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Here's my comment from the last time this came up (like a week ago):

"There's been no meaning shift. The "possessive" and "envious" uses of jealous both date from the 14th century in English, and both senses were present in the ancestors of these words all the way back to Greek."

It's always been synonymous with "envious", as far back as we can trace.

This isn't the case, because humans can handle significantly larger deviations from "comfortable" on the cold side than the hot side, so again Fahrenheit gets it pretty much right.

This is horrible logic. If anything, it should be: you need to learn Celsius if you are doing science, but most people aren't scientists and therefore don't need to learn Celsius, so this isn't really a problem that comes up for a lot of Fahrenheit users.

According to Wikipedia Rankine is properly used with the degree symbol, but sometimes is not by analogy with Kelvin.

A girl I was thinking about dating made lembas by making some slight modifications to shortbread cookies.

As for how it turned out, I married her.

"Women are the best you'll ever be able to get a little bit of."

If there were no surface tension there would almost definitely be no wicking action either. If it didn't evaporate super quickly, water without surface tension would probably be a giant pain in the ass to clean up.

Gotta love some good, old-fashioned eucatastrophe.

This sounds like that "can you fry an egg at the top of Mt Everest" game.

Thanks for taking the time to write such an informed and in-depth comment!

Qualcomm really does want to become Intel.