Oracleofthepast - So Yeah, This Is A Thing

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I’ve been waiting a whole damn year to post these…. :D

There was the Italian plague of 1629 to 1631, which isn’t really 1620, but it’s rather close.  This is also called the Great Plague of Milan, and it killed over a hundred thousand people.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1629%E2%80%931631_Italian_plague https://www.historychannel.com.au/articles/16000-venetians-die-of-plague-this-month/

There was the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 to 1722.  It was the last significant European outbreak of the bubonic plague.  Over a hundred thousand people died here as well.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_Marseille

From 1817 to 1824, there was the first Asiatic cholera pandemic.  Hundreds of thousands of people died.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1817%E2%80%931824_cholera_pandemic

I can’t find any consensus on what these people are talking about for the 1920s outbreak.  It could be the Spanish Influenza, which went from 1918 to 1920 and killed between 20 million and 50 million people.  https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/1918-flu-pandemic  There also was the 1924 Los Angeles pneumonic plague outbreak which killed 30 people.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924_Los_Angeles_pneumonic_plague_outbreak  

https://philnews.ph/2020/01/23/1720-plague-1820-cholera-outbreak-1920-bubonic-plague-whats-next/ something that talks about this as a whole.  

And yes, I know that Wikipedia isn’t a great source, but I don’t want to go into much more depth with this.

There’s also a fair chance that he likes at least one of those things and could be using it as a way to connect!

guys my mom’s new boyfriend is trying to be supportive of me being a trans guy and he said “i got you a gift, a boy gift”

it’s a mountain dew nascar trucker hat. i wanna scream, like it’s nice he got me a gift and it’s nice he’s trying but…. I wanna Sc r EAM

an explanation is not owed

unfriendly reminder: this is a sex worker positive space. I will not tolerate the disrespect of sex workers here, and if you cant agree with that without a doubt then you're not welcome here.

An incel gamer who calls himself a nice guy, decapitated a 17 year old girl “who wouldn’t give him a chance” after she went on a date with another guy.

Just in case you forget this exists.

It exists.

A bunch of Google Drive links are about to be broken

Lots of publically accessible Google Drive links are going to be broken and inaccessible in the near future, read why here.

A lot of publicly accessible Google Drive links will no longer be accessible later this year unless their owners opt out of new security enhancements. These enhancements are being brought to Google Drive on September 23rd, 2021, the company announced in a blog post today.

Once this change goes live, Google says that users will need a “resource key” to access a publicly shared link. However, users won’t need an updated link with said resource key appended if they’ve already accessed that file before in the past. As a result of this change, we can imagine that lots of Google Drive links shared online on forums and other sites will no longer work as their owners neglect to update them, leaving them only accessible to the people that have already clicked the links before. This comes after Google also announced similar changes to YouTube’s unlisted videos earlier today.

According to the post made on the Google Workspace blog, this won’t affect all files. Users who have shared a file that is affected by this change will get an email from Google informing them of this change and how to opt out of needing those files from being updated. These emails will be sent out to users starting on July 26th. Google shared a copy of a sample email to show end-users what the message they’ll get will look like. The company doesn’t recommend opting out all files and says that only the files that you want publicly accessible should be opted out. Users have until September 13th to decide if they want the update applied, so if you have no files that are publicly accessible, then you won’t need to do anything.