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Quilotoa

@ Quilotoa @lemmy.ca

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  • What is the most confusing misnomer you've seen?

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  • My problem is with the word soup. Scientists don't call today's ocean a soup and it has many times more compounds, materials, and living matter.

  • Anyone else tired of guessing at how to make life better for a majority of people like its your personal life mission or something?

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  • No need to guess. For the average world citizen, most quality of life metrics have been on a constant upward trend since WW2.

  • What is the most confusing misnomer you've seen?

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  • Primodial soup. It was perfectly sterile. No organic matter in it. (didn't exist yet.) Today's oceans are wet cement in comparison.

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    How Dorothy's (The Wizard of Oz) house came to be lifted up by a cyclone.

    ozmuseum.com /blogs/news/we-must-be-up-inside-the-cyclone

  • TIL that for the average price of a car in the US, you could buy 5 cars in China

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  • Cheaper labour in China. High tariffs imposed by the U.S. (when the parts and materials that come into the U.S. are tariffed, the price is passed on to the consumer.)

  • Trump plans long term blockade golf of Hormuz.

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  • He must be T-ied off.

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    An integrated approach

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Odisha: Outrage after man carries sister's skeleton to bank to prove her death

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/clypl5jrjqlo
  • Lemmy Be Wholesome @lemmy.world
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    Saskaskechwan tow truck driver rescues moose trapped in ice

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/saskatchewan/tow-truck-driver-rescues-moose-trapped-in-ice-9.7180811

  • What are some words where the "opposite" one means the same thing?

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  • Yeah, right.

  • Poorest Areas in England See ‘Healthy Life Expectancy’ Drop by 20 Years

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  • What's the criteria for being deemed healthy?

  • A woman fainted and fell on to the baggage carousel at the airport...

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  • If she died, she might be carrion.

  • Poorest Areas in England See ‘Healthy Life Expectancy’ Drop by 20 Years

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  • What is Healthy Life Expectancy? The article doesn't say what it is, how it was measured, or show the statistics.

  • pics @lemmy.world
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    Only a few small floes of ice still on the lake.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Japan Airlines trials humanoid robots as ground handlers

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cpwp87j1llvo
  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    Swiss canton votes with a show of hands. Many people bring swords.

    www.france24.com /en/live-news/20260427-swiss-canton-votes-with-centuries-old-show-of-hands
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    Canada geese flying across the lake.

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  • Top is 1/4 inch ash. He used a scroll saw for the little cutouts. Second is shapes cut out, painted, then glued onto a backing.

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  • Yeah. I've started taking care of myself know that this body might have to do me for a long time. He's also still doing woodworking. Makes amazing stuff.

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  • My dad is 98 and he started dating an 82-year-old. It seems to be going really well. She can't drive and he still does so that probably increased his appeal.

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  • What's a phone bad book?

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL the word "crap" predated the inventions of Thomas Crapper by many years. His name was a happy coincidence.

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Crapper
  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    The Good Werewolf

    www.amusingplanet.com /2026/04/thiess-of-kaltenbrun-benevolent-werewolf.html

  • Why do we have alcohol advertisements. We don't allow cigarettes to advertise

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  • Cigarettes cause more deaths: 8 million per year compared to 2.8 million per year. Not disagreeing with you, just pointing out why perhaps there are more lenient rules.

  • The World Only Showing Countries Based On Share of Immigrants - Brilliant Maps

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  • I think we're around 20 %.

  • Both sides of Niagara Falls.

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  • The Canadian side looks a lot happier.

  • Out of the bathroom you’re American in the bathroom what are you ?

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  • Himalayan

  • TIL steak Canadian was not invented in Canada and almost no one in Canada knows what it is.

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  • I was wondering that. It looks a bit like it.

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    The strange tale of Shakespear's skull

    www.narratively.com /p/564674f3-0e09-4e83-9682-cd5f61c0ea6d
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL there was such a thing as lumberjack sandals.

    www.lib.uidaho.edu /digital/plcphotos/items/plcphotos433.html
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL steak Canadian was not invented in Canada and almost no one in Canada knows what it is.

    www.cbc.ca /radio/asithappens/steak-canadian-9.7176475
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Trump offers immediate tariff relief to Canadian aluminum and steel companies that commit to U.S. expansion

    www.cbc.ca /news/politics/american-offer-canadian-aluminum-steel-companies-tariff-relief-9.7176321
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Even cheap dirt isn't dirt cheap anymore.

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL it's easy to create a National Day. Happy Pigs in a Blanket Day.

    www.nationaldayarchives.com /register-national-day/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    U.S. couple accused of kidnapping 10-year-old to potentially undergo gender transition surgery in Cuba

    www.cbc.ca /news/world/us-cuba-child-alleged-kidnapping-gender-transition-surgery-9.7175449
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    The story of Japanese General Tojo who was saved from suicide to be hung with "Remember Pearl Harbour" in his mouth.

    www.utterlyinteresting.com /post/hideki-tojo-pearl-harbor-dentures-trial-execution
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    Giant Drake ice sculpture in downtown Toronto is getting hosed down because fans were lighting fires to melt it.

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/toronto/fire-crews-toronto-drake-ice-blocks-melt-9.7172835