Such variety!
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Most recently, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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I'd rather share my porn history
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break
I was helping a friend with music production, you see
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This might have been a link, not a search but still, enjoy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver-engineered_dam_in_the_Czech_Republic
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The nasal infix for present or very recent actions which was a feature in Proto-Indo-European. Best example is how vicit becomes vincit in Latin. (You'll recognise the first one from "veni vidi vici" and the second from "invincible". Both have to do with conquering. Or not being.)
It might also be the root of the word "now" in English, but the evidence for that is scant at best and it's not in the Wikipedia article. Ditto the n in "recent", which would be pre-PIE if true.
Also Linux kernel version history and smear frame to double check what I was talking about in recent Fediverse comments.
Because yesterday was the fifth of November, I looked up Wikipedia pages about the story and person(s) that inspired the movie, V for Vendetta
The Wiki article about the Gunpowder Plot in particular was most interesting.
I was wondering what Vin Diesel and Billy Strings real names were. Mark Sinclair & William Apostol. Then i read about stage names
The article on Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish military genius and aid to Washington and the colonialists during the American Revolutionary War. He was in with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson too. Among many other things, he designed the fortifications around West Point.
He also led the "Kościuszko Uprising" against the Russian occupation of Poland.
My favorite anecdote from the article is that he was all about human rights. He willed a portion of his estate to freeing enslaved black people, including Thomas Jefferson's slaves specifically. Everyone charged with executing his will balked at that one though, the money ended up going to education for black people instead. Still, what a way to get a final mic drop against a colleague from beyond the grave.
The Donner Party.
It's inexplicably like my "Roman Empire" for dudes. I think about that tragedy near weekly.
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From Dante, to Jamiroquai, to Nazis, to tunnel, to Caillou. These are all from the same day. I fucking love Wikipedia.
This was yesterday. High speed rail in Japan/China and in Belgium/Netherlands
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_Belgium
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_the_Netherlands
I was watching an RMTransit video last night, and just realized how almost comical it is that Belgium and the Netherlands (which together is not much bigger than the Tokyo or Shanghai metropolitan areas) have multiple high-speed rail lines
I don't remember which term it was, but I often use wikipedia to clarify translations. Complex terms are usually not found in dictionaries (online or paper). So i can look for the term in a localized wikipedia, and then switch to the English version of that article.
Electron flow. My son had a test on electricity, and the dumbasses said that current flows from positive to negative. Which is dumb ass horse shit. Everyone knows that electron flow is negative to positive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter
I like helicopters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration
... because a Danish politician is talking about "remigrating" 50.000-100.000 people.
I am reading The Conquest of New Spain
This legendary son of a legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Boozer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ycu%C3%A1_Bola%C3%B1os_supermarket_fire
A pretty fucked up incident where hundreds of people were murdered because owners were worried about theft during a fire.
Yeísmo -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye%C3%ADsmo
The double L in many Spanish dialects turning into a Y sound.
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I'm using an old RC helicopter radio I bought eons ago to control a raspberry pi, so I'm reverse engineering the signal on the receiver side (which was surprisingly easy), and I got curious about the company in general.
Some random steroid, because a drug name came up in a video I was watching and I had never heard of it before. I thought it was going to be some sort of party drug. Turns out it's for bodybuilders who don't want the water retention of the normal ones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortina_d%27Ampezzo
Because I became curious about why the car was named that.
Aron Flam, Swedish comedian. Igorrr, a French avant garde metal band.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_guilt?wprov=sfla1
I saw Godzilla Minus One recently and I was curious about this.
I double checked myself on some Chauchat machinegun facts, and then kind of went into a rabbit hole of inter-war French armament.
Julian dates
I like looking at tv episode guides and actor filmographies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesaffelstein I heard a song by an artist I've never heard of before
9 times out of 10 I'm looking up an entertainer, usually their filmography or discography. I find Wikipedia much more pleasant than imdb.
According to my browser history:
- Music of Cowboy Bebop
- Folk high school
- The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
- Build Canada Homes
- Hominidae
- A Coney Island of the Mind
- American Chestnut
- Les Nessman
A friend of mine posted a picture of a Halloween decoration of a skeleton man with a skeleton dog jumping up on him. It reminded me of a photo I've seen of the same but with real skeletons and it brought me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Krantz
Didn't realize he was a local Washingtonian who studied Bigfoot.
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