I was wondering what Vin Diesel and Billy Strings real names were. Mark Sinclair & William Apostol. Then i read about stage names
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putumayo_genocide
One of the many examples how imperialism and greed can turn things into atrocious shit.
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
The Donner Party.
It's inexplicably like my "Roman Empire" for dudes. I think about that tragedy near weekly.
The conditions that created it (well, the weather) can be recreated in the Oregon Trail 2 video game!
Although it's difficult. You have to really screw around to be as slow, otherwise you reach the pass before the storm hits.
Ooohhh never played 2, but I do get nostalgic for the OG every now and then! I'll have to get this ASAP for cozy winter gaming!
Its SO crazy how much went wrong with that pioneer train. Murders and deaths even before they hit Hastings Cutoff.
By 2 I mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Trail_II this by the way! Not the newest one which I don't think had two on it, but I gotta make sure.
On the easiest difficulty where you don't uhhh pilot the train, you don't even take the wrong cutoffs so you generally go so fast you hit the pass early.
I only managed the conditions twice or so of trying to do so! By having a drowning early lmfao. Then there was some heat stroke and some rattlesnake bites.
That is so fascinating. I believe one of the survivors later wrote a book about it, it's public domain and can be downloaded from digital libraries. I never finished it, but read a good chunk up to the part where they had to eat their dead trek members and leather shoe straps. It's ironic that they were initially trying to take a short cut and save time, but unfortunate circumstances stacked up, cost them lots of time and ended in disaster.
I'll have to read it! We just moved to NorCal and joined our local library, so I'm sure I can find it there! If not, the Libby app!
My husband and I did the drive to Reno over Halloween weekend, and we went over Donner Pass.
Lemme tell you if you've never been, that section of the US is breathtakingly beautiful, but I could ALSO see how it is devastatingly, oppressively terrifying. And that was even with clear roads and little mountain towns sprinkled around. I got chills thinking about if there was nothing except chest deep snow, dying fires, and blankets to keep warm.
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.
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.
Such variety!
Harlem shake? Disgusting and degenerate
I forgot what it was
I'd rather share my porn history
Both my porn and my Wikipedia history include Monosodium Glutamate
OK. Let's have it then. I'm always looking for recommendations.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break
I was helping a friend with music production, you see
Very cool love that I have this bit of knowledge. Can't wait I can bring it up organically when a song with it plays. I never even thought about how different beats or bits of songs have specific names. Anyone have that wiki??
I double checked myself on some Chauchat machinegun facts, and then kind of went into a rabbit hole of inter-war French armament.
This might have been a link, not a search but still, enjoy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver-engineered_dam_in_the_Czech_Republic
I fucking love beavers!!
From Dante, to Jamiroquai, to Nazis, to tunnel, to Caillou. These are all from the same day. I fucking love Wikipedia.
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 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_guilt?wprov=sfla1
I saw Godzilla Minus One recently and I was curious about this.
Mug Root Beer. I was trying to find out if the "Mugrootbeeroffcial" socials was actually them. Their youtube videos are nuts.
I like looking at tv episode guides and actor filmographies
Yeísmo -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye%C3%ADsmo
The double L in many Spanish dialects turning into a Y sound.
I had no idea there was a name for it. Cool!
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/Remigration
... because a Danish politician is talking about "remigrating" 50.000-100.000 people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortina_d%27Ampezzo
Because I became curious about why the car was named that.
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