What have you learned today?
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The sort of information worth stealing isn’t usually held on devices that are connected to the internet. Some of them aren’t even digital records at all. You can still have that kind of thrilling espionage tension if you write it correctly.
It's honestly somewhat comforting to learn Rob Schneider's beliefs, politics and critical thinking are just as awful as his comedy.
Woman Discovers World's Oldest Message in a Bottle While Strolling on Beach in Australia
"It’s a billion to one chance, but at some point in history, someone was likely to unearth it."
Done as an experiment by the Germans generations ago, who luckily wrote the details of them doing in in a document that has survived, so it could be corroborated.
So there's this thing in Korean pop songs where the lyrics frequently include what sounds like the N-word. For example, in the chorus of this
Except they're not saying the N-word. They're saying niga (니가), which in Korean is just an informal way of saying "you"
Except they're not saying the N-word. They're saying niga (니가), which in Korean is just an informal way of saying "you"
Yet another reason to hate Korean pop music: annoying, obnoxious, and now we can add bigoted to the list.
Bit of a PSA, but did you know you can get Gold Points on the Nintendo eshop for your physical Switch games? Cuz I didn't.
Anyway, works like this:
- Slam that game cartridge into your Switch
- Highlight the game on the home menu
- Press the + button, then select My Nintendo Rewards Program
- Select Earn Points
It only awards 1% in Gold Points of the price of that game on the eshop, as opposed to 5% if you'd bought it digitally. So a full price game gets you $0.60 worth of points. Also, the game needs to have been released in the past year. And it of course only works once. It ain't much, but, you know, take what you can get.
Anyway, works like this:
- Slam that game cartridge into your Switch
- Highlight the game on the home menu
- Press the + button, then select My Nintendo Rewards Program
- Select Earn Points
It only awards 1% in Gold Points of the price of that game on the eshop, as opposed to 5% if you'd bought it digitally. So a full price game gets you $0.60 worth of points. Also, the game needs to have been released in the past year. And it of course only works once. It ain't much, but, you know, take what you can get.
That the phrase "phoning it in" is due to actors in theaters having so small roles it was said they might as well be acting via telephone from their home, phoning it in.
Arnold Schwarzenegger thinks we've come a long way since health food made you look bad
The former governor and legendary weightlifter chats about vegan sausages and that video from the early days of the war in Ukraine.
Musician/singer/songwriter Burt Bacharach died a couple of days ago, and while I was familiar with the name and a few of his songs, I had NO idea just how prolific he actually was. The tributes I watched taught me he wrote a TON of very popular and well-known songs for a TON of very popular and well-known artists spanning well over half a century. I won't even attempt to list them all, but he wrote for artists like Diana Ross, Luther Vandross, Patti LaBelle, the theme for "Arthur", hell, a shit-ton of music I grew up around all while thinking Burt Bacharach was little more than a lounge singer/pianist. My gf and I were watching the tributes, and damn-near every song they mentioned, we replied in unison: "he wrote THAT?!?" My eyes are open and I'm truly amazed; the respect and recognition I have for this man just shot through the roof. Too bad it took his passing to make me realize.
I learned that the Sunday Night Football theme was composed by John Williams.
The original VW Beetle was huge in Mexico, earning the name "Vocho" ("Volkswagen" + "bicho", or bug), forming the largest city-based taxi service ever, and being the car that generations of Mexicans learned to drive in. Mexico was the last country to commercially produce the original Beetle, and there's still a big community of restoration enthusiasts keeping theirs going.
Today I learned that there's a World Marathon Challenge. You run 7 marathons, one on each of the 7 continents... in 7 days. No, thank you.
Happy V day I guess-
The dark origins of Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate romance and love and kissy-face fealty. But the ancient Romans had bloodier, drunker and more naked notions to mark the occasion.
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The highest earning men aren't especially intelligent. What explains their success?
A study out of Sweden shows that the highest earning men are slightly less intelligent than those just below them on the economic ladder.
bigthink.com
Ok that’s cool, but still not even remotely comforting.
Really? I find the implication that the chief partner of my company might be slightly stupider than my boss - maybe even me - to be a relief. It's not that I can't follow the big brain decisions of the company runners, it's that they're dumber than us.The highest earning men aren't especially intelligent. What explains their success?
A study out of Sweden shows that the highest earning men are slightly less intelligent than those just below them on the economic ladder.
Ok that’s cool, but still not even remotely comforting.
Also, it adds scientific backing for my standard response to the question "Roy, why don't you try for the vacant associate seat?" "Because I'm not stupid, and this study clearly supports that."
They run a marathon in Antarctica? Ballsy. It's like -5°C at best, out of the wind, and on a good day.
The statue of Liberty is based on the Roman Goddess Liberty/Freedom
en.wikipedia.org
There were plans to build a similar statue at the mouth of the Suez Canal in Egypt, Progress, but Egypt apparently found it too expensive, so the design was recycled for Liberty.
en.wikipedia.org
On a related note, the statue on top of the US capitol dome is also called Freedom, because of course she is. Though unlike liberty, she's based off Athena/Minerva and thus a war goddess, which feels very fitting for the United States.
en.wikipedia.org
That's right, we have a goddess of liberty standing in New York Harbor and a goddess of war standing atop the capitol dome.
Libertas - Wikipedia
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There were plans to build a similar statue at the mouth of the Suez Canal in Egypt, Progress, but Egypt apparently found it too expensive, so the design was recycled for Liberty.
Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
On a related note, the statue on top of the US capitol dome is also called Freedom, because of course she is. Though unlike liberty, she's based off Athena/Minerva and thus a war goddess, which feels very fitting for the United States.
Statue of Freedom - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
That's right, we have a goddess of liberty standing in New York Harbor and a goddess of war standing atop the capitol dome.
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