TIL there's a solar powered pink refrigerator in the Namib Desert
TIL there's a solar powered pink refrigerator in the Namib Desert
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The Unbelievable Pink Fridge in the Namibian Desert
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What? No parasol over the table?
This rest stop sucks.
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Or the fridge?? How hard is that heat pump working
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I mean, that thing is working so hard it turned the entire surrounding countryside into desert!
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Yeah, put the fridge in the shade of a solar panel. I don't believe it would work well otherwise
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I don’t believe it would work well otherwise
What a weird comment to say about a device that's actually working well.
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It's working. Is it working well? We don't know.
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If only there was a way to find out. . .
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The pink fridge is a shell with a fridge inside it.
The fridge is inside an insulated box that blocks the sun.
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What the fuck is a parasol?
Edit: I looked it up and now I understand. Does the word happen to come from Spanish? Parasol would mean “for the sun” much like other words like parabrisas.
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Yes, but "para" also means "stop". Comes from "parar", "to stop". In this case it would mean something like "sun stopper". Or in your example, "breeze stopper".
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Oh wow, I feel like a moron now. I never could figure out why it would be “for wind.”
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Haha nah you're alright. Every day we learn something new! Also another one, "umbrella" is "paraguas" (waters stopper) :)
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Or parapluie (rain stopper)
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Nope that's French, I think, my French est terrible, but definitely not Spanish.
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Yup I didn't take intend it to be a Spanish example btw, just to show that the para prefix works in other languages too.
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Paradise → 🛑🎲
Paradox → 🛑📄
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Where are you from that you don't know what a parasol is?
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