2024-02-11
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Horseshit
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Why you might start to hate the influencers you once loved
When we feel excluded by an influencer, our feelings can become increasingly hostile. Yet rather than simply unfollowing, many turn to gossip forums to fill the “narrative gaps” with their own theories, backed up with “evidence” gathered through extensive online research. From inspecting every detail of their posts, to accessing company accounts, posters were committed to uncovering the hidden details of influencers’ lives. They celebrated theories that were proven right, like when a long-suspected pregnancy or breakup was announced, and congratulated themselves on their “detective work”.
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Einstein: How the greatest scientist hid from Nazis in a Norfolk hut
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Masturbation abstinence is popular online. Doctors and therapists are worried (Archive)
One of the central concepts in these communities is known as "nofap," a play on an onomatopoeic word for masturbation popularized on the notorious 4chan message boards. The term "nofap" has come to encompass a set of unproven claims that not masturbating confers social and health benefits.
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Tech millionaires take on politicians in a fight to fix San Francisco
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A man has been swatted 47 times for making a joke about Norm Macdonald
Electric / Self Driving cars
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Trump / War against the Right / Jan6
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MyPillow Guy Launches MyStore, the Amazon from Hell
Over the past few days, Lindell has been on a media tour (mostly on extremist podcasts and his own video platforms) to promote a new eCommerce website called MyStore. Lindell calls it a “mini-Amazon” for “patriots” where “entrepreneurs” can sell their goods without being “copied by China.”
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Trump 'encourages' Russia to attack NATO states not paying 'bills'
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Treasury Responds: (PDF) Financial Surveillance in the aftermath of January 6
No one specific word or transaction code included in these typologies was designed to be used in isolation to “flag” or “target” any individuals.
For example, a document distributed on January 15, 2021 suggested that banks could review payment messages for indications that an individual participated in the assault on the Capitol and included terms such as “antifa,” “MAGA,” “Trump,” “Biden,” “Kamala,” “Schumer,” and “Pelosi,” along with terms indicating an intent to do violence, such as “shoot,” “kill,” “murder” and “storm the Capitol.” We understand that FinCEN convened these Exchange events starting under the prior Administration and continuing until approximately mid-February 2021. During this time period, law enforcement was actively investigating the January 6 Capitol attack and was also concerned about efforts to disrupt or threaten the upcoming presidential Inauguration.
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
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Study captures hard truth: Walking home at night is not the same for women
Heat maps show men look straight ahead; women scan periphery
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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Rarely is the Question Asked: Is Our Children Learning?—Asterisk
In 1899, the U.S. commissioner of education, William T. Harris, said exactly this. He wished U.S. schools had the "appearance of a machine," one where the goal was to teach students “to behave in an orderly manner, to stay in his own place, and not get in the way of others." At that time, emphasis was considerably more on the “dutiful” part of “dutiful citizens.” Developing-country schools are trying to achieve much the same ends. Students learn to memorize, to obey, and to not question — but they do not particularly learn to read or write. But then again, that was never the goal — developing countries are following the path trod on by developed countries. Just like developed countries, they will try to “teach ordinary people obedience, respect for the law, [and] love of order.
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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They gave local news away for free. Virtually nobody wanted it. - Columbia Journalism Review
When 2,529 people were offered a free subscription to their local newspapers, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Philadelphia Inquirer, only forty-four accepted—less than 2 percent—according to an academic study set to be published this year in the American Journal of Political Science.
TechSuck / Geek Bait
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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America is full of wonderful things, wonderful people, worth appreciating, celebrating, and defending. The immense effort the propagandists have to undertake to stain that is indicative of just how much there is to love here.
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‘This is the worst day of Joe Biden’s presidency,’ Democrats admit
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How Old Is Too Old to Be President? An Uncomfortable Question Arises Again (Archive)
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Biden responds angrily to special counsel report questioning his memory - The Washington Post
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Opinion: Age matters. Which is why Biden’s age is his superpower
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Why the Age Issue Is Hurting Biden So Much More Than Trump - The New York Times
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(1995) IS DOLE TOO OLD? - TIME
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Harris to give ‘major foreign policy speech’ at Munich Security Conference next week | The Hill
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
World
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Germany's Days as an Industrial Superpower Are Coming to an End
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Farmers' protests have erupted across Europe. Here's why
Farming makes up just 1.4% of the European Union’s GDP, the latest figures show, but protests in Eastern Europe last year over cheap Ukrainian imports – which saw lengthy blockades at border crossings – show how farmers as a group are capable of causing major disruption. Both national governments and the EU are now under pressure to quell the fresh demonstrations.
Climate change is aggravating the situation in different ways. Extreme weather events such as wildfires and droughts are increasingly affecting production.
Anger has also been directed at Brussels over the EU’s environmental targets. Renaud Foucart, a senior economics lecturer at Lancaster University in England, points to the European Green Deal as a major source of tension. The deal aims to introduce measures including a tax on carbon, pesticide bans, nitrogen emissions curbs and restrictions on water and land usage. Foucart says farmers are trying to postpone the regulations of the Green Deal for as long as possible. “So they want to further postpone any attempt to tax carbon, any attempt to reduce pesticides.”
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China punish whole Argentina after Lionel Messi showed 'lack of respect
Israel
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
Health / Medicine
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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The 'Unthinkable' New Reality About Bedbugs
For reasons that almost certainly have to do with global travel and poor pest management, bed bugs have resurfaced with a vengeance in 50 countries since the late 1990s.
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Past change in Antarctica's ice sheet could mean devastating sea level rise
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New York City considers banning laundry pods due to microplastics