What did you learn today TIL

[ObiDongKenobi]

What a serape is and how it differs from a poncho.  Thank you, Msslave

[Pornhubby]

TIL there are two correct plural forms of areola… areolas and areolae. I always used the second. Thank you purpleshoes.

[ObiDongKenobi]

TIL there are two correct plural forms of areola… areolas and areolae. I always used the second. Thank you purpleshoes.

That must be you chanelling the Marcello Mastroianni latin influence 

[purpleshoes]

Today I learned what the word coprolalia means.

I think I've known people who are afflicted with it.

[msslave]

Fuck yeah. Some sons of bitches just can't help themselves. Damn assholes. Just cursing for the hell of it. Glad to know there's a name for that.

[Pornhubby]

WTF?

[ObiDongKenobi]

 

[purpleshoes]

Fuck yeah. Some sons of bitches just can't help themselves. Damn assholes. Just cursing for the hell of it. Glad to know there's a name for that.

And that, my friends, is how you earn yourself a WOO!

[Shiela_M]

Allan has this problem A LOT! if I'm talking and I can remember something, I'll go "um" or "uh" but not him, he'll add a fuckin' in front of it.

Fuckin'um... or fuckin'uhh

[Pornhubby]

TIL why they say “Bismillah” in Bohemian Rhapsody. Freddie is delving into biblical concepts and a terrible struggle is occurring between God, the Devil & Freddie. Bismillah is an Arabic phrase which means, “in the name of God”. Freddie is pleading to be let go to live his life and be who he is.

[Pornhubby]

Jamais vu, sometimes regarded as the opposite of déjà vu, is the intense feeling that the current circumstances are novel and strange, while objectively realizing that they have, indeed, been previously experienced.

[purpleshoes]

Never knew there was a term for that.

Deja vu is also called paramesia, although my spell checker doesn't recognize the word.

Then again, my spell checker isn't very smart. It doesn't recognize my name either.  😉

[MintJulie]

I never knew of some fruit being referred to as Stone Fruit.

 I asked Dan if he had.  "Well sure."   

I asked M.  "Yeah, why?"

Guess I'm the only one in the dark. 

It's a good question. It's not universal, since while most Americans refer to cherry pits, some Americans refer to the thing inside larger fruits, like peaches and plums, as stones.

To make things more complicated, those larger fruits are collectively referred to as "stone fruits," both in the U.S. and the U.K. So, things inside fruits like peaches, pears, apricots, dates, mangoes, etc. are specifically referred to as stones.

We also have different words for the inedible things inside oranges. I recall reading the Sherlock Holmes stories when I was a girl, and coming across one titled, "The Five Orange Pips," and from the title, I had no idea what pips were. Only after reading the story did I figured out it's the British word for what we call seeds.

[Pornhubby]

How many people have ever lived on planet Earth? Quantifying all of humanity requires a firm starting date for when humans became, well, human. Evolution is a gradual process, so figuring out the start date for humankind is no easy task. For the purposes of this exercise, however, demographers use 190,000 BCE as the cutoff.

There are two opposing points to consider when thinking about prehistoric humans:

Around the chosen start date, the global cohort of humans was quite small—perhaps as low as only 30,000 individuals.
Before the modern era, lifespans were much shorter, so long stretches of time can actually influence numbers drastically.

With this context and timeframe in mind, the demographers estimate that 109 billion people have lived and died over the course of 192,000 years. If we add the number of people alive today, we get 117 billion humans that have ever lived.

This means that for every person alive today, there are approximately 14 people who are no longer with us.

[MintJulie]

Staggering numbers, but only 14 times the current population?  Seems like it should be more. 

Interesting.  Thanks for sharing

[purpleshoes]

With this context and timeframe in mind, the demographers estimate that 109 billion people have lived and died over the course of 192,000 years. If we add the number of people alive today, we get 117 billion humans that have ever lived.

This means that for every person alive today, there are approximately 14 people who are no longer with us.

I understand the math (109 billion divided by the current 8 billion) works out to just under 14, but something doesn't seem right.

My parents were 2 of a total of 16 children between their families, and that's going back only one generation. Tracing my family back to the sixteenth century there were ancestors who had 15 to 18 children per family.  According to my genealogy program, I have over 800 ancestors who have lived and died, and that's just the ones I know about.

I understand that the researchers are talking about raw numbers and not relatives, and maybe I'm mixing up the apples and the oranges, but it still leaves me scratching my head as I ponder how only 14 people have lived and died for every currently living person on earth.

[Pornhubby]

This graph puts it in context.



I do genealogical research as a hobby. I have about 3500 Ancestors in my tree, going back about 1200 years.

Everyone is related to everyone else, if you go back far enough. We all share a common pool of ancestors.  If a couple had 13 kids, all of the descendent of those 13 kids share a common ancestor, horny great grandfather William. So it is not 14 ancestors for every person alive today. It is just a head count of homo sapien lives.

There were only 2 million humans at the time of the Stone Age. Think about that. Roughly the population of Houston Texas.

[Shiela_M]

Looks like things doubled in the swingin' 60s

[MintJulie]

We better get growing some food. Gosh, there are going to be a lot of people in the next 75 years. 

[Pornhubby]

We better get growing some food. Gosh, there are going to be a lot of people in the next 75 years.

There were 3.5 Billion people on the planet when I was born.  8.1 Billion now. That’s 4.6 Billion new souls in my lifetime.

Scientist say the world can only support about 10 Billion people. So expect war, natural disaster, or a plague to solve the problem. Covid barely put a dent in things. Maybe AI will solve it.

Agent Smith : I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.