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Lotta lols in that piece, which is a given as the author clearly believes that troops & cops are trooping & copping on his behalf. I especially enjoyed this bit: “…we will be making a conscious effort in the future to curb the confusion caused by conflating consumer-grade and professional-level products (i.e. military and law enforcement equipment.)” Just the most embarrassing poo poo.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:The Search for a Ranger Who Was Lost and Never Found Big ol quote from more than a year back! I'm slowly making my way through this thread whenever I find the time and this one line, so simply put, has completely changed the way I view persons-of-interest who are interviewed for articles such as these: quote:Dody said, “Someone’s idea of what happened to Paul tells you more about the person having the idea than about what actually happened to Paul.” Just wow, man. I actually went "...huh." in real life. Great quoting by the author, it's a fascinating thing to consider whenever I read a missing persons case story from now on. Thanks Dody! CJacobs has a new favorite as of 09:06 on Aug 4, 2022 |
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Aug 4, 2022 09:04
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I'm glad you're enjoying the thread!
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Somehow stumbled upon this oral history of Reading Rainbow from Mental Floss and turns out I could have the Bush Administration even more than I thought https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/93884/take-look-oral-history-reading-rainbow
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Aug 21, 2022 10:49
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Selachian posted:Was it Michael Kimmelman's review of Freedom Tower? Loved this line: quote:It abruptly stops at 1,368 feet, the height of the former twin towers, achieving its symbolic target number — 1,776 feet — by virtue of a skinny antenna. Counting the antenna is like counting relish at a hot dog eating contest.
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Aug 24, 2022 19:07
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Insurers force change on police departments long resistant to it
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Sep 18, 2022 20:45
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The author, a gay man, attends a Scandinavian multi-day LARP session that replicates the experience of attending a gay-conversation therapy camp: https://www.wired.com/story/my-4-days-in-fake-gay-conversion-therapy-nordic-larp/
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A Custody Evaluator Who Disbelieves 90% of Abuse Allegations Recommended a Teen Stay Under Her Abusive Father’s ControlTrent Davis Bailey for ProPublica posted:In Colorado family courts, parents can request an expert evaluation of their case, which sometimes includes allegations of abuse. Mark Kilmer is routinely appointed to evaluate families despite his own history of domestic violence. Source
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Sep 30, 2022 18:42
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Everett False posted:A Custody Evaluator Who Disbelieves 90% of Abuse Allegations Recommended a Teen Stay Under Her Abusive Father’s Control Holy poo poo, gently caress that guy.
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Sep 30, 2022 20:56
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I just learned I only have months to live. This is what I want to say. Boston Globe (paywall) Archived Link
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Oct 5, 2022 05:12
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Oct 7, 2022 16:11
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Seeing and somethingness - By Nicholas Humphrey Let’s begin with story about a person, DB, who lost their sight on their right side due to brain surgery. It turns out DB could still “see” via an older neural pathway that bypasses the cortex. But the problem is DB didn’t think “they” were seeing. DB didn’t know how “they” had the knowledge of where things were in their blindspot. Nicholas Humphrey starts from this strange phenomenon of “blindsight” to build his evolutionary theory of consciousness. His argument is that we evolved to react to stimulus, and at some point we evolved memory. Then, crucially, we created a mental model of ourselves to predict what our reaction would be to different stimulus. That mental model became our self. It became our consciousness. That’s the summary. The article has a lot more science, philosophy, and pictures.
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Oct 13, 2022 20:53
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The Chinese government’s unlikeliest standoff is with … fandom
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Oct 19, 2022 01:09
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Female bodybuilders describe widespread sexual exploitation In retrospect it's not surprising that this is a problem, but it's a little surprising just how concentrated the power is.
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Oct 25, 2022 20:04
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lifg posted:Seeing and somethingness - By Nicholas Humphrey Great story, too.
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Oct 25, 2022 21:52
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Stuck in the Mud: How a Tiny, Beloved Driving Game Sparked a Bizarre, Decade-Long Feudquote:But the truth is far, far more convoluted than a simple David and Goliath match-up. Over several months of investigation into the two companies’ histories, legal documents, employees, and claims, I’ve uncovered a messy, complex feud over a decade old that involves years of stolen assets, allegations of millions of dollars in unpaid royalties on both sides, expensive cars, game development time bombs, possible shell companies, vanishing game developers, and a number of still-unanswered questions about the history, ownership, and fate of the little off-road driving game.
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Oct 28, 2022 11:28
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https://twitter.com/stringa/status/1586020798434873345
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Castle in the clouds?
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Oct 29, 2022 05:11
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https://twitter.com/matt_levine/status/1584854026231099392 40,000 words on crypto by someone who understands the financial system about as well as anyone does. Well worth your time if you're interested in the topic.
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Nov 1, 2022 16:59
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"...the problems with Twitter are not engineering problems. They are political problems." That's true, and Musk is not equipped to handle them. I just hope the author knows that like all CEOs, Elon Musk is a politician and not an engineer nor an expert on anything else
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Nov 1, 2022 17:47
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Getting the World Record in HATERIS HATERIS is a deterministic Tetris variant where the next piece is chosen to minimize how useful it is. The article is a May writeup from the people who improved the record from 66 lines to 86 lines. They published a new-best from an improved method from them got to 148 lines yesterday: https://twitter.com/TheCog19/status/1588896915462422530
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10,000 brains in a basement: The dark and mysterious origins of Denmark’s psychiatric brain collectionBRAINS! posted:Like so many places, Denmark was also grappling with mental illness. Psychiatric institutions had been built across the country to provide care for patients. It turns out that the answer is "forty years later you have ten thousand brains in the basement and no idea what to do with them."  Luckily, such a gross ethics violation could never occur in modern times, right? BRAINS! posted:2006 Oh. So, what do people here think? Is it ethical to remove people's brains without consent and use them for scientific experiments? The ethicists say "yes". SimonChris has a new favorite as of 10:28 on Nov 13, 2022 |
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Before chemo permanently quarantined me from donating blood, I was also signed up as an organ donor upon death. I still support the notion that upon death, unless people have opted out through the existing method of registering organ donation in Denmark (simply log in with your digital ID and register yourself as an organ donor), their organs should go to help someone else. I had no idea we had ten thousand brains in a basement, though.
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Nov 13, 2022 18:51
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A sad and angering one from Propublica The Landlord & The Tenant
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Nov 23, 2022 14:39
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The author's promo tweet reads: hundreds of thousands of baby teeth, the combusting buildings of the world trade center architect, and secret radiological experiments conducted on citizens in Minneapolis, Winnipeg, and St. Louis
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Nov 29, 2022 19:57
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Freudian posted:The author's promo tweet reads: I gotta give this a read but both of my parents teeth were part of this. My mom sent me articles about this earlier this year since it had popped up again, so I’m really curious to get a ton more details. Thanks for sharing!!
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Nov 29, 2022 23:30
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Freudian posted:The author's promo tweet reads:  I saw a documentary some years ago about the administrative sabotage of Pruitt-Igoe but it didn't really get into the crimes against humanity
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Nov 30, 2022 01:53
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That was an interesting, infuriating article. It makes me wonder if my mom or her siblings were part of the tooth study; they lived in the area in the early sixties.
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Nov 30, 2022 06:16
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His daughter went missing at 16. But his fight was only beginning
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Dec 1, 2022 10:59
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A very fine essay on Lake Powell, the Glen Canyon Dam, the disappearance of the Colorado River, and the reappearance of Glen Canyon. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/16/the-lost-canyon-under-lake-powell
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Dec 1, 2022 19:37
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The untold story of how a US woman was sentenced to six years for voting
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Dec 27, 2022 10:30
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T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land turned one hundred recently. Here's some context for it.
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ultrafilter posted:https://twitter.com/matt_levine/status/1584854026231099392 A postscript addressing everything that's happened since this article was published.
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The Guardians best longreads of the year: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/dec/27/the-best-of-the-long-read-in-2022
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https://www.propublica.org/article/muscular-dystrophy-patient-olympic-medalist-same-genetic-mutation
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Jan 8, 2023 15:37
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It's infuriating how long it took for her to be taken seriously, and thrn again and again and again at every stage of her research.
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World Longest Fence
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TIL we've got two fuckoff huge fences, not just the one. (There's a movie about the other one.)
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