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5·2 months agoWhat is not my absolute favorite joke. He tries really hard when he plays.
What’s on second, Who’s on first, and I Don’t Know’s on third.
2·2 months agoThanks for the added information!
85·2 months agoNo orcing way…
Whaddaya orcing know…
I can sort of see it.
Yes. It was trendy, and then dropped. I think of it “Walking Dead” fever. Sort of like the attraction of the CSI series, hospital shows, cops shows, etc.
51·2 months agoYour question is broader than you think.
For one culture to have an idea and share it to others isn’t uncommon. Pyramids are in Egypt and Mesoamerica. Giants exist in many cultural myths (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_giants_in_mythology_and_folklore) as are ghosts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ghosts).
You see, an idea that’s communicated is a meme.
" A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
If you’re considering spirit as a soul
https://www.planksip.org/the-concept-of-the-soul-in-ancient-philosophy-and-soul-1763067454225/
TL;DR: So, why does it exist across cultures? It’s a meme.
“Roots” was among the first widely read works of fiction to offer a detailed account of the Middle Passage, the horrific transatlantic journey to America endured by enslaved Africans between the 16th and 19th centuries.
“Prior to its release, the impact of slavery was easy to diminish or deny by those that benefited the most from that system,” said Annastasia Williams, bookshop director at The Bottom bookstore and cultural organization.
501·3 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)
Kuru is a rare, incurable, and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. It is a prion disease which leads to tremors and loss of coordination from neurodegeneration. The term kúru means “trembling” and comes from the Fore word kuria or guria (“to shake”).[3][4] It is also known as “laughing sickness” due to abnormal bursts of laughter from the patients.
It was spread among the Fore people via funerary cannibalism.
Mad cow for people.
It’s the assumption that what works for me will work for you. Situations change. Markets change. Skill relevancy changes (ask IT workers).
As for university in Romania, I can’t speak to that. What I can say about it in the US is:
“Go to college and get a good job.” sounds great until you go to an elite school for a Sociology degree. Oh, you’ve got a law degree? The firm expects you to work pro-bono to establish yourself. Work for little pay while establishing yourself while paying off student debt.
and not just students at elite schools.
https://fortune.com/2026/04/03/experience-creep-jobs-ai-entry-level/
Bottom line: have a couple of career paths/options.
14·3 months agoFor clarity the platform is called Snowflake.
While numerous cloud storage and SaaS vendors were targeted using the stolen tokens, BleepingComputer has learned that the majority of the data theft attacks targeted the cloud data platform Snowflake.
The headline is not calling the customers snowflakes.
It appears to be trying to walk the role of mediator.
Iran and Oman are reportedly drafting a protocol to monitor ship transit through the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported on Thursday, citing an official.
A New Route Through Hormuz Sees Three Omani Vessels Slip Past Iranian Waters. The southern coastal route contrasts with the usual northern path running near Iranian waters
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Oman grapples with its national identity as a neutral mediator after Iran’s attacks
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-oman-neutral-mediator-iran-attacks-national-identity/
For Oman, the Strait of Hormuz is a windfall and a burden
The Document Foundation’s official reply came from Italo Vignoli, a founder Collabora lists as having already exited TDF membership.
He has kept it short, confirming that the removals happened, pointing to TDF’s recently adopted Community Bylaws as the basis. Those bylaws include a clause requiring anyone affiliated with a company in an active legal dispute with TDF to step down from membership.
Link to those bylaws from Jan 15
https://community.documentfoundation.org/t/vote-adopt-version-1-of-community-bylaws/13472
Quote from that link [bylaws] above
Members involved in legal claims for endangering the Foundation, eg. by means of putting the charitable status at risk, or misusing TDF’s funds, or by damaging any of TDF’s assets, or by attempting to do any of these must relinquish their membership by means of notification to the MC. If the legal claim, in relation to the mentioned matters, involves a company/organisation then also their affiliated members must relinquish their membership.
Back to the original linked article:
The stated rationale is that past situations saw people put their employer’s interests ahead of the foundation’s, and the clause exists to stop that happening again. The specifics of the legal dispute between TDF and Collabora are not mentioned by either party.
TDF also makes clear that a membership revocation is not a ban from contributing, with the project remaining open to anyone, and expects Collabora to keep contributing “when the time comes.”
So without details, all the article really details is that this happened. The why is murky. It seems the TDF is trying to protect itself, but there’s no description of Collabra or TDFs legal dispute.
https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-weight-change-when-you-fart/527684
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/does-internal-gas-affect-your-weight
https://fartsound.net/blog/does-farting-make-you-weigh-less
“Technically, yes, you do weigh less after farting. When you expel gas from your body, you’re removing mass, which means your weight decreases. However - and this is a big however - the amount is so incredibly tiny that it’s essentially meaningless for weight loss purposes.”
Forbes has an article from a Ph.D. who claims it’s real.
The ‘Gen Z Stare’: What It Means And Why Employers Can’t Afford To Ignore It
By Bryan Robinson, Ph.D., Senior Contributor. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance.
Jul 16, 2025, 06:43pm EDT Jul 21, 2025, 04:07pm EDT
He was born in 1945 according to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_E._Robinson
That puts him in the Silent Generation, as Boomers don’t start until 1946.
If none of us exist, how are you getting upvotes?
“Hubristic”, but “Cocksure” is more fun to say.
In case you lack context, an I-65 sign near Nashville fell onto a semi-truck on Jan. 26. (Photo: TDOT)
Kukla, Fran and Ollie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukla,_Fran_and_Ollie?wprov=sfti1