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Alan Turing
  • Yes, definitely a different thing

  • Alan Turing
  • Abe Lincoln :D (half kidding)

  • Cat people and dog people
  • I love both a lot. I do feel that cats require more emotional intelligence to understand. Some people have no interest in learning their language, which is complex and just and intricate as dogs. Dogs just on average do more work translating for us

  • Favorite underrated / unrecognized TV show? I'll go first.
  • I really liked Profit, a mid-90s drama about corporate intrigue. It was ahead of its time and I think would have been a much bigger hit if it came out 20 years later! It was canceled after only 1 season.

  • Poisoned candy myths
  • In my area, it seems like trick or treating is in free fall, possibly due to the poisoned candy myth, with parents likely moving heavily to trunk or treating.

  • Pan (moon)

    "It is sometimes described as having the appearance of a walnut, or ravioli."

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    Straight men, what's the weirdest thing you've been told you can't do because it's gay?
  • I remember kids telling me I was crossing my legs in a gay way. I asked them who said so, and they said their teacher. That was the first time I realized some bullies grow up to be teachers.

  • Body plan
  • Metcalfe's law

    Metcalfe's law states that the financial value or influence of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n^2)

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    Tepui

    A tepui /ˈtɛpwi/, or tepuy (Spanish: [teˈpuj]), is a table-top mountain or mesa found in South America, especially in Venezuela and western Guyana. The word tepui means "house of the gods" in the native tongue of the Pemon, the indigenous people who inhabit the Gran Sabana.

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    George Carlin
  • Yes, that was interesting. As a millennial, I was not aware of that backstory, which I think this article did a good job of capturing!

  • George Carlin
  • He was technically Silent Generation!

  • Italy's "Piracy Shield" causes massive Google Drive outage for millions
  • As the article mentions, Italy already did that! "Hold my prosecco"

  • Bussy-le-Grand
  • When you are the Compte de Bussy and you know it

  • Kroger's Plan to Use Facial Recognition Raises Concerns About Surge Pricing
  • Ralph's in SoCal used to be a midrange grocery store. These days, its prices are sometimes higher than Whole Foods! I feel like most large grocery chains are moving to a premium price point. They aren't interested in providing food for everyday families

  • The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over
  • They are really satisfying when they work. I have been impressed by how well they work cross platform in the new bitwarden. It even worked from Android one time with a key made on windows! However, I dread when my mom tells me she needs help with an account and I can't do anything because the key is on her iOS Keychain I don't have access to

  • Haidinger's brush
  • Some of us can apparently!

  • Cryptozoology
  • Yes, one shouldn't trust many of the sources, but it is still very interesting to think of how various cryptids relate back to the cultures they arose from, and what they signify about the relationship of that culture to their local environment. Darren Naish has written a lot of good stuff about this

  • Boops Boops
  • If it's wrong, I don't want to be right

  • NRA Chief Doug Hamlin Once Tortured a Cat to Death
  • I thought it said NSA, which also could be plausible

  • Open Reports & Notifying Moderators
  • Good feature! Notified me that we had a report that I otherwise wouldn't have noticed!

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