Pipoca

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[–] Pipoca 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

it's not unreasonable to expect the cool prop to feel like it's not trying to fly across the yard if you swing it around.

You might think that, but most of these are called wall hangers for a reason.

Many of them have rat-tail tangs or are made with stainless steel. They might feel balanced, but are liable to snap if you swing them around.

[–] Pipoca 11 points 10 months ago

She married her husband a year after they both graduated college. This would have been taken while she was still in college.

Her father was a career politician, and had spent about a decade as Baltimore's mayor before Kennedy's election. That's presumably why she was there.

At any rate, she's never had a career outside politics. She did volunteer work for the Democratic party when she was raising her kids; she first ran for office around the time they were graduating from high school.

[–] Pipoca 3 points 10 months ago

I assume his point is that calling Manchin or Sinema "liberal" isn't super accurate.

[–] Pipoca 1 points 10 months ago

The tiny "ground attack" spiders, whatever they're called, are legion.

Some kind of jumping spider, maybe? Jumping spiders are called that because rather than wait for prey to land on their web they actively hunt insects.

https://thepetenthusiast.com/types-of-jumping-spiders/

[–] Pipoca 5 points 10 months ago

Essentially.

Medical ethics prevent actual medical professionals from participating in executions. So they make random prison employees do it. So it's often botched.

[–] Pipoca 1 points 10 months ago

And linguists call Urdu and Hindi different registers of Hindustani. Essentially, it's Hindi with a lot of Persian and Arabic loanwords.

So it's even more specifically like British people seeing Latin before the reformation.

[–] Pipoca 7 points 10 months ago

She was kicked out due to complaints about her vaping and being loud.

Everything else came out afterwards when they double checked the tapes.

[–] Pipoca 43 points 10 months ago (5 children)

She's a 37 year old divorced grandmother.

You're essentially correct, there, but slightly off on a couple details. About a month before her divorce finalized, she was kicked out of a musical for vaping and being rowdy with her new boyfriend.

[–] Pipoca 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Apparently that might or might not be a mistranslation?

https://www.etymonline.com/word/checkmate

mid-14c., in chess, said of a king when it is in check and cannot escape it, from Old French eschec mat (Modern French échec et mat), which (with Spanish jaque y mate, Italian scacco-matto) is from Arabic shah mat "the king died" (see check (n.1)), which according to Barnhart is a misinterpretation of Persian mat "be astonished" as mata "to die," mat "he is dead." Hence Persian shah mat, if it is the ultimate source of the word, would be literally "the king is left helpless, the king is stumped."

[–] Pipoca 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ok, I'll bite.

How many people do you think shopped at your grocery store?

On average, how much food do you think they each wasted per week at home?

How much food per week did your store waste?

How typical do you think these numbers are nationwide?

[–] Pipoca 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Look at figure 2.

Consumption isn't 50%, but it's the largest single bar in that chart - significantly so.

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