#unusual

World’s oldest wine discovered in ancient Roman burial site in Spain https://www.diningandcooking.com/2044948/worlds-oldest-wine-discovered-in-ancient-roman-burial-site-in-spain/ #Lifestyle #news #SpanishWine #unusual #Wine #world

https://www.europesays.com/uk/24829/ The unusual nuclear blackout in Spain due to storms #blackout #due #EU #Europe #in #Nuclear #Spain #Storms #the #to #unusual

Here's an Australian (?) "50 cent" piece you probably haven't seen before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3yJykXhIcI

#Unusual #Australia #Numismatics #CoinCollecting #Coins #Mystery #WhatIsIt @numismatics

A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I don’t particularly care about the usual. If you want to get an idea of a friend’s temperament, ethics, and personal elegance, you need to look at him under the tests of severe circumstances, not under the regular rosy glow of daily life. Can you assess the danger a criminal poses by examining only what he does on an ordinary day? Can we understand health without considering wild diseases and epidemics? Indeed the normal is often irrelevant.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
The Black Swan, Introduction (2007)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/taleb-nassim-nichola…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #exceptions #extraordinary #normalcy #normality #understanding #unusual #usual #blackswan

#Racism at its worst: Would #Trump do this in 2025? I think he would.

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

In the 20th century, the youngest person #executed in the United States was George Stinney Jr. At just 14 years old, he was executed in the electric chair. From the day of his trial until his execution, the young man held a Bible in his hands, constantly proclaiming his innocence.

Stinney was charged with murdering two white girls. One victim was 11-year-old Betty and the other was 7-year-old Mary. Their bodies were found near their own homes. During the trial, all the jurors were white and the proceedings lasted only two hours. Just 10 minutes into the trial, the death sentence was handed down. Stinney's parents were threatened with death and were not allowed to give their son any comfort in the courtroom. They were subsequently forced to leave their town.

George Stinney spent 81 days in prison before his death and was never allowed to see his parents during that time. He was held in solitary confinement about 50 miles from his hometown. His execution was carried out by applying 5,380 volts of electricity.

Seventy years after his death, a South Carolina judge has proven George Stinney innocent. The two girls had been killed by a beam weighing more than 40 pounds, which would have been impossible for 14-year-old Stinney to lift, let alone use to inflict lethal blows. The entire case against him was fabricated, and Stinney was targeted simply because he was black.

This tragic story later inspired Stephen King to write his novel "The Green Mile." It is often said that people in the past were more humane, but that is a blatant lie. People were cruel then, just as they are now. The only difference is that before, cruelty was hidden, whereas now it is exposed for everyone to see.

#cruel #unusual #punishment #deathpenalty

https://www.europesays.com/1866195/ Watch: Firefighters save goat stranded on 5th-floor ledge in Spain #News #PetsAnimals #spain #Unusual

I think it had a cast of only 3 or 4 performers. They were using actual #Shakespeare #dialogue; it wasn't written in modern English or anything like that. I don't remember a lot about the performance other than what I'm about to relate. Either it wasn't that memorable, or this bit was simply burned into my brain and left no room for anything else.

Lady MacBeth was played by a young woman - probably not older than 18 - and the others were young as well. Lady MacBeth performed one of her monologues in an ... #unusual fashion.

While she was #monologuing, she and MacBeth were, to put not too fine a point on it, dry-humping. Doggy-style. So fully #clothed, but doing the, uh, motion of the real thing. Lady MacBeth was leaning forward over a chair, facing directly out into the #audience, while MacBeth was behind her, hands on her hips, #thrusting away #rhythmically through her whole #speech.

He wasn't just faking, so her lines were interrupted every couple of seconds with a #slapping sound and a hitch in her voice. I don't remember which soliloquy it was, but it would have gone something like:

We fail! (slap)
But screw your courage (slap) to the sticking-place (slap),
And we'll not fail (slap). When Duncan is asleep (slap) -
Whereto the rather (slap) shall his day's hard journey (slap) ...

But they were playing it deadly serious.

2/3

#DryHump #DryHumping #DoggyStyle #monologue #performance #laugh #laughing #slap

https://www.europesays.com/1837734/ Danes launch campaign to ‘buy’ California from US #Ca #Danmark #denmark #Instastories #News #series #Unusual #US #world

A dragonfly wiping the morning dew from its head then licking it off. Which is one reason dragonflies don’t get many party invites. Video By Malbafont Macrophotography. #nature #biology #science #Reels #ecology #insects #odd #unusual

Kate Middleton halts plans in unusual move for heartwarming banana exchange with fan https://www.inbella.com/883504/kate-middleton-halts-plans-in-unusual-move-for-heartwarming-banana-exchange-with-fan/ #banana #Events&Appearances #exchange #fan #Gossip #halts #Heartwarming #Kate #Middleton #move #News #plans #Royal #RoyalFamilies #RoyalGossip #Royals #RoyalsGossip #unusual

@penfount 1. Diamine Desert Rose in a Sailor Pro Gear Realo <HM>

2. Diamine Alexandrite in a Pelikan M600 <BB>

3. Diamine Sunset in a Lamy Lady Porcelain <M>

4. ... WAIT, WHAT!?!?!? ONLY THREE?

#cruel #unusual #punishment

I collect #unusual and #irreverent articles, satire and serious. Always looking for more. #AltJournalClub #Academic Brings new meaning to the question "What clown got you pregnant?" #NeoSky #MedSky #ObSky pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21211796/

#European #gas #traders expect prices next summer to be higher than
the following winter, an #unusual bet that reflects the steep cost of
refilling the continent’s #storage facilities as it tries to wean itself off
#Russian supplies, chart @FT https://www.ft.com/content/a288628a-e789-4c6c-bb55-8c86ee0e8404

Add *yourself* in a list! I hope to track my new posts more easily than the “Posts” (but only some of them and idk which ones),
“Posts and replies” (but only some of different ones?!), and “Media” tabs on my profile!

The “Media” tab https://lgbtqia.space/@MxVerda/media is #WhatIf instagram but not owned by Mark Zuckerberg as part of Facebook and Meta,
who wouldn’t let his kids use his products and owns a billionaire’s zucker bunker in Hawaii? (Number links btw: https://byjus.com/us/math/million-billion-trillion/ and https://www.cfinancialfreedom.com/what-is-a-millionaire-the-4-levels-of-millionaire-status-defined/ )
Hawai’i, a state he is decidedly not from? Havvaii: a sovereign nation before we (americans) invaded and stole it?

How much is 1 billion of anything, anyway? https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
(US scale: 1,000 million or 1,000,000,000 or 10^9, so 1 with 9 zeros before the decimal point.
UK scale: one million million or 1,000,000,000,000 or 10^12, so 1 with 12 zeros before the decimal point.)

But… *any* billionaire has that much. And keeps it. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2021/12/27/here-are-the-biggest-billionaire-scandals-of-2020/
If you had the power to eliminate hunger somewhere, would you?

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https://theconversation.com/why-the-super-rich-may-take-more-risks-than-the-rest-of-us-208394
but also https://www.forbes.com/sites/justcapital/2021/06/17/dont-blame-billionaires-for-being-rich-the-system-is-the-villain/ If people are incentivised to be unsustainably selfish, and they choose to act unsustainably selfish, then both are unsustainable for everyone and need to be changed.

But what does a sample of US citizens
(and residents? And visitors? Nah, only people born there with passports matter, probably) think?
https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/3/30/22357510/poll-billioniares-data-for-progress-vox-wealth-philanthropy-inequality

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Anyway the list thing is cool. Still can’t find my Like a Dragon, Irate Yakuza in Hawaii post tho. Wait.

https://lgbtqia.space/@MxVerda/113187340313708910

THE JOYS OF CLEAR ALT TEXT COMPOSITION! JOY UNTO ALL WHO CARVE MEANING INTO MULTIMEDIA, MAKING WAY FOR THOSE WHO MAKE WAVES!

#odd #strange #HI #unusual #recentlyMyselfIsUnusual #money #cash #personalFinance #finance #economy #wealth #hoard #hoarder #hoarding #insatiable #incontent #noncontent #fulfil #fulfillment #fulfilled

Cheshire Cat

#cheshirecat #cat #aliceinwonderland #tea #teatime #teaparty #drawing #art #illustration #cute #fun #distinguished #colorful #unusual #sharpieart #brownbag #brownbagart #lunchbag #snackadelic #MastoArt

#Fascist #Florida #Governor #RonDeSantis goes #allin against #Florida's #abortionrights #amendment.

DeSantis' use of #state #resources to #oppose a #ballot #initiative in #Florida is #unusual, and #critics argue it #violates a #statute that #prohibits the state from "#influencing" a person's #vote.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #VoterSupression #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Misogyny #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2024/09/09/ron-desantis-amendment-4-abortion-rights-florida

The first cell phone was created in 1983! It was 25 centimeters long and cost several thousand dollars #science #unusual https://activite-paranormale.net/news/read/19116/the-first-cell-phone-was-created-in-1983

#JordanChiles' #case is #unusual. Most returned #Olympicmedals are for #cheating.

Throughout #history, dozens of #athletes have been forced to return their #accolades, usually because they have failed a #dopingtest after stepping off the #podium.

https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/olympics/jordan-chiles-return-bronze-medal-rcna166151