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Arivia posted:Coastals. do not be fooled by that name they're loving everywhere
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What's coastals replacing, hillbillies?
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An American Childhood in the Ozempic Era https://www.thecut.com/article/weight-loss-drugs-ozempic-kids-childhood-obesity.html There's a lot of bad reporting on the new GLP-1 class of drugs that is changing the world(mine included). This one shed a lot of light on the experience of kids experiencing obesity today.
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Not all that long and I have no idea if it's of interest to anyone else. But you ever wonder how many baseballs get used in an MLB game? https://theathletic.com/3325753/2022/05/26/guardians-tigers-baseballs-used/ It's around 100-120 per game
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HopperUK posted:Not all that long and I have no idea if it's of interest to anyone else. But you ever wonder how many baseballs get used in an MLB game? On a related note, all MLB baseballs are treated with mud from a secret source known only to one man, handed down from his father and his father before him: https://www.si.com/mlb/2019/08/07/baseball-mud-rawlings
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Cool article about undersea optic cable repair https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships
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What Barbie Teaches Us About Tactics versus Strategy "One of my mentors dropped this quote on me a few years back: “The United States military is obsessed with tactical solutions to strategic problems.”" https://angrystaffofficer.com/2024/04/24/what-barbie-teaches-us-about-tactics-versus-strategy/ I love these silly studies of movies through a military lens. I remember a few fun ones on Game of Thrones from way back when.
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The DJ and the War Crimesquote:Thirty years after a death squad massacred civilians in Bosnia, none of the infamous Arkan’s Tigers have stood trial for their alleged part in those crimes. Contains descriptions of war crimes.
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The Girl in the Kent State Photo I genuinely always thought the Kent State shootings had been a turning point that caused the public to sympathize with the students. I had no idea the consensus back then was "gently caress, yeah, kill those kids!". SimonChris has a new favorite as of 17:10 on May 5, 2024 |
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SimonChris posted:The Girl in the Kent State Photo Pee pee poo poo it is a bad nation
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Go to the Freep thread and you'll find quotes from Freepers still cheerleading the Kent State Massacre
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SimonChris posted:The Girl in the Kent State Photo The consensus has always been that. The consensus has always been "gently caress yeah kill those BLM rioters" The consensus has always been "gently caress yeah kill those pro-Palestine protesters"
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SimonChris posted:The Girl in the Kent State Photo I always had a ton of respect for James Michener, because his exhaustively-researched book put the blame squarely on the National Guard officers and decision-makers, which went against the general opinion at the time. He was one of writers that the ‘establishment’ respected and listened to, and it wasn’t until his book became a best-seller that the popular opinion changed from ‘those durn rabble-rousers got what was coming to them’ to ‘this was totally hosed-up, the students got hosed’.
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SimonChris posted:The Girl in the Kent State Photo Kinda heartrending, this. I had no notion she was just a little girl.
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Zombie 2nd mortgages are coming to life, threatening thousands of Americans' homes (Except the homeowners, of course) SimonChris has a new favorite as of 09:56 on May 21, 2024 |
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quote:Kelly and her clients asked the debt collectors for records on these old second loans, and she says what she saw was ugly. Some of the loans have no documentation. No payment history. The recordkeeping was terrible. SimonChris posted:
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A hidden threat: Fast-rising seas could swamp septic systems in parts of the South
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Thought that said fart-rising there for a second
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Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationally educated elite https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp....-educated-elite Not quite the article you'd expect from the opening, and goes in a lot of different directions: quote:There were two kinds of African kids in elite American colleges. The first were those like Maria, Nyangie and Victoria: comfortable middle-class kids whose high school grades had earned them scholarships, which they supplemented with student loans and part-time jobs. Then there were the other African kids. They jetted home for Christmas, and maybe Easter too, were never broke, and frequently flew to Miami or Cancún for weekend jaunts. These ones, the joke went, were funded by parents who were the reasons their countries were broke. nonathlon has a new favorite as of 10:50 on May 26, 2024 |
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/nairobi-to-new-york-and-back-the-loneliness-of-the-internationally-educated-elite A clickable shorter version of that link.
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/03/master-of-make-believe
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Public Domain Review is excellent for long articles on the weird bullshit of history. For example, what happened when they invented laughing gas? Of course they got a bunch of philosophers to get high and try and describe it https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/o-excellent-air-bag-humphry-davy-and-nitrous-oxide/
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I hadn't heard of that site but their latest one looks promising as well: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/early-androids-and-artificial-speech/ quote:Centuries before audio deepfakes and text-to-speech software, inventors in the eighteenth century constructed androids with swelling lungs, flexible lips, and moving tongues to simulate human speech. Jessica Riskin explores the history of such talking heads, from their origins in musical automata to inventors’ quixotic attempts to make machines pronounce words, converse, and declare their love.
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SimonChris posted:Zombie 2nd mortgages are coming to life, threatening thousands of Americans' homes fun fact: the context for that meme is the snl news segment on the transphobic murder of Brandon Teena, stating that both the murderers and the victim deserved to die
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