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Doodleschmit , in TIL: Key differences between Borderline PD and Complex-PTSD
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Thank you for taking the time to post the quotes like this. Interesting to read, and makes me think I should probably see a therapist.

BackOnMyBS OP ,
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You’re welcome! I just ended a relationship with someone a bit manipulative. I wanted to learn more about the patterns I saw so I can get better at spotting them earlier and avoiding them all together. I was looking at borderline traits when some of them seemed a little familiar. Concerned, I looked into them, but this info helped me realize that I’m experiencing cPTSD, not BPD.

xantoxis , in TIL the writers of "Take me Out to the Ball Game" had never seen a baseball game

That explains the second verse and the lyric “We’ll throw the ball and we’ll throw the bat / The baseball goalie has to be really fat”

Not as well known, for obvious reasons.

WoahWoah ,

I realize you’re joking, but the lyrics most people know (“take me out to the ball game, take me out with the crowd,” etc. ) IS the second verse. The verse following that well-known section is:

Katie Casey saw all the games, Knew the players by their first names; Told the umpire he was wrong, All along good and strong. When the score was just two to two, Katie Casey knew what to do, Just to cheer up the boys she knew, She made the gang sing this song:

Which is then followed by another verse of the well-known part of the song.

BlueLineBae , in TIL the writers of "Take me Out to the Ball Game" had never seen a baseball game
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Anyone interested in American history should watch Ken Burns Baseball. It’s an excellent documentary series about baseball that’s packed full of fun facts like this. One of my favorite facts I learned was that people sang the Star Spangled Banner at baseball games before it was established as our national anthem. The documentary goes through the history of baseball and how everything that has happened to the sport beautifully depicts everything that has happened in the country’s history through the lens of baseball. For all the good and bad, it’s a great documentary series. 10/10 highly recommend!

Lost_My_Mind ,

Can you believe I JUST bought this on dvd a month ago? 10 dvds. 9 are the documentary, and 1 is extras. Seems to be made around 1997ish.

SpaceNoodle ,

No, I cannot believe this.

Dark_Arc ,
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Well I can!

BlueLineBae ,
@BlueLineBae@midwest.social avatar

There is also a follow-up documentary made 20 years later.

Lost_My_Mind ,

Noooooooo!!! They’re probably going to talk about how the Cubs won the World Series. As a Clevelander, I’m still not ok with this.

yamanii , in TIL the writers of "Take me Out to the Ball Game" had never seen a baseball game
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Did you learn that after Gawr Gura sang it and got curious?

Varyk OP ,

Nope, had to look that up.

Thought you mistyped name of a gwar album.

aesthelete , in TIL the writers of "Take me Out to the Ball Game" had never seen a baseball game
Kolanaki , in TIL the writers of "Take me Out to the Ball Game" had never seen a baseball game
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Really? They sure seem to know a lot about them, judging from that song’s lyrics… 🤔

Don_Dickle , in TIL the term "Mad as a Hatter" likely came from hat makers using mercury and the resulting mercury poisoning.

That is just maddening …ill see myself out.

delirious_owl , in TIL the term "Mad as a Hatter" likely came from hat makers using mercury and the resulting mercury poisoning.
@delirious_owl@discuss.online avatar

Thumbnail looks like Johnny Depp getting it on with a hat

Viking_Hippie ,

That’s not from a movie or anything, that’s just a normal Sunday afternoon at the Depp house 🤷

ephrin , in TIL the term "Mad as a Hatter" likely came from hat makers using mercury and the resulting mercury poisoning.

If by “likely” you mean “almost certainly,” then yes!

despotic_machine , in TIL the term "Mad as a Hatter" likely came from hat makers using mercury and the resulting mercury poisoning.

There is an excellent podcast story that is both relevant and very entertaining called S-Town.

makyo ,

Absolutely my favorite podcast ever

ResoluteCatnap , in TIL the term "Mad as a Hatter" likely came from hat makers using mercury and the resulting mercury poisoning.

Fun fact- Mormons believe that Joseph Smith translated golden plates into the book of Mormon by sticking his head in a hat. For decades they tried to hide this and portrayed artwork with him as translating the golden plates directly, but i think it was a lawsuit that caused them to start portraying artwork correctly and owning up to Joseph Smith being a mad hatter sticking his head in a hat to receive the word of God.

Sounds kind of silly when you think about it like that but they’ll of course tell you it was divinely inspired. Just like when he married a 14 year old by promising her family a spot in the highest degree of heaven.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA ,
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I never considered Joey Smith getting high offa hat fumes. I just figured he liked the smell of his hair grease or whatever they used for pomade. Fun conjecture to consider tho.

scytale , in TIL that there is a Refugee Team in the Olympics

That’s cool. Gives people who have the talent/skill but no country to call home yet the chance to compete.

acockworkorange ,

Also shines a spotlight on what’s causing them to be refugees in the first place. All around win-win.

folkrav , in TIL “The Dark Side of the Moon”’s cover is apparently public domain if you slapped the letters “CGI” on it

ackhyually the rainbow isn’t a gradient and the cone of light is too bright so its totally different dude

Delusional ,

Actually the rainbow means gay and gay is bad. I heard from fox news.

Aatube OP ,

it's a vector recreation of this low-quality gif, which you can't really tell whether it was a gradient or not. but the colors are indeed kinda different and more accurate to an actual rainbow lol

ArbitraryValue , in TIL “The Dark Side of the Moon”’s cover is apparently public domain if you slapped the letters “CGI” on it

It’s a prism. You can’t copyright just drawing a prism. (You could probably trademark it, but a trademark would only apply in a particular context.)

RootBeerGuy ,
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That reasoning would apply to tons of other logos too. Like “you cannot copyright a drawn apple with a piece bitten off”.

IHeartBadCode ,

you cannot copyright a drawn apple with a piece bitten off

That's correct, you can not do such. Apple does not litigate its logo with copyright but in trademark disputes. Prepear and Georette are examples of this.

You too can create a logo of an apple with a piece bitten off. It's up to a court to decide if it's coming too close to the Apple trademark, most people want to just avoid that and settle amicably, but if you've got to the pocket change to fight it in court, you can argue that your bitten off apple isn't a trademark infringement.

If you find a company that isn't keen to defend their logo, you can totally get away with it. Apple is on the other end of the spectrum of being someone who will protect their trademarks to the bitter end. Jack Daniels and Disney are two more examples of companies that will legally punch a five dollar start up into a bloody mass over trademarks.

Aatube OP ,

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Dark_Side_Of_The_Moon.jpg Though as other people pointed out the rainbow is different, so it might not be the same thing.

JackbyDev ,

What do you mean you can’t copyright a drawing of a prism? Every drawing you make is automatically copyrighted. en.wikipedia.org/…/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St…

I think you’re confused. Just because it is similar does not mean it is the same. This is not the album with the letters on top. They look different.

ArbitraryValue , (edited )

I’m saying that while any specific drawing of a prism is protected by copyright, the general concept isn’t. Drawing a prism, even one that looks almost identical to the one on the album cover, is not restricted. (I’m not sure we actually disagree.)

JackbyDev ,

Yeah, OP just said some weird stuff.

bionicjoey , in TIL That the entirety of Wikipedia is only ~100Gb and you can download it for offline use

The text version of Wikipedia*

The images and other media are a hell of a lot more.

BuddyTheBeefalo ,

it’s 102GB with images, 53GB without

Silverseren ,

I presume this is images directly hosted on English Wikipedia and not the entirety of Commons where the vast majority of images are kept, right?

BuddyTheBeefalo , (edited )

Wikimedia Commons is 373TB images. …m.wikimedia.org/…/Special:MediaStatistics

clearedtoland ,

So I have to upgrade my NAS again, ay?

gmtom ,

You’re not already running petabyte NAS???

maegul ,
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Kinda interesting at a broad level … that there’s still something to the efficiency of language.

Sure storage is cheap now, but so much of the calculation of the utility of data in modern tech is the presumption of an internet connection and retrieval of information over the network.

With the internet going to shit in various ways, local or decentralised computing is making more sense, at least depending on your priorities and perspective. And so all of a sudden, storage tradeoffs become a bit more meaningful. Do I need all of the pictures and media … or would a simple textual description suffice for most instances with high res media available at a more centralised archive if I’m really interested? A picture is worth 1000 words, but takes a hell of a lot more digital storage space!

iknowitwheniseeit ,

So many home instructions are so much easier with a photograph or two, or better yet a video.

retrospectology OP ,
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The 100Gb version mentioned above does only have thumbnails/lowres pictures, yeah. Better than nothing for some types of articles, but not everything. The true text-only version is actually only ~53Gb though.

ByteOnBikes ,

Some of the high res photos are ridiculous.

Like a 8000x9000 uncompressed image of someone’s hand and weighs about 22mb.

I know that because I use a lot of royalty free images.

owsei ,

Is there an index of the images or something like that?

morhp ,

commons.wikimedia.org

The images are categorised and there’s a search function.

owsei ,

Thank you very much!

Dasus ,
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Without images Wikipedia is a “mere” 22.14gb.

en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia#….

Psythik ,

I’ve installed game patches that were larger than this.

Valmond ,

They should put it in a popular game patch.

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