Things of Your Day

Any idea why you would need to decapitate a tree like that?

And cameraman pls, show the whole tree while it’s bent in half!

A tree in general, you usually don’t, but for palm trees, especially very tall, skinny ones like that, when cutting them down it’s often easier to cut the crown/crownshaft aka that bit at the top off as one whole peice, and then cut it from the top down. Especially so in built up areas, since they can fall unpredictably due to how whippy and flexible they are - even if you have room in one direction, it’s easier and safer to just cut it down from the top, rather than risking it falls badly.

Some really spicy numbers in here. Tenty!

Wifinian

Short thread

A 1-minute short. It’s 2020 poignant.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU

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https://youtu.be/AcxQBkdughc

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That was an interesting video.

In Austria we call these kinds of sausage “Extrawurst” or “Extrawurscht”, depending on dialect. I it is also part of a saying: “Da will wieder einer a Extrawurscht” (roughly “This guy once again wants some Extrawurst”) which is meant to chastise someone for making a fuzz and is angling for special treatment. This saying always struck me as odd because nowadays Extrawurst is seen more as a low-grade product so it seems weird that idiomatically someone would see it as a special favor.

There is also something similar called Leberkäse, which is basically the same process but larger and the blended meat is baked in a breadpan instead of steamed. It is a staple of austrian cuisine. It is also sometimes served breaded and fried, particularly with the Käseleberkäs’ variant which has pieces of cheese intersperced. We then call it “Leberkäs’ Cordon Bleu” after the french Schnitzel-dish that has cheese and ham inside of it.

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https://youtu.be/hHOttB2enSQ

Better late than never.

Sometimes I don’t know if stories about Japan are real or fake.

World of Tomorrow 3 is out!

Go watch the whole trilogy!

Holy shit.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-4h2QEd8KM

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I never knew I needed a math rock cover of Superman in my life, and yet, here we are.

How to get books out of the Library at Duke University.
https://youtu.be/e1iGEM9NMFM

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