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You can zoom into random parts of the anna's archive isbn visualizer and find books as if you were looking at an enormous book shelf. It's really cool
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“The Anglican priest and scholar of literature Alison Milbank writes that Shelob is undeniably sexual”
^^ Person who is definitely not projecting
Brenda Partridge’s analysis of Shelob’s sexual imagery……
Sauron’s cat -> woman as graceful, sensual, and aloof (guy who definitely doesn’t want to fuck a cat voice: “obviously cats are sexual imagery”)
Spawning broods of monsters -> fertility (you know what, fair enough, I’ll give you that one)
Underground lair -> womb (what?)
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Cobwebs at entrance brushing against Frodo, Sam -> pubic hair (…)
Frodo cuts cobwebs -> tearing of the hymen (!!!)
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maybe china has been handling the entire world's keynesian stimulus since 2008
like the industrial subsidies are fiscal stimulus
and they're just throwing yuan at foreign countries like
and... that's one way to do monetary stimulus i guess... ?
industrial subsidies in China drive unemployment elsewhere though surely; consumption subsidies in China would drive imports and be an actual stimulus for the rest of the world.
Not necessarily. E.g. right now cheap solar cells made in China create a boom of building solar power plants in the rest of the world, and cheap batteries made in China enabled Tesla to build a bunch of electric cars in America. As long as it's complementary, industrial subsidies in China can also create stimulus elsewhere.
#huh #youzi as pomelo instead of yuzu That's the only way I've seen 柚子 used in Chinese, and I assumed that's what your username was talking about.
(The zh wikipedia article for yuzu is just 香橙, but I assume there's a different and less vague term people actually use)
Right, that's why I think the pomelo-puer thing is fun!
As I understand it, 柚子 in Mandarin and 柚 in most Chinese dialects means pomelo. However, 柚子 in Japanese kanji and Korean hanja means yuzu. Presumably there was a semantic shift when the word was borrowed into Japanese, which is not super mysterious since the citrus fruits are on a continuum anyway. (Wikipedia says that one possible word for yuzu in Chinese is now 日本柚子, back-borrowing it into Chinese.)
Then the Japanese or Koreans invented the yuzu-based hot drink, and called it, logically enough, 柚子茶.
Then that word must have been borrowed from Japanese/Korean into Chinese, so that the normal meaning for 柚子茶 youzicha is the yuzu drink. (If you google 柚子茶, that's the only thing that comes up.) That's how I encountered the word.
But, per the previous post, there's apparently also that "puer tea mixed inside a pomelo shell", which is also called 柚子茶.
Which means that there are now two senses of the word, with distinct etymologies:
- (From Japanese 柚子茶:) yuzu tea
- (From 柚子 + 茶:) pomelo tea
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You Zi Cha, a Chinese Pu-erh stuffed into a hollowed out pomelo. This particular tea has qualities of cooked Pu-erhs that you expect, but also a range of additional aromas and flavors, most notably a subtle citrus note.
Purchased while visiting David Lee Hoffman at The Phoenix Collection in Laguinitas, California. They do public tastings every Saturday from 10:00 - 2:00 pm.
I was very happy to taste this, and a few others with David Lee Hoffman and his colleague Scott. I first met David in February 2012 and it was great to see him again.
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very cyberpunk
Someone on twitter thinks this is an AIS spoofing scam rather than moving physical fishing boats. Which I guess would be even more cyberpunk.
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Kaze to Ki no Uta (1976)
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Sugar Information Inc, 1965
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if only the british nuclear programme had been like 2% less locked in we could have had the cumbria exclusion zone
i guess windscale was Like That Because of the huge crunch so i think if they had been more locked in they would have told cockcroft where he could shove his stupid filters and bathed northern england in radioactive ash
For what it's worth, Lorna Arnold says in Windscale 1957: Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident that it's "folklore" that Cockcroft’s filters saved the day. Immediately after the accident they were believed to have caught most of the radioactivity, but later research found that they didn't do very much. First, the official technical investigation ("Command Paper 471 (Cmnd. 471) / Third Fleck Committee report") in 1958 found that the filters only caught 60% of the released iodine-131:
The working party concluded that it was not the filters themselves which had (as Cmnd 302 said) prevented the escape of most of the radioactive material from the damaged core of the pile. Of the uranium burnt, and the fission products it contained, only a small fraction reached the filters at all. In the very high temperatures of the fire, a compact and brittle crust had formed on a layer of oxide, which contained the molten metal and trapped most of the non-volatile fission products. But a large fraction of volatile iodine-131 escaped from the core, much of it passing through the filters; this explained the disproportionate release of iodine-131. Of the estimated 70,000 Ci of iodine-131 contained in the oxidised fuel, the working party believed that 50,000 Ci reached the filters; they retained 30,000 Ci, adsorbed on particles of lead and bismuth oxides from the isotope channels, rather than free. Some 20,000 Ci were emitted to the atmosphere. The efficiency of the filters for iodine-131 therefore—even helped by the adsorption factor—was only 60 per cent. [...] The existing filters, with an estimated 60 per cent efficiency, would not (the working party said) be able to cope safely with any accident in Pile No.2 in which more than 30kg of uranium fuel was burnt. Without a guarantee that a fire occurring during a Wigner anneal could be confined to 30kg of fuel, some further means must be found of preventing the release of radioactivity. The filters might achieve an efficiency of 85 per cent with improved oiling techniques, and this could be enhanced if a greater pressure drop through the filters—entailing some loss in production—could be allowed. The next possibility was the installation of a chemical scrubber by-pass system for decontaminating the coolant air before discharge.
Second, a report in 1981 revised the estimate even further to only 4%.
Chamberlain concluded that for the most part substances that were volatile at 1000°C had gone up the pile stack; hence the great preponderance of iodine-131 in the release, the small proportion of strontium and the virtual absence of uranium oxides and plutonium. Of the total iodine-131 in the 140 affected channels—some 112,000 Ci—he calculated very approximately that 27,000 Ci (25 per cent) had been released to the atmosphere; 16,000 to 17,000 Ci (15 per cent) had been washed out of the pile and discharged to the sea; 64,000 Ci (57 per cent) had been retained within the pile; and 4,000 Ci (4 per cent) had been retained by the filters (see Appendix IX). The pile filters did no more than stop a fraction of the radioactivity that reached them (something the Penney Committee could not have known). The stack filters certainly made some contribution to safety during the accident, and it was as well they were there. However, they played nothing like the crucial part that had been thought and is still widely believed. Indeed, since they had signally failed to stop particulate emissions that had persisted for over two years before the accident, they could hardly be expected—even with the improvements then in hand—to meet the stringent test of the fire; and, as the Fleck filter working party made clear, no filters could have done.
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Marviken NPP. It was a heavy water reactor with online refueling capabilities mean to produce plutonium for the Swedish nuclear weapons program as well as electrical energy and heat for civil use. The plant was constructed though had some issues with its design which would have required modification to make it functional. Ultimately fueling never happened as Sweden unfortunately decided to not pursue nuclear weapons and instead built other civil reactors.
Unusually, despite being a PHWR with online refueling it is not a pressure tube type reactor, and it appears that the refueling machinery is located within the pressure vessel itself.
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Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though. He will not see me stopping here, Between the crosses row on row In Flanders fields.
We are the Dead. Short days ago, A screaming comes across the sky. In the poison'd entrails throw! Where the bee sucks, there suck I, In Flanders fields.
Yesterday upon the stair, I wandered lonely as a cloud. My head was bloody but unbowed. What costume shall the poor girl wear In Flanders fields?
A poem lovely as a tree— Who am I to disagree?— Is but a dream within a dream. I have no mouth and I must scream In Flanders fields.
A B C D E F G H I J K LMNOP. All the rest have thirty-one. Beware the Jubjub bird and shun The Lady of Shallott.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep. Quoth the raven, "Nevermore." Oh well, whatever, never mind. In Flanders fields.
Because comrades, if we were in the 30s, I would have taken you out and shot you. You fail like this, you don’t get to come back and show off your wounds.
New character unlocked: chuuni!Adam Tooze.
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Meeting Your Co-Pilot ‘Bulk Slash’ SEGA Saturn
What a genius concept. You can pick up one of seven different waifus: they have no effect on the game mechanics, but will say "sugoi!!" when you do something cool, scold you or confess to you depending on how well you play, and when the mech gets hit, she says "oof". So much more motivating than having the player character take damage.