• Contentedness@lemmy.nz
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    1 month ago

    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
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      1 month ago

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

      “Accidentally” feels sorta judgy.