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Post by anaix3l on Apr 4, 2023 12:47:29 GMT -5
Transylvania right now... good thing we have had electricity...
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Post by anaix3l on Apr 23, 2023 11:44:20 GMT -5
This Sunday's dinner Funny little story: a few months ago, when I had black grapes (now they're too expensive to buy regularly, around the equivalent of about $3 per kilo), I was finishing a fruit bowl and wanted to pick the final two grapes from the bowl. The very same bowl as in the photo above. Except those weren't grapes... they were Mickey's ears!
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Post by anaix3l on May 10, 2023 6:55:03 GMT -5
I really like this kind of videos, where musicians discuss the music they like, their influences
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Post by anaix3l on May 15, 2023 12:59:10 GMT -5
a million ways to die
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Post by anaix3l on May 29, 2023 12:45:02 GMT -5
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Post by anaix3l on Jun 3, 2023 2:49:59 GMT -5
Filed under silly questions you ask yourself on a Saturday morning... and then ask the internet for answers! I came across this - raccoon for mayor of Toronto ... and I wondered... I've heard of animals elected as mayors before (and honestly, I get it... sometimes all human candidates really suck), but I think it was always smaller places. What's the biggest city that ever had a non-human mayor? Would Toronto be the biggest if they actually elect a raccoon, which I don't expect to happen, but whatever... Well, what the hell do we have the internet for if not to research such stuff?! It turns out it's (by far even!) Fortaleza in Brazil, where a goat got elected a century ago... and still watches over the city to this day from the museum where it's kept... stuffed. Haven't been able to find 1922 population data for Fortaleza, but we have less than half the current population for 50 years ago and less than a tenth for 75 years ago. Assuming even as little 1% of the current population in 1922 still means it was bigger at the time than any other place that actually elected a non-human mayor ever was. So to answer the second question, yes, Toronto would be the biggest, even if we are to compare 2020s data (though only by a narrow margin in this case).
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Post by anaix3l on Jun 5, 2023 5:54:09 GMT -5
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Post by anaix3l on Jun 12, 2023 11:00:49 GMT -5
^That was about trying to get to meet Joe and Alice again, btw. I was... um, trying to scale down my expectations. --- I was talking recently talking to a friend about this. Why people do shitty things, how they justify that and what might make one more likely to accept those justifications. The relevant part is the last column. from here (paywalled study)
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Post by AeroCooper on Jun 12, 2023 15:43:10 GMT -5
What did one Frenchman say to the other Frenchman? I have no idea, I don't speak French.
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Post by anaix3l on Jun 13, 2023 4:28:33 GMT -5
Life so often blows your candle out
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Post by anaix3l on Jun 13, 2023 12:24:28 GMT -5
There's this little band I like... they tour quite a bit, so I've had the chance of seeing them over a dozen times. 2023 Wacken main stage headliners! (and yes, they've headlined Wacken before... back when it was a tiny festival in the '90s... but never since it got massive!)
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Post by AeroCooper on Jun 18, 2023 8:17:02 GMT -5
Hacker: I have all of your passwords
Me: OMG, thank you! What are they?
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Post by anaix3l on Jun 21, 2023 3:09:47 GMT -5
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Post by anaix3l on Jun 22, 2023 6:38:28 GMT -5
Twitter has a feature called "Discover more" - on a tweet's page, it shows you other tweets you might be interested in based on the one you're viewing. Sometimes, that's hilarious. It just so happened that the first tweet under "Discover more" on the page of a nothing-but-a-swan-photo tweet was "Schnitzel time"
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Post by anaix3l on Jun 22, 2023 18:38:22 GMT -5
Why I only travel with a small backpack.
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