The More You Know ★
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- sausages0
I'd never noticed before but Mr. Burns is the bass player for Spinal Tap.
- Krassy5
The letters CH stand for the Latin name for Switzerland – Confoederatio Helvetica. These words are therefore an abbreviation for Switzerland. The main reason for this is that using the Latin words avoids favoring any one of the four Swiss national languages.
- News to me: the name "Helvetica" means “Swiss” in LatinKrassy
- It stays.palimpsest
- hans_glib7
- https://i.pinimg.com…imbecile
- as much as I am 100% digital, i will always find vinyl utterly fascinating for just how physical a medium it is. ^that gif is like nails down a blackboard to meNairn
- ^^ That is deeply satisfyingContinuity
- What really draws me to vinyl is the expense and the inconvenience.jagara
- "it just sounds different"doesnotexist
- To be fair, I believe it does ;)jagara
- it is different. at its essence, the sound wave is literally a different shape.imbecile
- I treated my vinyl properly in the 20th century.CyBrainX
- Bluejam2
"In Fig. 2, we plot all the composite objects in the Universe: protons, atoms, life forms, asteroids, moons, planets, stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, giant voids, and the Universe itself. Humans are represented by a mass of 70 kg and a radius of 50 cm (we assume sphericity), while whales are represented by a mass of 105 kg and a radius of 7 m."
- neverscared1
- This just confirms how gullible and stupid that his MAGA base is. They believe anything that he says.utopian
- neverscared0
From alternative conceptions of honesty to alternative facts in communications by US politicians
The spread of online misinformation on social media is increasingly perceived as a problem for societal cohesion and democracy. The role of political leaders in this process has attracted less research attention, even though politicians who ‘speak their mind’ are perceived by segments of the public as authentic and honest even if their statements are unsupported by evidence. By analysing communications by members of the US Congress on Twitter between 2011 and 2022, we show that politicians’ conception of honesty has undergone a distinct shift, with authentic belief speaking that may be decoupled from evidence becoming more prominent and more differentiated from explicitly evidence-based fact speaking. We show that for Republicans—but not Democrats—an increase in belief speaking of 10% is associated with a decrease of 12.8 points of quality (NewsGuard scoring system) in the sources shared in a tweet. In contrast, an increase in fact-speaking language is associated with an increase in quality of sources for both parties. Our study is observational and cannot support causal inferences. However, our results are consistent with the hypothesis that the current dissemination of misinformation in political discourse is linked to an alternative understanding of truth and honesty that emphasizes invocation of subjective belief at the expense of reliance on evidence.
- hans_glib1
- :') do qbners count?sarahfailin
- Wait ... is this like Money Cat (Bird, Dog, etc)? Should we be upvoting? Here, have an upvote, just in case. Roll on, $252!Continuity
- utopian1
The largest and oldest living organism on Earth is the Pando clone, a quaking aspen colony of over 47,000 trees in Utah that stretches over 106-acres, weighs 13 million pounds, and is 80,000 years old.
- Whoa! Never heard of thisbezoar
- time to...burn it down? i need a housedoesnotexist
- Nairn5
I've finally found evidence that I'm not a total moron. At least, ..ok, notsomuch. Anyway,
I've always said "tret" instead of "treated" and was called out upon it in my twenties and totally blue-screened, realising that I had no idea why i said it that way.
> Tret
> (Northern England, Bristol, colloquial) simple past and past participle of treat, i.e. treated.https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/t…
Fuck you, Rich.
- My cousins would say ‘bet’ as the past tense of ‘beat’ — “I bet him up”
Not sure where it came fromGnash - Ooh, i like that too! Why not?Nairn
- Similarly, I've heard people use ‘et’ as the past tense of ‘eat’.Continuity
- Yeah, I grew up in Northern England and although I've lived away from there for over 20 years, I still say 'tret' and 'et'Wolfboy
- Here's a short play:
"Aye lad, your mother tret me well... are you alright?"
"No, I et some bad chicken"
annnd scene.Wolfboy - Yeah RICH, SUCK IT!stoplying
- like "he pleaded guilty" like nah it's "he PLED guilty"doesnotexist
- Pled, is a word thoughGnash
- My cousins would say ‘bet’ as the past tense of ‘beat’ — “I bet him up”
- Akagiyama2
- I don't think that's 1969, I'm pretty sure they built that viewing deck in the 80s or 90s_niko
- well I stand corrected, it was built in the 60's but extensively renovated in the 2000s_niko
- so, waterfalls, huh? cooldoesnotexist
- Just don't go chasing them.Akagiyama
- sted7
- Multiplied by 2.palimpsest
- Lolz we just test drove one of these beasts; my wife feels the outback isn’t quite enough space BUT I feel it’s just right.
First world problem(s), eh?ideaist - It's what makes a Subaru a Subaruutopian
- Gotta have room for soda from junk food drive throughs . It’s a joint campaign with Pepsi & ComeKrassy
- pepsi and...what??Akagiyama
- Lol. *CokeKrassy
- Would do better to drop six of them and use the space for an onboard toilet with all the stops they're going to have to make.webazoot
- I don't believe itdrgs
- https://youtu.be/hbO…garbage
- Yep. We've got an Ascent, so many cupholders.akiersky
- Only problem is they are all pretty small and many coffee mugs and water bottles don't fitakiersky
- ^ that’s cup-holder blaming. Not coolGnash
- designed by homersarahfailin
- hans_glib0
- haha that's the US version of the "U-boot"sted
- https://en.wikipedia…)sted
- neverscared0
First cat in space: how a Parisian stray called Félicette was blasted far from Earth
Tortoises have been put in orbit round the moon; thousands of jellyfish were once flown on a space shuttle; and in 1973, two garden spiders, Anita and Arabella, were taken to the Skylab orbiting laboratory to see if they could spin webs in microgravity. (They could but the webs were unevenly shaped, scientists found.)
“In the 60s, scientists and engineers were primarily concerned about how dangerous it might be for a human to be in a capsule in outer space, and most animal space flights were undertaken to see if they suffered or their lives were threatened by the weightlessness or increased radiation or other effects they might experience up there,” said astronomer Jake Foster at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
- sted6
- The History of Solar
https://www1.eere.en…utopian - fusion coming in hot in the next decadeKrassy
- ^and it always will be.sarahfailin
- ^ coming in the next decadested
- The History of Solar