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bjb406 t1_iyeh4r8 wrote
Reply to TIL that due to The Beatles retiring from live performances in 1966, some of their most iconic albums, including Sgt Pepper and the White Album, were never played live by New_Blacksmith_115
Growing up I sort of knew a family with the last name "Pepper". One of the kids was named "Sergeant".
bjb406 t1_iydlhfe wrote
Reply to comment by loyaltomyself in The balls on some of these studios… by Cazineer
Ksp 1 (when it was still early access) cones to mind.
bjb406 t1_iy4m88h wrote
Reply to In Mexico men die almost 8 more times than women. 16% of all homicide victims had high school or higher education. [OC] by Altruistic_Olives
Well, since all women die once, does that mean every Mexican man dies an average of 8 times? Brutal.
bjb406 t1_ivdyxe2 wrote
Reply to Nolan Ryan, Major League baseball's all-time leader in strikeouts, never won a Cy Young award for best pitcher. by yum_paste
Also never deserved it.
bjb406 t1_iss09a4 wrote
Reply to Boston University researchers claim to have developed new, more lethal COVID strain in lab - Researchers at Boston University added a spike protein from the Omicron variant with the original Wuhan strain, which has an 80% kill rate (in certain mice) by izumi3682
better article from a more legitimate source where they clarify explicitly not a gain of function experiment, and contrary to OP's headline, did not make the virus more contagious or deadly. From what I understand, put in plain terms, they combined 2 strains of the virus in order to prove that it was not the spike protein that made omicron more deadly.
bjb406 t1_iyevjja wrote
Reply to BBC to produce ‘lighter’ content to attract Britons from poorer backgrounds by do_or_pie
I don't know what that has to do with poorer backgrounds. But I know TV in general the last few years has become fucking obsessed with "dark" shows. Like Stranger things and American Horror Story, okay, they did really well financially and a lot of people like them because they're really out there. Squid Game more recently, there's a niche for that, but its like everything now. They turned the Sabrina remake into a dark show. They made Riverdale a dark show, which is just bizarre. I don't watch tv so that I can experience a pervasive, never ceasing sense of existential dread. I get enough of that from my life.