• RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Parts of Santa’s narrative were adopted by colonists in New York, which blended St Nicholas and stories around Odin. Odin from Greek Mythology was known to fly around on a horse, knew who was good or bad, and at times had presents. In New York at some point, this all changed and a prior diety type figure in Odin became commercialized. The white horse became reindeer. Santa eventually adopted Coca-Cola’s colors and the commercialization and rebooting of Odin was complete. Thanks for reading.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    NDT’s not even going to mention that Santa probably solved or approximately solved the traveling salesman problem for a complete graph of several hundred million vertices embedded in a spherical topology?

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    11 hours ago

    Ffs that guy is annoying. Did not even do the math, which should have told him that hypersonic does not even scratch the surface unless he has an extremely wide drop-off region.

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    9 hours ago

    Y’all don’t get it. Santa is a hive mind parasite that embeds itself in people and takes over at the later months of the year. It tends to hibernate the rest of the year although much like pollen, it seems to be waking earlier and earlier.

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        3 hours ago

        It’s not a coincidence they start playing Xmas music in October now… Only a matter of time until it’s year round. Blasted climate change!

  • Mcf0603@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Neil needs to be shoved into several lockers. I can’t stand smug people.