Don't forget WWII, WWII, and WWII.

I think it's a screenshot of something like Instagram or Twitter, where the original image is part of a carousel, and you're seeing the little indicator that shows we're on image 2/2.

The exact same image is used on the Game Rant socials, without the marker.

Just to add to this - the first picture is an unnamed novelty duck house near the ground of Pena palace. It's only a few feet high.

The second is the Torre da Regaleira.

If a chicken coop didn't have a lockable door, was on an island or raft in a body of water, and housed ducks instead of chickens, yeah.

I've got not horse in this race, but just in case people are interested, Davey Hearn is indeed white.

That's the exact point OP is making. Humans do primate things because they're primates.

The other catarrhine monkeys don't have umbrellas, though, so we're clearly superior.

I'm dead impressed how you traveled back in time a few minutes before screenshotting your reply.

I think you're on the money here, both in that "loud pipes save lives" is a poor excuse for unreasonably loud bikes -- since it's the use of the throttle as a kind of soft horn in traffic that achieves this effect, and that's possible with virtually any ICE motorcycle -- and that this isn't possible with electric bikes, which adds a risk. In either case, it doesn't serve as a defense for increasing the volume of regular motorcycles.

I'll never understand this. Motorcycles are fantastic vehicles (fossil fuel issues aside) -- they're agile, fast, and exhilarating. But none of that enjoyment comes from the noise they make; removing your muffler is purely a selfish, "look at me!" exercise.

Don't tell anyone, but I am not a trained duckologist.

In fairness, July and August weren't inserted, they were renamed from Quintilis and Sextilis, literally the fifth and sixth months of the Roman calendar.

Much earlier, Pompilius (history about whom is largely legendary, and actions attributed to him should be taken with a grain of salt) introduced January and February and set the numbering out of line. These months were previously just lumped in as monthless winter days.

All Julius Caesar did was rebalance the calendar without changing the months. The rename of Quintilis was posthumous.

Gregory XIII then further tweaked it to give us the modern calendar.

Michel Vaujour had 28 years to serve for attempted murder and armed robbery; this was his fourth escape attempt. He made his way to the roof by threatening guards with a fake pistol and nectarines painted as grenades. On top of the jail he was picked up by his wife Nadine, who had taken helicopter pilot lessons especially for the escape. They landed at a nearby football pitch and fled in a waiting car.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_helicopter_prison_escapes

The couple’s hideout was right back in Paris. Bold or foolish, they stayed in the city where they had just staged a daring escape. Three months later, they were caught not opening a charming coffee shop but robbing a bank—again. In the shootout that followed, Michel took a bullet to the head but survived. He was soon back in prison, his sixth escape attempt with a new accomplice, Jamila, ending in failure.

- https://www.readingolive.com/storyDetails?story=nadine-vaujour-the-woman-who-got-a-pilots-license-to-help-her-husband-escape-from-prison

Issue #1 or 5? You decide!

This got a bonus chuckle from me.

Any time closed source code gets made public, I'm immediately looking for the funny comments.

Editing in a few more:

Took a screenshot. Not happy about uploading a picture of a swastika, but wanted to capture it in case he backtracks.

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I can't think of a single company worse at naming products and services than Microsoft. They have an abysmal track record. Some examples off the top of my head, all of which make web searches near-impossible:

• They renamed Office 365 to just "365" (and then "365 Copilot"). The mind boggles.
• They named their lightweight extensible code editor "Visual Studio Code", despite the fact that they had a long-established IDE (for code) called "Visual Studio".
• They called their application framework "the .NET framework", despite .net already being a popular TLD.
• They called the replacement framework ".NET Core", and after a few major versions, changed to calling it ".NET", but it's totally distinct from the .NET framework.
• They called their ninth major desktop operating system "Windows 7", then followed up with "Windows 8" and... "Windows 10".
• Their native web app replacement for Outlook is called "New Outlook".
• They recently renamed their Remote Desktop app "Windows App". I have no words.

At the risk of dispelling the magic, it was very likely just cheap asphalt around Caracas. Over time or under specific conditions, the asphalt separates or undergoes a chemical transformation, and now the road's covered in slime.

They repaved the roads and the problem disappeared.

We’ve been in this world of upside where a lone wolf is on a wilding spree through the federal government, clear not operating at anyone’s direction but his own. And yet the President is at least okaying it all after the fact. And thus our system can’t really makes sense of what’s happening. Yes, it’s almost all illegal even or in a sense especially if the President is authorizing it. And...

I feel like I'm having a stroke.

There's no date bracketing, but Wikipedia's list of lists of misconceptions is excellent and often covers things taught in some schools, e.g.

• the dodo primarily went extinct from the induction of invasive species, not hunting
• urinating on jelly fish stings doesn't help
• fossil fuels are primarily fossilized plant matter, not prehistoric animal remains
• apes are monkeys
• stretching before exercise doesn't help later muscle soreness
• Western civilizations haven't generally thought the world is flat at any time in the Common Era
• the pyramids weren't made by slaves
• the story of Marie Antoinette declaring, "let them eat cake" is apocryphal, and predates her reign