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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • The word ultimately derives from a Dravidian language – possibly Tamil நாரம் nāram or Telugu నారింజ nāriṃja or Malayalam നാരങ്ങ‌ nāraŋŋa — via Sanskrit नारङ्ग nāraṅgaḥ “orange tree”. From there the word entered Persian نارنگ nārang and then Arabic نارنج nāranj. The initial n was lost through rebracketing in Italian and French, though some varieties of Arabic lost the n earlier.

    The word “orange” entered Middle English from Old French and Anglo-Norman orenge. The earliest recorded use of the word in English is from the 13th century and referred to the fruit.










  • Greater than just the South, the eugenics movement in the US in the early 20th century, with forced sterilizations and criminalizing interracial marriage, happened nationally.

    Though you don’t need to be capitalist to be racist as fuck. Racism exists all over the world in many different government and economic systems throughout all of human history






  • I’ve been paying $70/mo for gigabit fiber for like 6 years now. It’s been the exact same price every month that entire time. I had to reach out to the Google Fiber people maybe once for a technical issue, and it was resolved quickly with a prorated discount for my downtime.

    I just can’t stress enough what a breath of fresh air this has been vs Time Warner/Spectrum and then later AT&T I’ve had at this same address. How many times did I have to call to wait on hold to tell them my service was broken, or threaten to cancel my service so they would lower my rate back down to what it was before they tried to jack it up again? How many technicians did I have to have come to my house for stupid bullshit? Also, the other two ran bare cable barely buried from the junction box to my house, where Google installed a fucking conduit in the ground that can easily be reused.

    Google is the best ISP by a hundred miles, imo. Just use a VPN.