2025-06-23
Horseshit
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World Curling tightens sweeping rules, bans firmer broom foams ahead of Olympics
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We quite literally get anxiety attacks when we’ve misplaced our phones, thus, we have cultivated a maternal relationship with our smartphones and social media, they are in charge of us. An average of 2600 taps per-day, phantom-vibration syndrome, reduction in sleep quality, worsening eyesight and on and on, all because we’re locked into a dopamine based social reward system. Dopamine is a chemical in our brain which plays the main role in motivating behaviour, it gets released when we eat tasty food, have sex, masturbate, exercise, and most importantly, engage in successful social interactions. Now, defining successful social interactions used to be difficult, but the sphere of social interaction has since been immanentized onto the metric of likes, retweets, hearts etc, wherein a greater number of positive likes equates to a more successful social interaction, and thus, when we get a like we get a little hit of dopamine. Many might say, ‘Well why’s this worse that eating a tasty sandwich, we get dopamine from doing that too?!’ Yes, we do, but we also don’t do that literally thousands of times per day. We begin to feel good from getting all these likes so we keep doing it, we keep posting things to get more likes, eventually, we succumb to the mechanism itself and instead of posting stuff we find interesting, or stuff we genuinely want to post, we post that which we believe will get us a greater quantity of likes. Social media virtue signalling then, is quite literally the same process/function as masturbation, but then again, so is political, philosophical and all forms of mimetic posting.
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Evangelical men saved sex for marriage – they weren't well prepared
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Children in England growing up 'sedentary, scrolling and alone', say experts
celebrity gossip
Obit
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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Telegram founder rejected West's request to silence conservative Romanian voices
The founder of the Telegram messaging app said on Sunday he had refused a request by a Western government, which he did not name but appeared to imply was France, to silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of a presidential election run-off there. Romanians were voting on Sunday in a run-off that pits a hard-right eurosceptic against a centrist independent. The outcome of the contest will have significant implications for both Romania's struggling economy and European Union unity.
"A Western European government... approached Telegram, asking us to silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of today's presidential elections. I flatly refused," founder Pavel Durov wrote on Telegram. Telegram will not restrict the freedoms of Romanian users or block their political channels," Durov said, adding to his post an emoji of a baguette which might hint at France. "You can't 'defend democracy' by destroying democracy. You can't 'fight election interference' by interfering with elections. You either have freedom of speech and fair elections — or you don't. And the Romanian people deserve both," he said.
In a post on X accompanied by a screenshot of Durov's message, the French foreign ministry denied any interference by France. "Completely unfounded allegations are circulating on Telegram and Twitter (X) regarding alleged French interference in the Romanian presidential election," it said.
Electric / Self Driving cars
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Left Angst
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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The suspect is identified as Christian Ramos, 28, of Aurora, Illinois. He is charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder and related offenses. Ramos, who also faces a separate firearm charge in Cecil County, is awaiting an initial appearance at Cecil County District Court. Shortly before midnight on June 18, 2025, troopers from the Maryland State Police Golden Ring Barrack responded to southbound I-83 near Shawan Road after a driver called 911 to report that his Toyota Prius had been shot while traveling south. The car had three occupants, including a two-year-old. No injuries were reported.
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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Greek man gets 5 years in prison for running a torrenting site 10 years ago
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Hyper-realistic baby dolls spark moral panic and legislation in Brazil
Even as a former president stands trial for attempting a coup and the current leader grapples with the worst popularity crisis of his three terms, many Brazilians have spent recent weeks focused on a very different subject. On social media, in soap operas, and in newly proposed laws, it seemed that hyper-realistic baby dolls were everywhere. About 30 bills concerning these figurines, known as “reborn” dolls, have been introduced across Brazil, including proposals to ban them from receiving public healthcare or to prohibit collectors from using them to claim priority in queues for public services.
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Billion-euro project for AI gigafactory of German tech companies failed for now
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British Airways and Singapore Airlines cancel Dubai flights after US bombs Iran
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You get to drive it; not "self-driving" autonomous: The self-drive tuk-tuks transforming travel in Sri Lanka
Then in 2016, with the launch of Katunayake-based start-up TukTuk Rental, tourists were given the keys to an adventure they would never forget. You can now hire and drive a vehicle, choose your own route through the highlands or along the palm-fringed beaches and stop for a cup of milk tea when the mood takes you. But what makes this experience extra special is that this business, which marries social good with financial goals, leases its tuk-tuks from locals.
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UK government laptops, phones and tablets have been lost or stolen
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Canada is facing a housing crisis. Could it take a page from Europe?
Iran / Houthi
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A Long Way Down: What It Takes to Hit Iran's Deepest Nuclear Site
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Amid regional conflict, the Strait of Hormuz remains critical oil chokepoint
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Satellite Images Show 'Unusual' Activity at Iran Nuclear Site Before Strikes - Newsweek
Pictures taken on Thursday and Friday showed "unusual truck and vehicular activity" close to the entrance of the underground Fordow complex south of Tehran, satellite imagery firm Maxar said late on Saturday. A total of 16 cargo trucks were spotted on the access road leading up to the Fordow tunnel entrance on Thursday, but most had moved to a spot 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) northwest of the access road by the following day, Maxar said. New trucks and multiple bulldozers had appeared close to the main entrance by Friday, with one truck very close to the main tunnel entrance, the satellite imagery provider said. The significance of the activity is not yet clear, but Iranian state media reported key nuclear sites had been evacuated ahead of U.S. attacks, with enriched uranium moved "to a safe location."
Iran was producing considerable amounts of highly enriched uranium at Fordow, but it is not immediately apparent how much was still at the site in recent days, William Alberque, a senior adjunct fellow at the Pacific Forum and a former director of NATO's Arms Control, Disarmament and WMD Non-Proliferation Center, told Newsweek.
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IDF on alert, possible relocation of Iran's enriched uranium from damaged sites
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
China
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Chongqing Hotel Under Fire for Using Red Pandas in Wake-Up Calls
A hotel in southwestern China’s megacity of Chongqing has come under fire for using red pandas to deliver morning wake-up calls to guests, sparking controversy and raising fresh concerns about the welfare of endangered wildlife and customer safety. Located near the Chongqing Wild Animal World, the hotel offers a so-called “red panda morning call” service, where staff lead red pandas into guests’ rooms to greet them in the morning. Guests can feed, stroke, and take photos with the animals — some of whom were filmed exploring the hotel rooms and wandering across beds.
Health / Medicine
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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Moon Dust Not as Damaging as Thought; Study Reveals Earth's Pollutants Are Worse
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50k-Year-Old Block of Ice Paints the Most Chilling Picture of the Future
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Carbon trading has become an easy target for organized crime
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DAM IT! The Left Coast’s $600M Fish-Killing Grift | ZeroHedge
Over a decade after the Elwha Dam was removed - the claimed picture of success - fish populations have still not returned to pre dam removal levels after the sudden sediment release of 20 million tons resulted in a mass fish kill. Now blamed on climate change, experts have quietly acknowledged that it could be decades longer before salmonid populations return to pre-removal numbers—stressing a need for increased funding.
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Largest Wildlife Bridge Spanning 10 Lanes of CA 101 Is Nearly Complete
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Scientists find three years left of remaining carbon budget for 1.5°C