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Seleni , to til in TIL almost all vanilla plants are pollinated by hand.

Created the entire vanilla industry pretty much single-handedly and died in poverty. Sounds about right.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Horrible that he died in poverty, but he did die a free man, which is a lot more than you can say for most black people on Réunion.

yeather , to til in TIL the USA is the only country to not have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child

The US barely ever ratifies treaties that require international oversight. It’s the same reason we have the UCMJ and not the Hague court.

cashews_best_nut OP ,

Because America believes it’s an exception and above everyone else.

yeather ,

More like the US would rather keep its territorial integrity. They have the ability to deal with violations in house, no need to have international boards be used against us.

oktoberpaard ,

You can’t expect any country to take the international court seriously if you don’t do it yourself. The logic that you’ve just used is exactly the kind of logic that countries would use that don’t want to be held accountable for their actions that go against international law.

loki ,

They have the ability to deal with violations in house

riiiiiiight, no bias at all in that. Hey, we investigated ourselves and found we are not liable to war crimes we commit abroad. how bloody fucking convenient.

Good job at giving Russia an excuse to be free of consequences when it finally loses in Ukraine. They’re probably going to make a case that they don’t need to have international boards be used against them too, no?

yeather ,

How would an international court be any less biased than a US court? Politics is politics just abiut everywhere.

drwankingstein , to linux in TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism

a capitalist funded anarcho-comunist ecosystem, ironic

TheAnonymouseJoker ,
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Libs that think “money” = capitalism have water vapour in their skulls

Aux ,

More like a capitalist funded autocracy.

millie , to technology in Wikipedia Admin Unmasks As Alt Account Of Admin Who Was Extremely Banned In 2015 To The Great Bewilderment Of Everyone

Honestly, both the behavior and the tone kind of remind me of someone in the Conan Exiles rp community. They’re a great roleplayer to a point, but they always have a meltdown and inevitably get themselves banned from every single new server. They can’t help themselves.

But their attitude at this point seems to just be that it’s going to happen, at which point they shrug and evade the ban until it happens again. I don’t think I know of a single server they haven’t gotten banned from, but they just kind of take it in stride and keep making alts.

The thing is, they love Conan and do actually want to have somewhere to RP, they just also have this other thing they can’t or won’t really fight

Aatube OP ,
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Do they abbreviate past tenses of made-up verbs such as "nommed" like "nomm'd" instead of "nom'd"?

millie ,

No, they mostly scream at people in voice chat or break character when something happens that they don’t like. Often after losing pvp.

astraeus ,
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Toxic behavior has a double-edged consequence. It both tends to make the person responsible feel like they act that way naturally, and it also makes people respond to them as if they act that way naturally, it becomes a feedback loop. So much of the perpetual cycle is subconscious.

Sometimes it takes a hell of a lot of patience and a step back to say, “you aren’t toxic but your behavior certainly is.” It’s moments like those where maybe, hopefully they can realize that behavior is something for which they need to seek proper help.

ridethisbike , to til in TIL the only guy in ZZ Top without a giant beard is named Frank Beard.

He doesn’t need a beard… He IS the beard!

BleatingZombie ,

Well, I hope his “significant other” feels confident enough to come out to their loved ones and find someone that’s right for them

teft , to til in TIL that player behaviors to a software bug that created a pandemic in World of Warcraft had similarities to COVID-19 in the real world
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I was there that fateful day. It was interesting to say the least. I was level 60 at the time but all the noobies dying made every city littered with corpses.

Pons_Aelius , to youshouldknow in YSK: Imperial units are based on the metric system

Yep, US imperial is just metric with extra steps.

BradleyUffner , to til in TIL Only about 9% of plastic ever produced has been recycled.

That’s significantly more than I was expecting.

Bougie_Birdie , to til in TIL during the 2010 Commonwealth Games small monkeys roamed the Delhi streets and couldn't be removed because of religious reasons. So instead a larger species of monkey (The Colobinae) was brought in
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When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death!

aodhsishaj ,
reddig33 , to til in TIL George Clooney was asked to play himself in a sketch for the Movie 43 (the gag was that Clooney is bad at picking up women), and Clooney replied "No fucking way."

Weren’t most of the “stars” in this movie only there because someone involved called in favors?

CitizenKong ,

Yep, and it was actually made over a long time, whenever the actors were between projects and a few days of shooting playing something different sounded nice. Also, each famous actor was used to goad the next. (Specifically, the Hugh Jackman-Kate Winslet segment which was shot first.) And the segments themselves were also directed by stars like Bob Odenkirk or Elizabeth Banks.

Ooops , to linux in What file systems are you using on your devices and why?
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BTRFS raid on LUKS-encrypted devices (no LVM, all unlocked with one password via SystemD encrypt hooks).

Psyhackological OP ,
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Which RAID? I need to read about SystemD encrypt hooks because I know nothing. Also why not LVM? Is btrfs more flexible in partitioning when you want to extend it or shrink it? I heard that you can merge “partitions” on 2 different disks so they are visisble under one mount point.

Ooops ,
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Btrfs can mostly fo everything you would normaly use LVN or raid for natively.

Btrfs raid0 lets you combine any number of differently sized drives into one (just without the speed boost of traditional raid0 because with flexible drive sizes data is not symmetrical striped). And btrfs raid1 keeps every data duplicated, again with flexible number and sizes of drive (also with metadata on every drive).

The sytemd hooks (instead of the traditional busybox ones) then manage the one other task you use LVM for: unlocking multiple partitons (for example multiple raid partitons and swap) with just one password. Because the systemd encrypt function tries unlooking all luks partitions it finds with the first password provided and only asks for passwords for each partition if that doesn’t work.

PS: btrfs subvolumes are already flexible in size and don’t need predefined sizes. So the only things that need to be created separately are non-btrfs stuff like the efi system partition or a physical swap (which you can also skip by using a swap file instead of a partition).

shnizmuffin , to til in TIL: There was an animated tv show based on the children's book series Busytown called The Busy World of Richard Scarry
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There were video games, too.

CaptPretentious ,

My sister played the heck out of the Pico game

the_artic_one ,

I had forgotten until I saw this comment but now I distinctly remember a game where you were supposed to make a cake for a pig by following steps like putting the correct ingredients into the mixer. My sister and I used to repeatedly mess up the cake on purpose because the pig would eat it no matter what and we found it hilarious to feed him awful cakes made entirely of burnt eggshells.

feedum_sneedson , (edited ) to asklemmy in Greensleeves is almost 500 years old. I'm sure there were other very popular songs when it came out, but Greensleeves had to staying power to still be here. What do you think is today's Greensleeves?

Creep by Radiohead, imagine how much that would annoy Thom Yorke.

Venator ,

Probably helps to be featured or mentioned in other notable media, as greensleaves is mentioned in Shakespeare, and creep is part of the fight club soundtrack, so it has that going for it I guess 😅

vk6flab , to showerthoughts in I just realised that this is not a painting by René Magritte
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I love the (currently one) down vote on your post. Clearly not a connoisseur of René’s work.

Your shower thought on the other hand is on point!

Nicely done.

sxan ,
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Agreed. OP did well.

And it’s an opportunity for me to re-post this seminal picture (or, one instance of it):

https://files.catbox.moe/zvuh1p.png

Image by Wendy D. Stolyarov

Klear OP ,
sxan ,
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😆 that’s a good one! I haven’t seen it before, and I thought I’d gone through all of them (to date)! Cheers!

xigoi ,
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sxan ,
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I have never seen that! I wish I could upvote you twice, you wonderful person.

KingThrillgore , to asklemmy in Can I detect my SO's presence just by smell / pheromone ?
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Probably not. The studies on human pheromones is inconclusive at best, the space is full of snake oil and hucksters (further discrediting it), and you may be having a psychosomatic effect.

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