FYI, it's called fermentation, not distillation. Fermentation is the process of producing alcohol (or some other byproduct) from sugars, while distillation is the process of separating that alcohol from the rest of the drink (resulting in high alcohol content). Low alcohol drinks such as beer and wine are usually undistilled.

And yes, you can basically ferment anything with sugar, including bananas.

Where was I sarcastic?

The Mayan calendar consists of various cycles (kinda like we have "cycles" - years, decades, centuries, millenia). One such cycle (bak'tun) ended in 2012. That's it. There was no big scare outside of some idiots and a few Hollywood movies.

And the Mayans lived in Central America, not South America.

The Mayan people lived in America. The Europeans who created the Julian calendar had no idea the Mayan people existed.

The Romans had a 10 month calendar centuries before Ceaser. Then January and February were added. July and August weren't added to the calendar, they were renamed from Quintilis and Sextilis.

Historically it's because months were based on the lunar cycle (even the word "month" comes from "moon"). In lunar calendars each month is one lunar cycle, which is 29.5 days long. This results in 12 months a year + approximately 10 days (so in lunisolar calendars, sometimes a 13th month is added).

Anyway, now we use 12 months because it's convenient. 12 easily divide by 2, 3, 4 and 6, unlike 13 which is prime.

You can burn more than you consume either by burning more, or by consuming less.

Burning more requires doing more physical activities, such as working out.

Consuming less means eating less food or food with less calories.

What choice do we have in the matter? One country can't control the prices in another country, just like one store can't control the prices in another store.

True, but when the exponent is 76000 and you start multiplying numbers with tens of thousands of digits, it starts to rack up.

Also, by using floating point numbers, you can make the calculations a lot faster by sacrificing precision. Instead of storing 2838393^1024 (which is a huge number) you only store the most significant digits and how many digits it has.

A port is a 16-bit number, i.e. from 0 to 65535.

0 is a special number (so not actually used as a port) and certain ports are commonly used by certain protocols (for example 80 is for HTTP, 443 for HTTPS, 22 for SSH), but most are free for use.

Yes, megapixels is just resolution. It's just the number of pixels, in millions (mega = million). So a picture with a resolution of, say, 5312x2988, has a total of 5312*2988=15,872,256 pixels, which is just shy of 16 megapixels.

Videos usually have a much smaller resolution than still images, because they take up significantly more space. 4k resolution is 3840x2160 which is just 8 megapixels.

How manufacturers choose to denote resolutions is just a matter of marketing. Historically televisions were marketed using the numbers of lines on the screen (such as 360p, 720p, 1080p), then they switched to the number of columns (such as 4k, 8k). Meanwhile cameras just use megapixels.

All of these are incorrect, it comes from the verb "cop" which means "to seize/capture".

https://www.etymonline.com/word/cop

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cop#Etymology_2

Of course. There's a lot less antisemitism now than there was 100 years ago. But it still exists.

You're ignoring history. Antisemitism didn't just pop up in the 20th century, it had existed for hundreds of years. The reasons provided by /u/Hydrasaur explain how antisemitism came to be, not why it exists now. Now it exists because it has been perpetuated since the middle ages.