I’m especially fond of the one where they developed the robot religion and supplanted the humans that had assembled them because they were more precise/efficient/safe at the task.

13h ago

Paedophile teacher who had sex with two boys is struck off

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 13h ago

New York had (has?) a similar distinction. It came up in the E Jean Carrol saga; specifically Trump suing for defamation after her lawsuit, because it wasn’t- technically- rape.

IIRC it was dismissed with the judge saying that it fits the modern lay definition of rape and that’s not defamation.

13h ago

Paedophile teacher who had sex with two boys is struck off

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 13h ago

They didn’t call it “sexual assault” either, so I’m inclined to not accept that excuse.

14h ago

Doh...

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 14h ago

Allison Gill on Daily Beans is t going to drop it.

She’s the one that broke the news that FBI teams had training videos on how to flag mentions of Trump in the Epstein files, as well as that Maxwell’s sex offender status has been waived so she can be in a low security facility (and is actually allowed to leave the facility similar to the original plea deal with Epstein.)

14h ago

Doh...

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 14h ago

It’s all the cocaine he got bribed with.

14h ago

Which of frankincense and myhrr is more pricey? What even are they, respectively?

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 14h ago

For the record, you can get myrrh resin for like 20-30 bucks a 4oz sack on Amazon.

A one pound sack of frankincense goes for about 20.

What was more valuable in the first century is anyone’s guess.

16h ago

Is it wiser to store one savings in Gold as superior to the average bank/savings accounts nominal interest?

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 16h ago

but not collapse so much that whoever is holding your gold is still around. (and if you hold it yourself, that it's still a useful metal. post apocalyptic gold isn't going to be worth nearly as much because it's pretty useless outside of ornamentation.)

18h ago

When today is your birthday

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 18h ago

Saint Nicolas. No idea how he got all the other stuff- probably more cultural appropriation with yuletide- but he was the one that inspired the whole “going around and giving gifts into stockings” thing.

Also it’s maybe important to note he was about as white as Jesus would have been- he was a Greek dude in Turkey. (Specifically Myra.)

18h ago

When today is your birthday

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 18h ago

Imagine being told that your family was going to celebrate your birthday on Halloween because they wanted to celebrate Halloween and that’ll let them celebrate it without being “pagan”…. When your birthday was in late spring.

1d ago

Senator can't math

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 1d ago

Or someone messed up programming the machine.

But still, that’s a score.

1d ago

Senator can't math

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 1d ago

If my napkin math is right*, he was in college between 1951 and 1956; with gas ranging from .24 to .27 dollars a gallon.

Adjusting for inflation that’s be about $2.40.

Sunday I paid 2.90 at Costco. It seems he’s full of shit.

(My napkin math is notorious for breaking the laws of physics. Best do your own… or else we might end up dividing by zero.)

1d ago

When today is your birthday

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 1d ago

It wasn’t his birthday either. They just celebrate it then because of all the pagan holdiays leaving them out. (Yule… Saturnalia, bacchanalia.)

Humans have pretty much always done something around the winter solstice. Historically, part of it was there really wasn’t much else to do.

Most work could only be done with light. The shortest day of the year had little light and in any case mostly they were just waiting for spring to come while maintaining farms and shit. Also in the north they were kinda sorta trying to stay indoors and out of the frooking cold.