Very cool love that I have this bit of knowledge. Can't wait I can bring it up organically when a song with it plays. I never even thought about how different beats or bits of songs have specific names. Anyone have that wiki??
The nasal infix for present or very recent actions which was a feature in Proto-Indo-European. Best example is how vicit becomes vincit in Latin. (You'll recognise the first one from "veni vidi vici" and the second from "invincible". Both have to do with conquering. Or not being.)
It might also be the root of the word "now" in English, but the evidence for that is scant at best and it's not in the Wikipedia article. Ditto the n in "recent", which would be pre-PIE if true.
That is so fascinating. I believe one of the survivors later wrote a book about it, it's public domain and can be downloaded from digital libraries. I never finished it, but read a good chunk up to the part where they had to eat their dead trek members and leather shoe straps. It's ironic that they were initially trying to take a short cut and save time, but unfortunate circumstances stacked up, cost them lots of time and ended in disaster.
I'll have to read it! We just moved to NorCal and joined our local library, so I'm sure I can find it there! If not, the Libby app!
My husband and I did the drive to Reno over Halloween weekend, and we went over Donner Pass.
Lemme tell you if you've never been, that section of the US is breathtakingly beautiful, but I could ALSO see how it is devastatingly, oppressively terrifying. And that was even with clear roads and little mountain towns sprinkled around. I got chills thinking about if there was nothing except chest deep snow, dying fires, and blankets to keep warm.
On the easiest difficulty where you don't uhhh pilot the train, you don't even take the wrong cutoffs so you generally go so fast you hit the pass early.
I only managed the conditions twice or so of trying to do so! By having a drowning early lmfao. Then there was some heat stroke and some rattlesnake bites.
The article on Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish military genius and aid to Washington and the colonialists during the American Revolutionary War. He was in with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson too. Among many other things, he designed the fortifications around West Point.
He also led the "Kościuszko Uprising" against the Russian occupation of Poland.
My favorite anecdote from the article is that he was all about human rights. He willed a portion of his estate to freeing enslaved black people, including Thomas Jefferson's slaves specifically. Everyone charged with executing his will balked at that one though, the money ended up going to education for black people instead. Still, what a way to get a final mic drop against a colleague from beyond the grave.
I was watching an RMTransit video last night, and just realized how almost comical it is that Belgium and the Netherlands (which together is not much bigger than the Tokyo or Shanghai metropolitan areas) have multiple high-speed rail lines
Some random steroid, because a drug name came up in a video I was watching and I had never heard of it before. I thought it was going to be some sort of party drug. Turns out it's for bodybuilders who don't want the water retention of the normal ones.
I don't remember which term it was, but I often use wikipedia to clarify translations. Complex terms are usually not found in dictionaries (online or paper). So i can look for the term in a localized wikipedia, and then switch to the English version of that article.
Electron flow. My son had a test on electricity, and the dumbasses said that current flows from positive to negative. Which is dumb ass horse shit. Everyone knows that electron flow is negative to positive.
I'm using an old RC helicopter radio I bought eons ago to control a raspberry pi, so I'm reverse engineering the signal on the receiver side (which was surprisingly easy), and I got curious about the company in general.
I've been looking at modern fighter jets for some inspiration in my sci-fi world I'm making, and I was kinda shocked to learn the US is the odd one out for having a relatively small gatling gun with a huge rate of fire and 100s of round of ammo. Turns out most modern jets use much slower firing, higher caliber autocannons and only have like 100-200 rounds on board. Reminds me of how the US almost exclusively used a bunch of .50s on their fighter planes during WWII while the rest of the world started mounting larger cannons on their planes
A friend of mine posted a picture of a Halloween decoration of a skeleton man with a skeleton dog jumping up on him. It reminded me of a photo I've seen of the same but with real skeletons and it brought me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Krantz
Didn't realize he was a local Washingtonian who studied Bigfoot.
62 Comments
konalt@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 276d
Such variety!
turdcollector69@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 276d
Harlem shake? Disgusting and degenerate
konalt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 275d
I forgot what it was
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 18 pts · 276d
Most recently, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Hawke@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 276d
Hey me too!
6nk06@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 276d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago_face, sorry.
SGGeorwell@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 276d
The new South Park is killing it
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 276d
I'd rather share my porn history
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 5 pts · 276d
OK. Let's have it then. I'm always looking for recommendations.
getFrog@piefed.social · 3 pts · 276d
Both my porn and my Wikipedia history include Monosodium Glutamate
toomanypancakes@piefed.world · 9 pts · 276d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break
I was helping a friend with music production, you see
DoGeeseSeeGod@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 275d
Very cool love that I have this bit of knowledge. Can't wait I can bring it up organically when a song with it plays. I never even thought about how different beats or bits of songs have specific names. Anyone have that wiki??
Boozilla@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 276d
MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 276d
This might have been a link, not a search but still, enjoy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver-engineered_dam_in_the_Czech_Republic
DoGeeseSeeGod@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 275d
I fucking love beavers!!
NONE_dc@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 276d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_guilt?wprov=sfla1
I saw Godzilla Minus One recently and I was curious about this.
palordrolap@fedia.io · 5 pts · 276d
The nasal infix for present or very recent actions which was a feature in Proto-Indo-European. Best example is how vicit becomes vincit in Latin. (You'll recognise the first one from "veni vidi vici" and the second from "invincible". Both have to do with conquering. Or not being.)
It might also be the root of the word "now" in English, but the evidence for that is scant at best and it's not in the Wikipedia article. Ditto the n in "recent", which would be pre-PIE if true.
Also Linux kernel version history and smear frame to double check what I was talking about in recent Fediverse comments.
TehBamski@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 276d
Because yesterday was the fifth of November, I looked up Wikipedia pages about the story and person(s) that inspired the movie, V for Vendetta
The Wiki article about the Gunpowder Plot in particular was most interesting.
IlmariGanander@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 276d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_of_the_sheep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_prehistory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterosaur
AquaTofana@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 276d
The Donner Party.
It's inexplicably like my "Roman Empire" for dudes. I think about that tragedy near weekly.
Schmuppes@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 276d
That is so fascinating. I believe one of the survivors later wrote a book about it, it's public domain and can be downloaded from digital libraries. I never finished it, but read a good chunk up to the part where they had to eat their dead trek members and leather shoe straps. It's ironic that they were initially trying to take a short cut and save time, but unfortunate circumstances stacked up, cost them lots of time and ended in disaster.
AquaTofana@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 275d
I'll have to read it! We just moved to NorCal and joined our local library, so I'm sure I can find it there! If not, the Libby app!
My husband and I did the drive to Reno over Halloween weekend, and we went over Donner Pass.
Lemme tell you if you've never been, that section of the US is breathtakingly beautiful, but I could ALSO see how it is devastatingly, oppressively terrifying. And that was even with clear roads and little mountain towns sprinkled around. I got chills thinking about if there was nothing except chest deep snow, dying fires, and blankets to keep warm.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 276d
The conditions that created it (well, the weather) can be recreated in the Oregon Trail 2 video game!
Although it's difficult. You have to really screw around to be as slow, otherwise you reach the pass before the storm hits.
AquaTofana@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 275d
Ooohhh never played 2, but I do get nostalgic for the OG every now and then! I'll have to get this ASAP for cozy winter gaming!
Its SO crazy how much went wrong with that pioneer train. Murders and deaths even before they hit Hastings Cutoff.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 275d
By 2 I mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Trail_II this by the way! Not the newest one which I don't think had two on it, but I gotta make sure.
On the easiest difficulty where you don't uhhh pilot the train, you don't even take the wrong cutoffs so you generally go so fast you hit the pass early.
I only managed the conditions twice or so of trying to do so! By having a drowning early lmfao. Then there was some heat stroke and some rattlesnake bites.
tehWrapper@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 276d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastery_%28book%29
Evkob@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 276d
From Dante, to Jamiroquai, to Nazis, to tunnel, to Caillou. These are all from the same day. I fucking love Wikipedia.
nikosey@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 275d
I was wondering what Vin Diesel and Billy Strings real names were. Mark Sinclair & William Apostol. Then i read about stage names
Vanth@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 276d
The article on Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish military genius and aid to Washington and the colonialists during the American Revolutionary War. He was in with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson too. Among many other things, he designed the fortifications around West Point.
He also led the "Kościuszko Uprising" against the Russian occupation of Poland.
My favorite anecdote from the article is that he was all about human rights. He willed a portion of his estate to freeing enslaved black people, including Thomas Jefferson's slaves specifically. Everyone charged with executing his will balked at that one though, the money ended up going to education for black people instead. Still, what a way to get a final mic drop against a colleague from beyond the grave.
ItWasTheDNS@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 276d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 276d
Bernal Díaz del Castillo
I am reading The Conquest of New Spain
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 276d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagonal_(CONCACAF)
XiELEd@piefed.social · 3 pts · 276d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter
I like helicopters
zlatiah@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 276d
This was yesterday. High speed rail in Japan/China and in Belgium/Netherlands
I was watching an RMTransit video last night, and just realized how almost comical it is that Belgium and the Netherlands (which together is not much bigger than the Tokyo or Shanghai metropolitan areas) have multiple high-speed rail lines
LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 276d
Wish I had something better
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 276d
Some random steroid, because a drug name came up in a video I was watching and I had never heard of it before. I thought it was going to be some sort of party drug. Turns out it's for bodybuilders who don't want the water retention of the normal ones.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 276d
I don't remember which term it was, but I often use wikipedia to clarify translations. Complex terms are usually not found in dictionaries (online or paper). So i can look for the term in a localized wikipedia, and then switch to the English version of that article.
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 276d
Electron flow. My son had a test on electricity, and the dumbasses said that current flows from positive to negative. Which is dumb ass horse shit. Everyone knows that electron flow is negative to positive.
Limfjorden@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 276d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration
... because a Danish politician is talking about "remigrating" 50.000-100.000 people.
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 276d
GreyShuck@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 276d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortina_d%27Ampezzo
Because I became curious about why the car was named that.
e0qdk@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 276d
Yeísmo -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye%C3%ADsmo
The double L in many Spanish dialects turning into a Y sound.
IlmariGanander@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 276d
I had no idea there was a name for it. Cool!
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 276d
Latest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Legislative_Council_oath-taking_controversy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_massacre
Ludrol@szmer.info · 2 pts · 276d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemometer
shalafi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 275d
Known the word since I was a child. Could not name one if you pointed to it.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 276d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_graphics_processing_units
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 276d
Futaba Corporation.
I'm using an old RC helicopter radio I bought eons ago to control a raspberry pi, so I'm reverse engineering the signal on the receiver side (which was surprisingly easy), and I got curious about the company in general.
Million@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 276d
Weighing of souls
EndlessApollo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 276d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fighter_aircraft
I've been looking at modern fighter jets for some inspiration in my sci-fi world I'm making, and I was kinda shocked to learn the US is the odd one out for having a relatively small gatling gun with a huge rate of fire and 100s of round of ammo. Turns out most modern jets use much slower firing, higher caliber autocannons and only have like 100-200 rounds on board. Reminds me of how the US almost exclusively used a bunch of .50s on their fighter planes during WWII while the rest of the world started mounting larger cannons on their planes
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 276d
Porn actress Kagney Linn Karter. I recently found out she took her own life last year which was quite sad.
chunes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 276d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ycu%C3%A1_Bola%C3%B1os_supermarket_fire
A pretty fucked up incident where hundreds of people were murdered because owners were worried about theft during a fire.
heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 276d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_monorail
Ugurcan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 275d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germans_of_Kazakhstan
zxqwas@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 276d
Aron Flam, Swedish comedian. Igorrr, a French avant garde metal band.
FridaySteve@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 276d
This legendary son of a legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Boozer
Schmuppes@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 276d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putumayo_genocide
One of the many examples how imperialism and greed can turn things into atrocious shit.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 276d
I like looking at tv episode guides and actor filmographies
n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 275d
Julian dates
RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 276d
9 times out of 10 I'm looking up an entertainer, usually their filmography or discography. I find Wikipedia much more pleasant than imdb.
ch00f@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 276d
A friend of mine posted a picture of a Halloween decoration of a skeleton man with a skeleton dog jumping up on him. It reminded me of a photo I've seen of the same but with real skeletons and it brought me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Krantz
Didn't realize he was a local Washingtonian who studied Bigfoot.
Monster96@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 276d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesaffelstein I heard a song by an artist I've never heard of before
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 276d
I double checked myself on some Chauchat machinegun facts, and then kind of went into a rabbit hole of inter-war French armament.
kbal@fedia.io · 1 pts · 276d
According to my browser history: