the most enraging thing i’ve ever experienced on windows was when they started automatically “off-loading” files on my drive because i was running out of space. what the fuck, fuck you, i needed that, die in a fire and never touch my drive again. if i need more space i will fucking make more space
Ah, but those aren’t really your files. You clicked “Agree” on the 10,000 page EULA so now Microsoft owns you body and soul and all of your offspring out to the 17th generation. They’re just moving around their contracted work product and if you don’t like it you can go pound sand, assuming you pay Microsoft $30/mo for the “Pound Sand^TM^” account license.
This is real and the Egyptians did use the wheat and barley method for pregnancy testing. Surprisingly it’s not complete hokum because it did work for detecting pregnancy 70-85% of the time if not the specific gender
I was really into ancient Egypt as a kid and read about this growing up. The level of medical knowledge they seemed to have (or at least their willingness to wing it) is very interesting!
When it comes to people figuring out things by chance it’s basically the monkeys writing Shakespeare gag, get enough of us in the same place just trying shit out eventually we get something right
It definitely did not tell anyone the gender. It’s been tested and it can, as you said, detect pregnancy more than random chance but not perfectly. It cannot predict the gender.
In the show Cunk on Earth she makes a joke about it being hard to believe she is touring some ancient wonder of the world. Because she is obviously not and therefore one would not believe that she is. I’m riffing on the joke and just being baffled that anyone thinks the canyon looks like buildings, in a literal sense. It’s hard to believe this person is on to something… Because they aren’t.
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