Mildly interesting
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@taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting:
Here are some statistics for Year 1920:
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There was neither a Mother's Day nor Father's Day.There was also no Black History Month back then.
But amazingly, the early version of what later became the Hallmark Corporation already existed back then under the name “Hall Brothers”. The Hall Brothers started marketing “Hallmark” branded greeting cards in 1928.
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An excerpt from the book Picnic Comma Lightning, . . . "a beguiling exploration of what it means to exist in the world today. It used to be that our lives were rooted in reasonably solid things: to people, places and memories. Now, in an age of online personas, alternative truths, constant surveillance and an increasingly hysterical news cycle, our realities are becoming flimsier and more vulnerable than ever before."
The above was to put the following mildly interesting thing into context.
" . . . the questions of how we experience the real world, how we access its truths, have become mainstream concerns. On 16th January 2018, in a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee, US Senator Orrin Hatch began his statement by taking off a pair of glasses that he wasn't wearing. He raised both hands up beside either eye, clipped them around invisible handles, and brought them back down to the bench. He continued as if this were normal, with perhaps just one nervous little cough registering the mistake. The moment was like a Lucille Ball slip-up, a clown's attempt at gravitas. At the same time, it instantly seemed a perfect symbol of our present state of affairs: the unreality of American politics in the wake of its reality-TV president, the deception of the political classes who no longer even feel the need to disguise their deceptions."
And so on.
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It’s always something.
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Euthanasia Roller coaster
Link to video"The concept design of the layout begins with a steep-angled lift to the 510-metre (1,670 ft) top, which would take two minutes for the train to reach. Any passengers that wished to get off could then do so.[3] From there, a 500-metre (1,600 ft) drop would take the train to 360 kilometres per hour (220 mph), close to its terminal velocity, before flattening out and speeding into the first of its seven slightly clothoid inversions.[3] Each inversion would have a smaller diameter than the one before in order to maintain the lethal 10 g to passengers while the train loses speed. After a sharp right-hand turn the train would enter a straight, where unloading of corpses and loading of new passengers could take place.[3]"
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@taiwan_girl I love this! Brilliant!
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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