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The Watcher Local family buys dream house and begins to receive un-postmarked from someone claiming to be "The Watcher," a stalker who believes (s)he is protecting some secret hidden inside the walls and leaves increasingly specific threats toward the family's children. quote:657 Boulevard is anxious for you to move in. It has been years and years since the young blood ruled the hallways of the house. Have you found all of the secrets it holds yet? Will the young blood play in the basement? Or are they too afraid to go down there alone. I would [be] very afraid if I were them. It is far away from the rest of the house. If you were upstairs you would never hear them scream. Eventually, the letters become public and the family's neighbors turn on them.
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Randaconda posted:what's the chances they wrote the letters themselves? The latter half of the piece delves into this theory, as it's what the town decides to be true. The article suggests that there's not much evidence to support it and casts blame on the neighbors who are "more concerned that the national press might ruin Westfield’s good name" than a former resident getting saddled with a house they can't live in because some weirdo keeps threatening them and their kids. It also discusses Reddit obsessing over the house and deciding the letters are a scam.
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Here's a lovely article from the guardian about the world ploughing championships: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/23/world-ploughing-championships-no-till-farming
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bollig posted:Here's a lovely article from the guardian about the world ploughing championships: "The Irish are so good at ploughing, one grudging ploughman told me, because they don’t have anything better to do at the weekend." here look the irish ploughing championships rule
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EmmyOk posted:"The Irish are so good at ploughing, one grudging ploughman told me, because they don’t have anything better to do at the weekend." Fun fact: That is why there are so many people of Irish descent too.
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jobson groeth posted:Fun fact: That is why there are so many people of Irish descent too. I thought it was because half of them left Ireland when Queen Vicky was letting them starve 
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The Stasi Played Along A report on the secret intelligence files of East German computer clubs just before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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How one man's quest to spread Christmas cheer led to a miserable four-year war with his neighborhood While telling the entire story in present tense is tedious and sometimes confusing, the story is good. Basically, a man goes up against his HOA over his Christmas display, and a years-long battle ensues that even garners the attention of a right-wing militia and FOX News. By default, I find HOAs to be pretty awful, but the homeowner here also seems insufferable.
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Here's a profile of the guy who has basically sold every private airplane: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/magazine/selling-airborne-opulence-to-the-upper-upper-upper-class.html Sharpened my guillotine a little more after reading it, but interesting profile nonetheless
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Blue Moonlight posted:How one man's quest to spread Christmas cheer led to a miserable four-year war with his neighborhood Rare is the HOA that's not a bunch of pedantic buzzkills, but yeah, the guy's pretty insufferable too. His display's not as obnoxious as some I've seen but the camel and donkey seem a bit much.
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M_Sinistrari posted:Rare is the HOA that's not a bunch of pedantic buzzkills, but yeah, the guy's pretty insufferable too. His display's not as obnoxious as some I've seen but the camel and donkey seem a bit much. quote:In that sense, the letter Jeremy Morris gets from the West Hayden Estates Homeowners Association in January of 2015 isn't a surprise. It says the board doesn't want to discourage him from becoming part of their "great neighborhood," but also warns him about the potential for "expensive litigation" if he holds his Christmas Light Show, citing neighborhood covenants regarding lighting, sound, traffic and property uses. They deserve each other.
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Straight White Shark posted:They deserve each other. The reason I said rare is while I've never seen an HOA that wasn't a bunch of assholes, that doesn't mean somewhere out there that there might be a decent one. In this case, yet again, total assholes.
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https://theoutline.com/post/6776/john-delorean-rise-and-fall-big-money-the-fbi-celebrities-and-cocaine?zd=2&zi=qel5chu7 Pretty decent article about John Delorean
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Randaconda posted:https://theoutline.com/post/6776/john-delorean-rise-and-fall-big-money-the-fbi-celebrities-and-cocaine?zd=2&zi=qel5chu7 Nice read, ty
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/jered_threatin The guy who tried to become a rock god and failed.
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Randaconda posted:https://theoutline.com/post/6776/john-delorean-rise-and-fall-big-money-the-fbi-celebrities-and-cocaine?zd=2&zi=qel5chu7 Agreed, this is a good read
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https://magazine.atavist.com/blood-cries-out-chillicothe-missouri-murder-mark-woodworth Sometimes I'm amazed the US criminal justice system prosecutes anyone who's actually guilty of the crimes they're accused of.
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Lord Zedd-Repulsa posted:https://magazine.atavist.com/blood-cries-out-chillicothe-missouri-murder-mark-woodworth The unnerving part is, our justice systems is still the best in the world. Think about that one for a minute.
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MightyJoe36 posted:The unnerving part is, our justice systems is still the best in the world. Think about that one for a minute. based on what exactly
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Lord Zedd-Repulsa posted:https://magazine.atavist.com/blood-cries-out-chillicothe-missouri-murder-mark-woodworth Holy poo poo. MightyJoe36 posted:The unnerving part is, our justice systems is still the best in the world. Think about that one for a minute. Oh yeah? Go read about Curtis Flowers, or listen to the podcast about him, In The Dark.
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Lord Zedd-Repulsa posted:https://magazine.atavist.com/blood-cries-out-chillicothe-missouri-murder-mark-woodworth A criminal investigation and trial is a quasi-religious purification ritual designed to make people feel better. There's actually nothing physically stopping bad things from happening, such as being shot in your bedroom while you sleep. That's incredibly upsetting in a fundamental way. Our criminal justice system exists to help us out with that deep inner upset. People just want the ritual performed and the world put aright, evidence or facts be damned.
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MightyJoe36 posted:The unnerving part is, our justice systems is still the best in the world. Think about that one for a minute. Nice troll
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longform.org recently posted their list for Best of 2018 articles. Some of the articles were already posted in this thread (the Japan Rent-a-Family industry / the one woman who masqueraded as someone rich and scammed most of New York’s high society), but there are some other interesting ones on the list. Like this one about how hazardous the waste and recycling industry can be.
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MightyJoe36 posted:The unnerving part is, our justice systems is still the best in the world. Think about that one for a minute. Hahahahaha By what metric, the incarceration rate?
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Ghosts of Highway 20 A bunch of young girls disappear along a rural highway on the Oregon coast. And it all could have been avoided if the state police believed a woman when she said she had been raped.
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I'm trying to finish my 2018 newsletter reading and debating whether or not to make a compilation on Google Docs of the best articles of 2019. Should I do so, this would slip through the cracks because it's utterly amazing but came out last month. It's an essay on family, food, culture, and how they meet in the author's grandmother. https://www.seriouseats.com/2018/11/ajji-and-deshastha-khandeshi-maharashtrian-indian-cuisines.html
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BBC News page for their "Best Long Reads of 2018": https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-46387563 Of these https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Lost_in_a_system really had an impact on me, Just in terms of how bleak and hosed up the prison system can be for the vulnerable.
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Lord Zedd-Repulsa posted:I'm trying to finish my 2018 newsletter reading and debating whether or not to make a compilation on Google Docs of the best articles of 2019. Should I do so, this would slip through the cracks because it's utterly amazing but came out last month. It's an essay on family, food, culture, and how they meet in the author's grandmother. Thank you for this! It's amazing, and now I'm 5 hours into reading food articles.
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I knew Andrew WK was a loving treasure, but never had any idea about this seriously bonkers subplot. I think I like him even more now.
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LUBE UP YOUR BUTT posted:By what metric, the incarceration rate? It has more protections for defendants, such as a Constitutional bar against self-incrimination.
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https://www.macleans.ca/thai-cave-rescue-heroes/quote:Two of the farthest support divers from Jim, Thailand’s adopted Danish son, Claus, and his Finnish station-mate, Mikko, have lost their station in the cave. They don’t know where Station 7 is, but they know it’s somewhere in this large, open section. This is the deepest in the cave they have been. Is their station a dry area or a wet area? Is it a rock or another rock?
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"During the Cold War, Vozrozhdeniya Island was a top-secret testing ground for deadly Soviet super-pathogens. Despite over two decades of abandonment, their legacy lives on." http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170926-the-deadly-germ-warfare-island-abandoned-by-the-soviets
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This article is a moving mediation on time, death, children, fatherhood. I think a lot about this sort of thing and maybe you do as well. https://hmmdaily.com/2018/10/18/your-real-biological-clock-is-youre-going-to-die/
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Neat article about Texas golden-child of convenience stores, Buc-ee's: https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/buc-ees-the-path-to-world-domination/
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Dannywilson posted:Neat article about Texas golden-child of convenience stores, Buc-ee's: thanks for this, I was so intrigued by Buc-ees when I drove between Houston and Austin that I had to look it up. Couldn’t figure out how a convenience store in the middle of nowhere was offering $15/hr to be a cashier.
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This was incredible, thank you.
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Here you go. Read this, then come on over my place, we'll crack open a cold one and toast the end of the world https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/opinion/sunday/fear-panic-climate-change-warming.html I mean, I'll keep circulating the tapes (as we used to say) but it seems like it's getting later by the day
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I've read that one! Animal intelligence is really fascinating because the history of it is basically a story of humans learning there's no clear dividing line between us and other animals.
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