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this entry in a ‘what would happen if the internet went down tomorrow’ contest has been making me laugh since 2009

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an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

language is amazing

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big fan of this guy :)

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Having seen some births now i can say that dog birth is amazing cos they just slip n slide out one after the other like a little conveyor belt. And theyre so little and unformed. And then UNGULATE BIRTHS ... are amazing for the opposite reason which is that 10mins after being born they are filing their taxes. Unless they are goats, in which case they are committing tax fraud instead

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Love that supervillains repeatedly refer to Metropolis as "Superman's precious Metropolis." Superman's saved the whole planet multiple times, and he displays like... a normal and expected amount of urgency about it, but if Metropolis specifically is threatened, Superman's like, "Oh, okay, I get it, you have beef with me, personally."

Like bro, they're right! That is your precious Metropolis!

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✨️ The Enrichment has Enriched! ✨️

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wet beasts

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There’s no winning these allegations

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Individually the young justice team is highly intelligent tim is canonically a genius and worlds greatest detective, cassie has prophetic dreams every now and then giving her advanced knowledge, kon has a bunch of science and tactics from his time being cloned, and bart has a photographic memory and remembers everything that he learns at superspeed. This does not impede their ability to be absolute dumbasses together

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His face when he realized he was about to fall

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Meet Baron Pak. 🐀👑📿💎💍

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the oupy