I just watched a TV segment on the most highly paid podcasters. I was very disappointed to see that for the 15th year in a row, I am not on the list 😢

RE: https://mastodon.social/@staff/117016446554714236

cyberspace.social users, we're adopting much the same terms of service as Mastodon centrally in 30 days - so if you see the email, it's nothing exciting.

Accouplement de vers luisants. Si si, y'a un mâle tout petit tout noir accroché en bas ;-)

I thought everyone knew this but ....
Neurodivergent story time!

In the era of French aristocracy, American culture was just starting to get posh. And Americans (colonists then citizens) at the time decided great high class table manners meant copying high French fashion. So they adopted this weird "zig zag" method of eating where we only eat with the fork in our right hands facing up like you'd scoop food, but also only use the knife in our right hands. So every time you cut something you set the fork down and switch hands, then switch back. We can't eat with a fork in our left hand (if we were raised with strict table manners that don't care about handedness).

America did that big revolution and our big freedom thing and never switched back. The rest of the world moved on to knife in the right hand, fork in the left turned downward whilst cutting stuff.

You can always tell an American while eating by how we use the knife and fork. It's how they caught spies in WWII. Turns out it is incredibly hard to relearn XD

Emigrating has generally been a very, very complicated and difficult task, but by far the hardest aspect has been relearning how to use a knife and fork. It's way harder than accents or driving on the other side of the road.

In April, NASA turned off one of the few remaining functional instruments. They have been slowly disabling them since 1998, because of limited power/use at various ranges.

Think about that for a moment…

It launched almost 50 years ago, in 1977. And we are STILL able to communicate with it. Expectedly until 2036. And this with our technology knowledge at the time.

Unless it collides with something or is retrieved, it will reach the Oort Cloud in about 300 years. It will take about 30k years to pass through it.

All of this blows my mind.

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager

#Voyager #Space #NASA #Interstellar #Universe #Technology

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