You’re never more than eight feet away from a spider.
Did you know that arachnids’ legs are hydraulicly controlled? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnid_locomotion
I wonder if this fact was any part of the inspiration for the Spidertron.
What about if you’re on an aircraft or boat? If there are no spiders aboard, you’d be more than 8 feet away.
My partner owns a boat. It has more spiders than any place I’ve ever been.
8 feet = 2,438 meter
I’m pretty sure 8ft is less than 2.4km
Europeans use a , instead of a .
It’s really weird when they do it while speaking English though because then they’re just wrong
I actually knew that. I was just trying to make a funny. But it failed.
I thought it was funny lol
355/113 is the best fractional approximation of pi with less than 5 digits on both numerator and denominator, with 6 decimal digits of precision. It is constructed by taking the sequence of the first 3 odd numbers, each repeated exactly once, as such: “113355”, then splitting the resulting string in halves, taking the first half as denominator, and the second as numerator.
A 4-set venn diagram can’t be constructed with circles because it wouldn’t show exclusive intersections between opposed sets.
A talks to B, B talks to C; A is married, C is not married. Therefore, a married person is talking to a non-married person.
for the third one because it stumped me a bit, there are 2 posibilites:
- Am -> Bu -> Cu
- Am -> Bm -> Cu
Either way there is a married person talking to a non-married person.
You must be fun at parties 😄
Most of the computer users think the Internet is a synonym for Facebook.
Little do they know it’s actually a synonym for Amazon Web Services
A factoid is something that looks like a fact, but is not
Narrows eyes
The universally accepted meaning is:
a brief or trivial item of news or information
Interestingly, here’s what Merriam Webster says about the origin of the word:
We can thank Norman Mailer for factoid: he used the word in his 1973 book Marilyn (about Marilyn Monroe), and he is believed to be the coiner of the word. In the book, he explains that factoids are “facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority.” Mailer’s use of the -oid suffix (which traces back to the ancient Greek word eidos, meaning “appearance” or “form”) follows in the pattern of humanoid: just as a humanoid appears to be human but is not, a factoid appears to be factual but is not. The word has since evolved so that now it most often refers to things that decidedly are facts, just not ones that are significant.
So you decided to ignore the last sentence?
No, I’ve just looked it up after reading your comment
“Stranger Danger” is largely a myth as the most likely place for a child to be abused is in their own home and the most likely culprit is a trusted family member.
That’s why I don’t trust family members that would abuse my kids.
I don’t trust myself with my kids either since I’m a close relative, I exclusively only entrust my kids to totally random strangers off the Internet.
The number of transgender people that have been credibly accused of molesting children is minuscule. There are nearly 10,000 Catholic priests and church employees that have been credibly accused of child molestation. Catholic priests and Catholic church employees are more likely to assault children than school teachers (more priests etc. have been credibly accused than school teachers, and there are fa, far more school teachers than priests et al.)
And that’s not even getting into the “youth pastor that rapes teen girls” trope.
Oh no.that’s disappointing.
Is there a bug in my app or is the comment you’re replying to just blank/empty?
my elbow had a small itch a moment ago, so i scratched it.
3.14 backwards spells PIE
The word “bed” looks like a bed
These are fun.
“swims” can be rotated 180 degrees and still say swims. It’s an ambigram. “pod” would be another.
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Fanta’s creation was a result of American companies cutting off business with Germany during WWII. Coca Cola stopped sending ingredients to the local bottling plant in Germany but the ones there still wanted to work and make money. They took the ingredients they still had access to and made a new drink, Fanta! Once the war was over and Coca Cola made contact with them again they liked the new drink and just made it part of their brand.
I had to stop telling this normally as it tends to make people hate me for making them feel bad about drinking Fanta. I tell them it’s fine. I drive a Volkswagen. But they still feel gross about it so I stopped telling people or at least tell them that they may not want to drink Fanta anymore and give them the choice.
This makes me want to drink Fanta more than Cola though.
I don’t blame the workers for wanting to continue earning their money. I wonder whether they provided the new drink freely to Coke once the contact came back, or if Coke just took it…
Coca-Cola never gave up thier german subsidiary Coca-Cola GmbH and they never willingly stopped sending syrup.
Syrup was stopped by the allied blockades. They ran out of stockpiles in 1943 and so the owner created Fanta with apple cider scraps.
The Dutch Coca-Cola plant had similar supply issues and they sent the Fanta branding up there as well but used elderberry.
After the war Coca-Cola regained their subsidiaries and the Fanta branding.
Fanta would be discontinued in 1949.
The current Fanta we know today was created in Italy in 1955 to complete with an unknown Italian PepsiCo product.
Ducky from Land Before Time was murdered by her step dad for being too famous
Factually incorrect.
Judith Barsi (and her mother) was killed by her biological father before he killed himself.
There is no evidence pointing to any anger of fame. Both of her major roles (The Land Before Time and All Dogs Go To Heaven)were released after her death.
The father was an abusive drunk that threated to kill the family and himself multiple times.
The clarification is appreciated
That our memories are all we really know and have. They’re also volatile, and are usually changed to support a narrative.
Be careful.
Hey remember when you promised to give me that $100? Don’t tell me your memory has changed to support the narrative that you’ve forgotten!
No, you owe me a million dollars! Remember that small loan I gave you?
oh FUCK
We forget things but we remember people. As long as you take one life lesson from every person you meet you’ll never forget the important stuff.
“There are a group of people who believe that each day, when they sleep, they die,” the old man continued. “They believe that consciousness doesn’t continue—that if it is interrupted, a new soul is born when the body awakes.” The old man continued…
“The thing about this philosophy is how difficult it is to disprove,” the old man said. “How do you know that you are the same you as yesterday? You would never know if a new soul came to inhabit your body, so long as it had the same memories. But then … if it acts the same, and thinks it is you, why would it matter? What is it to be you?"
There are more Panda Express restaurants than there are pandas.
Damn, that’s depressing. But considering the pandas sense of self preservation, it makes total sense.
Every time you blink, your eyeballs roll up into the back of your eye socket and roll back to the original spot quickly
Then why can I feel my corneas through my eyelids?
You don’t actually believe this right?
The page literally says it does not occur when blinking lol
Read your source next time. Lmao.
I see we got a lizard person here
That fairness doesn’t exist, everyone has their own idea of it based on their background, experience and belief system.
I was thinking about this recently. You know the MLK quote about the universe bending toward justice? The eventual heat death of the universe is the only way everything will be equal.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question
Asimov has a short story I just read while backpacking in the mountains this past weekend. It’s about humanity attempting to reverse entropy. The Last Question is probably my favorite short story ever.
It’s among my favorites as well. It’s a 28 minute listen on youtube, for anyone who doesn’t have access to the book.
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Also called values if I’m not mistaken
The universal definition of “fair” is “everything is bent very slightly in my favor”.
Many people who die “of old age” have an utterly miserable time of it at the end, sometimes for months or years. Medical treatment to keep a person alive when they’ve already lost their faculties irrecoverably can be incredibly cruel.
There’s a reason that longevity research focuses on prolonging healthy life, not just prolonging life processes.
There’s no such thing as dying of old age. Just dying of something where you’re old enough where people go “yeah that tracks” instead of “oh no! so young!”.
Movies lied to me.
Genocides typically are never actually punished and their main perpetrators often get away with it.
If you rape someone in the U.S., your odds of going to jail for it are only 0.01% . A hundredth of a percent. 0.01 out of 100 rapists ever actually see jail or prison.
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My bad fam. It was late.
[citation needed]
I highly doubt that for every 10 000 rape cases reported only one is actually successfully pursued by law enforcement.
This one contradicts what he is saying but is still staggeringly low.
Although it does have a lot of assumptions and it looks like it combines female and male victims.
