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I tried with month names and it doesn't work, it only show the English word. Too bad because month names in other languages are sometimes interesting.

I'm surprised The Birth of a Nation didn't make it on the list. It's probably one of the most controversial films ever.

Relatedly, some animals can steal chloroplasts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptoplasty

An even more bizarre animal is Dendrogaster, a starfish parasite. Believe it or not, but it's a crustacean.

It grows inside a starfish's body cavity until filling it completely, which explains the strange shape of the parasite.

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/...

This has been discussed a lot at the time, but it turned out to be an error.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus#Phosphine

There is also the question of where to put Placozoa, they still might be the true sister group to all others. But these are so simple and little known that there might just not be enough data to know for sure. If we disregard Placozoa, I would also have bet on the sponge-sister scenario.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placozoa

Try2Check, one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data

I know nothing about carding, but how does it actually work? How is that website able to verify a card's validity, and why can't competitors easily build a similar service?

I've seen it used in my company's DEI training material. Which is funny because I'm working in Europe.

This was also my understanding. I think he became some kind of leader in the Monero community at some point, but he isn't the founder. I think Monero was originally forked from some other project (Bytecoin?).

The reason stores use credit payment networks in the West is because it’s better. We have cash transferring apps but we don’t use them for a reason.

In many (most?) European countries, debit cards and cash transfering apps are more common than credit-based payments. I have a credit card but I don't use it often (mostly for some online transactions, such as buying plane tickets), and many people only have a debit card.

Some of these, like "grandfathering", cannot even be understood without deep diving on etymology to discover the racist origins.

That one in particular, I was almost offended when I learnt during a DEI training that it could be construed as insensitive/racist of me to use that idiom.

English is not my native language, and is not an official language of my country. I work for a local branch of a large US tech company, and the working language is English, which I'm perfectly fine with. But when we get subjected to DEI training material which was very obviously made for an American audience, even though nobody in this office is a native English speaker, I think it goes too far and ironically becomes slightly insensitive in its own way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_fungi

There is a lot of innocent or even bland things on this list.

Chikwanga is #44 on the list. This is just a cassava flour cake, it's a staple food meant to be eaten along with something else, it being bland is kind of the point. Of course if you go to some Congolese restaurant and only order chikwanga you're going to be disappointed, but it's the same as going to a Chinese restaurant and only ordering white rice.

Offal-based dishes seem to be frequent on this list. Could it be some US or Anglo-Saxon prejudice against offal? Tongue, liver, tripe, etc are common in many regional European cuisines (not to mention Asian ones).

Same here. Blank page with both Chrome and Firefox.

An article about that question:

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/nyregion/the-waters-fine-...

If you like those pictures, you will probably also like this music video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPu-qPIwJcI

I don’t believe Google or and social media company or streaming company is lobbying for the outlawing of their competitors

I think the GP might be alluding to:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/faceboo...

Be sure to watch the director's cut with that one.

The original theater version has an opening narrative (added by the producers) which spoils much if the plot.

This is one of my favorite films, maybe my favorite sci-fi film. The "steampunk" way in which future technology is depicted is one of the reason Brazil aged so well IMO.

I would actually consider it to be a free adaption of Orwell's 1984.

Silent Running (1972) is another one in the "man against nature" theme, and has no supernatural element. This movie is kind of a classic but tends to be forgotten, maybe because it's quite old.

You can look at Jessica Wade's contributions to Wikipedia there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jesswade...

Small remark:

The diminutive form of the Russian name "Vladimir" is actually "Volodya".

While "Vlad" is the diminutive form of "Vladislav".

There actually used to be a very interesting science museum in Brussels called Scientastic [1].

The museum was aimed at children and the exhibit consisted of many practical "magic tricks" illustrating some piece of science or technology. Things such as electromagnets, refraction effects, color theory, optical illusions, simple mechanical devices, simple chemistry experiments, etc. For example I remember first learning about the brachistochrone curve at this museum, even though I was too young at the time to know or care about its name. Or that you could use red cabbage juice as a natural pH indicator.

Unfortunately the museum never got much funding or interest from the government, and at some point the museum was destroyed (possibly illegally) to make room for a shopping mall.

[1] https://www.scientastic.com/EN/IntroE.htm

Interestingly, there is a similar French expression: "avaler des couleuvres" ("swallowing snakes").

It also means "doing things against your will", although it has the additional sense of doing them because you're gullible (not sure if this sense is also present in the English expression).

https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/avaler_des_couleuvres

Another project from the same university is TRAPPIST. Named after Trappist beers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trappist_beer

I've had Wikipedia random page as a browser starting page for years, and pages about sport (events or teams) and popular media are among the most common occurences. I believe those are just low hanging fruits for most Wikipedia contributors.

Interestingly, that Dijkstra article was originally published/circulated in handwritten form. It helps showcase the author's handwriting skills.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF

I don't know about Arnell's case, but it's actually possible to turn orange by eating orange things. Although I think it's more common with carrots and young children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotenosis

The French newspaper "Le Monde diplomatique" made a very interesting family tree for media ownership in France: https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/PPA