I’ll start: The Red Hot Chili Peppers are 3 years older than Guns N’ Roses.

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The American government was still paying out a civil war pension in 2020.

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Another government related one. The UK government were until 2015 still paying compensation to families that made their wealth in the slave trade, for it’s abolition. Another way to read this is that some wealthy families accepted tax payers money as compensation for their ancestors no longer being able to profit from the abuse of humans.

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And people foam at the mouth at the idea of reparations being paid out to descendants of slaves…

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Good point, slightly inaccurately made. They weren’t still paying compensation in 2015. That was the year they finished paying off the debt taken out to pay compensation.

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Virtual lamps use real electricity and produce real light, so even if though they are virtual they are also real

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Wait… Processing…

So… a lamp in a video game is also a lamp in real life?

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You could totally turn off the lights, sit next to the ingame lamp, and use that light to read or light your room. So, yes!

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This is peak showerthoughts content.

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Doesn’t sound made up

A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa in the family Rosaceae, or the flower it bears.

Sounds made up

Apples, pears, quinces, apricots, plums, cherries, peaches, raspberries, blackberries, loquats, strawberries, rose hips, hawthorns, and almonds are all members of the rose family (Rosaceae).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosaceae

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Surprised they didn’t all get classified as Brassica oleracea yet.

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Your Intel CPU comes with a *nix operating system built in

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Care to elaborate?

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All Intel CPUs have a Management Engine, basically a smaller CPU within the CPU designed for controlling the rest of the chip. It’s particularly good for things like IT management or devices because it operates with direct control over the other parts of the chip. This device’s firmware is based on Minix.

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it’s also particularly good for the nsa, reason why many people decide to block it (or at least minimize what it can do, since it can’t be blocked anymore)

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Cool, thanks. I work at Intel for a third party, but I have no idea how they get the chip to actually work. I only get the manufacturing process. Thanks for the info

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They didn’t teach calculus at Harvard when the school opened because it hadn’t been discovered yet.

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