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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

It's not as bad as it looks, the photo is at an angle. Look at the horizon or the trees. The actual ledge leans back

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I only know Japanese, but it is ่ฆชๆŒ‡ (oya yubi) which means parent-finger.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Actually ๐Ÿค“ if we use the sun as our reference, they could not be light years away and would in fact be relatively close to the Earth, the distance being at most the diameter of Earth's orbit, which even at most is less than 20 light minutes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/etymologies-for-every-day-of-the-week

Separate, but they still had equivalents / parallels. Tuesday is named after the god of war, Thursday is named after the sky/thunder god.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Yes but if I remember correctly, each of those Norse gods are correlated with the Roman gods who share names with planets, which is how you can draw a connection between the planets and weekdays for English. The same connection exists in many languages across the world including Spanish, French, Hindi, Japanese.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

The "sexual violence" tab on this page from worldpopulationreview.com makes it seem like India is very average.
However for sexual assault in general, it is so underreported in every country that I think it would be hard to tell if such data were more influenced by actual prevalence or just how often it is reported.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

The gods that the weekdays are named after also have associated planets, so really every day is named after a celestial body already.
Ex: Saturday is obviously Saturn Day, Thursday is Thor's Day, with Thor being the equivalent of the Roman Jupiter, so Thursday is indirectly Jupiter Day, etc.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

The days of the week come from the Sun (Sunday), Moon (Monday), and classic 5 planets (Tuesday = Mars, Wednesday = Mercury, Thursday = Jupiter, Friday = Venus, Saturday = Saturn). This makes more sense in some other languages, for example Spanish: marte / martes, mercurio / miercoles. Saturn = Saturday though is almost obvious.

So if there were another day in the week, I have no choice but to either:

  • name it Earthday
  • name it after Uranus, the next discovered planet

This gives us precedent to create up to 10 days per week by including all 8 planets plus sun & moon.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah it's definitely more reasonable than maybe it seems.

As kids we had pretty similarly sized feet. And I don't think I noticed if the socks I was wearing were too big or too small anyway, even now I have some socks that are bigger or smaller than others.

And my parents had their own socks, so the sock basket was just for me and the sibs.

[โ€“] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)

Sharing socks. My family used to have a sock basket next to our shoes. You didn't own your own socks, you just grab a pair when you need them.
I mentioned "the sock basket" offhand to a friend in elementary school and she thought it was crazy. That's when I learned that not every family has a community sock basket. Looking it up though, I find a couple reddit threads from people with the same experience (and people replying that it's weird) ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

"Victorian Death Photos" are a thing, and were probably more socially acceptable then than in present-day society

 
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This is my list of every anime that depicted the New York City WTC Twin Towers contemporaneously. That is, only including anime from 1973 to 2001. This is not about 9/11, this is about documenting how anime portrayed one of the most iconic city skylines while it was still around.
However, I believe this list is not complete. If you know of any anime that show the twin towers, please let me know so I can add it to the list. Some of these are easy to find; if they are tagged as taking place in New York on AniDB then it's a quick skim through the show/movie to look. However others, like the Kimagure Orange Road movie, are much more difficult.

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