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Remember when kids used to flip through encyclopedias to learn fun facts? Well, in today's digital age you don’t need a thick book to gain knowledge. Everything is accessible with a simple scroll. From scientific discoveries to Hollywood trivia, all the information is just a click away.
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#1
During the Apache Wars in the American Southwest, the Apache would cut the Army's telegraph lines but reconnect the ends together with a strip of leather to make the break in the circuit nearly impossible to find.
Harper 1 year ago
Um...it's not "Fort Apache Bronx" it's Apache wars in Arizona- southwest, why is the picture of NY (northeast)?
WindySwede 1 year ago
It's from here https://daily.jstor.org/when-the-weather-service-spied-on-citizens/
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nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
A meter would show that there is a break, but not the location. To locate the break, you would need a TDR, which was (about) a century in the future at that time.
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Regina Holt 1 year ago
Why does BP even put pictures with every entry. It would be better to have no picture than something so wrong.
Floeckchen 1 year ago (edited)
Guess they didn't have triangular scan wire resistance checks back then
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#2
After Salvador Dali expressed support for Spanish dictator Franco's regime, Pablo Picasso refused to mention Dali's name or acknowledge his existence for the rest of his life.
StPaul9 1 year ago
Dali expressed support for the fascists, and the royalists. And the left-wing and the right-wing. He (and Garcia Lorca) constantly refused to take sides. Dali simply lived his life as an artist, presenting the 'image' of the artist as surreal as his works. This presented a lot of trouble later on when other surrealists were trying to keep their heads down and be quiet in World War Two. When that War was over, they found their style of art no longer fashionable, meanwhile Dali came straight back out.
Xitxarel•lo Panda 1 year ago
Dalí always was scamming all the ppl . You never have to take seriously Dali . But your post it's right
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Xitxarel•lo Panda 1 year ago
Pablo Picasso was a m**********r and a mean person. Franco was evil .my grand uncle was executed whit shoots in "El Campo de la bota, Barcelona " . This m**********r,Franco , was supported by Eisenhower and Kissinger ......I don't have any bad thing about US ppl , I love USA , but I can't forgive o forget what Franco did to all Catalans . Era un tros de filldeputa i malparit que segurament és al infern
Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago (edited)
2 things: Not to ALL catalans. I don't need to remind you the names of the bourgeois Catalan families who lived VERY well under Franco. And the number of Franco's victims in Catalonia is significantly lower than in other regions. We can agree that he was a mf.
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Xandra 1 year ago
Things like these (Dali's opinions, Picasso's misogyny etc.) is why I mostly don't want to know much about the private life of artists I like. I can love a painting, book, character in a movie and then I hear something bad about the artist... it tends to spoil it for me a bit.
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#3
Children in ancient China learned to write from "Thousand Character Text", a 1000-word poem where the characters do not repeat and cover everything from philisophy to astrology.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
My boyfriend is Chinese. He was born in California, but his parents are immigrants. They have a copy of this framed on their living room wall. It is literally awe-inspiring to behold; it’s as beautiful as a painting by a master artist. Note: my boyfriend did not have to learn how to write Chinese from it, luckily for him XD
Ginny 1 year ago
Luckily not, would have been nice and maybe useful to learn and pass his knowledge.
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Tee Rat 1 year ago
It's probably a good thing the nuns made me handwrite pages from the dictionary as punishment when I was in trouble, otherwise I'd be company illiterate.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
That was a punishment for me too and I was in public school. Times were different then. When I was real bad the principal would lock me in a supply closet. I hope he's dead now. I really do.
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Doris Won 1 year ago
Wow I know that Chinese characters one wrong dot in the wrong place means a whole different word. But I would rather die than write a 1000 characters word poem in Chinese. I love it but I would not want to write it. It's too hard.
Kate 1 year ago
Oh, there's way more than 1000 characters to learn. Japanese kanji uses the same "alphabet", and my Japanese 1 teacher said there's over 5000. A 1000-word poem sounds like it'd make it a little easier to learn those thousand, at least.
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#4
Ice-T made up a gang to keep real gang members off his back in high school. “We actually created a fake gang. We told people we were part of the Hillside Crips. We had them thinking there was hundreds of us. I never had any trouble.”
Donteatme666 1 year ago
🤣 wish I would've thought of that would have saved me so much trouble 😅
Regina Holt 1 year ago
If only I was an awkward teen girl with hearing aids . . . yup, make a gang outta that
Mason Kronol 1 year ago
A bunch of white kids tried something similar while juniors in high school. We made fun of them constantly.
#5
Phil Collins spontaneously sang the lyrics to "In the Air Tonight". They were completely improvised and he didn't write them down until after singing them for the first time, on a piece of paper (which he still has) from his decorator.
James016 1 year ago
The drum fill sounds massive purely by accident. The comms system between the control room and the drum room was accidentally left open, so when Phil played the drum fill, they got the massive reverb sound. Which made it into the final mix.
Mason Kronol 1 year ago
Are you referring to the deer on the plastic slide?
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#6
Laurence Fishburne was only 14 when filming Apocalypse Now, as he had lied about his age to get the role. Production took so long, he was 18 by the time of its release.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
One of the most notoriously difficult movies to film in history. The results were amazing but Coppola and his crew went through hell to get it finished. Ironic considering the movie's themes.
90HD 1 year ago
Fun fact, there actually were 14 year olds fighting on the American side in Vietnam. Most of the time they were runaways that could sneak by recruiters. Dan Bullock was 14 when he was enlisted, and 15 when he died in Vietnam. He died a hero when the NVA cowards threw a satchel charge into his bunker.
Jack Burton 1 year ago
This movie is full of amazing stories, one of the greatest filmaking adventure ever.
Xitxarel•lo Panda 1 year ago
Yes he did it . And made a really good performance
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Harrison Ford played a small role but by the time AN was released he was very famous with Star Wars.
Rebecca Ferguson 1 year ago
I have never been able to watch that as it's truly horrendous and makes me sick.
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#7
"Dune" was rejected by at least 20 publishers before being published by Chilton, the auto-manual company.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Dune is my lifelong favorite book - my dogs are named Stilgar and Fenring. However, I (with sadness) do agree that the books became excruciatingly ridiculous once Herbert’s son and Kevin J. Anderson took over writing the series after Frank’s death. All I can say in defense of the books is - remember that Frank’s were written in the 60s and 70s, and the ones written by his son and Anderson were based on incomplete notes found after Frank’s death. The original first book (Dune) is absolutely a masterpiece, though - and keep in mind that Herbert was writing them less as 100% science fiction and more as a mix of sci-fi and a treatise on humanity and human social interaction (similar to Asimov’s work.)
Auntriarch 1 year ago
The breadth of them is still stunning though. And I appreciate the cultural aspects, as someone who read their first sci fi in the 60s. I wouldn't bother with the barrel scrapings that were published after Children of Dune. It's definitely in my top ten.
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Knitting Panda 1 year ago
My mother once decided (all on her own, in the 1970s) to see what science fiction was all about. Instead of asking her daughter (me), who read a lot of the genre, she chose a book all on her own. "Dune" She never read another.
Bookworm 1 year ago
I loved Dune, but it's definitely not a good place to start. I had to read it three times before I felt like I had a decent understanding of it.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
The series started out very well, but got more silly than John Cleese's walk.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Herbert’s son (and Kevin J. Anderson) honestly did not do a good job with the later books in the series. To be fair, though, they only had piecemeal/incomplete notes from Frank about how he was going to continue the series.
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Frank Herbert is from my town (Tacoma!) and there's a very beautiful trail/park dedicated to him along the waterfront
Leanne Hailes 1 year ago
Harry Potter was rejected several times too before the smart publisher published it 🧙♀️🔮
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
Okay, hear me out. The difference in style and tone from the first book to the others (the next four) is so different I wonder if someone else didn't write the first one, or Herbert used a ghost-writer for the others. They really aren't all that well-written. I LOVE the first one, but I pretend like the others don't exist. They're like chalk and cheese.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
OK that's a new one! Chilton of all people. Well they are good at printing very thick books.
#8
Shakers, a christian sect that believed sexuality to be the root of all evil and original sin. All members went far enough in chastity to avoid shaking the opposite sex's hands. Their membership declined from a peak of 5000 in 1840 to 3 members in 2019 due to lack of births.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
You made me snort. Bouche demands an apology for disturbing her royal nap.
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Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
The name has _nothing_ to do with shaking hands and is not what they called themselves.They called themselves the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, but because of their ecstatic dancing the world called them the Shakers. The Shakers were celibate, they did not marry or bear children, yet theirs is the most enduring religious experiment in American history.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Maybe they were hoping that immaculate conceptions would come back.
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Luna Ulla Cieslak 1 year ago
If they couldn't make babies the natural way, how did the sect last more than a generation? https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/03/shakers-maine-sabbathday-lake-frances-carr-death
Rebecca McManus 1 year ago
They maintained their numbers originally by taking in foundling, orphans or unwanted children, however in the 80s (I think) they made the decision to no longer accept any new members and effectively end the movement.
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#9
In 2021 a new species of fish was identified that has the smallest adult brain size of all known vertebrates. It's also the loudest of all known fish relative to its size.
Unpickled Pickle 1 year ago
"Empty minds make the most noise" Its probably because of all that echo space in there.
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
See?? No one believed me when I said my fish were yelling in the middle of the night and keeping me awake.
The.Butterfly.Effect.530 1 year ago
It's surprising how much sound sea creatures make. Especially the different species of clown fish. They have their own languages.
#10
Research suggests that working irregular shifts for a decade ages the brain an extra six and a half years.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
I know this: working a night shift ending at midnight still has my sleep pattern ruined even though I retired eleven years ago.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Now you know why service industry people are so irritable sometimes.
David 1 year ago
This seems like a very difficult thing to quantify. Though it is generally recognized that working rotating shift work is a bit hard on the body. One thing that IMO seems difficult to adjust for is that many of the jobs that have irregular shifts or rotation shifts are in industrial type settings - which might in themselves affect someone's average life span. For me it was nuclear power and oil refineries. And on the "non-skilled" side you have most fast food and similar places. Not "industrial" exactly but often quite stressful due to managers who treat you as expendable and often rude customers. So IF your life is shorter - is it the irregular shifts or all the other stuff associated with those jobs? Stress, chemicals etc.
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 1 year ago
Yep, while night work is bad for you changing times of shifts is way way worse (think 1 week day shifts, 1 week nights etc)
Performingyak 1 year ago
Try one early morning then a day shift then night shift, then a day off and into a midnight. Train driving sucks.
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Edward Finger Hands 1 year ago (edited)
The article doesn’t do a good job of explaining the parameters of the study or why the brain was aged by irregular shifts (which is such a broad term.)
#11
Hair will sometimes grow back differently after chemotherapy. People who have straight hair may find that they now have curly hair or vice versa. It can even grow back a different colour.
Georgia Ireland 1 year ago
I worked with a woman, who before having chemo, was a blond with curly hair. After chemo, she had straight, jet black hair.
Ashlisha 1 year ago
Totally true. I had a coworker that had the same thing happen.
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Yayaberry 1 year ago
Managing this now. Almost a year post chemo for ovarian cancer - sometimes it's curly, sometimes it wants to be straight. Very, very fine. It was a mass of thick curls before chemo. My once thick eyebrows are thin and fine - I call them whisper brows. But I'll take all of this because I'm happy to be alive.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Not just chemo. My doctors won't officially acknowledge it, but after being hospitalized in critical care for asthma in 2018, and receiving massive doses of steroids, my hair went from completely straight to wildly curly and still remains that way.
Sue User 1 year ago
I lost curl and volumne. I never had to style ny hair, because curls. Now that it is just wavy, i dont know what to do.
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 1 year ago
It particularly likes to mess with eyelashes. They fall out and come back all different wacky ways. Multiples rows, curly, growing the wrong direction, different colors, etc A gluacoma d**g (Bimatoprost generic, Latisse brand name) is now prescribed to treat eyelash loss in chemo patients. Like Viagra, someone noticed the side effect of the original med and now the side effect is the primary reason it's used.
Crystal Spencer 1 year ago (edited)
I had long, sleek, dark brown hair...after chemo regrow... it was a wirey, thick silver head of hair...and I was only 40
Kitty1019 1 year ago (edited)
My best friend Kim bent down to pick up her grandson and got a terrible pain in her side. She thought she pulled a muscle. After two days she went to the ER and they found pancreatic cancer. Her hair was long and silky brown. After chemo, it came in gray. She passed a year later at 53-years-old. We knew each other since we were two and I miss her every day.
Big GreenTurtle Mamma 1 year ago
Oh no, so sad, that is the horror of cancer. I am very sorry for your loss.
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Caroline Nagel 1 year ago
My mother had chemo and never lost any of her hair. However it did go back from grey to her original black coloured hair .
Crystal Spencer 1 year ago
I didn't lose my hair the first time I had chemo... you quit belive how many people will question you if you still have your hair... folks are so uneducated and think it always happens as on on t.v. ...quick and ugly. Mine has been 16 years on and off..slow and ugly
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shankShaw deReemer 1 year ago
When my dad had chemo, his eyebrows, which had been red, grew back jet black. Now that was odd-looking on this pasty white man!
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#12
Alexander Graham Bell believed people should say “Ahoy” when they pick up the phone. Edison proposed “hello,” putting that word into common usage.
Unpickled Pickle 1 year ago
Take a second to imagine an alternate universe, where you pick up the phone and say "Ahoy?"
Cosmikid 1 year ago
Strangely, people in China declined to use English "hello" - and chose their own wei.
Barong 1 year ago
I heard that Alexander Graham Bell suggested a similar but differing greeting, "Ahoy-Hoy" e07978b8-3...69f256.gif 
PFD 1 year ago
It *is* our ahoy - if the story I heard is true, anyway. The English nautical hail was adopted as a greeting among river users (canoeists) as they wanted something that symbolised how all are friends on the water. Thus it became an informal greeting (and farewell). Even today, if you're out on the river, you greet total strangers this way and "tykat" (use the informal speech register), which would be very rude in any other circumstances.
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Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
If you watch the Simpsons this is the way Mr Burns answers the phone. They got the idea fr This fact
#13
A young man pinched his nose and clamped his mouth shut to hold in a forceful sneeze and ended up barely able to speak or swallow, with considerable pain. Air bubbles reached into the deep tissue and muscles of his chest and it took seven days for him to recover in hospital.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
It's early spring and I'm already having sneezing fits that go on for upwards of ten minutes.
BoredPossum 1 year ago
Why would anyone downvote you? How can anyone find what you wrote offensive? Have my upvote.
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Olivia Carr 1 year ago
Totally plausible, it's called subcutaneous emphysema and it's the consequence of a tear in your airways due to extreme pressure. Cardiothoracic surgeon here, saw it once, impressive.
Donald Crocker, Jr. 1 year ago
I've also heard of it causing embolisms (bubbles that start blood clots)
Groaver Andout 1 year ago
Doctors' warning after man tears hole in throat trying to stop sneeze: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-67714469
Salem 1 year ago (edited)
Someone once said “Stop holding in your farts. If you do, they float up to your brain and that’s where the shítty ideas come from.”
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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Can do some serious damage to your eardrums that way. Also, think you can pop veins in your head and neck if you aren't careful.
#14
There are 17.3 million American digital nomads or people that travel freely while working remotely using technology and the internet.
Dingooo 1 year ago
Very fortunate that my daughter from out of state could still do her job while helping me out after I had surgery.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
Hope you're recovering well. I'm really lucky like that, I can still put my hours in while supporting my parents. Also I get better coffee ☕
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ThisIsMyDisplayName 1 year ago
Refugees should claim they're "digital nomads" to shut up the far-right screaming about the "migrant crisis".
Little bird 1 year ago
They are causing a crisis and they're illegal invaders.
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All Things Vibes 1 year ago
They seem to live their dreamed lives while destroy entire neighborhoods in third world countries due to gentrification. Believe me, I live in one of those neighborhoods...
Sue User 1 year ago
I just read a job posting that had terms written that made it impossible to be a digital nomad.
Little bird 1 year ago
As long as the work gets done why should they care.
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Japanese death row inmates are executed by hanging. Three prison officers simultaneously press buttons to open the trap door so it is not clear which one is responsible.
Always Malfunctioning 1 year ago
Same thing as a firing squad. Multiple shooters, only one gun with a bullet
Bear Hall 1 year ago
It's the other way around: several shooters, only one gun has blank.
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Diz 1 year ago
I am a big supporter of the death penalty if someone deserves it murderers rapists and pedophiles definitely do
Beansie-never-visited-me-once 1 year ago
I am against the death penalty but I understand that it is a passionate topic and see where people are coming from. However, what about those countless cases where someone is accused of murder and then exonerated 20 years later? W cannot be sure that every person accused is guilty.
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Jason 1 year ago
I was at one point too until my best friends sister was stabbed hundreds of times, to death, in front of her infant daughter for a car and the guy laughed about it.
Load More Replies... David 1 year ago
I seriously do not get why we (USA) have such a problem executing executions. I am not arguing for or against the death penalty. But currently we have it and it isn't that difficult to off people. But American prisoners can commit the most horrible crimes multiple times and we are worried about whether they are comfortable when they die. Anything that puts the body into immediate shock or unconsciousness is humane to the recipient (as compared to other methods). Much of the problem is we want it white washed for anyone watching.
Bear Hall 1 year ago (edited)
Again: The chemical they used to execute with was manufactured in the EU. But a few years (decades?) ago the EU banned its export because they don't agree with the capital punishment. The Americans had to invent new methods to find another "human" ways to put inmates down. So far they haven't found the magic formula thus lots of unsuccessful executions. I also heard even with the old poison it wasn't like they just fell asleep. Like a prisoner kept repeating "I'm still alive" over and over again for a long time. Or they were shaking uncontrollably for a while. Public executions used to draw lots of people all over the world not so long ago. ISIS and a Taliban were making spectacle out of them just recently. And they didn't worry about going painless: hanging people from goalposts, burning them alive, throwing them from the top of tall buildings were all used. But I guess people watching them in America aren't there to enjoy the show.
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Glenn Cuneo 1 year ago
I heard that they are about to start using reruns of "Love Boat" instead of hanging....
Bear Hall 1 year ago
It's inhuman treatment going against the spirit of the Geneva Convention.
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in a firing squad only 1 of the 6 has a real bullet, the rest are blanks for that same reason
Beansie-never-visited-me-once 1 year ago
I read a creative story recently about a prisoner on death row who was given the option to save themselves by pressing a button. They were told that if they pressed the button, someone would die in their place. Naturally, the criminal chose to press the button. It turned out that every person on death row was given that option and the button killed the last person who pressed the button. That way, the murderers did all the killing on death row themselves. I though that was a pretty cool concept.
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abbbbs 1 year ago
if they are all willing to press the button then aren't they all responsible?
Bear Hall 1 year ago
It's unbelievable how the human mind uses even the smallest excuse to wriggle out of feeling responsible. Well, at least most of the people do.
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#16
In 1909 the entire town of Ulysses, Kansas was relocated 3 miles west to escape their debts.
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 1 year ago
Wonder if Mel Brooks used this as inspiration for Blazing Saddles?
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
I knew of a village which was incorporated on land which due to poor planning included a prison. The voters tried to unincorporate, but there weren't enough eligible voters to meet the petition requirements, since most of the adults were inmates.
#17
Bruce Springsteen did not pay his taxes until he was put on the cover of Time Magazine in 1975. He then spent the next few years paying off his taxes, leaving him with only $20,000 on his 30th birthday despite multiple best-selling records and tours.
John 1 year ago
At least he ended up paying eventually. How many others that are super wealthy or famous never pay their fare share?
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90HD 1 year ago
Neither the ATF, they're fine with arming mexican cartels to kill our Border Patrol Officer, but some guy living on a homestead in Idaho has a shotgun a couple inches too short? Time to kill his dog, son, and unarmed wife.
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Der Kommissar 1 year ago (edited)
Bruce was far from wealthy in 1975. Multiple best selling records and tours came later, as Bruce was involved in a nasty lawsuit with his manager, effectively putting his career on pause. He was also on the cover of Newsweek. Both covers were paid for by the record company, and Bruce hated the idea.
Steve Riddle 1 year ago
He was being ripped off by his record company. Record companies ruined the music business.
#18
The most expensive medication in the world is Hemgenix. Cost is $3,500,000 for one treatment. It is used to treat hemophilia B, a genetic bleeding disorder.
Donteatme666 1 year ago (edited)
F*****g hate big pharma with a passion. As to why I hate it my dad has a serious thyroid issue he can die without his meds he's supposed to see a thyroid doc once a month he hasn't seen one in 3 years barely surviving on bare bones meds because he's medication is three thousand dollars a pop. He's finally getting help because he got some decent insurance from his company but yeah f**k big pharma because of them my dad almost died the meds cost maybe 50 dollars to make so yes f**k you big pharma f**k you,f**k you, f**k you,f.u.c.k. y.o.u.Big Pharma
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
My roommate is a diabetic and what they were charging for insulin is INHUMAN. When the ACA passed and his meds went down from $300/mo to $50/mo he cried. Any politician who is against collective bargaining for d**g prices should either be voted out of office or thrown out an office window.
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GrowingThruConcrete 1 year ago
Hemagenix differs in that it is not a vaccine or treatment of symptoms medicine. It is gene therapy. It will actually repair the damaged gene that causes hemophilia B, so it can make its own Factor IX. the price tho...these companies should be ashamed of themselves
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
Considering a lot of pharmaceutical companies develop meds using government grants (your tax dollars) and then sell it at ridiculous prices claiming they're trying to recoup development costs.
Kim Landfather 1 year ago
“Give me every penny you have or you’re going to die a horrible death.” Big pharma cares nothing about people’s suffering, only their bank accounts.
kiteman 1 year ago (edited)
Demand is low, cost (not just price) is high. It might be outrageous but it makes economic sense. Pharma companies have to take time to make d***s that treat rare diseases, which detracts from making the more d***s that treat common diseases. I work in pharma pricing and can confirm this. Most people have no idea.
Susan Bosse 1 year ago
My mom's chemo meds for the month of January that she takes at home was $72.255.77. That's not including what she takes at the dr. Again, that was for January. Thankfully she has BCBS and Medicare. I don't think she pays anything, or not much, out of pocket. What do others do who don't have coverage or cannot afford it? There's a lot wrong without our system. A lot.
Bewitched One 1 year ago
My mom's immunotherapy d***s for her melanoma were 20K a month. She didn't have insurance. She applied with the manufacturer to get them covered I believe. They gave them to her for free in exchange for her answering questions about the medication, side effects, how it worked, etc
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Debby Keir 1 year ago
But it's a tailored gene therapy, hopefully meaning they won't need other treatments, rather than regularly needing another med that costs 800k per dose. It's actually considered as 'cost effective'.
Lori Rommel 1 year ago
Don't most hemophiliacs rely on infusions of platelets when they are injured? What could possibly be sooo "new and improved" that it could justify a price tag like that? Unless it's an actual cure ...
#19
Garden path sentences which is a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect.
A few examples include
“The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families”
“The prime number few.”
“The man who hunts ducks out on weekends”
“Fat people eat accumulates”
“The old man the boat.”
Unpickled Pickle 1 year ago
If you're confused (Like I was at first) heres an explanation: The sentence will begin with a part of a phrase that ends with a word that has multiple meanings (example, "the old man") In this case, the word "man" has 2 possible meanings 1. Noun, a man 2. Verb, to work at, operate, run or occupy, so the brain, using context clues (The word "old") assumes that it means the noun, but then, the sentence also uses the verb, so you can think of it as two sentences joined together by a word with multiple meanings. So sentence 1 is "The old man" and sentence 2 is "Man the boat"
Multa Nocte 1 year ago
Thank you for that explanation - it made it easier for me.
Load More Replies... The Other Guest 1 year ago
TIL my favorite joke in the universe is a garden path: Two parrots were sitting on a perch, and one says to the other, "Do you smell fish?"
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
These make my head hurt. For the love of god commas exist for a reason!
William Bonner 1 year ago
I exist for a reason, but not for the love of god commas. ^_^
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Scotira 1 year ago
And we have more commas, especially with dependent clauses. (This is also the reason why I make a lot more comma mistakes in English 😅)
Load More Replies... PFD 1 year ago
"Crash blossoms" are something similar that arise in headlines, when the abbreviated grammar of headlines leads to syntactic ambiguity. The type example is "Violinist linked to JAL crash blossoms" (actually a story about the blossoming career of a violinist whose father died in a plane crash). Other examples include "Obama’s ad buys dwarf TV presence of McCain", "Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim" and "Mexico mine missing declared dead". "British Left Waffles On Falkland Islands" is even funnier but I'm not sure it's real.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Correct grammar is a matter of strategic writing. These are better: "The prime are few." "The fat that people eat accumulates"
CK 1 year ago
The prime (those that are prime) number few (are few in number).
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Sonja 1 year ago
That's why it's stupid that the English language barely ever uses commas. In German that's not happening. Those sentences would have either descriptors or commas to clear the meaning.
Bewitched One 1 year ago
Comma wouldn't work, but descriptor, such as in the last one, "The old men man the boat" or something similar would work. But doesn't require a comma. I would think that would be the case in both languages but I'm not a German speaker.
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#20
After Hurricane Katrina, the number of babies named Katrina dropped sharply. After 10 years the name Katrina was 83 percent less common.
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
It's okay though. She spoke to the manager to get it changed.
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Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
I work with a Katrina. She's tiny but ruthless. She actually kind of scares me.
Load More Replies... PFD 1 year ago
It's a misleading stat. It's true the number dropped off (though it was actually higher in 2005 than any year since 2000) but the trend was established much earlier. In 1980, there were almost 4000 baby Katrinas in the US. In 2004 (the year before the hurricane) there were just over 1000. When you look only from 2000 on, it looks like the levels were fairly steady then dropped off a cliff, but over a longer period you see it climb in popularity until 1980 then tail off fairly evenly. There just happened to be a slight bucking of the downward trend in the first years of the new millennium. The biggest single-year drops were 1982-1983 (when there were 720 fewer Katrinas) and 1992-1993 (490 fewer). From 2005-2006 the dropoff was bigger in percentage terms, and I'm sure that was because of the hurricane, but the name was well on the way down.
Manana Man 1 year ago
Beat me to it. That one's been unpopular for quite a while now. But not as long as Genghis.
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#21
US has not elected a below average height president for 120 years. Only 3 presidents since 1776 were not above average height.
Sonja 1 year ago
Yeah. Choose them by height. With the current options that won't even make much of a difference.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
Sad but true. Which would you prefer; elderly, out of touch, batshit crazy lunatic with obvious bias & a cult like following or elderly, out of touch dude who doesn't seem to realize how out of touch he is & how much a mess we're really in? Take your pick.
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Little bird 1 year ago
Fedderman is bald and has issues and he won his election.
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Steve Hall 1 year ago
It's not like voters knew the candidates heights, most people don't pay attention to it today.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Well FDR was wheelchair bound by his third term, so how they measuring?
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
Clearly something to hang our collective hopes on /s
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In 2015, Planet Earth II attempted to capture the birthing grounds of Saiga Antelope, where hundreds of thousands gather. Instead, the crew witnessed a disease spread, k***ing 150,000 in three days.
PlatinumThe8-BitCat 1 year ago
Killing killing killing killing kill kill kill f**k you censors 🖕
PFD 1 year ago
Fisk? Funk? Fork? Filk? I'm sorry, I can't work out what you're saying.
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Neffla 1 year ago
That reminds me of a line I read in a Judy Bloom book about 35 years ago - "F**k isn't a bad word. Cancer and war are bad words". From memory, so do correct me if I'm wrong. Can't remember the book but the line stuck with me.
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The.Butterfly.Effect.530 1 year ago
I wonder if the crew had anything to do with it? Inadvertently, of course, but those artic cruises require passengers to disinfect all shoes/boots and other outerwear before being able to go ashore to observe the penguins.
Crystal Spencer 1 year ago
I found out that most of the censoring is done by the OP themselves because they think that it may be censored later...
#23
2,000-year-old sapphire ring believed to have been owned by Roman Emperor Caligula sold for £500,000 in 2019. The sky blue ring also has an etching on it that's thought to depict Caligula's fourth and last wife, Caesonia.
The.Butterfly.Effect.530 1 year ago
I'm curious... has anyone ever made a rind completely our of a precious jewel? Instead of having it set on a metal band, but like take a huge diamond and drill a hole and polish it into a ring? I know it would just be ridiculous, but I can't be the 1st one to think of it.
Auntriarch 1 year ago (edited)
Can't say I've ever seen one. Though it happens with semi precious stones. See you in the rabbit hole later...
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Greenmantle 1 year ago
I'm surprised the British Museum hadn't already stolen it
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#24
Carrie Fisher's ashes were buried in urn shaped like a Prozac pill.
Barong 1 year ago
Todd Fisher explained the unique urn to Entertainment Tonight, “Carrie’s favorite possession was a giant Prozac pill that she bought many years ago. A big pill. She loved it, and it was in her house, and [daughter] Billie [Lourd] and I felt it was where she’d want to be. https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/carrie-fishers-ashes-placed-in-giant-prozac-pill-urn-115271/
Norah Reilly 1 year ago
This woman had the incisive, hilarious sense of humor that so many who live with depression have. It helps carry you through the bad times (and the good).
The Other Guest 1 year ago
Drowned in moonlight, strangled by her own bra. GNU Carrie Fisher.
#25
The F-104 Starfighter jet had such an abysmal safety record it was called the Widowmaker in West Germany. 292 of 916 units were lost to accidents there. Other countries reported similar rates.
Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
It's a Lockheed, but I see what you did there
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Bobby Howie 1 year ago
It was no worse than any other. Germany used it in a way for which it was not suitable or designed for. Also, they didn't train their pilots very well. Spain lost zero aircraft.
der sebbl 1 year ago
True. Only reason Germany bought it was some money in suitcases if you know what I mean
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Poor stall characteristics and problematic engines of the early jet age. They were fast AF when you got one going but they were a bit of a glass cannon as the USA found out during the Vietnam War. What it came down to was the F-104 was a high speed interceptor designed to engage other high speed interceptors to the detriment of everything else.
Oerff On Tour 1 year ago
Actually the accident rate dropped considerably after the germans changed the way the pilots were selected. Previously they selected Gung-Ho type guys. But the plane required meticulous flying, so they selected meticulous pilots for the F104,and relegated the gung-ho pilots to lesser demanding aircraft.
Surenu 1 year ago
To name just two of the Flying Coffin's fault: The original ejection seat ejected the pilot downwards because otherwise they'd hit the tail fin. Also the fuel mixture was highly corrosive and the tank was partially located directly behind the pilot, you can see where this is going.
Unpickled Pickle 1 year ago
Did some calculation, that's 31.88 percent accident rate! May not sound like a lot, but that's actually horrible.
DC 1 year ago
After all, this isn't THAT high a number, compared to other fighters of that era, it was pretty normal in relation to hours of flight. Those were sold in large quantities, and the german version was overequipped with a lot of stuff putting on additional weight, making the take off and landing a bit delicate, because the gear had to be in before exceeding a certain speed, that was not that much above take off speed anymore. A few maintainance issues added (where a fatal accident may happen due to a pipe not being bent correctly, where a tool wasn't distributed - or even made - that would ensure these errors to not happen), and in total, 27 years of service make numbers add up. The plane itself was kinda normal, but overload, a complexity that puzzled the then new Luftwaffe, neglect towards a few issues even ... well, you all know well-maintained cars, and those that are just being kept hardly alive ... same make and model, different everything else? That, here, too.
#26
Last train robbery in the US was in 1970, at the San Antonio Zoo.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago (edited)
That is absolutely false. There have been thousands of train robberies since then. There were more than 5,000 just in the year 2021 for example. If you are talking about the kind of robbery that is more than stealing things - armed people forcibly robbing a train, then that is still happening too. India for example is averaging one per day.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Check out a movie called Tough Guys. Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas are two old cons who were arrested for robbing trains in the 50s and locked up until the 80s. On release, they have trouble adapting so they go back to robbing trains. It's a fairly obscure comedy but it's really well done.
#27
2022 DC superhero “Batgirl” was the most expensive ‘abandoned’ movie in history. Warner Bros. already spent over $90M finishing it, and the film was in post- production, when they decided not to release it.
David 1 year ago
it was supposedly so bad, it was easier to lock up and write off as a tax-loss write off than to release it
WonderWoman 1 year ago
They shouldn't be able to write it off as a tax-loss.
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JuniorCJ82 1 year ago
I'd just like to know why DC movies have kind of always sucked compared to Marvel movies and why Marvel movies now suck too.
JuniorCJ82 1 year ago
I don't have a dog in either fight, so I'd genuinely like to know what people think about this.
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MinDHertz1366 1 year ago
Brendan Fraser, at the hight of his resurgence, was doing the voice for Fire Fly too. I really would love to see a clip of it.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
Good call, as it would have flopped and the costs for marketing and distribution would have been even higher
Two_rolling_black_eyes 1 year ago
TL:DR - WarnerMedia and Discovery merged last April and it was a bad financial decision that's hemorrhaging money. They are cancelling tons of stuff as tax write offs because they can't afford to release them. For instance, they get a $90 million credit for Batgirl. If they released Batgirl, they have to spend more money to print, distribute, and market the film. If they spend another $60 million on that and the film makes $200 million (it wouldn't), they'd make $40 million before taxes and about $ 20 million after. They "make" an extra $70 million (90 from cancelling - 20 profit) by never releasing it.
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Tōxcatl, an annual Aztec festival which revolved around the sacrifice of a young man who had been impersonating their god Tezcatlipoca since the last Tōxcatl festival, and the selection of a new man to take that role in the year to come.
Georgie Montague 1 year ago
And according to Wikipedia, he was beheaded, flayed and his flesh eaten by the noblemen. He did get to spend a year being feted. And he spent 20 days with four wives just before he was killed though.....
Nadia D 1 year ago
How old is that man? Are they choosing them among kids?
Load More Replies... Donteatme666 1 year ago
Wondering how many played sick when there turn came around or when whoever was picking came around 🤣
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
That never works, the group usually picks the one guy not present..........at least that's how we do it where I work.
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#29
Oldest cat to give birth (to 2 kittens) was Kitty at 30 years old. She passed away just short of 32 yo and gave birth to a total of 218 kittens.
Calvin Smelliott 1 year ago
This is kind of gross. At some point, it turned into how old can this cat be and still birth kittens. That poor cat!
keyboardtek 1 year ago
And how many of those kittens became outside cats who kill off the wild birds?
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Anita Edwardd 1 year ago
This is actually horrible to read. Poor thing. The pain when mating, giving birth, hormones fluctuating before during and after birth. This breaks my heart.
Mason Kronol 1 year ago
Our cat was pregnant when she adopted us. She pushed out 5 healthy babies. and she looked miserable. Got her fixed ASAP along with the 2 we kept. It's so sweet to raise kittens but pregnancy is tough on a cat. She was always snuggling up to me so I could rub her belly and her back. ADOPT DONT SHOP!
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
How many of them found adequate soft can-openers?
Kristie French 1 year ago
That’s 7+ kittens a year. Why was this cat not spayed? It’s really rough on a females body to be pregnant and give birth. Please spay/neuter your pets. Not only to reduce the population of homeless but to protect them and other wildlife.
AnnaRachelle 1 year ago
Why the f×÷k didn't someone get her neutered. I have giving birth 3 times and it is so bloody painful..poor cat. I have 4 cats. 2 boys 2 girls. All neutered....
Diana Wilcox 1 year ago
Not sure why you got downvoted. It's an ugly truth, but truth nonetheless.
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#30
Movie Cleopatra cost $350 million adjusted for inflation to make, 3 times higher than Ben Hur. Due to its cost it was considered a box office bomb despite being highest grossing film of 1963.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
It's an eye popping movie, if you haven't seen it. You wont' believe what they did before CGI.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
Ha! Thanks, I was unaware of this one. I've seen a couple Carry Ons, so a little familiar. One aspect- I think the viewer may need to know more History to "get" the Carry On version- The Elizabeth Taylor version sticks remarkably close to what written history exists and just lines it out- easy to appreciate. Carry On version seems to need more than that- but fun!
Load More Replies... Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Seem to remember reading theaters in Israel refusing to show it, since Elizabeth Taylor was a Jewish convert. Unsure if that's true or not.
#31
A man under the pseudonym "Kirk Allen" who became deluded that a sci-fi book series was actually the story of his life. He filled in the blanks with elaborate details and hallucinated himself in those settings. He was treated by Robert Lindner, who himself became obsessed with the books.
LandAhoy 1 year ago
But what is the sci-fi book series in question? Or is it too dangerous to mention?
Kira Okah 1 year ago
"Due to "Allen"'s anonymity, it is unclear what the series was, apart from the fact that it was science fiction. Some have theorized that the series was the Barsoom books, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, featuring the main character John Carter." - from the OP's source.
Load More Replies... PeTeH 1 year ago
Many people believe a fantasy book is actually real. The phenomena is called religion.
Papa 1 year ago
If you don't want to believe, that's your right, but why do you feel the need to belittle the people that do? Does it make you feel good about yourself?
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TheAmericanAmerican 1 year ago
If the image above is in reference to said book, then it is the Barsoom novels AKA John Carter of Mars.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Interesting pseudonym. Kirk Alyn was the first actor to play Superman in a movie.
Steve Hall 1 year ago
Kirk Allen (born 1918) was the pseudonym given to a patient of Robert M. Lindner's, in his book The Fifty-Minute Hour. Born in Hawaii, "Allen" soon became obsessed with a series of novels, the protagonist of which shared his name.[1] Due to "Allen"'s anonymity, it is unclear what the series was, apart from the fact that it was science fiction. Some have theorized[2] that the series was the Barsoom books, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, featuring the main character John Carter.
#32
Masi Oka, who played Hiro Nakamura in the TV show Heroes, founded the developer that made the game Outer Wilds.
Amanda Young 1 year ago
My friend and I have a joke where we throw our hands up and say "we did it!" like he does in Heroes lol 😆
#33
America, the country with the worlds 3rd largest population has only 9 cities with a population above 1 million according to the 2020 census and the 2022 estimate. 3 of those cities are in Texas.
Zaach 1 year ago
My niece comes from a backwater village in China of only 2 million people (her words)
Diz 1 year ago
That's too many people, overcrowding is not good for the ecosystem, the people, animals, anyone.
Load More Replies... 80 Van 1 year ago (edited)
It helps to use real numbers. India has the world’s highest population with 1.428 billion people, and it has roughly 4,000 cities. China is a very close second with 1.425 billion, and it has only 707 cities. The USA is a distant third with 340 million (less than a quarter of India or China) but it has over 19,000 cities. So, it makes sense that the USA would have so few cities of over 1 million when you take into account number of citizens vs number of cities. (Edited to correct number of cities in the USA)
Lewis KR 1 year ago
As of 2018, there are 19,495 incorporated cities, towns and villages in the United States. 14,768 of these have populations below 5,000. Only ten have populations above 1 million and none are above 10 million.
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
That can't possibly be right. Someone is fudging these numbers by only considering the metro areas of these cities. For example, I live in Portland, OR. That's 600,000 in Portland proper, but you add in Beaverton, Hillsborough, Tigard, Toulatin, Milwaukee, Clackamas, Sellwood, St. Johns, Gresham, and about half a dozen other boroughs, we top a million easy. Keep in mind if you were driving through these places, you would not know you were leaving one "city" and moving to another. It's all built up with little countryside in between. I question OP's definition of "city".
Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 1 year ago
The definition is easy. There's a difference between a city proper, as defined by its political borders, and an urban area or metro area. Only 9 US cities have more than one million inhabitants, but many more urban and metro areas do. In the same fashion France as a relatively low number of large cities, but that's due to the size of French communes. Their urban areas are of course larger.
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BoredPossum 1 year ago
Let's see if we can disprove this by listing cities with 1M+ inhabitants. I'll start. New York.
Mat O'Dowd 1 year ago
New York CityNew York7,931,147 Los AngelesCalifornia3,748,640 ChicagoIllinois2,590,002 HoustonTexas2,305,889 PhoenixArizona1,676,481 PhiladelphiaPennsylvania1,533,916 San AntonioTexas1,506,593 San DiegoCalifornia1,375,452 DallasTexas1,295,447
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Michael None 1 year ago (edited)
Some American cities are geographically small compared to other places. Those 9 cities are probably 500 square miles each.
#34
HBO cancelled Game of Thrones spin-off Bloodmoon in 2019 after spending $30 million on its pilot. HBO's content chief explained that it was a hard project because George RR Martin had only written about 8 lines of text for the era the show was set in, so a lot more invention was required.
WindySwede 1 year ago
"Good plot, good money" is were their imagination ended? 😋
Load More Replies... Jack Burton 1 year ago
Look at GOT, every stuff you remember, every awesome part was already wrote by George Martin. As soon as they had to invent plot by themselves it was awful.
Kira Okah 1 year ago
Rings of Power was based on the appendices of LotR, because Amazon didn't have the rights to The Silmarillion, only the appendices. Not a novel concept.
Load More Replies... Michael None 1 year ago
This would have been a great show. Except for the final season, I'm sure they'd f**k that one up.
Emie N. 1 year ago
They were going to have a gay female protagonist of color and HBO thought it was “too progressive”. 🙄
Astro 1 year ago
So annoying, some people freak out and cry when they see anyone besides a straight white man playing the lead role in anything 😬 because there’s no such thing as gay women of colour in the real world, you know 🙄
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#35
Star Jelly, a translucent jelly-like substance that has been found for centuries. Scientists have no idea what it is. According to folklore, it is deposited on the Earth during meteor showers.
Ace 1 year ago
It's not that they don't know what it is, but whether it is A thing at all, given that reported cases are so very different from one another, making it likely that there are different phenomena caused by different things, from frog-spawn to industrial waste.
JBB 1 year ago
Nostoc, a type of fresh water blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) forms spherical colonies made of filaments of cells in a gelatinous sheath. When on the ground, it is ordinarily not seen; but after rainfall, it swells up into a conspicuous jellylike mass which is sometimes called star-jelly.
Kira Okah 1 year ago
This is another one of the theories as to what it is. It's also not confirmed, just like the frogspawn one.
Load More Replies... Zaach 1 year ago
Er: "Star jelly appears to be frog spawn. Yup, nothing but frogs or toads -- which, we should point out, have probably had their bodies ripped apart by predators, exposing and releasing their ovum jelly"
Kira Okah 1 year ago
That is one theory of multiple. Some studies of star jelly have not found DNA in the samples.
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Kira Okah 1 year ago
With no confirmations, which is generally the part being looked for.
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Junebugjump! 1 year ago
I'd never heard of this, but after a bit of a rabbit hole, pretty fascinating.
#36
Mother of Lee Harvey Oswald would sometimes go to Dealey Plaza and sell her autograph for five dollars.
CuttlefishHierarchy 1 year ago
Or a desperate one. I'm going out on a limb and assuming that she was ostracized and treated badly, probably losing necessary financial opportunities.
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Bolero 1 year ago
What an incredibly ignorant, irrelevant, and unnecessary comment
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Rapper Shyne, famous for going to jail as part of Diddy's posse as well as writing for many famous artists, converted to Orthodox Judaism in prison, moved to Jerusalem to study the torah up to 12 hours a day, and now has become a politician and leader of the opposition party in Belize.
Veronica Jean 1 year ago
Can you imagine meeting him at a party after years of not seeing each other?? Like entering the Twilight zone
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Golda Greenfield 1 year ago
I and many Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem new of him and heard about him, he even went on some date with a friend of mine… it’s a tiny ish community
Emie N. 1 year ago
Nothing wrong with converting to Judaism, good for him! But supporting the occupation by living in Jerusalem makes him terrible.
Max Fox 1 year ago
Because any Jew who dares live in Jerusalem is automatically a terrible person. Nice.
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Despite selling 500k copies in its first two hours and going 7x Platinum, Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I & II albums were considered to have "underperformed" sales expectations.
Nick 1 year ago
You're not telling the full story. The record label set the expectation so high so they would not have to pay the band. They didn't "Under preform". They just didn't meet the record labels demand which was an unachievable target anyways.
leendadll 1 year ago
Sounds like every corporate job ever... kerp setting insane goals, even in a recession, then blame the employees for "under performing".
Load More Replies... Donteatme666 1 year ago (edited)
F**k em those we're awesome records some of the greatest songs ever so yeah record company has it's head stuck up it's a*s or a**e really BP you edited a.s.s.
WakandaPanda 1 year ago
Ah, the music industry, it's the only industry that doesn't want you to know it's an industry !
Sonja 1 year ago
And who're fighting tooth and nails to make artists believe self marketing on Spotify and similar platforms is bad for them.
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#39
Sleeping on your side increases facial wrinkles that are perpendicular to expression based wrinkles.
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
I suspect not sleeping in a position that’s comfortable for me would be more damaging and to more than just my skin
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Nobody wants me sleeping on my back. Not unless they want the mother of all buzzsaws.
Load More Replies... Justin Tyme 1 year ago
Okay, but are that also horizontally aligned along an axial plane parallel to the tangent of the perpendicular ray projecting along a sight line?
Papa 1 year ago
Do you sleep on the same side all night long? I wake up several times during the night, roll to the other side, and go back to sleep.
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#40
The (in)famous problem of most scientific studies being irreproducible has its own research field since around the 2010s when the Replication Crisis became more and more noticed.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
"Most" - not hardly. Thank goodness for Social Media, where 100% of facts can be made up any time.
The.Butterfly.Effect.530 1 year ago
I, George Washington, call bull s**t.
Load More Replies... Sonja 1 year ago
It is true that most studies cannot be reproduced. That has always been the case and isn't new. That's why we have retesting and adjusting and peer review. That's not the problem. Every real scientist knows that if you're the first to study anything that hasn't been researched before, you're almost bound to fail to find the effect you're looking for. That's why we need multiple studies. But in modern media laymen hype every new study as if it was the holy grail of facts, and politicians and even professionals who should know better haste to satisfy the raging mob by committing to test results that haven't been retested or confirmed yet. And that's what's problematic.
Lyone Fein 1 year ago
If it's not reproducible then it's not a *scientific* study. That's part of the definition!
BoredPossum 1 year ago
Definitely not the case with most studies. Real science has to be reproduced or it won't pass peer review. Anything that hasn't been reproduced is faked and the end of the authors scientific career.
Alewa 1 year ago
That is not true at all and your sensationalist tone isn't helping. Just because it hasn't been reproduced yet doesn't mean it's fake or the end of someone's career, it may just be the first study to find that effect. If it's a high quality study it will surely pass peer review.
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