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QuickSpore t1_j7d3g84 wrote

Reply to comment by BeatlesTypeBeat in Lead Plates and Land Claims in North America and Europe: When did the practice begin of burying lead plates to establish ownership of land, and why did it die out, and was it ever used successfully in a court of law to establish ownership? by whyenn

That wouldn’t surprise me. Things can have decades long backgrounds before they become commonly known.

It definitely wasn’t in use at my school, my internships, or my first couple jobs. It’s interesting that according to Merriam-Webster they didn’t recognize lede as an appropriate variant spelling till 2008. That vibes with my experience trying to stay in the journalism industry.

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QuickSpore t1_j7cy867 wrote

Reply to comment by osberend in Lead Plates and Land Claims in North America and Europe: When did the practice begin of burying lead plates to establish ownership of land, and why did it die out, and was it ever used successfully in a court of law to establish ownership? by whyenn

The modern spelling of lede is super recent. When I was in my journalism program in the 1990s it was almost always “bury the lead.” It’s only after about 2000 that the industry switched over to the lede spelling.

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QuickSpore t1_j272sa5 wrote

Reply to comment by RegulusRemains in The 1984 Dune film makes a lot more sense if The Spice is referred to as Space Cocaine instead. by neoengel

Probably not the inspiration though.

Dune was first published in 1965. Back then Saddam was a minor revolutionary figure in jail while the anti-Ba’athist Abdul Salam Arif was president and functional dictator of Iraq. Back then Saddam was a known, but rare, Arabic name.

Saddam Hussein wouldn’t rise to prominence until the 1968 coup where his cousin Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr became president and Saddam became vice President.

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QuickSpore t1_j270s8z wrote

Reply to comment by randymysteries in The 1984 Dune film makes a lot more sense if The Spice is referred to as Space Cocaine instead. by neoengel

Kind of. It’s sand trout (the larval form of the worms) poop mixed with a unique fungus found only on Dune mixed with water. As the fungus grows in the wet poop it transforms it into a “pre-spice mass,” and off-gasses carbon dioxide. When pressure in the mass reaches a critical point, it explodes, blowing the pre-spice to the surface and chemically transforming it. It then bakes in the sun and heat finally finishing turning into spice melange.

It’s worm poop like whiskey is rye. It’s only after pressure, water, yeast, time, and heat that rye is transformed into whiskey. It’s only after pressure, water, fungus, time, and baking that turns sand trout poop into spice melange.

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