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Just read in a different forum that Google classifies almost all kinds of plants as "algae":
Enjoy your cucumber or potato algae!
According to Google, every plant is now an algae
I was recently searching up the scientific name for cucumber on my phone with Google, when I noticed something odd: And then I noticed …many other things …and that this was not limited to my phone. Apparently Google has decided that all plants are algae. This is an intriguing...
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“Algae” is meaningless enough that I don’t think I can object to this. Friggin’ cyanobacteria are “algae.”
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All you need to know about algae is that they're just a taxon in the category of eukaryotes.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
All you need to know about algae is that they're just a taxon in the category of eukaryotes.
More like "cat walked over keyboard" theory.
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@topspin Not many normies use the "normie" terms, either.
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I was recently searching up the scientific name for cucumber
on my phone
with Google
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@Gern_Blaanston said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
I was recently searching up the scientific name for cucumber
violetti dildoicus spikimus?
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@izzion No, but there is a genus called
Phallus. It is a mushroom:
See e.g.
By the way, there is a genus of molluscs called
Meretrix(that's Latin forprostitute):
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@topspin TBH, that goes for pretty much any kind of knowledge. My mother calls plenty of plants by their Latin names, for example, whereas I often don’t even know their common names.
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There's also the Titan Arum. I have been told that it didn't have an English name until the BBC invented it, as they refused to use the Latin name on air - Amorphophallus titanum. Yes, that means "giant misshapen penis".
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@BernieTheBernie said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
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By the way, there is a genus of molluscs calledMeretrix(that's Latin forprostitute):
saving this for later
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@SteelCamel2 welcome to the forum!
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
All you need to know about algae is that they're just a taxon in the category of eukaryotes.
And here I was vaguely remembering that somebody Eukaryotes or other was involved in the story of christmas?
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@uschwarz-0 said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
All you need to know about algae is that they're just a taxon in the category of eukaryotes.
And here I was vaguely remembering that somebody Eukaryotes or other was involved in the story of christmas?
Or eukaryptus?
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@kazitor said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
“Algae” is meaningless enough that I don’t think I can object to this. Friggin’ cyanobacteria are “algae.”
Tsk. Cyanobacteria are called "blue-green algae", but they aren't even eukaryotes, and therefore cannot be algae.
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@uschwarz-0 said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
All you need to know about algae is that they're just a taxon in the category of eukaryotes.
And here I was vaguely remembering that somebody Eukaryotes or other was involved in the story of christmas?
No, he was Socrates' debate partner in the seminal philosophic work of the same name. You're thinking of Erythromycin.
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@topspin Don't forget monoids in the category of endofunctors!
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@konnichimade said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
@topspin Don't forget monoids in the category of endofunctors!
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
All you need to know about algae is that they're just a taxon in the category of eukaryotes.
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@Gribnit said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
You're thinking of Erythromycin.
Sweet dreams are made of this?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
@Gribnit said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
You're thinking of Erythromycin.
Sweet dreams are made of this?
I strongly disagree and am sufficiently qualified to do so. Fish can't digest that.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
@Gribnit said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
You're thinking of Erythromycin.
Sweet dreams are made of this?
Not my sweet dreams. It makes me puke my guts out.
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@HardwareGeek said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
@Gribnit said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
You're thinking of Erythromycin.
Sweet dreams are made of this?
Not my sweet dreams. It makes me puke my guts out.
How would you like some filtered water at room temperature?
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@topspin Touché.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
By the way, there is a genus of molluscs called
Meretrix(that's Latin forprostitute):
Of course there would be one like this among the Veneridae. There's also the Uterus Clam and the "Little Circe".
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
@Gribnit said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
You're thinking of Erythromycin.
Sweet dreams are made of this?
You're thinking of Ergotamine.
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@LaoC said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
@Gribnit said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
You're thinking of Erythromycin.
Sweet dreams are made of this?
You're thinking of Ergotamine.
The stuff that Lucy got wasted on? Maybe as a precursor, but sweet dreams are made of hemlock.
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@LaoC said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
@BernieTheBernie said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
By the way, there is a genus of molluscs called
Meretrix(that's Latin forprostitute):
Of course there would be one like this among the Veneridae. There's also the Uterus Clam and the "Little Circe".
All of them great with puttinesca sauce.
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@Gribnit Aye, there's the rub.
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@LaoC said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
@BernieTheBernie said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
By the way, there is a genus of molluscs called
Meretrix(that's Latin forprostitute):
Of course there would be one like this among the Veneridae. There's also the Uterus Clam and the "Little Circe".
(semi-)necroing to mention that in French one of the most common slang for vulva is "mussel."
(though obviously almost any word can be used as euphemism for something sex-related, as San-Antonio was very good at demonstrating)
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@remi said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
(though obviously almost any word can be used as euphemism for something sex-related, as San-Antonio was very good at demonstrating)
I inherited a a ton of San Antonio novels from my father who was a big fan, unfortunately my French is nowhere near good enough to get the jokes, I can still hear him snorting and giggling over them.
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@remi said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
@LaoC said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
@BernieTheBernie said in Knowledge brought to you by Google:
By the way, there is a genus of molluscs called
Meretrix(that's Latin forprostitute):
Of course there would be one like this among the Veneridae. There's also the Uterus Clam and the "Little Circe".
(semi-)necroing to mention that in French one of the most common slang for vulva is "mussel."
(though obviously almost any word can be used as euphemism for something sex-related, as San-Antonio was very good at demonstrating)
It's almost as though the French have a penchant for rude names.
Phallus indusiatus - Wikipedia
