lvxferre

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 13 hours ago

It's more complicated than that — there are two partially overlapping bundles of meaning associated with the word "fruit":

  1. botanical fruit: a part of the plant that contrasts with "stem", "leaf", "root", etc.
  2. culinary fruit: a role for things that are often eaten raw, or cooked for sweet dishes; typically sweet, at most sour. Opposed to "vegetable", "legume", "starch", "dairy", "meat" etc.

Those bundles of meaning could be associated with different words*, but in English they happen to be associated with the same word.

So. Tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers etc. are botanical fruits (sense #1), but they are not culinary fruits (sense #2). With strawberries and rhubarbs being kind of the opposite: culinary-wise they're treated as fruits, but one is a receptacle and the other a petiole (leaf stem).

*Portuguese splits both into "fruto" and "fruta" respectively.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

By "associated" I mean "named after it". This is clear by context given OP is asking about "veggie-fructose" and "vructose", as if you got some substance out there named after vegs.

And yes, as my answer shows it, I am aware vegetables often contain fructose.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago

Mon français était bon... il y a 20? 15? ans. Aujourd'hui, me souviens pas merde.

Trying to use French to guess how to spell it and I end with "bourgoisie". Because then PT/IT start interfering and the word has /g/ in both, not /dʒ/ or /ʒ/. At least they force me to remember the "r", since I don't use it in English (non-rhotic accent).

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I still try to use it, but most of the time because I'm mind translating burguesia/borghesia into English. Then I see some red line below the word, and immediately regret it, as my French is simply too rusty to even remember how to pronounce it.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 22 hours ago

My Gen3 strategy is similar, but using Spore (sleep) instead of Thunder Wave. Breloom, Parasect, Smeargle all learn that combo. I like to use Smeargle with Thief as it doubles to farm junk like shards and whatnot.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Is that initial zero a typo? I'm asking that because #0F0000 is practically black; by "dark red" people typically refer to colours around #7F0000, with a seven.

Either way, see picture:

The colours in the second and third columns are 1/2 and 1/16 the value of the first. The fourth column is black for comparison. This was done by linear equivalence, not perceptual equivalence, so the oranges will look a bit brighter than the red.

I've included two oranges there; middle row is what I learned to be orange (1 part red, 1 part yellow), and bottom row is what CSS calls orange (1 part red, 1.8 parts yellow).

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Bingo. The whole "a=b" is just a distraction to hide it, otherwise as soon as you hit the third step you cancel both out, and end with 0=0.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I understood it as "is there a sugar associated with vegetables, like fructose is associated with fruits?".

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Carrots do have free fructose, but most of their sweetness is from sucrose. This table for example lists 0.8% fructose, 2.7% sucrose.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 6 points 2 days ago

Not really. But some vegs are high on fructose; such as onions (2% fructose by weight).

This sort of chemical substance is often named after where people found it first, but that doesn't mean you'll only find it in that place. Lactic acid is named after milk, but you'll find plenty in sauerkraut; malic acid after apples, but you'll find it in rhubarb too; taurine is named after bulls, but you'll find it in every meat; and so goes on.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 7 points 2 days ago

If your ball is too big for your mouth, it's not yours. ...oh wait this is not my teaching, this is Dog of Wisdom's.

Jokes aside, be extremely careful towards people:

  • who treat the dubious as certain
  • who insist after hearing a clear "no"
  • who assume you're ignorant so they can voice advice or even interfere on what you're doing

Those people usually cause more harm than good, regardless of their "intentions".

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 23 points 3 days ago

Birds in the genus Turdus totally deserve the name. They're like:

  • "Look! Cat food! Yummy!"
  • "Why are there cats here? FLY AWAY!"
  • "Why is the air solid? Perhaps if I hit it over and over I'll fly past it!"

Every single time this happened I managed to save the turd (they should be glad one of my cats is senile and the other overweight), but then the laundry room is full of turd turds and feathers and my cats spend hours looking for the missing bird.

(inb4 yes, "thrush". Fuck it, I'm still calling them "turds". Turdus rufiventris, aka rust-bellied turds.)

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