Can we really call it transparent aluminum? I mean, then its also solid oxygen! at room temperature!

Red Transparent Aluminium! aka Ruby
Blue Transparent Aluminium! aka Sapphire

AMAGAD. WHAT IS THIS ON MY KITCHEN TABLE? TRANSPARENT SODIUM!!?!??!?!?!1

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I mean, to be clear, all things have colour because of physics.

Reminds me of that XKCD comic somewhat:
https://xkcd.com/1882/

...and also having endless debates about whether pink is real or not.

Oh my, suddenly all my biology classes came rushing back all at once.

Most all of Veritasium's videos are good, but this one especially so I think.

It does seem like a catch 22 situation. If the signs don't attract attention then...whats the point, but if they do then surely that is attention that would otherwise be on the road.

I still spell "weird" wrong all the time because of that i before e bullshit.

Still, I'm glad English is my first language. Really I am truly sorry for anybody that has to pick it up second. Maybe it's not the worst (no/little grammatical gender!) but the hodgepodge of different spellings and pronunciations is awful.

Perhaps that's why

I imagine it must be quite hard to make comfortable flip flops.

I think it's an ugly necessity.

Equality isn't about treating everybody the same. I mean, I wish we could do that, but then I wish people wouldn't decide if they are going to hire somebody from their very first glance. But that's what we do. We do nothing and we simply allow our unconscious bias to rule our decision making which, in most cases, would be great for somebody like me.

I mean, I don't like it. I can understand entirely why people feel they have been cheated when somebody gets a job or promotion ahead of them just for the sake of ticking a diversity checkbox. Maybe you're right, maybe it is just adding energy to that pendulum, but then a pendulum without resistance swings forever. I hope conscious decisions to readdress imbalanced caused by unconscious bias works more as a dampening effect, as resistance.

Back to semantics. Like the woman in the video, I probably had quite a knee-jerk response to men's rights. Sometimes probably warranted, but then some feminists have some pretty dumb things to say as well. Anyway, the person that helped changed by mind about it was a woman and a feminist. Don't define a group by it's most extreme edges because I think it just leads you to make uncharitable judgements about people that identify as part of that group before you've even really listened to them.

I don't know, but I've seen it before in other demonstrations or illustrations so they must have had good gloves . I figure that the blade was probably only kept sharp at the tip.

from wiki on the ineffectiveness of cutting slashes against full plate:
"To overcome this problem, swords began to be used primarily for thrusting. The weapon was used in the half-sword, with one or both hands on the blade. This increased the accuracy and strength of thrusts and provided more leverage for Ringen am Schwert or "wrestling at/with the sword". This technique combines the use of the sword with wrestling, providing opportunities to trip, disarm, break, or throw an opponent and place them in a less offensively and defensively capable position. During half-swording, the entirety of the sword works as a weapon, including the pommel and crossguard. One example how a sword can be used this way is to thrust the tip of the crossguard at the opponent's head right after parrying a stroke. Another technique would be the Mordstreich (lit. "murder stroke"), where the weapon is held by the blade (hilt, pommel and crossguard serving as an improvised hammer head) and swung, taking advantage of the balance being close to the hilt to increase the concussive effect."

Sooo... Sumerians invented the blue shell?

Skeptical of the historical accuracy...but cool trick shots tho!

I hear ya. Similar thing with people who proudly announce they are OCD because they clean up.

but... is it hurting anybody? Is it such a bad thing that people apparently seek some sort of commonality with those on the spectrum where previously they might have tried to distance themselves from any comparison? That isn't rhetorical btw. I genuinely don't know whether that kind of appropriation is just annoying, or damaging, or even perhaps beneficial.

Live long enough and you don't have to hear one of the most annoying sounds. CRTs might have more or less gone the way of the dodo, but coil whine can strike at ANY TIME!. If you can't hear it take it as a blessing cos irony is a thing and so is tinnitus.

Hmm. I'm betting on toxin produced by bacteria. Something like Cholera.

or. you know, maybe you could say that humans create a pretty deadly cocktail of toxins

Botox solutions must be one of the few homeopathic medicines that might actually have an effect.