Thus this custom of firing houses continued, till in process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery, that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked… without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it.

From the 1888 A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig

Unfortunately the rest of it is pretty trash.

Are you sure that’s not the FORTRAN meetup?

A European starling called “The Mouth” was able to mimic sounds well enough to reproduce a drawing in the spectrograph:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQCP-5g5bo

Those “richest people” lists are based on publicly known wealth, which is almost exclusively public stocks. There is a lot of dark money out there.

Slappy the Firbolg Barbarian

Strange things are afoot

Could have been worse:
https://lemmy.world/post/24169630

Seems to mostly be called “Screaming Seagull” or “Inhaling Seagull”

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/inhaling-seagull

leaves no calling cards

I think the engravings on the bullets were intended as a message. It seemed like he expected to be caught with his “manifesto” as well. Not saying that’s sufficient to call it terrorism, but it does show a bit of intent beyond anger/revenge.

Please don’t use folk’s medical condition as an insult.

First time I’ve seen someone mention Luck be a Landlord. Really fun game.

Ah. They would never do anything good because they’re evil, and they’re evil because they would never do anything good. Logic so airtight not even the tiniest fact can penetrate.

2,300 different charities according to her website. You can see the whole list here: https://yieldgiving.com/gifts/

Well MacKenzie Scott has given away $17 billion of her ~$60 billion over 5 years, so she’s not terrible.

Roosevelt walked so Taft could waddle.

He ate all DeBussy?

Really though, the level of imperialism apologizing I’ve seen has been pretty humorous on this platform. Like people will say with a straight face that we need to support our client state Israel to secure our regional interests.

Is this being federated from some platform other than Lemmy? Because I have literally never seen someone support that position here.

Here’s the theme cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trp99eHyDyY

50% of Americans read so poorly that they are unable to perform simple tasks such as reading prescription drug labels

Maybe they could start them off with something easier, like Finnegans Wake

If it was primary research then it should have methodology.

But since the data is “cobbled together” from other sources, then it’s by definition secondary research (and should list those sources).