TIL the sun takes 225m Earth years to make one full orbit around the centre of The Milky Way. This is called the galactic year. [source, comments]

Good idea: Repair historic and present systems of oppression

https://www.waer.org/news/2023-12-20/gov-hochul-signs-bill-to-create-reparations-commission

Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a measure to look at potential reparations for New Yorkers whose ancestors suffered under slavery in the state.

The new law establishes a task force to study the impact of slavery on present day New Yorkers, and look at the possibility of paying monetary reparations, as well as looking at changing housing policies, and reforming a criminal justice system that disproportionately imprisons Black and Brown people

Sounds good on paper, but in practice (and actions in the past) she doesn't want accountability for corporations that violate human rights, likes surveillance and used judges (illegaly!) to go after climate protesters who thought about sabotaging the army.
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-finance-minister-on-banking-regulation---we-must-act-/49087416

Song of the day 🫂🆘️: https://open.spotify.com/track/7sOloUk0zlocqoLNIyxjWL?si=_MRhaDs-Q5y5gaeDTa8k1Q

Vote for the best song from Lucerne in 2023. Some hidden gems there. https://3fach.ch/voting/kick-ass-award-2023

TIL about the great African American migration. Between 1910 and 1970, 6 million black Americans moved out of the rural south to urban northeast, Midwest, and west due to segregation and discrimination in the south. [source, comments]

Der US-Waffenlobby laufen Mitglieder und Geld davon – die NRA ist in «desolater Lage» https://www.watson.ch/!221854739

TIL when Bob Dylan first heard the Animals' version of “House of the rising sun” on his car radio, he stopped to listen, jumped out of his car and banged on the bonnet. It later became one of the reasons why he went electric [source, comments]

Song of the day 🤔❓: https://open.spotify.com/track/6UyI6iKB6UoVehiKNeIyRz?si=hS3NRin1R9yP9GF7aDGDng

"Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think."

— Ursula K Le Guin

TIL that NYC’s drinking water contains tiny shrimp, making it technically not kosher [source, comments]