Is there a difference in tone or meaning between accidentally and inadvertently? I feel like accidentally means they did something that was a bad thing.
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2026
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They accidentally became climate change wackos supporting a communist agenda to make everyone gay and push taxes supporting public transportation.
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.
I think “inadvertently” fits in that it isn’t what they were intending to do.
“Accidentally” feels sorta judgy.
Yeah. “It was an accident” sounds like pleading, excusing. “I inadvertently…” sounds like an explanation of the facts. imo
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.
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.
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
I agree, but I think here "accidentally" is used in an ironic manner because this is of course not actually a bad thing.
Depends on who you ask.
I'm asking someone who has insight 😅
citation for claim that it's the longest-dated climate dataset?
Do you have a citation for a longer-dated climate dataset?
that's not how burden of proof works; it's not "my fantastic claim is true until you can prove it false"
EDIT: oof, blocked 👋
If someone posts a record of climate data dating back to the year 812, and you demand a citation specifically for the claim that it's the longest-dated climate dataset, then yeah the burden of proof absolutely works the other way around.
It's a climate dataset, and it's freaking old. Unless you can point to one that's older, it's the oldest one.
EDIT: oof, blocked 👋
What, really? People do this?
And why, is it the comment chain where I was saying Adam Schiff has a more consistent track record than Chuck Schumer and other milquetoast establishment Dems, and therefore not the right target for ire? Or the one where I was arguing with someone who was being a bigot under a thin veneer of "feminism", who pretty consistently stated quite plainly that my feelings don't matter because I'm a guy and men's feelings don't matter so I should just suck it up and not be offended (which is literally toxic masculinity, not feminism)? Or did you scroll all the way down to where a mod called me sexist for responding to a post (that was literally asking why there aren't more media depictions of positive male role models) by saying that depictions of positive male role models get shunned and canceled because they don't conform to the narrative that all men are inherently toxic?
Either way, it seems like a silly thing to do, checking someone's mod history over a simple comment that you happen to disagree with. Especially when your own mod history includes posting unreliable sources to a news comm, being rude to someone for being a guy, getting banned from egg_irl for bioessentialist takes, and apparently... posting NSFW images of... checks notes... "applying lube like condiments on a hotdog"... in a SFW community...
So... you know what they say about glass houses and throwing rocks, right? ...
So temperatures are going down soon, right? RIGHT?
As soon as we reopen the strait.
You know, it's the weather. Temperature goes up. Temperature goes down. EZPZ
Just what I needed to hear. I would have rejected any other answer anyway. So I can happily go back to sleep now.
Link to a source would be nice.
Seems interesting, but without a source it's just noise.
John Bistline, whose name appears on the bottom right, posted this chart to Twitter.
There's a pretty similar data series charted at ourworldindata.
Looks like FT to me. Also there are citations in the fine prints.