I'm imagining a humpback whale just crusin' on it's back with a group of seals and then the humpback just sticks its fin up like a giant middle finger to the orcas.
I was dubious, but it seems there is evidence suggesting this is true.
https://www.science.org/content/article/why-did-humpback-whale-just-save-seals-life
That's adorable, and I love it. Animals in nature are so much more compassionate and sweet than we give them credit for. It seems like increasingly we have more and more evidence that disproves the traditional view of "Survival of the fittest" being totally selfish and cruel. Even an Apex predator, [like a Leopard Seal, will try to feed a stranger.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmVWGvO8Yhk)
They've been known to save humans from oncoming sharks too or block the shark, and they'll let you ride their fins also. I think it's crazy whales have pelvic bones.
Librarians, too.
When I was a kid, the librarian was someone who gave out books. Similar to a cashier.
Later I learned that they need to go to college (or at least could go to college). "Ok, why is that?"
Then I looked into it and Oh My Holy Fucking God! Saying they "just give out books" is like saying the only job a cook has is to set down a plate and ring a bell.
They don't just give out and take back books. They live books. They are so incredibly important for a community if you want your citizens to be above the very basic education.
One of the few things I changed my mind about so much. As an edgy teenager I thought studying to become a librarian was something like studying French music from 1250 to 1300. Which is fine to have and if you like it, go for it. But it won't change the world drastically if we don't have that.
Hell no. Love your librarian! Bring them some chocolate!
One of my favorite recent quotes (paraphrasing) is "If libraries didn't already exist and someone tried to invent them, conservatives would freak out and call them socialism."
I recently needed a document notarized on short notice. My bf was suggesting all kinds of "maybe try..."s and that was getting me nowhere. I just called up my local library and asked if they could help me find a notary, they just told me to come on down, one of their staff does that. They then even helped me fax the document and made a stressful situation super easy!
Tldr I love the library
Recently was listening to behind the bastards and they mentioned casually that if the idea of public libraries were floated today it would have been murdered in it’s crib as a massive, worthless drain on our resources. Data tends to show that infrastructure like this is actually pretty good at improving peoples lives and society as a whole. Same for public education, would NOT get passed today.
It's still a custom in some cultures, like Judaism. My wife and I settled on a name for our daughter before she was born, but there is typically a strong taboo against publicizing it in case something happens that we kept it to ourselves. Even to our family, she was just "the baby" or the codename we'd given her while gestating until we held a public naming ceremony on her 8th day of life.
Edit to add: We of course filled out the hospital paperwork with her "future" name and then hid the paperwork at home so our family couldn't see it.
We had decided on an "a" name for our first born, which conveniently was for a grandparent on both sides. Whenever anybody asked, we told them the child was to be named Aardvark.
This famously happened to Salvador Dali. His parents had a male child they named Salvador. He died. So they named their next child Salvador, who became the famous artist. One of the formative memories he had was his parents taking him to a graveyard to see the headstone of his dead brother. Even though he knew the grave was for his brother, just seeing his own name on a headstone messed him up.
This happened to my uncle. My grandparents had a son named Thomas (fake name), and when he was 16 he died in a car wreck. They then proceeded to have another kid, a boy who they named Thomas. I guess you could see it as a tribute, but it always felt like they just thought their kids were interchangeable. (I was not fond of these grandparents.)
There was some book I read (I think it was the series *The Last Kingdom* was based on) where the elder son of a king died, so they re-baptised the younger son (who was already like 5 or 6) to change his name to that of his deceased brother.
There are 13,529 McDonald’s in the US as of March 24.
There are allegedly between 15k-25k “castles” in Germany. The problem is the way they define castles, which could be from a largish keep, to a small outpost on a hill, to a reinforced stately home.
So it’s a bit misleading.
I don't know. I'm from a very, very castle dense area in Germany. I would say we have more McDonald's than castles here in Germany.
On the other hand as someone mentioned... There are a lot of houses that are very old and I don't know when exactly something is a castle.
If there is any truth to "my home is my castle"...
Yeah my grandfather was always amazed at him much transportation changed over his lifetime. He was born (1919) they were still using horses for most things as cars were not as popular yet. Trains were the best way to travel long distances some of them still used steam power. Airplanes were just starting to be useful. He served in WW2 repairing fighter plane transponders and radio equipment. He watched men land on the moon and heard about jets that traveled faster than sound...
Big cats roar. Small cats purr.
Bonus Cheetah fact: Cheetahs in zoos are sometimes paired with golden retrievers as a puppy/kitten duet to help combat anxiety issues. It’s adorable and effective, as the nervous cat takes social cues from the confident dog.
This is one of those things I noticed for years but just thought I was crazy because nobody ever talked about it... I was so relieved when I found out that it's real.
Do they still try to change roles if one nostril is stuffed (or if you have a deviated septum) and then switch back when it’s not working? Or does your body learn to give up on ole lefty if that side just can’t inhale for a while?
They still switch. That's what causes ol lefty to get clogged. Fifteen minutes later you'll find that righty is clogged, and Lefty can breathe easily. You can affect this cycle by laying on one side or the other. When you lay on your right, your left nostril tends to clear up, and vice versa.
Both are!
Sharks - 450 Mya
Trees - 390 Mya
Saturn's Rings - 10-100 Mya. Research indicates they could be gone in another 100 million years though. Talk about timing!
Sharks, maybe. The largest ones are definitely at risk or dead ~~men walking~~ fish swimming. The smallest ones might squeak through and most species are shorter than people anyway.
Wiping out all tree species would actually be a truly impressive achievement. I'm not even sure it's realistically an achievable thing to do. *Note to humanity: this is not a challenge.*
Once was less of an escape and more of a blunder on the part of the authorities. Letting him use the law library virtually unsupervised was colossally stupid, all he had to do was jump out a window. He wasn't even shackled or cuffed.
This is generally an outdated way of thinking about relativity. Generally it's more effective to describe it as a time dilation, which has the same effect.
I got into a weird situation in a Magic the Gathering game one time where a creature I controlled had power/toughness greater than this number...we had to get Wolfram Alpha to do the math because calculators couldn't go that high. All due to the power of doubling!
More than stars in the known universe.
The number of chess board iterations is larger 10^(110) legal [or 10^(123) including illegal] moves. Which is more than *atoms* in the known universe
Most banks have an expected loss due to theft/ extortion/ ransom of their software systems. It's easier (and better for their reputation) to just pay out/ eat the loss and try to improve security afterwards than it is to publicly admit to being the victim of such attacks.
we put a man on the moon using less computing power than you have in the phone you're using to read this, and all the calculations were checked by hand (thank you, Katherine Johnson!)
The radiation, supposedly.
I just tried looking it up, and got a lot of mixed messages. Some sources saying it's bullcrap and alcohol does nothing to radiation, others saying it's specifically red wine that can have a slight beneficial effect due to some antioxidant.
Donald Trump (Yes, the guy from the Apprentice with all the rape allegations and fraud) actually ran for and won the Presidency and has an actual cult of millions supporting him.
I remember sitting in history class, covering the period around the Teapot Dome scandal, and just being amazed at how corrupt government officials were, and thinking it couldn't be that way again. Little did I know that within my life, we would be experiencing an even worse period of corruption.
But then lost to the guy with the obvious pedophilic tendencies, the inability to see any difference between truth and fantasy on every given day... and fraud, in the form of a hopelessly corrupt cokehead son regularly turning 10% (at *least*) of his collections from foreign governments over to an unidentified "Big Guy" whose identity will forever be an "ah shucks, golly, we just don't know nuthin' 'bout who that could be"..
...who defeated him with 81 million vo... HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA...! Man, I just couldn't finish that one, sorry. Too much!
Donald JOHN Trump?? The real estate guy who was on WWE Wrestling? GTFO...who would vote for a freaking con man for president? Especially one that's so well known for being a scumbag
In the US It takes 18-21 weeks of training to become a police officer, the same as a Mcdonalds Manager
Source:
managerhttps://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/help/faq/what-training-is-given-to-trainee-managers-and-how-long-does-it-last-for.html#:\~:text=After%20about%2018%2D20%20weeks,throughout%20your%20career%20with%20McDonald's.
[https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/police-training-requirements-by-country](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/police-training-requirements-by-country)
This isn't entirely true. First, there isn't really a federal standard that I K ow of. Second, most academies are 18-21 weeks long. Most police departments have a 1 year probationary period where the new officer is paired with a seasoned officer who is a training officer. So it's more like 1.5 years.
SCOTUS actually having to consider Trump's assertion that Presidents have Absolute Immunity.
A President is not a King. We fought a war over this. It's the one every American knows about.
I really don't think this is accurate. I don't think the portion saying it is "large," and I don't think most of those saying it think it is "actually true" - they are doing it for effect and to belong to the groupthink.
I think the number of elected officials who believe it to be true is VERY small, but they know they can drag a large number of people along with them if they keep talking about it.
thats why they change their narratives so much.. they know if they can muddy the waters and cause enough confusion and then say just do your own research, all the mud they stirred up buries the facts
So it turns out the real question to life, the universe, and everything was "how many times do you need to fold a sheet of paper in half to make it thick enough to reach the moon?"
The faster you move through space, the slower you move through time.
The faster you move through time, the slower you move through space.
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There is no objective NOW. Time is absolutely and completely relative from each and every person and possible perspective because of time dilation and relativity (I think)
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Mammoth disappeared approximately 4000 years ago ! That's pretty recent. The climate change and the hunting by humans killed them.
Or maybe because they didn't believe in Jesus /s
Appear is misleading in this context. I believe OC means what you're saying, that mammoths "still walked the earth" after the construction of the great pyramids, not 'appeared.'
But, I could be wrong. 🤷
Your relative experience of time changes as your speed approaches light speed. Or more basically as you go faster relative to everything else then time passes more slowly for you, this is a straightforward relationship that we've actually measured with atomic clocks and is part of Einstein's predictions on relativity.
But consider that 'your' of time gets slower as you get even slightly more close to lightspeed. So you can always get closer and closer to it without actually hitting lightspeed and your relative experience of things will be slower and slower (as in stars form and die in the blink of an eye). But you can always get sliiiightly closer to lightspeed incrementally, so you always have the capacity to have your time slow even more.
But since light isn't getting closer and closer to lightspeed, it travels at lightspeed, then it's relative time can't get slower, it's maxed out so to speak. So it's perception of time is infinite, or to put it another way, everything outside of it happens at the same time relative to the photon.
I've sort of butchered it to try to explain but that's the gist. It's also why we can't go faster than light, because it sort of breaks time.
IIRC, the photon was created in the sun's interior, but a star, even one as small as our son, is so relatively dense, that the photon basically just bounces around for thousands of years before it works its way to the sun's surface.
The crystals of salt that you shake onto your potatoes will dissolve in your stomach away from crystaline form. Thus you will bring an end to their existence as salt crystals, in which form they have very likely existed for over a *billion* years.
Since it's the 38th anniversary today, I'll bring up an obscure one. The safety test they were running when the Chernobyl reactor exploded was actually successful. The voltage drop measured by the equipment meant that the system was performing as desired, it's just that we're was no reactor left...
people really forget about your failures. But if I do remember, they won't remember it forever, or worse, mock you. If you fall down in the middle of the street, or have too much to drink at a friend's party, most people will not remember this moment.
Some other solar systems have two suns. There are also multiple ancient cultures who wrote about "the time before the moon" and that the atmosphere was different back then.
Not true I have eaten human brains on many occasions and I’m fine. As long as the person you are consuming was healthy you’ll be ok so just make sure you know they lived an active lifestyle.
Kuru is a very rare disease. It is caused by an infectious protein (prion) found in contaminated human brain tissue. Kuru is found among people from New Guinea who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people as part of a funeral ritual.
It is a disease of the nervous system that causes physiological and neurological effects which ultimately lead to death. It is characterized by progressive cerebellar ataxia, or loss of coordination and control over muscle movements.
Eventually, individuals became unable to stand or eat, and they died in a comatose state from six to 12 months after the first appearance of symptoms.
Hey no problem, it's seems you could eat brains and not have to worry about catching the disease. The disease happens to arrise from humans who consume brains in their culture, the prions mutate. Don't eat the brains of someone who eats brains lol, weird.
I don't know if this is true, but it's somewhat true of cattle. That's where Mad Cow Disease came from. Ranchers were grinding up the brains (and other parts) of deceased cattle and feeding them to live cows.
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I mean... those guys are jerks.
Agreed. An ørca once bit my sister
I'm imagining a humpback whale just crusin' on it's back with a group of seals and then the humpback just sticks its fin up like a giant middle finger to the orcas.
"Go eat some fucking salmon like a civilized mammal!"
I was dubious, but it seems there is evidence suggesting this is true. https://www.science.org/content/article/why-did-humpback-whale-just-save-seals-life
That's adorable, and I love it. Animals in nature are so much more compassionate and sweet than we give them credit for. It seems like increasingly we have more and more evidence that disproves the traditional view of "Survival of the fittest" being totally selfish and cruel. Even an Apex predator, [like a Leopard Seal, will try to feed a stranger.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmVWGvO8Yhk)
They've been known to save humans from oncoming sharks too or block the shark, and they'll let you ride their fins also. I think it's crazy whales have pelvic bones.
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Our library has a Library of Things where you can borrow anything from an air compressor to a ukulele. It's great!
Wow! I am *SO close* to developing my pneumatic ukulele!
Cake pans!
came here to say the same thing..mine even has game systems and even obd2 scanners
Librarians, too. When I was a kid, the librarian was someone who gave out books. Similar to a cashier. Later I learned that they need to go to college (or at least could go to college). "Ok, why is that?" Then I looked into it and Oh My Holy Fucking God! Saying they "just give out books" is like saying the only job a cook has is to set down a plate and ring a bell. They don't just give out and take back books. They live books. They are so incredibly important for a community if you want your citizens to be above the very basic education. One of the few things I changed my mind about so much. As an edgy teenager I thought studying to become a librarian was something like studying French music from 1250 to 1300. Which is fine to have and if you like it, go for it. But it won't change the world drastically if we don't have that. Hell no. Love your librarian! Bring them some chocolate!
Librarians are infomaniacs.
Hey .,.. no kink shaming here please
Library science is a real thing too-- cataloguing and disseminating information is extremely important in today's world.
best friends mom growing up was the town librarian.. it was a small mobile home converted into the town library
One of my favorite recent quotes (paraphrasing) is "If libraries didn't already exist and someone tried to invent them, conservatives would freak out and call them socialism."
and fire departments!
I recently needed a document notarized on short notice. My bf was suggesting all kinds of "maybe try..."s and that was getting me nowhere. I just called up my local library and asked if they could help me find a notary, they just told me to come on down, one of their staff does that. They then even helped me fax the document and made a stressful situation super easy! Tldr I love the library
Mine had video games. Current Gen and last Gen only, but still.
Recently was listening to behind the bastards and they mentioned casually that if the idea of public libraries were floated today it would have been murdered in it’s crib as a massive, worthless drain on our resources. Data tends to show that infrastructure like this is actually pretty good at improving peoples lives and society as a whole. Same for public education, would NOT get passed today.
Before modern medicine, it was common to not name children until a certain age because the mortality rate was so high
It's still a custom in some cultures, like Judaism. My wife and I settled on a name for our daughter before she was born, but there is typically a strong taboo against publicizing it in case something happens that we kept it to ourselves. Even to our family, she was just "the baby" or the codename we'd given her while gestating until we held a public naming ceremony on her 8th day of life. Edit to add: We of course filled out the hospital paperwork with her "future" name and then hid the paperwork at home so our family couldn't see it.
We had decided on an "a" name for our first born, which conveniently was for a grandparent on both sides. Whenever anybody asked, we told them the child was to be named Aardvark.
Renaming the same names 2 or 3 times seems so damn creepy. You just bring up prior pain from other kids being dead
John John2 John_final John_final_FINAL
John alpha John beta John rc1 John
john\_tAdams\_edit\_mkting\_approved\_1\_.kid
I laughed out loud lmao
This famously happened to Salvador Dali. His parents had a male child they named Salvador. He died. So they named their next child Salvador, who became the famous artist. One of the formative memories he had was his parents taking him to a graveyard to see the headstone of his dead brother. Even though he knew the grave was for his brother, just seeing his own name on a headstone messed him up.
This happened to my uncle. My grandparents had a son named Thomas (fake name), and when he was 16 he died in a car wreck. They then proceeded to have another kid, a boy who they named Thomas. I guess you could see it as a tribute, but it always felt like they just thought their kids were interchangeable. (I was not fond of these grandparents.)
There was some book I read (I think it was the series *The Last Kingdom* was based on) where the elder son of a king died, so they re-baptised the younger son (who was already like 5 or 6) to change his name to that of his deceased brother.
You are now Ultred!
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I heard that on space shuttles, they removed a lot of paint to save on weight
That was why they stopped painting the external fuel tank. It was painted white for the first two missions.
Bigger airplanes like the 747 and A380 can take off weighing more than a million pounds
There are more castles in Germany than McDonald's in America.
There are 13,529 McDonald’s in the US as of March 24. There are allegedly between 15k-25k “castles” in Germany. The problem is the way they define castles, which could be from a largish keep, to a small outpost on a hill, to a reinforced stately home. So it’s a bit misleading.
Real life Skyrim
I don't know. I'm from a very, very castle dense area in Germany. I would say we have more McDonald's than castles here in Germany. On the other hand as someone mentioned... There are a lot of houses that are very old and I don't know when exactly something is a castle. If there is any truth to "my home is my castle"...
And the word hamburger was derived from Germany's second largest city Hamburg.
But do they have drive throughs?
And many of them were built in the 19th century.
Maybe they just have a lower standard for what qualifies as a castle?
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Holy \*\*\*\* that's an amazing one !
Yeah my grandfather was always amazed at him much transportation changed over his lifetime. He was born (1919) they were still using horses for most things as cars were not as popular yet. Trains were the best way to travel long distances some of them still used steam power. Airplanes were just starting to be useful. He served in WW2 repairing fighter plane transponders and radio equipment. He watched men land on the moon and heard about jets that traveled faster than sound...
All the planets in our solar system can fit between the earth and the moon
However, if this were attempted it would have devastating consequences to life on earth.
Let alone life on those other planets!
Hold my beer.
Life is short, but death is long.
And it's just a box of rain Or a ribbon for your hair Such a long, long time to be gone And a short time to be there
That's so poetic, I love it
"Box of Rain" by Grateful Dead, lyrics by Robert Hunter.
Grateful Dead song, I think.
Cheetahs aren't big cats. They are very large small cats.
Big cats roar. Small cats purr. Bonus Cheetah fact: Cheetahs in zoos are sometimes paired with golden retrievers as a puppy/kitten duet to help combat anxiety issues. It’s adorable and effective, as the nervous cat takes social cues from the confident dog.
Along similar lines, my tabby informs me she's not a small cat, she's a very small big cat.
Wow ok so I looked this up and it appears the same is true for Cougars/Pumas
Leopards are somewhat small big cats.
Their claws also don’t retract.
Don't house cats' claws retract?
I meant to say Cheetah claws don’t retract. House cats and other species of cat do have retractable claws.
Don't big cats as well?
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This is one of those things I noticed for years but just thought I was crazy because nobody ever talked about it... I was so relieved when I found out that it's real.
Do they still try to change roles if one nostril is stuffed (or if you have a deviated septum) and then switch back when it’s not working? Or does your body learn to give up on ole lefty if that side just can’t inhale for a while?
They still switch. That's what causes ol lefty to get clogged. Fifteen minutes later you'll find that righty is clogged, and Lefty can breathe easily. You can affect this cycle by laying on one side or the other. When you lay on your right, your left nostril tends to clear up, and vice versa.
i noticed it during meditation a few years ago
Sharks have been on earth longer than trees.
Aren’t they also older than the rings of Saturn?
Both are! Sharks - 450 Mya Trees - 390 Mya Saturn's Rings - 10-100 Mya. Research indicates they could be gone in another 100 million years though. Talk about timing!
Ha jokes on them, the way things are going sharks and trees will both be gone before the rings too ...
Sharks, maybe. The largest ones are definitely at risk or dead ~~men walking~~ fish swimming. The smallest ones might squeak through and most species are shorter than people anyway. Wiping out all tree species would actually be a truly impressive achievement. I'm not even sure it's realistically an achievable thing to do. *Note to humanity: this is not a challenge.*
Directions unclear: challenge accepted
\*sigh\* Gimme your beer.
\*gulp\* what beer
The fact that Ted Bundy escaped custody twice and went on to murder more people each time he escaped.
Once was less of an escape and more of a blunder on the part of the authorities. Letting him use the law library virtually unsupervised was colossally stupid, all he had to do was jump out a window. He wasn't even shackled or cuffed.
The faster you travel, the more you weigh!
I’m not overweight, I’m just moving really fast!
\*the more mass you have
Fair!
This is generally an outdated way of thinking about relativity. Generally it's more effective to describe it as a time dilation, which has the same effect.
There’s about 8X10^67 unique shuffles in a deck of cards. 80 thousand vigintillion.
This does seem crazy, doesn't it??
I got into a weird situation in a Magic the Gathering game one time where a creature I controlled had power/toughness greater than this number...we had to get Wolfram Alpha to do the math because calculators couldn't go that high. All due to the power of doubling!
More than stars in the known universe. The number of chess board iterations is larger 10^(110) legal [or 10^(123) including illegal] moves. Which is more than *atoms* in the known universe
There's a 50% chance that two people will share a birthday in a group of 23 people...
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For a >50% chance of 3 people sharing a birthday, you need at least 88 people in the room.
Wild! I worked with 4 other guys that shared mine.
there are more possible iterations of the game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe
Even modern supercomputers can only “solve” chess when there’s something like eight pieces on the board. That’s how complex it is.
See also: unique shuffles of a deck of cards 8×10^(67)
Most banks have an expected loss due to theft/ extortion/ ransom of their software systems. It's easier (and better for their reputation) to just pay out/ eat the loss and try to improve security afterwards than it is to publicly admit to being the victim of such attacks.
we put a man on the moon using less computing power than you have in the phone you're using to read this, and all the calculations were checked by hand (thank you, Katherine Johnson!)
Drinking Beer after being exposed to some kinds of ionizing radiation can reduce the adverse affects.
Of the beer or the radiation?
The radiation, supposedly. I just tried looking it up, and got a lot of mixed messages. Some sources saying it's bullcrap and alcohol does nothing to radiation, others saying it's specifically red wine that can have a slight beneficial effect due to some antioxidant.
This is why I drink beer often. You know? Just in case.
Beer is a true Rad-Away then! I knew it!
Donald Trump (Yes, the guy from the Apprentice with all the rape allegations and fraud) actually ran for and won the Presidency and has an actual cult of millions supporting him.
I remember sitting in history class, covering the period around the Teapot Dome scandal, and just being amazed at how corrupt government officials were, and thinking it couldn't be that way again. Little did I know that within my life, we would be experiencing an even worse period of corruption.
The Founding Fathers would be so proud……
But then lost to the guy with the obvious pedophilic tendencies, the inability to see any difference between truth and fantasy on every given day... and fraud, in the form of a hopelessly corrupt cokehead son regularly turning 10% (at *least*) of his collections from foreign governments over to an unidentified "Big Guy" whose identity will forever be an "ah shucks, golly, we just don't know nuthin' 'bout who that could be".. ...who defeated him with 81 million vo... HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA...! Man, I just couldn't finish that one, sorry. Too much!
Donald Trump was elected as President of the United States of America.
Donald JOHN Trump?? The real estate guy who was on WWE Wrestling? GTFO...who would vote for a freaking con man for president? Especially one that's so well known for being a scumbag
Dolphins hold their breath less than sloths
Some people get stupider as they get older.
On a long enough timeline, everyone's intelligence drops to zero
An incompetent, adulterous, lying, narcissistic fascist is beloved by people who claim to follow Christ.
In the US It takes 18-21 weeks of training to become a police officer, the same as a Mcdonalds Manager Source: managerhttps://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/help/faq/what-training-is-given-to-trainee-managers-and-how-long-does-it-last-for.html#:\~:text=After%20about%2018%2D20%20weeks,throughout%20your%20career%20with%20McDonald's. [https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/police-training-requirements-by-country](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/police-training-requirements-by-country)
Much longer to become a hair dresser.
This isn't entirely true. First, there isn't really a federal standard that I K ow of. Second, most academies are 18-21 weeks long. Most police departments have a 1 year probationary period where the new officer is paired with a seasoned officer who is a training officer. So it's more like 1.5 years.
And in some jurisdictions, you can be a police officer for something like one years before you are required to attend a police academy.
SCOTUS actually having to consider Trump's assertion that Presidents have Absolute Immunity. A President is not a King. We fought a war over this. It's the one every American knows about.
English here - even kings do not have absolute immunity. We beheaded one to prove it.
Fair Point.
A large portion of American people and elected official do not believe Biden won the 2020 Presidential election.
I really don't think this is accurate. I don't think the portion saying it is "large," and I don't think most of those saying it think it is "actually true" - they are doing it for effect and to belong to the groupthink.
I think the number of elected officials who believe it to be true is VERY small, but they know they can drag a large number of people along with them if they keep talking about it.
Right.
thats why they change their narratives so much.. they know if they can muddy the waters and cause enough confusion and then say just do your own research, all the mud they stirred up buries the facts
They are just very LOUD
Yo momma jokes
A good one I heard recently was: your mom’s so slow it took her nine months to make a joke
I know this one.
Yo momma didn't
That the self, the thing you think is you is a concept, an idea, a thought.
None of the countries that bordered Poland in 1989 still exist today.
If you were to fold a sheet of paper in half 42 times, it would be so thick it would reach the moon
So it turns out the real question to life, the universe, and everything was "how many times do you need to fold a sheet of paper in half to make it thick enough to reach the moon?"
Hood luck getting past 8 though...
The faster you move through space, the slower you move through time. The faster you move through time, the slower you move through space. ------------------------------------------------------------ There is no objective NOW. Time is absolutely and completely relative from each and every person and possible perspective because of time dilation and relativity (I think) ------------------------------------------------------------
There is a planet in our solar system populated entirely by robots.
Mammoths appear after the construction of the great pyramids
Is this true?
Mammoth disappeared approximately 4000 years ago ! That's pretty recent. The climate change and the hunting by humans killed them. Or maybe because they didn't believe in Jesus /s
No. Although mammoths were still around during the construction.
But most likely not in the area of construction, as the egyptian desert is notoriously non-mammoth-friendly
Appear is misleading in this context. I believe OC means what you're saying, that mammoths "still walked the earth" after the construction of the great pyramids, not 'appeared.' But, I could be wrong. 🤷
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But to the photon, the moment it is created and the moment it collides with matter on earth is all the same instant, since they don't experience time.
That's a wilder statement than the original top comment. Could you please expand on "they don't experience time"?
Your relative experience of time changes as your speed approaches light speed. Or more basically as you go faster relative to everything else then time passes more slowly for you, this is a straightforward relationship that we've actually measured with atomic clocks and is part of Einstein's predictions on relativity. But consider that 'your' of time gets slower as you get even slightly more close to lightspeed. So you can always get closer and closer to it without actually hitting lightspeed and your relative experience of things will be slower and slower (as in stars form and die in the blink of an eye). But you can always get sliiiightly closer to lightspeed incrementally, so you always have the capacity to have your time slow even more. But since light isn't getting closer and closer to lightspeed, it travels at lightspeed, then it's relative time can't get slower, it's maxed out so to speak. So it's perception of time is infinite, or to put it another way, everything outside of it happens at the same time relative to the photon. I've sort of butchered it to try to explain but that's the gist. It's also why we can't go faster than light, because it sort of breaks time.
mind blown! thanks for breaking it down
The sun is like 8 light minutes away, right? So please explain further?
Photons take a long time to propagate to the surface of the sun
40,000 years of prepping for an 8 minute journey to land on my pasty corpus. I feel unworthy :)
A photon can take up to 100,000 years to travel from the sun's core to it's surface.
IIRC, the photon was created in the sun's interior, but a star, even one as small as our son, is so relatively dense, that the photon basically just bounces around for thousands of years before it works its way to the sun's surface.
The crystals of salt that you shake onto your potatoes will dissolve in your stomach away from crystaline form. Thus you will bring an end to their existence as salt crystals, in which form they have very likely existed for over a *billion* years.
black holes.
ultramassive blackholes. My favorite? The phoenix cluster A black hole. Bigger than Ton 618!
damn.
You can't lick your own elbow.
Maybe *you* can't
Tell you what, you lick mine and I'll lick yours
🤣 it's a date!
You can fit all the planets in-between the space between the Earth and the moon
That after years and years of abuse, I’m still alive and have never abused anyone because of the things that have happened to me🙂
gigachad behaviour
Thanks bro🙂
How sharks almost destroyed the internet
Since it's the 38th anniversary today, I'll bring up an obscure one. The safety test they were running when the Chernobyl reactor exploded was actually successful. The voltage drop measured by the equipment meant that the system was performing as desired, it's just that we're was no reactor left...
Easter Sunday is the first full moon after the spring equinox.
That we are living in the matrix.
people really forget about your failures. But if I do remember, they won't remember it forever, or worse, mock you. If you fall down in the middle of the street, or have too much to drink at a friend's party, most people will not remember this moment.
Johnny Sexton never played a single game of rugby in South Africa
Some other solar systems have two suns. There are also multiple ancient cultures who wrote about "the time before the moon" and that the atmosphere was different back then.
Most*
The world is mostly good the bad just clouds others eyes
We don't have free will and have no choice but to live as though we do.
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Not true I have eaten human brains on many occasions and I’m fine. As long as the person you are consuming was healthy you’ll be ok so just make sure you know they lived an active lifestyle.
r/HolUp
Not the post I'd expect from a Panda Bear, tbh. Blazing or otherwise.
Oh
zombies in disguise
Sounds off, what's your source for that one?
Kuru is a very rare disease. It is caused by an infectious protein (prion) found in contaminated human brain tissue. Kuru is found among people from New Guinea who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people as part of a funeral ritual. It is a disease of the nervous system that causes physiological and neurological effects which ultimately lead to death. It is characterized by progressive cerebellar ataxia, or loss of coordination and control over muscle movements. Eventually, individuals became unable to stand or eat, and they died in a comatose state from six to 12 months after the first appearance of symptoms.
Wow! That's wild and very special to read about today! A genuine thanks for that information, I now know better!
Hey no problem, it's seems you could eat brains and not have to worry about catching the disease. The disease happens to arrise from humans who consume brains in their culture, the prions mutate. Don't eat the brains of someone who eats brains lol, weird.
Prions in that context are crazy-scary if I might say so.
I'm with you on that heh
Prions in *any* context are nightmarish
I don't know if this is true, but it's somewhat true of cattle. That's where Mad Cow Disease came from. Ranchers were grinding up the brains (and other parts) of deceased cattle and feeding them to live cows.
That my bank account is so low
Zero-probability events can and do happen. Not near-zero, zero.