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FollyDolly , to til in TIL many US companies in the late 1800s-1938 would pay their employees in company scrip, a currency issued by the employer and can only be used in company owned stores where they upcharged exorbita...
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Oh it’s even better. Look up the battle of Blair Mountain. Where the US government dropped bombs on protesting coal miners, whose only crime was wanting to be paid in real currency.

yata , to til in TIL in traditional Christian theology there are four sins "which cry out to heaven for vengeance" : murder, sodomy, oppression of the poor, and defrauding a worker of his wages.

There is no such thing as “traditional Christian theology”. This highly depends on denomination.

Captain_Patchy ,

There is no such thing as “traditional Christian theology”

There IS however, biblical theology, repeating the same statement 3 times making a statement “fact” and such,

aniki ,

Yes there most certainly is and it’s called Catholicism. Open a history book and jump to the section of the Church of Antioch founded by Peter.

It was the first and largest Christian church at the time and yes, it was very much a Catholic church.

azuth ,

And it was in no way Catholic in the modern sense of papal supremacy. Orthodox churches are closer to it.

aniki ,

That’s not relevant.

azuth ,

A major change between the churches you claimed were practically the same is not relevant?

That original church splitting into two for theological (at least as a pretext) reasons is not relevant?

That’s without even considering that actual Christian history did not necessarily happen as the church says it did and early Christianity was far more localized and diverse.

null_ ,

The schism between Catholic and Orthodox churches is extremely relevant for anyone claiming either side is the definitive “church of Peter” as you did.

Why wouldn’t it be?

Scrof , to til in TIL the design of the guillotine was intended to make capital punishment more reliable and less painful in accordance with new Enlightenment ideas of human rights.

It’s still is the most humane and reliable form of the capital punishment. Electric chair and lethal injections are a stuff of nightmares.

Melatonin , to til in TIL the design of the guillotine was intended to make capital punishment more reliable and less painful in accordance with new Enlightenment ideas of human rights.

It was way better than some drunk guy in a hood with a dull axe. I think I remember reading about some teen who suicided themselves with a homemade guillotine in the woods. I don’t know why I’m mentioning that.

skunch , to til in TIL that Japanese Sumo wrestlers life expectancy is between 60-65 years old or about 20 years less than the typical Japanese male.

Their dietary and exercise regimen is hardcore. These guys are built as all hell underneath the fat. I’ve been following Sumo for ten or so years and I am constantly astonished by the raw fucking power the rikishi bring to the dohyo, especially at the sekitori level. These guys are absolute beasts.

Tommy_the_Gun , to til in TIL of Kevin Budden, who caught a deadly taipan by hand and hitchhiked to town still holding the snake. He lost his grip and was bitten, but bagged the snake and made the driver promise to get it t...
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Your title gets cut off for me, so:

While attempting to bag the snake, Budden was bitten on his left thumb but was successful in placing the captured snake in a bag. Extracting a promise from the truck driver that he would get the snake to someone who would transport it south to researchers, Budden was taken for medical treatment. Not having any antivenom for taipans, Budden was given tiger snake antivenom. Although that helped counter the coagulating effect of taipan venom, it did not overcome the second effect of the taipan venom which paralyses the nervous system. Though doctors were initially hopeful he would recover, he died the following afternoon.

thisisdee ,

Was curious whether the snake made it to the research facility and here’s a continuation:

Budden’s captured snake was sent alive to the Commonwealth Research Laboratories in Melbourne, where its venom was successfully milked by zoologist David Fleay, who was at that time the director of Healesville Sanctuary. Venom from the captured taipan was instrumental in researching and developing an antivenom, which became available in 1955, and saved the life of an 11-year-old Cairns boy before the year was over.

Graphy ,

I’m just here for someone to post the third continuation. Feel like if we have time after that then we should read The Hobbit one paragraph at a time or something.

Sparkega , 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

There was also a mystery solving themed Canadian show to teach deductive reasoning.

Busytown Mysteries

Pyr_Pressure , to til in TIL about Lloydminster, a Canadian town that lies within two provinces but is a single municipality

To make it confusing, Alberta follows daylight savings while Saskatchewan does not.

So if you li e anywhere else in Saskatchewan you don’t change your clocks

If you live in Saskatchewan-side Lloydminster you do as it follows Alberta’s clocks.

From what I understand.

pruwybn , 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?
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All Star by Smash Mouth, obviously.

KillingTimeItself , 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?

it’s blur - song 2.

I heard it on an aired commercial the other day.

delirious_owl , to til in TIL the term Redneck likely originated from the sunburned red neck of those working in fields.
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Yes, the south was a predominantly agrarian economy.

Thorny_Insight , to til in TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it

artificial superintelligence (AI)

Slight correction: the abbreviation for Artificial Super Intelligence is ASI, it’s the more capable version of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) which itself alredy is miles ahead of mere Artificial Intelligenge (AI) which is sometimes also refered to as “narrow AI”

The difference is that AI can posses superhuman capabilities on a specific field but not on every field. AGI is the same except you don’t need a different software for different tasks because due to being generally intelligent it can do it all. ASI is what you get when AGI starts improving itself and then this improved version creates even better version of itself and so on leading to singularity or “intelligence explosion” resulting in superintelligent being which would effectively be a god.

Cosmicomical ,

AI is an umbrella term, it’s not necessarily less than ASI or AGI but can include them

Thorny_Insight ,

Yeah, fair enough.

Varyk , to til in TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it

Sounds like updated techChristianity.

Glory of God and hell and all that

RampantParanoia2365 , to til in TIL Hunter S. Thomson got an early honorable discharge from the air force in part because, "Sometimes his rebel and superior attitude seems to rub off on other airmen staff members."

Sounds like Jack O’Neill. With 2 Ls 👌.

Ultragigagigantic , to til in TIL ~62% of the atoms in a human body are Hydrogen, and are as old as the universe.
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No wonder I’m so fucking tired

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