I was thinking about this as well. The spy/troll hits the War Thunder forum with a post like “I hear the new F47 doesn’t even have any components of the Next Generation Air Dominance program” … then he waits for a bite, reels in a little by giving a few fake statements and arguing… then waits for the inevitable top secret manual to be posted.

Hahahahaha Hahaha haha “Lawful”

Agreed. I have said people ignored the books and dictionary entries, the word Aluminium and MANY others never caught on. You just keep pointing to those books.

The US literally “noped” out of the word Aluminium and refused to use it. If Im wrong, then why arent we saying it today?

It is what it is. The US did not accept the THIRD name change. No one really knew about the first name. Aluminium appeared in the fucking dictionary … but the US population ignored it and stayed with the second name.

Wikipedia is just citing old books … the same old books people disregarded when they refused to use the new weird name.

Webster was an idiot and was trying to change hundreds of words and the population just wasn’t having it. “Soop” instead of “Soup” was literally forced on the public, Aluminium, Dawter … do we use those? No.

Wikipedia is simply wrong. Both spellings were never equally used. Even your post confirms this, the dudes patent said “Aluminium”, but he used Aluminum instead because he liked it. This is how it was everywhere.

From the Wikipedia page you linked;

Davy suggested the metal be named alumium in 1808[30] and aluminum in 1812, thus producing the modern name.[29] Other scientists used the spelling aluminium

The name Aluminium never caught on in the US. It appeared in a few books and was in a dictionary, but so we’re words like Soop (for Soup) and greef (for grief). These did not catch on, Americans just kept using Aluminum. Webster wanted to standardize words … but nobody wanted to use dawter instead of daughter. They did stop using “Gaol” and used Jail instead.

The word history was “alumium” in 1807, then changed to “aluminum” in 1808. It was not changed to “aluminium” until 1812

Welcome to ignore. Everyone else understood the discussion … you are the outlier.

I explained the whole naming process. You gotta read it. The US was given the name as Aluminum and did not change it when the British changed it a third time.

I suspect that if the US had adopted the name “Aluminium” Britain would have changed it again and they would be making fun of us for not calling it “Aluminiumium”.

We say it the original correct way in the US. Other countries changed it for some reason. The guy that discovered it in 1808, Sir Humphrey Davy named it “Alumium” which based on Alumen (Latin for bitter salt)but quickly changed it to “Aluminum”. I swear I remember reading that he kept getting shit on by the science community and his friends for naming a metal “bitter salt” in Latin … but can’t find a reference.

His colleagues in Britain did mess with him and start using the name “Aluminium” … exactly because it ended in “ium” like ALL the other elements (Oxygenium, Carbonium, Ironium, Zincium, Nitrogenium, and the like). They US just kept the name the discoverer wanted instead of giving into those British asshats that just wanted to troll Sir Davy.

He also isolated Magnesium and named it “magnium”, but later changed to magnesium. The guy just couldnt settle on names. Again, in my version of reality it is because his friends kept giving him shit.

William has it better. Will, Willy, Willis, Willie, Buddy, Bud, Bill, Billy, and Liam. Willa, Wilhemenia, Wilma, and Billie for the ladies.

I hate that I have learned this factoid.

It does not legally work like that … but it does work like that. Conceding is a tradition/courtesy, but it would be seen as an admission of losing by Republicans.

The Republicans took office. They would be the ones to take any action against Trump and Musk for cheating.

If Kamala never conceded we would have something.

Regretfully, Kamala could have had 99.9999% of the votes … but if she concedes the race to Trump he wins. There may be laws or legislation to punish or impeach Trump and the Republicans, and the government (led by Trump and the Republicans) could choose to pursue them … I somehow doubt they will.

If a Mars lander hits itself with a shovel and no one is around to hear it … does it make a sound?

There have been thousands of reports of this happening. These perverts are changing sex just to look at women in the bathroom.

Some MAGA idiot may think we are posting for real … this is actually the crap that they echo back and forth to each other …

“Verified: 18 instances of this in Pasco county alone. My source says they have to let some go because of lib pushback. I am a government insider with “Super Duper Top Sercret” (spelled wrong) Clearance … trust me!”

I almost always say this. I usually turn down the job and state that the pay being offered is a little too low … they sometimes raise it.

It is totally different in the US. City planning will go with the absolute lowest bid, unless it is one of their relatives or they are getting a bribe. Regardless, the incompetence would astound you. My city hired a construction company out of India that did not do construction cuts in the concrete. The roads developed “fault lines” within two months. The news said it apparently never snows where the construction company was from and they didn’t know it had to be done. That makes no sense because it would still expand in summer.

The high failure rate of construction companies would be here https://www.constructconnect.com/blog/6-reasons-why-construction-companies-fail

Surety Bonds might only cover 10% of the bid cost. They can cover 100%, but usually cover less. This is where my local area seems to be getting hit. They are hiring companies from other countries and getting skipped out on once they hit a certain payment milestone.

That and the low bidder system. I am in heartland America, it is way too common here.

This is the way.

My group would start collecting the shit like Pokémon cards and then want to know the value of the “art objects”.