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[–] clay_pidgin 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] clay_pidgin 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

What's even cooler is that the Wikipedia URL actually supports unencoded slashes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I was wondering what was happening there!

[–] clay_pidgin 6 points 4 hours ago

I noticed that! Never seen that before either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I like to do a quick bouba/kiki experiment with people when they ask me what having synesthesia is like

Demonstrates nicely the "I didn't know why, I just know that it is" feeling

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It’s not just crystals. Even amorphous solids, like glass, can be extremely kiki.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

amorphous is a bouba word for kiki materials

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Water above 273 K with a certain amount of pressure becomes kiki again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Where’s that area on this phase diagram?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Some rain feels very kiki to me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

True, but if you look at it close up, it's bouba. Very small bouba moving fast does kinda turn into kiki at larger scales.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

We need a grand unified theory for describing the physics where matter goes from bouba- to kiki-scale.