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[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] kabi@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

I was wondering what was happening there!

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours ago

I noticed that! Never seen that before either.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

amorphous is a bouba word for kiki materials

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 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

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Where’s that area on this phase diagram?

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago
[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Some rain feels very kiki to me.

[–] moonlight@fedia.io 7 points 6 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.

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

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