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submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) by TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

The publisher is listed as M. L. J. Magazines. According to Wikipedia, Archie Comics started in 1939; 85 years ago (as MLJ Magazines). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Comics

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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by taaz@biglemmowski.win to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSFJ2OH1PQA
Not affiliated with this in an way, I just think this guy (N-O-D-E) is making some great stuff that's worth sharing.

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I don't know if it's because I've been watching Factorio on YouTube or not, because I have not been searching for peanut butter. But anyway, so that's how you do it.

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Baby kangaroo (lemmy.world)

I have no idea what a kangaroo has to do with my employer, but they brought in a baby kangaroo for an event, so I waited in line to hold it.

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It started with Yochanan (Hebrew) -> Ioannis (Greek) -> Johannes (Mediaeval Latin) -> Jon (Middle English), but now every language seems to have a version, e.g.

  • Hans
  • Joanna
  • Hanna
  • Jan
  • Ivan/Ivanka
  • Vanja
  • Jens
  • Sean/Shaun/Shawn/Shane
  • Joan/Jane/Jean/Janis
  • Evan/Ewan
  • Jock/Jack
  • Ian/Iain/Ianto
  • Juan
  • Yiannis/Gianna
  • Gianni/Giovanni/Vanni/Giovanna
  • Jonas
  • Ivo/Iva
  • Eoin/Owen
  • Seonaid/Siubhan

and those are just the ones I've heard used, there are hundreds more!

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For reference, the price for fixed-cost plans is around 10c/kWh.

As someone who’s been constantly running an electric heater in the garage while painting my car, I was quite lucky with the timing.

It’s not literally free, though. Transfer prices are fixed, and there are taxes and some other minor costs associated with it, so where I live, it still adds up to around 6c/kWh even when the price drops to zero. The cheap prices are due to an excess of wind power, but once the wind dies down, prices usually spike hard.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by cactopuses@lemm.ee to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

This signs writing appears to look like it’s meant to be viewed with 3D glasses.

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"It doesn’t make sense for chocolate bars to be divided into equal-sized chunks when there is so much inequality in the chocolate industry! The unequally-sized chunks of our 6.35 oz bars are a palatable way of reminding Choco Fans and Serious Friends that the profits in the chocolate industry are unequally divided.

And in case you haven’t noticed, the bottom of our bars depicts the West African coastline. The chunks just above it represent the Gulf of Guinea. From left to right, you have Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin (terribly politically incorrect, we know, but we had to combine them to create enough space for a hazelnut), Nigeria and part of Cameroon."

From https://us.tonyschocolonely.com/pages/faqs

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And even further, only those exact same two seats are ‘taken’ for every single showing.

I thought for sure the after church showings tomorrow would be at least somewhat full, but nope.

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"The portable 'Calvin Discjockey' could be plugged into any amp or pa system. It was primarily marketed to radio DJs as a convenient console in a suitcase for personal appearances and dances. It played both old-standard 78s and new microgroove 33/45s, using a two-sided cartridge with a knob on the head that flipped it over. Separate volume controls for each turntable and a microphone. No cue channel. The metal platters were covered in soft fiber and driven by a pinch-roller between the inside rim and motor capstans. The white knobs adjusted the speed by moving the roller across the capstan's three diameters. The mic jack was whimsically labeled "Mike". c-1962"

(No link, sorry. Got this from a friend who emailed it to me.)

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