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As the last of the Easter eggs become egg salad, green olives in egg salad, yes or no? If yes, where are you? Trying to figure out where it’s common. My wife and I believe that green olives belong in egg salad, but my coworkers say no.

Concept in Cartesian philosophy

via this comment https://lemmy.ml/post/45697510/25057323

The dividing line between metals and nonmetals can be found, in varying configurations, on some representations of the periodic table of the elements (see mini-example, right). Elements to the lower left of the line generally display increasing metallic behaviour; elements to the upper right display increasing nonmetallic behaviour. When presented as a regular stair-step, elements with the highest critical temperature for their groups (Li, Be, Al, Ge, Sb, Po) lie just below the line.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beau%27s_lines

Born in 1905, later became a geisha / waitress / prostitute, had many affairs and reportedly required multiple rounds of sex per night leaving her lovers exhausted. Eventually she met a man who satisfied her, and they fell madly in love, and they did a lot of kinky choking stuff, leading to her intentionally choking him to death, so that no other woman could have him. Then she cut off his penis and balls to take with her, fleeing into hiding for awhile. She wanted something to keep him close in her memory and those were the parts that she was most fond of and was able to carry easily. She was caught, tried, and convicted of murder and desecration of a corpse. After 5 years she was released from prison. That’s not even all of the story, there are more crazy details in the Wikipedia link.

Heat bursts are rare but I think they warrant being aware of. I’ll link a video below of what people did to survive the ones they experienced.

“Halteres are a pair of small club-shaped organs on the body of some flying insects that provide information about body rotations during flight.”

The good news is that (other than the pain) it is completely harmless.

The Enforcement Act of 1871 (17 Stat. 13), also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, Third Enforcement Act,[2] Third Ku Klux Klan Act,[3] Civil Rights Act of 1871, or Force Act of 1871,[4] is an Act of the United States Congress that was intended to combat the paramilitary vigilantism of the Ku Klux Klan. The act made certain acts committed by private persons federal offenses including conspiring to deprive citizens of their rights to hold office, serve on juries, or enjoy the equal protection of law. The Act authorized the President to deploy federal troops to counter the Klan and to suspend the constitutional right of habeas corpus to make arrests without charge.[5][6]

An affinity group is a group formed around a shared interest or common goal, to which individuals formally or informally belong. Affinity groups are generally precluded from being under the aegis of any governmental agency, and their purposes must be primarily non-commercial. Examples of affinity groups include private social clubs, fraternities, writing or reading circles, hobby clubs, and groups engaged in political activism.

A Pyrrhic victory is a victory gained at such a cost to the victor that it is tantamount to defeat. The phrase references a statement attributed to Pyrrhus of Epirus. After his victory against the Romans in the Battle of Asculum in 279 BC, Plutarch reports that Pyrrhus exclaimed “One more victory over the Romans and we are completely done for!”

Winner-takes-all voting systems tend to result in only two viable parties

Feature of U.S. president Richard Nixon’s foreign policy

Among potential examples of such unforeseen emergencies, legal scholars have listed kidnapping of the president and “political emergencies” such as impeachment. Traits such as unpopularity, incompetence, impeachable conduct, poor judgment, or laziness might not in themselves constitute inability, but should such traits “rise to a level where they prevented the President from carrying out his or her constitutional duties, they still might constitute an inability, even in the absence of a formal medical diagnosis.” In addition, a president who already manifested disabling traits at the time he was elected is not thereby immunized from a declaration of inability.

Did you just look askance at some writing that uses an uncommon word, thinking, “I keep seeing this word… has it suddenly become popular?”

The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) is a part of the prefrontal cortex in the mammalian brain. The ventral medial prefrontal is located in the frontal lobe at the bottom of the cerebral hemispheres and is implicated in the processing of risk and fear, as it is critical in the regulation of amygdala activity in humans. It also plays a role in the inhibition of emotional responses, and in the process of decision-making and self-control. It is also involved in the cognitive evaluation of morality.

The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) is a part of the prefrontal cortex in the mammalian brain. The ventral medial prefrontal is located in the frontal lobe at the bottom of the cerebral hemispheres and is implicated in the processing of risk and fear, as it is critical in the regulation of amygdala activity in humans. It also plays a role in the inhibition of emotional responses, and in the process of decision-making and self-control. It is also involved in the cognitive evaluation of morality.

The Official Language Act (No. 33 of 1956), commonly referred to as the Sinhala Only Act, was an act passed in the Parliament of Ceylon in 1956. The act replaced English with Sinhala as the sole official language of Ceylon, with the exclusion of Tamil from the act.

The Official Language Act (No. 33 of 1956), commonly referred to as the Sinhala Only Act, was an act passed in the Parliament of Ceylon in 1956. The act replaced English with Sinhala as the sole official language of Ceylon, with the exclusion of Tamil from the act.

Military-age male (abbreviated as “MAM,” plural “MAMs") is a term used to refer to men at ages where they are generally capable of military service. In some cases the media has used the term to describe male migrant civilians to dehumanize civilians or immigrants and whitewash civilian deaths in the face of public criticism.[1]

On 26 July 1184, in the German city of Erfurt, approximately sixty local nobles died when the floor of a building collapsed through the ground floor and into the latrine cesspit below. They were attending a Hoftag ("court day") conducted by King Henry VI when their combined weight caused the floor of the building to collapse. Some of the attendees drowned in human waste after falling into the cesspit.

Text of his most famous poem below

Text of his most famous poem below

Philosophical view which prioritises the long-term future

532 Byzantine revolt against Justinian I

She first got famous from a news report where she was recorded walking on a frozen river.

Pneumatic tubes (or capsule pipelines, also known as pneumatic tube transport or PTT or PTS or pneumatic tube systems ) are systems that propel cylindrical containers/carriers through networks of tubes by compressed air or by partial vacuum. They are used for transporting solid objects, as opposed to conventional pipelines which transport fluids.

No, it’s not a especially compelling article.

He recorded a rough version of the riff on a cassette player. He had no idea he had written it.

He recorded a rough version of the riff on a cassette player. He had no idea he had written it.

Here are some of his rants: https://www.ubu.com/sound/dec.html

The his genitive is a means of forming a genitive construction by linking two nouns with a possessive adjective such as “his” (e.g. “my friend his car” instead of “my friend’s car"). The construction enjoyed only a brief heyday in English in the late 16th century and the 17th century but is common in some varieties of a number of Germanic languages and is standard in Afrikaans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-03-31/News_and_notes

Micronation in North America

Ennigaldi-Nanna’s museum is the earliest known public museum.[1]It dates to circa 530 BCE. The curator was Ennigaldi, the daughter of Nabonidus, the last kingof the Neo-Babylonian Empire. It was in the state of Ur, in the modern-day Dhi Qar Governorate of Iraq, roughly 150 metres (490 ft) southeast of the famous Ziggurat of Ur.

Slum tourism, poverty tourism, ghetto tourism or trauma tourism is a type of tourism that involves visiting impoverished areas, or in some cases, areas that were affected by disasters, such as nuclear fallout zones like Chernobyl or Fukushima (hence the term “trauma tourism").

International regulations of warfare

The abbreviation or acronym RITA (sometimes written in low case, “rita") stands for “Resistance Inside the Army”, “Resister Inside the Army”, or “Resist! Inside the Army”.[1]

F.T.A. ("Fuck the Army") is a 1972 American documentary film starring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland and directed by Francine Parker, which follows a 1971 anti-Vietnam War road show for G.I.s

the film is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyWSi-5G_JU

This is a list of minerals which have Wikipedia articles.

“coal liquefaction offers an alternative to conventional petroleum-derived fuels”

“vehicles that would normally turn from the innermost lane of an intersection instead turn from the outermost lane, across all other lanes of traffic.”

…my butthole keeps burning but I never learn. It’s so damn delicious.

Seat belts, everyone!

Prussian army officer and military theorist (1780–1831)

A snipe hunt is a type of practical joke or fool’s errand, in existence in North America as early as the 1840s, in which an unsuspecting newcomer is duped into trying to catch an elusive animal called a snipe. Although the snipe is a real bird, a snipe hunt is a quest for a nonexistent creature whose description varies.

The other interesting tidbit here is that the “Fibonacci” sequence had already been described in India over 1000 years before Fibonacci.

The other interesting tidbit here is that the “Fibonacci” sequence had already been described in India over 1000 years before Fibonacci.

Building method

Tendency to perceive connections between unrelated things