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olav

Artist, Photographer, Cook, Miscreant. Odd. Basically I cook, do art, and sometimes post about them.

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TIL that India cut the Pythagorean theorem—Edit: its similarity proof—, periodic table, and evolution from mandatory education in June 2023 Edit: before adding it back a week later
  • @PlasticLove This is a country that plans to send people into space in the next few years. Even basic trig in the unis matter.

  • TIL Chris Cocker who is now Cara Cunningham went into pronography after her viral leave britney alone video.
  • @Warl0k3
    @NuXCOM_90Percent

    If they're not publicly out I use a lot of they/them and avoid the deadname.

  • TIL that in Sparta, after the wedding, brides would have their hair cut short and be dressed in men's clothing so that they would appear less threatening to their groom during the wedding night.
  • @VelvetStorm
    That "no man shall lie with a man" in the Bible used different words for the first man and the second man. It was actually about pedastery until the early 1900s in the US, more like 1980 in Germany. Pedastery was a big enough thing the OT had to talk about ot

  • TIL 40 states in the US charge you $20-$80 a day for being incarcerated in prison.
  • @Varyk ultimately they want the slave labor for the companies they contract with.

    I mean even when it's not a corporate "for-profit" prison it's still for-profit by the government. Even in California

  • TIL 40 states in the US charge you $20-$80 a day for being incarcerated in prison.
  • @Varyk I didn't say that. AFAIK you're mostly down to having friends send you money for soap and toothpaste

  • TIL 40 states in the US charge you $20-$80 a day for being incarcerated in prison.
  • @Trollception @aodhsishaj they do if there's a gov't clearance or you're touching corp money involved. But in most cases they'll let you explain what happened.

  • TIL 40 states in the US charge you $20-$80 a day for being incarcerated in prison.
  • @aodhsishaj @metaStatic bankruptcy is by far not the worse thing you can do. Often trying to unbury yourself will take longer to get back to solvency.

    We had to medical B out. Get cancer these days, particularly with a $6K+ deductible for a PPO and you're toast. We managed to switch to a HMO before surgery and we were still toast. And I had a Good Job.

    File, get a pre-paid card then some high-interest you barely use, then some "normal" credit and it builds faster than you know

  • TIL 40 states in the US charge you $20-$80 a day for being incarcerated in prison.
  • @Varyk @Today I think it's forgiven if you take the job making license plates at $2/hr sometimes $2/day

  • TIL if The Bare Naked Ladies had $1m when the song was recorded, and parked it in S&P500, they'd be rich.
  • @Dave @oohgodyeah a million bucks is a lot of store brand mac and French's yellow mustard.

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  • @Delphia
    @cbarrick

    I'm a Straight No Chaser guy and agree.

  • TIL that quadruple A batteries exist
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  • Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub
  • @deadsuperhero I'd love to see this adopted wildly if the protocol can be fleshed out. I did like Hubzilla for this; the servers are boggy and I didn't even want to get into the hosting lack of instructions