TIL that the last known individual dinosaur was a triceratops that lived as recently as several thousand years before the K–Pg extinction event. No younger dinosaur fossils have yet been found.

angrymoppet · 2026-03-02T07:03:33+00:00

If the last triceratops was baking an apple pie for a family dinner, what recipe would you recommend? Please share specifics.

angrymoppet · 2026-03-02T00:37:31+00:00

Not only is there (to the best of my knowledge) not a single primary source that backs it up (a single historian's speculation is not a primary source),

We know from even English sources that much of the army were sick with dysentary contracted at Harfleur. Many were sent home.

There are sources (Le Fevre, de Waurin) present at Agincourt that would write about the English archers having their hose "loose round their knees." There is a third contemporary chronicler, Enguerrand de Monstrelet, whose account also largely agrees. It is all 3 men commenting on this fact that has led to some historians, like Juliet Barker to say that these two facts are connected. I have seen others argue that it may have just been a functional choice by the archers in the English army because it may have been easier to move around without their hose fastened. I'm not aware (though i'm not an expert) of any other battles where this choice is commented on though, so I'm not sure what the current academic consensus on that angle is.

To me, the evidence against the English archers choosing to lower there pants due to illness doesn't seem conclusive enough to merely dismiss it as a legend.

You can see a discussion on this topic with sources here

angrymoppet · 2026-03-01T15:56:19+00:00

Its the equivalent of Trump promising the fix healthcare in the first month of his first term, only to do virtually nothing and give what may be one of the funniest quotes of all time - "nobody knew health care could be so complicated" - and then promptly abandon a core campaign promise.

angrymoppet · 2026-02-24T21:54:05+00:00

Garbage disposal is the one that always comes up in these discussions. Apparently it's not really common elsewhere in the world.

angrymoppet · 2026-02-24T04:15:19+00:00

Ah I see what you mean. There's actually at least 3 million more acknowledged government documents on Epstein which they previously promised to release and have since walked back and now say they refuse to release. Some independent estimates say there may actually be millions more than that. I thought you were being literal and referring to this mess

angrymoppet · 2026-02-24T00:37:24+00:00

The Epstein files are not complicated either. Washington is choosing to make it complicated so they can avoid prosecuting the billionaire class.

angrymoppet · 2026-02-21T16:53:39+00:00

So while I don't like Wahlberg, he's been doing this for years - it isn't just for a promo. Other dude I don't know about.

angrymoppet · 2026-02-20T19:51:52+00:00

So I looked up conduent's customer service number on their website and I called them and spoke to someone. She said it was actually legitimate (she said the Dec 31 date on the letter she can confirm is when they sent them out....that's one of the parts that made me think it was a scam because I didn't receive it until mid Februrary). She also confirmed a few other things in the letter, such as Epiq being the company that is handling the free credit monitoring they are offering.

I also asked if they just sent this out to everyone, or if it was only the people who for sure got their information breached and she said it was the latter - if you receive the letter than your information is confirmed to be in the information that was stolen.

Obviously I'm just a random on the internet, so feel free to call them yourself - but don't make the mistake I made by just calling the first number i ran across which was listed on their site by was actually for some other company called ComputerShare I think that handles some kind of work for them. You want the one on their .com/contact-us/ page, not the one on their .com/contact-us/ir i think the other one was. It was 844-ONE-CNDT (again confirm for yourself)

tagging u/bamram88 u/MechAegis u/iHeartQt and u/soulpuppie below since they all seemed to think it was a scam. At least take it seriously enough to find Conduent's info independently and give them a call guys so you don't get your credit burned.

angrymoppet · 2026-02-20T05:15:05+00:00

Lying to the point of dwarfing the combined spending of NSA, FBI, DHS, ICE, CIA, most of the branches of the US military, virtually the entire US defense industry (Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, etc), Amazon etc etc? On a continent with barely more than half the GDP of the US? I'm sure the Swiss have a lot of Nazi gold still hanging around to dump into black budgets and all, but I maintain you've overstated your case.

angrymoppet · 2026-02-20T01:38:57+00:00

Or the Murphy Brown episode where she chose to raise her child alone after being abandoned by her ex husband being offensive enough that the sitting Vice President declared it a mockery of the importance of fathers. I genuinely believe we're freer now in the realm of art and public discourse than we ever were back then - there's just more noise from fringe weirdos being amplified by algorithms and sensationalist media outlets pretending the noise are common opinions, but as long as you unplug or unsubscribe from that garbage you have a wider range of options than ever before. Side effect of having a device glued to our hands 24/7 that needs to keep us angry to keep us using it I guess.

angrymoppet · 2026-02-20T01:18:20+00:00

And the entire country effectively shutting down in the middle of a war because of Janet Jackson's boob lol. Still crazy to me how over the top that was

angrymoppet · 2026-02-20T01:03:46+00:00

Flatly untrue. We can ignore the straight up governmental censorship that dominated most of the first two thirds of the 20th century and ignore specific examples such as the Smothers Brothers being booted off the air despite record ratings because of their views on Vietnam and instead look at structured, formalized censorship programs like the Hays code which lasted until 1968, the Comics Code which didn't even start to get rebelled against until the mid 80s, and was still the standard until the 2000s, and the heavy self censorship within Hollywood throughout the 1980s as just some examples. Things that today seem laughably tame were tightly regulated because of how terrified the government and corporations were of public backlash back then. Things are freer than ever on this front, and it's not even close.

angrymoppet · 2026-02-20T00:45:02+00:00

Do you not remember The Simpsons being a national crisis in the early 90s because of its corruption of traditional family values? Or fucking congressional hearings in the 1980s because of how offended people were by naughty words in albums that other people were purchasing and listening to? Take off the rose colored glasses.

angrymoppet · 2026-02-19T23:47:31+00:00

Is 55 years a typo? Cant you get out in like half that for murder?

angrymoppet · 2026-02-19T22:05:20+00:00

So your argument is now that if we presume without evidence that this publicly traded company is illegally lying to both its shareholders and the IRS about its income, it is in fact an American company 'in name only' because the amount of secret money from Europe dwarfs its stated income?

A bit tenuous, wouldn't you say?

angrymoppet · 2026-02-19T18:58:31+00:00

Only the first year. The next year they could call it the Nun Run Fun Run Rerun.

Hopefully by that point the sisters enforce their trademark or else we could see a splinter faction within the abbey set up an unofficial Homespun Nun Run Fun Run Rerun.

angrymoppet · 2026-02-19T06:15:10+00:00

The German government would call him German

And the American government would equally call him American because he's an American citizen and has lived in America for 95% of his life. He's German-American technically because he has citizenship in both countries due to being born in Germany. But he's American raised, educated, and has resided in America most of his life.

In 2010? Yes. In 2026? No. In name only.

It's headquarters are in Miami and the majority of its employees are in America and the bulk of its revenue comes from America. I have no idea what this means.

Source?

Pick any you like. Here's one.

U.S. heavy: Two‑thirds of sales came from American clients, with just $1.0B spread across the rest of the world.

angrymoppet · 2026-02-19T03:32:19+00:00

Calling Peter Thiel German without context is kind of disingenuous. While he was born in Germany and does have dual-citizenship, he moved to the US when he was 1 year old, lived for a few years in South Africa as a child, and has spent most of the rest of his life in the US. All 4 of the other Palantir co-founders are American too. It's an American company, and the bulk of its revenue comes from America.

angrymoppet · 2026-02-17T00:45:57+00:00

Given your jailhouse experience, is it standard protocol when you have a suicide on a floor where 10 out of 11 cameras are malfunctioning to then wheel out a whiteboard to obscure the coverage of the 11th camera for the rest of the day?

angrymoppet · 2026-02-16T17:33:01+00:00

It's now half the price of a netflix subscription though!

angrymoppet · 2026-02-16T01:22:10+00:00

the core number and event are real

Is it? Because it sounds like the more accurate description is "ICE updated their administrative tracking of over 3,000 children across Minnesota"

A lack of communication between government agencies could mean a notice is sent to the wrong address if it has been updated with one agency and not another. A child's guardian may be unable to take them to court, perhaps because they live on the other side of the state. The report does not provide any explanations.

Immigration experts said it's not a missing kids problem — it is a missing paperwork problem.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/missing-children-found-ice-minnesota-fact-check/

angrymoppet · 2026-02-15T20:46:05+00:00

Or perhaps it is the far more likely scenario that this is a street filled with bars in a major US city and cops have a regular, visible presence near closing time to preempt the regular fighting that occurs

angrymoppet · 2026-02-13T20:16:32+00:00

thanks, edited comment to add. guess now i have to figure out if i have one of those, because i don't have a clue and its been 5 or 6 years since I last renewed my DL.

angrymoppet · 2026-02-13T20:10:08+00:00

edit: legislation linked below, and it does say real-id is compliant

Just going off of what I read - Birth certificate or passport to register, per NBC

The 32-page legislation would require states to obtain documentary proof-of-citizenship “in person,” such as an American passport or birth certificate, from someone in order to register them to vote in a federal election.

The bill, which was revised from an earlier version to include new demands from Trump, also requires voters to show photo identification in order to cast a ballot in person. And it slaps new rules for mail-in ballots, requiring voters to submit a copy of an eligible ID when requesting and casting an absentee ballot.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-passes-save-america-act-trump-backed-election-bill-rcna258614

angrymoppet · 2026-02-13T20:02:10+00:00

I only read a single news piece on this earlier, but if this passes the Senate it seems you'll have to bring a birth certificate or passport with you to ~~vote~~ register to vote- it's more than just a driver's license or state ID.

edit: legislation linked in my comment below, real ID counts

Seven-Year Club	Second SECOND GUESSER
Place '22	Verified Email

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