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And even if it were a sign of insanity, it would most certainly not be its definition.

I like pointing people to how they pronounce “Penelope”, it’s a similar thing. Although calling people with that name ~“Penny-Lobe” would be fun!

Relevant xkcd

Also survivorship bias. A few old cars lasted for a really long time, but you don’t see or think about the majority that didn’t.

That “Nike” rhymes with “Bike”.

This is actually a thing, it’s called the Mpemba effect. It’s hella weird (that’s the scientific term), but can be reproduced in experiments.

Yeaah mine’s really hard to make any sense of. It was an automatically generated username some time back, and then I kept using it all over the place because it was kinda short and still kinda unique. I’d love some suggestions on how to pronounce it though, no clue in that regard!