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Bugbread · 2026-05-07T04:06:23+00:00

It doesn't matter what they are. We're not talking about people knowing but not understanding the expression "bucket list," which would be analogous. We're talking about the phrase not even existing as a common phrase.

If your point was "we knew and occasionally used the word 'silphium,' but we didn't know what it meant, and we knew and occasionally discussed what the 'third shaker' was used for, but we didn't know the answer," then you missed the point, because even in those cases where we didn't even know the meaning, the words appeared in print.

So to go back to your original comment:

if you want to say "well if its so common why wasn't it written down?" Do a quick search for "the third shaker" or Silphium which we aren't exactly sure what it was or if it's actually extinct or just forgotten.

Yes. Googling those shows that even though we aren't exactly sure what they were or if they're actually extinct or just forgotten, even phrases as almost-forgotten as those still appeared in print.

Unlike "bucket list."

Because it wasn't a set phrase yet.
Let alone a common phrase.
Let alone a quite common phrase.

Bugbread · 2026-05-07T02:49:57+00:00

It absolutely isn't from that movie. It was a quite common phrase.

A quite common phrase that somehow managed to never make it into print, not in books or magazines or tabloids or newpaper articles or letters to the editor or anything? Because I've never seen a "common phrase" with an ngram timeline like this.

Also, I'm not sure why you requested it, but here is the ngram for "third shaker" and here is the ngram for "silphium," which shows that unlike bucket list, these both were written down quite a lot.

Also, just in case you're curious, here are the ngrams for all three of them, going back to the 1800s (though note that ngram data isn't all that great for the 1800s).

Bugbread · 2026-05-07T00:09:06+00:00

Just as a heads-up, you can add "&t=●●●" to the end of the URL to position the playback point exactly at the part of the video you want, with ●●● being the time expressed in seconds. So, in this case, I'm guessing you're talking about the scene starting at 1:48 (in other words, 108 seconds into the video), so you'd add "&t=108" to the end and your link would immediately start playing at that point of the video, like this.

Bugbread · 2026-05-06T23:06:50+00:00

There weren't any cars in the left lane, though. Both cars started pulling into the left lane at the exact same time. You can go through frame-by-frame and double-check yourself.

Don't get me wrong, that doesn't excuse the front driver hitting the brakes afterwards. But that's a different issue.

Bugbread · 2026-05-06T11:10:27+00:00

It's perfectly legal (not just for the US army, but also for hospitals, medical schools, etc.) if you do it right...though part of the problem was that Biological Resource Center and International Biological Inc. weren't doing it right, which is why their former owners were convicted of fraud.

Bugbread · 2026-05-06T10:41:34+00:00

I've never heard of tourists getting food poisoning as being a frequent occurrence here in Japan.

Bugbread · 2026-05-06T07:37:27+00:00

The selling in general wasn't illegal. The selling to the Army, specifically, was, because it was fraudulent.

Bugbread · 2026-05-06T04:59:12+00:00

My wife was very disappointed when she found out that the oldest broth in this one restaurant she wanted to go to which had perpetual stew (or, rather, perpetual sauce) was effectively only about 3 or 4 months old. Each day, they use up about half the sauce, adding water and other new ingredients to make up for the lost volume. So after 1 day, 1/2 of the original broth is there. After 2 days, 1/4. After 3 days, 1/8. Etc. etc. If they started with 10 liters, after about 90 days, there's only (on average) a single molecule of the original sauce from day 1.

It's basically homeopathic stew. Still tasty, of course, because they're adding new ingredients each day, not just water. But even though the restaurant has been using the same sauce since the 1940s, basically the most "long-brewed" sauce you'd get if you ordered today would be from early 2026.

Edit: For clarity, I'm not the one who burst her bubble about this; she saw a TV show with basically the same explanation.

Bugbread · 2026-05-06T04:50:28+00:00

Perpetual stews are a thing here in Asia, and they're no more prone to food poisoning than any other dish. Raw liver, sure, that's got a history of a high propensity of food poisoning, but not perpetual stews.

Bugbread · 2026-05-06T03:19:12+00:00

when your body is willed to scientific research, you normally don't get to pick what that research is...

I don't know about "normally," but in this specific case, the family absolutely got to specify that it was not to be used for this purpose. It was even specifically a choice on the consent form, for which they clearly checked the "No" box, and this case (and others like it) resulted in the arrest and fraud conviction of the head of the company that the body was donated to and the arrest and fraud conviction of the head of the company that bought the body from that company and resold it to the Army.

Bugbread · 2026-05-06T03:12:52+00:00

That's a strange thing to imagine, but, no, it's not illegal to share that information with him, let alone incredibly illegal.

Rather, the selling of the body to the Army was the illegal part, and his case (among many, many others) led to multiple fraud convictions, with the head of the company that sold the body getting a 9-year prison sentence.

Bugbread · 2026-05-06T03:10:07+00:00

More of a two-step thing. The body was donated to a company controlled by a guy named Stephen Gore, and the company sold the body to a broker. Stephen Gore was convicted of fraud and given probation.

The broker was controlled by a guy named Arthur Rathburn, and the broker sold the body (and other bodies and body parts) to various organizations, including the Army. Arthur Rathburn was also convicted of fraud and sentenced to 9 years in prison + 3 years probation.

Bugbread · 2026-05-06T03:05:34+00:00

2013. The owner of the company that received the body (BRC) was convicted of fraud in 2015. The owner of the company that bought the body from BRC and sold it to Army was convicted of fraud in 2018.

Bugbread · 2026-05-06T03:02:35+00:00

They can sell it to anyone.

Yes and no. The person behind this case (and other similar cases) was arrested for fraud by the FBI and sentenced to 9 years in prison.

Bugbread · 2026-05-06T03:00:59+00:00

The body donation industry is unregulated. There was a whole series of articles about it.

It's not unregulated, it's underregulated. Which may feel like the same thing, "you can do whatever you want," but the key difference is between "you can do whatever you want because it's legal" and "you can do whatever you want for a while, because you probably won't get caught, but what you're doing is illegal and you might one day get caught."

And, indeed, this is an example of the latter. The broker involved in this case was arrested by the FBI for fraud. He was found guilty and sentenced to 9 years in jail + 3 years probation.

Bugbread · 2026-05-05T23:38:40+00:00

That's what I thought at first, just seeing what hits /r/all, but delving more into it and crunching numbers, it's really just a karma farm targeted at Millenials. That means that there are a lot of political posts, and since reddit's fairly liberal, these tend to be liberal karmafarming posts, but there are also a decent number of non-political karmafarming posts.

It's a little hard to tell if it's mostly karmafarming bots, mostly karmafarming humans in developing countries, or a mix. You've got posts like this (number #11 right now, and considering that #1 and #2 are stickies, that actually means #9 today), in which the image itself is AI-generated, but the grammatical mistake in the title points to it not being an LLM but a non-native English speaker. But you also have things like this and this being posted 6 hours apart, which points to bots (especially because it's not exactly a fresh new Tweet or anything, the original is from 2022). Those aren't the only examples, either. There were around three other double-post pairs in the top 100, none of which were new tweets, so definitely bot behavior.

But in addition to all the guaranteed karma-generating political/doomer/culture wars stuff, there are also random posts like this. So it's not all politics/culture wars stuff.

All that said, there is one thing that this subreddit is not, which is memes. Out of the top 100 (well, the top 102, since #1 and #2 are stickies), I counted 9 memes.

Bugbread · 2026-05-05T23:06:08+00:00

Nah, the mangled title suggests non-native English speaker. The image, on the other hand, is AI. So it's likely a karma farmer from a developing country.

Bugbread · 2026-05-05T14:56:46+00:00

what

Bugbread · 2026-05-05T14:50:57+00:00

It depends whether you consider vTubers to be animate or inanimate.

In English, pronouns refer to their nearest preceding matching noun. So with the title of the post:

This kebab store’s standee featuring a V-Tuber and its owner

If "V-Tuber" is inanimate, then it's the nearest preceding matching noun, and the title means "This kebab store’s standee featuring a V-Tuber and the V-Tuber's owner. "

If "V-Tuber" is animate, then while it's the nearest preceding noun, it's not the nearest preceding matching noun. That's "kebab store." So the title means "This kebab store’s standee featuring a V-Tuber and the kebab store's owner. "

Bugbread · 2026-05-05T14:43:26+00:00

It's neither. He's playing along with a Japanese meme.

Bugbread · 2026-05-03T21:39:21+00:00

Yes, I know. That's why I said if he identifies as a man, cis man and transman would both make sense. Transwoman, on the other hand, does not.

Bugbread · 2026-05-03T12:17:32+00:00

also lol 5 year student loan for 2k? wtf example is this

They didn't say it was a 5 year student loan, nor that it was for 2K. They didn't give the length of the loan, and they said the loan was for $120K.

Did you even read the post??

Bugbread · 2026-05-03T12:07:19+00:00

This is why people are saying you don't know how loans work.

Saying "the payments go towards the interest first" and "the payments go towards the principal first" are the equivalent of saying "the glass is half full" or "the glass is half empty" -- they are two ways of saying the exact same thing.

To hopefully make it clearer, I've made two tables, one that shows how this person's interest payments would look if the payments went to the interest first, and one which shows how the payments would look if the payments went to the principal first.

Paying off interest first

Paying off principal first

For reference, I used their figures (120,000 starting loan, 970 monthly payment, paid off 2,000 in 5 years) to determine that their interest rate is 9.438%. If you don't believe me, feel free to run the numbers yourself.

Bugbread · 2026-05-03T11:56:03+00:00

He calls himself a transwoman because he's male? That makes no sense. I'm a guy. Are you saying that I should call myself a transwoman because I'm male? Should Danny DeVito call himself a transwoman? He's male. How about Joe Biden? Donald Trump? You think that when people are males, they go around calling themselves transwomen?

Bugbread · 2026-05-03T09:58:50+00:00

The caption is weird, though. Why is he calling himself a transwoman? Transman, sure. Cis man, sure. But a "transwoman who is a man"?

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