Found this post on IG and I’m wondering what this community’s stance is. With winter now officially here*, I think it’s a valid question.
Edit: *where I live
Local variants of sticks are acceptable.
You can melt and solidify metal but that is considered a rod, not a stick
You can melt and solidify water
That is a rod of ice
Bread sticks
Stick of butter
Stick of dynamite
Carrot sticks
Stick shiftI feel like there’s enough precedent to allow the Ice stick, given the circumstances
Disagree. In each of the cases you’ve cited the term “stick” describes the form of the subject, and no better term exists.
If small shafts of carrot were commonly called carroticles, then you couldn’t call one a carrot stick.
Clearly the object pictured in this post is an icicle. It is not an ice stick.
The voice of reason.
I just realized there is an entire continent where there are no trees, and thus no sticks.
And it isnt a small continent either. it is larger than all of Europe and also larger than Australia. We arent talking about an island or archipelago or even some random landlocked desert. It is a continent.
the fact that there are no sticks that naturally occur there at all… it confuses and concerns me.
This is deeply unsettling to me.
Don’t worry, flowers are starting to bloom more and more on Antarctica.
Soon, trees will start to grow so even that continent has sticks!
Wait … that is even a bigger concern to worry.
When humanity has to move to the poles to survive, I’d rather have trees than not.
Coastal Norway is also pretty warm in this sense, but there aren’t any trees far north. I suspect there’s more than just warmth they want
Don’t worry. At this rate, the ice will be gone soon and… oh
So i did a little research. The sad/fun part about my realization is… if you go back far enough in time, before the ice and nothingness, archeologists have pointed out that Antarctica was once a massive forest continent.
Millions of years ago, it had trees, and thus, sticks for days and days.
Once again we are living in the wrong time. Too late to explore all continents having sticks. But also too early to live where all continents have sticks. In the grand scheme of things, we exist in the uneven ground.
It’s a sad equilibrium to be sure.
also larger than Australia
Not all that well-known, but Australia claims about 42% of Antarctica as part of it’s territory.
Australia can go fuck itself
Nope. Ignore the pandering milquetoasts.
A stick is a stick. This is not one. Do we have no standards?
What are you, some kind of stick adjudicator?
I’m a stickler for correctness.
We grant you the rank of honorary stick.
“This is acceptable! This is fair!”
It is an ice sculpture of a stick.
can’t bring sticks? i have questions
You can’t bring anything that could carry non-native lifeforms on it, to preserve Antarctica’s unique Flora and Fauna from invasive species.
What, not even our nice Norwegian ~shape-shifting assimilating microbes~dogs?
EDIT: I am sad lemmy doesn’t appear to support strikethrough.
Bookend two tildes for strike through ~~ stuff ~~ =
stuffDoesn’t work for me? Vivaldi (Chrome-based browser, desktop) using old.lemmy.ca
Oh… ha, I browse using the ‘mlmym.org’ theme. Using
www.lemmy.caI see it works. Must be a bug in the theme. I’ll see who I can report to, for a fix. Thanks.
This is likely an extremely powerful weapon that can only be used once before it breaks so save it for the last boss.
Fuck, I beat the last boss and I forgot this was in my inventory…
