ClownfishSoup
ClownfishSoup t1_j9h5uo9 wrote
“Everyone nods toward the top and says: ‘You know, Yevgeny Viktorovich, you have a difficult relationship over there. You need to apologize and confess your faults, then your fighters will receive ammunition.’
I'm surprised the Wagner Boss doesn't just say "Well, OK, I guess we'll leave the battlefield then. I mean, without ammo or support, why are we here?" then GTFO.
ClownfishSoup t1_j9e7uxz wrote
Reply to TIL that Milton Bradley originally had been in the business of selling pictures of celebrities. After his biggest seller Abraham Lincoln grew his iconic beard and rendered his entire stock of lithographs worthless and had customers demanding their money back, MB switched to selling board games by Loki-L
He should have charged then ten cents for him to pencil in a beard.
ClownfishSoup t1_j9d0sni wrote
Reply to comment by stromm in TIL that Milton Bradley originally had been in the business of selling pictures of celebrities. After his biggest seller Abraham Lincoln grew his iconic beard and rendered his entire stock of lithographs worthless and had customers demanding their money back, MB switched to selling board games by Loki-L
So he was the eBaum's World of the 1800s.
ClownfishSoup t1_j9d0p3l wrote
Reply to comment by Loki-L in TIL that Milton Bradley originally had been in the business of selling pictures of celebrities. After his biggest seller Abraham Lincoln grew his iconic beard and rendered his entire stock of lithographs worthless and had customers demanding their money back, MB switched to selling board games by Loki-L
You'd think he'd have just taken another picture.
ClownfishSoup t1_j9d0jfj wrote
Reply to TIL that Milton Bradley originally had been in the business of selling pictures of celebrities. After his biggest seller Abraham Lincoln grew his iconic beard and rendered his entire stock of lithographs worthless and had customers demanding their money back, MB switched to selling board games by Loki-L
It had never occurred to me that "Milton Bradley" was a guys name and not two last names.
TIL about the Kyujo Incident that occurred on Aug 14, 1945 where several Japanese officers occupied the Japanese Imperial Palace in an attempted coup of the Emperor to prevent him from surrendering to the Allies. They murdered several people and when their plot failed, they committed suicide.
en.wikipedia.orgSubmitted by ClownfishSoup t3_10mrjak in todayilearned
ClownfishSoup t1_j47l4om wrote
Reply to TIL Creedence Clearwater Revival was only active for four years (1968-1972), with seven studio albums. They still hold the record for most singles (nine) to reach the Top 10 on Billboard's Hot 100 without ever scoring a #1. by Torley_
John Fogerty was once sued by CCR's record label for plagiarizing CCR songs and sounding too much like CCR, in particular, the songs that he wrote and performed while he was the lead singer of CCR. The jury decided that no, he did not steal his own songs and copy himself.
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ClownfishSoup t1_iz6yl7l wrote
Reply to TIL of Portable Soup, also known as pocket soup or veal glue. A precursor of meat extract, bouillon cubes, and of industrially dehydrated and instant food, it is essentially a partially dehydrated broth and a solid counterpart of meat glaze. by IPeeFreely01
Ah! That's what it is! I remember it mentioned many times in the "Aubury and Maturin" books (ie; Master and Commander) and always thought it was hilarious, unlike "stationary soup".
ClownfishSoup t1_iyb4v2r wrote
It is exactly just a convention we agreed on. Once agreed on, everyone uses it and it works. It could have been decided that it should work that addition and subtraction should work first instead of multiplication and division and then everything would have to be rewritten.
One way to sort of get around this is to use something called REVERSE POLISH NOTATION, which places operators and operands explicitly in the order we want to execute them. You place the operands first, and then the operator after them so;
In your first example, to get 7, you would write
2 3 x 1 +
which means take the operand 2 and the operand 3, then apply the multiplication operator them. Now take the result (6) and use that as the new operand and take the operand 1 and apply the addition operator and you get 7
In your second example;
1 2 + 3 x
which means take the operand 1 and operand 2 and apply the addition operator to them, then take the result (3) and the operator 3 and apply the multiplication operator to them which equals 9
So if you want to, you can use that (many calculators actually use that), BUT it is simpler to just memorize PEDMAS (or BEDMAS is you like "brackets" over "parenthesis") and stick to the conventions we always use.
TLDR: Yes, everyone just agreed to use that order.
ClownfishSoup t1_iy62hrd wrote
Reply to TIL that Gresham College, an institution of higher learning in London, does not enroll students or award degrees, and instead hosts over 140 free public lectures every year. Since 2001, all lectures have been made available online. by Kurma-the-Turtle
Great if you want to actually learn stuff, but not get a diploma or degree.
ClownfishSoup t1_iy4mkcj wrote
Reply to comment by goclimbarock007 in eli5 How is computer memory deleted? by unlikemike123
This weird thing happens with cake and cookie mixes as well. You can easily make a mix that just requires adding water and then baking, but people didn't believe they would be any good, so manufacturers changed the ingredients so that the end user has to add oil, milk and eggs to the mix. ie; people were suspicious that the mix was too easy, so they dumbed it down.
ClownfishSoup t1_iy4lt2f wrote
Reply to comment by nmxt in eli5 How is computer memory deleted? by unlikemike123
You are confusing "file storage" with "memory".
ie; harddrive, floppy disk, solid state drive storage versus RAM (Random Access Memory).
Most operating systems use a part of file storage for swapping out memory, yes, but that's not really what they OP is asking.
ClownfishSoup t1_iy4lj5a wrote
Reply to eli5 How is computer memory deleted? by unlikemike123
You may be confusing "memory" with "disk storage".
For memory, turning off power basically deletes all memory as it needs power to "maintain state".
For disk storage, deleting a file just means removing any reference to it, but leaving the contents on the disk as it's more work to "erase" the contents.
Imagine you have a large book like the Bible, and each story is a marked with a bookmark. "deleting" the file means just throwing the bookmark into the garbage. The text is still there, but there is nothing to point to it. If you write a new file, you put a new bookmark where there is space, maybe it's on top of the old one, then you just write over top of the old text. Overwriting the data changes it, it doesn't accumulate or anything.
ClownfishSoup t1_ixaq76z wrote
Reply to TIL The Red Power Ranger actor was charged in multimillion-dollar PPP Covid relief fraud scheme by stepneo1
Another Red "wild force" power ranger was convicted of murdering his roommate with a sword.
https://time.com/4704769/ricardo-medina-jr-power-rangers-murder-roommate-sword/
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A no-name extra on the Power Rangers brutally murdered a couple so he could steal their money and their boat. He tied them to a boat anchor and tossed them into the ocean to drown.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Thomas_and_Jackie_Hawks
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edit: As I read the article, I see that it's not confirmed he/she was on Power Rangers, even as an unamed extra kid.
ClownfishSoup t1_iwrzh8t wrote
Reply to TIL that a groom from Canada rescued a drowning boy from water during wedding photo shoot by Neonwhitelion
He was pushed in by a Canada Goose probably!
TIL about William Sitgreaves Cox a junior officer aboard the USS Chesapeake who was court martialed for leaving his command when he assisted his wounded captain below decks. Since all other senior officers were wounded, he had become the commanding officer by default, unbeknownst to him.
en.wikipedia.orgSubmitted by ClownfishSoup t3_yjp7v6 in todayilearned
ClownfishSoup t1_iu5qrlz wrote
Reply to comment by slowslownotbad in TIL bicycle brakes in the UK are reversed from the US and Europe by UlisKromwell
>front brake = death
Seems like a foolish way to set up a bike.
ClownfishSoup t1_iu5qnir wrote
Reply to comment by bloody_terrible in TIL bicycle brakes in the UK are reversed from the US and Europe by UlisKromwell
You don't use both brakes at the same time?
ClownfishSoup t1_it11nwj wrote
Reply to comment by The420Turtle in TIL that in an effort to save $43.5, the Canadian Mint mailed the dies of the new $1 coin via a discount courier over using an armored car- which were promptly stolen and have never been found. This would lead to the adoption of the Loonie design as an emergency replacement. by Padgriffin
The American Sacagawea one dollar coin is very similar too, including the golden color.
I once decided that I would use $1 coins exclusively just to see if I could get them circulated, but when I went to the bank, they had to scrounge around to even find 5 of them. (The toothfairy gave out dollar coins in my house).
ClownfishSoup t1_it11iq2 wrote
Reply to comment by Tbkssom in TIL that in an effort to save $43.5, the Canadian Mint mailed the dies of the new $1 coin via a discount courier over using an armored car- which were promptly stolen and have never been found. This would lead to the adoption of the Loonie design as an emergency replacement. by Padgriffin
It became a nickname the very second they released it!
For the longest time I had the first loonie I every received in change. Long spent now I'm sure.
ClownfishSoup t1_it11eg4 wrote
Reply to comment by Aaluluuq_867 in TIL that in an effort to save $43.5, the Canadian Mint mailed the dies of the new $1 coin via a discount courier over using an armored car- which were promptly stolen and have never been found. This would lead to the adoption of the Loonie design as an emergency replacement. by Padgriffin
It'll be a "fiver" I'm guessing.
ClownfishSoup t1_it11aua wrote
Reply to comment by rncookiemaker in TIL that in an effort to save $43.5, the Canadian Mint mailed the dies of the new $1 coin via a discount courier over using an armored car- which were promptly stolen and have never been found. This would lead to the adoption of the Loonie design as an emergency replacement. by Padgriffin
Yes, this is why it's funny! Loonie, Twonie. Makes sense.
ClownfishSoup t1_it113yz wrote
Reply to TIL that in an effort to save $43.5, the Canadian Mint mailed the dies of the new $1 coin via a discount courier over using an armored car- which were promptly stolen and have never been found. This would lead to the adoption of the Loonie design as an emergency replacement. by Padgriffin
So instead of the Loonie, we almost had the Canoey.
ClownfishSoup t1_jaepowi wrote
Reply to comment by NoxDominus in TIL the Futurama theme song is considered a variation of a 1967 song called "Psyché Rock" by french composer Pierre Henry, which in turn is based on the well known 1966 song "Wild Things" by the Troggs. by NoxDominus
Wow, even the video is so similar to the opening of Futurama!