What interesting things have you only recently learned about?
To be clear, this is about things which have been true for some time and you only recently learned about, not things that only happened recently. In particular, recent deaths of celebrities and other high-profile individuals should go in the General RIP Thread
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So, what interesting things have you guys...and gals...only recently learned about?
Edited by Twiddler on Apr 8th 2023 at 1:07:55 AM
It is what the study abstract says, but I have not read the study.
"Just as planned."
I can't read it right now, but I'd guess to say that what they mean is that they tried to get out of it simply because what happened was pure accident and what they were doing could not be easily known of beforehand - now they know, they know what to do.
"Did you expect somebody else?"
I fought the Lore, and the Lore won.
Everyone in my family says 'Fudgicle' as a joke because a few years ago I questioned why they merged Fudge+icicle rather than Fudge+Ickle.
Not dead, just feeling like it.
Rachael, I am talking about this abstract.
They were claiming they knew all along it was going to happen, but press along because money. By this NASA have committed criminally negligent manslaughter, which because it is committed by NASA falls under state sponsor crime (what state corporate crime is a minor category of), which further falls under the textbook definition of corruption. IIRC that's what Freymann wrote in his book, but he never gone in depth with it because he's not a lawyer.
I am interested. I will never be a lawyer but it is nice learning some laws.
Edit: I will try to obtain it legally.
edited 25th Aug '14 4:42:42 PM by KnightOfNASA
Disney is going to be screening every new part of the Star Wars Expanded Universe to prevent contradictory canon, Writer on Board, and Creator's Pet.
The fact that they're actually going to keep things straight is a vast improvement from the character derailing and rerailing that occured in the "Legacy" Expanded Universe.
edited 25th Aug '14 4:49:20 PM by DuneTheWanderer
Bloody Fossil
Now they just need to get the right people to do that (the likes of Jason Fry or Daniel Wallace) and things might just be good.
A different shape every step I take A different mind every step of the line
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
In America, girls are allowed to play American Football.......for at least almost 30 years.
whatever he can
Donald Glover is voicing Miles Morales in the Spider Man cartoon.
dead devotion
The Advocate has been running since 1967. Also that it is a print magazine. I'd only ever seen the articles online
Mweheheh
There's a guy in Iraq who goes through withdrawal if he goes three days without consuming scorpion venom.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Basically canon
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On that note, Miles Morales is in the Spider-Man cartoon.
Uniocular
John Lennon was actually kind of a piece of shit.
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
My dad now lives in a homeless shelter 15 miles away from me. He really wanted to be up here, he didn't like the people he was living with downstate, and he at least realizes that moving back in with my mom is not an option.
How did your dad wind up homeless ?
He was living with some people and he didn't like that they were doing drugs. He's bounced around for years because he's on disability and can't get a job or enough money to have a place of his own.
I fought the Lore, and the Lore won.
My father's in the same circumstances, doesn't help he has one leg.
Tell me I'm not being foolish here:
Mary and Charles enter a banquet. Mary spots an old friend named Mrs. Nottingham, Charles mingles in the crowd. Mary and Nottingham catch up before Mary comments that Nottingham is wearing so much jewelry after the "King's Diamond" has been stolen.
Nottingham asks 'What point is there in wealth if one can not flaunt it?' Mary excuses herself from the table, bumps into Charles, and exits the building. Charles watches as Nottingham realizes one of her possessions has been stolen and Mary drives away. The end of the story reveals that Charles has the diamond.
I assumed that Mary and Charles were the thieves and had just robbed both the king and Nottingham, but the questions I was asked imply that Nottingham was the thief. I'm not crazy for thinking this right?
Not dead, just feeling like it.
Did Nottingham rob the king, then Mary rob Nottingham, then Charles rob Mary?
I fought the Lore, and the Lore won.
I assumed Mary and Charles were cohorts and were plotting to steal from Nottingham. But apparently Nottingham was the thief, Mary took the diamond off her and passed it to Charles. Charles being an agent of the king.
Not dead, just feeling like it.
Perhaps that's the trick: by placing another pair of thieves (Charles and Mary) into the picture (and especially with one of them as the central character), the narrative encourages an erroneous assumption of narrative efficiency (or appeal to Occam's Razor): that when theft is going on and one group of thieves is known, it's reasonable to assume that there are no other thieves. As the example points out, this is not necessarily the case.
My Games & Writing
Hello Kitty is apparently supposed to be a child, not a cat. What the everloving heck.
This is a really weird way to tell Sanrio's artists that they suck at drawing human kids 40 years after the fact. Because how the heck do you draw something like that without intending it to be a cat?!
edited 27th Aug '14 9:35:23 PM by BearyScary
I liked it better when Questionable Casting was called WTH Casting Agency
Their logic:
edited 27th Aug '14 10:06:02 PM by Sixthhokage1
Reposted from shipping:
"Almost no one will understand what this means, but I've just found out that it is allegedly possible to be co-morbid for histrionic and narcissistic personality disorder. I've heard of elements of one passing into the other, but, on the whole, I've always thought that they were kind of incompatible."
This is a signature.
Basically canon
"Scooby-Doo and the Trip of Lust" is a thing. I'm not looking it up and neither should you.
pearlina brainrot affects millions of people worldwide. if you or a loved one are suffering from pearlina brainrot, call 1-800-GAY-NERDS
It was a fad among upper-class women in the early 20th century to work out with heavy weights and even take up boxing with men as their sparring partners. So much for fragile damsels
If we disagree, that much, at least, we have in common
I didn't know they made an opera of Macbeth. It was the answer to the final clue on Jeopardy!.
I smell magic in the air. Or maybe barbecue.