There’s a branch of the Medicis that moved to Ireland and now are running a successful chain of fried chicken restaurants which is a very different vinbe from when they were like buying popes and stuff
The current heir to the main branch of the Hapsburg family is an endurance race car driver
Abandoned intersection near Ottawa. [720 × 404].
The Parliament of Traffic Lights will decide your fate
shoutout to weeds for. just look at them.
#hot take but it's about function #asian soups tend to be more liquid and so don't retain heat as well #so having more at once is good for it #western soups tend to be thick and creamy #so they retain heat very well #and thus a flatter spoon allows each mouthful to cool at a similar rate (@khancrackers)
biden 2024 - making things work
This is why I honestly feel like Biden was the best possible choice in a shitty situation, even with his age and potential health issues. Because if nothing else, he is NOT REACTIONARY. He is methodical and dedicated. Do I wish he acted a little faster and with more of an eye towards progressive policies? Obviously yes. But given the choices, and given everything else that's happened, Biden has absolutely made the best of a bad situation. Sometimes you don't need a hero, you need a fucking repairman to come and just make it work until it can be fixed. And he's a damn good repairman.
Okay, I’ll give him the W for this one.
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Zuckerberg is in such better shape than Musk, and is trained in combat sports. This will be humiliating if Elon shows up
I think the rich should engage in bloodsport for the entertainment of the masses more often. Let's get Kissinger and Cheney into a ladder match.
Reminder that if a billionaire CEO does something outrageous in the news, this should always be your first question.
Today that news story is that Meta, Zuckerberg’s company, is blocking all news content in Canada for Facebook and Instagram due to a new law requiring compensation to news publishers. Facebook is using its vast resources to apply public pressure to stop the laws of a foreign government and protect its profit margins. And they are getting sued by Malaysia.
oh you're in a horror film/book and your phone died/has no bars? how boring. I think phones in horror SHOULD work. they should ding only to have the protagonist check and find nothing. they should get calls from somebody you don't know but is still somehow in your contacts. google maps should lead you to one place, no matter what address you type in.
phones are such a big part of our daily lives, removing them from horror removes the horror from our experience. what if the horror felt like it could happen to you, right here, right now? what if it felt like it was already happening?
call 911 and something that is definitely not a person picks up.
call 911 and get an operator only for the call to become increasingly weirder and more sinister until you realize that whatever picked up is not there to help.
text messages from someone who's dead. voicemails that sound like dead air until you turn the volume all the way up.
emergency alerts for weather that doesn't happen on earth.
Your phone rings - but it's your phone number on the screen. You answer it, but all you hear is heavy, laboured breathing. You go to say something, only to hear your voice on the other end tell you "It's too late," and hang up.
You get a message from a number you don't recognise. It's a picture of you from behind. You turn and see there's nobody there. When you look back at your phone, you see the sender has sent another text - "Sorry, wrong number."
Your phone rings - it's a private number. You answer it, only to feel the sensation of something licking your ear.
You wake up to find a voicemail. You play it back, only to hear an autotuned version of your own voice reciting a Bible passage - 1 Peter 2: 18-20.
You get an emergency alert. It says "I'm sorry."
man, the way some of the reddit refugees talk about moving to tumblr is kinda depressing; they're saying stuff like "No one has belittled me on tumblr yet" and "people actually talk to me here."
We've got to rehabilitate these users so that they can see what it's like to have a non-hostile internet experience.
reddit’s pvp experience was unmatched. i didn’t realize how naturally defensive and ready to fight on the internet i was until i didn’t have to any more
how dare you hide this in the tags
Had a dream that you posted one that was "aita for putting a lolipop in my pussy to warm it up?"
1.) asks that make you lower your phone and stare into the middle distance for a while before answering 2.) this reminds me of the classia AITA post "aita for putting my penis in peanut butter and leaving it in the kitchen?"
Despite some of its misses, Firefox still matters. Mozilla is pushing companies to be more private, and its key product is different at its core. The browser market is dominated by Google’s Chromium codebase and its underlying browser engine, Blink, the component that turns code into visual web pages. Microsoft’s Edge Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, and Opera all use adapted versions of Chromium. Apple makes developers use its WebKit browser engine on iOS. Other than that, Firefox’s Gecko browser engine is the only alternative in existence.
“This market needs variety,” Willemsen says. If Firefox diminishes further, there’ll be less competition for Chrome. “We need that difference for open internet standards, for the sake of preventing monopolies,” Willemsen says. Others agree. Everyone we spoke with for this story—inside and outside of Mozilla—says having Firefox flourish makes the web a better place. The trick is figuring out how to get there.
Download and start using Firefox if you don’t already, I made the switch back to Firefox after not using it for years and being a chrome person until 2020 and have never regretted it
firefox is so amazing. Seriously. If you haven’t, give it a try. At the very least, you can watch youtube videos with 0 (zero) ads.
I’ll say again that I remember many years of Firefox being everyone’s go-to until a sudden migration to chrome, which for me was always slower than Firefox? Chrome spies on you, Firefox has better AdBlock, and Firefox lets you import all your bookmarks and logins so there’s no excuse to put this off
Reminder that you should switch to Firefox. You have nothing to lose but your chrome chains.
This. (Disclosure: I don’t use any other browser without twitching.)
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
An actual World Heritage Post
how does this post not have a million notes but anyone online can quote it
one week until ten years of Spiders Georg
this is a very relatable meme but i cannot stress enough that if you haven’t watched the good place you’re going to be very surprised to learn what words are being replaced here
I’m sorry,
'Bout the same usable width, too. Those luxotruk beds tend to have big fat wheel hubs in them. Kei truck beds are completely flat.
how DARE you keep this in the tags!!!
most sunken ships only manage to kill people once. hats off to the titanic, the safest ship of all time
I understand that this is a joke about the Titan submersible incident, but shipwrecks actually kill people all the time, especially the deeper ones—the max depth is about 40m/130ft for recreational diving, and up to about 530m/1759ft for commercial divers. While all diving has its risks, shipwrecks are particularly dangerous because they're deteriorating hunks of metal underwater and often in relative darkness. A salvage diver in the Costa Concordia, for example, died after cutting his leg underwater and was unable to surface in enough time (source). Recreational divers have died after getting trapped inside wrecks, such as in the case of the USS Spiegel Grove in 2007, when three divers died doing a penetration dive (source). 7 other divers have also died on the Spiegel Grove,* and she was also cleaned out and sunk as an artificial reef, with fewer hazards than normal.
I don't know for sure what the wreck with the most diving fatalities is, but there are 26 associated with the Andrea Doria (source), which is often considered the "Mount Everest of wrecks" because of its depth (50m/160ft).
Some other wrecks with multiple diving fatalities:
*The Spiegel Grove actually sank accidentally before she was fully prepared and landed on the seafloor upside down. She was later rolled onto her starboard side by a salvage company. Fun fact: in 2005, Hurricane Dennis created such strong waves and currents that it actually fully righted the Spigel Grove, like she was originally supposed to be sunk.
Not to mention ships that sunk in shallow waters and became hazards future ships along that route, especially before we developed more modern salvage techniques
And even with modern salvage techniques (which are super cool and people should go look them up) wrecks can still be dangers to shipping channels. One of my favorite shipwrecks is the SS Richard Montgomery that wrecked in the Thames Estuary in 1944 in about 15m/49ft of water—her masts stick out of the water. She was and still is laden with explosives, and could potentially cause massive damage if there was a collision or other structural damage, though I'll add that it's uncertain how dangerous the cargo is after nearly 80 years underwater and the general danger is considered low.
The chance of explosion isn't just a projected risk, either: the SS Kielce, which sank in 1946 in the English Channel in 27m/90ft of water, exploded during salvage operations in 1967. She reportedly had a smaller explosive cargo and was in deeper water than the Richard Montgomery but still did minor damage to towns several miles away. It's possible the Richard Montgomery could do much worse, but it also may be that she's completely harmless at this point. No one wants to take that risk yet, though there were plans recently to remove her masts before they collapse. The Richard Montgomery is one of two wrecks designated as "dangerous" by the UK's Protection of Wrecks Act of 1973, along with the SS Castilian, which was another munitions ship sunk during World War II.
Obviously these are outliers, since most dangerous wrecks aren't full of unexploded ordnance, but I think they're fun examples to share.
(All information came from the Wikipedia articles for these ships.)
Ok am I, stupid or do a fair portion of the lyrics to Kiss From A Rose just not make any sense at all
Why do your eyes get "larger" when it snows. What the fuck is a gray. Seal. Seal I am talking to you. Seal.
this is hilarious actually.
Having your own personal blog is honestly quite a nice change of pace compared to Reddit. I could put a funny GIF of George Bush getting hit by a shoe on here and the worse case scenario is that no one even notices.
You put that on a big subreddit and you get your eyes gouged out and a heap of political discourse underneath your post.
YOU HEAR THAT EVERYONE??? I’M A LIL GECKO BOY
but it only works if 4 people are having sex lol
how many hands you got
two? don’t see how that’s relevant
allow me illustrate you
that’s still four people
i truly can’t make this any clearer
will smith isn’t gay. he has a wife and three beautiful, talented children
don’t know what you’re on about. will smith and slightly wider blue will smith have been married for years. they’re a hollywood love story
I can’t believe this post predicted the live action Aladdin genie
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