Mildly interesting

[jon-nyc]

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union, to which we owe the failed experiment of prohibition, still exists. It claimed 5k members in 2012, down from 350k a century earlier.

On the website it tells you how you join. You print out the temperance pledge, and mail it to Evanston IL along with $20.

https://www.wctu.org/

[George K]

@jon-nyc Evanston, baby!

It was a source of never-ending mockery when I went to college there.

[Catseye3]

Feels like the Flat Earthers. Or Area 51.

[Catseye3]

I have learned that Madeleine Albright wrote a book with a mildly interesting title: Hell And Other Destinations.

[jon-nyc]

[Catseye3]

From the preface of the book Information Wars by Richard Stengel: "In 2010, Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, said we create as much information every two days -- about five exabytes -- as all the information created from the dawn of civilization until 2003."

[TOTUS]

My secret.

[Aqua Letifer]

Asking the hard questions.

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/scott-morrison-mcdonalds

[Horace]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:

Asking the hard questions.

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/scott-morrison-mcdonalds

DID THE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA SHIT HIS PANTS IN A MCDONALD’S?

The answer to the following question implies a great deal about one's own psychology: Would you prefer to live in a world in which the answer to the above question is yes, or no?

[Aqua Letifer]

@Horace said in Mildly interesting:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:

Asking the hard questions.

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/scott-morrison-mcdonalds

DID THE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA SHIT HIS PANTS IN A MCDONALD’S?

The answer to the following question implies a great deal about one's own psychology: Would you prefer to live in a world in which the answer to the above question is yes, or no?

There's a plaque.

[George K]

[Mik]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:

@Horace said in Mildly interesting:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:

Asking the hard questions.

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/scott-morrison-mcdonalds

DID THE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA SHIT HIS PANTS IN A MCDONALD’S?

The answer to the following question implies a great deal about one's own psychology: Would you prefer to live in a world in which the answer to the above question is yes, or no?

There's a plaque.

No. Plaque is on your teeth. There might be a coprolite in a while though.

[George K]

More here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark

[jon-nyc]

[brenda]

@jon-nyc

[jon-nyc]

[Copper]

Last Friday I bought some stuff at a convenience store/Shell station on Hatteras Island for $30.80.

Today I was checking the VISA account and there were 2 charges for $30.80, one on Friday and one on Sunday.

I called VISA to report a duplicate charge.

I did buy fuel on Sunday, but I figured there was no way it was exactly $30.80 worth of fuel.

I had a receipt from Friday but not Sunday because the fuel pump printer was broken.

After reporting the duplicate to VISA I remembered that I had taken a picture of the pump because someone had put a Biden sticker on it.

Now I am waiting on hold to tell VISA to forget about the dispute.

So Mr. Biden saved the Blue Whale convenience store from the hassle of disputing the dispute.

[mark]

[Catseye3]

@mark Something to think about when you can't sleep.

How is such a thing even able to be calculated?

What if they're off by say 50 trillion years. Do we need to worry?

[Klaus]

There is hope:

The universe could possibly avoid eternal heat death through random quantum tunneling and quantum fluctuations, given the non-zero probability of producing a new Big Bang in roughly 10^10^10^56 years

from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_an_expanding_universe