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May 5, 2019, 08:24 AM
 
or takeout containers, that'll be big. We have compostable containers at work now, for most things like sandwiches they are fine.
     
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May 5, 2019, 02:57 PM
 
Originally Posted by subego View Post
I’d appreciate the sentiment more if that name didn’t suck.
I have to agree about the clumsy name. For most of us in the US, “Native Americans Day” might work well. Unfortunately, the first indigenous peoples Columbus and his bunch encountered were living on one of the Eastern Caribbean islands, probably one of Bahamas’ Plana Cays. Here “Native American” wouldn’t mean exactly the same thing that most ‘Mericans think of.

On the other hand, the idea of the “Indiginous Peoples Day” lends itself beyond merely noting that Columbus’ group found inhabited lands (that were anything but India, which he said he was going to find). It helps point out the fact that there are cultures and societies that European adventurers destroyed. And it can be extended to increase awareness of how badly we handled the expansion of the United States westward.

But as far as a catchy title goes, the name still sucks.

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May 5, 2019, 03:40 PM
 
When I wrote that I was thinking “Native Peoples’ Day”, but I’m not liking that as much now.
     
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May 5, 2019, 04:41 PM
 
First Nations, but that also does not include eskimos/caribbean peoples.
     
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The underlying problem is horse trading holidays as atonement for genocide is bullshit.
     
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May 5, 2019, 06:33 PM
 
I kind of feel sorry for the people in India when people say Indians and refer to Native Americans instead.
     
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Originally Posted by mindwaves View Post
I kind of feel sorry for the people in India when people say Indians and refer to Native Americans instead.
Well, until they can ride horses and are proficient with bow, arrow and tomahawks, I have no pity.

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In the UK, aren’t Indians called Asians?
     
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In the UK, aren’t Indians called Asians?
No, they are called Pakis. Duh.

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Yes, and:

Maine Becomes 1st State To Ban Single-Use Foam Containers
In other words, no more "hot coffee into a styrofoam cup which you then crinkle and discard into the trash once it's empty"
Honest question: How does the man on street in the US feel about this? Because we made this change in Sweden some time back in the late eighties (though it was more local regulations than a national law, IIRC) and most of Europe have done the same by now. I always wondered why the US never did this, if it was something that you just couldn't legislate on and get re-elected or what. Because it's not like it's a new idea.
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May 6, 2019, 09:51 AM
 
Originally Posted by subego View Post
The underlying problem is horse trading holidays as atonement for genocide is bullshit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Sorry_Day
     
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Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
That’s the right idea.
     
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When that happens, it’s really going to suck if we don’t figure out some way to warm up a planet.
     
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When that happens, it’s really going to suck if we don’t figure out some way to warm up a planet.


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Jun 19, 2019, 01:48 PM
 
Today I learned the Star Trek people wanted Jerry Lewis and not Joe Piscopo for that awful episode where Data learns about “comedy”.
     
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According to NASA-supported research, some time into the future, comets will kill us all.
Unrelated: what a horrid UI that site has. A permanent, unclosable, autoplay video that takes up 1/3 of the screen? Why not!
     
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Jun 21, 2019, 04:46 AM
 
Wasn't there a woman who got in a fight with an airline over her emotional support duck? Or Peacock or Swan or something.
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Well not a swan, but here's what I found:

Peacock - Squirrel - some other animals
I believe this sort of thing is directly mentioned in the book of Revelations as one of the signs that its the end of days and the apocalypse is approaching,
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Remote control. Lets you chase the cat.
     
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Apparently there is such a thing as Wi-Fi connected vacuum cleaners.

What use would the Wi-Fi serve in a vacuum cleaner?
We have a Bluetooth-connected lawnmower. There was one with a 4G connection, but we figured that it wasn’t worth the money.

(The point is to program it when it should be active. Being able to program it with my iPad from the couch is a heck of a lot better than walking out there and pushing buttons to move a cursor around on a screen that is maybe 1” by 3”. With the 4G thing, you could conceivably do that from work or something. I think it also gets a weather update from the manufacturer, to tell it when the grass has likely grown more than usual because of the weather, and it should schedule a few extra sessions)
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Jun 25, 2019, 07:41 PM
 
I think a minicopter is better for chasing cats than a vacuum. Mine all scatter when the vacuum turns on - anywhere in the house. But something that flies around and makes a little noise is a different matter.

Now if I can manage to equip one with a laser pointer that I can separately control...

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We have a Bluetooth-connected lawnmower. There was one with a 4G connection, but we figured that it wasn’t worth the money.

(The point is to program it when it should be active. Being able to program it with my iPad from the couch is a heck of a lot better than walking out there and pushing buttons to move a cursor around on a screen that is maybe 1” by 3”.
I really don’t get this. The Roomba (non-WiFi) has a button for day, one for hour, and one for minutes. Setting the times takes under a minute. And there is no reason at all to change these times, ever, unless you start working shifts or something.

While it lodges itself somewhere under a couch every once in a while and runs out of battery and forgets what time it is, it has never forgotten its programming.

It has a little remote, too.

Adding WiFi seems like total overkill, adding cost and vulnerabilities to something that works.
     
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Jun 26, 2019, 01:59 PM
 
There is a DAC in the lightning connector of my EarPods. I bought a dongle for the Sennheiser HD 202’s I bought at the sodality rummage sale, $1. The package said listen to 24 bit music, so I did some searching and found a tear down of the lightning EarPods.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/16...r-for-iphone-7
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Jun 28, 2019, 11:37 AM
 
Today I learned herders use fainting goats as a sacrifice to predators, which gives the rest of the herd time to escape.
     
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Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot View Post
I really don’t get this. The Roomba (non-WiFi) has a button for day, one for hour, and one for minutes. Setting the times takes under a minute. And there is no reason at all to change these times, ever, unless you start working shifts or something.

While it lodges itself somewhere under a couch every once in a while and runs out of battery and forgets what time it is, it has never forgotten its programming.

It has a little remote, too.

Adding WiFi seems like total overkill, adding cost and vulnerabilities to something that works.
I suspect that adding Bluetooth to it is cheaper than a decent display.

The lawnmower needs to be reprogrammed a little more often than a vacuum cleaner, however - grass growth depends on the weather.
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Today I learned that you dastardly yanks managed to take control of the US's airports from our plucky British soldiers in the War of Independence.

Very forward thinking. I imagine the Brits were like "what are these places even FOR. You have them"
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Today I learned that you dastardly yanks managed to take control of the US's airports from our plucky British soldiers in the War of Independence.

Very forward thinking. I imagine the Brits were like "what are these places even FOR. You have them"
Airports you say? I bet they must be for cleaning and sharpening the air. And they've been at it for two hundred years which must be why the US has the cleanest, sharpest air in the world. All makes perfect sense now...

I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
     
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Today I learned farmers use golf balls as decoy eggs to plug up the snakes who eat them.
     
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Today I learned farmers use golf balls as decoy eggs to plug up the snakes who eat them.
I'd never heard of that. Makes sense.
     
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Today I learned...

A lot of AppleID settings can only be accessed via iCloud.com.

...Apple doesn’t allow you to access iCloud.com on iOS devices. WTF?
     
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Jul 30, 2019, 07:39 PM
 
Whales can "eat" sea lions. Should be picture of the year.

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-49161923
     
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Today, I learned that the best way to free myself from a toxic relationship is to simply let go and love myself more.
     
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Today I learned that the late 1960s one hit wonder "Lily the Pink" by the Scaffold was actually based on a traditional US folk song called "The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham" which (ribaldly) lampooned the supposed benefits of Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, a late 19th century universal panacea.

So there.
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I also learned the etymology of the (awful) beef based drink/foodstuff/gloop Bovril. (A sort of shit Marmite for US readers)

"The first part of the product's name comes from Latin bovīnus, meaning "ox".[3] Johnston took the -vril suffix from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's then-popular novel, The Coming Race (1870), whose plot revolves around a superior race of people, the Vril-ya, who derive their powers from an electromagnetic substance named "Vril". Therefore, Bovril indicates great strength obtained from an ox.[4]"
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Today I learned coffee cake makes a bad outdoor food, unless you want to be covered in bees.
     
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A sort of shit Marmite
There’s a sort of good Marmite?
     
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Marmite is awesome. Try adding some to your grilled cheese sandwich.
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Today I learned “Cruise Control” by Panderator, a/k/a the TechnoViking song, is actually “Navigator” by Can-D-Music.

At least, that’s the track the DJ, presumably named Panderator, uses in the clip.


Edit: and TechnoViking adjacent, you can now buy the Mercenaries 2 anthem on iTunes.
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Today I learned young Richard Dawson looks way too much like Nathan Fillion.

     
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Wow.

Some of those “early” studio portraits of actors seem amazing just because “he was young once?” But this resemblance is almost spooky.

I wonder if Nathan has seen this picture?

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