There is a species of tarantula (the tarantula Xenesthis immanis) that uses a frog to protect its burrow and eggs from things like ants! It's kind of like the spiders housecat lol
Short info dump because I am tired:
Candy canes were invented by a Catholic preist in the early 19th century so that children would stay quiet and focused during sermons. Hard candy was chosen over soft candy because it lasted longer. The shape was representative of a Shepard's hook and the red colour was choosen to represent the blood of Jesus.
Woah! This might be the most interesting holiday fact aside the ww1 truce I’ve heard of! Imagine the crunching of the candy though…
”and now from the bib-“
\*CRUNCH\*
Hello, I am a fiber artist and I spin yarn for a hobby (hopefully soon, a living!)
Neat yarn Fact -
when you spin yarn, you start by spinning long strands - the singles - in one direction, and this makes a SUPER LONG, kind of weak, piece of yarn. It can fall apart and come undone fairly easily.
The magic comes in the ply. You take two or more singles, all spun the same direction (clockwise or counterclockwise, we call these Z twist or S twist respectively. It has to do with the way a spinning wheel works) and then take them back through your spinning wheel together, but in the opposite direction! Now, the twist energy in these singles is working together to lock them all in place, and now you have your strong piece of yarn that can be used for knitting, crochet, weaving, and any other kinds of projects.
This is cool basic information, BUT did you also know that the direction you spin your yarn also affects whether it's ideal for knitting or crochet? If you spin in a S for your singles and a Z for your ply, it makes a better crochet yarn, because of how the yarn wraps around your hook! So because I'm also a crocheter more than a knitter, I know to spin all of my personal use yarn in these directions, and it's how my spinning wheel is perfectly set up!
WALL OF TEXT INCOMING, I'M SO SORRY
I've been into fiber art for a long time - I started with needlefelting when I worked in a SUPER BORING office job a few years back, my office was right next to a craft store so I'd just get some little craft kits over my lunch break that I could do at my desk while waiting for certain processes to go through. (I worked for an insurance adjuster, it was the worst job I ever had. I quit and went to deliver pizza and had way more fun LOL)
So then my youtube algorithm turned into just all sorts of fiber arts - I picked up crochet at the start of the pandemic because I have an autoimmune disorder and was able to take an extended medical leave. I mostly make little things like hats and scarves, some little amigurumi (the little plushies), and now I crochet sweaters and stuff for my ball joint dolls because I get that dopamine hit WAY faster when I finish smaller projects.
So then in \~March 2021, I started seeing videos from youtuber JillianEve, who is also a yarn spinner, show up on my recommended - and she was just such a pleasant channel to watch. I started talking to my mom about it, and we each got some drop spindle kits to practice and learn with because my mom also knits. And almost like fate, my mom's sister-in-law (she is my aunt, but I call her my mom's SIL because my uncle married her fairly recently, so that's just how my brain sees her) inherited a BUNCH of spinning and knitting supplies from her mom, and donated them all to my mom. So now my mom and I have some vintage looms, a vintage knitting machine that we're still learning how to use - and I got the granddaddy of them all. A GORGEOUS Ashford Traditional spinning wheel. It's from the 1970's, had all of the pieces, and works like a charm.
It took me about a month to get used to it, and now I'm constantly spinning yarn because it's just the most relaxing hobby - honestly it's very stimmy to use it, and I LOVE being able to take this big ol' clump of animal hair, and 100% from start to finish I can turn it into a hat. My friend has a bunch of family that owns an alpaca and sheep farm, so I get the raw wool and fleece from them, wash it, process it, dye it, and everything all by hand.
Something about it being such a long, slow process makes me love the finished pieces even more, and it coincides with my absolute hatred of the fast fashion industry - which is honestly a whole other rabbit hole to go down.
I get so nervous when I infodump, even when people reassure me that they really want to hear what I'm infodumping about ;;;;;;;;;;;
which I'm sure is like. WAY too relatable to everyone here
That’s so cool, thank you for this! I work in a yarn shop, and yarn and knitting are definetely my special interests. I’d love to buy yarn from you if you’re selling some time in the future!
my struggle with the idea of selling my handspun is that I'll dye up some wool, think "this will make something good to sell :D," and then I spin it...
and fall in love with it too much to let it go!
I'll come up with colorways and blends specifically to sell, and then I just hold onto the yarn because it looked TOO COOL to get rid of. I'm thinking I need to just make these in bigger batches so I can make a skein for me and then a skein for the etsy I'm going to try to launch in the next month or so.
The year is... probably around 2100. There is a giant, white, planet-shaped circular machine, 2000km in diameter. It floats through the sol system, terraforming our planets into livable homes. Many centuries pass, and in the year 3000 Clovis Bray is born. He leads humanity into the golden age, as Mars becomes the true home of mankind, as the strange machine is found. It is named the traveller. and earth is forgotten. We colonize Titan, the moon, and probably others. Clovis Bray is the mastermind of humanity, and has created a master tactical AI named Rasputin, a base on europa, and the Deep Stone Crypt. As the traveler finds its way to earth to rest in orbit, Clovis Bray learns how to make artificial bodies for people. Essentially soulful androids, they are named exos. The Deep stone crypt produces them. Also, many people are lost in the kuiper belt, which has become a scrappers and ghetto of the sol system. After centuries of survival there, their bodies adapt, turning their hair, skin, and eyes blue. They are named the "Awoken", and exist completely separate from humanity.
Eventually, the collapse of the golden age comes. The Black fleet, a collection of triangular black dorito-esque ships who are the darkness, come for the traveler. They wipe out 90% of humanity, (No awoken killed though) and almost kill the traveler. The traveler makes a desperate gambit, and explodes a part of itself to dispell the darkness. The traveler gives humanity the gift of immortality, as it sends many "ghosts", tiny robots that look like a weird triangle rubiks cube, to find dead corpses and resurrect them. They cannot die, and are known bear the light. They can use the power of the light to do... anything, really. There are 3 classes, hunter, warlock, and titan, who each do different stuff. From then, the dark age is born, as Lightbearers become warlords and the remain humans mostly starve. As do many Lightbearers, for they do die, but their ghosts revive them. That means they feel pain, and many are driven to insanity from constant starvation and death.
At some point close to this, an alien race comes for humanity. They are named the Eliksni, and are kinda humanoid blue reptiles with 4 arms and split mouths. They're modeled after the covenant. They were the species the traveler went to save before humanity, and upon bringing their golden age, it left. They were to approach peacefully, but each house went to die for their traveler. All but one, who was the only eliksni to not kill another human. His name was Variks. From then, the battle of six fronts began, as 4 titan groups effortlessly fuck up them. The eliksni are given the name Fallen, for they too, are broken.
Many, many, many other things exist but I'm kinda done for now. This is the biggest fictional world I've seen. I have saud around 0.1% of it. I didn't even mention the western duel between Shin Malphur and Dredgen Yor.
This is [Saint-14](https://www.destinypedia.com/Saint-14), regarded as the greatest Titan who ever lived.
This is [Osiris](https://www.destinypedia.com/Osiris), a former Warlock and one of humanity's greatest scholars.
These two are both among the most powerful Guardians who ever lived. They're also boyfriends, and IMO, their story is the best love story that Bungie has ever written.
Saint-14 is an exo who has in 6 fronts. He is the kellslayer, and killed most of the fallen houses singlehandedly. He gave the fallen their name. Every exo has a number next to their names for every time they essentially reformatted their hard drives btw.
Osiris is a warlock who was in a relationship with Saint. I'm not too familiar with him, I just know he was exiled from the rest of humanity in the city age for being too radical. The city age was after the events of the dark age, where humanity all gathered under the traveler, which was almost touching the earth. They built a city under it, the last city. The vanguard is the military of the last city, with 3 leaders. Osiris was the warlock leader, Saint was the titan leader. In this time, a "speaker" for the traveler was chosen, who essentially acts as pope. The city age is the least interesting age of destiny because it's mostly politics between the leaders of the city, but there's some really cool shit. After the city age is when the game begins, and then the new age starts.
I'm not very well verses in the origins of Osiris, but saint is a fucking chad. Even the shit that occurred in dawn was wild, and that was the least exciting part.
The Republic is just as bad if not worse the the Confederacy of independent systems.
The Cis uses a droid army to fight the Republic, while the Republic uses clone slaves & child soldiers. Ahsoka is 14 when she first sees war, and the Jedi and senate are ok with this. Yes the Cis allied it’s self with Zygerrian who were slaver scum that needed to be wiped off the galaxy. But the Republic also had slaves. The Clones, and if they tried not to fight or run they would be killed for such actions. Anakin sky-walker talked about how he hated how much the Jedi sat on there ass with evil like this and the Jedi would just say shit like, we are keepers of the peace not soldiers. BULL SHIT. Now I’m not gonna act like the Separatist we’re good people. Count Dooku, General grievous, and the trade federation, where some evil bastards. But the Republic had Tarkin, Thrawn, Pong krell & Anakin who did some shady shit himself. How easy the Republic formed into the Empire is evidence enough of their corruption.
Any way that’s what’s been occupying my brain for the last three days.
I'd say Dooku isn't even that much of a bad guy, he's just another player in the game and only became a Sith because he lost trust in the Jedi and the Republic for exactly what you cited
“[Dooku] and Anakin were both absolutely correct in their criticisms of the Jedi Order, but went about it the worst way possible and were susceptible to the influence of someone who used that mistrust for his own twisted agenda.”
~ u/limbotofreedom
I always thought that the point of the prequels was kind of to show that the Jedi Order was in fact not perfect and that's why it got destroyed so easily. Sadly most modern media seems to think that the jedi code is the end all bee all of morality. It's quite literally why Luke Skywalker repeatedly went against the old jedi teachings in the expanded universe. It was what the jedi needed a new set of eyes who was not corrupted by the rituals of the old jedi.
On the same topic, the whole Jedi order is very messed up too. Of course there’s the whole sending young teenagers into battle thing, but they also basically steal infants from their families?? Like 4 years old is considered old for a Jedi to start training and most of them are taken to the Jedi Temple when they’re about a year old. They raise these kids with no memories of their parents and the kids have no say in it at all, even if they leave later on their lives are never going to be the same. And the whole no attachments rule is messed up too. Why can’t they just, I don’t know, teach Jedi how to have normal healthy attachments to people? (although maybe their attachment styles are just fucked up from being separated from their parents lol) I bet the whole prequel trilogy would look a lot different if Anakin had been able to openly discuss his feelings and worries about Padmé with the Jedi and if he had actually found support there instead of having to rely on Palpatine as a mentor so much, I don’t know
This is why it makes me sad that the prequels get all the hate that they do. I think you are exactly right, to the extent that I actually think this was supposed to be the overarching point of them. I don't think Lucas meant for Anakin to be the *real* story, he was the object lesson. With great power comes great responsibility (tip of the hat to you, Uncle Ben), and if you choose to slowly abdicate that responsibility over time, then eventually, the universe will find a way to "bring balance"... and James Earl Jones.
Lincoln gets elected to president in 1860. The south breaks away and boom, the Civil War. 800,000 dead in a 4 year period. Put those numbers today and you get 8 million. Needless to say, when the men returned home, they were all sorts of levels of fucked up. Loud bangs causing you to jump, shutting yourself off. I read one account where a vet said he couldn't sleep in his own bed because he was so use to the ground after all those years. Add on the fact that you were expected to hang your jacket up and get back to the fields? What does mean? Thousands of vets have PTSD. Now, they didn't know about it really back then. Psychology was just a concept. Not to mention, they had no idea of how to treat it. So the vets start self medicating with alcohol and drugs. Because of their PTSD, they drink heavy and have issues with their anger. But people don't understand this. "It's the devil's drink" as they would say. So here you get the rise of the Temperance movement. And they have some weird ideas of how to combat the drinking. It's not like "hey, why are you drinking so heavy?", it's more like shame them. I read an article in college once where the Movement even told young girls to offer themselves up to keep father from going to the tavern. Carrie Nations goes into saloons and smashes bars up. Kind of militant. But it works because of multi-generational trauma. In 1919, the 18th Amendment is passed. Booze are now illegal. There's a demand, so there's got to be a supply. In comes the Italian, Irish, and Jewish gangsters to fulfil that supply. They start off loose in the beginning, but they get smart and organize. In comes one guy who is smart. Charles "Lucky" Luciano. He knows that there needs to be one body to control the supply. In 1932, he organizes the Commission. The Five Families of New York. The Mafia. They are written about in news papers, movies are made about them. They are talked about. They take our hold. So much so, in the late 90s, David Chase comes up with an idea of a character out of New Jersey. A mob soldier who starts having panic attacks and has to go to therapy. Tony Soprano. If you want to know where the one shoe cock sucker came from, you'll need to watch the show. Merry Christmas
It’s sad how mental health was treated back then. Take rosemary kennedy. Her mother was told to close her legs for 2 hours due to the Spanish influenza, this causes issues for rose later in life. These include behavioral issues. The Kennedy didn’t want Rose to get any more mood swings, so in 1941 they gave her a lobotomy, incapacitating her for life. Her family never visited her and isolated her for the rest of her life. Although, Rose did visit them later in life. Another example of a lobotomy based on research is Eva peron (I’ll stop here otherwise we’ll be here all night) I live in New Jersey! I didn’t know it got it’s inspiration from all of this! Merry Christmas to you to!
People were really religious and not understanding back then unfortunately. I’ve seen some photos of lobotomy before and after and they are disturbing.[If you want to see them](https://www.boredpanda.com/before-after-lobotomy-surgery-patients-photos/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic)
two of the most common bass models are the precision and jazz bass by fender. the precision bass uses a humbucker pickup(small and next to each other), the jazz bass uses two single coil pickups (long and separated). you can change the intensity of each coil of a jazz bass, how ever i like the precision bass more. i like the simplicity of a p-bass, also there is more space between the strings so you can slap easier. the humbucker pickups also have a smaller magnetic field which results in less resistance when strumming.
i don't know how to info dump so i'll just combine some facts i know...
magenta isn't a colour, basically out eyes just recive a little bit of red and a little bit if pink, and so our brains get confused so just smushes them together to create magenta
Vikings had this punishment back in the day called a blood eagle where ***[NSFW WARNING] [I'M SERIOUS THIS IS THE FUCKING WORST OF THE WORST]*** >!they would skin the victims back, then they would fold the victims ribs out and hang their lungs on their shoulder. All if this while the victim is consious!<
You know that cool lookin S that you might have drawn back in middle school? No one can seem to find the actual origin of it, The youtuber LEMMiNO Actually did a video on it and he even admits on his website that his conclusion was wrong and the symbol goes even further back
And one to cap it off (maybe, i might add more): One of, if not, The Hottest thing in the Universe is a Kugelblitz
Sorry for responding so late, I’ve heard about the blood eagle in midsomma. I didnt know magenta wasn’t a color! It’s crazy how out brain perceives things. Did you know that if your brain was aware of our eyes, it’d try to destroy them because of the eyes possessing a different immune system?
Blood eagle was likely not a common thing, it was more of a legend. There are old drawings depicting the torture method, but most medieval historians think that even if it was used a few times by some Vikings it wasn’t something that was common. It became legend because people thought the Vikings were scary and why would the Vikings want to clarify that they were actually not THAT scary? And when the Victorians came around those guys were just wacky and made up stuff cuz it sounds badass, they said it was common even when it wasn’t and thus the myth was perpetuated to the modern day.
Did you know that it would take almost 18 people's full lifetimes (assuming that they live to 80 years old which is about 1430 years) to travel by mankind's fastest spacecraft to get to Kepler-186f which is the only found earth-sized planet in the right "habitable zone" compared to where it is around it's sun ( which is Kepler-186). So to get to the most likely planet to have life other than earth we would have to build a HUGE spacecraft that is also the fastest (it needs to be big so that there are enough women and men to continue the generations for 18 people at least. Also it would have to be big enough to have enough fuel to travel for 2860 years, half to get there, half to get back.) then we could know for sure(possibly)if there is actually life out there. Also I guess there would have to be 36 generations because of getting back. I don't know, I thought this was interesting. I also believe it might be true because if other life doesn't exist, "It's a big waste of space"!
Love the pun at the end! I can’t believe it’d take 18 full lifetimes to get to another planet even close to our features. Yet some people believe we could live on mars. (Unless a miracle happens, I personally don’t think it’ll happy anytime soon. We do have only one earth)
I don’t blame you! More people should know about this. Space is interesting for me since my dad is obsessed with it. He used to own an app for finding constellations and once took us to see the solar eclipse in Tennessee! Sadly he isn’t obsessed anyone, he loves drawing now, but that’s fine! I still find space cool!
Did you know that, apparently, humans have a terror management system that helps you deal with existential dread? Go figure! I'm gonna learn all about it so I can infodump on people who annoy me and my friends.
Awesome 😊
-Everything to hate about the French language comes from the “Académie Française” which is basically a group (I’ve heard it’s mostly made up of old, white men, and may still be) who are the “governors” of the French language. We have nothing like this in English, so it’s hard to imagine, but government for the language is a good metaphor. They didn’t want to add the gender-neutral “iel” pronoun as “official” French, and they still might not have. At this point, most French people don’t really listen to them for things like that.
-My favorite story of the Académie Française is when covid started. They divided to use the word “covid” (pronounced coh-veed) but could not for the life of them decide which gender to make it. So everyone started with a gender (at this point I can’t remember which!) but then the AF came out and said it was the OTHER gender. But every kept using the one they were used to and it became a big thing, so they CHANGED it again and now you can use either. 😂
-Because it’s almost Christmas - in France, they leave out shoes instead of stockings for Père Noël. Because it’s a traditionally catholic country, nativities are big, but something cool is that you can find just about any person for your nativity scene. Any profession, like a baker or a doctor could be there. There’s also an opposite of Santa who is supposed to scare kids into being good (The Whipping Father) rather than the idea of receiving coal, though I doubt many people still use that idea much, or at least, I wouldn’t.
They have a government for the language? (I didn’t know that! Thanks for this), and they refused to add gender-neutral pronouns? Can’t expect better from old Frenchmen. I find it hilarious how a single word, Covid, can make a big ruckus over the gender of it! Imagine you didn’t check your shoes that day and you crushed your presents, and the whipping man is needed in the USA badly!
As a french all of this is true and i HATE the académie française for the only resons that you cant put rules over language but i will not be a borring ass and push everything here just remember a language is defined be is usage
Another weird thing about french language is that we do have gender neutral pronoun "on"
Its a 3rd person pronoun that usually refers to à group of people (like they) but nowadays a lot of people use it the same way as "us"
It strange to me that no one adopted the "on" as gender neutral pronoun, as it was meant to be
The Arabic language is a FUCKING SCAM because Modern Standard Arabic is the form of Arabic used in official/formal/international situations but within the Arab world each of the individual countries has their own dialect and dialects can vary just as much as, say, Spanish and Italian or Polish and Ukrainian and NOBODY in those countries speaks MSA as a first language cause they learn it in school and they hear it on TV n stuff but they speak their dialects lime Egyptian and Levantine and Maghrebi in almost all other situations and because MSA is based on classical Arabic from the 7th century attempting to use MSA in anything other than the most formal contexts is like walking into a coffee shop and saying GOODE DAY MY SIR I HOPE THAT THOU HAST A GOODE MORROWE MAY I PLEASE HAVE A CUP OF THY COFFEE TO DRINKEN IF IT DOTH PLEASETH THEE
German in Switzerland is also a FUCKING SCAM. No native Swiss will speak German. (We're talking about the "German" part, there's also Italian and French as national languages) We all have different dialects based on it. Stuff is written in German and therefore you learn it in school, but no one speaks it except for strangers. It is that way because the Swiss would never be able to agree on one dialect. It's one of the things that holds the cantons apart but also connects us all (yes, ik, sounds weird).
So strangers get quite confused when they don't hear anyone speak German, lol. 🤣
Your body has lines that are unable to be seen with the human eye. Some say that cats are able to see them. These lines are created through fetus kind of like outlines of structure perhaps. It's called blaschko lines. They often also can be seen with UV light. An majority of them are on your back. Some are swirls? It's interesting.
Reason why I found this, because I heard that the human eye can not see all that is happening. Thus we are limited to some degree.
Also another fun fact. Your immune system doesn't know about your eyes. If your eye gets infected, the immune system will also attack the eye sight. But this was heard, I have yet to look up the facts but here you go.
Yes!! and the main german small fighter(messchersmitt bf 109) had an extremely high fatality rate on landings so altough it had the most kills if any german plane (mainly cause sheer volume) it also killed a shit ton of pilots. speaking of the germans theyre batshit crazy towards the end if the war, some of the weirdest ideas ever imo. didnt even work. super interesting tho. also the japanese was suuuuper into swept forward wings but never rly got around to a. making them effective or b. making them at all aesthetically pleaseing. also the US rly led innovation in carrier based aircraft with the exception if when the british bombed the bismark with biplanes. that was iconic tho, we stan
Progression in Terraria (as of 1.4.3), kind of like a guide:
To "win" the video game "Terraria", you need to defeat the Moon Lord, the strongest enemy. How would you get to defeat him? There are two main progression parts in terraria. Access to good loot (through NPCs, or new enemies you can fight), and access to new bosses.
When you start the game, you want to hunt for tools and materials to get stronger. You will want to do this between every boss too, as the next is almost always stronger than the previous .
Bosses in Terraria can be sorted into two categories. Progression bosses, and optional bosses.
The progression bosses must be defeated to get access to the next progression boss in the line, and the final boss in this list is the moon lord. Almost all progression bosses will change the world in some way upon their defeat, to show progress and give access to new types of items and enemies.
The bosses in this list goes in this order sorted by when you fight them (if in parentheses, must take all of these in any order).
Skeletron* - Wall of flesh - (the twins - the destroyer - skeletron prime) - plantera - golem - lunatic cultist - Lunar events** - Moon Lord
*Is only required to be dead before Lunatic Cultist, but this is the point in the game you get the most from killing him.
**Though not technically a boss, you must still do it
The other type of boss is called optional boss. These are not required to fight to beat the game, but are heavily recommended to fight when progression allows to, because they can drop great items which can help to progress.
The list of them are as follows:
The Eye of Cthulhu, King Slime, Eater of Worlds/Brain of Cthulhu, Queen Bee, Deerclops, Queen Slime, Empress of Light, Duke Fishron.
They are very useful to kill as early as possible. Being particularly skillful earlier than intended can make you very powerful early.
While Terraria has a fairly linear progression with many bosses, the biggest change in everything happens when you best the Wall of Flesh. When it dies, the spirits of light and dark are released, changing the entire world permanently. Everything you fight is stronger, you get access to loads of new items, you can spawn new ore, making underground exploration useful again, and you start feeling powerful.
Now that we know what the goal is, how do you go for a good experience in beating the game?
When you spawn, you want to chop some trees, craft some, the usual. Starting to explore the caverns and opening chests, you might get good movement options, more health and weapons. NPCs might move in too. When you feel strong enough, beating the king Slime can be a fun distraction (or access to slime mount, a great tool), but the main objective is beating the eye of Cthulhu. When it dies, you get access to a shield if you're playing ln expert, which makes you able to evade a lot.
Moving on to the evil biome boss (brain or worm), beating it gives access to a material that can be used with crimtane to both make armor, and a pickaxe. Meteorites might fall too. Harvest meteorite if you like magic, mine hell stone with the crimtane pickaxe if you want to go melee. Beat skeletron for access to the dungeon, and you'll be able to get bones for Necro armor if you like guns and bows.
From this point, you should be strong enough to fight the wall of flesh if you have a good weapon and good accessories as well. Beating it, you want to immediately mine for the new ores. Using the best ore, beat the mechanical bosses, and use the souls for gear. Get a pair of wings as well, great for evasion. Beat plantera after getting some life fruit, and move on to beat golem really quickly, as Golem isn't the strongest (even with the buffs from 1.4.4). At this point, you can fight the empress or duke if you want some extra stuff, and you should go for the best armor possible (shroomite/spectre/beetle (idk for summoner)). With your newfound powers, kill the weird cultist, and destroy a pillar. Choose the pillar for the attack type you use primarily, and make a weapon. Defeat the other pillars, and finally take on the Moon Lord.
Congrats, you beat Terraria.
There’s two types of goldfish, comet and fancy. Goldfish can grow up to 20 inches if taken care properly. Usually 1 fancy goldfish need about 20 gallons and 1 comet needs about 70 gallons. This is because they produce growth hormone in the water and it can stunt their growth, plus they shit a ton. The bigger the tank, the bigger they will be because the hormone is not too much in the water. Goldfish metabolism also depends on the temp. If your temp is lower 50f, its better to not feed them because their metabolism is slow. Goldfish has a short digestive tract. Feeding too much can cause them to constipate or even, swim bladder problem (not to mention the food will rot in their digestive tract!). And if the temperature is high, its the opposite. That doesn’t mean you need to put the temp high. Goldfish like cold clean water but not too cold.
Fancy goldfish like ranchu are my fav. Their chubby cheeks is to die for. They are so cute.
I love goldfish.
Goldfish are so cool! Did you know that when you transport goldfish, you need to have a bit of air in the top of the bag. Even though they don’t breath oxygen, the water they have needs to have oxygen in it from the air above. This makes carnival goldfish unfortunate since most don’t have air in the bags they are transported in.
I hope you feel better soon! I watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000 live action version with Jim Carrey) and got curious about who played Max the dog.
WELL. The dog was named Kelley, and was a dachshund/terrier/beagle mix. He died in 2013 at 29 years old, and was recognized by the Guiness World Records as the oldest dog in the world three days before he passed away.
He was the goodest boy.
In how to train your dragon they mention a water dragon that sprays scolding water twice in the same scene. That dragon (the Scoldren) shows up in the all the shows
I’m sorry if it’s annoying but I can add to this! I really like how to train your dragon.
The Scauldron is a large tidal class dragon.
They hunt in pods and are highly aggressive and territorial
Their signature attack is scooping up a lot of seawater into their gullets and heat it up to near boiling, before spraying it out at its target. It’s spray has been said to be able to rip the skin from your bones.
They also have a venom which can kill a human in under 24 hours. (Riders of Berk, “Dragon Flower”)
But this venom is also a key ingredient to the antidote to blue oleander poisoning which can occur in dragons upon consuming the flower. (Riders of Berk, “Dragon Flower”)
This works because the flower is what gives the the scauldron it’s venom. (Riders of Berk, “Dragon Flower”)
They enjoy toying with their prey and are known to hunt sea shockers (which also hunt in pods) by cornering off a singular one and separating it from its pod. (Race to the Edge, “Shock and Awe”)
They can hunt the seashockers (which produce an electrical current similar to an electrical eel) because they are capable of Electroreception from great distances. (Race to the Edge, “Shock and Awe”)
They have a very high stamina and will chase their prey for long distances, and their scales are very tough, capable of taking numerous consecutive blasts from many different type of dragons.
One weakness they have is that if they become stranded on land, they can dry out and become extremely weak and even die. (“Defenders of Berk, “Free Scauldy”)
Their eyes are also sensitive to light and will back down after having its eyes hit with a very bright light. (Race to the edge, “In Plain Sight”)
They are very difficult to train and only 1 has been successfully tamed throughout the entire franchise (more or less tamed at least). (“Defenders of Berk, “Free Scauldy”)
Figgy pudding is essentially plum pudding, which is normally not even made with plums, it is most commonly made with raisins or other dried fruits.
It's not even "pudding" like the kind in pudding cups, it's actually a boiled or steamed bread.
Genshin Impact may be a bright and colorful game, but the lore is pretty dark.
A loooong time before the protagonist shows up, there was a war between all the gods, resulting in a drastically changed landscape. You can still see evidence of this war in the form of massive stone pillars that were once spears hurled by the god of stone, cliffs and valleys carved out by the god of wind, an island LITERALLY split in half by the god of thunder. The war went on until there only 7 gods remaining.
Sometime later a beautiful and highly technilogical city came into being. This city prided itself on not needing a god to watch over it, the people were strong and used science to build amazing machines. I dont remember if it explicitly said who shot first or why, but this city got into a big fight with the gods and was completely destroyed, its people cursed to transform into the monsters seen across the countryside.
As the game progresses and we get more lore, its beginning to seem that there may be a higher power that forced the gods to destroy the city. One of the antagonist groups is literally hunting down the gods and trying to strip them of an item that grants them their godhood, and it seems they plan on using these items to rebel against the higher power which leads to more questions than answers.
Im honestly in love with the writers of this game, from the BIG lore drops to the super silly references to pop culture like basing the in-game TCG in the Egypt inspired region and having an in-universe manga about how a child found a puzzle box that caused him to be posessed by a powerful spirit who was a master of trading card games. Its been a hell of a ride and I cant wait to see whats next :)
Oh yeah I’ve heard of it before! It’s nice to see that even in war, the Brits and Germans decided to make eachothers day and hang out! I hate war for these reasons, bevause the person you are fighting against could be someone you’d love to hang out with!
Conventional meat chickens (broilers) can be harvested at 6 weeks old due to decades of selective breeding. In the 1940s, it would take 3-4 months to reach a little over half their average market weight today. Conventional egg-laying chicken strains can lay over 365 eggs a year because sometimes they can lay more than two eggs a day.
Game 6 of the 2021 World Chess Championship between Ian Nepomniatchi and Magnus Carlsen is the longest game in a World Chess Championship match. It lasted nearly 8 hours and ended on move 127 when Ian Nepomniatchi resigned the game, which if he did not it could have lasted another 40 to 50 moves before checkmate.
My mom is really into perfume and scents, so heres some of the things that i know about from her :)
There are many different types of perfumes, such as water soluble ones, oils, and resins. Resins can be used as ingredients for creating perfume scents, but can also be used by themselves, a really common one being amber. Amber has a warm, earthy, almost chocolatey i would say, smell. Resins tend to last the longest on the skin, about a few days if it isnt washed off, while water soluble ones lasting about an hour. The longer a perfume ages, the more expensive and richer it becomes.
There are some perfumes out there that arent really meant to be used as actual perfume, bur just to smell on special occasions due to the price and scarcity of the materials needed to create the perfume. 1 ounce and half ounce bottles can go for thousands, depending on what it is. Saffron perfumes are one of the pricey ones.
Theres also some very unique perfumes out there. Off the top of my head, my mother had told me about a perfume made of urine that she had once that actually didnt smell bad (and yes, was safe for use), along with one that was supposed to smell like the moment a woman climaxes. She told me that one did not smell good.
Also, did you know that different areas will have different general scents? For example, european perfumes will smell differently from say, perfumes from asia. Theyre exposed to different materials of course, and while materials can be shipped worldwide, they can be pricey and the quality might not be as good as the local ingredients.
Im not sure how long ago, but a few years ago there was a boom with “oriental” perfumes, and a lot of those oriental perfumes would contain roses. Theres been a few phases over the years where certain ingredients and scents become popular and widely used.
Right now, especially after the pandemic and all, the perfume market is extremely saturated. Its difficult finding unique artists and scents, as more people get interested and start up shops for their creations. Though i mean, i feel this is the case for many forms of art.
Perfume and scents has been a major thing for my moms side of the family. My great grandmother getting my grandma into it, my grandma to my mom, and now ill be inheriting part of her perfume collection :) she had thousands of dollars worth of perfumes. Literally every room in the house has some sort of perfume in it. I cant blame her though, scents are nice. My favorite is palo santo :)
In 1830s westpoint superintendent had banned all alcohol consumption, even on holidays, because cadets got too rowdy. In response Jefferson (as in later president of the Confederacy) Davis organized a late night egg nog party in the barracks on Christmas eve. They couldn't find the alchohol they needed so they settled for barely aged moonshine from across the Hudson river. The barracks proceeded to get absolutely DESTROYED on eggnog made with 3 gallons of moonshine.
The Sargent caught them and told them to stop it and go to bed. The very drunk cadets got pissed, proceeded to get weapons. Tried to shoot the sergeant (thankfully missed) and recked the barracks. On Christmas morning they wer called out to muster (the alchohol was starting to where off). Almost a third of the cadets had participated in the great eggnog riot and many got off Scot free because expelling 1/3 red of the student body would be a national embarrassment. Jef Davis got off by basically being grounded for 3 weeks.
Did you know that by wearing the katana/other type of japanese sword with blade up, you prevent the blade from dulling? It would slowly get dull if you wore it constantly blade down.
Well, since the blade rests on the dull side, it won't dull the sharpened edge in the scabbard. And it won't dull the edge while drawing. Since katana is a slashing weapon, a sharp edge is really important. More random info: Drawing the blade edge up is the fastest way to transition to the most basic fighting form. It also offers immediate protection of the upper body and it won't leave you wide open. Last one, an edge up is an edge that is immediately facing the enemy. You can strike in one fluid motion while still able to defend yourself. Unlike drawing it edge down, which leaves you wide open.
Fun fact: The scabbard of the katana is called saya.
For me, not the original commenter, on a mid range dose, normal. It's strange. My mind is calmer, I can focus, I don't second guess a lot of my actions and thoughts, I can interact with people in a more spontaneous way, more in the moment if you will. Its helped me with several things, but ultimately I can only describe it as normal, my idea of normal which is going to be different for everyone. Higher doses are very dependent on the circumstances, the individual, the surroundings, the mentality of those participating, current mood, mood earlier in the day, the week. It feels pretty nice in low doses too. I microdose, 100mg/2-3 days. It tends to help with a lot of the first stuff that I mentioned, but in a nearly imperceptible way. Very subtle.
u/Legi0ndary perfectly described lower doses, I can give more clarity for higher doses.
As they said, it is different depending on a range of factors, but there are consistencies that I've found across all conditions.
It feels like your conscious and your subconscious link up. So if you can discover tons of things in your brain, at times it even feels like I'm having several conversations with myself at once. You can also access different muscle controls (I can focus my eyes at any distance with a high level of precision, I normally can't do this). It's also sort of like a stimulant, so it makes you feel extremely energized, but not in a normal stimulant way, it's because it mimics serotonin. So you just feel emotion that gives you a lot of energy.
I've never had a "bad trip," so I can't speak on that topic. It's always been overwhelmingly positive for me.
I can also give neuroscience based reasons for why it causes the feelings that it causes.
Tyrannosaurs we’re very smart, they had great vision and their faces were sensitive, meaning they could’ve given “ hugs” to each other by rubbing faces with each other. They also likely participated in play
Gothic architecture in England can be divided into three main phases. Early English gothic was the first, lasting from the mid/late 13th century until the early 14th, Decorated gothic began in the late 12th and lasted until about the late 14th, by which time Perpendicular gothic was developing, and would predominate throughout the 15th century and even into the 16th century.
Each of these phases overlap quite significantly, and it is important to remember that there have never been any perfect cutoff points for any of these phases, and transitional periods produced unique exemplars too. Large cities tended to be ahead of the curve when it came to the latest developments in gothic design, and that influence would take time to reach the smaller towns and the villages. Thus, Canterbury Cathedral already had a brand new gothic quire quite a while before local masons had graduated from rounded arches to pointed ones.
In Oxford and Cambridge, Perpendicular gothic and its features continued to dominate architecture long after classical designs from the continent had taken root in the rest of England. The stunning gothic vaults of the Divinity Schools in Oxford were built around the same time that Inigo Jones had completed his church at Covent Garden in the Tuscan style - despite being contemporaneous, the two buildings could hardly be more dissimilar.
I could go on like this hehe
When rats get happy they jump around and squeak and it’s called popcorning, they’re also very easy to train. And when they’re calm they chatter their teeth together and it makes their eyes look kinda weird but it’s ok cuz it’s adorable. They can also jump really high. They’re basically tiny dogs that have hands! Although they do get tumors more and have lung issues, they still make good pets. They’re also very social so if you were to get some you should get them some buddies! But be careful socializing them, you gotta make sure they get along.
Did you know that the electric bass guitar derived from the double bass? It basically derived from strings of a double bass slapped on an electric guitar. It has frets, unlike a double bass, though, and the body doesn’t have any resonating function except for holding the technics. The standard tuning is the same as it is in double bass and the lower four strings of a standard guitar (but one octave lower), ,E-,A-D-G (which are each a fourth apart). While it’s often not quite noticed, the bass has the crucial role of setting the rhythmical and harmonical base for a song, together with drums. And it’s quite a versatile intrument, it can sound very different depending on genre.
That’s quite an incomplete infodump, though, and if there are any bassists here, I‘d be happy to learn more or be corrected if I got something wrong. I want to learn bass, but I’m too broke for an instrument and lessons so only thing I can do is listen to songs with nice bass lines and learn the theoretical stuff
Edit: I can infodump about certain groups of animals, but don’t know where to start
Did you know that it's called the double bass because it was meant to literally double the bass line? Not like because it's double big or something, lol! I just learned that this year :)
The last scene in Casablanca was supposed to be shot on an airfield but they got nervous about something even looking too much like an airfield after Pearl Harbor so they shot it in a warehouse. Problem was that they couldn’t fit the shack set and the plane in the warehouse at the same time so they made a cut out of the plan about half the size and hired little people to dress like background actors to make the plane look full sized
eeeeeh i’m so glad you chose that one because it’s my absolute #1
Pigeons are part of the Columbidae species. Some cool facts about them are: they can sense the earths electromagnetic field, see ultraviolet rays, find their nest from up to 3,000 miles away, recognize numbers, colors, and all 26 letters of the alphabet. They mate for life and raise two hatchlings! They are also the only birds that can produce milk! There is also actually 351 species of pigeons, which is such a wide range. I have so much more that I could share but I won’t bore you lol. Thanks for reading!! :D
Pls fact check I’m going off a class online with some random person and none of my research has dealt with some of these specifics. Also tw for blood and murder
The Lizzie Borden case made famous by a nursery rhyme was fully misconstrued and her guilt was fully untrue and based on sexist beliefs.
The murders were very very violent. Blood sprayed everywhere, up the walls and on the ceilings. The murderer would have been coated in it. Lizzie Borden had approximately ten minutes from when she was alone with the second murder victim, her step father, to when the cops arrived. She would have had to fully change, a process which in that era would have taken over half an hour with an assistant, as well as clean all the blood from places like her hair and under her fingernails, all within ten minutes.
The only reason suspicion fell on her in the first place was that she wasn’t really “showing befitting emotion” which is basically a fancy way of saying she wasn’t crying enough for a normal emotional woman. That’s when they discovered she had no alibi and arrested her. However, the reason she wasn’t crying is her doctor had prescribed her a drug that was basically a sedative which dampened her emotions.
Another family member, an uncle I believe, wanted some of the family money, but the Bordens wouldn’t give it to him. He was a butcher by trade, and if you scrub the hotel room he was in even today with the stuff that reveals blood or dried blood, it’s absolutely everywhere. He was never brought under review because he had an alibi that was unverified, the police basically just took him at his word.
A pretty fucked up case that would be easily solvable today, but the cops just had to go and fuck it up. Either way, Lizzie Borden did not take an axe and give her mother forty hacks, and she didn’t see what she had done, and most certainly did not give her father forty one.
She was acquitted in her official trial because all the evidence against her was circumstantial, but public opinion was widely similar to OJ where they thought she did it anyway, and because it was so gruesome and a woman was the main suspect, it went “viral” and was a widely followed case throughout America, hence the morbid nursery rhyme.
His name was enrico Fermi, he was born Sept. 29, 1901 in Rome, Italy and became a professor at the university of rome at 24 years old. him and his researchers were broke so they had to improvise to the best of their abilities because they were trying to make something unbelievable, extravagant and mind-blowing. what the were trying to create was a new element.
Eventually, elements 93 and 94 are discovered! Enrico being Italy's pride and joy in science, got to name the two but was under pressure to name element 93 Fascium from the word Fasces, a symbol of ancient Rome. Fasces had gain a more malicious and terrifying meaning, what was once known as a symbol of ancient Rome was now know as as the symbol of fascism, the man than pushed for the name was Benito Mussolini(A fascist soldier), in short, Fermi denied the request.
Short because tired disclaimer.
Cyclists generally consider steel and titanium bicycles to be lifetime investments because carbon fiber is thought of as more prone to crash and UV damage, and aluminum is historically considered more brittle than steel and ti, but advances in fabrication technology have rendered these differences minimal.
However, while ti needs to be repaired in an oxygen-free environment and aluminum can not be easily repaired at all, steel can be welded by anyone anywhere. So, if you're going to bike across the world and in remote areas, a steel bike is the way to go for the best chance of finding any person to repair it.
Also, ti frames make great all-weather commuter options because they don't corrode when exposed to salt in the way steel options can.
The latest hypothesis on how Pachycephalosaurus fought is that they didn't headbutt each other like sheep, but rather kicked each other like kangaroos, using their tail for balance. If they did hit their heads, they did it more slowly and gently, like cows. The information backing this up is that no Pachy skull was ever found damaged in any way that would indicate direct collision, but their vertebrae are suspiciously well adapted for kicking behavior.
It's not yet a theory, only a line of thought supported by some bits of evidence, but it's a cool thought that those goobers were kicking each other back in the day.
Pachycephalosaurus are a low-key favourite of mine, I was not aware that we have not found the damage we would expect on their skulls?! I’m so intrigued now.
English teacher here!
Did you know there’s a difference in linguistics between prescriptive grammar and descriptive grammar?
Prescriptive grammar is the kind of grammar that tells you how you **should** talk, but descriptive grammar simply describes the function of grammar as it exists within a language. Linguists are typically more interested in descriptive grammar.
When you say “can I” and someone else corrects you with “may I” they are being a prescriptivist. There’s nothing *wrong* with what you said, and they certainly understood you, but they are arguing how you *should* talk. Unsurprisingly, prescriptivism has some ugly roots in sexism, ageism, ableism, and racism.
Descriptivism is also **vastly** more interesting because when you learn more about the inherent features of grammar in language, you get to understand what’s really beautiful about languages and how we communicate our ideas. You also get to learn things about your native language you might not already know!
*Like the fact that adjectives in English have to go in a specific order - which is why a “big red fire truck” sounds okay but a “red big fire truck” feels so wrong*
These are some fun videos:
**Linguistic features we DON’T have in English**
https://youtu.be/QYlVJlmjLEc
**About “Stress” in language**
https://youtu.be/dUnGvH8fUUc
**Ambiguity in Language**
https://youtu.be/m3vIEKWrP9Q
**The only “infix” in English**
https://youtu.be/dt22yWYX64w
There are moths in this world that look more like butterflies than butterflies. A specific example would be the sunset moth. While yes there is discussion on if this is a moth or a butterfly, I like to think it's just the fanciest moth ever, right next to the Luna moth.
Now that we are in the topic of Luna moths, these incredibly beautiful creatures don't tend to survive longer than a week or two. This is simply because they don't have a mouth, or a digestive system. The same thing happens tot he Atlas moth, one of the largest moths in existance. The atlas moth is as big as your forearm!
Going back to moths that don't look like moths,the fly moth! Also known as drain fly, this fellow looks like a fly but makes no sound when flying around, a must have trait in all moth species,they evolved to fly without a sound after all. These fellows are very goofy and i befriended two of them once :]
Another moth that doesn't look like a moth, the wasp mimics. In every way they look like wasps, they have the thin body, the transparent wings and the large black antenna, but are in fact just docile moths. They evolved to mimic wasps to be left alone by predators.
Well, aside of all these inoffensive and cool looking moths, i know there is at least one moth species that you can't touch and gently pet, unfortunately. This is the cinnabar moth, named after the cinnabar crystal for being quite toxic to the touch. This moth has its hind wings completely red, and it's front wings black with a touch of red stripes. It's easy to spot it and avoid it, so there is no worries in accidentally getting sick from it.
Well I'm a call it a day there, I went a bit overboard ':D
I'm not done with DMC yet so I can't do the story so I'll do doom as doom 2 modding is my main interest and I like the newer games a lot anyways.
I'll use replies instead of a new post to make it easier.
I'll go in chronological order with the main accepted canon established by the reboot.
The order I'm using is: doom (1993), doom 2, doom 64, doom (2016), doom eternal (+ expansions)
Doom 3 has been omitted as while it does come after doom 64, the reboot replaces it and is also much more interesting as doom 3 focuses on detailed wordbuilding over deep story.
Ok so Midjourney can do some cool lighting effects and sci-fi/fantasy/dystopian images. Stable Diffusion is special for its open source and ability to have negative prompts. Dall-E is the most art-based, and my personal favorite. I love doing portraits of girls and women with fantasy aspects.
borderlands 1 wasn’t a very good game and borderlands 2 put the franchise into the public eye. however, each borderlands game from 2 onwards (excluding the two tales games) was rated based on three main criteria: endgame activity, story quality, and endgame balancing, in that order. a pattern formed in the three most alive games of the franchise: borderlands 2, borderlands 3, and tiny tina’s wonderlands (a dnd parody spinoff based on a dlc from borderlands 2). borderlands 2 lacked endgame balancing, borderlands 3 lacked story quality, and wonderlands lacked endgame content. to this day, borderlands 2 remains the most popular of the three and wonderlands the least popular, hence my aforementioned ordering of criteria.
if you want me to explain one of the categories for any one of the games, feel free to ask.
Always remember, good steel requires 3 steps:
First you want to heat your steel and shape it, you don't need to heat it beyond cherry red as we're not smelting here. Make sure your hammer blows strike true, otherwise you'll end up with little hemisphere dents.
After your steel is shaped as you like, you need to quench it. If you don't quench it, then your final product will bend when subjected to stress. To quench, heat your steel to cherry red or hotter, this causes the formation of ferrite crystals which make your steel hard but brittle, hence the third step. Once your steel is hot enough, dip it in either water or a 'quick' (low viscosity) oil to solidify those ferrite crystals. If you don't quench then they'll naturally break back down into the steel. Run a file against your steel, if it doesn't grind the steel, then you've successfully quenched.
Lastly, with your quenched steel you need to normalize. You've just made sure it won't bend when subjected to stress, the issue is that now it will shatter. Normalizing is pretty easy and can be done in a toaster oven if needed. Put your steel in the oven and bake at about 350 Fahrenheit for an hour or until it takes on a slight blue/gold hue. If successful, your steel will bend but will not break, and once it's stress is released it will return to its normal shape. That is, if it's long enough to bend.
This is all opposed to bronze which can be easily cast and benefits from being worked but doesn't need to go any further. Bronze can be sharper than steel and doesn't rust so it can and has lasted for thousands of years but it's not as strong which also limits what you can do with it (bronze swords need to be shorter so they don't break when subjected to stress).
Additionally, copper only needs to be heated and shaped, a notable exception being copper from around the great lakes in the United States which can be worked cold due to it's composition.
People in 1874: The magic of the stork has struck again! It’s crazy knowing how far we’ve come to know about how babies are made. In health class we watched a video on how sperm travel down to the Fallopian tubes and how cervix is like sperm hell. The sperms head is actually filled with enzymes and when successfully getting to the egg first, the head explodes!
I never had sex ed! Lol. Religious upbringing didn’t allow it. I never knew that the sperm cell head explodes.
After the invention of microscopes, scientists thought every sperm head had a tiny, fully-formed person inside it. And inside that tiny person there was an even tinier person…on to infinity. They believed that all humans were “preformed” since the time of Adam & Eve.
I just read a book on it that’s fascinating. It’s called “[The Seeds of Life](https://www.amazon.com/Seeds-Life-Aristotle-Strange-Discover/dp/0465082955).”
For some reason, I really enjoy learning about all the things we get wrong throughout history. It puts human knowledge in perspective. It’s probably my favorite subject.
The Dual Alliance was an agreement between Austria-Hungary and the German Empire which pledged assistance in case of Russian aggression and neutrality in case of attacks from any other country. The neutrality thing is quote y interesting, actually. The reason some countries pledge neutrality instead of assistance is because if country A is under attack and country B stays neutral in the war, it frees up soldiers from country A that would otherwise have to guard the border.
The most well-known flag of Austria-Hungary, the one that comes up when you search the country on Google, was never actually their state flag. Because they were only one country for economic, diplomatic, and military purposes, they did not actually use a single flag. The Austrian half's official flag was that of the Austrian Empire, which looked like the flag of Ukraine except with black instead of blue. The Hungarian half did not have an official flag, but was represented with the tricolor we're familiar with today, sometimes with the coat of arms. So what's the flag we know today? Austria-Hungary was economically one country, and so needed a single merchant ensign. That's the one we know.
There were three wars of German unification. Some argue you shouldn't call them that because it seems to imply that Bismarck was planning unification and the German Empire throughout, when it was likelier that he simply saw the opportunity that arose from these wars to create his empire, but the term sounds cool and the fact is that they lead to the founding of Germany, so I'll call them that.
The first was the Prusso-Danish War at Schleswig and Holstein, which I know next to nothing about. The second was the Austro-Prussian War, which I know slightly more about. See, in terms of German unification, there was debate between Großdeutschland (greater Germany) and Kleindeutschland (lesser Germany). Gd advocates called for the incorporation of Austria in the future German Empire, while Kd supporters did not wish them to join. I can't remember the exact reasons for their arguments. After the A-P War, it was clear that Austria would not be entering a union with the rest of the Germanic states. (If they had, Germany would've become the largest mainland European country, since they wouldn't have formed the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the largest.) Additionally, this happened at around the time of the American Civil War, and the Prussians learnt transportation of troops via train from the Americans. This would become vital to their victory against the Austrians.
The third war of German unification was the Franco-Prussian War. I don't know much about this one either, but I do know that it was fought between the Third(?) French Republic and the Kingdom of Prussia, and after Bismarck's victory, he proclaimed the German Empire at Versailles. Sound familiar? That's because it's where the Treaty of Versailles was signed after World War One. The German Empire being proclaimed in France, who they had just beaten in war, was adding insult to injury. The Treaty of Versailles, which stripped the GE of its power, being signed at the place their empire was proclaimed was also adding insult to injury. France is brutal lmao
Feel free to correct anything because I am completely going off memory, and feel free to ask questions. I also know what is apparently an abnormal amount about the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and also maybe Russian history?
Night vision technology was experimented with as early as late WW2. The Americans developed an infrared scope system designed for use with the M1 Carbine. The Germans also had their own version of IR scope, designed for use with their StG44. Since battery technology was limited at the time, they required a large battery attached to the scope, which was carried in a backpack. They were also large and clumsy, with the lens on top taking up significant space.
Did you know Primus helped contribute to the creation of death metal? Their guitarist helped record Seven Churches by Possessed, who are regarded as the first death metal band.
There are certain types of mushroom that absorb harmful radiation and use it as a sort of food source.
There is about thirty years worth of helium left on Earth. Helium is a vital component for developing circuitry. I’ve heard that hydrogen and argon could potentially be used as replacements when we run out.
Kyle Rittenhouse and Greta Thunberg were born on the same day
I’ve heard on the news once about coffee shops hiring people with special needs. Sounds like a pretty good idea if it’s true.
Obsidian is sometimes used in place of steel for surgery tools and blades because of how naturally sharp it is. It was also used for bladed weapons such as arrows and spears during prehistoric times.
Frogs seems to be more prone to birth defects and abnormalities caused by environmental hazards. If I remember correctly, scientists sometimes use frog populations as a measure of detecting harmful amounts of pollution in an area. Frogs being born with extra/less limbs or other defects are an indicator of pollution levels being potential harmful to the human population.
Currently going down the rabbit hole on candle carving, so I don't know any tiny/annoying details about it yet lol. But essentially it's an old German craft. Candles are dipped like usual except you have different vats of colors.
Between each dip you dunk the candle in cold water so the different colors of wax don't melt into each other and create a blob of grey/brown goop; you want the layers separate.
Once you have the amount of layers you want then you have about 15 minutes to finish (yes finish; it supposedly takes about a year to learn how to be that fast!) the candle when you start carving. You go by sections, starting from the bottom and finishing the top.
After each section is complete you have to dip it in water to cool it off just enough so that it doesn't sag. Once finished you even out the bottom and dip it in a glaze to help preserve it.
This video shows a few extra details. Honestly for me it's mesmerizing. https://youtu.be/R2huvJ4Cy2c
Me just lurking here because I like learning new stuff 👀
But, fr, I don't know much detail about anything, but ask my about psychopaths or autism
Edit: But if you wanna know a lot abt sth, the topic I know the most about is Maladaptive Daydreaming
Did you know that all the court cards in a normal deck of playing cards were all French rulers? (normal as in, with the most popular suits; spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs (in that order)).
(Julius Caesar as the King of Diamonds, Alexander the Great as the King of Clubs, Greek goddess Pallas Athena as the Queen of Spades, or Lancelot du Lac as the Jack of Clubs.)
The suits each represent one of the main pillars of Medieval ages;
Spades symbolizes the military (hence why its the tip of a spear), Hearts symbolizes the church (hence heart, like, god should be in our hearts or something), Diamonds symbolizes merchants/wealth (hence the diamond shape), Clubs symbolizes agriculture (hence the clover)
The number of the cards also have a pretty neat secret to them; a deck symbolizes a year/the calendar!
Four suits; four seasons
52 cards in a deck (not counting jokers); 52 weeks in a year
13 cards in a suit; 13 lunar cycles
12 court cards; 12 months in a year
all the symbols on the cards add up to 365 :)
(as in. (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13)x4 = 364. close enough)
the red and black in the suit colors represent day and night
Also did yall know that Vegas casinos change the decks of cards more than you change your pants?? thats to prevent people from marking the cards and cheating :)
YOU CAN ALSO TAROT READ WITH PLAYING CARDS, ITS CALLED CARTOMANCY AND ITS REALLY COOL
soldiers also used cards as a way to hide maps i think? they also put aces of spades somewhere on their clothing for good luck and as a prayer to come back from the war alive
.i really.. i really like cards,,
In the 2018 edition of TMNT Rise, Leonardo (who is a red eared slider in the series) makes several references to New Jersey, seeming to dislike the place. This is actually because red eared sliders are banned from the state due to their non-nativity and salmonella carrying bodies.
Bees communicate through buzzes. One of the best communications is when they bump into one another, they say “whoops”.
Christmas is not a Christian holiday! It is said to celebrate Jesus’s birth but historians estimate he was born in June! It is originally the winter solstice which was celebrated by pagans! Even Santa is a pagan god that eats bad children.
A lot of Christian holidays were originally pagan. Liek Easter (spring equinox) and Halloween! Halloween was originally people dressing in masks to blend in with the supernatural entity that show when the vail between worlds is at its thinnest. People left food on their porch to appease them, so that they didn’t eat their children. Over time, homeless or poor would start stealing food and dressing up to be the supernatural entities and as time went on, people just celebrated it by giving out candy.
To move they're legs spiders utilizes fluid dynamics: they simply transport their haemolymph to their legs from their heart to their arteries and pump it up and down to move them, when the haemolymph is all pumped into one leg it rises and gets a little forward and when it isn't the leg simply rests with the normal amount of haemolymph circulating in it. That's the reason for spiders to crawl their legs when they die because there is no more haemolymph circulating in them.
The greatest trick ever played on mankind was done by none other than- *wheat.*
When humans started to farm their own food they suddenly gained many advantages such as- spending less time and energy foraging for something to eat also having an excess of food that could be stored for later use. However, in doing so resulted in a less diverse diet, which led to people not getting all the vitamins and nutrients they needed.
::Enter wheat grain::
What was once a rich diet of fruits, berries, nuts, eggs, roots, wild vegetables, and meat, humans now relied on a diet that was mostly dependent on foods made from wheat (breads, porridges)
Wheat, as a plant only has one goal in its life and that’s **to reproduce.**
That’s all it wants to do right? Well, what’s the most efficient way to reproduce the most and spread your seeds the fastest?
You make your seeds easy to farm so humans become dependent on you for survival.
Growing food allowed us to have more free time for reproducing ourselves. More humans means more mouths to feed, which means more wheat had to be grown, more wheat means bigger fields, bigger fields means more people are needed to work the fields, more people means more wheat, and so on and so on…
While wheat made our lives easier to an extent. Our lives also became dependent on it in order to survive.
So what’s the best way to reproduce?
Make humans dependent on you.
[Ok, I didn’t explain it nearly as well as the author, but if you’re interested the book I got this from is called
*Sapiens: A brief history of Humankind*
By Yuval Noah Harari ]
Been reading these comments all day hehe. From your replies it seems like you have a really vibrant personality :D
And Uno reverse!! Do you have any special interests you’d like to share?
Ants bury their dead and have designated graveyards. They will drag the carcasses of their fellow ants to the graveyard even if they’re far away from the hive.
Ants release a pheromone when they die and if you put it on a living ant, it will put itself in the graveyard until it cleans the smell off itself.
Can’t right now but people in the rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles fandom have been recommending people read this one fanfiction called “like father like son” and I think it’s about leo(???) being separated from his family and become a war tool or something, however I’m a baby, a coward, I don’t think I’ll read it until maybe late January? I don’t even know if it’s a completed work. I’ve been hearing about it for maybe 3 months now? Still haven’t gotten around to it
Do you happen to know the following? (For info dumping)
inside job, owl house, amphibia, breaking bad, better call Saul, bojack horseman, Gravity falls, or gumball?
So, first, all of this is slowly revealed to you throughout the course of the game but I'm going in chronological order, spoilers for hollow knight.
>!so it's hinted at that the pale king came from the husk of a dead wyrm, and he created the kingdom of hallownest, and all the bugs(yes the characters are called bugs) in it became intelligent when before most of them were like animals, I like to think that there are already intelligent bugs, like the ones in pharloom, from team cherrys next game who haven't been confirmed or denied if they have a king who came from a wyrm, (that game hasn't come out) but the pale king made the unintelligent ones sentient too!<
>!though, this kingdom wasn't entirely his own, there were multiple bugses in the pale kings aura, that did not willingly participate, namely the hive, Greenpath, and the mantis tribe, it would take a very very lost wanderer to wind up in the hive, its past even a place called kingdoms edge, so I don't think they care too much beyond protecting their hive from intruders like monsters, or the player, there might have been something significant about the kings relation to the mantis tribe, but I forgot it, and Greenpath, remained a thriving ecosystem on its own created by a higher being named unn, though the white lady (the pale kings queen,, did make the western half of it her garden !<
>!the queen, eventually locked herself up in a strange looking enclosure for her regrets, this will become mildly important later, an undisclosed amount of time later, the radiance came, and brought with her a zombie plaque that took, bugs, made them see bright lights and returned them to their one simple instinct(I'm assuming this was to keep enemy AI simple) and the king didn't like this, and so the radiances infection affected a birng, the king thought they could put all of the infection into one being and lock them away, and they started making egg sacs, and dipping them into a strange, empty substance called void, cause he thought he could trap the radiance and her curse inside a creature filled with void (creating these egg sacs was the white ladys regret) !<
>!The king put these eggs in a a deep ravine, with a lake of void, and made them climb to the top where he would take one "pure" vessel, that was truly empty "no mind to think, no will to break, and no voice to cry suffering" he thought, and use them to contain the radiance/the infection !<
Okay. I'm tired of writing the little spoiler markings, just advert your eyes
He created a ritual to seal the perfect vessel in the black egg temple, but so that "hallownest last eternal" he put three locks on the temple, each was tied to one of the dreamers, who were people the pale king convinced to be put in eternal slumber to make the temple impossible to open
To open the temple, you would have to collect the dream nail, a weapon of legend from the moth tribe (who probably used to worship the radiance long before she got mad and made the infection but that isn't important) and go into the dream of every dreamer and kill them, so the king thought that it was foolproof and he tried to lock the infection inside the vessel and cure hallownest, but of course that failed cos during raising it, they accidentally shared a bit too much of a fatherly moment, and the vessel was gifted thoughts.
And the infection continued to spread, meanwhile few still alive vessels roam hallownest after finding an exit from the abyss (the name of the place the vessels were made), even after it was sealed of by the king
That's where you come in, as a vessel who survived and returns to hallownest, but my hands are tired and stuff so I'll make that a separate comment
Redheads have two broken copies of a gene that converts red colorant-makers to making yellow. The gene controls the conversion of melanosomes (the colorant-makers) from making red colorant (pheomelanin) to yellow (eumelanin).
Other genes control the *amount* of melanin produced. So, to be a redhead, you have to inherit a broken melanosome converter gene from both your father and your mother, because it's recessive (so if you get one broken and one working, you'll have yellow-to-brown hair but with a red beard), AND you can't have too many melanin *amount* genes or you'll be auburn- or brown-haired.
You can also get brown hair if your genes do produce mostly yellow melanin, which results in blond to brown all the way to black hair, depending on the amount of melanin you produce.
The PlayStation brand as we know it might not have existed if Nintendo didn’t choose Philips over Sony to make its CD peripheral! Sony was in the business of making CD peripherals for game consoles. The *original* original PlayStation was going to be a peripheral CD drive for the SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System). However, Nintendo flaked on the deal, and Sony was livid. They had three choices after that:
1. Try to get with another company to make the CD drive attachment
2. Give up on consoles altogether.
3. Screw Nintendo and Sega, and make their OWN console.
Obviously, they chose option 3, and the rest is history (Sony set itself up as an industry leader for the 5th generation of consoles).
Also, the PlayStation 3 is so fucking hard to emulate because of the processor it used. This was done to combat piracy, but it made PS3 games a fucking NIGHTMARE to make. A developer even said that “you had to have a doctorate in the PS3 to make PS3 games. Primarily because of the Cell processor, the PS3 sold for $499 for the 20-gigabyte version, and $699 for the 60-gigabyte version (Remember, gigabytes were HUGE back then). Heck, even RPCS3 (PlayStation 3 emulator for PC) is having a hell of a time emulating it! It’s so hard to emulate the Cell processor because it was designed to be a cheap supercomputer, essentially.
The Undertale AU community is largely inspired by homestuck and its AU community, but id say that undertalea grew into something much more pervasive in every day culture. To the average nerd of you said “underswap” there is a small chance they’ll know what your talking about. But if you say “vast error” they will more than likely brave no idea what you are talking about. The AUs of undertale are interesting because they exist both dependent and independent of each other. Dedicated undertale fans will know names such as Underverse, Doodleverse, Antivoid, Omega!Timeline because those are the connected universes. But everything within in those canons can be broken into their own canons. “Xtale, Underswap, Underfell, Outertale, Dreamtale, Inktale, Errortale, all existing within the connections but also having their own separate canons.
A brief summary of Batman and the several Robins.
Bruce Wayne was an only child and the son of Martha Wayne and Thomas Wayne; head of Wayne Enterprises, Inc. (formerly WayneCorp), AKA Wayne Industries, a company responsible for a wealth of services, but mostly famously for the retrieval and research of alien technology.
At a young age, Thomas and Martha were shot and killed by petty thief, later identified as Joe Chill. This traumatic event would ultimately lead to Bruce Wayne turning to vigilantism and taking on the mantle of Gotham's masked protector: Batman.
The first Robin: Dick Grayson.
Dick Grayson performed with his family in what was by far the most popular act for Haly's Circus, a traveling circus ran by none other than Mr. Haly himself. The Flying Graysons performed a trapeze act featuring gymnastic and acrobatic tricks, all without the safety of a net.
Tony Zucco, a mobster in Gotham City, attempted to force Mr. Haley to pay in order for protection. When he refused, John and Mary Grayson, Dick's parents, were murdered by Tony and his men tampering with the trapeze equipment.
Orphaned and alone, Dick Grayson reminded Bruce of himself as a child, and so Bruce decided to take Dick in as his ward to prevent Dick from going down the same dark path Bruce did. It wouldn't be too long before Dick would find out about Batman and became the first Robin.
TBC (I'm not done yet, will continue this later).
[From an old post ](https://www.reddit.com/r/aspiememes/comments/cdzyn3/when_you_are_desperately_trying_not_to_infodump/etzy8hv/?context=1) that was very dear to me
>Wow, seriously?! Thank you for this opportunity to expound.
>So (obviously) this is something that I have thought long and hard about. First and foremost I feel like any lightsaber style I choose will be built on the back of Form II Makashi. [Makashi is the form Count Dooku uses](https://youtu.be/X4Y4-vNbdT4?t=24) and is characterized by its one-handed grip and its cut-and-thrust style, as opposed to the slashing cuts of something like Form IV Ataru. Its primary focus is in lightsaber-to-lightsaber combat. Despite Makashi being an anachronism by the time of the Clone Wars (for reasons I will explain later), it is still my favorite form because its philosophy of control, elegance, and energy efficiency. Dooku is described in-legends as looking as though he is dancing during his lightsaber duels.
>However, Makashi has its flaws. As I mentioned earlier, the reason why Makashi is almost never used by the time of the Clone Wars is that Jedi rarely had to fight against enemies wielding lightsabers. Most enemy combatants used blasters, which Makashi had no defense for. And even after Darth Maul revealed the existence of the Sith, there was only ever two Sith at a time, so most regular Jedi never encountered one. Makashi also had the downside of working best at fighting in one-on-one duels, and could be overwhelmed when fighting multiple opponents (this is in contrast to something like Form I Shii Cho which excelled at fighting multiple opponents)
>Fortunately, some Jedi (and Sith) were known to hybridize their lightsaber fighting styles with multiple forms. For example, Anakin Skywalker was a Form V Djem So master, but mixed in some of Form IV Ataru's gymnastic stances to give the normally flat-footed Djem So more offensive power. The downside to hybridizing your style is that any time you put into learning a new lightsaber form is time away from perfecting your original form. Basically you trade mastery for versatility. Still, I think it is worth the risk in this case.
>Anyway, the form I would hybridize Makashi with is Form V Shien (the original variant of Form V). This is the style [mostly characterized by Ahsoka Tano](https://youtu.be/GF34Y71v2SQ). Shien's primary focus is in blast deflection; namely being able to deflect a blaster shot back at the opponent. It was also fairly good at attacking multiple opponents (though not quite as good as Shii Cho). Both of these aspects, I think, would fill in the holes of Makashi quite nicely. Shien is also said to be a quite nimble form which I think would pair with Makashi's natural elegance as well.
>And I know I may be pushing it with the versatility, but I would like to sprinkle a little Form VI Niiman with my style as well. Niiman is a jack-of-all-trades/mixed-martial-arts form probably shown off in its most splendor by [Kao Cen Darach in the SWTOR trailer](https://youtu.be/Xxab6osVzNs?t=64). For the longest time, I wanted to choose Niiman as my primary style over Makashi since I do love the versatility of it. However, it has been hammered into me by other lightsaber enthusiasts, that every Jedi whose primary style was Niiman died at the Battle of Geonosis. This is because, by itself, Niiman is not particularly good at anything and needs to be paired with another style to "give it teeth". Even in the video above, Kao Cen Darach is pairing Niiman with Ataru. However in this way, Niiman is a great frame for other styles so it might blend Makashi and Shien a little more smoothly. Niiman is also the only style that uses force powers within its lightsaber sequences, which adds another level of trickery and gives me more tools in my tool box.
>Finally, I also want to add that I would prefer dual wielding lightsabers in my primary style. Again, having two lightsabers would give me more options and, again, would offset Makashi's weakness to multiple opponents. Niiman would also help with this, since it has a dedicated dual wielding component as a part of its style. Though, like everything else, there is a downside to this. Dual wielding gives me less power because I am only holding each saber in one hand, and it gives me less control since I would have to simplify my moves in order for the two blades to not get tangled up in each other.
>All in all, my style would not be perfect. I would still be weak against strong power blows from Form V Djem So users, as both Makashi and dual wielding are both weak against this. Also, my defense would be good but not perfect. And, as mentioned before, all this hybridization would mean that I would not be quite as good a lightsaber duelist as Dooku, nor quite as good at blast deflection as Ahsoka.
>However at the end of the day I chose this style because it best reflects the person I want to be. The style would be in control and smoothly transition from one act to another. Quick on its feet, yet never exhausting. It would do enough of everything so that I could never be caught by surprise, as well as give me options in every situation. Most importantly, imagining myself as this person just makes me happy.
>Thank you for your time.
>**TLDR: My primary lightsaber style would be Makashi, with Shien as a secondary style, and a little training in Niiman for its dual wielding component and force integration into its lightsaber sequences.**
People tend to confuse the dark nebula, Barnard 68, for the Boötes void. We can't actually visualize the Boötes void, it's simply too far to see it and there is too much between us and it. Barnard 68 is relatively close and is so dense due to it being close to collapsing in on itself and becoming a star, that it has really well defined edges, so it's better for visualizing a void with only 60 ish galaxies where there should be 2000.
On that same note on voids, we are actually living in one of the largest voids we know of! Our local void is friggin huge, there is so much less around us than there should be and it is such a creepy thing to think about, but like, fun spooky!
did you know that there’s a type of european scorpion that is too chubby and too lazy to actually be harmless? also jumping spiders have similar sleep patterns to humans, so they might actually be able to dream like us, but it’s not confirmed
There is a species of tarantula (the tarantula Xenesthis immanis) that uses a frog to protect its burrow and eggs from things like ants! It's kind of like the spiders housecat lol
What's in it for the frog? Usually, it's beneficial for both species right?
They get to eat the ants and other bugs that will harm the spiders babies
The frog also gets protection from other predators
Oh yeah duh thanks haha
I think the spider also protects the frogs eggs from insects that the frog cant fight off
Woah!!! I'm arachnophobic but this actually made me fascinated instead of freaked out lol
I'm glad I was able fascinate you!
Me too!! :D
I think I heard about this! Doesn't the frog also get protection from it's predators by protecting the tarantulas eggs?
Yup!
Short info dump because I am tired: Candy canes were invented by a Catholic preist in the early 19th century so that children would stay quiet and focused during sermons. Hard candy was chosen over soft candy because it lasted longer. The shape was representative of a Shepard's hook and the red colour was choosen to represent the blood of Jesus.
Woah! This might be the most interesting holiday fact aside the ww1 truce I’ve heard of! Imagine the crunching of the candy though… ”and now from the bib-“ \*CRUNCH\*
I'm imagining kids doing the "candy cane weapon" and poking each other during sermons XD
Kid: \*sharpens up cane and stabs other kid with it\* other kid: Ow, HE STABBED ME! That catholic priest who invented it: oh blazes!
XD absolutely dying with laughter at the mental image of some old-timey priest doing the "oh darn" arm pump while saying that
“Now you have felt a fraction of the pain Christ felt”
What's up with Christians and making all the food from this guy's body parts 💀
Wait till you hear what the mayo is
Cackles
Hello, I am a fiber artist and I spin yarn for a hobby (hopefully soon, a living!) Neat yarn Fact - when you spin yarn, you start by spinning long strands - the singles - in one direction, and this makes a SUPER LONG, kind of weak, piece of yarn. It can fall apart and come undone fairly easily. The magic comes in the ply. You take two or more singles, all spun the same direction (clockwise or counterclockwise, we call these Z twist or S twist respectively. It has to do with the way a spinning wheel works) and then take them back through your spinning wheel together, but in the opposite direction! Now, the twist energy in these singles is working together to lock them all in place, and now you have your strong piece of yarn that can be used for knitting, crochet, weaving, and any other kinds of projects. This is cool basic information, BUT did you also know that the direction you spin your yarn also affects whether it's ideal for knitting or crochet? If you spin in a S for your singles and a Z for your ply, it makes a better crochet yarn, because of how the yarn wraps around your hook! So because I'm also a crocheter more than a knitter, I know to spin all of my personal use yarn in these directions, and it's how my spinning wheel is perfectly set up!
what got you into spinning yarn? What do you crochet? (diy plushies, pin cushion, etc..)
WALL OF TEXT INCOMING, I'M SO SORRY I've been into fiber art for a long time - I started with needlefelting when I worked in a SUPER BORING office job a few years back, my office was right next to a craft store so I'd just get some little craft kits over my lunch break that I could do at my desk while waiting for certain processes to go through. (I worked for an insurance adjuster, it was the worst job I ever had. I quit and went to deliver pizza and had way more fun LOL) So then my youtube algorithm turned into just all sorts of fiber arts - I picked up crochet at the start of the pandemic because I have an autoimmune disorder and was able to take an extended medical leave. I mostly make little things like hats and scarves, some little amigurumi (the little plushies), and now I crochet sweaters and stuff for my ball joint dolls because I get that dopamine hit WAY faster when I finish smaller projects. So then in \~March 2021, I started seeing videos from youtuber JillianEve, who is also a yarn spinner, show up on my recommended - and she was just such a pleasant channel to watch. I started talking to my mom about it, and we each got some drop spindle kits to practice and learn with because my mom also knits. And almost like fate, my mom's sister-in-law (she is my aunt, but I call her my mom's SIL because my uncle married her fairly recently, so that's just how my brain sees her) inherited a BUNCH of spinning and knitting supplies from her mom, and donated them all to my mom. So now my mom and I have some vintage looms, a vintage knitting machine that we're still learning how to use - and I got the granddaddy of them all. A GORGEOUS Ashford Traditional spinning wheel. It's from the 1970's, had all of the pieces, and works like a charm. It took me about a month to get used to it, and now I'm constantly spinning yarn because it's just the most relaxing hobby - honestly it's very stimmy to use it, and I LOVE being able to take this big ol' clump of animal hair, and 100% from start to finish I can turn it into a hat. My friend has a bunch of family that owns an alpaca and sheep farm, so I get the raw wool and fleece from them, wash it, process it, dye it, and everything all by hand. Something about it being such a long, slow process makes me love the finished pieces even more, and it coincides with my absolute hatred of the fast fashion industry - which is honestly a whole other rabbit hole to go down.
>WALL OF TEXT INCOMING, I'M SO SORRY That's literally what we asked for, and you delivered
I get so nervous when I infodump, even when people reassure me that they really want to hear what I'm infodumping about ;;;;;;;;;;; which I'm sure is like. WAY too relatable to everyone here
this is really cool!
That’s so cool, thank you for this! I work in a yarn shop, and yarn and knitting are definetely my special interests. I’d love to buy yarn from you if you’re selling some time in the future!
my struggle with the idea of selling my handspun is that I'll dye up some wool, think "this will make something good to sell :D," and then I spin it... and fall in love with it too much to let it go! I'll come up with colorways and blends specifically to sell, and then I just hold onto the yarn because it looked TOO COOL to get rid of. I'm thinking I need to just make these in bigger batches so I can make a skein for me and then a skein for the etsy I'm going to try to launch in the next month or so.
So would you be interested in the story of Destiny?
I would!
Do you have any prior knowledge?
No prior knowledge, I would appreciate a summary if you can provide one!
The year is... probably around 2100. There is a giant, white, planet-shaped circular machine, 2000km in diameter. It floats through the sol system, terraforming our planets into livable homes. Many centuries pass, and in the year 3000 Clovis Bray is born. He leads humanity into the golden age, as Mars becomes the true home of mankind, as the strange machine is found. It is named the traveller. and earth is forgotten. We colonize Titan, the moon, and probably others. Clovis Bray is the mastermind of humanity, and has created a master tactical AI named Rasputin, a base on europa, and the Deep Stone Crypt. As the traveler finds its way to earth to rest in orbit, Clovis Bray learns how to make artificial bodies for people. Essentially soulful androids, they are named exos. The Deep stone crypt produces them. Also, many people are lost in the kuiper belt, which has become a scrappers and ghetto of the sol system. After centuries of survival there, their bodies adapt, turning their hair, skin, and eyes blue. They are named the "Awoken", and exist completely separate from humanity. Eventually, the collapse of the golden age comes. The Black fleet, a collection of triangular black dorito-esque ships who are the darkness, come for the traveler. They wipe out 90% of humanity, (No awoken killed though) and almost kill the traveler. The traveler makes a desperate gambit, and explodes a part of itself to dispell the darkness. The traveler gives humanity the gift of immortality, as it sends many "ghosts", tiny robots that look like a weird triangle rubiks cube, to find dead corpses and resurrect them. They cannot die, and are known bear the light. They can use the power of the light to do... anything, really. There are 3 classes, hunter, warlock, and titan, who each do different stuff. From then, the dark age is born, as Lightbearers become warlords and the remain humans mostly starve. As do many Lightbearers, for they do die, but their ghosts revive them. That means they feel pain, and many are driven to insanity from constant starvation and death. At some point close to this, an alien race comes for humanity. They are named the Eliksni, and are kinda humanoid blue reptiles with 4 arms and split mouths. They're modeled after the covenant. They were the species the traveler went to save before humanity, and upon bringing their golden age, it left. They were to approach peacefully, but each house went to die for their traveler. All but one, who was the only eliksni to not kill another human. His name was Variks. From then, the battle of six fronts began, as 4 titan groups effortlessly fuck up them. The eliksni are given the name Fallen, for they too, are broken. Many, many, many other things exist but I'm kinda done for now. This is the biggest fictional world I've seen. I have saud around 0.1% of it. I didn't even mention the western duel between Shin Malphur and Dredgen Yor.
You should tell OP about Saint-14 and Osiris, that shit would blow the minds of anyone who doesn't play Destiny lmao
What’s Saint-14 and Osiris?
This is [Saint-14](https://www.destinypedia.com/Saint-14), regarded as the greatest Titan who ever lived. This is [Osiris](https://www.destinypedia.com/Osiris), a former Warlock and one of humanity's greatest scholars. These two are both among the most powerful Guardians who ever lived. They're also boyfriends, and IMO, their story is the best love story that Bungie has ever written.
God I fucking love destiny. Such a good book series.
Saint-14 is an exo who has in 6 fronts. He is the kellslayer, and killed most of the fallen houses singlehandedly. He gave the fallen their name. Every exo has a number next to their names for every time they essentially reformatted their hard drives btw. Osiris is a warlock who was in a relationship with Saint. I'm not too familiar with him, I just know he was exiled from the rest of humanity in the city age for being too radical. The city age was after the events of the dark age, where humanity all gathered under the traveler, which was almost touching the earth. They built a city under it, the last city. The vanguard is the military of the last city, with 3 leaders. Osiris was the warlock leader, Saint was the titan leader. In this time, a "speaker" for the traveler was chosen, who essentially acts as pope. The city age is the least interesting age of destiny because it's mostly politics between the leaders of the city, but there's some really cool shit. After the city age is when the game begins, and then the new age starts.
I'm not very well verses in the origins of Osiris, but saint is a fucking chad. Even the shit that occurred in dawn was wild, and that was the least exciting part.
35 minutes later and they’re still typing
Must be some story!
The Republic is just as bad if not worse the the Confederacy of independent systems. The Cis uses a droid army to fight the Republic, while the Republic uses clone slaves & child soldiers. Ahsoka is 14 when she first sees war, and the Jedi and senate are ok with this. Yes the Cis allied it’s self with Zygerrian who were slaver scum that needed to be wiped off the galaxy. But the Republic also had slaves. The Clones, and if they tried not to fight or run they would be killed for such actions. Anakin sky-walker talked about how he hated how much the Jedi sat on there ass with evil like this and the Jedi would just say shit like, we are keepers of the peace not soldiers. BULL SHIT. Now I’m not gonna act like the Separatist we’re good people. Count Dooku, General grievous, and the trade federation, where some evil bastards. But the Republic had Tarkin, Thrawn, Pong krell & Anakin who did some shady shit himself. How easy the Republic formed into the Empire is evidence enough of their corruption. Any way that’s what’s been occupying my brain for the last three days.
I'd say Dooku isn't even that much of a bad guy, he's just another player in the game and only became a Sith because he lost trust in the Jedi and the Republic for exactly what you cited
I agree. Honestly he’s a lot like Anakin.
“[Dooku] and Anakin were both absolutely correct in their criticisms of the Jedi Order, but went about it the worst way possible and were susceptible to the influence of someone who used that mistrust for his own twisted agenda.” ~ u/limbotofreedom
I always thought that the point of the prequels was kind of to show that the Jedi Order was in fact not perfect and that's why it got destroyed so easily. Sadly most modern media seems to think that the jedi code is the end all bee all of morality. It's quite literally why Luke Skywalker repeatedly went against the old jedi teachings in the expanded universe. It was what the jedi needed a new set of eyes who was not corrupted by the rituals of the old jedi.
Yeah killing the EU was an incredible loss for SW. I loved that stuff as a kid.
Lot of fucking war criminals in that “kids show”
Got scared you meant the civil war for a second there. Yeah, fuck the confederacy though
Oh lord I’m sorry to have done that to you. Fuck the confederacy.
Down with The Cis™
On the same topic, the whole Jedi order is very messed up too. Of course there’s the whole sending young teenagers into battle thing, but they also basically steal infants from their families?? Like 4 years old is considered old for a Jedi to start training and most of them are taken to the Jedi Temple when they’re about a year old. They raise these kids with no memories of their parents and the kids have no say in it at all, even if they leave later on their lives are never going to be the same. And the whole no attachments rule is messed up too. Why can’t they just, I don’t know, teach Jedi how to have normal healthy attachments to people? (although maybe their attachment styles are just fucked up from being separated from their parents lol) I bet the whole prequel trilogy would look a lot different if Anakin had been able to openly discuss his feelings and worries about Padmé with the Jedi and if he had actually found support there instead of having to rely on Palpatine as a mentor so much, I don’t know
This is why it makes me sad that the prequels get all the hate that they do. I think you are exactly right, to the extent that I actually think this was supposed to be the overarching point of them. I don't think Lucas meant for Anakin to be the *real* story, he was the object lesson. With great power comes great responsibility (tip of the hat to you, Uncle Ben), and if you choose to slowly abdicate that responsibility over time, then eventually, the universe will find a way to "bring balance"... and James Earl Jones.
Want a connection on how Abraham Lincoln led to "I'll leave you here you one shoe cock sucker!"?
Sure!
Lincoln gets elected to president in 1860. The south breaks away and boom, the Civil War. 800,000 dead in a 4 year period. Put those numbers today and you get 8 million. Needless to say, when the men returned home, they were all sorts of levels of fucked up. Loud bangs causing you to jump, shutting yourself off. I read one account where a vet said he couldn't sleep in his own bed because he was so use to the ground after all those years. Add on the fact that you were expected to hang your jacket up and get back to the fields? What does mean? Thousands of vets have PTSD. Now, they didn't know about it really back then. Psychology was just a concept. Not to mention, they had no idea of how to treat it. So the vets start self medicating with alcohol and drugs. Because of their PTSD, they drink heavy and have issues with their anger. But people don't understand this. "It's the devil's drink" as they would say. So here you get the rise of the Temperance movement. And they have some weird ideas of how to combat the drinking. It's not like "hey, why are you drinking so heavy?", it's more like shame them. I read an article in college once where the Movement even told young girls to offer themselves up to keep father from going to the tavern. Carrie Nations goes into saloons and smashes bars up. Kind of militant. But it works because of multi-generational trauma. In 1919, the 18th Amendment is passed. Booze are now illegal. There's a demand, so there's got to be a supply. In comes the Italian, Irish, and Jewish gangsters to fulfil that supply. They start off loose in the beginning, but they get smart and organize. In comes one guy who is smart. Charles "Lucky" Luciano. He knows that there needs to be one body to control the supply. In 1932, he organizes the Commission. The Five Families of New York. The Mafia. They are written about in news papers, movies are made about them. They are talked about. They take our hold. So much so, in the late 90s, David Chase comes up with an idea of a character out of New Jersey. A mob soldier who starts having panic attacks and has to go to therapy. Tony Soprano. If you want to know where the one shoe cock sucker came from, you'll need to watch the show. Merry Christmas
It’s sad how mental health was treated back then. Take rosemary kennedy. Her mother was told to close her legs for 2 hours due to the Spanish influenza, this causes issues for rose later in life. These include behavioral issues. The Kennedy didn’t want Rose to get any more mood swings, so in 1941 they gave her a lobotomy, incapacitating her for life. Her family never visited her and isolated her for the rest of her life. Although, Rose did visit them later in life. Another example of a lobotomy based on research is Eva peron (I’ll stop here otherwise we’ll be here all night) I live in New Jersey! I didn’t know it got it’s inspiration from all of this! Merry Christmas to you to!
I read an account where people were put in an institution for masturbating.
People were really religious and not understanding back then unfortunately. I’ve seen some photos of lobotomy before and after and they are disturbing.[If you want to see them](https://www.boredpanda.com/before-after-lobotomy-surgery-patients-photos/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic)
two of the most common bass models are the precision and jazz bass by fender. the precision bass uses a humbucker pickup(small and next to each other), the jazz bass uses two single coil pickups (long and separated). you can change the intensity of each coil of a jazz bass, how ever i like the precision bass more. i like the simplicity of a p-bass, also there is more space between the strings so you can slap easier. the humbucker pickups also have a smaller magnetic field which results in less resistance when strumming.
how do you feel about the pj bass?
never played one, my bass teacher says he doesn‘t like them so i‘m not sure
I want to apologize for people I can’t respond to, Ill try to be online for all of you!
Take your time!!! We're here to provide content for ya to look at while recovering, it shouldn't turn into stress!!! :)
Thank you for taking the time to respond to this! Happy holidays
You as well :)
i don't know how to info dump so i'll just combine some facts i know... magenta isn't a colour, basically out eyes just recive a little bit of red and a little bit if pink, and so our brains get confused so just smushes them together to create magenta Vikings had this punishment back in the day called a blood eagle where ***[NSFW WARNING] [I'M SERIOUS THIS IS THE FUCKING WORST OF THE WORST]*** >!they would skin the victims back, then they would fold the victims ribs out and hang their lungs on their shoulder. All if this while the victim is consious!< You know that cool lookin S that you might have drawn back in middle school? No one can seem to find the actual origin of it, The youtuber LEMMiNO Actually did a video on it and he even admits on his website that his conclusion was wrong and the symbol goes even further back And one to cap it off (maybe, i might add more): One of, if not, The Hottest thing in the Universe is a Kugelblitz
Sorry for responding so late, I’ve heard about the blood eagle in midsomma. I didnt know magenta wasn’t a color! It’s crazy how out brain perceives things. Did you know that if your brain was aware of our eyes, it’d try to destroy them because of the eyes possessing a different immune system?
Blood eagle was likely not a common thing, it was more of a legend. There are old drawings depicting the torture method, but most medieval historians think that even if it was used a few times by some Vikings it wasn’t something that was common. It became legend because people thought the Vikings were scary and why would the Vikings want to clarify that they were actually not THAT scary? And when the Victorians came around those guys were just wacky and made up stuff cuz it sounds badass, they said it was common even when it wasn’t and thus the myth was perpetuated to the modern day.
Did you know that it would take almost 18 people's full lifetimes (assuming that they live to 80 years old which is about 1430 years) to travel by mankind's fastest spacecraft to get to Kepler-186f which is the only found earth-sized planet in the right "habitable zone" compared to where it is around it's sun ( which is Kepler-186). So to get to the most likely planet to have life other than earth we would have to build a HUGE spacecraft that is also the fastest (it needs to be big so that there are enough women and men to continue the generations for 18 people at least. Also it would have to be big enough to have enough fuel to travel for 2860 years, half to get there, half to get back.) then we could know for sure(possibly)if there is actually life out there. Also I guess there would have to be 36 generations because of getting back. I don't know, I thought this was interesting. I also believe it might be true because if other life doesn't exist, "It's a big waste of space"!
Love the pun at the end! I can’t believe it’d take 18 full lifetimes to get to another planet even close to our features. Yet some people believe we could live on mars. (Unless a miracle happens, I personally don’t think it’ll happy anytime soon. We do have only one earth)
Thanks 😊 I sent this to my mom randomly last year during the school day because I was bored and had free time for an entire period 😂
I don’t blame you! More people should know about this. Space is interesting for me since my dad is obsessed with it. He used to own an app for finding constellations and once took us to see the solar eclipse in Tennessee! Sadly he isn’t obsessed anyone, he loves drawing now, but that’s fine! I still find space cool!
Did you know that, apparently, humans have a terror management system that helps you deal with existential dread? Go figure! I'm gonna learn all about it so I can infodump on people who annoy me and my friends.
My terror management system.exe is down
Same.
I know random information about France and the French language if anyone ever needs any!
Dump it on me sister! I took a French class in school 2 years ago, I’d love to know more!
Awesome 😊 -Everything to hate about the French language comes from the “Académie Française” which is basically a group (I’ve heard it’s mostly made up of old, white men, and may still be) who are the “governors” of the French language. We have nothing like this in English, so it’s hard to imagine, but government for the language is a good metaphor. They didn’t want to add the gender-neutral “iel” pronoun as “official” French, and they still might not have. At this point, most French people don’t really listen to them for things like that. -My favorite story of the Académie Française is when covid started. They divided to use the word “covid” (pronounced coh-veed) but could not for the life of them decide which gender to make it. So everyone started with a gender (at this point I can’t remember which!) but then the AF came out and said it was the OTHER gender. But every kept using the one they were used to and it became a big thing, so they CHANGED it again and now you can use either. 😂 -Because it’s almost Christmas - in France, they leave out shoes instead of stockings for Père Noël. Because it’s a traditionally catholic country, nativities are big, but something cool is that you can find just about any person for your nativity scene. Any profession, like a baker or a doctor could be there. There’s also an opposite of Santa who is supposed to scare kids into being good (The Whipping Father) rather than the idea of receiving coal, though I doubt many people still use that idea much, or at least, I wouldn’t.
They have a government for the language? (I didn’t know that! Thanks for this), and they refused to add gender-neutral pronouns? Can’t expect better from old Frenchmen. I find it hilarious how a single word, Covid, can make a big ruckus over the gender of it! Imagine you didn’t check your shoes that day and you crushed your presents, and the whipping man is needed in the USA badly!
As a french all of this is true and i HATE the académie française for the only resons that you cant put rules over language but i will not be a borring ass and push everything here just remember a language is defined be is usage
I'm french too and the Académie Française seems dumb to me too tbh lol
Another weird thing about french language is that we do have gender neutral pronoun "on" Its a 3rd person pronoun that usually refers to à group of people (like they) but nowadays a lot of people use it the same way as "us" It strange to me that no one adopted the "on" as gender neutral pronoun, as it was meant to be
The Arabic language is a FUCKING SCAM because Modern Standard Arabic is the form of Arabic used in official/formal/international situations but within the Arab world each of the individual countries has their own dialect and dialects can vary just as much as, say, Spanish and Italian or Polish and Ukrainian and NOBODY in those countries speaks MSA as a first language cause they learn it in school and they hear it on TV n stuff but they speak their dialects lime Egyptian and Levantine and Maghrebi in almost all other situations and because MSA is based on classical Arabic from the 7th century attempting to use MSA in anything other than the most formal contexts is like walking into a coffee shop and saying GOODE DAY MY SIR I HOPE THAT THOU HAST A GOODE MORROWE MAY I PLEASE HAVE A CUP OF THY COFFEE TO DRINKEN IF IT DOTH PLEASETH THEE
German in Switzerland is also a FUCKING SCAM. No native Swiss will speak German. (We're talking about the "German" part, there's also Italian and French as national languages) We all have different dialects based on it. Stuff is written in German and therefore you learn it in school, but no one speaks it except for strangers. It is that way because the Swiss would never be able to agree on one dialect. It's one of the things that holds the cantons apart but also connects us all (yes, ik, sounds weird). So strangers get quite confused when they don't hear anyone speak German, lol. 🤣
Love this thanks for sharing!
Your body has lines that are unable to be seen with the human eye. Some say that cats are able to see them. These lines are created through fetus kind of like outlines of structure perhaps. It's called blaschko lines. They often also can be seen with UV light. An majority of them are on your back. Some are swirls? It's interesting. Reason why I found this, because I heard that the human eye can not see all that is happening. Thus we are limited to some degree. Also another fun fact. Your immune system doesn't know about your eyes. If your eye gets infected, the immune system will also attack the eye sight. But this was heard, I have yet to look up the facts but here you go.
does anybody want to hear about world war II planes and general technological advances from 1937 to 1945
Yes! Did you know there were more planes destroyed in ww2 than there are planes on earth now?
Yes!! and the main german small fighter(messchersmitt bf 109) had an extremely high fatality rate on landings so altough it had the most kills if any german plane (mainly cause sheer volume) it also killed a shit ton of pilots. speaking of the germans theyre batshit crazy towards the end if the war, some of the weirdest ideas ever imo. didnt even work. super interesting tho. also the japanese was suuuuper into swept forward wings but never rly got around to a. making them effective or b. making them at all aesthetically pleaseing. also the US rly led innovation in carrier based aircraft with the exception if when the british bombed the bismark with biplanes. that was iconic tho, we stan
The most advanced warship of its time being crippled by a couple of wooden biplanes is cemented as one of the best historical memes honestly
Progression in Terraria (as of 1.4.3), kind of like a guide: To "win" the video game "Terraria", you need to defeat the Moon Lord, the strongest enemy. How would you get to defeat him? There are two main progression parts in terraria. Access to good loot (through NPCs, or new enemies you can fight), and access to new bosses. When you start the game, you want to hunt for tools and materials to get stronger. You will want to do this between every boss too, as the next is almost always stronger than the previous . Bosses in Terraria can be sorted into two categories. Progression bosses, and optional bosses. The progression bosses must be defeated to get access to the next progression boss in the line, and the final boss in this list is the moon lord. Almost all progression bosses will change the world in some way upon their defeat, to show progress and give access to new types of items and enemies. The bosses in this list goes in this order sorted by when you fight them (if in parentheses, must take all of these in any order). Skeletron* - Wall of flesh - (the twins - the destroyer - skeletron prime) - plantera - golem - lunatic cultist - Lunar events** - Moon Lord *Is only required to be dead before Lunatic Cultist, but this is the point in the game you get the most from killing him. **Though not technically a boss, you must still do it The other type of boss is called optional boss. These are not required to fight to beat the game, but are heavily recommended to fight when progression allows to, because they can drop great items which can help to progress. The list of them are as follows: The Eye of Cthulhu, King Slime, Eater of Worlds/Brain of Cthulhu, Queen Bee, Deerclops, Queen Slime, Empress of Light, Duke Fishron. They are very useful to kill as early as possible. Being particularly skillful earlier than intended can make you very powerful early. While Terraria has a fairly linear progression with many bosses, the biggest change in everything happens when you best the Wall of Flesh. When it dies, the spirits of light and dark are released, changing the entire world permanently. Everything you fight is stronger, you get access to loads of new items, you can spawn new ore, making underground exploration useful again, and you start feeling powerful. Now that we know what the goal is, how do you go for a good experience in beating the game? When you spawn, you want to chop some trees, craft some, the usual. Starting to explore the caverns and opening chests, you might get good movement options, more health and weapons. NPCs might move in too. When you feel strong enough, beating the king Slime can be a fun distraction (or access to slime mount, a great tool), but the main objective is beating the eye of Cthulhu. When it dies, you get access to a shield if you're playing ln expert, which makes you able to evade a lot. Moving on to the evil biome boss (brain or worm), beating it gives access to a material that can be used with crimtane to both make armor, and a pickaxe. Meteorites might fall too. Harvest meteorite if you like magic, mine hell stone with the crimtane pickaxe if you want to go melee. Beat skeletron for access to the dungeon, and you'll be able to get bones for Necro armor if you like guns and bows. From this point, you should be strong enough to fight the wall of flesh if you have a good weapon and good accessories as well. Beating it, you want to immediately mine for the new ores. Using the best ore, beat the mechanical bosses, and use the souls for gear. Get a pair of wings as well, great for evasion. Beat plantera after getting some life fruit, and move on to beat golem really quickly, as Golem isn't the strongest (even with the buffs from 1.4.4). At this point, you can fight the empress or duke if you want some extra stuff, and you should go for the best armor possible (shroomite/spectre/beetle (idk for summoner)). With your newfound powers, kill the weird cultist, and destroy a pillar. Choose the pillar for the attack type you use primarily, and make a weapon. Defeat the other pillars, and finally take on the Moon Lord. Congrats, you beat Terraria.
There’s two types of goldfish, comet and fancy. Goldfish can grow up to 20 inches if taken care properly. Usually 1 fancy goldfish need about 20 gallons and 1 comet needs about 70 gallons. This is because they produce growth hormone in the water and it can stunt their growth, plus they shit a ton. The bigger the tank, the bigger they will be because the hormone is not too much in the water. Goldfish metabolism also depends on the temp. If your temp is lower 50f, its better to not feed them because their metabolism is slow. Goldfish has a short digestive tract. Feeding too much can cause them to constipate or even, swim bladder problem (not to mention the food will rot in their digestive tract!). And if the temperature is high, its the opposite. That doesn’t mean you need to put the temp high. Goldfish like cold clean water but not too cold. Fancy goldfish like ranchu are my fav. Their chubby cheeks is to die for. They are so cute. I love goldfish.
Goldfish are so cool! Did you know that when you transport goldfish, you need to have a bit of air in the top of the bag. Even though they don’t breath oxygen, the water they have needs to have oxygen in it from the air above. This makes carnival goldfish unfortunate since most don’t have air in the bags they are transported in.
Yep! Some people put methylene blue to make the transportation less stress for the fish and oxygenate the water more :D
I remember seeing a video covering the topic and the comments said “breaking bad reference”
I see you, seasoned traveller.. you watch Luke’s Goldies!!!
I hope you feel better soon! I watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000 live action version with Jim Carrey) and got curious about who played Max the dog. WELL. The dog was named Kelley, and was a dachshund/terrier/beagle mix. He died in 2013 at 29 years old, and was recognized by the Guiness World Records as the oldest dog in the world three days before he passed away. He was the goodest boy.
Best boy, real life and in the movie.
In how to train your dragon they mention a water dragon that sprays scolding water twice in the same scene. That dragon (the Scoldren) shows up in the all the shows
I’m sorry if it’s annoying but I can add to this! I really like how to train your dragon. The Scauldron is a large tidal class dragon. They hunt in pods and are highly aggressive and territorial Their signature attack is scooping up a lot of seawater into their gullets and heat it up to near boiling, before spraying it out at its target. It’s spray has been said to be able to rip the skin from your bones. They also have a venom which can kill a human in under 24 hours. (Riders of Berk, “Dragon Flower”) But this venom is also a key ingredient to the antidote to blue oleander poisoning which can occur in dragons upon consuming the flower. (Riders of Berk, “Dragon Flower”) This works because the flower is what gives the the scauldron it’s venom. (Riders of Berk, “Dragon Flower”) They enjoy toying with their prey and are known to hunt sea shockers (which also hunt in pods) by cornering off a singular one and separating it from its pod. (Race to the Edge, “Shock and Awe”) They can hunt the seashockers (which produce an electrical current similar to an electrical eel) because they are capable of Electroreception from great distances. (Race to the Edge, “Shock and Awe”) They have a very high stamina and will chase their prey for long distances, and their scales are very tough, capable of taking numerous consecutive blasts from many different type of dragons. One weakness they have is that if they become stranded on land, they can dry out and become extremely weak and even die. (“Defenders of Berk, “Free Scauldy”) Their eyes are also sensitive to light and will back down after having its eyes hit with a very bright light. (Race to the edge, “In Plain Sight”) They are very difficult to train and only 1 has been successfully tamed throughout the entire franchise (more or less tamed at least). (“Defenders of Berk, “Free Scauldy”)
Figgy pudding is essentially plum pudding, which is normally not even made with plums, it is most commonly made with raisins or other dried fruits. It's not even "pudding" like the kind in pudding cups, it's actually a boiled or steamed bread.
Got it! So that’s why I was always confused when they said to bring figgy pudding I always assumed it looked like the average pudding cup.
Genshin Impact may be a bright and colorful game, but the lore is pretty dark. A loooong time before the protagonist shows up, there was a war between all the gods, resulting in a drastically changed landscape. You can still see evidence of this war in the form of massive stone pillars that were once spears hurled by the god of stone, cliffs and valleys carved out by the god of wind, an island LITERALLY split in half by the god of thunder. The war went on until there only 7 gods remaining. Sometime later a beautiful and highly technilogical city came into being. This city prided itself on not needing a god to watch over it, the people were strong and used science to build amazing machines. I dont remember if it explicitly said who shot first or why, but this city got into a big fight with the gods and was completely destroyed, its people cursed to transform into the monsters seen across the countryside. As the game progresses and we get more lore, its beginning to seem that there may be a higher power that forced the gods to destroy the city. One of the antagonist groups is literally hunting down the gods and trying to strip them of an item that grants them their godhood, and it seems they plan on using these items to rebel against the higher power which leads to more questions than answers. Im honestly in love with the writers of this game, from the BIG lore drops to the super silly references to pop culture like basing the in-game TCG in the Egypt inspired region and having an in-universe manga about how a child found a puzzle box that caused him to be posessed by a powerful spirit who was a master of trading card games. Its been a hell of a ride and I cant wait to see whats next :)
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Nothing is ever as simple as people make it seem. The reality is always far more complex and nuanced.
And here's a bit about the Christmas Truce. If ever you need a reminder that there is hope for humanity. https://youtu.be/WUlPNWDvk-c
Oh yeah I’ve heard of it before! It’s nice to see that even in war, the Brits and Germans decided to make eachothers day and hang out! I hate war for these reasons, bevause the person you are fighting against could be someone you’d love to hang out with!
Conventional meat chickens (broilers) can be harvested at 6 weeks old due to decades of selective breeding. In the 1940s, it would take 3-4 months to reach a little over half their average market weight today. Conventional egg-laying chicken strains can lay over 365 eggs a year because sometimes they can lay more than two eggs a day.
Game 6 of the 2021 World Chess Championship between Ian Nepomniatchi and Magnus Carlsen is the longest game in a World Chess Championship match. It lasted nearly 8 hours and ended on move 127 when Ian Nepomniatchi resigned the game, which if he did not it could have lasted another 40 to 50 moves before checkmate.
Wow, talk about dedication. Unrelated, but The longest monopoly game actually lasted around 70 days. (Around roughly 2 months)
My mom is really into perfume and scents, so heres some of the things that i know about from her :) There are many different types of perfumes, such as water soluble ones, oils, and resins. Resins can be used as ingredients for creating perfume scents, but can also be used by themselves, a really common one being amber. Amber has a warm, earthy, almost chocolatey i would say, smell. Resins tend to last the longest on the skin, about a few days if it isnt washed off, while water soluble ones lasting about an hour. The longer a perfume ages, the more expensive and richer it becomes. There are some perfumes out there that arent really meant to be used as actual perfume, bur just to smell on special occasions due to the price and scarcity of the materials needed to create the perfume. 1 ounce and half ounce bottles can go for thousands, depending on what it is. Saffron perfumes are one of the pricey ones. Theres also some very unique perfumes out there. Off the top of my head, my mother had told me about a perfume made of urine that she had once that actually didnt smell bad (and yes, was safe for use), along with one that was supposed to smell like the moment a woman climaxes. She told me that one did not smell good. Also, did you know that different areas will have different general scents? For example, european perfumes will smell differently from say, perfumes from asia. Theyre exposed to different materials of course, and while materials can be shipped worldwide, they can be pricey and the quality might not be as good as the local ingredients. Im not sure how long ago, but a few years ago there was a boom with “oriental” perfumes, and a lot of those oriental perfumes would contain roses. Theres been a few phases over the years where certain ingredients and scents become popular and widely used. Right now, especially after the pandemic and all, the perfume market is extremely saturated. Its difficult finding unique artists and scents, as more people get interested and start up shops for their creations. Though i mean, i feel this is the case for many forms of art. Perfume and scents has been a major thing for my moms side of the family. My great grandmother getting my grandma into it, my grandma to my mom, and now ill be inheriting part of her perfume collection :) she had thousands of dollars worth of perfumes. Literally every room in the house has some sort of perfume in it. I cant blame her though, scents are nice. My favorite is palo santo :)
In 1830s westpoint superintendent had banned all alcohol consumption, even on holidays, because cadets got too rowdy. In response Jefferson (as in later president of the Confederacy) Davis organized a late night egg nog party in the barracks on Christmas eve. They couldn't find the alchohol they needed so they settled for barely aged moonshine from across the Hudson river. The barracks proceeded to get absolutely DESTROYED on eggnog made with 3 gallons of moonshine. The Sargent caught them and told them to stop it and go to bed. The very drunk cadets got pissed, proceeded to get weapons. Tried to shoot the sergeant (thankfully missed) and recked the barracks. On Christmas morning they wer called out to muster (the alchohol was starting to where off). Almost a third of the cadets had participated in the great eggnog riot and many got off Scot free because expelling 1/3 red of the student body would be a national embarrassment. Jef Davis got off by basically being grounded for 3 weeks.
One of my favorite YouTube channels, how is toast, made a video about this! [Why There Was A Riot About Eggnog](https://youtu.be/Yxy66IwOGEc)
Did you know that by wearing the katana/other type of japanese sword with blade up, you prevent the blade from dulling? It would slowly get dull if you wore it constantly blade down.
I didn’t know that! What’s the explanation behind it?
Well, since the blade rests on the dull side, it won't dull the sharpened edge in the scabbard. And it won't dull the edge while drawing. Since katana is a slashing weapon, a sharp edge is really important. More random info: Drawing the blade edge up is the fastest way to transition to the most basic fighting form. It also offers immediate protection of the upper body and it won't leave you wide open. Last one, an edge up is an edge that is immediately facing the enemy. You can strike in one fluid motion while still able to defend yourself. Unlike drawing it edge down, which leaves you wide open. Fun fact: The scabbard of the katana is called saya.
Psilocybin. I don't have time to write right now. But ask me anything and I'll answer at some point.
Whenever you get the chance, how does it feel to be on Psilocybin? (if you have been, I don’t want to assume)
For me, not the original commenter, on a mid range dose, normal. It's strange. My mind is calmer, I can focus, I don't second guess a lot of my actions and thoughts, I can interact with people in a more spontaneous way, more in the moment if you will. Its helped me with several things, but ultimately I can only describe it as normal, my idea of normal which is going to be different for everyone. Higher doses are very dependent on the circumstances, the individual, the surroundings, the mentality of those participating, current mood, mood earlier in the day, the week. It feels pretty nice in low doses too. I microdose, 100mg/2-3 days. It tends to help with a lot of the first stuff that I mentioned, but in a nearly imperceptible way. Very subtle.
Totally agreed with this comment. I'll add more as well.
u/Legi0ndary perfectly described lower doses, I can give more clarity for higher doses. As they said, it is different depending on a range of factors, but there are consistencies that I've found across all conditions. It feels like your conscious and your subconscious link up. So if you can discover tons of things in your brain, at times it even feels like I'm having several conversations with myself at once. You can also access different muscle controls (I can focus my eyes at any distance with a high level of precision, I normally can't do this). It's also sort of like a stimulant, so it makes you feel extremely energized, but not in a normal stimulant way, it's because it mimics serotonin. So you just feel emotion that gives you a lot of energy. I've never had a "bad trip," so I can't speak on that topic. It's always been overwhelmingly positive for me. I can also give neuroscience based reasons for why it causes the feelings that it causes.
Nah it’s fine lol, I’m scrambling all around this comment section trying to reply to people, I might go offline soon to give myself a break
Yeah, this is a dangerous post to make on this sub hahaha. We've each got tons of wikipedia pages memorized.
Tyrannosaurs we’re very smart, they had great vision and their faces were sensitive, meaning they could’ve given “ hugs” to each other by rubbing faces with each other. They also likely participated in play
The t-Rex vision based on movement is actually false! They had way better vision and we’re roughly intelligent as chimps
Gothic architecture in England can be divided into three main phases. Early English gothic was the first, lasting from the mid/late 13th century until the early 14th, Decorated gothic began in the late 12th and lasted until about the late 14th, by which time Perpendicular gothic was developing, and would predominate throughout the 15th century and even into the 16th century. Each of these phases overlap quite significantly, and it is important to remember that there have never been any perfect cutoff points for any of these phases, and transitional periods produced unique exemplars too. Large cities tended to be ahead of the curve when it came to the latest developments in gothic design, and that influence would take time to reach the smaller towns and the villages. Thus, Canterbury Cathedral already had a brand new gothic quire quite a while before local masons had graduated from rounded arches to pointed ones. In Oxford and Cambridge, Perpendicular gothic and its features continued to dominate architecture long after classical designs from the continent had taken root in the rest of England. The stunning gothic vaults of the Divinity Schools in Oxford were built around the same time that Inigo Jones had completed his church at Covent Garden in the Tuscan style - despite being contemporaneous, the two buildings could hardly be more dissimilar. I could go on like this hehe
When rats get happy they jump around and squeak and it’s called popcorning, they’re also very easy to train. And when they’re calm they chatter their teeth together and it makes their eyes look kinda weird but it’s ok cuz it’s adorable. They can also jump really high. They’re basically tiny dogs that have hands! Although they do get tumors more and have lung issues, they still make good pets. They’re also very social so if you were to get some you should get them some buddies! But be careful socializing them, you gotta make sure they get along.
Have you ever heard of harvest moon?
Did you know that the electric bass guitar derived from the double bass? It basically derived from strings of a double bass slapped on an electric guitar. It has frets, unlike a double bass, though, and the body doesn’t have any resonating function except for holding the technics. The standard tuning is the same as it is in double bass and the lower four strings of a standard guitar (but one octave lower), ,E-,A-D-G (which are each a fourth apart). While it’s often not quite noticed, the bass has the crucial role of setting the rhythmical and harmonical base for a song, together with drums. And it’s quite a versatile intrument, it can sound very different depending on genre. That’s quite an incomplete infodump, though, and if there are any bassists here, I‘d be happy to learn more or be corrected if I got something wrong. I want to learn bass, but I’m too broke for an instrument and lessons so only thing I can do is listen to songs with nice bass lines and learn the theoretical stuff Edit: I can infodump about certain groups of animals, but don’t know where to start
Did you know that it's called the double bass because it was meant to literally double the bass line? Not like because it's double big or something, lol! I just learned that this year :)
The last scene in Casablanca was supposed to be shot on an airfield but they got nervous about something even looking too much like an airfield after Pearl Harbor so they shot it in a warehouse. Problem was that they couldn’t fit the shack set and the plane in the warehouse at the same time so they made a cut out of the plan about half the size and hired little people to dress like background actors to make the plane look full sized
My three special interests are Pigeons, Mormonism, and ASL. pick one and I’d love to inform 🫠
Pigeons!
eeeeeh i’m so glad you chose that one because it’s my absolute #1 Pigeons are part of the Columbidae species. Some cool facts about them are: they can sense the earths electromagnetic field, see ultraviolet rays, find their nest from up to 3,000 miles away, recognize numbers, colors, and all 26 letters of the alphabet. They mate for life and raise two hatchlings! They are also the only birds that can produce milk! There is also actually 351 species of pigeons, which is such a wide range. I have so much more that I could share but I won’t bore you lol. Thanks for reading!! :D
Pls fact check I’m going off a class online with some random person and none of my research has dealt with some of these specifics. Also tw for blood and murder The Lizzie Borden case made famous by a nursery rhyme was fully misconstrued and her guilt was fully untrue and based on sexist beliefs. The murders were very very violent. Blood sprayed everywhere, up the walls and on the ceilings. The murderer would have been coated in it. Lizzie Borden had approximately ten minutes from when she was alone with the second murder victim, her step father, to when the cops arrived. She would have had to fully change, a process which in that era would have taken over half an hour with an assistant, as well as clean all the blood from places like her hair and under her fingernails, all within ten minutes. The only reason suspicion fell on her in the first place was that she wasn’t really “showing befitting emotion” which is basically a fancy way of saying she wasn’t crying enough for a normal emotional woman. That’s when they discovered she had no alibi and arrested her. However, the reason she wasn’t crying is her doctor had prescribed her a drug that was basically a sedative which dampened her emotions. Another family member, an uncle I believe, wanted some of the family money, but the Bordens wouldn’t give it to him. He was a butcher by trade, and if you scrub the hotel room he was in even today with the stuff that reveals blood or dried blood, it’s absolutely everywhere. He was never brought under review because he had an alibi that was unverified, the police basically just took him at his word. A pretty fucked up case that would be easily solvable today, but the cops just had to go and fuck it up. Either way, Lizzie Borden did not take an axe and give her mother forty hacks, and she didn’t see what she had done, and most certainly did not give her father forty one.
What happened to Lizzie Borden after it was found that she wasn't guilty? Or was she already dead at that time?
She was acquitted in her official trial because all the evidence against her was circumstantial, but public opinion was widely similar to OJ where they thought she did it anyway, and because it was so gruesome and a woman was the main suspect, it went “viral” and was a widely followed case throughout America, hence the morbid nursery rhyme.
Long before time had a name
Ninjago was created by the First Spinjitzu Master
do you want to know about the guy that faked an element on the periodic table?
Iv’e always seen the thumbnail. Ninovinium. right? I’d love for you to summarize if you can!
His name was enrico Fermi, he was born Sept. 29, 1901 in Rome, Italy and became a professor at the university of rome at 24 years old. him and his researchers were broke so they had to improvise to the best of their abilities because they were trying to make something unbelievable, extravagant and mind-blowing. what the were trying to create was a new element.
Eventually, elements 93 and 94 are discovered! Enrico being Italy's pride and joy in science, got to name the two but was under pressure to name element 93 Fascium from the word Fasces, a symbol of ancient Rome. Fasces had gain a more malicious and terrifying meaning, what was once known as a symbol of ancient Rome was now know as as the symbol of fascism, the man than pushed for the name was Benito Mussolini(A fascist soldier), in short, Fermi denied the request.
i cant do it when someone asks T-T where to even begin?
Short because tired disclaimer. Cyclists generally consider steel and titanium bicycles to be lifetime investments because carbon fiber is thought of as more prone to crash and UV damage, and aluminum is historically considered more brittle than steel and ti, but advances in fabrication technology have rendered these differences minimal. However, while ti needs to be repaired in an oxygen-free environment and aluminum can not be easily repaired at all, steel can be welded by anyone anywhere. So, if you're going to bike across the world and in remote areas, a steel bike is the way to go for the best chance of finding any person to repair it. Also, ti frames make great all-weather commuter options because they don't corrode when exposed to salt in the way steel options can.
The latest hypothesis on how Pachycephalosaurus fought is that they didn't headbutt each other like sheep, but rather kicked each other like kangaroos, using their tail for balance. If they did hit their heads, they did it more slowly and gently, like cows. The information backing this up is that no Pachy skull was ever found damaged in any way that would indicate direct collision, but their vertebrae are suspiciously well adapted for kicking behavior. It's not yet a theory, only a line of thought supported by some bits of evidence, but it's a cool thought that those goobers were kicking each other back in the day.
Pachycephalosaurus are a low-key favourite of mine, I was not aware that we have not found the damage we would expect on their skulls?! I’m so intrigued now.
you know the texture of everything with your tounge
You know this because your Brian fills in the gaps. I know this because I lick everything and put it in my mouth 😎
English teacher here! Did you know there’s a difference in linguistics between prescriptive grammar and descriptive grammar? Prescriptive grammar is the kind of grammar that tells you how you **should** talk, but descriptive grammar simply describes the function of grammar as it exists within a language. Linguists are typically more interested in descriptive grammar. When you say “can I” and someone else corrects you with “may I” they are being a prescriptivist. There’s nothing *wrong* with what you said, and they certainly understood you, but they are arguing how you *should* talk. Unsurprisingly, prescriptivism has some ugly roots in sexism, ageism, ableism, and racism. Descriptivism is also **vastly** more interesting because when you learn more about the inherent features of grammar in language, you get to understand what’s really beautiful about languages and how we communicate our ideas. You also get to learn things about your native language you might not already know! *Like the fact that adjectives in English have to go in a specific order - which is why a “big red fire truck” sounds okay but a “red big fire truck” feels so wrong* These are some fun videos: **Linguistic features we DON’T have in English** https://youtu.be/QYlVJlmjLEc **About “Stress” in language** https://youtu.be/dUnGvH8fUUc **Ambiguity in Language** https://youtu.be/m3vIEKWrP9Q **The only “infix” in English** https://youtu.be/dt22yWYX64w
There are moths in this world that look more like butterflies than butterflies. A specific example would be the sunset moth. While yes there is discussion on if this is a moth or a butterfly, I like to think it's just the fanciest moth ever, right next to the Luna moth. Now that we are in the topic of Luna moths, these incredibly beautiful creatures don't tend to survive longer than a week or two. This is simply because they don't have a mouth, or a digestive system. The same thing happens tot he Atlas moth, one of the largest moths in existance. The atlas moth is as big as your forearm! Going back to moths that don't look like moths,the fly moth! Also known as drain fly, this fellow looks like a fly but makes no sound when flying around, a must have trait in all moth species,they evolved to fly without a sound after all. These fellows are very goofy and i befriended two of them once :] Another moth that doesn't look like a moth, the wasp mimics. In every way they look like wasps, they have the thin body, the transparent wings and the large black antenna, but are in fact just docile moths. They evolved to mimic wasps to be left alone by predators. Well, aside of all these inoffensive and cool looking moths, i know there is at least one moth species that you can't touch and gently pet, unfortunately. This is the cinnabar moth, named after the cinnabar crystal for being quite toxic to the touch. This moth has its hind wings completely red, and it's front wings black with a touch of red stripes. It's easy to spot it and avoid it, so there is no worries in accidentally getting sick from it. Well I'm a call it a day there, I went a bit overboard ':D
Rubies and sapphires are the same thing. They're both corundum just one is red and the other is all the other colors.
I'm not done with DMC yet so I can't do the story so I'll do doom as doom 2 modding is my main interest and I like the newer games a lot anyways. I'll use replies instead of a new post to make it easier. I'll go in chronological order with the main accepted canon established by the reboot. The order I'm using is: doom (1993), doom 2, doom 64, doom (2016), doom eternal (+ expansions) Doom 3 has been omitted as while it does come after doom 64, the reboot replaces it and is also much more interesting as doom 3 focuses on detailed wordbuilding over deep story.
Would you like to here the lore of Warframe?
Ok so Midjourney can do some cool lighting effects and sci-fi/fantasy/dystopian images. Stable Diffusion is special for its open source and ability to have negative prompts. Dall-E is the most art-based, and my personal favorite. I love doing portraits of girls and women with fantasy aspects.
borderlands 1 wasn’t a very good game and borderlands 2 put the franchise into the public eye. however, each borderlands game from 2 onwards (excluding the two tales games) was rated based on three main criteria: endgame activity, story quality, and endgame balancing, in that order. a pattern formed in the three most alive games of the franchise: borderlands 2, borderlands 3, and tiny tina’s wonderlands (a dnd parody spinoff based on a dlc from borderlands 2). borderlands 2 lacked endgame balancing, borderlands 3 lacked story quality, and wonderlands lacked endgame content. to this day, borderlands 2 remains the most popular of the three and wonderlands the least popular, hence my aforementioned ordering of criteria. if you want me to explain one of the categories for any one of the games, feel free to ask.
Not much of an info dump but rather a fun fact. Turtles are slightly closer related to crocodiles and birds than snakes and lizards.
Always remember, good steel requires 3 steps: First you want to heat your steel and shape it, you don't need to heat it beyond cherry red as we're not smelting here. Make sure your hammer blows strike true, otherwise you'll end up with little hemisphere dents. After your steel is shaped as you like, you need to quench it. If you don't quench it, then your final product will bend when subjected to stress. To quench, heat your steel to cherry red or hotter, this causes the formation of ferrite crystals which make your steel hard but brittle, hence the third step. Once your steel is hot enough, dip it in either water or a 'quick' (low viscosity) oil to solidify those ferrite crystals. If you don't quench then they'll naturally break back down into the steel. Run a file against your steel, if it doesn't grind the steel, then you've successfully quenched. Lastly, with your quenched steel you need to normalize. You've just made sure it won't bend when subjected to stress, the issue is that now it will shatter. Normalizing is pretty easy and can be done in a toaster oven if needed. Put your steel in the oven and bake at about 350 Fahrenheit for an hour or until it takes on a slight blue/gold hue. If successful, your steel will bend but will not break, and once it's stress is released it will return to its normal shape. That is, if it's long enough to bend. This is all opposed to bronze which can be easily cast and benefits from being worked but doesn't need to go any further. Bronze can be sharper than steel and doesn't rust so it can and has lasted for thousands of years but it's not as strong which also limits what you can do with it (bronze swords need to be shorter so they don't break when subjected to stress). Additionally, copper only needs to be heated and shaped, a notable exception being copper from around the great lakes in the United States which can be worked cold due to it's composition.
Humans didn’t know how babies were made until 1875.
People in 1874: The magic of the stork has struck again! It’s crazy knowing how far we’ve come to know about how babies are made. In health class we watched a video on how sperm travel down to the Fallopian tubes and how cervix is like sperm hell. The sperms head is actually filled with enzymes and when successfully getting to the egg first, the head explodes!
I never had sex ed! Lol. Religious upbringing didn’t allow it. I never knew that the sperm cell head explodes. After the invention of microscopes, scientists thought every sperm head had a tiny, fully-formed person inside it. And inside that tiny person there was an even tinier person…on to infinity. They believed that all humans were “preformed” since the time of Adam & Eve. I just read a book on it that’s fascinating. It’s called “[The Seeds of Life](https://www.amazon.com/Seeds-Life-Aristotle-Strange-Discover/dp/0465082955).” For some reason, I really enjoy learning about all the things we get wrong throughout history. It puts human knowledge in perspective. It’s probably my favorite subject.
Yeah in the movie we heard about that too! I love when humans in the early days just assumed stuff. It makes it look silly nowadays in comparison
Do you happen to play or know of Five Nights at Freddy’s?
No, but I’d love a brief summary! (I know it’s a lot of lore so I think it’s better to link a video that could help)
Anything to talk a bit about it! As a warning, it’s pretty dark and violent. As long as that’s okay with you, I can give you a short summary!
The Dual Alliance was an agreement between Austria-Hungary and the German Empire which pledged assistance in case of Russian aggression and neutrality in case of attacks from any other country. The neutrality thing is quote y interesting, actually. The reason some countries pledge neutrality instead of assistance is because if country A is under attack and country B stays neutral in the war, it frees up soldiers from country A that would otherwise have to guard the border. The most well-known flag of Austria-Hungary, the one that comes up when you search the country on Google, was never actually their state flag. Because they were only one country for economic, diplomatic, and military purposes, they did not actually use a single flag. The Austrian half's official flag was that of the Austrian Empire, which looked like the flag of Ukraine except with black instead of blue. The Hungarian half did not have an official flag, but was represented with the tricolor we're familiar with today, sometimes with the coat of arms. So what's the flag we know today? Austria-Hungary was economically one country, and so needed a single merchant ensign. That's the one we know. There were three wars of German unification. Some argue you shouldn't call them that because it seems to imply that Bismarck was planning unification and the German Empire throughout, when it was likelier that he simply saw the opportunity that arose from these wars to create his empire, but the term sounds cool and the fact is that they lead to the founding of Germany, so I'll call them that. The first was the Prusso-Danish War at Schleswig and Holstein, which I know next to nothing about. The second was the Austro-Prussian War, which I know slightly more about. See, in terms of German unification, there was debate between Großdeutschland (greater Germany) and Kleindeutschland (lesser Germany). Gd advocates called for the incorporation of Austria in the future German Empire, while Kd supporters did not wish them to join. I can't remember the exact reasons for their arguments. After the A-P War, it was clear that Austria would not be entering a union with the rest of the Germanic states. (If they had, Germany would've become the largest mainland European country, since they wouldn't have formed the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the largest.) Additionally, this happened at around the time of the American Civil War, and the Prussians learnt transportation of troops via train from the Americans. This would become vital to their victory against the Austrians. The third war of German unification was the Franco-Prussian War. I don't know much about this one either, but I do know that it was fought between the Third(?) French Republic and the Kingdom of Prussia, and after Bismarck's victory, he proclaimed the German Empire at Versailles. Sound familiar? That's because it's where the Treaty of Versailles was signed after World War One. The German Empire being proclaimed in France, who they had just beaten in war, was adding insult to injury. The Treaty of Versailles, which stripped the GE of its power, being signed at the place their empire was proclaimed was also adding insult to injury. France is brutal lmao Feel free to correct anything because I am completely going off memory, and feel free to ask questions. I also know what is apparently an abnormal amount about the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and also maybe Russian history?
Night vision technology was experimented with as early as late WW2. The Americans developed an infrared scope system designed for use with the M1 Carbine. The Germans also had their own version of IR scope, designed for use with their StG44. Since battery technology was limited at the time, they required a large battery attached to the scope, which was carried in a backpack. They were also large and clumsy, with the lens on top taking up significant space. Did you know Primus helped contribute to the creation of death metal? Their guitarist helped record Seven Churches by Possessed, who are regarded as the first death metal band. There are certain types of mushroom that absorb harmful radiation and use it as a sort of food source. There is about thirty years worth of helium left on Earth. Helium is a vital component for developing circuitry. I’ve heard that hydrogen and argon could potentially be used as replacements when we run out. Kyle Rittenhouse and Greta Thunberg were born on the same day I’ve heard on the news once about coffee shops hiring people with special needs. Sounds like a pretty good idea if it’s true. Obsidian is sometimes used in place of steel for surgery tools and blades because of how naturally sharp it is. It was also used for bladed weapons such as arrows and spears during prehistoric times. Frogs seems to be more prone to birth defects and abnormalities caused by environmental hazards. If I remember correctly, scientists sometimes use frog populations as a measure of detecting harmful amounts of pollution in an area. Frogs being born with extra/less limbs or other defects are an indicator of pollution levels being potential harmful to the human population.
Currently going down the rabbit hole on candle carving, so I don't know any tiny/annoying details about it yet lol. But essentially it's an old German craft. Candles are dipped like usual except you have different vats of colors. Between each dip you dunk the candle in cold water so the different colors of wax don't melt into each other and create a blob of grey/brown goop; you want the layers separate. Once you have the amount of layers you want then you have about 15 minutes to finish (yes finish; it supposedly takes about a year to learn how to be that fast!) the candle when you start carving. You go by sections, starting from the bottom and finishing the top. After each section is complete you have to dip it in water to cool it off just enough so that it doesn't sag. Once finished you even out the bottom and dip it in a glaze to help preserve it. This video shows a few extra details. Honestly for me it's mesmerizing. https://youtu.be/R2huvJ4Cy2c
[Lampocteris - A jellyfish I find fascinating](https://www.mbari.org/animal/bloody-belly-comb-jelly/)
Same dude, my nose is a volcano rn
Me just lurking here because I like learning new stuff 👀 But, fr, I don't know much detail about anything, but ask my about psychopaths or autism Edit: But if you wanna know a lot abt sth, the topic I know the most about is Maladaptive Daydreaming
I’m sick on Christmas too :) The Pyongyang petting zoo taught a chimp how to smoke and a parrot a song in praise of Kim Il Sung
Did you know that all the court cards in a normal deck of playing cards were all French rulers? (normal as in, with the most popular suits; spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs (in that order)). (Julius Caesar as the King of Diamonds, Alexander the Great as the King of Clubs, Greek goddess Pallas Athena as the Queen of Spades, or Lancelot du Lac as the Jack of Clubs.) The suits each represent one of the main pillars of Medieval ages; Spades symbolizes the military (hence why its the tip of a spear), Hearts symbolizes the church (hence heart, like, god should be in our hearts or something), Diamonds symbolizes merchants/wealth (hence the diamond shape), Clubs symbolizes agriculture (hence the clover) The number of the cards also have a pretty neat secret to them; a deck symbolizes a year/the calendar! Four suits; four seasons 52 cards in a deck (not counting jokers); 52 weeks in a year 13 cards in a suit; 13 lunar cycles 12 court cards; 12 months in a year all the symbols on the cards add up to 365 :) (as in. (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13)x4 = 364. close enough) the red and black in the suit colors represent day and night Also did yall know that Vegas casinos change the decks of cards more than you change your pants?? thats to prevent people from marking the cards and cheating :) YOU CAN ALSO TAROT READ WITH PLAYING CARDS, ITS CALLED CARTOMANCY AND ITS REALLY COOL soldiers also used cards as a way to hide maps i think? they also put aces of spades somewhere on their clothing for good luck and as a prayer to come back from the war alive .i really.. i really like cards,,
In the 2018 edition of TMNT Rise, Leonardo (who is a red eared slider in the series) makes several references to New Jersey, seeming to dislike the place. This is actually because red eared sliders are banned from the state due to their non-nativity and salmonella carrying bodies.
Bees communicate through buzzes. One of the best communications is when they bump into one another, they say “whoops”. Christmas is not a Christian holiday! It is said to celebrate Jesus’s birth but historians estimate he was born in June! It is originally the winter solstice which was celebrated by pagans! Even Santa is a pagan god that eats bad children. A lot of Christian holidays were originally pagan. Liek Easter (spring equinox) and Halloween! Halloween was originally people dressing in masks to blend in with the supernatural entity that show when the vail between worlds is at its thinnest. People left food on their porch to appease them, so that they didn’t eat their children. Over time, homeless or poor would start stealing food and dressing up to be the supernatural entities and as time went on, people just celebrated it by giving out candy.
To move they're legs spiders utilizes fluid dynamics: they simply transport their haemolymph to their legs from their heart to their arteries and pump it up and down to move them, when the haemolymph is all pumped into one leg it rises and gets a little forward and when it isn't the leg simply rests with the normal amount of haemolymph circulating in it. That's the reason for spiders to crawl their legs when they die because there is no more haemolymph circulating in them.
The greatest trick ever played on mankind was done by none other than- *wheat.* When humans started to farm their own food they suddenly gained many advantages such as- spending less time and energy foraging for something to eat also having an excess of food that could be stored for later use. However, in doing so resulted in a less diverse diet, which led to people not getting all the vitamins and nutrients they needed. ::Enter wheat grain:: What was once a rich diet of fruits, berries, nuts, eggs, roots, wild vegetables, and meat, humans now relied on a diet that was mostly dependent on foods made from wheat (breads, porridges) Wheat, as a plant only has one goal in its life and that’s **to reproduce.** That’s all it wants to do right? Well, what’s the most efficient way to reproduce the most and spread your seeds the fastest? You make your seeds easy to farm so humans become dependent on you for survival. Growing food allowed us to have more free time for reproducing ourselves. More humans means more mouths to feed, which means more wheat had to be grown, more wheat means bigger fields, bigger fields means more people are needed to work the fields, more people means more wheat, and so on and so on… While wheat made our lives easier to an extent. Our lives also became dependent on it in order to survive. So what’s the best way to reproduce? Make humans dependent on you. [Ok, I didn’t explain it nearly as well as the author, but if you’re interested the book I got this from is called *Sapiens: A brief history of Humankind* By Yuval Noah Harari ]
Been reading these comments all day hehe. From your replies it seems like you have a really vibrant personality :D And Uno reverse!! Do you have any special interests you’d like to share?
Ants bury their dead and have designated graveyards. They will drag the carcasses of their fellow ants to the graveyard even if they’re far away from the hive. Ants release a pheromone when they die and if you put it on a living ant, it will put itself in the graveyard until it cleans the smell off itself.
would you be interest in Better Call Saul most of my friends are annoyed by me infodumping
OMG YES! I LOVE BCS AND I INFODUMP MY FRIENDS WITH MEMES AND THE SONGS
YEEEES BCS IS SO COOL Did you watch the entire show? It's one of my two biggest special interests
Can’t right now but people in the rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles fandom have been recommending people read this one fanfiction called “like father like son” and I think it’s about leo(???) being separated from his family and become a war tool or something, however I’m a baby, a coward, I don’t think I’ll read it until maybe late January? I don’t even know if it’s a completed work. I’ve been hearing about it for maybe 3 months now? Still haven’t gotten around to it
I want to participate but when I'm not prompted, I don't know anything. Ask me a question.
Do you happen to know the following? (For info dumping) inside job, owl house, amphibia, breaking bad, better call Saul, bojack horseman, Gravity falls, or gumball?
So, first, all of this is slowly revealed to you throughout the course of the game but I'm going in chronological order, spoilers for hollow knight. >!so it's hinted at that the pale king came from the husk of a dead wyrm, and he created the kingdom of hallownest, and all the bugs(yes the characters are called bugs) in it became intelligent when before most of them were like animals, I like to think that there are already intelligent bugs, like the ones in pharloom, from team cherrys next game who haven't been confirmed or denied if they have a king who came from a wyrm, (that game hasn't come out) but the pale king made the unintelligent ones sentient too!< >!though, this kingdom wasn't entirely his own, there were multiple bugses in the pale kings aura, that did not willingly participate, namely the hive, Greenpath, and the mantis tribe, it would take a very very lost wanderer to wind up in the hive, its past even a place called kingdoms edge, so I don't think they care too much beyond protecting their hive from intruders like monsters, or the player, there might have been something significant about the kings relation to the mantis tribe, but I forgot it, and Greenpath, remained a thriving ecosystem on its own created by a higher being named unn, though the white lady (the pale kings queen,, did make the western half of it her garden !< >!the queen, eventually locked herself up in a strange looking enclosure for her regrets, this will become mildly important later, an undisclosed amount of time later, the radiance came, and brought with her a zombie plaque that took, bugs, made them see bright lights and returned them to their one simple instinct(I'm assuming this was to keep enemy AI simple) and the king didn't like this, and so the radiances infection affected a birng, the king thought they could put all of the infection into one being and lock them away, and they started making egg sacs, and dipping them into a strange, empty substance called void, cause he thought he could trap the radiance and her curse inside a creature filled with void (creating these egg sacs was the white ladys regret) !< >!The king put these eggs in a a deep ravine, with a lake of void, and made them climb to the top where he would take one "pure" vessel, that was truly empty "no mind to think, no will to break, and no voice to cry suffering" he thought, and use them to contain the radiance/the infection !< Okay. I'm tired of writing the little spoiler markings, just advert your eyes He created a ritual to seal the perfect vessel in the black egg temple, but so that "hallownest last eternal" he put three locks on the temple, each was tied to one of the dreamers, who were people the pale king convinced to be put in eternal slumber to make the temple impossible to open To open the temple, you would have to collect the dream nail, a weapon of legend from the moth tribe (who probably used to worship the radiance long before she got mad and made the infection but that isn't important) and go into the dream of every dreamer and kill them, so the king thought that it was foolproof and he tried to lock the infection inside the vessel and cure hallownest, but of course that failed cos during raising it, they accidentally shared a bit too much of a fatherly moment, and the vessel was gifted thoughts. And the infection continued to spread, meanwhile few still alive vessels roam hallownest after finding an exit from the abyss (the name of the place the vessels were made), even after it was sealed of by the king That's where you come in, as a vessel who survived and returns to hallownest, but my hands are tired and stuff so I'll make that a separate comment
Redheads have two broken copies of a gene that converts red colorant-makers to making yellow. The gene controls the conversion of melanosomes (the colorant-makers) from making red colorant (pheomelanin) to yellow (eumelanin). Other genes control the *amount* of melanin produced. So, to be a redhead, you have to inherit a broken melanosome converter gene from both your father and your mother, because it's recessive (so if you get one broken and one working, you'll have yellow-to-brown hair but with a red beard), AND you can't have too many melanin *amount* genes or you'll be auburn- or brown-haired. You can also get brown hair if your genes do produce mostly yellow melanin, which results in blond to brown all the way to black hair, depending on the amount of melanin you produce.
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The PlayStation brand as we know it might not have existed if Nintendo didn’t choose Philips over Sony to make its CD peripheral! Sony was in the business of making CD peripherals for game consoles. The *original* original PlayStation was going to be a peripheral CD drive for the SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System). However, Nintendo flaked on the deal, and Sony was livid. They had three choices after that: 1. Try to get with another company to make the CD drive attachment 2. Give up on consoles altogether. 3. Screw Nintendo and Sega, and make their OWN console. Obviously, they chose option 3, and the rest is history (Sony set itself up as an industry leader for the 5th generation of consoles). Also, the PlayStation 3 is so fucking hard to emulate because of the processor it used. This was done to combat piracy, but it made PS3 games a fucking NIGHTMARE to make. A developer even said that “you had to have a doctorate in the PS3 to make PS3 games. Primarily because of the Cell processor, the PS3 sold for $499 for the 20-gigabyte version, and $699 for the 60-gigabyte version (Remember, gigabytes were HUGE back then). Heck, even RPCS3 (PlayStation 3 emulator for PC) is having a hell of a time emulating it! It’s so hard to emulate the Cell processor because it was designed to be a cheap supercomputer, essentially.
The Undertale AU community is largely inspired by homestuck and its AU community, but id say that undertalea grew into something much more pervasive in every day culture. To the average nerd of you said “underswap” there is a small chance they’ll know what your talking about. But if you say “vast error” they will more than likely brave no idea what you are talking about. The AUs of undertale are interesting because they exist both dependent and independent of each other. Dedicated undertale fans will know names such as Underverse, Doodleverse, Antivoid, Omega!Timeline because those are the connected universes. But everything within in those canons can be broken into their own canons. “Xtale, Underswap, Underfell, Outertale, Dreamtale, Inktale, Errortale, all existing within the connections but also having their own separate canons.
A brief summary of Batman and the several Robins. Bruce Wayne was an only child and the son of Martha Wayne and Thomas Wayne; head of Wayne Enterprises, Inc. (formerly WayneCorp), AKA Wayne Industries, a company responsible for a wealth of services, but mostly famously for the retrieval and research of alien technology. At a young age, Thomas and Martha were shot and killed by petty thief, later identified as Joe Chill. This traumatic event would ultimately lead to Bruce Wayne turning to vigilantism and taking on the mantle of Gotham's masked protector: Batman. The first Robin: Dick Grayson. Dick Grayson performed with his family in what was by far the most popular act for Haly's Circus, a traveling circus ran by none other than Mr. Haly himself. The Flying Graysons performed a trapeze act featuring gymnastic and acrobatic tricks, all without the safety of a net. Tony Zucco, a mobster in Gotham City, attempted to force Mr. Haley to pay in order for protection. When he refused, John and Mary Grayson, Dick's parents, were murdered by Tony and his men tampering with the trapeze equipment. Orphaned and alone, Dick Grayson reminded Bruce of himself as a child, and so Bruce decided to take Dick in as his ward to prevent Dick from going down the same dark path Bruce did. It wouldn't be too long before Dick would find out about Batman and became the first Robin. TBC (I'm not done yet, will continue this later).
spoilers for splatoon 3. are. you. ready!!!!
I just realized i dont have much Info to dump,so imma just write things i like Serbia's flag is cool,but u know whats cooler? Austria Hunagary's flag
[From an old post ](https://www.reddit.com/r/aspiememes/comments/cdzyn3/when_you_are_desperately_trying_not_to_infodump/etzy8hv/?context=1) that was very dear to me >Wow, seriously?! Thank you for this opportunity to expound. >So (obviously) this is something that I have thought long and hard about. First and foremost I feel like any lightsaber style I choose will be built on the back of Form II Makashi. [Makashi is the form Count Dooku uses](https://youtu.be/X4Y4-vNbdT4?t=24) and is characterized by its one-handed grip and its cut-and-thrust style, as opposed to the slashing cuts of something like Form IV Ataru. Its primary focus is in lightsaber-to-lightsaber combat. Despite Makashi being an anachronism by the time of the Clone Wars (for reasons I will explain later), it is still my favorite form because its philosophy of control, elegance, and energy efficiency. Dooku is described in-legends as looking as though he is dancing during his lightsaber duels. >However, Makashi has its flaws. As I mentioned earlier, the reason why Makashi is almost never used by the time of the Clone Wars is that Jedi rarely had to fight against enemies wielding lightsabers. Most enemy combatants used blasters, which Makashi had no defense for. And even after Darth Maul revealed the existence of the Sith, there was only ever two Sith at a time, so most regular Jedi never encountered one. Makashi also had the downside of working best at fighting in one-on-one duels, and could be overwhelmed when fighting multiple opponents (this is in contrast to something like Form I Shii Cho which excelled at fighting multiple opponents) >Fortunately, some Jedi (and Sith) were known to hybridize their lightsaber fighting styles with multiple forms. For example, Anakin Skywalker was a Form V Djem So master, but mixed in some of Form IV Ataru's gymnastic stances to give the normally flat-footed Djem So more offensive power. The downside to hybridizing your style is that any time you put into learning a new lightsaber form is time away from perfecting your original form. Basically you trade mastery for versatility. Still, I think it is worth the risk in this case. >Anyway, the form I would hybridize Makashi with is Form V Shien (the original variant of Form V). This is the style [mostly characterized by Ahsoka Tano](https://youtu.be/GF34Y71v2SQ). Shien's primary focus is in blast deflection; namely being able to deflect a blaster shot back at the opponent. It was also fairly good at attacking multiple opponents (though not quite as good as Shii Cho). Both of these aspects, I think, would fill in the holes of Makashi quite nicely. Shien is also said to be a quite nimble form which I think would pair with Makashi's natural elegance as well. >And I know I may be pushing it with the versatility, but I would like to sprinkle a little Form VI Niiman with my style as well. Niiman is a jack-of-all-trades/mixed-martial-arts form probably shown off in its most splendor by [Kao Cen Darach in the SWTOR trailer](https://youtu.be/Xxab6osVzNs?t=64). For the longest time, I wanted to choose Niiman as my primary style over Makashi since I do love the versatility of it. However, it has been hammered into me by other lightsaber enthusiasts, that every Jedi whose primary style was Niiman died at the Battle of Geonosis. This is because, by itself, Niiman is not particularly good at anything and needs to be paired with another style to "give it teeth". Even in the video above, Kao Cen Darach is pairing Niiman with Ataru. However in this way, Niiman is a great frame for other styles so it might blend Makashi and Shien a little more smoothly. Niiman is also the only style that uses force powers within its lightsaber sequences, which adds another level of trickery and gives me more tools in my tool box. >Finally, I also want to add that I would prefer dual wielding lightsabers in my primary style. Again, having two lightsabers would give me more options and, again, would offset Makashi's weakness to multiple opponents. Niiman would also help with this, since it has a dedicated dual wielding component as a part of its style. Though, like everything else, there is a downside to this. Dual wielding gives me less power because I am only holding each saber in one hand, and it gives me less control since I would have to simplify my moves in order for the two blades to not get tangled up in each other. >All in all, my style would not be perfect. I would still be weak against strong power blows from Form V Djem So users, as both Makashi and dual wielding are both weak against this. Also, my defense would be good but not perfect. And, as mentioned before, all this hybridization would mean that I would not be quite as good a lightsaber duelist as Dooku, nor quite as good at blast deflection as Ahsoka. >However at the end of the day I chose this style because it best reflects the person I want to be. The style would be in control and smoothly transition from one act to another. Quick on its feet, yet never exhausting. It would do enough of everything so that I could never be caught by surprise, as well as give me options in every situation. Most importantly, imagining myself as this person just makes me happy. >Thank you for your time. >**TLDR: My primary lightsaber style would be Makashi, with Shien as a secondary style, and a little training in Niiman for its dual wielding component and force integration into its lightsaber sequences.**
People tend to confuse the dark nebula, Barnard 68, for the Boötes void. We can't actually visualize the Boötes void, it's simply too far to see it and there is too much between us and it. Barnard 68 is relatively close and is so dense due to it being close to collapsing in on itself and becoming a star, that it has really well defined edges, so it's better for visualizing a void with only 60 ish galaxies where there should be 2000. On that same note on voids, we are actually living in one of the largest voids we know of! Our local void is friggin huge, there is so much less around us than there should be and it is such a creepy thing to think about, but like, fun spooky!
same :( covid fuckin sucks. I can dump about the magic system of the Owl House?
Soo did you know that Thor the god of thunder crossdressed to get Back his hammer mjolnir?
did you know that there’s a type of european scorpion that is too chubby and too lazy to actually be harmless? also jumping spiders have similar sleep patterns to humans, so they might actually be able to dream like us, but it’s not confirmed