If a customer gave me this back to return with all this shit all over it, I’d tell them I couldn’t accept it. This is essentially defacing the mail in my book. I’ll give them a solution to their problem and tell them to remove their mailbox, that way I won’t have to deal with that nutjob anymore.
“Egyptian government know only to well the giants b-… what… Egyptian government know only to well the giants-… the giants built the pyramids- Ohhhh! They know only too* well the big fellas stacked the rocks.”
300 is a lot, this has to have been going on for awhile. Newport news water works is usually pretty understanding about late fees. This could have been going on for months before they suggested cutting his water off.
I mean, yes and no. One of my houses using the bare minimum water to keep the fallow land covering green was about $2k/mo. Average in the winter closer to $100/mo for barely being there. Some places are just stupidly expensive for no reason.
I have since sold that massive stupid house and went elsewhere. And I do not miss it any day of the week.
Forty dollars for what cost 25 just six years ago. Same fucking meals now with added price gouging way in excess of inflation. To top it off they didn’t fill the drinks to the top and only gave us two arbys sauce and one horsey sauce. I haven’t been back in six months and wont be back. It just isn’t worth it when you can get the ingredients for way less.
I literally took Latin in college for the sole reason that Latin is used in super stupid ways, and my science communication degree would be worth less without that knowledge. Because Latin-base is fully half of the science terms you need to know.
And my college was super on board with my reasoning. Wish I’d also had the mental capacity for ancient Greek, because that’s literally the other half of naming schemes.
Ridiculous.
I’m super into modern scientists giving shit pop culture names. Because holy shit is it ever more memorable than some random Latin/greek bullshit.
Strange that ‘classics’ are taught mostly in the poshest schools. It’s rare for elites to want to preserve any power they have and make it inaccessible to oiks. /s
The whole point of using a “dead” language is that languages change over time and scientists once had the foresight to attempt making their works more universal over both multiple languages and over time.
English might change drastically so much that we change words entirely (so old abbreviations don’t match new words), so let’s just go with the guaranteed dead language where abbreviations already don’t line up. Yeah I can’t agree with that logic.
Latin is prelevant but many anatomy terms and conditions are Greek because a lot of the literature first describing conditions and early anatomy was Greek. Heme for blood, dermis for skin, cholecyst(bile bladder) for gallbladder, cyst for bladder ect. Anatomy itself is a word that comes from Greek.
It’s called Sodium in English because an English chemist Sir Humphrey Davy discovered it & named it “Sodium” He was able to isolate it via separation of caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) and therefore named it after the caustic soda “soda-ium”. A few years later, a German chemist (Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert) was able to isolate it and named it “Natronium” Just under a decade later, Jöns Jacob Berzelius coined the term “Natrium” as he felt the name “Natronium” was too lengthy to catch on.
As to exactly why the earlier term was not respected is likely due to nationalism. During the earlier 1800’s a lot of countries were desperately trying to take claim for various rapid advancements in chemistry, physics, mathematics, and medicine. Getting to have the name that “your guy” coined was largely bent around national pride.
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