What have you learned today?

[Bob_McMillan]

"Techwear"

A community of people who really want to dress like they live in a futuristic cyberpunk dystopia. Sort of like the people who want to dress in tactical military gear...but for nerds.

I've seen a couple of vids mocking this style of fashion. It really is no different from any other "high" fashion fad, it's almost exclusively about wearing expensive shit that you know other people know is expensive.

That said, if someone gifted to me a techwear piece, like a cool waterproof jacket or something, I wouldn't really mind.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Damn... I mean I always knew it in my heart, but I desperately wanted to be wrong.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I've seen a couple of vids mocking this style of fashion. It really is no different from any other "high" fashion fad, it's almost exclusively about wearing expensive shit that you know other people know is expensive.

That said, if someone gifted to me a techwear piece, like a cool waterproof jacket or something, I wouldn't really mind.

I think the biggest problem with it is that it's all polyester and vinyl so you're basically paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for what is a tailored garbage bag with some zippers.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Wonder what percentage it’d be today.

Other Federal hijinks -

Spoiler

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I learned Hideo Kojima likes My Chemical Romance.

 

[Gordon_4]

Wonder what percentage it’d be today.

Other Federal hijinks -

Spoiler

That last one is only interesting if you’ve never heard of Kim Philby. Otherwise you then realise it was just the way of things in the era.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Much of the world used to sleep in two phases/cycles, until the industrial revolution mashed them together. But it’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Can Medieval Sleeping Habits Fix America’s Insomnia?

The history of “first sleep” and “second sleep” holds surprising lessons about preindustrial life, 21st-century anxiety, and the problem with digging for utopia in the past.

amp.theatlantic.com

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

 

[Mister Mumbler]

That the Railway series of books has a surprisingly deep amount of lore for a children's book series about talking trains. Funny things to note are that not only does the author exist in-universe, but so do the books and even the television series too;

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

36,000 people are murdered every year in Mexico. That's an average of 100 every day, 1 every 15 minutes.
That means more people are murdered in Mexico in 3 weeks than all year round in Argentina.
It also means more people are murdered in Mexico in 3 days than all year round in Spain.

(Friend just came back from there and we were randomly flipping through crime stats, nothing agaisnt the country)

 

[davidmc1158]

Apparently, pillow fighting is officially a sport. . . . . . . who knew?

Pillow fighting enters the professional ring

The first pillow fighting champions have been crowned at a competition in Florida in the US.

www.bbc.com

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

The latest polymer that will outlast…well, probably everything -

MIT Engineers Create the “Impossible” – New Material That Is Stronger Than Steel and As Light as Plastic

The new substance is the result of a feat thought to be impossible: polymerizing a material in two dimensions. Using a novel polymerization process, MIT chemical engineers have created a new material that is stronger than steel and as light as plastic, and can be easily manufactured in large quan

scitechdaily.com

 

[Xprimentyl]

The latest polymer that will outlast…well, probably everything -

MIT Engineers Create the “Impossible” – New Material That Is Stronger Than Steel and As Light as Plastic

The new substance is the result of a feat thought to be impossible: polymerizing a material in two dimensions. Using a novel polymerization process, MIT chemical engineers have created a new material that is stronger than steel and as light as plastic, and can be easily manufactured in large quan

scitechdaily.com

That's crazy. Plastic buildings, plastic bridges?? That's some arcane shit right there...

 

[ObsidianJones]

That's crazy. Plastic buildings, plastic bridges?? That's some arcane shit right there...

Mass Effect Body Armor.

Focus on the serious stuff here, please!

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

I know a lot of people are sports nuts, but this is just plain nuts -

How much are Super Bowl tickets? These are the cheapest and highest prices

Fans who were hoping to score a deal on Super Bowl tickets in the days leading up to the big game at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium this Sunday may be out of luck. The highly anticipated event feat…

ktla.com

 

[Gordon_4]

That the Railway series of books has a surprisingly deep amount of lore for a children's book series about talking trains. Funny things to note are that not only does the author exist in-universe, but so do the books and even the television series too;

Not only that, but the books can go in some surprisingly weird and dark places in that early Victorian way. I've got the omnibus of them on my shelf and it is a prized, prized possession.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Seeing what it starts out as, and what it ends up as -


*mind blown*. Talk about precision, and the heat that must be required to enable forging something that size through it all. To top it off this isn’t exactly a recent process by any industrial measure, which makes it even more impressive.

 

[Xprimentyl]

Seeing what it starts out as, and what it ends up as -


*mind blown*. Talk about precision, and the heat that must be required to enable forging something that size through it all. To top it off this isn’t exactly a recent process by any industrial measure, which makes it even more impressive.

Yeah, the heat necessary to bring something that large to moldable levels...

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

So today I learned that Jaleel White, possibly best known as... the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog but also as Steve Urkel in the sitcom Family Matters....

...has his own brand of marijuana. Called "Purple Urkel".

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I learned this about three hours ago and I have not stopped laughing since.