What have you learned today?

[hanselthecaretaker]

I'mma just throw some Orwell in here.
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To elaborate on that -

"Patriotism" vs. "Nationalism": What's The Difference?

Patriotism and nationalism both involve pride in one's country, but one has a much more positive connotation than the other. Do you know which is which?

www.dictionary.com

The nutshell -
How to use patriotism vs. nationalism
When using these words, it’s important to keep context, and connotation, in mind:

Patriotism generally has a positive connotation. It’s used for various positive sentiments, attitudes, and actions involving loving one’s country and serving the great good of all its people.

Nationalism generally has a negative connotation. It’s used for political ideologies and movements that a more extreme and exclusionary love of one’s country—at the expense of foreigners, immigrants, and even people in a country who aren’t believed to belong in some way, often racial and religious grounds.

James Webb Telescope finds evidence of 'celestial monster' stars the size of 10,000 suns lurking at the dawn of time

The James Webb Space Telescope has found key chemical fingerprints of supermassive stars just 440 million years after the Big Bang.

www.livescience.com

Dammit space, why you so goddamn cool

And on that note,

Humongous, 100-foot-long dinosaur from Argentina is so big its fossils broke the road during transport

About 90 million years ago, a ginormous long-necked dinosaur measuring nearly 100 feet (30 meters) long lumbered through what is now Patagonia, Argentina.

www.livescience.com

Dammit dinosaurs, why you so goddamn cool.

 

[Thaluikhain]

When British military personnel were driving from West Germany to Berlin through East Germany, they weren't to talk to the East German Police, they should always insist on talking to Soviet officers. If the guy checking your ID at the checkpoint is East German Police, ask for a Soviet officer or go back.

Dunno why that was, though.

 

[Thaluikhain]

In the US, people used to put salt on railway tracks, which would attract moose, which would block the tracks. So trains had to stop and could be attacked by armed gangs.

 

[Absent]

We apologise for the fault in the thread. Those responsible have been sacked.

 

[Bedinsis]

That Mondelez International, an American snack giant which owns brands such as Nabisco and Cadbury, still is operating in Russia and thereby contributes to the Russian war economy.

I'll make sure not to purchase any of their products going forwards.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

In my research for my book, I read some books about the Irish Potato Famine, their immigration to the US, and the general life of those that lived in poor conditions in the past. It wasn't until now that I really got something. I didn't understand the vehemence of the IRA towards the English until I read about how horrible they were treated during the famine. Even if it's over a century later, that's something that would run deep, on top of everything else they've had to deal with. It was kind of shocking for me when I had the thought that American slavery looked better in comparison, only because viewing someone as "property" was a step up from being viewed as vermin to exterminated and replaced.

 

[Absent]

The dutch angle isn't dutch AT ALL. It's deutsch, you barbarians.

(Also, the French apparently call it "the debubbled angle".)

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

The dutch angle isn't dutch AT ALL. It's deutsch, you barbarians.

(Also, the French apparently call it "the debubbled angle".)

Ehh, the people we Americans call "the Pennsylvania Dutch" are descended from Germans. "Deutsche" just sounds weird to us, I guess.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

The dutch angle isn't dutch AT ALL. It's deutsch, you barbarians.

(Also, the French apparently call it "the debubbled angle".)

No, it's dutch. Also it's aluminum and they're called french fries.

 

[Gordon_4]

No, it's dutch. Also it's aluminum and they're called french fries.

Until you hit a certain thickness and then they become chips.

 

[Xprimentyl]

Today I learned that Daft Punk broke up in 2021. Doesn't really matter to me since I lost all interest in them after their debut album (Homework) when they sold out into celebrity, pop culture, and made a bunch of throwaway earworms not befitting their actual talent, but racked in a ton of cash and fame. Homework is an iconic album that still hits today 26 years later; I was just listening to it a couple of weeks ago, and it's an album that refuses to be listened to at any level less than absurdly loud. I wish they'd have stayed that course and hung together, but no; they be done. Just sucks that another musical duo from my [musically] formative years has gone the way of the dodo.

R.I.P. Daft Punk, 1993-2021; we'll always have "Around The World" and "Revolution 909," so while you're gone, you'll never be forgotten.

 

[Dalisclock]

There are only 25 or so million people in Australia. For some reason I thought it would be more considering the size of the country, though then I remember most of the population is along the coasts.

In an completely unrelated topic, apparently who gets a vasectomy or even has their balls crushed is going to hell by default. Also those poor castrati.

Deuteronomy 23:1 :No one who has been emasculated by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the LORD.

 

[Thaluikhain]

There are only 25 or so million people in Australia. For some reason I thought it would be more considering the size of the country, though then I remember most of the population is along the coasts.

What I find interesting is that the UK, has multiply more people, and loads of different accents, in a tiny tiny landmass.

 

[Dalisclock]

What I find interesting is that the UK, has multiply more people, and loads of different accents, in a tiny tiny landmass.

I was gonna joke that's why so many people were transported, to ease the overcrowding in Britain.

But then I remembered how shitty that was and the alternative was often public execution.

 

[Gordon_4]

The Welsh word for drunk is Meddwi, which literally translates as 'Meaded'. Because of Mead.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

…you want it.

Although also Confucius: “A long absence of sex turns a person into a neurotic.”

Oh, you so Confucius.

 

[Absent]

Corgi still exists.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Chemical found in widely used sweetener breaks up DNA

A new study finds a chemical formed when we digest a widely used sweetener is "genotoxic," meaning it breaks up DNA.

www.news-medical.net

It’s sucralose.

So ban…when?

 

[Absent]

So ban…when?

You're so anti-business.

 

[Elvis Starburst]

So ban…when?

Who would've thought that artificial crap like that was bad news. Who could've seen this coming? Hmmmm. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm