to download it), look at the IP’s, then send the respective country in EU a request for the ISP to get that IP owner’s information and then hire a local lawyer to send them a threatening letter; “you’ve illegally downloaded a porn movie, pay us 800€ or we’ll take you to court and you’ll have to pay tens of thousands.”

    And if that goes to someone married or someone who downloaded fetish porn or something, they’ll be even more likely to pay.

    I never replied or did jack shit. Nothing has happened.









  • Ah, so you don’t understand the misunderstanding, or you’re purposefully using an illfitting word.

    Vaporisers produce vapour.

    VAPOUR:

    Dictionary

    Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more

    noun

    a substance diffused or suspended in the air, especially one normally liquid or solid.

    "dense clouds of smoke and toxic vapour

    Water vapor is the visible part of steam, and for the purposes of this discussion, we’re talking about boiling liquids

    There’s no visible part of steam, despite colloquially people sometimes using language in a way that might make you think there is.

    So why would you insist on using the wrong word after being corrected? (That’s a rhetoric question, because I already know the answer.)


  • Thanks.

    But again, that’s mostly about the flavourings, and the flavourings found specifically in US markets. So that’s more like “the US regulatory framework needs work” and less “vaping is dangerous”.

    Taking a hit from a vape that has no flavourings or nicotine is essentially exactly the same as taking a breath on a dancefloor in a club when the fog-machine is blowing clouds. Literally the same process, just nearer your mouth and smaller.

    That article even says

    *“While there’s little research on the side effects of vaping CBD, some general side effects — which tend to be mild — of CBD use include: irritability, fatigue, nausea and diarrhea.”

    And that’s pretty ridiculous.