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@freemo I blame mystery novels. The clever detective finds some clues, and announces he's got a theory but he needs more evidence to confirm it. This has led to the public using the word "theory" for what scientists would call a "hypothesis" and thereby devaluing the term.

@fikran

[Here](https://git.sr.ht/~vpzom/lotide/tree/master/item/openapi/openapi.json#L281)'s what they have - I don't see any human-readable documentation, and all the paths are marked "unstable", but it seems to be what there is for now.

@freemo @realcaseyrollins

@freemo

Yes* - I just thought it would be a nice addition to the comparison for completeness's sake as a fourth example (which is why I numbered it as 4).

* actually, ß is from ſʒ, not ſs, but functionally that makes little difference

@freemo

4. Eszett ligature? I know it was originally used for "sz", but today it's "ss"

@calligraphy

@freemo

I think you are conflating it with quadnary - when you take a double negative and double it again ;)

@realcaseyrollins

@Pat wait, what? If you catch COVID and don't recover, doesn't that mean you stay sick until you die? Hard to see how you have any chance to catch it again after that.

@realcaseyrollins Per the [CBC](cbc.ca/1.6268331), one parent says her kid had heard threats:

> Robin Redding said her son, Treshan Bryant, is a 12th grader at the school but stayed home on Tuesday. She said he had heard threats of a shooting at the school.
...
> Bryant said he texted several younger cousins in the morning and they said they didn't want to go to school, and he got a bad feeling.

@Pat This also happens every so often with Sydney, Nova Scotia. Europeans search for flights to Sydney and find one that's cheaper than the rest, not realising that's because it's going to YQY instead of SYD.

@freemo

@SpudsRudeEye There's actually a holiday Wednesday evening into Thursday this week; if you're casually interested and just want to spectate before making any commitment, the observance for that wouldn't be a bad place to start.

@freemo safe travels!

@freemo from what I've read that's not generally the case.

https://theinternetoffendsme.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/the-real-story-behind-facebook-moderation-and-your-petty-reports/

@freemo Wouldn't that be a bandpass filter, the reverse of a notch filter? Setting your notch filter too narrow results in you ignoring too little, not too much.

@freemo right, I was thinking more from a perspective of "How do we limit the utility of this object for the perpetration of a mass casualty event, while still making it otherwise practical for its intended purpose?" That's ultimately the reasoning behind many gun laws, like bans on automatic weapons or large magazines. Regardless how easy it would be to circumvent, I just don't think the same reasoning could justify a tank limit. What mass casualty event saw the guy burn more than five gallons of gas, such that it could've been prevented had he been forced to stop and refuel?

@freemo maybe a more workable parallel for magazine capacity limits would be a kinetic energy cap? So you can have a 300kg motorcycle that goes 250km/h or a 3000kg SUV restricted to 80km/h. Incentivise people to choose the right vehicle rather than burning the gas to haul a couple extra tonnes of steel to the office and back every day. The protection against ramming attacks is just gravy.

@freemo I feel like there's a lot of overlap between people supportive of gun control and people who would like to see SUVs replaced by lighter and more fuel-efficient conventional sedans.

@freemo Looks good! I favoured the heat-from-below hypothesis at first, but I prefer your answer to mine right now. This is the sort of thing I was comparing it to.

@freemo I suspect it is not lab glassware - I thought it was, initially, and that's why it caught my eye, but I can't really square that with how it's built. The oil lamp hypothesis makes some sense - but there's so much space under the bulb I tend to think it's meant to be heated from below. Might be an oil diffuser for aromatherapy or something, designed to run off a tea light - but the hollow tube seems unnecessary then. I really don't know

My best guess is that it's supposed to be a chimney - you could put a candle in the bottom and it would heat the air in the cylinder, driving it up and replacing it with fresh air from the bottom, driving its own circulation. At the same time, it would heat the contents of the bulb like a retort.

But there's no fitting to attach anything to the top of the bulb, so any vapours would just be exhausted upward with the combustion products of the candle. I also don't get the point of the serpentine tube - if it were just for support, why would it be hollow and matched to an orifice in the side of the cylinder? If it's for filling the bulb, why not just use the orifice at its tip, since you can't have anything attached to that anyway? Were it straight, you could maybe use it to stick a thermometer into the bulb, but the bends in the tube prevent that.

@freemo I just found it at a secondhand shop. I can work out the purpose of lots of kinds of glassware just by examining how they're designed, but this one isn't obvious to me.