[-] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Exactly. That’s why the “13yo” kid having sex seems less worrisome.

[-] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 36 points 6 days ago

The picture seems weird. The parent asking about emojis, ends their question with a kiss emoji? I don’t know that I buy it’s real

[-] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I thought the same. I wonder, if there has been a shift, if it’s related to a general trend of starting families later in life, too. Does it hit as their kids grow up and become independent?

[-] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

They’re not wizards, but did Jawas from Star Wars establish the aesthetic?

[-] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago

Why is the changing her life part (losing weight and getting a divorce after seeing Bigfoot) relevant? Did she leave her husband to try to get with Bigfoot and is suing the state because they claim her new beau doesn’t exist? Wild!

[-] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Give it a couple years… and then a few more.

[-] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Noting a correction is part of a larger scope of annotating something. From Wikipedia:

There is also a two-thousand-year-old character used by Aristarchus of Samothrace called the asteriskos, ※, which he used when proofreading Homeric poetry to mark lines that were duplicated. Origen is known to have also used the asteriskos to mark missing Hebrew lines from his Hexapla. The asterisk evolved in shape over time, but its meaning as a symbol used to correct defects remained.

In the Middle Ages, the asterisk was used to emphasize a particular part of text, often linking those parts of the text to a marginal comment. However, an asterisk was not always used.

Aristarchus of Samothrace was from c. 220 – c. 143 BC, so it’s been used for notation since at least then!

[-] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

Boiling water is extremely dangerous! Water at 140°F (60°C) will cause a serious burn in 3 seconds. Even water at 120°F (49°C) will cause a serious burn within 10 minutes. Source

[-] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 93 points 3 months ago

I had to look this one up, it’s a reference to a mountain climber, George Mallory. From Wikipedia:

Once, when asked by a reporter why he wanted to climb Everest, Mallory purportedly replied, "Because it's there."

[-] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

There’s a lot of references to this, but it looks like there’s not a known source. Interestingly, the first reference to this tablet was from 1908. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/10/22/world-end/

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