💀 May – Captain Donner Dies on the Trail (May 14, 1847)

In the mid-1600s, coffee was brought to New Amsterdam, later called New York by the British.

When the colonists revolted against a heavy tax on tea imposed by King George III, known as the Boston Tea Party, it changed the American drinking preference to coffee.

The most infamous comment in the Unix source code is “You are not expected to understand this,” which appeared before some hairy context-switching code. It turned out that Dennis Ritchie and co-author Ken Thompson didn’t understand it themselves and later had to rewrite it.

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1. A constant need for one's victimhood to be acknowledged by the offender and society at large.
2. The belief that the victim has perfect morality while the other party is inherently immoral.
3. The lack of empathy, especially the inability to see another perspective, makes the vi...