Otto Kretschmer

So, was it refered to as "Red Army"? That name was officially abolished shortly after ww2, in the same wave of reforms in which People's Commisariats became Ministries.

Technically that's true - the name "Red Army" stopped being used in 1946 but I guess it's still used informally by people who aren't super pedantic about names. xD

Gentlemen and gentlewomen - if possible, you shall provide a link to the video you've watched/are watching.

No explanation required I think:

Me? The unveiling of the 1st iPhone in 2007. I remember the iPhone being talked about on the radio in Poland in June 2007 when I was 13. Literal hsitory being made there:

Today I learned that people in the past used to believe that vaccines will turn them into cows: NPRA Cow Head Will Not Erupt From Your Body If You Get A Sma...The eradication of smallpox was arguably one of the greatest achievements of modern medicine. But people had crazy ideas about the vaccine when it was created in 1798. A new exhibit tells the story.

Socialism Betrayed, R. Keeran, T. Kenny. The next will be The Martian Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Today I learned that one could get a free computer as early as 1972:

Well... Let's say he led a long and productive life. May his cranky ideas disappear in the abyss of history alongside other types of pseudoscience.

Today I learned that Sir Isaac Newton actually dabbled in medicine and tried to create a remedy for the bubonic plague, namely the following recipe: 1. You take a live toad and hang it by its legs in a chimney for three days. 2. The toad, under extreme stress, eventually vomits up "earth with various insects in it" and dies. 3. You collect that vomit on a dish of yellow wax, grind the dead toad into a powder, and mix them together. 4. You form this into "lozenges" (essentially amulets) to be worn on the affected area to "draw out the poison." Given his vast intellect, this remedy surely must have worked as reliably as his laws of motion!

Why not Proudhonmas? If that's what you meant... xD

Several MB's of traffic per second is fully within range of what a single person could pull off AFAIK, professional DOS attacks involve floods of requests multiple orders of magnitude larger than this (the largest recorded one was 29.7 terabytes per second). IMHO it was either a disgruntled banned member or some angry right winger/conspiracy theorist. If the US govt wanted to shut this place down, they'd just shut it down for woke propaganda or whatever.

Merry Christmas to you and everybody else!

TIL that Bill Nye the Science Guy is on Youtube with full episodes:

I've just reached a conclusion that everyone (myself included) is actually an infinite idiot. If there is an infinite number of universes (the multiverse), then there must be an infinite amount of knowledge. Thus, any living human possesses only an infinitely small amount of that knowledge. I feel a bit humbled.

A. Neve's An Economic History of the USSR.

Today I learned that in the UK there is The Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers. Yes - they like very small art.

Thanks! 👍

Mr. Tyson, named Neil, with broad interests, Who sports fabulous, galactic vests, Made space stuff cool, Though math still rules, And inspires our cosmic quests,

Now my favorite nerdy scientist: A physicist expert, Kaku, Said, "Parallel worlds might be true." With theories of strings, And the future of things, He broadens our cosmic view.

Oh, now it makes sense.

A scientist known as Bill Nye, Always wore a distinctive bow tie. With facts that are cool, He proved "Science Rules!" And encouraged the world to ask "Why?"

I have heard of that but haven't tested it empiricaly... sadly. "baby tiger"? Is that a hyperbole?

https://youtu.be/J11uu8L8FTY?si=jU9KlJ-rd8cQ3npm