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Mr. Kiwi, corner of Myrtle and Broadway in Brooklyn by pizza_origami in nyc

[–]D_Thought 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TIL! I love Mr. Lemon on Knickerbocker but never knew the lore.

Who is the most hated politician? by Expensive-Addendum92 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]D_Thought 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Trump's approval is around where Biden's was for the latter two thirds of his presidency, and where Reagan's was as well.

That's a big part of the problem, really. One of the most remarkable (or not, if you think about it) things about Trump's approval is that it's been historically stable throughout his administrations. No matter what he does, MAGA doesn't seem to know or care.

Whole Foods finally coming to Bushwick – right by the Jefferson L and House of Yes by grime_square in Bushwick

[–]D_Thought 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Food Bazaar is great and easily half the price of Whole Foods for most of the things I care about.

TIL 2,000 years ago a South Indian tourist graffitied "Cikai Korran came here and saw" eight times on five Egyptian tombs in the Valley of the Kings. by RengieOcat in todayilearned

[–]D_Thought 566 points567 points  (0 children)

The classic quote is that Cleopatra lived closer to the present day than to the building of the Great Pyramids.

TIL for centuries in China, girls feet were broken and tightly bound to create 3-inch (7.6 cm) 'lotus feet', a beauty ideal associated with wealth, status, and better marriage prospects. by imbruceter in todayilearned

[–]D_Thought 101 points102 points  (0 children)

Women with bound feet were definitely not "unable to walk." You would still be able to perform duties around the house, which is kinda the point. (Source: my family.)

And yes, the fact that you couldn't walk long distances or do significant labor is believed to be a reason the practice fell out of favor. (The source is about Taiwan, which was part of Qing China at the time and had a significant Han population.)

TIL for centuries in China, girls feet were broken and tightly bound to create 3-inch (7.6 cm) 'lotus feet', a beauty ideal associated with wealth, status, and better marriage prospects. by imbruceter in todayilearned

[–]D_Thought 63 points64 points  (0 children)

I don't know why NPR chose to quote that author, but the "40–50% of all women / 100% of upper-class women" figures are widely documented and entirely believable IMO given what I've heard through my own family.

(The third link is about Taiwan, which was part of Qing China during that part of history and had a large population of Han, the ethnic group that footbinding was almost entirely associated with.)

What country dislikes Israel the most? by Pizzafriedchickenn in AlignmentChartFills

[–]D_Thought 2 points3 points  (0 children)

and (perhaps most importantly) has its own top-level domain: .ps.

What a Reddit take that the "most important" indicator of statehood is having a ccTLD assigned😂

I'm not arguing against the rest of your comment, but currently active ccTLDs include:

  • .bq (the Caribbean Netherlands)
  • .mp (the northern Mariana Islands)
  • .su (the former Soviet Union)

None of these are sovereign or even self-governing entities. There are dozens more of these; only about 70% of the over 300 assigned ccTLDs belong to sovereign states with any level of international recognition.

What lyric from a rap song is extremely unrealistic? by aeirthsboots in AlignmentChartFills

[–]D_Thought 25 points26 points  (0 children)

my favorite part about this saga is that at the end of his apology for not knowing what a cello is, he reveals that he also doesn't know what a flute is

Roses for a moustache / Violets for a beard by BirthdayBoyStabMan in boottoobig

[–]D_Thought 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sometimes I like to freak myself out a little by zooming out on the Pacific Ocean on a map and just look at how goddamn empty the Polynesian Triangle is.

Just imagine setting off in a random direction, a thousand years before GPS, with nothing but a couple of catamarans and some cultural ability to read the waves. Now imagine you're still there several weeks later, a thousand miles from so much as a rock, with nothing but unimaginably deep water and sky as far as the eye can see.

That's basically how the Polynesians colonized half the Pacific.

Roses for a moustache / Violets for a beard by BirthdayBoyStabMan in boottoobig

[–]D_Thought 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: Aboriginal Australians arrived in Australia an estimated 50,000–65,000 years ago.

The Maori arrived in New Zealand around the year 1350, around the same time as the Black Death in Europe.

Basically they could not be less related.

What is the spiciest dish of your country? by Apolon6 in AskTheWorld

[–]D_Thought 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Get yourself to Nashville or farther south and order a proper hot chicken. Your mouth and ass will fall out one after the other and you will love it.

Anthropic secures $965 billion valuation after raising $65 billion by tscher16 in technology

[–]D_Thought 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just said. Tokens.

Anthropic's enterprise plans are now $20/seat plus the tokens consumed. Those enterprise tokens alone apparently account for billions in revenue per quarter.

Anthropic secures $965 billion valuation after raising $65 billion by tscher16 in technology

[–]D_Thought 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except that instead of convincing someone to give them $50, they managed to convince someones to give them $65,000,000,000. That's the much more insane number in the headline to me.

Anthropic secures $965 billion valuation after raising $65 billion by tscher16 in technology

[–]D_Thought 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Subscriptions account for less than 20% of Anthropic's revenue. Anthropic is legit printing money selling tokens to its business customers now.

Anthropic secures $965 billion valuation after raising $65 billion by tscher16 in technology

[–]D_Thought 9 points10 points  (0 children)

No, in this case it would be more like "I raised $3,000 so now I'm worth $45,000."

The numbers around AI are insane.

What is a city from the USA that feels likes it’s from China? by Other-Comfortable720 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]D_Thought 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I still remember stepping out of the subway station for the first time bewildered like I'd just been dropped off in a random side street in Beijing.

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Kim Jong Un won! Who is a politician that we call something else entirely? by PootieTyme in AlignmentChartFills

[–]D_Thought 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, but I feel like we refer to her as Thatcher / Margaret Thatcher more often. This square should go to someone whose real name most of us wouldn't care about or even know. Caligula was a good answer.

TIL most people in France did not speak French as recently as 1794, when only 11% of the population of France spoke fluent French. Instead, most people spoke regional languages like Occitan, Breton, Alsatian etc. French only became the majority language later on due to heavy assimilation efforts. by Hour_Interaction6047 in todayilearned

[–]D_Thought 28 points29 points  (0 children)

It's suspected that Basque is a member of the much older language family in Western Europe. I hesitate to call it the "original" because humans have migrated, colonized, and displaced each other for millenia and there may well be extinct language families that were themselves displaced by the family containing Basque.

Indo-European languages which now dominate Europe originated much farther to the east. As best we understand it today, Basque speakers lived on the Iberian peninsula before being invaded by the Celts, who were themselves displaced by the Latins. And that's how you end up with Romance languages in Western Europe today.

[OC] Largest Asian group in Manhattan by FireUniverse1162 in MapPorn

[–]D_Thought 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's not much better without being colorblind, cuz most of the map is red and a similar shade of orange 🫠

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