Things I Have Learned Today

[ROman]

@steelworker August of 2022 I believe.

[chrisjohnnick]

@ROman said in Things I Have Learned Today:

I went to vote today for local elections in the town hall building in Pineville. They have a history of Pineville, One of the items was that Cone Mills had a plant here which opened in 1948 with 500 employees. It closed in 1991.

Didn't realize they had multiple plants! I know Imogene and Willie here in Nashville got a bunch of fabric from them a few years ago and did some limited jeans with them in certain cuts. I have a few of them, and they are some of my go-to summer jams (lightweight, full of holes, stretchy)

[Mr Linz]

@Mr-Eddy Just saw your clothes line. This cracked me up. Although grateful that not delicate denim.

[WhiskeySandwich]

meta = self-referential. META = Most Effective Tactics Available

....yeah, i know i'm late

[worn2fade]

@WhiskeySandwich new to me

[worn2fade]

Just learned this today on Reddit

“Caveat emptor” - Latin for “let the buyer beware.”

Context it was used in: Someone giving someone else advice on something though they didn’t have the most experience in.

[ARNC]

Apparently the dimensions of a parcel can change during transit. I’m currently tracking a Very Important Parcel (most of you can guess what it is) and it went from 60x60x120cm to a more plausible 38x27x21cm somewhere between Bodø and Fauske.

[Giles]

That proves it. Norwegians can't count.....

[meatmarketdenim1]

Learned this month or 2 back but didn’t know about this thread. But Reno Nevada is technically more west coast(further west) than Los Angeles on a map. Ive lived in California for 18yrs, been to LA a lot and Reno few times that blew my mind.

[ARNC]

I had no idea what birds get up to when they’re not flying around or decorating cars, or that this was the subject of academic research. I promise I didn’t go looking for this - it was being plugged on LinkedIn by an institution I attended!

Heys et al. 2026. “The Evolution of Masturbation in Birds.” Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 6, e73693

[WhiskeySandwich]

Today I learned it is not tomorrow, which i thought it was when i woke up today thanks to my schedule this week. Don't you hate when you think tomorrow's friday, but it's not yet thursday? devastating.

[WhiskeySandwich]

@ARNC interesting, i guess this is why people birdwatch?

[goosehd]

@ARNC that put a smile on my face…ba dum tss.

[goosehd]

In all fairness, in one of my Ecology classes, the professor’s area of expertise was the reproductive habits of tidal zone aquatic life.

How one goes about deciding that is one’s lifelong passion is not quite clear…

[Stringthing75]

@goosehd a work colleague of mine has a list of academic qualifications a mile long but his doctoral thesis was on Gait Analysis of Chickens.
lifelong dedication to the subject ever since lol.

[ARNC]

@Stringthing75 I’m just imagining the conversation if your guy and one of the authors of the paper met at a party:

A: So, what do you do for a living?
B: I watch birds walk. And you?
A: Pretty much the same - just change one letter …

[goosehd]

@ARNC

[tody]

@goosehd i'm pretty confident he meant 'talk' 🥳

[goosehd]

@tody of course he did…that is the only logical answer. What were you thinking?

[Stringthing75]

@ARNC haha that is top quality. love it. yeah some pretty specialist stuff lol.