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Japanese monks and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years. They accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset (cdn.bsky.app)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Valnao@sh.itjust.works to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Is there a difference in tone or meaning between accidentally and inadvertently? I feel like accidentally means they did something that was a bad thing.

[–] xploit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Mr Bob Ross would like a word...
I agree with you on inadvertently, but accident, if I'm not mistaken would generally considered something where you do not inherently attribute blame. At least thats what I recall being justification for making the change in UK in calling traffic 'incidents' incidents instead of accidents several years back. Dunno if it stuck though.

[–] Contentedness@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I agree it seems a strange choice of words.

Japanese monks and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years. ~~They accidentally~~ In doing so they built the world's longest climate dataset

Something like that seems more straightforward.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I think “inadvertently” fits in that it isn’t what they were intending to do.

“Accidentally” feels sorta judgy.