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Cake day: March 14th, 2026

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  • FIFA, “I’m worried that this contract might be ethical.”
    Ethics Committee, “If you look over here, that’s a conflict of interest, oh and this here is clearly a bribe. Oh and this part is anti-competitive practice, everything looks in order, you’re good to go!”
    FIFA, “Great! But do you think we are paying the children too much to make our merch?”







  • Ariselas@piefed.catomemes@lemmy.worldThey're so spacious
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    2 months ago

    They often didn’t have head rests, so whiplash. They also came from a time when shoulder belts weren’t common and seat belts in general were more of a suggestion.

    And then there were the days when parents would stuff too many kids into the front of a single cab with a bench seat and put us 2 to a seat belt, and / or one kid on the lap of the driver. But those were also the days of the rear facing seat in the station wagon. I also remember my scout leader packing a group of us into the bed of a pickup, shit was scary but so much fun.




  • Ariselas@piefed.catomemes@lemmy.worldThe cheaper option
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    4 months ago

    It was pretty common up till the 60s and maybe later to get human skeletons form South Asia, they were often obtained from flood or landslide victims, and have no identifiers except maybe an inventory number.

    Modern stuff however, is obtained when someone donates their remains, and is often only held for a limited time before interred. They are anonymized to the student / researcher, but there is a record of who they were. The med school’s anatomy lab here has some pretty neat stuff (or did 20 years ago when I went), including a woman’s plasticized torso that had been sliced into 1 inch wafers, and an autopsied man who was born with his organs rotated in his body so that everything was on the wrong side. I still have the illustrations I drew from that anatomy class somewhere.