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[scriver]

Discon is not dead

[dragdeler]

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Nooo

[King Zultan]

So many things can be abbreviated as AC, it's madness!

[Loud Whispers]

These abreviated conditions are very useful

[MaxTheFox]

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Nooo

Alternating Current?

[Great Order]

What's the song that they're parodying here in this video?

https://youtu.be/E0y2lWAYqxY?t=436

I can't find it and it's doing my nut in.

(Don't open it at work)

[Rolan7]

Stand By Me
https://youtu.be/hwZNL7QVJjE

Also lmao

[dragdeler]

Tell me alternate firefox clients (like waterfox) and why you use them, is there anything you dont like about them?

[Eric Blank]

I don't use them, is there any reason not to use the base Firefox client?

[McTraveller]

Are unplanted seeds alive?

[EuchreJack]

Are unplanted seeds alive?

Depends: Are you Catholic?

[Frumple]

Joke aside, if the seed's still able to sprout (i.e. is still alive) then, uh, yeah, it's still alive? There's a pile of different plant seeds that can sprout without being planted in soil.

[Egan_BW]

They are until you roast them.

[McTraveller]

I guess it's a question of the line between "dormant" versus "dead"... or "unalive."

The question was prompted while eating an apple today - the apple, when not attached to its tree...is it alive?  At what point does a vegetable cease being alive and just...something else? Or are plants oddities and they remain alive, simply transitioning from "good vegetable" to "vegetable with lots of non-vegetable growth" until it turns into an organic mass that no longer metabolizes?

(Oddly enough, I'm not even under the influence of anything... got myself into a weird loop.)

[Egan_BW]

Plants are a lot like animals in that if you freeze them or vinegar them or whatever their cells will die. They're a bit different from animals in that they don't have a lot of completely vital parts which they only ever grow exactly one of, so if you cut it in half hey you got two plants now. I have no idea how long cells inside an apple stay alive after being picked, or how much of the edible fruit part is actually living cells. Seeds and tardigrades and probably other things can enter a suspended animation sort of state where they're not really doing anything but are ready to turn on and be a living thing again, so did it kinda die and then bring itself back to life?