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@ jqubed @lemmy.world

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  • Uh oh

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  • I’ve tried multiple apps and all show this picture as mostly gray, like a corrupted file

  • Rural women carrying goods to market in Ottoman Palestine, sometime between 1889 and 1914

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  • Was this colorized later or an early use of color film?

  • TIL over 40 000 people have used the social security number 078 05 1120 in the United States.

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  • In 1938, wallet manufacturer the E. H. Ferree company in Lockport, New York decided to promote its product by showing how a Social Security card would fit into its wallets. A sample card, used for display purposes, was inserted in each wallet. Company Vice President and Treasurer Douglas Patterson thought it would be a clever idea to use the actual SSN of his secretary, Mrs. Hilda Schrader Whitcher.

    Although the snafu gave her a measure of fame, it was mostly a nuisance. The FBI even showed up at her door to ask her about the widespread use of her number. In later years she observed: "They started using the number. They thought it was their own. I can't understand how people can be so stupid. I can't understand that."

    One embarrassing episode was the fault of the Social Security Board itself. In 1940 the Board published a pamphlet explaining the new program and showing a facsimile of a card on the cover. The card in the illustration used a made-up number of 219-09-9999. Sure enough, in 1962 a woman presented herself to the Provo, Utah Social Security office complaining that her new employer was refusing to accept her old Social Security number--219-09-9999. When it was explained that this could not possibly be her number, she whipped out her copy of the 1940 pamphlet to prove that yes indeed it was her number!

  • we need more users

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  • Is this strictly Lemmy or does it include related platforms like PieFed and Mbin? Because it seems like there has been some shift to PieFed

  • Wats the legal test for consummation?

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  • In Scotland, although marriage was formed by simple consent and required no formalities or consummation, the bedding rituals were widespread but unstructured; a couple simply wanted someone to see them in bed together. A couple could also be pressured into marriage in this way: a person stumbling upon an unmarried couple in bed could pronounce them man and wife on the spot.

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  • Wait, so the Thomas’s English Muffin was their invention?

  • The Hindenburg passing over New Jersey the day of the disaster, USA, 1937

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  • I’m not sure it’s a mansion since it seems to have storefronts at street level. Maybe a boarding house or hotel?

  • As long as the temperature stays in a very narrow optimal range for me, it's over for you bitches!

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  • All we have to do to stop her is put different shapes in the square hole

  • Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself"

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  • Where in North America are there no inspections? I can’t renew my registration without the car going through inspection and I assumed inspections were required everywhere.

  • Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself"

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  • The driver’s side lightbulb on my wife’s Kia Soul is largely blocked by internal components. I found some instructions explaining how to remove the front bumper for access. Fortunately some guy on YouTube made a video showing a better way. Need to make some marks on parts so you can line them up properly when putting it back but with some tight contortions it was possible and only took a couple minutes.

  • The Issue With Wii U Gamepads And How To Clone Them

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  • Mario Chase in Nintendoland was always a popular one when we had parties, and not something that could be easily recreated on other systems.

  • Blackboards were the OG dark mode

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  • I’m cringing just reading this

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    Help this community in a new phase [meta]

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  • For the last point, I think listing PieFed and Mbin apps (are there any?) would be a good thing. Maybe changing this community from strictly Lemmy to the larger fediverse?

  • Microlandia is a "brutally honest" scion of SimCity that thinks of cities as "beautiful but insane machines"

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  • 1.4 change log: “A city is a beautiful, but insane machine that survives always in homeostasis and always in chaos. In 1.4 you get a little less narrative, a little more reality, the structures of everyday life exposed, greed companies, economy that doesn't forgive, even the broke. The night mode is a pleasant anesthesia; use it, but do not confuse ambience with robustness.”

  • Polish general fired after anti-tank mines found in Ikea warehouse

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  • Man, is there anything IKEA doesn’t sell?

  • xkcd #3191: Superstition

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  • Writing’s on the wall

  • Rascal loved the snow.

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  • That looks pretty deep!

  • This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000

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  • 300 km out of 24 kWh?

    Press X to doubt.

  • System: Control your Mac from anywhere using natural language

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  • Skimming through this lets a remote AI control my computer? No thanks!

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Maybe sprinkling 1337 into our online texts would make them less useful to AI training

  • Beavers @lemmy.world
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    Look at how proud he is of his work.

  • math @lemmy.world
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    First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself

    www.quantamagazine.org /first-shape-found-that-cant-pass-through-itself-20251024/
  • Hockey @lemmy.ca
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    Anybody watching tonight’s Whalers at Nordiques game?

  • And Finally... @feddit.uk
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    Firefighters rescue man stuck in slide on Vernon [Connecticut] playground

    www.nbcconnecticut.com /news/local/firefighters-rescue-man-stuck-in-slide-on-vernon-playground/3626381/
  • Bun Alert System @lemmy.sdf.org
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    Photo by @JimsPhotos@ohai.social

  • Offbeat @lemmy.ca
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    Selfies of woman "dripping in diamonds" on cruise led to her arrest for jewelry theft, police say

    www.cbsnews.com /news/selfies-woman-dripping-diamonds-cruise-arrest-jewelry-theft/
  • Books @lemmy.ml
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    What English translation of The Three Musketeers do you like?

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Admiral Wonderboat

    Physical Media Forever

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Jim Benton

    fffft

  • Microblog Memes @lemmy.world
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    Found this old post. Wonder if they’re still using AOL?

  • IdiotsInCars @lemmy.world
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    Once again: “a bad driver never misses their turn”

  • Crazy Fucking Videos @lemmy.world
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    Moving Freight Train Hit by Tornado (2009)

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL The Hayes Barton neighborhood in Raleigh is named after Sir Walter Raleigh's birthplace

    www.britishexplorers.com /woodbury/hayesba.html
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired

    mobilesyrup.com /2025/02/15/blackberrys-expired-keyboard-patent/
  • Food Crimes - Offenses against nutrition @midwest.social
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    I believe Skyline Chili-flavored ice cream should meet the definition of a food crime

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The best “I told you so”s are the ones where you never have to say “I told you so” because the other person clearly knows you told them so

  • Electricians @lemmy.world
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    Is this outlet okay?