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Crossposting from the headline thread. http://www.thomas-morris.uk/glass-half-empty/ quote:"While recently on a visit to Canton, I derived the history of the following case from the notes and verbal explanations of the Rev. Peter Parker, M. D., chief of the Ophthalmic Hospital, &c., under whose notice they fell. The case affords us a glance at the debauchery practiced by a portion of the Chinese population about Canton.
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Epiphyte posted:gently caress..... that is a rough read Fun little tidbit from the official report, summarising witness testimony: quote:They sat on top of the canopy at first but were able to crawl into the raft after a while. They also managed to raise the canopy and close the openings. There was a light in the raft. They helped each other to bail out the water with a plastic bailer and after a while they found a plastic bag containing another bailer and a hand torch. They were, however, unable to open this bag because their hands were frozen. One of them tried in vain to open it with his mouth but had to give up after losing some teeth.
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# ? Oct 29, 2015 00:33 |
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:I'm generally not one to mock people's fears, but really? It's a lake; it's not like it can sneak up on you when you're in bed and make you slightly more wet than you were expecting to be. Infyrno posted:So they would be aimed at a fixed point, and fired so the plane would be going up or down right at the exact time the missile crosses that area, hopefully getting a hit? That's interesting for a cheap way to do that it seems pretty good. You would need to keep changing it as the enemy would change the direction/speed, but that's not a huge deal, you could even set it up to change on its own after so long or depending on how sophisticated the audio reading is it could change on each shot. The more it can do that though the more it costs.
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Speaking of lakes, http://www.lrn.usace.army.mil/Locations/Lakes/DaleHollowLake/History/WillowGrove.aspx quote:And then it happened. The year was 1942. The once cheerful and quaint valley town of Willow Grove was now forlorn and solemn. Aside from the sad sights of the town’s men marching off to World War II, the residents faced a horrific and depressing dilemma. The government was forcing the families and friends of this closely-knit community to move away. The United States government was buying their property. It was demolishing their homes and businesses…to build a dam. The farm fields tilled by their forefathers were now dozed clean of fences and barns. The ever incessant sounds of chainsaws hummed day in and day out. Bonfires were kindled in every field and the loud claps of dynamite shook the earth. And the beautiful little valley town of Willow Grove now looked like a war zone.
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# ? Oct 29, 2015 09:37 |
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I'm several pages late to the Falun Dafa/Falun Gong talk, but my uncle is a practitioner of it and is actually fairly prominent in the movement within the area (he's usually their TV spokesman, acted as a anchor on their news show). He is really super into it, even though the rest of the extended family doesn't exactly approve of it (I know my parents don't, at least because of how much money he's given to them that they feel should go to his family, and his dad absolutely hated it), and I remember he joined it when I was really young - somewhere in the mid-90s. I don't remember or know the exact details, but he apparently had some health issues, which all got fixed once he started practicing Falun Gong. I remember being about seven or eight and sent to my aunt and uncle's house when my parents wanted time off and my uncle would be meditating in his living room in front of a shrine to some chinese dude I didn't know. It's not up there anymore, but I think he might have moved it somewhere else once his kids were born. I also live in Chinatown and they have their people out on the corners promoting Falun Gong, usually by handing out pamphlets while practicing their meditation or something. They're not very popular with the locals, many who are older Chinese immigrants who still feel attached to China, and I've seen way too many heated streetcorner arguments. There was also a rumor a few years back that they were behind the hospitalization of another streetcorner protester because they wanted his spot, but that guy had been on that corner protesting the Chinese government for over 25 years so I'm not sure if old age just caught up to him. It was kind of weird to find out as I got older that the weird religion my uncle was into was actually also a political movement that he was super into and traveled around the world for, in addition to helping draft up pro-Falun Gong city ordinances.
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In 1957 a reptile expert is bitten by a snake, and keeps a journal about it. As it's killing him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEyjF2bNQOA
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Cotard's Syndrome: basically it's the reverse of Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense.
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Drag queen Dorian Corey well known for teaching the public about the importance of reading in the 1990s documentary "Paris Is Burning" dies of complications from AIDS. They find a mummy in her closet.quote:HEADLINE: Inside Dorian's Closet: Wigs, Feather Boas, Mummified Body There is a NY Magazine article about it but I can't read it because my boyfriend has terrible add-ons on his computer. https://books.google.com/books?id=O...20mummy&f=false
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outlier posted:American hippopotamus, the unlikely story of two killers, several wars, grand impersonation, a decades-long rivalry and friendship, spies and the plan to populate America with hippos. I spent the past two days reading this in between classes. If you skipped this link, give this story a shot. It's quite amazing. Thank you for sharing!
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Nth Doctor posted:Cotard's Syndrome: basically it's the reverse of Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense. I used to work for a kidney transplant program and one of our patients had this. Her renal failure convinced her that her body was decaying.
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Wiggy Marie posted:I spent the past two days reading this in between classes. If you skipped this link, give this story a shot. It's quite amazing. Thank you for sharing! This podcast about it isn't too bad either. http://www.missedinhistory.com/blog/missed-in-history-hippo-ranching-part-1/ http://www.missedinhistory.com/blog/missed-in-history-hippo-ranching-part-2/
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Wiggy Marie posted:I spent the past two days reading this in between classes. If you skipped this link, give this story a shot. It's quite amazing. Thank you for sharing! Pleasure. It's long but one of those incredible stories that just gets wilder and wilder as it goes along. I particularly like the Black Panther marking his spy message with a rubber stamp of a leaping black panther.
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outlier posted:Pleasure. It's long but one of those incredible stories that just gets wilder and wilder as it goes along. I particularly like the Black Panther marking his spy message with a rubber stamp of a leaping black panther. There were a few times where I said "Oh come ON!" and had to stop reading for a few moments to gather my incredulous thoughts. It's particularly interesting from a modern biology standpoint, as a plan like that would never fly because of the potential of introducing an invasive non-native species to the land. The article takes a weird angle, considering it's modern - essentially promoting the failure of this idea as a sign of the failure of the American Dream (TM). The moment where I had to take the longest pause, though, was when Dude #2 got up after 7 months of faking full lower body paralysis and escaped via a series of insane physically demanding feats. Now that's dedication. Spoiled because you really should read this article, everyone.
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http://www.thomas-morris.uk/worms-on-the-pillow/ Pretend I bolded the whole thing. quote:
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And so this isn't a single smilie response...
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I like how the driving concern was "they get all in the bed" and not "oh god worms in my skin!!!" Says a lot about how normalized it was for her.
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Wiggy Marie posted:I like how the driving concern was "they get all in the bed" and not "oh god worms in my skin!!!" Says a lot about how normalized it was for her. It's kind of horrible the stuff that people had to deal with that a week or two of antibiotics might cure today. Reminds me of that scene in one of the Star Trek movies where Spock McCoy sees someone who needs kidney dialysis, says, "What is this, the dark ages?" and treats her with a single jellybean.
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what the hell kind of condition was that
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blackmarketlimb posted:Sometimes, I think the old legends about this land being cursed may have had a ring of truth to them. There's something in the water here that makes people off. Rural America is very same-y, but I've never been anyplace where people were quite as vicious and ready to fall to racism, senseless brutality, and just flat out weird bullshit that happens here. I can tell you never lived in Silicon Valley/ The Bay Area. The most bigoted, racist place I've been-- and I've been in rural Iowa, Texas, and Tennessee.
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Khazar-khum posted:I can tell you never lived in Silicon Valley/ The Bay Area. The most bigoted, racist place I've been-- and I've been in rural Iowa, Texas, and Tennessee.
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Wiggy Marie posted:I like how the driving concern was "they get all in the bed" and not "oh god worms in my skin!!!" Says a lot about how normalized it was for her. She had a husband who from the doctor's account was basically like "For God's sake Martha these worms on the pillow have got to stop, I've been putting up with your worms for years but no more"
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"Sometimes Toes Spontaneously Fall Off and Nobody Knows Why" http://gizmodo.com/sometimes-toes-spontaneously-fall-off-and-nobody-knows-1740142019
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Invisble Manuel posted:"Sometimes Toes Spontaneously Fall Off and Nobody Knows Why" I like how an article about doctors having no clue why something happens is being contributed to by a Dr. Zoidberg at the bottom
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This could easily also go in the badass thread: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese_people Basically, there's a small group of extremely primitive people living on a remote island in the Bay of Bengal. They've been to be there for hundreds of years, but almost nothing is known about them because they're very loving hostile and have met all attempts at contact with volleys of arrows. Their language, from what little could be heard, is completely unlike any from the surrounding area, and though there hasn't been any observed use of fire on the island, the Sentinelese have been seen making extremely effective weapons out of metallic debris that wakes up on the island. The Indian government stopped trying to make official contact in the mid-90s, both because all previous attempts had ended disastrously and because they were concerned about introducing new diseases to the island. A helicopter was sent to check on them after the 2004 tsunami, and was meet with volleys of arrows; from what little the pilot could observe before having to retreat, the island and it's people had made it through completely unscathed. A few years later, the tribe killed a couple of poachers who were on the island illegally, and any attempts at retrieving the bodies were, again, met with arrows. Since then, there have just been occasional welfare checks, albeit from a great distance. The idea of there being an almost completely unknown culture in the modern world, relatively close to so many heavily populated areas, is just kind of mind-blowing to me. Their hostility has apparently served them pretty well over the years. edit:gently caress me, I'm still figuring out my tablet, and somehow managed to attach an accidental screenshot I had taken. It's a png file, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get rid of it. I would love to if anyone knows how. Crow Jane has a new favorite as of 04:35 on Nov 11, 2015 |
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Mysterious attachments. Very unnerving.
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Crow Jane posted:This could easily also go in the badass thread: Small correction: it is believed the Sentinelese don't know how to make fire, but it has been observed that they keep embers from lightning strikes burning in hollow trees.
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squeegee posted:Small correction: it is believed the Sentinelese don't know how to make fire, but it has been observed that they keep embers from lightning strikes burning in hollow trees. I can't believe a plastic Bic hasn't washed up on shore yet.
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They were in contact with other island people who had been contacted, I thought.
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Crow Jane posted:This could easily also go in the badass thread: This article is pretty much a must-read if you're the least bit interested in the Sentinelese: The Last Island of the Savages
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Gibfender posted:Really good long form article on this disaster:
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Lampsacus posted:Have they made this into a television film yet? Can they please not because I don't want it to exist. Too late. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Storm
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Chichevache posted:I can't believe a plastic Bic hasn't washed up on shore yet. Even if it had, and they figured out how to use it, something that can "conjure" fire so easily might've been viewed as some sort of lure into evil and disposed of.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Even if it had, and they figured out how to use it, something that can "conjure" fire so easily might've been viewed as some sort of lure into evil and disposed of. cool
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http://www.samosapedia.com/e/kidneyvakkamquote:Kidneyvakkam http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/poverty-fuels-sale-of-kidneys/article1817373.ece quote:Poverty fuels sale of kidneys
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Jack Gladney posted:They were in contact with other island people who had been contacted, I thought. They're thought to be culturally similar in some ways with the other Andaman island tribes (who have been contacted and in several cases completely wiped out) but they have not been in meaningful contact with them at any time in recent history. From what we know of their language it does not seem to be mutually intelligible with that of the other islanders.
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A big surprise that Jutta Rabe was behind this, she's a huge piece of poo poo conspiracy nut.
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Well, I watched the Happy Valley documentary about the Penn State sex abuse scandal and the degree of obsession some people have with FOOTBAAAALLLLLL is truly hosed up. Obviously they talk about the students rioting after Paterno got fired, but they interview one guy who says some really callous things. For example, how holding a vigil for the victims instead of the scheduled pre-game rally was "so fake" because "we should be getting ready to support the team." And during a group prayer on the field with both teams he's thinking, "ugh, get off the field, stop holding the hand of the Nebraska guy, and let's go play football." And then he's super offended that when he shouted at a Nebraska player that he would go home in a hearse, a guy standing next to him was like "it's not about that today!" And his response is "I don't care what happened, this is Penn State, it's ALWAYS about that" Especially since they're playing Nebraska who Penn has a rivalry with, not Temple or some other pansy school. As if any of that poo poo matters. Like god drat, there are things I love being a fan of, but I don't love them that much.
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FourLeaf posted:Well, I watched the Happy Valley documentary about the Penn State sex abuse scandal and the degree of obsession some people have with FOOTBAAAALLLLLL is truly hosed up. Obviously they talk about the students rioting after Paterno got fired, but they interview one guy who says some really callous things. For example, how holding a vigil for the victims instead of the scheduled pre-game rally was "so fake" because "we should be getting ready to support the team." And during a group prayer on the field with both teams he's thinking, "ugh, get off the field, stop holding the hand of the Nebraska guy, and let's go play football." having a sports team be core to your identity is really stupid, though
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Didn't some of them go after the kids who testified against Sandusky? Like, death threats over the phone and "I'm going to kill your daddy because of what you did" letters and other horrible things?
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Jack Gladney posted:Didn't some of them go after the kids who testified against Sandusky? Like, death threats over the phone and "I'm going to kill your daddy because of what you did" letters and other horrible things? I don't know, but I could easily believe it. There was a part in the doc when a victim went to Paterno's funeral procession where there were cheering crowds, and it demoralized him horribly because he thought no one would believe them. The film almost made it seem like they weren't going to be able to convict Sandusky until his adopted son went to the police and admitted he'd been abused too.
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