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06 Jun 2025, 7:22 am

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The circle of Willis is part of the human brain

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06 Jun 2025, 7:22 am

Mario is an animal abuser.

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06 Jun 2025, 11:09 am

I didn't know it was illegal to sell Christmas crackers to anyone under 12

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06 Jun 2025, 4:26 pm

Tamaya wrote:

That I probably have Hyperthymestic syndrome, meaning I can kind of relive most of my past in my head. It's wonderful to be able to have an autobiographical memory like that, but the only downside is that it explains why I hang on to bad memories too and why it takes longer for me to get over things.

It's EXACTLY the way it is for me as well. Once I was talking to some reiki master with paranormal powers about young children remembering their previous lives - I personally don't remember any but this one is remembered by me all along - someone was carrying me above a baby crib

I also remember myself not being even one year old and being on the train with my mother. I also remember how as a child one month shy of my third birthday, I made our christmas tree fall - half the glass balls got broken then. I have generally like 80-90 memories from the third year of life - later I could already remember everything exquisitely well

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06 Jun 2025, 4:30 pm

babybird wrote:

I didn't know it was illegal to sell Christmas crackers to anyone under 12

What? Me neither. How come it's illegal to sell to children? :scratch:

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06 Jun 2025, 4:39 pm

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/201 ... ed-europe/

Today I found out (from the "Seven Stones to Stand and Fall" collection of stories from the "Outlander" universe by Diana Gabaldon) about the existence of the "eau de nil" color.

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06 Jun 2025, 7:56 pm

That Facebook video reels that are longer than like a minute or two have unavoidable ads now. I was wondering when this was going to start happening. :roll:

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06 Jun 2025, 8:57 pm

Just saying, I think that attachment size - including video - on Mastodon is 99MB by default. This allows several minutes of video. No ads.
I virtually never post anything on Facebook.

I have a very dormant account there I use about once every month or two, just to look at event postings for organizations too poor to have their own website (or run by non-technical volunteers). They unfortunately have a Facebook Page only.

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09 Jun 2025, 3:28 pm

Pet dogs and cats have to be microchipped in the UK - it's da law. I didn't know that before.

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09 Jun 2025, 4:57 pm

Some things about the Rasos Cemetery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasos_Cemetery I needed those to write a legend (made up by me, of course) for some writing contest because I want to win a tablet

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09 Jun 2025, 5:08 pm

funeralxempire wrote:

Mario is an animal abuser.

Have you been influenced by PETA, who can't tell the difference between a fantasy video game and real life and are hypocritically stealing and killing pets and service animals?

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09 Jun 2025, 7:32 pm

I agree about Mario being an animal abuser. He leaves poor Yoshi behind to fall off a cliff at the end of each level.

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09 Jun 2025, 7:41 pm

lostonearth35 wrote:

funeralxempire wrote:

Mario is an animal abuser.

Have you been influenced by PETA, who can't tell the difference between a fantasy video game and real life and are hypocritically stealing and killing pets and service animals?

No, just by Mario punching Yoshi in the head to make him stick out his tongue. I only played SMW recently so I didn't know about that until now.

As for PETA, while I don't agree with them I don't think it's as simple as hypocrisy. They believe pet ownership infringes on an animal's agency, and they're not entirely wrong even if killing animals to avoid their agency being infringed upon is a bit extreme.

It's logically consistent, even if it's extreme, which means 'hypocrisy' isn't the strongest criticism. It's just an inherently extreme position to hold.

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I agree about Mario being an animal abuser. He leaves poor Yoshi behind to fall off a cliff at the end of each level.

That too.

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10 Jun 2025, 10:28 pm

That Sim children can die in the Sims 2.

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11 Jun 2025, 7:37 am

It's International Lynx Day today. Who the heck comes up with some of this stuff?

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11 Jun 2025, 7:41 am

So you mean Lynx deodorant

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