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Shifty Nipples posted:In the face of all the things necessary to maintain a human presence in Antarctica it seems superfluous to be like "oh happy day at least I can still worship an imaginary sky wizard." It’s Antarctica. There is little to do there besides drink.
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christmas boots posted:Can’t help but think Galileo really got in trouble for stuff like writing a book where the geocentric model was argued by a stand in of the pope and naming him dipshit This is like the regressives defending MacArthur High School and the Irvine police department because actually, Ahmed’s clock wasn’t very cool and it looked like an idiot’s conception of a bomb So what if he was baiting them? If they took the bait, that’s on them.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, “If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.” Said Diogenes, “Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.” christmas boots posted:It's also not at all like the racial profiling of a 14 year old boy. It is possible to discuss the structural similarities of events without drawing moral equivalence between parties or outcomes of those events.
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Nov 27, 2020 05:23
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Diogenes was wild, like a dog. Behold a man of great hits. quote:Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, “Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.” I lack the context to know if this is putting down the Spartans as mere boys or if it’s reference to pederasty.
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Nov 27, 2020 05:50
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Captain Hygiene posted:Gotta try seasoning and roasting them, it's a completely different food than the sad-sack boiled version that made me think I fundamentally hated them. Yeah you’ve got to roast the hell out of them. If they’re not black around the edges, they’re not done yet.
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Nov 27, 2020 06:35
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Scarodactyl posted:Aside from everything else about it, this is obviously not an authentic quote since the Greeks (and most people throughout history) didn't think of the brain as where intelligence is stored. That's a modern thing. quote:Well, this was a merry tour of the recesses of the Internet! https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/b4jlu3/what_is_the_original_source_claiming_that/
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Torquemada posted:Ack, someone needs to update his wikipedia page! I’m sure editors have had dozens of pages of edit war over it already.
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Nov 27, 2020 15:25
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flakeloaf posted:Like when burying a body, those first few shovelfuls are dug with the spoon side of the shovel down, to distinguish that work from other things shovels do. Do you normally dig with the handle down?
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Wasabi the J posted:Bullwinkle is a moose in NA. Is he an elk in Europe? I don’t know about how he was localised, but in general, members of his species would be ‘elk’, yes. Wasabi the J posted:Elk in US is big deer with an ascot and pointy head bones. Are those moose in Europe? Those are never ‘moose’. They’re not native to Europe and they don’t come up much, but when they do, they’re ‘wapiti’.
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Dec 20, 2020 16:22
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Imperador do Brasil posted:In Portuguese, elk is “alce”, and moose is “alce americano”, or American elk. Problem solved. That seems backwards.
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There’s a suburb of Stockholm that four elements named for it, thanks to a weird rock at the tungsten mine. The suburb is Ytterby, and they are yttrium, terbium, erbium, and ytterbium. Stockholm has its own element (holmium), so in turn do Scandinavia (scandium), Europe (europium), and the Earth (tellurium).
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EasilyConfused posted:What a cool map! Where did you find it? I don’t recall when I first saw it. It’s been in the maps thread before. I googled something like “chemical element place name map” to bring it up again.
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EasilyConfused posted:Wow, unicode emojis are even more useless than I thought. I don't know why I expected them to all be the same. Why would they all be the same? There are many thousands of variations of letterforms. Platystemon has a new favorite as of 19:20 on Jan 6, 2021 |
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Memento posted:I recently discovered that if you press shift in Stardew Valley, you walk instead of running. That’s the default. There’s an option for sadists to change it to default to walk, run on shift.
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Jan 26, 2021 12:33
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Masochists, surely? Knowing that there are people out there who uncheck that box brings me pain. (Whew. Smooth save.)
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I just accidentally discovered that clicking on your username on the forums main index takes you to your profile. All these years whenever I had to find it for some reason I'd go hunting for one of my posts so I could click the profile button. The logout link is the one that makes (made) your wildest dreams come true. e: Didn’t Jeffrey rename it to something boring for a while? It’s back. 
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Memento posted:potatoes are in pre-measured bags Truly a cursed land.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Actually once I scanned a four dollar six ounce cheese, and then I took home a six dollar six ounce cheese. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4CWJ31HBis
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Jabberlock posted:I just figured out Mediterranean means "between lands", as in it's the sea between Europe, Asia, and Africa. There’s an American Mediterranean Sea (It’s the Caribbean.)
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Silver Falcon posted:Today I heard a radio ad for Home Depot and realized that the popular refrigerator brand Frigidaire is a portmanteau of frigid and air. The Fresh Quince of Frigid Aire.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Oil companies have known about global warming since the late 70s they just don't give a poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lgzz-L7GFg
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CleverHans posted:I went digging for an excellent old post on the subject and found it was yours! Newspapers around the world quoted just the caption from page three forty one and I first came across a scan of one of those. The full story in Popular Mechanics turns out to be far more interesting. I do have a bad habit of just inlining images and quotes and not putting enough text in the post to make them searchable, so let’s tag this one: global warming, climate change, popular mechanics, 1911, turn of the century Platystemon has a new favorite as of 23:54 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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Captain Hygiene posted:Can't wait to see what it looks like two decades after buying the car foliated
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“Scotland Yard” started as a form of metonymy. It’s the same thing as when the Prime Minister’s office is referred to as “Downing Street”. London’s police headquarters used to have an entrance on a street called the Great Scotland Yard. The street was, in turn, named that probably because a lot of important Scots resided there way back when, sort of like “Embassy Row” is today in Washington D.C..
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“Turnwise” is bogus. It should be “deasil”.
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Laopooh posted:e: oh I read this as roger being a euphemism for sex, not penis. I'd never heard of a johnson being referred to as a roger hehe Roger that.
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ITT: people claim to post ellipses… but actually post three periods...
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May 14, 2021 09:49
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When you post three periods, you have to follow it with six spaces... That’s just science.
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Shifty Nipples posted:I just learned from this youtube video that Jujubes are not only a candy but also a deciduous tree/shrub. I imagine the candies are named after the fruit given their similar appearance. It’s an A‐tier fruit, but I would have never known that if I hadn’t had some right off the tree. I was at a nursery and I bought the tree on the spot. They fruit is easy enough to find dried, where they’re sometimes called “Chinese dates”, but those just aren’t the same. Nor are the fresh ones when I’ve found them at supermarkets. Those are picked too early.  IMO they’re best like this, mostly brown but not yet drying out.
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Shifty Nipples posted:I don't know if I can accommodate their soil drainage requirement but I'm gonna look into getting one, thanks. I’m not really testing the limits of mine, but I don’t think that jujubes are especially particular about good drainage. It’s just the default recommendation for fruiting plants and usually good to aim for. It’s notable when a plant doesn’t have “well-draining soil” listed. Pears are an example of something that can take wet soil. Cherries comparatively hate having their feet wet, but plenty of them are grown in the Pacific Northwest regardless. Creating a bit of a raised mound and planting on it should be enough unless you get multi‐day standing water. The bigger issue might be not having enough hot summer weather to fully ripen them.
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Atticus_1354 posted:Be aware that they can be incredibly invasive as they spread rapidly from the roots. Also most will be on a different rootstock so the shoots won't grow good fruit. You will need to grow it in a large container or be very vigilant on preventing the spread. I know this is tempting a genie to gently caress with me, but I wish mine would sucker more aggressively so I could graft to them and dig them up for friends.
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Jestery posted:Wait, What most of the rest of the world calls “kerosene”, Brits call “paraffin”. It’s a petroleum distillate, heavier than gasoline (petrol) and lighter than diesel fuel. Outside of Britain, “paraffin” is an artificial wax that is solid at room temperature, used to make candles. Platystemon has a new favorite as of 19:34 on Jun 18, 2021 |
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Oh yeah that stuff is complete dogshit. I think the idea is that it’s less volatile than kerosene and reduces the smell, but it produces oodles of soot and that’s way worse.
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fizzymercury posted:I've always wondered if corn mazes were a pun on maize or if I'm reading too much into it. I see you have yet to be aMAZEd by their CORNy puns.
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Scarodactyl posted:Also the general origin of A+++ tier username Corn in the Bible Genesis 42:26 (KJV) posted:And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
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Gaius Marius posted:Hopefully you dropped the "friend" who didn't understand the majesty of the Dreamcast controller Hall effect 4 lyfe
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packetmantis posted:Augustine was a weird loving dude. We read some of Confessions (I think?) in my Latin class and there was a big chunk where he wrote about going to a chariot race and being disgusted at all the unwashed sheeple who haven't seen the light of God. Augustine talks a little about intersex people, and he’s like “I don’t fully understand this, but we should give them the benefit of the doubt and treat them as male, because being male is clearly superior”.
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Beartaco posted:I've just had my mind blown by my flatmate, most cars are front wheel drive? Including mine?? Why, my entire life have I assumed that rear wheel drive was the default, and front wheel drive was the weird thing fancy sports cars did and not the other way around? I mean it makes sense, not having to bring the power from the engine at the front to the wheels at the back. Rear wheel drive cars have to have a tunnel for the driveshaft. It makes the middle seat extra awful. Not that this is the reason to go FWD, but you’ll know when you’re in a RWD car.
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Gaius Marius posted:Netipots are bullshit. How else would I get a brain‐eating amoeba? Surely you don’t expect me to swim in a fetid pond.
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