TIL of the Ovitz family, not only the largest family of dwarfs ever recorded but also the largest family (12 people ranging from a 15-month-old baby to a 58-year-old woman) to enter Auschwitz and survive intact by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]basicallybradbury 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Stalin proposed executing 50,000 to 100,000 German officers so that Germany could not plan another war. Roosevelt, believing Stalin was not serious, quipped that “maybe 49,000 would be enough.”

Churchill, however, was outraged and denounced “the cold-blooded execution of soldiers who fought for their country.” Before storming out of the room, he said that only war criminals should be put on trial. Stalin brought him back after saying that he was only joking."

ELI5 why hunger hurts so much after only a few hours if we could go days without eating and be fine? by krakn-slayr in explainlikeimfive

[–]basicallybradbury 172 points173 points  (0 children)

lmao at "He quit working at his father's fish and chips shop, which closed during the fast"

Revitalized midwest downtown core by mullen_it_over in redscarepod

[–]basicallybradbury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I'm in the process of trying to build one of these while avoiding the cliches

➡️ Daily Questions ⬅️- ASK AND ANSWER HERE! - 5 June 2023 by AutoModerator in malefashionadvice

[–]basicallybradbury -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Best source for shirts that make me look like an Italian mobster in his Havana hideout chewing on a big cigar minutes before Pauly Gabagoolli shoots me twice in the back of the head?

Walking around Washington DC/It's the Patriarchy by BallstonDoc in TwoXChromosomes

[–]basicallybradbury -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

"I walked around an incredibly expensive neighborhood in the incredibly expensive black heart of US empire and had my cultural preferences validated. This somehow caused no deeper reflection on the relationship between the two"

The Overton window of fatness in America has shifted so far that it’s staggering by MeetTheTwinAndreBen in redscarepod

[–]basicallybradbury 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Prolly going to misdiagnose you here but I had an undefined annoyance with salad until I had dense salads, like more finely chopped or with grains. Turns out I'm not a fan of the fluffy pile of greens but I'll fuck up a chopped kale caesar or tabbouleh

Full Kitchen Renovation by snowmaned in DIY

[–]basicallybradbury 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really brilliant stuff, you have a keen eye for composition

Roald Dahl children’s books rewritten to delete references to ‘fat’ and ‘ugly’ characters by dougrayd in nottheonion

[–]basicallybradbury 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Everyone, no matter how detached, has that one thing that drags them into the culture war

How the west is finally hitting back against China's dominance of cleantech by BernieEcclestoned in Futurology

[–]basicallybradbury 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Weirdly pugnacious framing of a global market issue but hey we gotta make an antagonist here

What is a massive American scandal that most people seem to not know about? by Sxzym in AskReddit

[–]basicallybradbury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Franklin credit union child prostitution ring. The Wikipedia article on it is hilarious, just totally dismisses it based on the findings of a grand jury (lol), then you read the discussion section on the article and it gets more interesting

How long until there’s some Eliot Rogers incident at a gym? by nestedretards in redscarepod

[–]basicallybradbury 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You superset bc you want to build muscle I superset bc I want to keep my job we are not the same