https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansen_Writing_Ball - Early typewriter, the first commercially available and perhaps the first model of a keyboard? I like how it looks an upper half of a crystal ball. Unfortunately I couldn't find any videos of someone typing in it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kult_%28role-playing_game%29 - The default backdrop of Kult is modern-day real-life larger cities; players taking the roles of contemporary multi-genre protagonists, such as private investigators and femme fatales, vigilantes and drug dealers, artists and journalists, or secret agents and mad scientists. In the game, however, all this and the entire world we see, is an "illusion" held together by a monotheistic belief which is unravelling to reveal a darker backdrop where nightmarish monsters lurk, called "reality" in the game.
Sounds like something wizards would understand and like to play, that rpg group on /hob/ should do a session of this on twitch or something so we could watch it.
>>170619 You can find the books in any torrent site, reviews and gameplay of it everywhere on yt and blogs. I downloaded the books and I'm going through them, it looks pretty fun actually. To not go too offtopic here, here's another wiki article of another rpg system I'm reading through right now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_of_the_Demon_Lord This one looks really cool as well. I wish I wasn't such an awkward fuck so I could play that stuff with other people. Even using a mic is a nightmare for me.
>>170547 Reminds of me of that one shitty rpgmaker game that is revealed to be a recruiting method for real life cults. Nope, too creepy for me. This one may also be a proselytizing medium for some new age belief for all I know.
William Erwin Walker, also known as Erwin M. Walker and Machine Gun Walker (October 6, 1917 − October 7, 2008)[2] was an American police employee and World War II army veteran who is remembered for a violent series of thefts, burglaries, and shootouts with police in Los Angeles County, California, in 1945 and 1946, one of which resulted in a fatality.[3][4] The film He Walked by Night was loosely based on Walker's 1946 crime spree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Walker
>>170970 This is actually real. Scientists just shrug it off because it sounds wild but if someone truly believes that they have conceived a puppy, that will affect reality. It's not just psychology like the material sciences would have you think, there's objective metaphysical ripples from this. Death for sure. I wouldn't be surprised if there were maybe cancerous growths in the womb or naval area, maybe in the shape of a dog. We don't know because no one wants to risk looking like a fool seriously trying to verify puppy pregnancy. But this is how reality works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_wizard_amendment >The expert wizard amendment was a proposed amendment by New Mexico state senator Duncan Scott, which would require psychologists and psychiatrists to dress up as wizards when they were in court proceedings providing expert testimony regarding a defendant's competency.
Apparently it's possible that a sudden, random decrease in entropy could caught another big bang. Or maybe everything will just get cold and dark and that's it.
"Perfidious Albion" is a pejorative phrase used within the context of international relations diplomacy to refer to alleged acts of diplomatic sleights, duplicity, treachery and hence infidelity (with respect to perceived promises made to or alliances formed with other nation states) by monarchs or governments of the UK (or England prior to 1707) in their pursuit of self-interest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfidious_Albion
Robert Surcouf (12 December 1773 – 8 July 1827) was a French privateer who operated in the Indian Ocean between 1789 and 1801, and again from 1807 to 1808, capturing over 40 prizes. He later amassed a large fortune as a ship-owner, from privateering, commerce,[1] and illegal slave trade,[2] and as a landowner.[3]
When a British captive officer taunted Surcouf with the words "You French fight for money while we fight for honour", Surcouf replied "Each of us fights for what he lacks most".
>>171542 A love these small clever retorts, here's one. Samuel Johnson: In England we wouldn't think of eating oats. We only feed them to Horses. Boswell: "Well, maybe that's why in England you have better horses, and in Scotland we have better men".
>>171542 >>171543 >love these small clever retorts, You wizzies might enjoy this French film from the '90s. It hasn't aged that great, but I still enjoyed it. They spend a lot of time verbally jousting with one another. >Ridicule is a 1996 French period drama film directed by Patrice Leconte and starring Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant and Judith Godrèche. Set in the 18th century at the decadent court of Versailles, where social status can rise and fall based on one's ability to mete out witty insults and avoid ridicule oneself, the film's plot examines the social injustices of late 18th-century France, in showing the corruption and callousness of the aristocrats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridicule_(film)
>>172350 more 'art' than left i think. people in the art world write in the most fucked up way. it's like they are compensating for not producing anything of scientific value by doubling down on their bullshit by creating their own fantasy systems and fake methodologies and they just shit out nonsense.
>>172352 I can see someone managing to use this to make a lot of money, like a pub owner or something coming up with a several ambient type of pub or rave or whatever, throwing that term around and making people wanting to experience it, whatever it is. It's not that far from, say, writing a story people want to hear, though I admit I don't quite understand wth is Derive.
But here's a cool article that was on the related section. I used to do that a lot before moving to a huge city. Didn't even know there's a name for that. Interesting.
I watched two short documentaries about her. Very interesting and moving. >>>/hob/55358 >Hayley Leanne Okines (3 December 1997 – 2 April 2015) was an English author and activist who was a sufferer of the extremely rare aging disease progeria.[3][4] She was known for spreading awareness of the condition. Although the average life expectancy for sufferers is 13 years, Okines was part of a drug trial that had seen her surpass doctors' predictions of her projected lifespan. She died on 2 April 2015 at the age of 17, having lived four years beyond doctors' initial predictions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayley_Okines >Progeria is an extremely rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder in which symptoms resembling aspects of aging are manifested at a very early age.[6] Progeria is one of several progeroid syndromes.[7] Those born with progeria typically live to their mid-teens to early twenties.[8][9] It is a genetic condition that occurs as a new mutation and is rarely inherited, as carriers usually do not live to reproduce children. Although the term progeria applies, strictly speaking, to all diseases characterized by premature aging symptoms, it is often used specifically in reference to Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progeria
>>172350 Theory is just a parlor trick. Knowing obscure concepts and having the language to articulate them is only good for impressing people or trying to get laid. Outside of academia it has zero value.
I watched some unsettling reborn videos by chance the other day. Mentally damaged people seem attracted to these dolls. Very interesting little community. I hope the dolls help them. >A reborn doll is an art doll created from a manufactured doll or kit that has been transformed by an artist to resemble a human infant with as much realism as possible. The process of creating a reborn doll is referred to as reborning and the doll artists are referred to as reborners. Reborn dolls are also known as lifelike dolls or reborn baby dolls. >Some consumers of reborn dolls use them to cope with their grief over a lost child (a memory reborn), or as a portrait doll of a grown child.[10] Others collect reborns as they would regular dolls. These dolls are sometimes played with as if they are an infant.[10] Critics debate whether reborn dolls are harmful, or whether these dolls can help in the grieving process.[5][11] Because of their realistic appearance, reborn dolls have occasionally been mistaken for real babies and "rescued" from parked cars after being reported to the police by passers-by. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reborn_doll
>>173448 so that's what those fucking things are. i've been down this strangely specific youtube rabbit hole a few times watching reborn routines on youtube, where kids and adults film their reborn baby's morning/night/etc routines. i think the overwhelming majority just treat them as regular dolls. there are too many videos for the grief therapy thing to be common
>>170540 I remember seeing rat kings at a zoology museum spooking me as a kid like nothing else there. Dead, lifeless stuffed tigers, wolves etc. seemed like nothing.
this story was in the top of wikipedia idk I kinda have a "capitalist" reaction to this story. In that those who place the most value in X, will do the most to care for X. So in her case she got a lot of attention from linguists and scientists as a "natural experiment" in child-development and so if she had remained in their hands, they probably would have given a lot of priority to her but instead she went with her mom, foster homes and institutions. where she was just another problem child so it seems like it would have been better for both science and her well-being if she had remained a "science experiment". idk maybe the wiki article is just biased in that direction
>>174094 Cool read, reminded me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bridgman a lot. Although Genie seems a much darker story. I wonder why her father didn't just off her, to lock up a child for years on end and only beat them… Really fucked honestly.
>>171078 Our Lady of Sorrows reminds me of Munemoshune no Musumetachi. The motif is quite similar, and if you watch the anime therr are even some thematic parallels. I wonder if the creators knew and this was intentional.
>>174139 Yea honestly anime takes so much from the western world, sometimes its borderline pathetic if I'm going to be honest. I guess thats just the modern global world though, sharing of culture melding everyone into the same unrecognizable blob.
>>174143 No, they only complain about "white people" appropriating their shitty culture, which to be fair it is very cringe to see Europeans dress and speak like niggers, or get dragon tattoos. I think all cultural appropriation is cringe, just like when I see other countries wearing business suits or taking European names, gigacringe. Might as well just start bleaching their skin at that point too, pathetic subservient bastards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Plant_Industry >The scientists of the institute protected the seeds from the threats of the cold, the hungry residents of the besieged city, rats, and their own hunger. Twenty-eight of the botanists died during the siege, protecting their collection.
>>174451 >All food supplies to the city were cut off. There was constant shelling. People were reduced to eating anything. Dog, cats, rats, dirt, and even each other. >But in the institute on St. Isaacs Square, the scientists were protecting the seeds and the potatoes. They were dying doing it. Some thirty scientists and staff died, essentially of starvation that winter. >The curator of the rice collection died surrounded by bags of rice. >Kameraz and Voskrensenskaia succumbed, protecting their potatoes in the cellar to the very end. that's impressive
Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan (Russian: Александра Асановна Элбакян,[1] born 1988)[2] is a Kazakhstani computer programmer and creator of the website Sci-Hub, which provides free access to research papers.[3][4] According to Elbakyan, Sci-Hub has served over a billion science articles to its visitors since 2011.[5]
She has been described as an Internet "pirate in hiding"[6] and "Science's Pirate Queen".[7] Nature has listed her in 2016 in the top ten people that mattered in science,[8] Ars Technica has compared her to Aaron Swartz,[9] and The New York Times has compared her to Edward Snowden.[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan
They wanted to give him life but couldn´t prove he was related to all the bombings that happened around that time. As for his motive, I have no idea. pic related is him in court with a ketchup bottle
>>174647 So there are real succubus contributors to science and technology and the media only cares about useless succubi that post on instagram all day and can't even type "cd .." into their console? Wtf
>>174647 honestly i have more respect for the people who host the site, they're the ones who risk getting raided by the feds and sued for mass copyright infringement
Thinking about this case again, since I just saw a Dr Grande video about her. I didn't know she had dexedrine (amphetamine) in her system at the time of her death. >The body of Elisa Lam, also known by her Cantonese name, Lam Ho Yi (藍可兒; April 30, 1991[1] – February 2013), a Canadian student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, was recovered from a water tank atop the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles on February 19, 2013.[2] She had been reported missing at the beginning of the month. Maintenance workers at the hotel discovered the body when investigating guest complaints of problems with the water supply and water pressure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elisa_Lam
>>175537 dont really like dr grande, then again i dont like his profession either. heard about that succ awhile back though. all those norpers got btfo drinking corpse water lol.
>Hell Joseon, Hell Chosun or Hell Korea (Korean: 헬조선) is a satirical South Korean term that became popular around 2015. The term is used to criticize the socioeconomic situation in South Korea. It is particularly popular among younger Koreans, due to their feelings about unemployment and working conditions in modern society. >The phrase is a mixture of the words "Hell" and "Joseon", meaning that "(South) Korea is a hellish, hopeless society". Although the term began with private individuals on the internet, it was later adopted by the mass media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Joseon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Paris_(845) >While Ragnar showed the gold and silver he had acquired to Horik and boasted about how easy he thought the conquest of Paris had been, he reportedly collapsed crying while relating that the only resistance he had met was from the long deceased saint.
>>175562 Jesus if people in fucking south korea think that they live in hell then what the fucking fuck is the latin american country where I live? Something much worse than hell?
He didn't have what she researched because he was underweight, but she did a study in 1999 where they injected "recombinant methionyl human leptin" in to children with genetic leptin deficiencies who couldn't stop eating. The injections fixed them.
>>170540 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laomian_language Laomian (老緬語, also known as Bisu, Guba or Lawmeh) is a Sino-Tibetan language and is a Chinese derivation of the Lahu name Lawmeh. Laomian is closely related to the Bisu language, is spoken in Laomian Dazhai 老缅大寨, Zhutang Township 竹塘乡, Lancang County, Yunnan.[3] There are 4,000 speakers (out of 5,000 ethnic members) in central Lancang County, Yunnan (Bradley 2007), and fewer than 1,000 Laopin speakers,
>>177218 Unless you're in Venezuela, you unironically have it better than South Korea. SK is hell with a K-pop facade. Read some of the posts from this blog by an ESL teacher.
Human slavery is still practiced in some of the remote islands in SK where autists and wizards are chained up. Even as recently as the 1980s, corrupt government officials would use the police force to kidnap kids from families and put them in slave camps to be worked till death.
>>178282 Hey, I was reading the exact same article a couple weeks ago. I got fascinated by the Great Lakes canal system, seawaymax ships, ships lost to storms in the Great Lakes, that kind of thing. I find it interesting how many ships in the Lakes are so big that that's all the area they'll ever traverse–they're too big to fit through the canals. Or the ships that are just big enough to go intracanal, but too big to be seawaymax. It surprises me that there's that much intrashipping on the lakes. If you look at shipping trackers, it seems like the most active is a ferry that takes you straight across Superior. I was also reading a bunch of Army Corps of Engineers studies arguing AGAINST expanding the canals, which I found interesting. I think it's the first time I've ever seen a government report say, "Actually, more money on this might not be the wisest." I wonder how lake freight traffic around the lakes compares with rail freight traffic on a yearly basis.
>>178283 a lot of raw materials come from the western/northern side of the lake area, so I guess it makes sense that those materials be shipped across the lakes to the more-populated areas along the southern/eastern sides.
>>178746 I've actually been doing a lot of research and adding to that bachelor tax article over the years. I have a laundry list of books/articles for research on that article that I don't know how to approach/get. >>178747 It isn't always so clear cut about childlessness. A lot of the time it was just seen as "Who will support the succubi if men don't marry them?" or just a pure Machiovellian cash grab. Only in Roman times and rather recently in the Soviet bloc and former Soviet countries has it been about childlessness. You have to remember that most of human history has been rather Malthusian. I think this is important because if people who read that solely see it as historically a pro-natalistic measure then it gives it far more legitimacy as a tenable measure then it really deserves to be.
I got rather interested in reading Wikipedia articles on rather basic stuff on other planets in the solar system. Mainly because of the music thread about how weird the ambient EM sounds from Jupiter/Saturn are. I stopped on Uranus for a while because:
1 - Just how completely featureless its surface is. Look at the attached picture. Nothing. Absolutely NOTHING. That's an enormous amount of surface area, and not a single feature. That just seems rather unbelievable. Jupiter has its pale red dot. Saturn has hexgonal poles. Neptune has its own dot and storm. Uranus has its axial tilt and weird rings, sure, but on the surface? Nothing.
2 - The surface gravity is lower than Earths, but the rest of the article keeps saying there's no surface, but does keep saying there's ice/an ocean. I'm curious about whether it's possible to send a probe in.
3 - There's a lot of hints that Uranus is crazy old compared to the rest of the planets. It's like it gives the allure that "It was made by the ancient ones" or something.
4 - The EM field and axial tilt is wack.
It's name is unfortunate, however. It feels like you can't really have any serious discussions about it just because of its name.
>>178762 IT is unfortunate about the name. People just make childish jokes and all that. I also think it is a very interesting planet. Uranus and Saturn are my 2 favorites
>>178762 >Just how completely featureless its surface is. Look at the attached picture. Nothing. Absolutely NOTHING. That's an enormous amount of surface area, and not a single feature. You can see the banding but it's only visible in infrared. I guess whatever gas it is diffuses a lot of visible light. Apparently because one hemisphere is more consistently lit the methane in circulation in that hemisphere is energized enough to rise high in the atmosphere, and that's what causes the hazing visible to our eyes.
The axial tilt produces unusual weather, because our understanding of seasonal weather involves the Sun energizing both hemispheres, which only occurs in parts of Uranus' orbit. The other problem is a seasonal year there lasts 84 years, so we've only really been observing the atmosphere for a single Uranian year.
>>178762 it seems like in documentaries and stuff that everyone pronounces uranus as yir-uh-niss. maybe the childish your-anus pronunciation is just american?
>>178762 >It's name is unfortunate, however. What? It's a good name. If you are talking with someone who can't stop himself being annoying, he is not even worth the time. Is a good filter basically.
>>179759 What about all the science that could have been done on it that hasn't because the public has the mental age of a 9-year old? Our knowledge of Uranus at large has been retarded over the past century and will likely be so in the future solely because of its name.
>>179781 You're right that it doesn't directly stop it. The NSF board isn't going to be snickering to themselves at any proposal involving Uranus, but it does have a subtle, indirect effect, where on the margins I bet it does. >>179780 More than otherwise. I was not framing it as a binary 0 or 1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Nuclear_Power_Plant#Incidents_and_accidents >On 28 November 1975, a fuel channel in Unit 1 suffered a loss of coolant, resulting in the degradation of a nuclear fuel assembly that led to a significant release of radiation lasting for one month…The accident was not reported in the media. Practically the same accident occurred in Unit 1 of the Chernobyl Power Station in 1982 This is just one incident. This place was a fucking shitshow.
Do you keep track of which articles you have read? I feel the want to do this but I'm not sure how to go about it. In such a way which isn't exhaustingly pedantic
I've been obsessed with reading about nuclear disasters for the past month. In particular, I've been going through the list of the INES scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Scale I feel like I could talk at length about Fukushima now. I'm surprised at all the events that I don't recall at all or completely misremembered. Also, Fukushima Daisan is a much more interesting story to me that Fukushima Daiichi. Anyways, the most surprising thing about this list to me is that the vast majority of disasters have had nothing to do with nuclear power plants, but rather processing plants or…this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident#Events Of course. Of course Brazil's Chernobyl would be so…fucking stupid.
>>181530 Halfway through, I felt like I was reading a Monty Python skit. Then that little succubus and their family started playing with the stuff like it was cool glitter. I have no words.
>>181441 >That night Devair Alves Ferreira (the owner of the scrapyard) noticed the blue glow from the punctured capsule. Thinking the capsule's contents were valuable or even supernatural, he immediately brought it into his house. >Over the next three days, he invited friends and family to view the strange glowing substance.
Why is this country so low IQ?
I'm brazilian and embarrassed of my nations stupidity.
Also interesting, but much more obvious, is how it basically completely destroyed Portugal. I think the reason they never again rose to their colonialism heights is because of the "aftershocks" of that earthquake.
>>181752 pretty deep rabbit holes you're digging into huh you might as well read books or specialized websites on these topics but you probably are already doing so?
>>181753 Yeah, a lot of this comes from a book called All is Clouded by Desire which goes into heavy detail. The author Alan Block is a professor of crime and has a lot of deep research dives into shady banks. Once you start to connect the dots some of the stuff you can find is pretty mindblowing.
>>181754 this is more about tax evasion but you could check out Treasure Islands by Nicholas Shaxson if you can a lot of this stuff goes over my head frankly
also a blog by an amateur researcher who does some pretty good synthesis work on parapolitics is visupview
>>181757 iirc there's quite a bit about the infamous bcci but that's inevitable eh but really it's more of a "general" study on the topic of tax evasion and its consequences, although there's a lot about the british off shore tax havens, the city of london and so on… as I said most of this goes over my head but someone with an actual interest in these matters will undoubtedly find it interesting
im guessing you already plan to read about the vatican banking scandals of the 70s and 80s, calvi, p2, banco ambrosiano and all that sweet stuff?
>>181767 Not sure how to feel about this. On the one hand it’s cool and pretty harmless theme parks, on the other hand it seems like it’s there because the government doesn’t want people actually going to other countries and beyond their “watchful eyes”.
I just wanted to share the story behind this word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_(unit)#Etymology >Initially they hoped the name would obscure any reference to the study of nuclear structure; eventually, the word became a standard unit in nuclear and particle physics.
>>181771 >the government doesn’t want people actually going to other countries and beyond their “watchful eyes”. There are Chinese tourists everywhere. I'm pretty sure those cities just exist because it's cheaper for an average Chinese family to travel an hour outside of Beijing than go all around the world on a vacation. Also keeps more capital flowing within China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_patron_saints_by_occupation_and_activity A list of patron saints. I were suprised by how specific many of them were. Some included were >Funeral directors >Grave diggers >Horticulture >Lace workers >Land surveyors >Lighthouse keepers >Marble workers >Medical record librarians >Oil refiners >Poor students >Radio workers >Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers soldiers >Secretaries >Taxi drivers >one each for wine growers and another for makers The list goes on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death#Deaths >Chalmel de Vinario recognized that bloodletting was ineffective (though he continued to prescribe bleeding for members of the Roman Curia, whom he disliked)
These are 5 foot tall storks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoebill So, if velociraptors were actually feathered animals…these help me imagine what that would look like. Also these shoebills make a chatter that sounds like a gun going off. They're so bizarre.
I honestly can't believe these exist. This reminds me of a few years ago when someone finally convinced me that narwhals actually exist. I mean, in my defense, when I heard about narwhals for the first time it was after I heard about unicorns, so I was immediately so skeptical that I didn't believe that they existed.
>>170540 >moon colonization article claiming water is all over the moon >took them forever to claim mars had water >now the moon has water >malintent article >they read your mind >>I knew it… >old crime forecasting >old So if it's not psycho-pass now have we evolved to the point of minority report?
>>184068 > In August 2021, VW announced that it was removing the traditional pork-based product from the cafeteria menu at the Wolfsburg plant in favor of the vegetarian version. This move drew fire from former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder. why did they remove the sausage product form the factory menu? imagine working there for 20 years eating and enjoying your car sausage to have some newfag come in and remove it.
>>184526 I find all of these holidays to be very silly. Most of them are just turned inorganically into a 'thing' because some elites and social engineers dictated it.
>>184528 >They are like a secular parody of religious holy days That's exactly what they are. The saddest thing is that even the long-established non-secular holidays have been co-opted and mutated into just more excuses for mindless consumerism. Everything today feels so fake, inauthentic and insincere today. I hate it.
>>184529 > Everything today feels so fake, inauthentic and insincere today. I hate it. I know how you feel. I think someone called it the age of the big lie. Everything is bullshit, you can't unironically like anything without getting shit on, and even basic observable reality and truth is demonized and criminalized.
>>170547 This seems interesting. I have been thinking in make my own rpg (video game, not a pnp one) and was looking for interesting modern setting games, so this will help me a lot. Thank you.
However, when tested in India, the product failed miserably:
We used it on a captive crowd consisting of CRPF personnel and general public. But they managed to tolerate the smell without much difficulty. […] Those who can ignore [the] smell can drink the liquid also
Turns out Larry Sanger, one of the founders of Wikipedia, hates loli on a comical level. Like he literally called the FBI on the wiki page on lolicon, which the FBI ignored and told him no crimes were committed and stop contacting them.
>>187347 They're different. One can have an attraction toward drawings of little succubi while wanting nothing to do with the genuine article. Have you heard of the term, "niijigen complex"?
>>187345 that's kind of like saying gamers who play shooting games are thinly veiled terrorists or something. if you have some mental illness that makes it hard for you to distinguish reality from fantasy… that is one excuse i guess, but most people have no problem with this
>>187350 >Many people here, including those who've been talking about it so far. >Many people here, including those who've been talking about it so far. Learn to not speak for everybody. And this is wizchan, not reddit or whatever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Scott_Amedure >wanna make bread but too lazy >learn about no-knead bread >looked up how to make no knead bread >found an old youtube video >'jenny can cook' >she has charisma and speaks well for being a random old succubus home cook >google and find out she was a talk show host in the 90s among other random things >ah that explains it >find out a murder resulted from her show when one man confessed gay love to his friend on the talk show i just wanted some bread
>>188828 I haven't read anything in the last 50 years who still call that plant wandering jew. Spiderwart, sure. inchplants, occasionally. Wondering Jew, only in very old books have I seen that plant called that.
>>188829 it was on some image for plants that guinea pigs can eat, you can see it bottom right. just a random rabbit hole of google searches but it seemed a weird name
>>189070 Even more shocking is how such a system is relatively safe most of the time. I believe it's still a system used in some plants, though I couldn't tell you which ones.
>>189072 Oh man, that's a great topic. I love how many times Sellafield in particular is on the INES list. Here, let me be apropos and grab the Wikipedia article for nuclear accidents at Sellafield. That place is a shitshow and it's still up and running. English bros go all the way back to the Windscale fire. I wonder what's the most recent scandal that's happened ther– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield#Organ_removal_inquiry … WHAT THE FUCK! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK, WHY THE FUCK IS THERE AN ORGAN REMOVAL FROM CORPSES AT A NUCLEAR POWER PL–WHAT?!
>>189070 there are classes of flammable refridgerants still in use today for mundane things, i assume it is similar and safe as long as there aren't any leaks
>>189325 That’s funny, I looked through the list yesterday and stumbled upon that page too. I had never heard of it, and it wasn’t even that long ago. Pretty crazy stuff.
>>189458 Interesting. According to that the USA is a very wizard-friendly country, ironically. Some normalfags tried to pass the bachelor tax there and it never succeed.
>>189441 A truly fair utopian society (which doesn't exist and probably never will) would supply public funding to physically bottom 10-20% men so they can get facial reconstruction, hair transplants and limb lenghtening.
>>189459 I find the history pretty interesting. How it's a policy that communists and fascists both agreed on is surprising. And if you read inbetween the lines you can see how a lot of the history of oppression against bachelors was essentially born out of a fear that they were homos. They never said as much, but all of the moral panics appear to be laced with that fear.
>>189469 Has nothing to do with homophobia and everything to do with the fact unwed singles rarely start families, and thus weaken the state by not providing new taxpayers.
This shit still blows my mind. I mean, we all think about some secret satanic cabal that controls everything behind the scenes, but in South Korea that actually fucking happened.
>>189491 >The 2016 South Korean political scandal involves the influence of Choi Soon-sil, the daughter of shaman-esque cult leader Choi Tae-min, over President Park Geun-hye of South Korea.
It's hilarious how naive politicians can be. It's Kinda like the Romanov family and Rasputin case.
i don't know, all the cult activity, the penetration of protestantism, the messed up social phenomena like unhinged feminism and the stories that broke out recently about succubi being video taped by hidden cams and so on… there's also their rather hideously unorganic music industry. it's strange how it blew up all of a sudden. i understand the same could be said of every instance of a country making and exporting its "pop culture", but it's striking how unsubtle it is here
i realise a lot of it could just be prejudices and exaggerations though.
>>189624 It's also really twisted, too. Like, you hear about that apartment complex that had a murder take place immediately outside it, but nobody did anything about it? This is like that except…people DID try to help but were STOPPED from doing so.
Also, I've heard a lot about corruption in the police department. I think this is the first time I've ever heard about a corrupt fire department.
>>189633 My first reaction was to check if he was a racial minority or something, or very overweight. He looks sort of unkempt, which would be enough for the sort of psychopath that becomes a firefighter or policeman to want him to die. He also may have been autistic considering his mother called it in. If he were attractive and/or neurotypical he would have been saved.
>>189634 He sounds like a typical neet wizard. >sort of unkempt Is that picture you posted him and his mother? If so, he doesn't look unkempt. He has a button down shirt, his face is clean, he has a square jaw, his hair is cut, and he doesn't look overweight nor scrawny.
The part that really gets me is that someone DID try to go out and save him, and they actively stopped that person. Morally speaking, whoever stopped that person crossed the line from letting someone die out of inaction to actively being a part of their death.
>>189634 he was 450ft offshore standing with his head deep enough in the water to eventually drown himself. you really think anyone could tell what he looked like, and even so, gave two shits about that?
>>189624 Continuing the discussion, I feel this is a very very 1st world type of death. In corrupt, poor places you will have fireman not showing, not having equipment, coming late due to bad roads et cetera. But here you have the opposite. Yes there may be some financial issues(even though the article says lack of funding was debunked) But I feel the biggest reason of his death is 1st worlds absolute reluctance to think outside the box and take any unnecessary risk. Following the letter of the law and not the spirit. More concerned about getting sued than helping others. >Well I'm not trained to do this >Well I'm not allowed to do this by law >Well If I do something I might get sued by the family I don't know, this is my observation as a 3rd worlder who lives in 1st world. In some aspects 1st worlders are more kinder, helpful cheerful than 3rd worlders but in others they absolutely shut down and do nothing. These often come at the times of crisis. When things don't go as planned they don't know what to do.
>>189664 >More concerned about getting sued than helping others. In my experience, using the "letter of the law" is an excuse. Most bureaucrats will ignore the letter of the law when it suits their interests, but will use the letter of the law as an excuse to avoid doing something they don't want to do. Really good bureaucrats can play mind games bunging up the system for decades saying it's "insurance" or "there hasn't been a study" or "this certification document needs to be signed by an _X_ Y, not a _Z_ Y" or cetera. That captain actively stopped things for a reason.
In a tangential line of discussion, isn't it a _good_ thing that a man who wanted to die they let do so on his own terms?
not wikipedia exactly but i said this word when talking to myself just now. it seemed strange so i googled it and it seems others occasionally say it also. wonder if there's a list of such words
>>189878 "Words that seem like they would only be said by a ESL person, but are actually real." >>189879 Intredasting. I really like all the little bits and bobs of knowledge in the maritime industry.
>>189074 >WHAT THE FUCK! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK, WHY THE FUCK IS THERE AN ORGAN REMOVAL FROM CORPSES AT A NUCLEAR POWER PL–WHAT?! You literally type like a Twitch streamer trying to act hyper-emotional and it is actually draining. Congratulations, you've managed to convey textually the sound of pure obnoxiousness. Essence of PewDiePrint. Markiprinter. Whatever. Tiresome.
>>189074 >WHY THE FUCK IS THERE AN ORGAN REMOVAL FROM CORPSES AT A NUCLEAR POWER PL–WHAT?! To answer that question a month late, they weren't removing tissue from the bodies at the plant but at the hospitals where those workers died, and obviously they were doing it to determine if and how much those workers had been harmed by radiation at their jobs (and/or from those experiments in the 1960s). A perfectly reasonable thing to do assuming they had obtained permission from either the workers before their deaths or their relatives afterwards. It appears that they hadn't, though.
>>190799 man that philosophy group is infected with bullshit >Aristotle >Descartes, René >Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich >Heidegger, Martin >Kant, Immanuel >Laozi >Locke, John >Machiavelli, Niccolò >Nietzsche, Friedrich >Plato >Rousseau, Jean-Jacques >Sartre, Jean-Paul >Smith, Adam >Socrates >Voltaire >Weber, Max >Wittgenstein, Ludwig these are all cool, some i'm surprised to see like wittgenstein, and at least we get 2 ancient greeks >Ibn Khaldun >Chanakya >Confucius >Sima Qian >Zhu Xi >Freud, Sigmund >Beauvoir, Simone de >Keynes, John Maynard >Marx, Karl at least there's no ayn rand. i would kill myself if somehow that goblin hack got included. but still we have bullshit like feminism, karl marx, freud, and keynes…. lmao
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Alley - There are companies in New Orleans that are throwing a bunch of ethylene oxide in the air and giving people in the area a bunch of cancer.
I remember reading an article about an 18th-19th century wizard who had a really weird name, something like "Hope Morning Child" (not that name at all, I'm just trying to purvey the strangeness of his name). Does anyone remember?