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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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[–] Contentedness@lemmy.nz 22 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I agree it seems a strange choice of words.

Japanese monks and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years. ~~They accidentally~~ In doing so they built the world's longest climate dataset

Something like that seems more straightforward.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I think “inadvertently” fits in that it isn’t what they were intending to do.

“Accidentally” feels sorta judgy.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

Yeah. “It was an accident” sounds like pleading, excusing. “I inadvertently…” sounds like an explanation of the facts. imo