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Today I Learned...
Today I learned that is is actually, really, not-even-joking, a ticketable offense to sit on any New York city subway or platform seating if you are obese to the point that your body isn't fully contained within a single partition.
If you're mega fat, you can get a ticket if you sit down.
If you're mega fat, you can get a ticket if you sit down.
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Also that most University software has ass for UI.
You know the term "fragging", for killing your superior officers? Term comes from the Vietnam War, which I knew. What I didn't know is that there were nine hundred suspected cases during the conflict. That's 1.5% of the casualties total.
Don't get involved in a land war in Asia.
By sheer coincidence, one of the people who was minorly injured in the incident was Lieutenant Peter Cosgrove, who later went on to become the Chief of the Army, and later, Chief of the defense force. He's the current Governor General of Australia.
Don't forget, my city's only race riot was because US troops in WW2 got real pissed off because we refused to play nice with their demands of segregation. And I know civil rights and race relations were still not exactly in tip-top shape by the time Vietnam rolled around, so it's no surprise that it was the same old fucked up shit.
1 - A diplomatic victory in Civ V is a lot harder then it needs to be since the UN can not be built anymore but rather earned once someone goes into the information age.
2-Locating PBS Documentaries online for panel work is a pain in the ass and the only means I could get it was in a physical copy (hope I can rip the damn thing)
3-When trying to record your desktop to create videos to use at a convention, ignore all of the obvious software stuff that is out there and modify OBS. It works better then you would think.
4-I need to do some damn good trickery things to edit the NXT panel to go within an hour.
I already knew that he didn't electrocute small animals - that was his associate, Harold P. Brown - but I thought that he had been involved in the execution of Topsy the Elephant.
Turns out to not be the case - thanks the the Rutgers project "The Edison papers", which have been studying the 5 million bits of documentation about Edison's life, we have documentary evidence that proves he wasn't even present, and had nothing to do with the whole sorry spectacle. The electrical work for the execution was carried out by electricians from New York Edison/Edison company, but Edison himself hadn't had anything to do with the Edison company for a number of years, by that point.
The rates for people are approx. As follows
Female non vet 5
Female vet 29
Male non vet 21
Male vet 32
All numbers are approximate per 100,000.
There is no indication of any sort of gender bias in regards to deployment of soldiers. Do you just like seeing some sort of conflict where there isn't any?
What has really gotten to me lately are the emails asking to prove I have the right to use media commercially in my videos. They've been coming after my old Thing of the Day videos HARD recently and, according to a Google phone representative, there are no computers involved in the process, That wouldn't be a problem if the computers understood what a creative commons license was. All of the Thing of the Day videos use a song that is CC BY-SA for BGM, but YouTube wants me to get in touch with the artist and get them to sign an agreement that I can use the songs commercially. That is stupid because that defeats the whole purpose of Creative Commons. The phone rep I talked to couldn't do anything about it because the process is mostly automated and suggested I email Google Legal.
If you have a fully automated system, you NEED to have some way for customers to contact you if something goes wrong. And they just don't. Not within YouTube. I have to talk with the LEGAL department of ALL OF GOOGLE? Who are probably not going to be able to do anything about it anyway?
This is a major driving factor behind me seriously looking into starting a Patreon and eventually making all of my old videos non-monetized. Just to avoid this bullshit. I make maybe $5-6 a month on YouTube Monetization and it takes $100 total earnings before they send me money so I don't even really consider my channel as any revenue.
Even moreso, I'm looking around at other platforms because having all your eggs in one basket is a bad idea in general.