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-o is most characteristic of Australian English but English speakers over the world are familiar with "kiddo", "psycho", and now "doggo".

Ironically, I'm finding this hard to read without formatting to distinguish using words and mentioning them.

Alcohol does change the surface tension so foaming will be different. Ever seen a security guard shake someone's water bottle to check if it's really water? The thing that makes be…

As well as the arrows, the buttons are just positioned intuitively most of the time. We usually get two perpendicular kerb ramps rather than a diagonal one pointing at the centre o…

It even says "The correct answer was zero"!

Traditional masonry construction has the same results in terms of thermal mass. More so, if it's denser and thicker. With the right shading and ventilation it's useful for both tem…

With few exceptions, your cooking oil would have to be smoking profusely before the pan is hot enough to damage silicone. At that point it's not quite hot enough to ruin the Teflon…

To some extent, the forced downtime is a benefit. Instantly refeullable vehicles enable fatigued driving. It's not even healthy to be sitting for that long as a passenger.

Self-powered evaporative air conditioning is an ancient technology. Air conditioning as we understand and use it today is a gold-plated band-aid over bad design. It's so entrenched…

> everyone getting the same word on the same day Not really true as it is, being based on local time. For example, there's only a one hour period each day where someone in New Zeal…

If you could avoid getting obese with two shots in the arm and wearing a piece of cloth every time you leave the house for a couple years.

Even if it is "imaginary", there's a positive feedback loop between the belief that supply chain issues exist and changes in buying patterns.

Stop signs here in Australia, like most of the world, are only placed where the visibility actually makes it necessary to come to a stop. They're far more common over in the US. Pi…

> The thing with riding that on a bike path was that I had no concerns slowing down amongst pedestrians or on blind corners as it was no effort to get back up to speed. I was less …

> The recommendations are also getting worse IMO It seems to me that this happens on a per-user basis as recommendations are overfitted to the recommendations they've already liste…

Swahili, which they do support, is the national language of Kenya and a lingua franca in the region. They also have Amharic (Ethiopia), Xhosa and Zulu (South Africa). I agree that …

I see it as a feature of Euro English, like writing "XIV century" instead of "19th" or saying "actual" with the meaning of "current". Language change caused by an influx of non-nat…

Rex Krueger has the most budget-conscious channel I know of ( https://www.youtube.com/c/RexKrueger ). His "Woodworking for Humans" series starts out with just needing three tools a…

South Australia, which generated 60% of its electricity with renewables last year, is installing synchronous condensers to provide some kind of grid stabilisation. (The current con…

If you have any of a number of disabilities, that is exactly the case.

Borrowed plural forms are most likely to happen with French, Latin, and Greek loans, and also those from languages that don't change words to make them plural, e.g. Japanese and Ma…

I thought so too, but I'm not completely sure since they rolled out the personalised "Time Capsule" playlists. Most of the tracks in mine seem more based on my age and location tha…

They copied other social networks' stories feature so accurately, they even included the bit where it's only available on mobile apps first.

I was happy to wait an hour and a bit for delivery when dial-a-pizza and the local Chinese restaurant were the only places around that did it. The food industry is over-optimising …

The virus can't "continue from where it left off" if there's nobody left in the country infected by it. If it turns out there were a few infections left, or one slipped through qua…