Such variety!
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2025
73 points (96.2% liked)
Ask Lemmy
35523 readers
1019 users here now
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I'd rather share my porn history
OK. Let's have it then. I'm always looking for recommendations.
Both my porn and my Wikipedia history include Monosodium Glutamate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break
I was helping a friend with music production, you see
Very cool love that I have this bit of knowledge. Can't wait I can bring it up organically when a song with it plays. I never even thought about how different beats or bits of songs have specific names. Anyone have that wiki??
This might have been a link, not a search but still, enjoy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver-engineered_dam_in_the_Czech_Republic
load more comments
(1 replies)
Because yesterday was the fifth of November, I looked up Wikipedia pages about the story and person(s) that inspired the movie, V for Vendetta
The Wiki article about the Gunpowder Plot in particular was most interesting.
The nasal infix for present or very recent actions which was a feature in Proto-Indo-European. Best example is how vicit becomes vincit in Latin. (You'll recognise the first one from "veni vidi vici" and the second from "invincible". Both have to do with conquering. Or not being.)
It might also be the root of the word "now" in English, but the evidence for that is scant at best and it's not in the Wikipedia article. Ditto the n in "recent", which would be pre-PIE if true.
Also Linux kernel version history and smear frame to double check what I was talking about in recent Fediverse comments.
The Donner Party.
It's inexplicably like my "Roman Empire" for dudes. I think about that tragedy near weekly.
That is so fascinating. I believe one of the survivors later wrote a book about it, it's public domain and can be downloaded from digital libraries. I never finished it, but read a good chunk up to the part where they had to eat their dead trek members and leather shoe straps. It's ironic that they were initially trying to take a short cut and save time, but unfortunate circumstances stacked up, cost them lots of time and ended in disaster.
I'll have to read it! We just moved to NorCal and joined our local library, so I'm sure I can find it there! If not, the Libby app!
My husband and I did the drive to Reno over Halloween weekend, and we went over Donner Pass.
Lemme tell you if you've never been, that section of the US is breathtakingly beautiful, but I could ALSO see how it is devastatingly, oppressively terrifying. And that was even with clear roads and little mountain towns sprinkled around. I got chills thinking about if there was nothing except chest deep snow, dying fires, and blankets to keep warm.
load more comments
(3 replies)
From Dante, to Jamiroquai, to Nazis, to tunnel, to Caillou. These are all from the same day. I fucking love Wikipedia.
The article on Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish military genius and aid to Washington and the colonialists during the American Revolutionary War. He was in with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson too. Among many other things, he designed the fortifications around West Point.
He also led the "Kościuszko Uprising" against the Russian occupation of Poland.
My favorite anecdote from the article is that he was all about human rights. He willed a portion of his estate to freeing enslaved black people, including Thomas Jefferson's slaves specifically. Everyone charged with executing his will balked at that one though, the money ended up going to education for black people instead. Still, what a way to get a final mic drop against a colleague from beyond the grave.
I was wondering what Vin Diesel and Billy Strings real names were. Mark Sinclair & William Apostol. Then i read about stage names
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_guilt?wprov=sfla1
I saw Godzilla Minus One recently and I was curious about this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortina_d%27Ampezzo
Because I became curious about why the car was named that.
Some random steroid, because a drug name came up in a video I was watching and I had never heard of it before. I thought it was going to be some sort of party drug. Turns out it's for bodybuilders who don't want the water retention of the normal ones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration
... because a Danish politician is talking about "remigrating" 50.000-100.000 people.
Electron flow. My son had a test on electricity, and the dumbasses said that current flows from positive to negative. Which is dumb ass horse shit. Everyone knows that electron flow is negative to positive.
Mug Root Beer. I was trying to find out if the "Mugrootbeeroffcial" socials was actually them. Their youtube videos are nuts.
I don't remember which term it was, but I often use wikipedia to clarify translations. Complex terms are usually not found in dictionaries (online or paper). So i can look for the term in a localized wikipedia, and then switch to the English version of that article.
This was yesterday. High speed rail in Japan/China and in Belgium/Netherlands
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_Belgium
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_the_Netherlands
I was watching an RMTransit video last night, and just realized how almost comical it is that Belgium and the Netherlands (which together is not much bigger than the Tokyo or Shanghai metropolitan areas) have multiple high-speed rail lines
Porn actress Kagney Linn Karter. I recently found out she took her own life last year which was quite sad.
Aron Flam, Swedish comedian. Igorrr, a French avant garde metal band.
Yeísmo -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye%C3%ADsmo
The double L in many Spanish dialects turning into a Y sound.
I had no idea there was a name for it. Cool!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fighter_aircraft
I've been looking at modern fighter jets for some inspiration in my sci-fi world I'm making, and I was kinda shocked to learn the US is the odd one out for having a relatively small gatling gun with a huge rate of fire and 100s of round of ammo. Turns out most modern jets use much slower firing, higher caliber autocannons and only have like 100-200 rounds on board. Reminds me of how the US almost exclusively used a bunch of .50s on their fighter planes during WWII while the rest of the world started mounting larger cannons on their planes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ycu%C3%A1_Bola%C3%B1os_supermarket_fire
A pretty fucked up incident where hundreds of people were murdered because owners were worried about theft during a fire.
I'm using an old RC helicopter radio I bought eons ago to control a raspberry pi, so I'm reverse engineering the signal on the receiver side (which was surprisingly easy), and I got curious about the company in general.
view more: next ›