TIL: Today I Learned

[Synobun]

Do you take me for a Cretan?

I take you for a German.

 

[Hrothbern]

"If we assume every oxygen molecule Hitler breathed was unique..." is a horrifically bad assumption. They also aren't dealing with the survivability of an oxygen molecule. Oxygen molecules are constantly reacting out of existence and being formed as products of other reactions. I'm not going to put together some sham calculation laden with wild assumptions, but I would guess that it is unlikely that there even ARE oxygen molecules that were breathed by Hitler.

My first thoughts as well when I saw that calculation
but I still guess that even if you make fair assumptions there, the conclusion will not really differ.... and we do inhale much more often than once.... and that still make me feel sick.

Anyway
I do believe that statement in that math book

 

[Timsup2nothin]

My first thoughts as well when I saw that calculation
but I still guess that even if you make fair assumptions there, the conclusion will not really differ.... and we do inhale much more often than once.... and that still make me feel sick.

Anyway
I do believe that statement in that math book

When you were a kid...wait, maybe not...let's go with when I was a kid...we were a lot more likely to be within the average lifespan of an oxygen molecule with Hitler. The even more glaring error in that "calculation" is that it takes no account whatsoever of the vast turnover of oxygen that is constantly happening.

As a distraction from this Hitler's oxygen discomfort, consider that it is very likely that every carbon atom in every bite of food that you eat has almost certainly been eaten and subsequently pooped by something at least once, and probably many times. Enjoy that turd burger.

 

[Takhisis]

I take you for a German.

I am learning the language, you Schweinehund.

Even so I have a mental hodgepodge and sometimes say/think ‘ik ben’ instead of ‘ich bin’.

 

[The_J]

That*s dutch, close enough.

 

[HoloDoc]

Yes… as explained in the article, Perón's government gave an amnesty to all the Nazis and (as is not explained in the article) the Eisenhower/Nixon duo decided that Perón wasn't a real Nazi because he was anti-communist. He remains an icon of some self-proclaimed leftist political groupings, so this place is as politically insane as the US.

It's gas water heaters that Eichmann worked on, actually, but, well, the company made all sorts of natural gas appliances. Cooking stoves, calefaction gear…

Do you take me for a Cretan?

Peron was far more complicated than "just a Nazi." He was a rather eclectic mix of fascism, socialism, and garden-variety populism.

 

[HoloDoc]

That*s dutch, close enough.

Dutch is German, but with legalised prostitution and marijuana.

 

[The_J]

You're wrong, because Germany also has legal prostitution .

 

[Takhisis]

That*s dutch, close enough.

Sortof…? The problem is that if you learn a language well it gets its own mental slot and I never got that far with Dutch.

Peron was far more complicated than "just a Nazi." He was a rather eclectic mix of fascism, socialism, and garden-variety populism.

Socia…? No, he was ‘handouts-and-corporatism’, but he openly advocated for the extermination of the thoughtcrime known as socialism.

 

[Hrothbern]

I am learning the language, you Schweinehund.

Even so I have a mental hodgepodge and sometimes say/think ‘ik ben’ instead of ‘ich bin’.

When I was working in Germany, and my German was quite bad, I just used Dutch words, and if I knew the old-Dutch word even better, and germanised that "as it felt right"
So much similar.
"Ik" is today's Dutch for I (english) and Ich (German). But it was "Ick" in old Dutch, and still Ick in today's Berlin dialect.

 

[Hrothbern]

Dutch is German, but with legalised prostitution and marijuana.

For us, German is the Lutherian Bible dialect of Dutch

 

[Cutlass]

Googly eyes scare away birds.

Birds and planes are a bad combination, but it’s not so easy to shoo our avian friends away from airport runways. Thankfully, scientists from France have stumbled upon an ingenious solution to the problem—an optical illusion that appears to scare the crap out of large predatory birds.

In addition to their sharp talons, strong claws, and hooked beaks, raptors have incredible eyesight. Swooping high above the ground, these birds of prey can spot moving objects, like mice and snakes, at great distances. But their vision is far from perfect; raptors have a hard time detecting glazed surfaces, like windows, and fast incoming objects, like a jumbo jet, until it’s far too late.

Indeed, bird-on-plane collisions are a serious problem. In 2014, the US Federal Aviation Administration documented a whopping 13,159 incidents in which at least one bird smashed into an airplane, and at least 262 human deaths were linked to wildlife collisions from 1990 to 2016. Sadly, measures to keep birds away from airports, like silhouettes of humans, unpleasant noises, and disrupting the habitats of birds around airports, haven’t really worked.

In an effort to come up with a more effective strategy, a team of scientists from Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the University of Rennes, with some help from the Airbus corporation, applied their knowledge of avian physiology to the problem. By exploiting the powerful visual system of raptors—a group of birds that includes eagles, falcons, and hawks—the scientists were able to devise an optical illusion that effectively dissuades these birds from loitering around airports—and it looks suspiciously like a pair of googly eyes. These findings were published this week in PLoS One.

 

[shadowplay]

TIL my sister puts peanut butter on hamburgers.

 

[Zkribbler]

TIL my sister puts peanut butter on hamburgers.

Did you ever see Invasion of the Bodysnatchers? She's obviously a pod creature.

 

[Synobun]

TIL my sister puts peanut butter on hamburgers.

...

Have you considered turning her in for a replacement?

 

[HoloDoc]

TIL my sister puts peanut butter on hamburgers.

She is an inhuman monster, and needs to be destroyed for the good of us all.

Re: the googly eyes, we do something similar in Australia to keep magpies from swooping us. Put eyes on the back of a bike helmet, and they won't swoop you.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

TIL my sister puts peanut butter on hamburgers.

Oh yeah try crunchy PB and Jelly with bacon on your burger. Mmhmm it's so good

I had it for the first time when @Joecoolyo, @Phrossack* and I met up in St Louis

* I can't remember what he changed his name too. I also think he rage quit the site

 

[Timsup2nothin]

TIL my sister puts peanut butter on hamburgers.

When I was in the navy I knew a dude that put peanut butter on pretty much everything. Anywhere you, me, or the next normal person would use butter, margarine, mayo, or whatever, this goober* would use peanut butter.






*see what I did there?

 

[Dachs]

I've been in situations where I've been called Daddy and found it very creepy. Namely, by a seventeen year old coworker. And on another occasion, by a guy I had just met.

A student in one of my freshman English classes last year shared my last name. The other students started the year off with a joke about how she was ostensibly my daughter (no) and then started calling me "Daddy [last name]" (noooooooooooo).

It was mostly a stick to beat their fellow student with, and they stopped using it in my class because I got annoyed and told them off for it, but their Earth Science teacher told me that they still referred to me as "Daddy [last name]" during her class as late as the second half of the school year.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

One was about how big the chance is that we inhale an oxygen molecule that was inhaled by Hitler.

The answer was: yes, with one breath already with almost 100% certainty.

It's what you do with the oxygen you breathe that matters more than who breathed it before.

I do harmless things like read, write, and cuddle my cat. The only genocides I've ever committed have been in my Civ games.