What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Rev. Rye]

Elon Musk is too smart for chess

No fog of war? Dude, the first 5 rounds alone have a potential of 69,352,859,712,417 possibilities with more potential ways to checkmate than there are people on the planet and you are literally autistic. What the fuck are you talking about?

[Fireball]

Elon Musk is too smart for chess

No fog of war? Dude, the first 5 rounds alone have a potential of 69,352,859,712,417 possibilities with more potential ways to checkmate than there are people on the planet and you are literally autistic. What the fuck are you talking about?

We all know that EM is full of shit. The landing of a booster back on the pad is a culmination of the convergence of technology, based on his sourcing of talent from the local aerospace companies, which he hired away. Much of what he has done is based on what other companies have done.

[Rev. Rye]

This is what a real New Orleans accent sounds like:




Admittedly, I knew this for a while, but hearing Rosamund Pike briefly pretending to have a N’Awlins accent in Gone Girl reminded me of that.

[Fake Messiah]

Taylor Swift’s cat is worth $97million.

[arewethereyet]

Had no idea this was a thing - other than serial killers wanting to wear skin suits, etc.  Creepy like those people who have their dead dog taxidermied to keep it around.  No, just no.  

I was heartbroken when my wife died — so I brought her ‘back to life’ for $3K (msn.com)

An Indian man reportedly brought his dead wife “back to life” after spending nearly $3,000 to make it happen.
Tapas Sandilya, 65, lost his wife, Indrani, in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Before her death, Indrani allegedly told her husband that in the event she passed away before her husband, she would like him to create a silicone model of herself to keep him company, according to The Sun.
The model — which is eerily life-like — is dressed in Indrani’s favorite clothing and sits in her favorite spot on the couch in Sandilya’s living room.

[Rev. Rye]

It strikes me as being less serial killer-like and more like Lars and the Real Girl, except with an Indian widower and not a younger, likely autistic Minnesotan. (And, yes, Lars is one of my cinematic autism headcanons)

[Rev. Rye]

Contrary to what the song says, Victoria was not made up by a dude. That said, the idea of the real Victoria was co-opted by a dude 76 years after she died.



Yep, the brand was actually named after Queen Fucking Victoria.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

In 1748, Benjamin Franklin published a how-to manual called 'The American Instructor (or Young Man's Best Companion)'. In addition to instructions on such matters as spelling, arithmetic, and bookkeeping, the manual also included detailed information on performing at-home medicinal abortions.

There was no hue and cry over the book.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

Andre Agassi's dad grew up in Iran where, when he was a bad boy, his mom forced him to wear girl's clothes to school. The same kind of parenting that Henry Lee Lucas got.

[arewethereyet]

Prince Harry wrote a book that has a lot of people pissed off....who knew?