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Japanese monks and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years. They accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset (thelemmy.club)
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[-] victorz@lemmy.world 136 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] xploit@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] Feyd@programming.dev 9 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

tbf it was played straight in Hot Fuzz, Sgt. Angel was right and there was somebody who caused it.

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