Bimate removal of half.

Decimate comes from decimatus past participle of decimar removal of 1/10.

"Those guys split us right down the middle, then finished half of us off."

…how are people using penultimate incorrectly? Am I using it incorrectly? Does it not mean second to last?

I didn't even know it had an alternate or wrong meaning

At least the dictionary still lists the real meaning as valid.

Do we have any other words where adding the prefix "pen" to it means "next to"?

Yeah, but the AI bros don't want to imply that the LLMs are lying to you.

So we get to hundred, then thousand up to hundred thousand, why would we use a thousand thousand for a million, or ten hundred thousand, or a hundred thousand thousand? A new word at each separator just makes easy parsing.

One hundred seventy three thousand million four hundred sixty two thousand four hundred twenty just sounds so much worse and harder to parser when hearing it.

It comes from the Latin "decimatio", a form of Roman military punishment where every tenth man had to be executed by his mates.

If an art work has been popular for years, has won dozens of awards, is used by experts as an example of excellence, isn't it 'objectively' good?

I understand your point, that a person might not like a particular movie or game and therefore think it's 'not good.'

I'm saying that even when you're talking about a subjective experience there are criteria that a disinterested party can rate and successful or unsuccessful.

No, you’ve only gone and dekamated them.

For years, growing up, there were signs saying "adopt a view point" in the highway we'd drive out to see family over the holidays.

For years, I thought they were saying something about road saftey, warning drivers to look at whats coming up instead of directly in front of them. Something akin to the picking a spot on the horizon to sail towards to keep the boat straight my dad had taught me for sailing...

At some point i realized the blue signs were all guidance or info, not rules or warning. At one point I thought they might be politically motivated, like the "please dont litter" signs along that same highway- where they pleading with us to form and opinion, any opinion.

I think I was in my late teens before I finally saw one that said "this viewpoint adopted by " and realized they were literally asking people to sponsor the scenic pull-off spots along the highway.

I still prefer to read them as some poor civil servant waging a private campaign against nihilism, picking the nicest bits of scenery for his message, hoping to shock the american public out of their unfeeling malaise.

I'm in Minnesota, and I can confirm there are people who think ketchup is spicy.

The first time I encountered "ketchup is spicy/a hot sauce," I thought it was a joke. Then I also learned that there are truly bland people who think salt and pepper is "too much".

I live in a very weird state.

I grew up eating what most people consider very spicy food. I don't care what level of spicy other people are comfortable with, but I've found that amongst certain types of people I have to be discreet about my preference for spicy food. Some people find it a novelty to gawk at which is just awkward.

I fairly recently moved to Minnesota and I love very spicy foods. I just have to accept the fact that everything people here tell me is spicy is going to be very tame. People that get to know me have started saying "really spicy... for Minnesota" lmao

US and Canada largely have the same power generation/delivery standards.

Yeah, we quit using Frankenstein levers two centuries ago.

I'm Australian, but some of the older switchboards in industrial installations are similar in appearance to the top image.

The middle would have a busbar (or three if it's a three phase panel) that connects the circuit breakers to the main switch. The cables are connected to the far left and far right sides of the breakers.

It could be different in the US, though, if anyone with more relevant experience wants to chime in.

Edit: looking back at the top image, I'm reminded that the US uses split phase in some places, so that top panel likely has two busbars down the middle.

Varies with installation type, age, and scale, but one common approach is to daisy chain the breakers via rails that carry each phase. I couldn't find a good picture, but basically the rails and breakers are standardized so that a row of breakers will line up with the-rail terminals, so when you connect the rail to the mains you're good to go. On the output of the breaker it's common to use cable ducts to keep everything nice and tidy.

EDIT: Found a picture:

It's done that way so the breaker box will fit between studs that are 18" on center, which is standard for USA residential construction.

You generally only see breakers on din rail in the USA in industrial equipment.

2 big reasons for that:

1. Fits better between studs as the other commenter stated
2. Easier and cleaner to route the 2 power phases. US plugs are famously ~120V but what many don't realize is that's a single phase of 120V, and there's two phases that go into the breaker box. By combining the +120VAC and -120VAC phases you get a full 240VAC for higher power appliances like stoves, dryers, heat pumps and electric vehicles.

343 have no idea what the fuck they are doing and never have