charonn0

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The Romans named their years after who was elected Consul that year. There were two Consuls, so you'd say "in the consulship of Jones and Smith". 59BC was Julius Caesar and some other guy. The other guy was so unimportant that Romans joked by calling it the consulship of "Julius and Caesar".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The researchers say they derived the name of its genus, hotwheels, directly from the beloved toy due to the structure of the male spiders' reproductive organs. [...] "Because of the lack of nerves in the palpal bulb, the challenges faced by a male spider attempting to copulate can be likened to those of a person attempting to adjust a complex, delicate mechanism in the dark, using an elongate, elaborately formed fingernail"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Someone once told me that time is a predator that stalks us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment, ...because they'll never come again. ...What we leave behind is not as important as how we lived. ...After all, Number One, we're only mortal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

It doesn't have to be addition. It could be a hash function, etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

All participants select their own random whole number and publish it to the group. All participants add all the numbers together. The result is either odd or even (heads/tails) and everyone arrives at the same result independently.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Annual commemorative pastry observance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The hair is all wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

plea for 1/2 that was rejected

The rejected plea was for 6 months.

[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That's not exactly what happened.

Aaron committed suicide before his case went to trial, and so he was never convicted let alone sentenced. 35 years was never even likely; had it gone to trial there's every reason to think he'd have been acquitted outright, or at worst given a slap on the wrist. Not that he should have even been charged, of course.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It goes on to say that they did this in public while recording themselves.

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