Geekocracy

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I vote for "Mexican hat dance"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Just paid 3.99 at Aldi in Philadelphia. Limit 2

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I work in a corporate environment that often has lunch catered for vips. I often wondered if you could actually survive by mooching off the leftovers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks for the reminder. I ended up doing that because it came back today

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'm from Pittsburgh. I think we ran a cross country meet It's been maybe a little longer for me :)

But in the meantime the park has grown from a neighborhood attraction to an east coast destination. I am always a bit amused when my coworkers vacation there.

 

Copper's hawk before chasing it away from my bird feeder

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The town, or at least the main street that goes by the factory. As far as I know, no orange people were enslaved.
Seriously though, Milton Hershey was surprisingly progressive for his time. He built affordable homes for his workers and helped them become home owners. The school he built was originally for orphaned boys.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

You are going to think I made this up, but the street lights are shaped like Hershey kisses.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Wow! I grew up with these. (Nostalgia intensifies!)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Both the NY times and the Washington Post put it on the front page.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sappho was a poet from the island of Lesbo, which is where the word lesbian comes from.