When I was but a teenager, I once very briefly courted a pagan person who asked me "what do you think 'heathen' means?" I didn't know the correct answer - neither the dictionary definition nor the one she wanted - so I said something like "someone who disagrees with the religion of the person speaking the word."
She responded, in what I now realize was a condescending manner, that it actually meant "people of the hills." I didn't research it at the time but, looking it up now, I can't find anything to support that claim.
I remember reading that polar bears are invisible to IR, which initially interested those interested in stealth; however, apparently the relevant parties lost interest once they found out that the invisibility was only within those wavelengths.
A very short while later, possibly even the same night, I watched Hulk Vs. In that, a polar bear is distinctly shown as visible on an IR camera. I thought it quite the oversight.
I recently pulled out my previous laptop that I'd used for several years before getting my current one. I don't remember how long I'd had the previous one, but it's been quite a few years.
While working on my project with that laptop I accidentally bumped it and knocked it off my desk. Reflexively, I grabbed for it and managed to catch it by the corner of the screen.
And that's how I found out my laptop had a touchscreen.
Oh, the one that was successful was a huge number of years ago. The other that wasn't was fairly recent, but I'm canny enough that I blocked them early. Thank you for the advice though.
Not to say that I've never done it, but I don't use them for negative things very often. I just like to remind myself of things. For example, I've started a few Lemmy friendships that then moved to one messenger or another; I have those users tagged with their first names so I'm sure to notice when a post is by a friend.
Or, back when I used Connect, I had quite a few tags; a lot of them were because a user said something interesting about themselves of which I wanted to make note. One that comes to mind - though I'm not sure if this person is still around - was a user who said "I'm just a construction worker with a camera" so I tagged them as such.
Can you turn off the stupid BEEP BEEP BEEP so that it doesn't yell at you for unplugging it when the actual problem is that it just wasn't in the mood to run anymore?
Most of my tags are pretty specific, but there are a few for which I've forgotten context as well. Back on Connect I had a user tagged as "no tire kickers" and I only very, very vaguely remember why.
What makes you think I don't know any giants?