Allan Björklund

Time for a Change The long, contentious history of time shifts

Personally, I want to stay on Standard Time.

worldhistory.substack.com/p/time-for-a...

08.03.2025 22:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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I knew that, but am surprised that you didn't know it until recently.

Though the four movement version is more often performed as most concert attendees find Mahler symphonies a bit much to sit through because of their length.

03.03.2025 06:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lately I've been practicing my baguette making, but have been using either all purpose or high gluten flour.

Looking online for French style T65 flour in the U.S. I found 5 kilo bags for $15, and a selected a 3 pack for $45.

But then they want $170 for shipping.

Yeah, no.

03.03.2025 05:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Revealed: gambling firms secretly sharing users’ data with Facebook without permission Betting companies secretly track visitors to their sites before sending data to parent company Meta

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

09.02.2025 00:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Meta admits it deleted links to decentralized Instagram competitor Pixelfed Meta accidentally deleted links to Instagram-competitor Pixelfed on Facebook, which is at least a little suspicious coming after Meta's recent moderation changes.

I may have to check this out, as I find even Instagram is starting to up the "you might like ..." crap and flooding my feed with nonsense.

www.yahoo.com/tech/meta-ad...

13.01.2025 23:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Man suffers chemical burn that lasted months after squeezing limes The toxin is in more foods than you might think, including carrots, parsley, limes, and lemons.

Something to be aware of if you handle a lot of citrus.

Some photosensitive compounds if sufficient in quantity and left on the skin can react to prolonged UV exposure (most usually sunlight) and produce chemical burns.

arstechnica.com/health/2024/...

29.11.2024 22:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Setelinleikkaus: When Finns snipped their cash in half to curb inflation On the last day of 1945, with World War II finally behind it, Finland's government announced a new and very strange policy. All Finns were r...

It didn't work out as planned, as there were ways to get around the policy. But the author thinks some form of it may be implemented in the future as more economies move away from cash and become more digital.

jpkoning.blogspot.com/2024/11/sete...

27.11.2024 22:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rose blooms in late November in Michigan. Not normal.

Last week, the day after we had snow, these rose blooms were in front of my house.

And today the rose bush next to them has a new bud ready to bloom.

Climate Change is real.

26.11.2024 22:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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17.11.2024 04:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And there is much more, but tonight I find out that the stems of broccoli are sweeter than the florets.

In some situations I've been saving the wrong parts.

17.11.2024 04:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In another, I find out you don't skim everything off the top of a consommé, but just keep skimming from a small opening in the center so that the "raft" keeps capturing the solid material.

17.11.2024 04:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's interesting the things you learn while watching "Iron Chef".

In one episode I found out about kevlar kitchen gloves, which have been an awesome discovery for me considering how many times I cut myself slicing bread with the extremely sharp Japanese made bread knife I use.

17.11.2024 04:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0