mod_pp

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Before January 1, 1913, the U.S. Post Office didn't accept packages weighing more than 4 pounds. If you wanted to ship something heavy, you had to use expensive private express companies.

When the Parcel Post service launched in 1913, the weight limit jumped to 11 pounds (and later up to 50 pounds). Suddenly, Americans could ship all kinds of large items—like heavy tools, bricks, and, as it turned out, their own kids. Because the initial regulations didn't explicitly state that humans couldn't be mailed, a few enterprising parents saw a legal and incredibly cheap loophole.

[–] mod_pp@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Sloppy seconds

[–] mod_pp@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago (1 children)
1680
sloppy one (lemmy.world)
 
[–] mod_pp@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Dude living in the future.

[–] mod_pp@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Du Du Du Du

 
 
[–] mod_pp@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

I'm mad I have never thought about this

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mod_pp@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
 

Edit : The tail is Nicely done whereas the front is, well slapped on a sticker.

[–] mod_pp@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I was going through azure web app services, who the f names this things.

Automatic scaling and autoscale are two different things. WTF.

 
 

The ambassadors arrived back in Japan on July 21, 1590. On their eight-year-long voyage they had been instructed to take notes. These notes provided the basis for the De Missione Legatorum Iaponensium ad Romanam Curiam ("The Mission of the Japanese Legates to the Roman Curia"), a Macau-based writing by Jesuit Duarte de Sande published in 1590.

According to Derek Massarella, "Valignano conceived the idea of a book based on the boys’ travels, one that could also be used for teaching purposes in Jesuit colleges in Japan," but "despite its authors’ intentions," De Missione "made no lasting impact on Japanese perceptions of Europe.

The four were subsequently ordained as the first Japanese Jesuit fathers by Alessandro Valignano.

Mancio Itō died in Nagasaki on November 13, 1612. Martinho Hara was banished from Japan by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1614, and acted in Macau. He died in Macau on October 23, 1629. Miguel Chijiwa left the Society of Jesus before 1601, and died in Nagasaki on January 23, 1633. Although he is generally believed to have abandoned Christianity, the discovery of what appear to be rosary beads in his grave in 2017 place this in some doubt. Julião Nakaura was caught by the Tokugawa shogunate, and died a martyr by torture in Nagasaki on November 21, 1633. He was beatified on November 24, 2008.

 
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