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We live in a conspiracy theory culture now. Nobody trusts institutions; everything from online communities to political debates to public policy is all conspiratorial now. A new psychological study suggested this isn’t just a social media problem, it’s a problem of mindset

Salads top the avoid list for people who deal with foodborne illness for a living. Bill Marler, a lawyer known for outbreak cases, says he skips them when he eats out. Leafy greens are processed in large batches and shipped widely. Problems spread fast. Food scientist Bryan Quoc Le adds one more issue: greens never get cooked. There’s no final step to stop bacteria. 2. Raw sprouts

We are taking this flight over for Jesus,” the man, identified as 24-year-old Singaporean Jonathan Neo, captioned an IG reel showing the video. The video was originally posted on TikTok and Instagram April 9 by his teammate Jack Jensz Jr, but went viral this weekend.

By 2030, a California startup called Reflect Orbital wants to fill the night sky with 4,000 orbiting mirrors that bounce sunlight back to Earth.

Old article, but seasonal and topical. October is celebrate witches month!

That headline. I thought most commercial keratin comes from feathers & hooves and was surprised to learn that human hair is a common source and also very surprised that it would do anything to strengthen teeth with topical application.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/shy-singles-are-using-powerpoint-presentations-to-find-their-perfect-match/

The original reddit post calls for players to report the bot reviews on steam

I, for one, will just stop logging in altogether until this gets fixed, it’s not like I don’t have a huge backlog of other games to play 🤷‍♀️

And learning from the mistakes of others (part added by OP)….

Unclaimed Baggage is a one-of-a-kind store that vets, cleans, tests, and resells all the juicy contents of lost bags and luggage.

“Being ridden by the witch” is the southern Americana folklore term for sleep paralysis. There are many more folk legends worldwide. In Fiji, it’s kana tevoro, or being eaten by a demon. It’s sometimes cultivated there with shouts of kania! kania! ("eat! eat!") from persons watching the victim in an effort to prolong the experience and enable communication with the dead. In Turkey, it’s the djinn (another demon) strangling you in your sleep and is only remedied by reading passages from the Qur’an. In parts of China, it’s a mouse stealing your breath. In Catalan folklore—of pooping Christmas log fame—it’s a giant dog or cat that enters your room and sits on your chest while you sleep. (Catalan folklore is the best.) But, usually, it’s some variation of witch or demon suffocating and otherwise torturing the victim.

The manchild strikes again.

KC Clements, 29, is a relationship anarchist. Right on time for Valentine’s Day, I picked his brain about what it all means and how the concept differs from other, better known forms of non-monogamy.

KC Clements, 29, is a relationship anarchist. Right on time for Valentine’s Day, I picked his brain about what it all means and how the concept differs from other, better known forms of non-monogamy.

Remember this whole thing. Read a one sentence summary of Nicolas Cage’s ‘dream scenario’ and it sounds similar. Excited to go watch it tonight!

Two decades after Mark Zuckerberg created FaceMash, the infamously sexist “hot-or-not” website that served as the precursor to Facebook, a developer has had the bright idea to do the exact same thing—this time with all the women generated by AI.

The TETRA standard is used in radios worldwide. Security researchers have found multiple vulnerabilities in the underlying cryptography and its implementation, including issues that allow for the decryption of traffic.

Michael Protzman, leader of a JFK-QAnon cult, known as Negative 48, has died following a dirt bike accident.

A 40-year-old man named Kimbrady Carriker was charged with five counts of murder after shooting victims at random during Independence Day celebrations in Philadelphia.

Read this article a while back and thought I would share it. I love how much the movie ingrains itself in some of us - like it really did make us who we are.

After police and citizens saw a bright meteor in the sky, cops unsuccessfully stalked what witnesses said were beings with glowing eyes nearly 10 feet tall.

A really interesting piece about the history of Cabbage Patch Kids and how it was more or less stolen from its creator.

r/StallmanWasRight

r/programming

Hell yeaaah!

Analiza opublikowana przez MIT w 1972 przewidywała, że gwałtowny wzrost ekonomiczny doprowadzi do upadku społecznego w połowie 21 wieku. Nowe badanie wskazuje, że wszystko rozwija się zgodnie z tym scenariuszem.

Analiza opublikowana przez MIT w 1972 przewidywała, że gwałtowny wzrost ekonomiczny doprowadzi do upadku społecznego w połowie 21 wieku. Nowe badanie wskazuje, że wszystko rozwija się zgodnie z tym scenariuszem.

cross-postowane z: https://szmer.info/post/13183

The viral subreddit is organizing a general strike on Black Friday—can it become a political movement?

Article written about this article that was also released today. Both offer interesting updates to the disclosure movement.