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Fun fact: US has so weak food counterfeit laws and enforcement it has become the dumping ground for low quality oil or even mixed, making it an allergy hazard. If you haven’t gone out of your way to ensure you are getting the real deal, and paid a premium for it, you probably have never tasted genuine extra virgin olive oil. https://www.mashed.com/281801/the-real-reason-your-olive-oil-is-probably-fake/
40·1 year agoHalf as Interesting explained how it ended up like this. https://piped.video/watch?v=_Bq-6GeRhys
TL;DW; Amazon tried to offload vetting of the third party vendors to the patent and trademark office by requiring their brands are registered, but the vendors ended up generating nonsense brand names that automatically pass because there are too many applications and the names aren’t obviously going to conflict with existing ones.
3·1 year agoSanna Marin was not supposed to be the prime minister, but the old white guy fucked up so bad he had to resign after half a year and they had to switch in a hurry. The last government was a sum of multiple coincidences.
The Finns party coming in power has been on the cards for a decade. Actually they have been for a while before, but the moderates, including the party founder, chosen as the ministers split off when people running the current party line were elected to run the party. This time the National Coalition decided to take the risk again with the finns party, so they wouldn’t have to compromise their economic policies with the leftist parties and the risk seems to have backfired more quickly and worse they anticipated.
Yes, I do. A lot. Starting from elementary school when a class mate had a really weird pronunciation of Harry Potter.
Some of my embarrassing memories aren’t even something I did, but something I cringed hard at when I saw or heard it. Sometimes I am so afraid someone else is going to embarrass themself I have to block my ears so I don’t hear it.
Once an idea is passed to event a single other person it has spread.
This was getting popular
https://sopuli.xyz/post/1210362
But the it was posted and screenshotted on Twitter to be posted back here and everything went downhill
Demotivational posters and rage comics were varied from get go and didn’t have a single viral hit sparking them.
Not really Richard Dawkins’ original definition of the term when he created it was on the lines of
A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.
One of the earliest internet memes was just to photoshop “All Your Base Is Belong To Us” on everything.
4chan used to be the internet meme factory where ideas were copied and mutated before they broke out to the wider internet to go viral.
I don’t speak french, but I know how annoying it is when people leave out diacritics and make other mistakes they could have avoided just using a minute to verify.
It has already been immortalised in the memechain
Damn, was in a too much of a hurry and forgot to add the text in the toot
Not here. Normal is at least 5 minutes early and the fashionably late types come on the dot. If you end up even 5 minutes late, you should inform the host immediately when you realize you could be running late.
- Brick Experiment Channel testing Lego bricks and building remote controlled vehicles
- Technology Connections explaining how TVs, refridgerators, coin operated record players, LaserDisc and any kind of other technological stuff works
- Lemmino documentary type videos about all kinds of stuff, not many videos and hasn’t been posting for a while but the backlog is good
- Fredrik Knudsen documentary videos mostly about internet culture, also hasn’t posted for a while
- Obviously Tom Scott, but also the channels with his friends Matt and Tom (no new videos anymore, but has Citation Needed and Two of these people are lying) and Technical Difficulties
- Hbomberguy in depth videos about stuff
So… It’s historically accurate? The “heart” symbol doesn’t really look like an actual heart and may have been modelled after a bum or a scrotum. Or the seed of a plant used as a contraceptive.