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by pvaldes 2y ago
Spanish can use four or five dialects, plus Vasque that is a totally different isolated language. But they all talk also bare metal Spanish. Andalusians will change naturally to a more standard and fully intelligible Spanish when talking wi
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by pvaldes 2y ago
The real value of this words are not in their literal meaning. Is an interesting question, in fact When Chileans drop 'weon' ten times in two minutes in their conversations what they are saying is "I'm not Argentinian&q
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by pvaldes 2y ago
"weon" is a corruption of the word "huevón", that means literally "big egg". Is a polysemic word, but when used as adjective means "somebody with big balls"; by extension "somebody that spends th
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by pvaldes 2y ago
There are royal academies in each Spanish speaking country. Is a very old institution that creates diplomatic links and a help net between countries on everything related with the Spanish dictionary. They solve doubts for free, or publish A
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Yup, this is what happens. All the time.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
The royal Academy of Spanish has the mission of promoting language unity, the American vocabulary is huge so a lot of words are really puzzling for people in other countries, but there is a common root that can be used.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
I would suggest replacing 'Ool' by 'origin of life' or even better just 'life' then. Is much easier to understand and it just adds one character to the term
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Ok. What is an Ool?
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by pvaldes 2y ago
The problem with temperature should be technically solvable at small scale. Something like a transparent fridge fueled by a small nuclear reactor that would trigger a thermostat to grant a minimum temperature each night. This could hypothet
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Is not an easy decision. Politicians can be sued if a branch falls over somebody, but can get rid easily of the ten thousands of kills a year by contamination on air and water. Of course somebody being crushed by a tree is a real tragedy, b
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by pvaldes 2y ago
sheep dictatorship basically
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Plant a new tree and then pay air conditioner for 20 years until the tree grows again. Simpler yes; better not so much, if you take in mind all the hidden costs. Of course sometimes the tree is rotten or will fall over your home, and it mus
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by pvaldes 2y ago
And steal of wood. One cubic meter of Cedrus is like 1000 euro in the market. Most owners don't realize that trees had value, and are often tricked to get rid of their "diseased" old cedars with a convenient "free remova
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Hazelnut on cities are mainly from two different species. Corylus avellana is clearly a shrub, even if can grow 6m high with time, and will recover fast from being chopped, but the other species is a tree.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Birds often take a ride or stop to rest for a while, but for insects ships are probably too slow to survive without any food.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Is easy to identify them as that, but Arachnids and antennas are incompatible and Chelicerata (like horseshoe crabs) is the only group bearing chelicera. Crustaceans have two pairs of antennas and different shaped legs. Insects are (almost)
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Just two words to add to this theme: Pantala flavescens
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Was the nut cashew?
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> if you want to prevent cross-contamination, you will need separate set of everything A company could do everything right and still would risk to be destroyed by an angry employee or plain boycott from a competitor. The only safe move i
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> Superheroes are, thankfully, approximately non-existent Not in the American sense, but they have magic potions that give super strength. I suppose that Europe had super-druggos instead.
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by pvaldes 2y ago
And that's a good thing Or maybe people got softer. Do we remember the 90% of time where humans roamed this planet barefoot without painkillers, or healthcare, or a guaranteed source of water that does not carry those roundworm parasit
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by pvaldes 2y ago
If we could only built a 3d printer that would work with keratin...
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> exercise negates all of this... That would be logical taking in mind this article
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by pvaldes 2y ago
But fishing still burns a lot of diesel. If this statistics don't take in account Denmark emissions from activities in the sea or from commerce fleet out of Denmark, they are probably misleading to wrong results. And if we take in acco
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Glaucus atlanticus
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> "The only exception in nature is the obrina olivewing butterfly, which is the only known animal to produce a true blue pigment." That is a bold claim, but a false one. A few butterfly species share that pigment. Mussels also
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> Food which fuels 100% of Denmark’s population causes only 33% of Denmark’s emissions. Are you saying that Danish eat a 0% of fish, seafood and vegetables?
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> Seaweed grows very quickly This is like saying that trees grow quickly. "Seaweed" means thousands of different species. When we see a cluster of seaweeds in a rock some of them are not even in the same kingdom than their neig
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by pvaldes 2y ago
> Ruminant methane output has been reduced by 98.8% with the addition of a compound from seaweed to the animals food I had debunked this yet a lot of times. This is a dead road and will fail. With the current data available is obvious th
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by pvaldes 2y ago
And justifying more than a decade of home arrest to deactivate that tick bomb before the new elections. The man looks 40 years older.

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