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What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
Apparently, when your laptop just goes to black while still running, you’re supposed to go Windows+Ctrl+shift+B and not just hold down the power button until it shuts off.
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(October 12, 2025 at 2:40 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: Apparently, when your laptop just goes to black while still running, you’re supposed to go Windows+Ctrl+shift+B and not just hold down the power button until it shuts off.

Easy solution: Buy a Mac.

Boru
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
There are two different kinds of jambalaya. I recently bought a Spanish rice mix that calls for diced tomatoes. That sounds similar to Creole jambalaya.
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Ringo Starr is the only former Beatle to have two number one Billboard back-to-back singles from one studio album. 'Photograph' (November, 1973) and 'You're Sixteen' (January, 1974), both from his third solo album, Ringo.

Boru
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
(October 12, 2025 at 5:38 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(October 12, 2025 at 2:40 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: Apparently, when your laptop just goes to black while still running, you’re supposed to go Windows+Ctrl+shift+B and not just hold down the power button until it shuts off.

Easy solution: Buy a Mac.

Boru

Only to sacrifice to the PC gods...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

Aphantasia is the inability to voluntarily visualize mental images.

I was today years old when I learned people can do this. I cannot.
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The latest installment in the series of "I thought South Park made this shit up, but it's actually real":

Billionaire Peter Thiel is legitimately obsessed with the Antichrist, and his beliefs are even dumber than in the show. Apparently, he thinks Greta Thunberg is a candidate for the Antichrist because her climate activism goes directly in the face of his accelerationist views.

Odd, considering that it's been proven that the Antichrist is actually this guy:




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^I always imagined the Antichrist having better moves.

Boru
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
Oh, Cuba is now starring in movies with Pastor Dave.

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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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A few from the latest episode of Tor's Cabinet of Wonders:




  • There's a patron saint of Autism: Saint Thorlak of Iceland. Not officially (at least the autism part), but apparently, Catholic autism groups are trying to add autism to his domain. I was going to make a point about how it's better than being the patron saint of Iceland, but evidently, given that Iceland's Catholic population has grown rapidly since I was born (4 times if you count percentage of the population, 6 times if you count sheer numbers), at least it's something. 
  • Narcosaints are a thing: one particularly notable example is Jesus Malverde, who, despite having clearly established birth and death dates, may or may not have existed. Lalo Salamanca from Better Call Saul apparently wears a necklace of him, but I must have missed any scenes where he draws attention to it. 
  • I know that Latin American Catholicism includes many traditions from the Pre-Columbian civilizations, but I did not know that this extended to turning (for instance) Mayan deities like Maximon into saints.
  • There was a saint who could fucking fly: Saint Joseph of Cupertino. I guess The Flying Nun wasn't as random an idea as I thought. 
  • I was aware that St. Agatha was considered the patron saint of breasts, but I did not know that this veneration went as far as including creating titty cupcakes.
  • One story about St. Nicholas that somehow became obscure: Supposedly, he encountered a butcher who decided to turn three kids into ham hocks, and turned them back into living children just by making a sign of the cross over the barrel they were in. Somehow, this legend became obscure, but the image of him with three kids in a tub (insert jokes about pedo priests here) lived on and is apparently why hes the patron saint of children.
  • Cephalophore is the term for a saint that carries around its own severed, but still living head. There are something like 120 of them, possibly making up 1% of the total Saint population. On a more secular note, there may be a Cephalophoric version of Johnny 2x4 at around 3:52 in this Ed, Edd, n Eddy video, but, given that Plank is sitting in the place of his normal head, and even far more mundane episodes imply that he might actually be sentient, I don't know.






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