The Off Topic Topic

[HVC]

Just discovered there's a mini-chain of Uyghur restaurants (one in Leicester, one in London) that is engaged in some incredible historical, international trolling of Italians.

All their dishes have Italian names, which is where they initially came from on the Silk Road. So noodles are "Original linguine" and polo (like plov or pilaf) is "Original risotto"

I can only hope the Italians mad at food discover it at some point.

They're doing God's work 

[Savonarola]

Weird and Gilly have been found:

Eerie 'Spiders' Scattered Through Inca City on Mars Seen in Incredible Images

[Josquius]

I wish the conspiracy corners of the internet were still harmless as I'd love to know what they're saying on this.

[Oexmelin]

Hello, old friend.

[crazy canuck]

The plague is spreading.

[Barrister]

I just ran across this story - it's awesome.  In 1955 an onion farmer / commodity trader Vincent Kosuga managed to corner the US market on onions.  He bought almost every onion available for sale in the US, started selling them at ridiculous prices and made a small fortune.  He then proceeded to short onions (since his vast collection of onions was beginning to spoil), flooded the market with onions, and made a second fortune on his short positions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Kosuga

https://www.npr.org/2015/10/22/450769853/the-great-onion-corner-and-the-futures-market

Congress responded by banning the sale of onion futures - a ban which remains to this day.