Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Joined Nov 2022
@juglugs Once finished on the mobile phone may be a session on the desktop is in order?
@davidallengreen I know exactly what you mean. It is so irritating and it is one of the primary reasons why I avoid reading local news websites as much as is possible.
@davidallengreen Avoiding clickbait titles in local newpaper websites are another form of playing Space Invaders.
@adrianmorales I think I will give them a miss at $14 per month. Having said that I would give them a miss even at $0 per month.
@Edent I did not know that one has to pay in order to download the application. I wonder how this will impact consumer willingness to use the item?
@kaiarzheimer You are welcome.
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A jarring new data point came earlier this month when #Germany’s #Volkswagen reported its first quarterly loss in at least 15y from joint ventures and associates, chart @WSJecon https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/how-china-is-becoming-a-money-pit-for-foreign-automakers-in-charts-4ae2e119?mod=hp_lead_pos9
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#China was a gold mine for global #automakers a decade ago. Not anymore -- “very few people are making money” in #China, #GeneralMotors CEO Mary Barra told investors in July, chart @WSJecon https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/how-china-is-becoming-a-money-pit-for-foreign-automakers-in-charts-4ae2e119?mod=hp_lead_pos9
@kaiarzheimer It appears the link to the article is broken.
🔴 🎥 **Why we say “OK”**
"_Young intellectuals in Boston came up with several of these abbreviations, including “KC” for “knuff ced,” “OW” for “oll wright,” and KY for “know yuse.” But thanks to its appearance in Martin Van Buren’s 1840 presidential re-election campaign as the incumbents new nickname, Old Kinderhook, OK outlived its abbreviated comrades._"
#Video length: five minutes and twenty one seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/1UnIDL-eHOs
#History #Word #Words #Language #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics
@wiseguyeddie Read it as part of the school curriculum many years ago. We were also shown the film based on the novel that starred Cary Grant as Atticus Finch. I still remember the book and film many decades later.
🔴 📖 **Tom Gauld on how to manage your unread books pile – cartoon**
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Cartoon @bookstodon
🔴 ⁉️ 🎥 **Where does punctuation come from?!**
"_In this episode I trace the punctuation we use every day as far back as I can._"
#Video length: eighteen minutes and fifty five seconds.
🔴 **Detectorists’ finds rewrite history by unearthing the real story of money**
"_A study of ancient coins has shifted the focus of Europe’s economic history from the Greeks and Romans to the Arabs_"
#Opinion #History #Histodon #Histodons #Archeology #Money #Economics #EconHist #Europe #Arabs @histodon @histodons @econhist
I hope they were good memories.
🔴 📖 🎥 **Tolkien’s Norse Mythology Inspiration**
#Video length: fifty eight seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/8s9VuPW8-L0
#Read #Reading #Tolkien #Norse #Mythology #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Thank you to everyone that took part in this #poll. The non-partisans carried the day.
@mitchell I am not sure but I do not think so.
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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Joined Nov 2022
