No. It would be neat, but there is no evidence for it. I say this as someone who used to believe and made a website in ~2001 about haunted locations, our visits to some, etc.

As for what people see, it really depends. Pareidolia is a thing, so humans, I think, often see things not exactly as they are, especially if it’s something in the vision for a very brief amount of time.

I put coffee grounds in the french press and cover with newr-boiling water (~90c) which agitates and mixes things. 5 minutes or so later, I just pour my first cup

Ok, so … I suppose it is what is says on the tin? Someone whose avatar is a cow (I assumed it was some specific genre or something less literal)? Is the content cow-related somehow? I still have many questions.

There is a lot of American pork (and some beef) in supermarkets here in Japan. I get mine from Costco which, at least for loins, is Canadian pork. Beef, of the non-wagyuu variety, tends to be Australian or American. Chicken is typically domestic in my experience.

I speak Japanese and, at least for all the words I’m thinking of for both cow and vagina, none come out to awesome unless it’s some net slang that I don’t know. Cow could by Gyuu or Ushi. Vagina is often mata, man, or manko (all of which could have a preceding ‘o’) (edit: also chitsu and wagina (probably by way of Dutch originally), apparently also exist.) Those might possibly work better, especially wagina with the -na ending common to a type of adjective)

Awesome is a bit trickier. Subarashii is usually the dictionary one, but Sogoi/sugei or saikou come to mind. Archaic rippaa also exists. If that’s true, my vote is on net slang or just something I’m totally not seeing.

Edit: after filling my search history with interesting things, it appears it’s Chinese and not Japanese. “niubi”.

I would argue it depends upon the buzzing device, but bzzz for all of them is indeed arbitrary. Even IPA doesn’t represent sounds that humans can’t produce, so it wouldn’t suffice, but them’s the breaks.

I’m not seeing it there on any of the three pages (nor ctrl+f for ‘animal’ on the first at least)

It’s most definitely not Friday anymore (yay timezones!) :P :)

I have some yard work to do and getting a bunch of seedlings started for the farm. Also cleaning up some old furniture that came with the property before it just rots in the humidity of the garage. I have two fairly heavy pieces up some very narrow stairs with no sides/railings so how to get them down is going to be interesting.

Probably also need to go to the Kubota dealer and buy some stuff for the tractor (also got it with the property; it’s from the '90s but still hanging in there).

I have bamboo on the back corner of my property (two different types) and let me tell you that it is a never-ending war to keep it as a fairly thin line (it’s basically my privacy fence). On the plus side, it’s really good at holding the ground together, supposedly, which helps living in earthquakeland.

Probably not if only because of the spelling; AFAIK, “liter” is only used in the US and the rest of the world uses “litre”.

WTF is a “cow vtuber”?

In general, it might be a solution for hard water where someone couldn’t install a whole-house system. Looking at the website, however, it looks like it’s to … well, reduce chlorine with an un-sourced ‘98% contain too much chlorine’ statistic. Is that just bunk? Iunno, but I certainly can’t be bothered to search.

Not all British accents are non-rhotic to begin with. Exposure to the sound and ability to reproduce it, even if not a lot in speech, means that the onomatopoeia, if used, should be the same.

In languages where a sound doesn’t exist, it gets more interesting. In Japanese, bzzz is not pronounceable and for a buzzer (or something like a phone in vibrate mode) they will say ブー (buu) which is just the syllable bu with a long u sound (think of a crowd booing, but the o vowel there is different to the Japanese u vowel).

No amount of effort or practicing worked for me. I don’t know if it’s some kind of visual issue, a mental issue, or what. I do have aphantasia, so that might be related? I cannot reproduce something I see. It’s just like the data that make up the thing don’t make sense in a way I can put it on paper,

“you kill it, you fill it”

Setting aside the topic, is this a common phrase? DDG had all of around 4-5 hits. I don’t think I’ve ever heard it before.

single-use plastic pod of coffee (or hot cocoa or tea) put into a machine that runs water through it to brew the beverage.

I’ve always been partial to there- and where-compounds (thereupon, therefrom, wherein, etc.).

I wasn’t sure if the person meant that or fundamentally misunderstood what QR codes where and how they worked. Just wanted to clarify in case it were the latter.

As a registered democrat (though only because my state requires it to vote in primaries for democrats and I’m certainly not voting republican): pound sand, DNC.

The #1 reason I hate QR codes is because they make you agree to further terms and conditions like collecting data on you.

0.o A QR code is basically just a data-encoding format and is mostly used to store a link to something. I’m not sure where ToS/etc. come into that.