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loghainmactir:

GET THE GANG TOGETHER; vox machina, fuck shit up!

a fancast for vox machina and friends;
vex and vax / priyanka chopra & marlon teixeira
percy and keyleth / alexander ludwig & holland roden 
grog and pike / jason momoa & emily kinney
scanlan and gilmore / taika waititi & mahesh jadu
kashaw and zahra/ michiel huisman & ruth negga

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jenroses:

elodieunderglass:

a-magpie-witchling:

seiokona:

cinary:

I don’t even know. It’s from a book about languages my friend’s been reading. (it’s creepy that I can understand it …)

It was actually invented with that purpose: anyone who spoke any European language should be able to understand esperanto. It was meant to be a lingua franca.

STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING Y’ALL AND TELL ME IF YOU UNDERSTAND THIS

I’ve gotten so used to reading science in other languages that this seemed perfectly fine to me, for far too long :<

I laughed at loud at BSE (since we are now 20 years out from 1997, BSE = “mad cow disease" – in 2017 tumblr people say “am I having a stroke” for the same purpose)

Europanto =/= Esperanto.

The point of Esperanto is to be as consistent as possible, but you can’t just pick it up and understand it with no training. 

I speak English as a native language, have a fair amount of training in French, exposure in Spanish, loose familiarity with German and Yiddish, and the basics of Latin/Greek that they teach you when they’re explaining how words get put together in English. I’m a little bit of a linguistics nerd but not an expert by any means. Esperanto looks completely different to me–I would have to learn it to get it. Europanto is something where reading it would take a little while to acclimate to but all the samples I’m looking at right now are pretty easily understood. 

Esperanto was invented in the late 1800s. Europanto more than a hundred years later. 

Europanto has this sort of creole/pidgin feel to it, where it feels like what naturally evolves when you have a busy marketplace full of people from “everywhere”. 

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phantom-solitaire:

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magickandmoss:

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legalizeact:

#SaveTheTrees

I feel like an important message is trying to be communicated to me but I have no idea what it is

Our forests are being cut down 3x faster than they can grow! One acre of hemp produces as much cellulose fiber pulp as 4.1 acres of trees!!! This is super useful for so many things, especially paper production! In addition, hemp takes in carbon dioxide 4x as fast as trees do, which makes it especially valuable in the act of reducing CO2 emissions/greenhouse gases! 🌲🌲🌲 source 

#the scope of the anti-hemp conspiracy in the united states is terrifying once you start doing research tbh#like it was initially smeared/banned bc lumber lobbyists pushed for it to be…#and a major smear tactic was to associate it with black people#who now a hundred years later are the ones primarily being imprisoned for it#and the plant itself has now been inextricably linked to the drug so people won’t even allow for it to be grown for commercial purposes#like paper making (via literallyfuckeveryone)

Important reminder that industrial hemp can’t be used as a recreational drug, so if anyone tries to pull that card you can just stop them then and there. There are no real arguments against using industrial hemp, even if you’re rigidly against the legalization of any recreational drugs.

AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY I never see pro-hemp on my dash, woo!

Usually the argument on why you can’t have hemp is because then people will hide marijuana in it.

yeah, sure…. if they want shitty, shitty marijuana.

It would be like growing sweet corn and dent corn together.  Yeah, they look similar at a distance and they’re closely related, but you don’t want them next to each other as they’ll cross pollinate and you’ll end up with bad versions of both.

Same deal here.  a patch of marijuana grown in an open field of hemp IS going to get contaminated and it’ll lower quality of BOTH crops.  Your hemp farmer doesn’t want that and if likely going rip out any patches trespassers try to add for same reason. 

and the big issue is not even the THC content.  Because most quality marijuana is intended to be grown indoors or greenhouses, its a dwarf variety. Short.  Fiber hemp is bred for height so as to maximize fiber production.  super tall. It’s going to be really obvious, really fast if you’ve got both in the same field even before you get to the point of pollination. what’s this runty bullshit doing in my field?

They also have different growing needs with regards to spacing, harvest time, etc. so the argument that you can hide marijuana in industrial hemp fields are basically bullshit.

anyway… aside from paper, hemp fiber can also be used to make earthquake resistant concrete that’s actually LIGHTER than conventional concrete while being stronger. It’s better at resisting flexing or warping, so ideal for stuff like bridges and highway supports as it’ll better resist large temperature swings and vibration. (”hempcrete” is slightly different, but makes great fire resistant insulation)

You can also use the waste after fiber harvest for animal fodder, including silage. Comparable to corn. and remember, that’s the waste after you’ve harvested for fiber!

Just to add, it can be used for paper, concrete, insulation, cloth and rope (both rough like sack cloth and smooth like cotton), bio degradable plastics (oddly same for banana trees I believe) and then of course for things like fishing lines and nets etc.

It’s a very versatile and useful plant that has been used for hundreds or maybe even thousands of years for material uses, and with modern advances is becoming even more useful thanks to chemical engineering and similar.