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Gabriel Snyder

gabrielsnyder

TIL: in 1937 a group tried (quite unsuccessfully) to ban dogs from NYC “Rid New York City of dogs?” said Mrs. Frank Clarke, a dog owner living on 18th Street.

Todd Fuck

whitneyarner

somehow my therapy session today involved me finding out that not everyone has a ridge down the roof of their mouth and my mind is FUCKING BLOWN!!!! like 70-80% of

Brian Keating

DrBrianKeating

I just received the sad news that my colleague, Margaret Burbidge, has passed away. She turned 100 years old last August. Margaret played a foundational role in the physics and

CO shield

coloradoshield

So, I will address this since it has become fairly common knowledge in the #DenverProtest scene. I have several tattoos on my back. One of which is the holy Hindu

Ian Yorston

IanYorston

"Vickrey's basic idea was simple: when the trains were busy, charge more. When they were quiet, charge less."#SurgePricing #MicroEconomics #Incentives #Nudge #InformationAsymmetry #MoralHazard #AdverseSelection https://www.bbc.co.uk/new

WarringStates

StatesWarring

Since totems came up, here's something cool. Nowadays everyone goes for either dragon or panda as the Chinese national mascot. Actually, those are super-recent... People only really got interested in

Ian Bogost

ibogost

Sorry if this has been covered, but are Transformers existentially dualist, or do they have a preferred or “natural” state (are they robot sive vehicle, or robot vel vehicle)? Or

JEANDARC

vuildco

Ok, lets do a nice looking places thread for a change.Mont de St Michelhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont-Saint-Michelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rhtVj0gJMUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-5nKaVfWkk St Michael's Mounthttps://en.wi

Guy Pe'er

GuyPeer3

Worried about the Amazon burning? Surely yes. But what do you know of the S American Atlantic forest? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_ForestAfter hearing of the scorching heat over Paraguay, Brazil & Argentina, I

Tat Twam Asi 🍁

DODO_but1

You call yourself feminist!!! How many of you know about this lady? She's Nangeli a real feminist! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nangeli Ok now straight to the point - Everywhere I see I find girls

Jess Martini 🍸

btcty

The allied forces literally re-brainwashed the Germans after WW2 under a process called Denazification. You can find more out here > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DenazificationFrighteningly, they don't appear to have ever turned o

Anosognosiogenesis

pookleblinky

Ever wonder why women were the first programmers?Knitting was considered women's work, and this is what they were doing when knitting. Women were working with register machines and boolean logic

Natalie Buske Thomas

buske_natalie

Response about losing American rights:"If it keeps us alive, what's the problem?"Alive for how long?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_regimes 2) And that's from a source known to be less than accu

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ultimape

"IYI" - framing of hypocrite, but in terms of status seeking + failed praxis among leaders. Taleb's 95 thesis?Ref:https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/do_as_I_say_and_not_as_I_do https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/860893007922556930 Why fav

Irène DB

UrbanFoxxxx

A thread on ship/boat lifts. Starting with the prettiest — Falkirk Wheel, Scotland (2002) The maddest — the Krasnoyarsk ship lift on the Yenisei River, the second largest in the

Abi Zakarian

Abi_Zakarian

Hitler used the Armenian Genocide as a template for his plans for the final solution. At the Obersalzberg Address in 1939 he outlined these plans and stated: “Who, after all,