oh thank you, that’s actually helpful :D

this made me laugh, although i’m a 40+ yo cis gay male who has not the first clue about female clothing or the female body xD

i absolutely get the underlying intention, but the bad feeling of having missed the deadline and ending up with a voided present is just awful

gift cards suck. don’t decide for me where to spend the money, don’t give me something that will eventually become invalid if i forget to use it (i probably will). they’re such a scam.

i pledged years ago to never buy those again. always cash instead, or wire transfer money.

can you fix the tilt of your TV? 🫠

baking christmas cookies, i make 8-9 different kinds every year in big quantities and then ship boxes to all my friends :3

edit: and i’m done baking!

okay but my honey jars have a screw on lid, that’s not very practical ^^

it’s sold in every souvenir shop of stuff made with olive tree wood in Greece. and it’s a stupid device, so much honey stays stuck in it after using it, absolutely not worth it

he’s adjacent to Numberphile (also an excellent channel), Hannah Fry, James Grime, very good educators

I do, as well as Matt Parker (and Tom Scott but he doesn’t qualify for this thread anymore, unfortunately)

We seem to have a large overlap in our Venn Diagrams ^^

Absolutely, he’s getting access to places and hardware that keep pushing the envelope, but still remains that very humble human being he always was. He’s so kind to everybody working in the factory tours. Absolutely recommend. The only thing i’m not a big fan of is the content he produces with weapons, but that’s a cultural thing, i get it.

Smarter Everyday (space, slow mo, manufacturing), PBS Space Time (space, quantum physics, astrophysics…), Xisumavoid (Minecraft Let’s Play), Magnus Midtbø (Climber), Asianometry (technology, manufacturing, science history)

fascinating, you know a lot about this period, thank you for all the additional information! ☺️

It is often said that the months September through December got bumped back two positions when July and August were added into the calendar in honor of Julius Caesar and Augustus, but that is not correct. Those two months had been there long before those two men needed to be honored, but originally, July was called quintilis (‘fifth month’) and August was called sextilis (‘sixth month’). So they were always in the calendar, and named for numbers just like later months, but were later renamed for Caesar and Augustus.

https://fredkdrogula.substack.com/p/why-isnt-december-the-tenth-month

TL;DR: january and february weren’t really accounted for and were a “dead zone”, but later someone (might be Numa, but it’s not 100% sure) changed that and the offset was introduced.

2025 update:

‘can’t pay artists to train our ai models, it’d put us out of business!’

i appreciate the title very much!

The only limit is yourself!

web view, the only good way to browse social media

top kek

it still shifts the power into the hands of the employer, like providing basic acceptable working conditions becomes a perk, when it’s just something that should be universal and normalized.

You could pay me and i still wouldn’t want to use any of this.

I can write my own texts, I can read long ones without having to get a summary. I can draw, I can take pictures, I can do online research. All by myself without a spicy autocomplete to prechew it for me.