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ERASE the idea that America saved lives by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan from your minds. ERASE the idea that it was anything more than a political move to scare Russia and also to satiate US curiosity as to the true ability of nuclear weapons. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not military bases. They were heavily populated civilian cities chosen precisely bc the U.S. wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go. Japan was on the verge of surrendering, the U.S. literally wanted to test out their nuclear weapons on people that they deemed disposable. That is it. If those bombs were dropped by any nation other than the US veryone involved would have been tried as war criminals.

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“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!

Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”

- Sacha Coward

Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero

Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”  

- @robinlayfield

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The money must be really good for his chef to stay.

Learning that Connor Mcdavid eats his pasta with sweet potato mashed on top of it instead of like an actual sauce has changed my life. New horror thought right there.

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Lightoller called to question Philips’s competence and integrity, and Bride went an educated English gentlemen’s version of Beast Mode on him about it via strongly worded letter.

It was glorious. Lightoller was out of line.

Idk if your still interested in Harold bride or not but if you are what are some of your favorite facts about him

FINALLY SOMEONE ASKING ABOUT TITANIC 🙏🙏🙏😭😭YES IM STILL INTERESTED i just thought the fandom was dead woops…

tbh my favorite fact is that he stole a cake/some bread onboard the Titanic for Phillips’ birthday. gosh i love those two so much!!!

another fun fact is that he and Lightoller were beefing in the newspapers sometime in the 1930s iirc!!!

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I’m not especially superstitious, but that gets even ME.

Anyone else find it kinda portentous that it's the United States government who are the ones sinking the ss UNITED STATES! Like I'm sorry? This great pice of history that won the blue ribbon and is a product of an economically stable and successful America? Your sinking that ss UNITED FUCKING STATES. If there's a more obvious indication that America is the reason for its own demise, please show me!!!!!

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It’s less environmentally taxing than flying, you get to move around while you travel, AND it’s safer for pets.

i post about them often as a bit/thinly veiled headmate posting but unironically we should bring back ocean liners. as much as i love planes we can all agree flying transatlantic in economy is torturous right? third/tourist class on a mail steamer is starting to sound genuinely better

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And six Chinese passengers! They’re the subject of a book and documentary, both endorsed by James Cameron (he also appeared in the documentary). It’s called “The Six” or maybe just “Six.”

I love that there are always new facts that I come across that Titanic for example I knew there was a poc passenger on the ship yet I was unaware there was also a Japanese passenger on board and he survived :0

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I vaguely wonder what this ancient artifact Furbie had to do/say to inspire its child to flush it.

Vaguely.

y’all my friend decided to investigate what was blocking their drain system and you are not prepared for the answer

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A great representation of what Titanic's lookouts would have actually been seeing as the iceberg approached. Titanic week lives on

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What an INCREDIBLE resource!

Who escaped the sinking Titanic in what lifeboat? A group of 10 dedicated researchers spent 4 years digging out the details. All online at

And yes, we are still digging!

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The ones that could be salvaged were redistributed to other White Star Line ships���specifically, RMS Olympic.

With the new safety regulations post-sinking, the extra boats were needed.

But you’re right: not all were accounted for.

A portrait of Titanic survivors boarding the Cunard Liner Carpathia.

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Sid, the back of my house is facing a large wooded lot, so there’s some pretty decent birdwatching to be had from my couch. Dad and Granny used to debate the species all the time. And every now and again, we’ll get a hawk or two.

We even have a couple of official Audubon Society books for birdwatching in the Southeastern USA that are about 30 years old.

That’s a solid offer, Sid. Anytime ya wanna…..

sidney crosby being a bird nerd is so on brand

You said the best experience in your playing career. I would imagine playing with Crosby’s up there too.

Sid’s the absolute man. You hear all these stories when you play against him. Like. He’s super nice. He’s like very genuine. He’s nice to everyone. He’s like the ultimate professional that I’ve seen. He makes sure everyone is having a good time, everyone feels comfortable. He works super hard. He’s hilarious. He loves hot stoving in the training room. Lives for it.

What does he like talking about? What’s his guilty pleasure? Is he like the team mom shit like (??) on the Bravo Network?

No, no, no, he’s more.. I think he might be mad at me for saying this but… He, like, knows a bunch about birds. We’ll be driving on the bus and he’ll see a bird and he’ll tell me exactly what type of bird it is.

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*spits drink at monitor*

I beg your pardon?? (Still coughing and spewing drink)

Clue is a film with an ensemble cast of highly respected character actors of their time. Okay, so it didn’t perform well (actually, it was also a box office flop), but it’s since become a cult classic.

B-movie my…. *grumbles as I continue scrolling*

The best part of B movies is when some actor does one of the best most fun performances ever and then you never see her in any other movies

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And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973) dir. Roy Ward Baker

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btw the katy perry/bezos' girlfriend/other four irrelevant billionaires 10 minute space stunt was not the first all female expedition no matter how much they try to market it as such. the first all female mission was in 1963 with soviet cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova, Irina Solovyova and Valentina Ponomaryova - all three of which were working class and had to pass incredibly hard exams to be chosen from 400 potential candidates. just in case we started falling for the propaganda machine again

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I find the great lakes terrifying, may i have some cursed knowledge on them?

sure thing!

when you say "great lakes" and "cursed" in the same sentence, we usually think you're just talking about Lake Superior.

the great lakes are huge, sure! combined, they're roughly the size of fucking France.

but Superior is the granddaddy of them all.

the largest of the great lakes in terms of surface area, depth, and overall volume, Lake Superior contains 2,903 cubic miles of water, or 10% of the world's entire surface freshwater supply.

that's enough to cover the entire surface area of North AND South America in a solid foot of ice-cold murkish water, and probably also a bunch of confused sturgeons. yow!

but sturgeons aren't all this lake contains, by any means!

it's also full of corpses.

see, Lake Superior is just SO fucking hugebig and deep (about 1000 feet at its deepest point) that it doesn't warm up very quickly, even in the depths of summer! its northerly location and the amount of time it spends frozen over each year means that this lake reaches an average surface temperature of 46-56 degrees fahrenheit, even in the hottest months.

don't even think about the coldest months.

that's cold enough to kill you dead as a Sim with a deleted pool ladder if you fall in and can't get out! and it's ALSO cold enough that if you do die, your body will just sink into the icy depths, and stay there. you won't rot, and there isn't even anything alive down there that might consider your corpsicle a worthy feast because there's so little oxygen; you're basically just stuck down there in the world's largest meat freezer for the rest of eternity.

but you're in good company! since everyone who dies on the lake and sinks to the bottom is still there, there are an estimated 10,000 corpses lying around on the lakebed right now!

(there are a number of explorable shipwrecks in Superior that are known to still, uh, have crew on board, so to speak. divers are expected to leave them alone and treat their death sites respectfully.)

and that's not even counting the literal thousands of years humans were paddling around on the lakes in pre-colonial times either, so in all honesty that's probably lowballing it.

and that doesn't seem likely to change, anytime soon- as long as the lake exists, those corpses are just going to be stuck down there, waiting around for whatever comes next.

so uh anyway, if the concept of the eternal preservation of your mortal form bothers you, stay AWAY from that lake! and maybe just become a volcano researcher instead, I dunno.

sheesh.