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Today, we learned that in ancient Rome, the instant any military official set foot in the city of Rome, they were immediately stripped of all military power for the duration of their visit. From the lowest-rank footsoldiers all the way up to the generals, everyone was a civilian while in Rome.

This strikes me as a really good way to prevent abuse of power, at least in the ancient world. Any military force in the city of Rome is automatically illegal.

considered getting dark souls on the pc rather than just having it on xbox and: apparently the original port can't be purchased anymore and the "remastered" edition is super expensive??????

as it turns out, 6 AWG equivalent litz wire is actually closer to 3 AWG dimensionally, due to the thin insulation around each strand.

This means that it doesn't even remotely fit into the connectors we bought for it. Oops.

is this a common problem people have‽

The thing I love most about this corner of the internet is that people feel comfortable enough to be genuine, to do things without worrying about how others will react

Random bits of electrical hardware are too fun to fidget with, this is the second time I've realized I accidentally took something home from the lab

I mean both times they were things that cost only a few cents so it's not like I feel guilty about it or anything but still, this stuff is too good a fidget toy thing

music idea: a symphony where the instruments are an NES, an SNES, a Sega Genesis, and a Commodore 64

today we learned: The Super Smash Bros. Brawl main theme was composed by Nobuo Uematsu

rpgs usually have really boring generic sleep music and it really bugs me so when we first played Wild ARMs it was such a good thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8pU7E0F7KQ

would the inverse of the Young's modulus be called the Old's modulus?

do they make camera 'lenses' that use zone plates instead of lenses, I wonder?

*spills umlauts all over the place*

today we learned that there's a type of motor vehicle race, called a regularity rally, where instead of the goal being to be the first person to the finish line, the goal is to be the most on-time person to the finish line

that is, you have a predetermined time at which you should arrive at the finish line, and you get equally penalized for being too early as for being too late

one of the great tragedies of education is that so many people think that math is about numbers.

Why is it called formula one anyway, is there a formula two? how far up do they go, is there a formula twenty-six

fun activity: make sexists sound even more ridiculous than their views already do by reading every instance of the word "females" as if it rhymes with "tamales"

why are you all so cute, it's too much D:

beebp

do you ever just think about how weird the word plectrum is