Mildly interesting

[Copper]

I wonder how many tncr people share a grain.

[taiwan_girl]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

Hmm, I will have to think about that. I read somewhere that there are now more people alive than ever have died.

For example
https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/international-programs/historical-est-worldpop.html

[jon-nyc]

Anthony Hopkins on his Bösendorfer.

https://www.facebook.com/100044323214849/posts/691148185705949/?flite=scwspnss

[mark]

@jon-nyc nice! Love the music desk.

[bachophile]

Pied kingfisher.

Common bird here in the Galilee

[Horace]

Link to video

[jon-nyc]

@Horace lol

[Horace]

Living his best life

[Doctor Phibes]

@Horace that's awesome. I love the look she gave him at the end.

[George K]

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

[jon-nyc]

@George-K

We have a less picturesque version of that, burning since you were in middle school.

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

[Aqua Letifer]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

@George-K

We have a less picturesque version of that, burning since you were in middle school.

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

Have you been there?

I have.

Probably the closest you can get to what Hell smells like.

When I was there, there was a decent layer of snow on the ground. ...Except for the patches where the sulfur was heating up the ground, which was about half the town. That was bare.

[jon-nyc]

Cool visualization.

[George K]

[George K]

[Copper]

Of the top 20 cities by population I have only been to NY.

And for some reason I don't care if I never see the other 19.

Cairo or Istanbul might be interesting.

That makes me wonder how many of the 20 have been featured in a James Bond film.

[jon-nyc]

@Copper I’ve been to 8, and lived in 3.

Cairo is the only other I’d prioritize anytime soon.

[mark]

Link to video

[Doctor Phibes]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

@George-K

We have a less picturesque version of that, burning since you were in middle school.

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

Have you been there?

I have.

Probably the closest you can get to what Hell smells like.

You should try visiting Widnes.

[Ivorythumper]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

Idiot, imbecile, and moron were, not so long ago, used in a psychological classification system, and each one was assigned to a fairly specific range of abilities.

Idiots. —Those so defective that the mental development never exceeds that or a normal child of about two years.
Imbeciles. —Those whose development is higher than that of an idiot, but whose intelligence does not exceed that of a normal child of about seven years.
Morons. —Those whose mental development is above that of an imbecile, but does not exceed that of a normal child of about twelve years.
— Edmund Burke Huey, Backward and Feeble-Minded Children, 1912

If only Larry were alive to make a comment about liberals...