LupusDeusMagnus
LupusDeusMagnus t1_jebiu6g wrote
Reply to comment by jbazildo in TIL that Walt Disney World began as "The Florida Project". Dummy corporations were used, by Walt Disney Productions, to buy up 27,000 acres of land to avoid bursts of land speculation in the Orlando area. Early rumors assumed possible development by NASA, Ford, the Rockefellers, and Howard Hughes. by jdward01
I don’t know much about US geography and climatology but isn’t Michigan fucking cold and not the best place for a theme park?
LupusDeusMagnus t1_je9sayv wrote
Reply to Florida's Current State by aswissguy
Are people really terrified of a tiny stone dick?
LupusDeusMagnus t1_je7taax wrote
Reply to comment by _austinm in TIL The oldest musical instrument in the world, a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal flute, is made from the left thighbone of a young cave bear. by gonejahman
I’m not an archaeologist but it’s a fragment of perforated bone. Could’ve been merely decorative for what matters. Just pointing out that there isn’t an unanimous agreement of what it is, and an instrument that old would require a complete reevaluation of out understanding of Neanderthal cognitive capabilities.
LupusDeusMagnus t1_je5kgis wrote
Reply to TIL The oldest musical instrument in the world, a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal flute, is made from the left thighbone of a young cave bear. by gonejahman
Allegedly. There’s some discussion on whether it’s actually a flute.
LupusDeusMagnus t1_jdt4swp wrote
I read that "an idiot with a plane" and I thought it was something to do with aeronautics.
LupusDeusMagnus t1_jdidzqw wrote
Reply to [OC] In 2022, Mexico traded more with Texas than it did with all of Asia and 6x as much as it did with all of LatAm. by latinometrics
It’s almost as if they are right next to each other.
LupusDeusMagnus t1_j7w38eu wrote
Reply to comment by Flako118st in ‘We are not forgotten’: Formerly deported veterans become U.S. citizens in special San Diego ceremony by ProgressiveSnark2
Apparently you have to live in the US to join the US army - I thought it was just people joining the US army like in Ukraine or Spain. It made things a bit more sensical, still stupid they don’t get political rights - if you put your life on the line for a country the bare minimum it could do was to concede you full political and civil rights.
Specially messed up because, you know, the US is somewhat fond of war crimes and what not, but they actually have the power to just say fuck you to the International courts and protect its war criminals from prosecution. In cases like these, of non citizens being deported, it kinda opens the opportunity for them to get sent to an international court. Basically doing that government dirty work and then being thrown to the wolves.
LupusDeusMagnus t1_j7uvrbp wrote
Reply to comment by seakingsoyuz in ‘We are not forgotten’: Formerly deported veterans become U.S. citizens in special San Diego ceremony by ProgressiveSnark2
PR? Still, the order is all wrong. You should have political rights before you’re sent to die. I cannot comprehend it being the other way around.
LupusDeusMagnus t1_j7uoj0g wrote
Reply to ‘We are not forgotten’: Formerly deported veterans become U.S. citizens in special San Diego ceremony by ProgressiveSnark2
Why the hell you’re are fighting for a country not your own, unless it’s some highly idealistic kind of thing.
LupusDeusMagnus t1_j6nli5n wrote
Reply to comment by hammyhamm in TIL When a cow has opposite sex twins, the female twin is usually born intersex and infertile. This happens because the twins blood supplies are linked, which exposes the female to male sex hormones. by awawe
Blood doesn’t usually goes from one twin to another. It would have to go through the mother.
LupusDeusMagnus t1_j5mkn0j wrote
Reply to TIL the first known résumé was written by Leonardo da Vinci, when applying to be a military engineer for the Duke of Milan. It's mainly just a list of his designs for siege weapons (including trebuchets). He briefly mentions his art: "In painting, I can do everything possible." He got the job. by Pfeffer_Prinz
It’s not a resume, it’s more of a proposal.l to sell your stuff to the government.
LupusDeusMagnus t1_j59z8bj wrote
Reply to comment by Freak_Out_Bazaar in TIL Japan is considered the world's most powerful passport, with visa-free access to 193 countries. Singapore and South Korea are close behind with 192 countries. Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan are the least powerful, all with visa-free access to 30 or less countries. by grandlewis
Japanese people are older, travelling abroad requires energy many don’t have.
LupusDeusMagnus t1_j4qqhj0 wrote
Reply to comment by TargetOfPerpetuity in World’s oldest rune stone found in Norway, archaeologists believe by danishistorian
Not impossible, but it’s more difficult than you’d imagine, and the context of the finding would need to corroborate it.
Runes vary a lot geographically and over time, so if you find some runes that look completely different from the ones that you’d expect to find, it’s either a very strange carving or a forgery.
LupusDeusMagnus t1_j44i26h wrote
I wonder how it compares within countries: in Brazil’s South, it’s ~30%, while in the Northeast it’s ~55%
LupusDeusMagnus t1_j2zrhlp wrote
Reply to Self Portrait, Me, Graphite, 2021 by Zynmar
You look aggressively british.
LupusDeusMagnus t1_j2pijh4 wrote
Reply to comment by thunder_thais in Brazilians to bid final farewell to Pelé with 24-hour wake and coffin procession by ladyem8
Yes, but those are very few of the total Brazilian population.
LupusDeusMagnus t1_j2osv6r wrote
Reply to comment by thegatekeeperzuul in Brazilians to bid final farewell to Pelé with 24-hour wake and coffin procession by ladyem8
>ton of Brazilians that visit
You're overestimating how many Brazilians visit Florida. In 2018, the US had 2.2 million visitors from Brazil - assuming those were all single time visitors (and thus ignoring frequent fliers), that's still <1% of the population.
The absolute vast majority of Brazilians can't afford to take international vacations, the ticket costs themselves are prohibitively expensive. Not to to mention the requirements for a visa preclude the majority of Brazilians anyways (in the case of the US).
LupusDeusMagnus t1_j2njktc wrote
Reply to comment by ResplendentShade in Brazilians to bid final farewell to Pelé with 24-hour wake and coffin procession by ladyem8
Now ex-president.
But I also find it hilarious that the person posting the photo is claiming Bolsonaro is being humble for eating at KFC…. In a foreign country, a luxury the vast majority most Brazilians can only dream of.
LupusDeusMagnus t1_izxqypm wrote
Reply to comment by rob132 in PsBattle: A kitten relaxing on a bed by Spectral_Nova
Photoshop you can use some effect like find edges to get the edges of a image.
LupusDeusMagnus t1_izua1la wrote
Oh, it’s some Egyptian Philadelphia, close to Cairo. I was really curious because usually when I hear Philadelphia it means the Philadelphia that fell to the Turks marking the end of the last independent Christian settlement in Asia Minor.
LupusDeusMagnus t1_izpofte wrote
Reply to comment by Enlightened-Beaver in [OC] Inflation heatmap for 44 European, other DM and EM countries by adebar
Brazil started having a huge political crisis in 2012 lasting all the way to 2016.
LupusDeusMagnus t1_it4qh54 wrote
Reply to [OC] US counties required to provide non-English ballots under the Voting Rights Act, by number of languages by USAFacts_Official
In Brazil we use numbers, so it kinda bypasses that.
LupusDeusMagnus t1_isocuxe wrote
Reply to Number of poor people in India fell by about 415 mn between 2005-06 and 2019-21, a 'historic change': UN by AP24inMumbai
That’s impressive however the article doesn’t explain what lifting people from poverty actually entails and only links to a page that explains it rather nebulously.
LupusDeusMagnus t1_irxjajl wrote
Reply to comment by Sgozzy in New Zealand proposes taxing cow burps to reduce emissions by TDYDave2
You can make pretty good estimates by what cows are eating, the number of cows, and their breed.
LupusDeusMagnus t1_jeg2dzu wrote
Reply to comment by th3h4ck3r in TIL In the West the largest meal of the day has historically been eaten at midday. It was not until Napoleon's empire there was the "abominable habit of dining as late as seven in the evening" as British travelers reported. The British adopted later dinners by 1850 from changes in work schedules. by jamescookenotthatone
Iberian and Iberian American thing too, IIRC.