The abbreviation ‘lbs’ for ‘pounds’ comes from the Roman ‘libre pondo’ meaning ‘a pound by weight’.

This is also the reason the symbol for Libra in the zodiac is scales (Libra is the only sign represented by an inanimate object).

I just learnt this today, and I can’t believe I never noticed before now that ‘lbs’ for ‘pounds’ is weird. I always just mentally glossed over it.

Yeah, a whole lot of violent racists applied for ICE jobs that were notoriously lax on hiring criteria.

I wonder if there’s any link between those factors that may also correlate some violent racists being legally allowed to beat and shoot people they don’t like, so they can fill their urges without ‘doing crime’ now.

I’d bet money that we soon hear about serial killer whi worked at ICE, and I’ll bet at least one is active right now. If I had this idea, a real killer will certainly thought of it…

I appreciate ‘reshapes’ in this headline. Not the rage bait ‘rewrites’ or clickbaity ‘shatters’ or the worse ‘EVERYTHING WE WERE TOLD ABOUT THIS WAS WRONG!1!!one’.

Just cool, we’ve learned even more that we didn’t know before. Like how science is meant to work.

HAhahahahaha.

Can we recommend our own books?

Blue Are the Hills by Lilly Piper. Character-driven dystopian sci-fi.

Hope you have a great time!

‘Deeply concerned’.

Not going to do anything about it, but we’ll furrow our brows really hard.

If you don’t sin, he died for nothing.

Thanks, that was hell on mobile.

Mayonnaise PLUS jello, with hotdogs. Perfect.

Turns out I love Brussels sprouts, so long as you don’t cook them til they’re grey.

I grew up in the 70s with casseroles that would make your god cry.

If I’m diagnosed with cancer, I’m blaming old-timey cooking. Some things should be left in the past.

Thank you.

Eno seod ton ylpmis daer siht sdrawkcab.

Oh thank goodness. This was really impacting my life.

Yeah. I’ve already passed the Socially Awkward station, and You’re Putting People Off was like 2 stops ago. Guess this is where I get off.

It’s the Deep South. Are we surprised?

They’ve been itching to reinstate Jim Crow down there.

A bit more disenfranchisement and the plantation owners politicians will get slavery back.

Xbox has adopted and abandoned AI in the amount of time I stopped playing, stopped paying for Live, and will maybe start again. (eta: if I don’t find something else that has 3D VR).

Weird, that.

I just watched a long form video on the difference between war and conflict, and how we can’t really call many animal conflicts ’war’.

And then how some animal conflicts, like ant and chimp wars really are war. It was pretty cool.

Since some dinosaurs species were around for a very long time, I wonder whether they did wage war? They had plenty of time to develop culture and more than enough to hate each other. Maybe war really never changes.

eta: and as mum to a young dino enthusiast back in the day, I hope they were that complex cuz that’s groovy. Still hip to please that little boy, lol.

Contrary to what my teachers tried to teach me, I am a user, mean, and req’d.

Take that, Mister Ecker!

Very sad news, but I can’t say I’m surprised based on what I know.
This seemed fairly inevitable, after the German takeover of 2020.
It’s a real shame, and especially how it was handled has left many artisan craftsmen with no job as of tomorrow, with no warning in this economy. Tragic.