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Japanese monks and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years. They accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset (infosec.pub)
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[–] xploit@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Mr Bob Ross would like a word...
I agree with you on inadvertently, but accident, if I'm not mistaken would generally considered something where you do not inherently attribute blame. At least thats what I recall being justification for making the change in UK in calling traffic 'incidents' incidents instead of accidents several years back. Dunno if it stuck though.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Interesting. Although I still maintain that accident bears a negative connotation, even though blame isn't necessarily a factor. As if the outcome was a negative thing, rather than a positive, as in this case.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

UK in calling traffic ‘incidents’ incidents instead of accidents several years back. Dunno if it stuck though.

Wait is that real? I thought it was just a joke when it was said in Hot Fuzz

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 1 points 7 hours ago

tbf it was played straight in Hot Fuzz, Sgt. Angel was right and there was somebody who caused it.