In the grand scheme of things its not that bad but technically Sealand started out as a pirate radio station

Nationwide? Which nation? Luxembourg? Or is this more US defaultism?

There’s one radio station near me that’s halfway decent to listen to every now and again but the host that’s normally on when I’m driving just plays the same 5-7 songs on loop most days.

Also the adverts are insane, they’ll maybe get through 2 songs before going to 10 mins of ads then come back for one song and go into some radio competition before going back to ads again.

Finnish swears are pretty fun but my favorite is perkele

Fries being a delivery system for ketchup and mayo at the same time is great too.

I think I saw someone a while ago who said truth social is technically a mastodon instance? I guess it depends if anywhere’s federated though.

Tbh I’d probably say I know an equal amount about both of them, it’s just barely anything in both cases. I know Jules Verne wrote around the world in 80 days, and H.G. Wells wrote War Of The Worlds but I don’t really know much beyond that for either of them.

my manager isn’t discounting stuff till tomorrow but the guy who owns the shop is convinced that it shouldn’t be discounted at all, for some reason he thinks people are going to spend £8 on 100g of chocolate after easter

Idk if this counts because he didn’t realise how bad it was but Thomas Midgley Jr put CFCs in fridges and put lead in petrol

Complaining about fuel that’s sitting at the equivalent of 55p a litre, in the UK it’s almost £1.70 a litre for petrol.

They didn’t break free of earth’s orbit, the moon is also in the earth’s orbit. Humans won’t break free from the earth’s orbit till we send a manned mission to another planet or at least into interplanetary space.

UFO doesn’t mean alien. A bird is a UFO if you can’t identify it.

We didn’t start the fire was written for this exact reason. Billy Joel was talking to someone 20 years younger than him who said that when he was 20 more stuff had happened than when Billy Joel was 20, so he just started listing all the stuff that had happened before he was 20 and then expanded it into the song.

insert Einstein quote about ww4 being fought with sticks here

Not sustain but at least provide something extra. The sort of thing where a couple of commissions might get you a pizza or some other treat that you couldn’t justify otherwise.

Id probably trade my gaming skills for any sort of artistic skill. At least then I could be good at something that you can make an income from.

Go back 100-200 years and the western class system was exactly like the caste system.

I’ve only ever seen one petrol station that still had a physical price board instead of a digital one in the last 15+ years and it was abandoned. The US seems to pick random things and stick with them

Idk why we’ve reached the point where anyone saying they’re anything but an atheist has to specify that they aren’t a bigot. Being religious doesn’t make you a bigot and being atheist doesn’t mean you aren’t one either.

I had a similar 180 though, I used to be an atheist but in the last year or so I pivoted into druidism. Turns out following a religion that focuses on spending time in nature helps to get you out of the house when you’re going though a depressive episode.

Where I am the lottery funds a lot of smaller museums and some other community things like that so in my mind when I buy a lottery ticket I’m donating money to those causes rather than just trying to win.