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[{"role": "system", "content": "\"Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point\" is an article by the satirical website ClickHole, which was published in February 2018. The article, describing a hated coworker making a logical argument during a political debate, is an Internet meme used to reference otherwise disliked figures making a statement the writer agrees with."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point\" is a satirical article by ClickHole which was published in February 2018.\n\n[Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbreaking:_The_Worst_Person_You_Know_Just_Made_A_Great_Point)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Terrible, someone please delete."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Terrible comment, someone please delete.", "name": "Peyton"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Ebenezer McBurney Byers (April 12, 1880 – March 31, 1932) was an American socialite, sportsman, and industrialist. He won the 1906 U.S. Amateur in golf. He died from multiple radiation-induced cancers after consuming Radithor, a patent medicine made from radium dissolved in water."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Eben Byers: Earned notoriety in the early 1930s when he died from multiple radiation-induced cancers after consuming Radithor, a popular patent medicine made from radium dissolved in water.\n\n[Eben Byers - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Byers)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "https://medium.com/crimopedia/the-horrific-story-of-how-a-handsome-man-turned-into-this-16f14816a2da pictures since its no longer on the wiki page", "name": "Charles"}, {"role": "user", "content": ">\tHe even offered doctors a 17 percent commission for every dose of Radithor prescribed.\n\nah, there it is.", "name": "Karina"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Joshua Julius Anderson (born June 17, 1987) is an American serial killer who shot four to five people to death in northern Tulsa, Oklahoma, between late 2006 and early 2007. He was arrested on the same day as his final two murders, and confessed soon afterwards. He was sentenced to four life terms and an additional 35 years imprisonment."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Joshua Anderson forced a man and his mom to have sex with each other at gunpoint, then killed them both and ate a part of her brain\n\n[Joshua Anderson (serial killer) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Anderson_(serial_killer))"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "This guy attempted to kill for the first time when he was only 15. Singlehandedly committed a third of Tulsa's homicides in a year. He bullied, raped and assaulted people, stole and burned property. Even his own brother, who was an accessory during the double murder of the mother and son, vomited when he saw Joshua eating human brain. Just pure evil in human form."}, {"role": "user", "content": "What a jerk!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I dont usually use strong language, but this dude seems like a real butthead", "name": "Emma"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Jean Marie Joseph Capgras (23 August 1873 – 27 January 1950) was a French psychiatrist who is best known for the Capgras delusion, a disorder named after him.\nHe received his medical degree in Toulouse, later working in several mental institutions in France. During the latter part of his career, he was associated with Hôpital Sainte-Anne.With his mentor, Paul Sérieux (1864–1947), he contributed on psychiatric publications such as Les Folies raisonnantes (1909) (\"Reasoning madnesses. Misinterpretative delusional states\") and Les Psychoses à base d'interprétations délirantes. With Sérieux, he described a type of non-schizophrenic, paranoid psychosis referred to as Délire d’interprétation de Sérieux et Capgras.\nCapgras delusion was described in 1923 in a study published by Capgras and his intern Jean Reboul-Lachaux, titled L'illusion des \"sosies\" (the illusion of doubles) dans un délire systématisé chronique. This disorder is defined as a delusion that a close relative or friend has been replaced by an impostor.\n\nCapgras delusion or Capgras syndrome is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, another close family member, or pet has been replaced by an identical impostor. It is named after Joseph Capgras (1873–1950), the French psychiatrist who first described the disorder.\nThe Capgras delusion is classified as a delusional misidentification syndrome, a class of delusional beliefs that involves the misidentification of people, places, or objects. It can occur in acute, transient, or chronic forms. Cases in which patients hold the belief that time has been \"warped\" or \"substituted\" have also been reported.The delusion most commonly occurs in individuals diagnosed with a psychotic disorder, usually schizophrenia, but has also been seen in brain injury, dementia with Lewy bodies, and other dementia. It presents often in individuals with a neurodegenerative disease, particularly at an older age. It has also been reported as occurring in association with diabetes, hypothyroidism, and migraine attacks. In one isolated case, the Capgras delusion was temporarily induced in a healthy subject by the drug ketamine. It occurs more frequently in females, with a female to male ratio of approximately 3∶2."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Capgras delusion or Capgras syndrome is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, another close family member, or pet has been replaced by an identical impostor.\n\n[Capgras delusion - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "My cousin had this but we just thought it was from all the cocaine.", "name": "Jazmin"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Haha my cousin had this as well. It got to the point where she eventually stabbed her boyfriend lol. He was fine, and she got the help she needed!", "name": "Brooke"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This is the darkest and most awkward \"lol\" I've seen in a while lolll.", "name": "Nathan"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "In software engineering, rubber duck debugging (or rubberducking) is a method of debugging code by articulating a problem in spoken or written natural language. The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themselves to explain it, line by line, to the duck. Many other terms exist for this technique, often involving different (usually) inanimate objects, or pets such as a dog or a cat. Teddy bears are also widely used."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"Rubber duck debugging\": wherein you explain your code to a rubber duck, dog, cat, etc; to come up with an \"a-ha\" moment to solve your problem.\n\n[Rubber duck debugging - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I do something similar where I just explain the problem to myself. Works well.", "name": "Eva"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I explain it to my future self - who already knows what the bug is/was. Sometimes, future me is also helpful with hints...", "name": "Carson"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr. (May 17, 1931 – March 26, 1997), also known as Do, among other names, was an American religious leader who founded and led the Heaven's Gate new religious movement (often described as a cult), and organized their mass suicide in 1997. The suicide is the largest mass suicide to occur inside the U.S.As a young man, Applewhite attended several universities and served in the United States Army. He initially pursued a career in education until he resigned from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, in 1970, citing emotional turmoil. His father's death a year later brought on severe depression. In 1972, Applewhite developed a close friendship with Bonnie Nettles, a nurse; together, they discussed mysticism at length and concluded that they were called as divine messengers. They operated a bookstore and teaching center for a short while and then began to travel around the U.S. in 1973 to spread their views. They gained only one convert. In August 1974, Applewhite was arrested in Harlingen, Texas, for failing to return a rental car and was extradited to Missouri where he was subsequently jailed for six months. In jail, he further developed his theology.\nAfter Applewhite's release, he and Nettles travelled to California and Oregon, eventually gaining a group of committed followers. They told their followers that they would be visited by extraterrestrials who would provide them with new bodies. Applewhite initially stated that he and his followers would physically ascend to a spaceship, where their bodies would be transformed, but later he came to believe that their bodies were the mere containers of their souls, which would later be placed into new bodies. These ideas were expressed with language drawn from Christian eschatology, the New Age movement and American popular culture.\nHeaven's Gate received an influx of funds in the late 1970s, which it used to pay housing and other expenses. In 1985, Nettles died, leaving Applewhite distraught and challenging his views on physical ascension. In the early 1990s, the group took more steps to publicize their theology. In 1996, they learned of the approach of Comet Hale–Bopp and rumors of an accompanying spaceship, concluding that this was the vessel that would take their spirits on board for a journey to another planet. Believing that their souls would ascend to the spaceship and be given new bodies, the group members committed mass suicide in a rented mansion. A media circus followed the discovery of their bodies. In the aftermath, commentators and academics discussed how Applewhite persuaded people to follow his commands, including suicide. Some commentators attributed his followers' willingness to commit suicide to his skill as a manipulator, while others argued that their willingness was due to their faith in the narrative that he constructed."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Marshall Applewhite was the leader of the UFO religious millenarian cult Heaven's Gate, whose members committed mass suicide in March of 1997 after drinking applesauce laced with phenobarbital, believing the oncoming Hale-Bopp comet was being trailed by a spaceship that would absorb their souls.\n\n[Marshall Applewhite - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Applewhite)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Fun fact: The Heaven's Gate website is still up and running and maintained--if I remember correctly--by some peripheral adherents to Applewhite's teachings. It's a treasure trove of 90s web design. It even includes a visitor counter!", "name": "Seth"}, {"role": "user", "content": "You can also email them and get a response by the one who stayed behind. I did it a couple of years ago", "name": "Kate"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Timothy Treadwell (born Timothy William Dexter; April 29, 1957 – October 5, 2003) was an American bear enthusiast, environmentalist, documentary filmmaker, and founder of the bear-protection organization Grizzly People. He lived among coastal brown bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) in Katmai National Park, Alaska, for 13 summers.On October 5, 2003, Treadwell and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard were killed and almost fully eaten by a 28-year-old male bear whose stomach was later found to contain human remains and clothing.Treadwell's life, work, and death were the subject of Werner Herzog's critically acclaimed documentary film Grizzly Man (2005)."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Treadwell's disfigured head, partial spine, and right forearm and hand, with his wristwatch still on, were recovered a short distance from the camp.\n\n[Timothy Treadwell - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The Werner Herzog documentary Grizzly Man about this is an intense, unforgettable watch."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Ive seen parts of it. I think Treadwell was not all there, the way he interacted with the bears. :/"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Khaled Mohamad al-Asaad (Arabic: خالد الأسعد, Arabic pronunciation: [ɐlʔæsʕæd], January 1932 – 18 August 2015) was a Syrian archaeologist and the head of antiquities at the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He held this position for over forty years. Al-Asaad was publicly beheaded by the Islamic State on 18 August 2015, at the age of 83."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Khaled al-Asaad was a Syrian archaeologist and the head of antiquities at the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He held this position for over forty years. Al-Asaad was publicly beheaded by ISIS on 18 August 2015, at the age of 83.\n\n[Khaled al-Asaad - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled_al-Asaad)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Fuck those religious terrorists. Fuck Isis and fuck anybody with that ideology.", "name": "Katherine"}, {"role": "user", "content": "You mean the religion of peace, which cuts you to pieces?", "name": "Ella"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Are you saying you think all Muslims are affiliated with terrorist organizations? If so, please leave the PNW, we are not like that here. Is that even a real user name, or is this a troll account?", "name": "Manuel"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Although the Confederate States of America dissolved at the end of the American Civil War (1861–1865), its battle flag continues to be displayed as a symbol. The modern display began during the 1948 United States presidential election when it was used by the Dixiecrats, a political party that opposed civil rights for African Americans. Further display of the flag was a response to the civil rights movement and the passage of federal civil rights laws in the 1950s and 1960s.The display of flags associated with the Confederacy is controversial. Supporters associate the Confederate battle flag with pride in Southern heritage, states' rights, and historical commemoration of the Civil War, while opponents associate it with glorification of the Civil War and celebrating the Lost Cause, racism, slavery, segregation, white supremacy, historical negationism, and treason. Incidents such as the Charleston church shooting, the Unite the Right rally, and the murder of George Floyd led to public official display of the flag being mostly retired in the United States, but not abroad."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The modern display of the Confederate battle flag began as a response to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and has been seen used to this day in some instances in support of white nationalist and white supremacist movements, some of which commemorate the Confederate States of America.\n\n[Modern display of the Confederate battle flag - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_display_of_the_Confederate_battle_flag)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah it's kind of funny how little people know about Jim Crow and how half of these statues were kind of like messages to black people to remember their place. \n\nIt's like grandma was a full-blown racist, your dad was a \"he's one of the good ones\" type, and now there's all these flags and statues people don't know the origin of and have all this pride without having any knowledge about it.", "name": "Ava"}, {"role": "user", "content": "US education has done a bad job at educating us on topics line this, I like knowing the past, so hopefully one day i can prevent it from happening again", "name": "Delaney"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Yall too fast\n\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Has it now been updated to Not on fire anymore?", "name": "Caden"}, {"role": "user", "content": "No, but here's a cut and paste from just now:\n\nNumber of spires\t1 (destroyed by fire)\n\n\nSpire height\t0 metres (0 ft) (formerly)[1]", "name": "Catherine"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Congress prior to his presidency.\nBorn into the prominent Kennedy family in Brookline, Massachusetts, Kennedy graduated from Harvard University in 1940, joining the U.S. Naval Reserve the following year. During World War II, he commanded PT boats in the Pacific theater. Kennedy's survival following the sinking of PT-109 and his rescue of his fellow sailors made him a war hero and earned the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, but left him with serious injuries. After a brief stint in journalism, Kennedy represented a working-class Boston district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953. He was subsequently elected to the U.S. Senate, serving as the junior senator for Massachusetts from 1953 to 1960. While in the Senate, Kennedy published his book, Profiles in Courage, which won a Pulitzer Prize. Kennedy ran in the 1960 presidential election. His campaign gained momentum after the first televised presidential debates in American history, and he was elected president, narrowly defeating Republican opponent Richard Nixon, the incumbent vice president.\nKennedy's presidency saw high tensions with communist states in the Cold War. He increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam, and the Strategic Hamlet Program began during his presidency. In 1961, he authorized attempts to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion and Operation Mongoose. In October 1962, U.S. spy planes discovered Soviet missile bases had been deployed in Cuba. The resulting period of tensions, termed the Cuban Missile Crisis, nearly resulted in nuclear war. In August 1961, after East German troops erected the Berlin Wall, Kennedy sent an army convoy to reassure West Berliners of U.S. support, and delivered one of his most famous speeches in West Berlin in June 1963. In 1963, Kennedy signed the first nuclear weapons treaty. He presided over the establishment of the Peace Corps, Alliance for Progress with Latin America, and the continuation of the Apollo program with the goal of landing a man on the Moon before 1970. He supported the civil rights movement but was only somewhat successful in passing his New Frontier domestic policies.\nOn November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. His vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson, assumed the presidency. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the assassination, but he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby two days later. The FBI and the Warren Commission both concluded Oswald had acted alone, but conspiracy theories about the assassination persist. After Kennedy's death, Congress enacted many of his proposals, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Revenue Act of 1964. Kennedy ranks highly in polls of U.S. presidents with historians and the general public. His personal life has been the focus of considerable sustained interest following public revelations in the 1970s of his chronic health ailments and extramarital affairs. Kennedy is the most recent U.S. president to have died in office.\n\nAccording to a false conspiracy theory, medbeds (an abbreviation of \"medical bed\" or \"meditation bed\") are secret beds that can miraculously heal humans and extend life. The plausibility of such devices is pseudoscience.Medbed conspiracy theories often involve claims that the devices are utilized by members of a \"deep state\" and billionaires and that the former President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, is still alive, lying on a medbed. Belief in these devices is popular among QAnon influencers such as Michael Protzman, Romana Didulo, and YamatoQ.Various companies sell devices or access to beds that supposedly heal ailments via imaginary technologies while also including fine print on their websites disclaiming that no diagnoses, treatment, or cures are provided."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# According to a false conspiracy theory, medbeds are secret beds that can miraculously heal humans and extend life. The theory claims that the devices are utilized by the 'deep state' and billionaires and that former President John F. Kennedy is still alive on a medbed.\n\n[Medbed - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medbed)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The deep state? Isn't that just bureaucrats? They think the EPA scientist assessing regulations goes home to a fountain of youth? You god damn fucking idiots.", "name": "Luke"}, {"role": "user", "content": "\"The deep state\" was an academic (and useful!) concept, that the policies of the bureaucrats in the administrative part of the state was an important, under-studied aspect of how democracies function.\n\nAs with so many other things, authoritarian types (Erdoan was the first I heard it from) took it for their own ends. They use \"the deep state\" to mean \"the secret cabal of insider elites that prevents the people's true will from being enacted.\"\n\nSo in this conspiracy, they're saying that the elites being kept alive on the medbeds are also the secret cabal of devil-worshiping child molesters that thwarted Trump from achieving all his goals as President.", "name": "Briana"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Continental drip is the observation that southward-pointing landforms are more numerous and prominent than northward-pointing landforms. For example, Africa, South America, the Indian subcontinent, and Greenland all taper off to a point towards the south. The name is a play on continental drift. \n\nThe observation was made by Ormonde de Kay in a 1973 tongue-in-cheek paper, which he introduced as \"another earth-shaking new theory derived from simply looking at maps.\" It satirizes the acceptance of plate tectonics theory as it was being formulated and refined at the time to describe the movement of the Earth's continents that is now thoroughly accepted. Given examples of smaller-than-continental drips include Baja California Peninsula, Florida, all of Europe's peninsulas except Jutland (Italy, Greece, Spain, Scandinavia, Crimea) as well as in southeast Asia, the Malay Peninsula and Indochina.John C. Holden expanded and illustrated his own version of the idea in 1976, almost entirely as a parody in the Journal of Irreproducible Results. In Holden's expansion of the concept, he satirically invents the fictional German words Sudpolarfluchtkraft (\"south polar fleeing force\") having created Sudpolarfluchttrofeln (\"south polar fleeing drips\"). He does, however, cite an actual theory of northward drift of Gondwanaland descendant continents of Australia, Africa, South America, and India breaking away from Antarctica, which he authored with Robert S. Dietz in 1970. As part of the 1976 parody paper, he proposes that the \"drips\" or \"sub-drips\" are North America, Greenland, South America, Africa, Arabia, India, Asia, and Australia. Contrarily, \"anti-drips\" are formed by Ceylon and Antarctica itself because Antarctica is \"on top of the world\" as all the continents draw away from it.The planet simulator (software toy) SimEarth by Maxis includes continental drip in its Terran (Earth) simulations."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Continental drip is the observation that southward-pointing landforms are more numerous and prominent than northward-pointing landforms. For example, Africa, South America, India etc. all taper off to a point towards the south. The name is a play on continental drift.\n\n[Continental drip - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_drip)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "So is there any explanation for this observation or is it just kinda a weird coincidence?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "\"The observation was made by Ormonde de Kay in a 1973tongue-in-cheekpaper.[1]John C. Holdenexpanded and illustrated his own version of the idea in 1976.[2]\"\n\nFrom the article.", "name": "Matthew"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ok, so they observed the phenomenon. Did they posit an explanation? Or is it assumed to be random?", "name": "Kaylee"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Jesus (c. 6 to 4 BC – AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. He is the central figure of Christianity, the world's largest religion. Most Christians believe Jesus to be the incarnation of God the Son and the awaited messiah, the Christ that is prophesied in the Old Testament.\nVirtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed historically. Accounts of Jesus' life are contained in the Gospels, especially the four canonical Gospels in the New Testament. Academic research has yielded various views on the historical reliability of the Gospels and how closely they reflect the historical Jesus. Jesus was circumcised at eight days old, was baptized by John the Baptist as a young adult, and after 40 days and nights of fasting in the wilderness, began his own ministry. Being an itinerant teacher, he was often referred to as \"rabbi\". Jesus often debated with fellow Jews on how to best follow God, engaged in healings, taught in parables, and gathered followers, among whom twelve were his primary disciples. He was arrested in Jerusalem and tried by the Jewish authorities, turned over to the Roman government, and crucified on the order of Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect of Judea. After his death, his followers became convinced that he rose from the dead, and following his ascension, the community they formed eventually became the early Christian Church that expanded as a worldwide movement. Accounts of his teachings and life were initially conserved by oral transmission, which was the source of the written Gospels.Christian theology includes the beliefs that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, was born of a virgin named Mary, performed miracles, founded the Christian Church, died by crucifixion as a sacrifice to achieve atonement for sin, rose from the dead, and ascended into Heaven, from where he will return. Commonly, Christians believe Jesus enables people to be reconciled to God. The Nicene Creed asserts that Jesus will judge the living and the dead, either before or after their bodily resurrection, an event tied to the Second Coming of Jesus in Christian eschatology. The great majority of Christians worship Jesus as the incarnation of God the Son, the second of three prosopons of the Trinity. The birth of Jesus is celebrated annually, generally on 25 December, as Christmas. His crucifixion is honoured on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Sunday. The world's most widely used calendar era—in which the current year is AD 2024 (or 2024 CE)—is based on the approximate birthdate of Jesus.Jesus is also revered in Islam, the Baháʼí Faith, and the Druze Faith. In Islam, Jesus (often referred to by his Quranic name ʿĪsā) is considered the penultimate prophet of God and the messiah, who will return before the Day of Judgement. Muslims believe Jesus was born of the virgin Mary but was neither God nor a son of God. Most Muslims do not believe that he was killed or crucified but that God raised him into Heaven while he was still alive. In contrast, Judaism rejects the belief that Jesus was the awaited messiah, arguing that he did not fulfill messianic prophecies, was not lawfully anointed and was neither divine nor resurrected.\n\n\"Jesus wept\" (Koinē Greek: ἐδάκρυσεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς, romanized: edákrusen ho Iēsoûs, pronounced [ɛˈdakrysɛn (h)o i.eˈsus]) is a phrase famous for being the shortest verse in the King James Version of the Bible, as well as in many other translations. It is not the shortest in the original languages. The phrase is found in the Gospel of John, chapter 11, verse 35. Verse breaks—or versification—were introduced into the Greek text by Robert Estienne in 1551 in order to make the texts easier to cite and compare."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"Jesus wept\" is a phrase famous for being the shortest verse in the King James Version of the Bible. It is not the shortest in the original languages, however. In biblical greek, the verse takes up 33 letters, and roughly translates to \"Jesus shed tears.\"\n\n[Jesus wept - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_wept)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Interestingly, the shortest verse in some of these original languages are debated topics, with answers that change depending on how you're counting. Biblical Hebrew, for example, did not have vowels, but modern versions of the Hebrew bible do, which changes which verse is officially the shortest. This is a natural consequence of translations over thousands of years, as languages change and evolve, as well as due to the fact that chapters and verses were only added to the bible in the 13th century.\n\nIf you're interested, the shortest verse in Biblical Greek is either 1st Thessalonians 5:16(\"Rejoice always,\") or Luke 20:30(The second\"), again, depending on how you count it. The shortest in Biblical Hebrew is either Job 3:2(\"and Job said:\") or 1st Chronicles 1:25(Eber, Peleg, Reu\").\n\nI'm not religious, but I am fascinated with the little unsung minutia that comes from maintaining a literary work for millennia, and how those little compromises and changes can radically alter how we perceive the work in the modern day."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Job 3:2 is what Id always learned as the shortest verse. In some translations, its just He said:", "name": "Makenzie"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A bean is the seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food. They can be cooked in many different ways, including boiling, frying, and baking, and are used in many traditional dishes throughout the world.\n\nMr. Bean is a British sitcom created by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, produced by Tiger Aspect Productions and starring Atkinson as the eponymous title character. The sitcom consists of 15 episodes that were co-written by Atkinson alongside Curtis and Robin Driscoll; the pilot was co-written by Ben Elton. The series was originally broadcast on ITV, beginning with the pilot on 1 January 1990 and ending with \"The Best Bits of Mr. Bean\" on 15 December 1995.\nBased on a character developed by Atkinson while he was studying for his master's degree at the University of Oxford, the series centres on Mr. Bean, described by Atkinson as \"a child in a grown man's body\", as he solves various problems presented by everyday tasks and often causes disruption in the process. The series has been influenced by physical comedy actors such as Jacques Tati and those from early silent films.During its original five-year run, Mr. Bean was met with widespread acclaim and attracted large television audiences. The series was viewed by 18.74 million viewers for the episode \"The Trouble with Mr. Bean\" and has received a number of international awards, including the Rose d'Or. The series has since been sold in 245 territories worldwide. It has inspired an animated spin-off and two theatrical feature-length films along with Atkinson reprising his role as Mr. Bean for a performance at the London 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, television commercials and several sketches for Comic Relief. The programme carries strong appeal in hundreds of territories worldwide because, in addition to the acclaim from its original run, it uses very little intelligible dialogue, making it accessible to people who know little or no English."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Mr. Bean: Besides the acclaim of the show, another reason for the show's appeal in hundreds of territories worldwide is that the show uses very little intelligible dialogue, making it accessible to people who know little or no English.\n\n[Mr. Bean - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bean)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "He's 100% an alien. Appears from a beam of light, barely speaks, completely unfamiliar with basic concepts like laundry or coins. What else could it be?", "name": "Naomi"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Apart from the first point that just describes redditors.", "name": "Isabelle"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Four Evils campaign (Chinese: 除四害; pinyin: Chú Sì Hài), was one of the first actions taken in the Great Leap Forward in China from 1958 to 1962. Authorities targeted four \"pests\" for elimination: rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows. The extermination of sparrows – also known as the smash sparrows campaign (Chinese: 打麻雀运动; pinyin: dǎ máquè yùndòng) or the eliminate sparrows campaign (Chinese: 消灭麻雀运动; pinyin: xiāomiè máquè yùndòng) – resulted in severe ecological imbalance, being one of the causes of the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–1961. In 1960 the campaign against sparrows ended and bed bugs became an official target."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# the Four Pests Campaign, undertaken during China's Great Leap Forward. One of the pests targeted was the sparrow, suspected of eating four pounds of grain per bird, per year. The resulting near-eradication of the birds caused an ecological imbalance that exacerbated the Great Famine.\n\n[Four Pests campaign - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Typical CCP, stupid AF..."}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Whataboutism. Every single time.", "name": "Elijah"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Jason Keel Sweeney (July 29, 1986 – May 30, 2003) was a construction worker from Fishtown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who at the age of 16 was murdered by four teenagers for his paycheck on May 30, 2003. The perpetrators included a girl he was dating and his best friend since childhood. Due to the manner in which Sweeney was murdered, the ages of the teens involved, and the seeming indifference of the perpetrators, the crime received national media coverage."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The murder and robbery of 15 year old Jason Sweeney: \"Before leaving the crime scene, the Coias, Batzig and Morley shared a group hug and split the money, which they used to buy jewelry and illegal drugsheroin, marijuana and Xanaxand then 'partied beyond redemption'\"\n\n[Murder of Jason Sweeney - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jason_Sweeney)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "So disgusting. Imagine getting beaten up and one of the faces you see is your best friend since childhood. Horrific what happened to him."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think beaten up is putting it pretty lightly"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Glyptodon (lit. 'grooved or carved tooth'; from Ancient Greek γλυπτός (gluptós) 'sculptured', and ὀδοντ-, ὀδούς (odont-, odoús) 'tooth') is a genus of glyptodont, an extinct group of large, herbivorous armadillos, that lived from the Pliocene, around 3.2 million years ago, to the early Holocene, around 11,000 years ago, in Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, and Colombia. It is one of, if not the, best known genus of glyptodont. Glyptodon has a long and storied past, being the first named extinct cingulate and the type genus of the subfamily Glyptodontinae. Fossils of Glyptodon have been recorded as early as 1814 from Pleistocene aged deposits from Uruguay, though many were incorrectly referred to the ground sloth Megatherium by early paleontologists.\nThe type species, G. clavipes, was described in 1839 by notable British paleontologist Sir Richard Owen. Later in the 19th century, dozens of complete skeletons were unearthed from localities and described by paleontologists such as Florentino Ameghino and Hermann Burmeister. During this era, many species of Glyptodon were dubbed, some of them based on fragmentary or isolated remains. Fossils from North America were also assigned to Glyptodon, but all of them have since been placed in the closely related genus Glyptotherium. It was not until the later end of the 1900s and 21st century that full review of the genus came about, restricting Glyptodon to just five species under one genus.\nGlyptodonts were typically large, quadrapedral (four-legged), herbivorous armadillos with armored carapaces (top shell) that were made of hundreds of interconnected osteoderms (structures in dermis composed of bone). Other pieces of armor covered the tails and skull roofs, the skull being tall with hypsodont (high-crowned) teeth. As for the postcranial anatomy, pelves fused to the carapace, an amalgamate vertebral column, short limbs, and small digits are found in glyptodontines. Glyptodon reached up to 2 meters (6.56 feet) long and 400 kilograms (880 pounds) in weight, making it one of the largest glyptodontines but not as large as its close relative Glyptotherium or Doedicurus, the largest known glyptodont. Glyptodon is morphologically and phylogenetically most similar to Glyptotherium, however they differ in several ways. Glyptodon is larger on average, with an elongated carapace, a relatively shorter tail, and a robust zygoma, or cheek bone.\nGlyptodonts existed for millions of years, though Glyptodon itself was one its last surviving members. Glyptodon was one of many South American megafauna, with many native groups such as notoungulates and ground sloths reaching immense sizes. Glyptodon had a mixed diet of grasses and other plants, instead living at the edge forests and grasslands where the shrubbery was lower. Glyptodon had a wide muzzle, an adaptation for bulk feeding. The armor could have protected the animal from predators, of which many coexisted with Glyptodon, including the \"saber-tooth cat\" Smilodon, the large canid Protocyon, and the giant bear Arctotherium.\nGlyptodon, along with all other glyptodonts, became extinct at the end of the Late Pleistocene, around 12,000 as part of the Late Pleistocene extinctions, along with most large mammals in the Americas. Evidence of hunting of glyptodonts by recently arrived Paleoindians suggests that humans may have been a causal factor in the extinctions."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Glyptodon was an ancient American armadillo the size and weight of a Volkswagen Beetle. Early hunters may have used Glyptodon shells for shelter.\n\n[Glyptodon - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyptodon)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Megafauna is so cool. Damn dirty humans...", "name": "Antonio"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Check out r/megafaunarewilding and r/naturewasmetal , they both have pretty cool posts about megafauna", "name": "Johnathan"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Toynbee is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:\n\nArnold Toynbee (1852–1883), British economic historian\nArnold Joseph Toynbee (1889–1975), British historian\nGeoffrey Toynbee (1885–1914), English cricketer\nHenry Toynbee (1819–1909), British merchant sailor and meteorologist\nJocelyn Toynbee (1897–1985), British archaeologist and art historian\nJoseph Toynbee (1815–1866), British physician, pioneer of otolaryngology\nMatthew Toynbee (born 1956), New Zealand cricketer\nPaget Toynbee (1855–1932), British Dante scholar\nPhilip Toynbee (1916–1981), British writer\nPolly Toynbee (born 1946), British journalist and writer\n\nThe Toynbee tiles, also called Toynbee plaques, are messages of unknown origin found embedded in asphalt of streets in about two dozen major cities in the United States and four South American cities. Since the 1980s, several hundred tiles have been discovered. They are generally about the size of an American license plate (roughly 30 by 15 cm or 12 by 6 in), but sometimes considerably larger. They contain some variation of the following inscription:\n\nSome of the more elaborate tiles also feature cryptic political statements or exhort readers to create and install similar tiles. The material used for making the tiles was initially unknown, but evidence has emerged that they may be primarily made of layers of linoleum and asphalt crack-filling compound. Articles about the tiles began appearing in the mid-1990s, though references may have started to appear in the mid-1980s."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Toynbee tiles are messages left in asphalt in over 25 cities in the US and South America saying a variation of the message: \"TOYNBEE IDEA IN MOViE `2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPiTER.\" Their origin is still a mystery.\n\n[Toynbee tiles - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_tiles)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I find it really creepy because I am a wimp when it comes to cryptic messages. It gets me right in the fear factory.", "name": "Levi"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Same here, but I dont think its being a wimp. When Im reading about stuff like this, I start to frisson like crazy, but I think its my mind reacting to a mystery that it cannot immediately solve through evidence or other rational means.\n\nYou probably get the same feeling from [numbers stations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station), right? Me too.", "name": "Isabel"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Rhinoceros Party, officially the Parti Rhinocéros Party, is a Canadian federal political party. It originally existed from 1963 to 1993. It was refounded in Montreal on May 21, 2006, and was registered with Elections Canada on August 23, 2007. It was known as neorhino.ca until 2010, when the party changed its name and logo. \nThe party was founded by François \"Yo\" Gourd, who was involved with the original incarnation of the Rhinoceros Party. He has said that he named the new party (then under the name \"neorhino\") after the Rhinoceros Party and Neo, the Matrix character. The party is led by Sébastien Côrriveau (who used the names \"Sébastien CôRhino Côrriveau\" and \"Sébastien CoRhino\" when running in the 2015 and 2019 federal elections, respectively). It promises, like its predecessor, not to keep any of its promises if elected."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Rhinoceros Party is a Canadian federal-level satirical political party. It is known for its outlandish policy proposals, such as tearing down the Rocky Mountains and repealing the law of gravity.\n\n[Rhinoceros Party - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_Party)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "We had a [federal election](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Canadian_federal_election) yesterday in Canada. The Rhinoceros Party ran a candidate named \"Above Znoneofthe\" (yes his actual legal name) so he appeared last on the ballot as \"Znoneofthe, Above\""}, {"role": "user", "content": "Did they also run Maxime Bernier in Beauce like they did last time?", "name": "Aubrey"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Dalkon Shield was a contraceptive intrauterine device (IUD) developed by the Dalkon Corporation and marketed by the A.H. Robins Company. The Dalkon Shield was found to cause severe injury to a disproportionately large percentage of women, which eventually led to numerous lawsuits, in which juries awarded millions of dollars in compensatory and punitive damages."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Dalkon Shield was a contraceptive intrauterine device (IUD). It was found to cause severe injury to a disproportionately large percentage of women, which eventually led to numerous lawsuits, in which juries awarded millions of dollars in compensatory and punitive damages.\n\n[Dalkon Shield - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalkon_Shield)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Side note: That thing *looks* terrifying and I sure wouldn't want it shoved up my cooter. [Yes, I know it's absolutely tiny. Mental image still isn't making me want one.]"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Mademoiselle X is a 1945 French drama film directed by Pierre Billon and starring Madeleine Sologne, André Luguet and Ketti Gallian.It was partly shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Auguste Capelier and Georges Wakhévitch. The producer André Paulvé had recently been removed by the authorities from The Children of Paradise on account of his partial Jewish heritage and shifted to this less prestigious production, likely due to the intervention of his rival Alfred Greven of Continental Films. The film went into production In May 1944 shortly before the Liberation.\n\nCotard's syndrome, also known as Cotard's delusion or walking corpse syndrome, is a rare mental disorder in which the affected person holds the delusional belief that they are dead, do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs. Statistical analysis of a hundred-patient cohort indicated that denial of self-existence is present in 45% of the cases of Cotard's syndrome; the other 55% of the patients presented with delusions of immortality.In 1880, the neurologist and psychiatrist Jules Cotard described the condition as le délire des négations (\"the delirium of negation\"), a psychiatric syndrome of varied severity. A mild case is characterized by despair and self-loathing, while a severe case is characterized by intense delusions of negation, and chronic psychiatric depression.The case of \"Mademoiselle X\" describes a woman who denied the existence of parts of her body (somatoparaphrenia) and of her need to eat. She claimed that she was condemned to eternal damnation, and therefore could not die a natural death. In the course of experiencing \"the delirium of negation\", Mademoiselle X died of starvation.Cotard's syndrome is not mentioned in either the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) or the 10th edition of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) of the World Health Organization."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Cotard delusion -- patients are convinced they are either dead and decaying or immortal. Mademoiselle X, the first known sufferer, claimed she had been sentenced to eternal damnation and had no stomach. As a result, she believed she was immortal and did not need to eat. She died of starvation.\n\n[Cotard's syndrome - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard_delusion)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I met somebody who suffered from this once, it was lovely to watch her recover.", "name": "Maya"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow what was it like?", "name": "Oscar"}, {"role": "user", "content": "She had a psychotic disorder, previously when she'd been an inpatient she'd had a serious, but not dangerous medical condition missed. This time she was fixated on the idea that'd she'd died and that the medical staff hadn't noticed and had misdiagnosed her as alive. It cleared up when her antipsychotics started working.", "name": "Fernando"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Hippopotamuses are an introduced species in Colombia. Four hippopotamuses were kept by Pablo Escobar in the late 1970s, and upon his death in 1993 they were allowed to wander his unattended estate. By 2019 their population had grown to approximately one hundred individuals, causing concerns for harming the native flora and fauna in the area; as well as posing significant threat to the human population in the area. They are also referred to as \"cocaine hippos\"."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Four hippopotamuses were kept by Pablo Escobar in the late 1970s, and upon his death in 1993 they were allowed to wander his unattended estate in Colombia. By 2019 their population had grown to approximately one hundred, causing concerns they may harm the native flora and fauna.\n\n[Hippopotamuses in Colombia - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus_in_Colombia)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hippopotamus population control sounds like a monumental task. Sure you can thin the herd with a big enough rifle, but then you have to deal with a bunch of decomposing 2-ton animals", "name": "Martin"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The decomposing animals are probably a lot easier for the ecosystem to deal with than a growing population of 2-ton animals.", "name": "Owen"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2. The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quickly spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic.\nThe symptoms of COVID‑19 are variable but often include fever, cough, headache, fatigue, breathing difficulties, loss of smell, and loss of taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days after exposure to the virus. At least a third of people who are infected do not develop noticeable symptoms. Of those who develop symptoms noticeable enough to be classified as patients, most (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe symptoms (dyspnea, hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging), and 5% develop critical symptoms (respiratory failure, shock, or multiorgan dysfunction). Older people are at a higher risk of developing severe symptoms. Some people continue to experience a range of effects (long COVID) for months or years after infection, and damage to organs has been observed. Multi-year studies are underway to further investigate the long-term effects of the disease.COVID‑19 transmits when infectious particles are breathed in or come into contact with the eyes, nose, or mouth. The risk is highest when people are in close proximity, but small airborne particles containing the virus can remain suspended in the air and travel over longer distances, particularly indoors. Transmission can also occur when people touch their eyes, nose or mouth after touching surfaces or objects that have been contaminated by the virus. People remain contagious for up to 20 days and can spread the virus even if they do not develop symptoms.Testing methods for COVID-19 to detect the virus's nucleic acid include real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT‑PCR), transcription-mediated amplification, and reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT‑LAMP) from a nasopharyngeal swab.Several COVID-19 vaccines have been approved and distributed in various countries, which have initiated mass vaccination campaigns. Other preventive measures include physical or social distancing, quarantining, ventilation of indoor spaces, use of face masks or coverings in public, covering coughs and sneezes, hand washing, and keeping unwashed hands away from the face. While work is underway to develop drugs that inhibit the virus, the primary treatment is symptomatic. Management involves the treatment of symptoms through supportive care, isolation, and experimental measures.\n\nA disease of despair is one of three classes of behavior-related medical conditions that increase in groups of people who experience despair due to a sense that their long-term social and economic prospects are bleak. The three disease types are drug overdose (including alcohol overdose), suicide, and alcoholic liver disease.\nDiseases of despair, and the resulting deaths of despair, are high in the Appalachia region of the United States, especially, in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Delaware. The prevalence increased markedly during the first decades of the 21st century, especially among middle-aged and older working class White Americans starting in 2010, followed by an increase in mortality for Hispanic Americans in 2011 and African Americans in 2014. It gained media attention because of its connection to the opioid epidemic. For 2018, some 158,000 U.S. citizens died from these causes, compared to 65,000 in 1995.Deaths of despair have increased sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic and associated recession, with a 10% to 60% increase above pre-pandemic levels. Life expectancy in the United States declined further to 76.4 years in 2021, with the main drivers being the COVID-19 pandemic along with deaths from drug overdoses, suicides and liver disease."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Diseases of despair are behavior-related medical conditions that increase in groups of people who experience despair due to a sense that their long-term social and economic outlook is bleak. Deaths of despair have increased sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\n[Disease of despair - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_of_despair)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I can only imagine they'll get worse with climate change :/", "name": "Gabriel"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Climate change, COVID and a crippling disability have almost pushed me over the edge my man. If I didn't have faith in a higher power to keep me going, I'd be dead for sure. You just gotta find something that gives you strength, and focus on it. Doesn't have to be God. It could be a hobby, or anything that strikes your fancy. The key is to not focus to much on the shittier aspects of life, but to find something that gives you some semblance of inner peace.", "name": "Alicia"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Texas ( TEK-səss, locally also TEK-siz; Spanish: Texas or Tejas, pronounced [ˈtexas]) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south and southwest. Texas has a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast. Covering 268,596 square miles (695,660 km2), and with over 30 million residents as of 2023, it is the second-largest U.S. state by both area and population. \nTexas is nicknamed the Lone Star State for its former status as an independent republic. The Lone Star can be found on the Texas state flag and the Texas state seal. Spain was the first European country to claim and control the area of Texas. Following a short-lived colony controlled by France, Mexico controlled the territory until 1836 when Texas won its independence, becoming the Republic of Texas. In 1845, Texas joined the United States as the 28th state. The state's annexation set off a chain of events that led to the Mexican–American War in 1846. Following victory by the United States, Texas remained a slave state until the American Civil War, when it declared its secession from the Union in early 1861 before officially joining the Confederate States of America on March 2. After the Civil War and the restoration of its representation in the federal government, Texas entered a long period of economic stagnation.\nHistorically, four major industries shaped the Texas economy prior to World War II: cattle and bison, cotton, timber, and oil. Before and after the Civil War, the cattle industry—which Texas came to dominate—was a major economic driver and created the traditional image of the Texas cowboy. In the later 19th century, cotton and lumber grew to be major industries as the cattle industry became less lucrative. Ultimately, the discovery of major petroleum deposits (Spindletop in particular) initiated an economic boom that became the driving force behind the economy for much of the 20th century. Texas developed a diversified economy and high tech industry during the mid-20th century. As of 2022, it has the most Fortune 500 company headquarters (53) in the United States. With a growing base of industry, the state leads in many industries, including tourism, agriculture, petrochemicals, energy, computers and electronics, aerospace, and biomedical sciences. Texas has led the U.S. in state export revenue since 2002 and has the second-highest gross state product.\nThe Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and Greater Houston areas are the nation's fourth and fifth-most populous urban regions respectively. Its capital city is Austin. Due to its size and geologic features such as the Balcones Fault, Texas contains diverse landscapes common to both the U.S. Southern and the Southwestern regions. Most population centers are in areas of former prairies, grasslands, forests, and the coastline. Traveling from east to west, terrain ranges from coastal swamps and piney woods, to rolling plains and rugged hills, to the desert and mountains of the Big Bend.\n\nAn explosion occurred on April 10, 2023, at the South Fork Dairy Farm about ten miles (16 km) south of Dimmitt, Texas, United States. The explosion and subsequent fire killed approximately 18,000 cows and injured one person. It was one of the deadliest fires involving animals, and the deadliest fire involving cattle in at least a decade. It wiped out 3% of dairy cattle in Texas."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# 2023 Texas dairy farm explosion The explosion and subsequent fire killed approx. 18,000 cows (3% of all dairy cattle in Texas)\n\n[2023 Texas dairy farm explosion - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Texas_dairy_farm_explosion)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "A tragedy which competent regulation could have prevented. Sad for the cows.", "name": "Brendan"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Their lives were probably just as sad. The cows were tightly packed in, hence the 18,000 deaths."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, recognising excellence in science, supporting outstanding science, providing scientific advice for policy, education and public engagement and fostering international and global co-operation. Founded on 28 November 1660, it was granted a royal charter by King Charles II as The Royal Society and is the oldest continuously existing scientific academy in the world.The society is governed by its Council, which is chaired by the society's president, according to a set of statutes and standing orders. The members of Council and the president are elected from and by its Fellows, the basic members of the society, who are themselves elected by existing Fellows. As of 2020, there are about 1,700 fellows, allowed to use the postnominal title FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society), with up to 73 new fellows appointed each year from a pool of around 800 candidates. There are also royal fellows, honorary fellows and foreign members. Up to 24 new foreign members are appointed each year (from the same pool of 800) and they are allowed to use the postnominal title ForMemRS (Foreign Member of the Royal Society). The Royal Society president is Adrian Smith, who took up the post and started his five-year term on 30 November 2020, replacing the previous president, Venki Ramakrishnan.\nSince 1967, the society has been based at 6–9 Carlton House Terrace, a Grade I listed building in central London which was previously used by the Embassy of Germany, London."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Royal Society of London (est. 1660) is the oldest national scientific institution in the world, and origin of the first exclusively scientific journal. Former presidents include Sir Isaac Newton and Ernest Rutherford. Its motto is \"Nullius in verba\" \"take nobody's word for it\".\n\n[Royal Society - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "fun fact: every member of the Royal Society signs their name in a massive charter book. That means that a member inducted today will have their name in the same book as some of the greatest scientists in history.\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wX-l8GFBq8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wX-l8GFBq8)", "name": "Bryson"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Thankfully they have since digitised it, so you don't have to peer through that infuriating glare.\n\n[It's a wonderful collection.](http://ttp.royalsociety.org/ttp/ttp.html?id=c627ecf4-22aa-4e4f-8919-c6a514f441aa&type=book)"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "In Russian, Masha (Маша) is a diminutive of Maria. It has been used as a nickname or as a pet name for women named Maria or Marie. An alternative spelling in the Latin alphabet is \"Macha\". In Serbo-Croatian and Slovene, \"Maša\" is a diminutive of \"Marija\" but can be a given name in its own right. \nThe Jewish name Masha (מַשה) is of Biblical extraction. Tradition has it that the first Masha was named after a departed male named Moshe (Moses).\n\nMaria and Daria ('Masha and Dasha') Krivoshlyapova (Мария и Дарья Кривошляповы, [mɐˈrijə i ˈdarʲə krʲɪvəˈɕlʲæpəvɨ]; 3 January 1950 – 17 April 2003) were Ischiopagus tripus conjoined twins from Russia.\nThey were removed from their mother's custody at birth to be studied by Soviet physiologists. Their mother was told that her daughters had died soon after their birth.The Soviet physiologist Pyotr Anokhin was studying the separate roles of the nervous system and the blood system on the body's ability to adjust to conditions such as prolonged sleep deprivation, extreme hunger, and extreme temperature change. Conjoined twins who shared a blood system but had separate nervous systems were ideal objects for research. He had put out an alert to all maternity hospitals in the USSR to be informed if any conjoined twins were born. He began studying Masha and Dasha within days of their birth."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, conjoined twins from Russia who were taken from their mother at birth under the pretence that they had died. They then spent years being studied and tested on by Russian physiologists.\n\n[Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masha_and_Dasha_Krivoshlyapova)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "> Masha fell ill on the 13th of April, 2003, complaining of back pain. She died the following day, on the 14th of April, seventeen hours after the onset of her symptoms. Dasha was taken to the First City Hospital and died another seventeen hours later due to blood poisoning from the toxic by-products of Masha's decomposing body.\n\nYikes..."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, this is the true horror of conjoined twins. There's always a codicil where one dies fairly quickly and peacefully and the other is slowly tortured over hours or even days.", "name": "Samantha"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Coffin birth, also known as postmortem fetal extrusion, is the expulsion of a nonviable fetus through the vaginal opening of the decomposing body of a deceased pregnant woman due to increasing pressure from intra-abdominal gases. This kind of postmortem delivery occurs very rarely during the decomposition of a body. The practice of chemical preservation, whereby chemical preservatives and disinfectant solutions are pumped into a body to replace natural body fluids (and the bacteria that reside therein), have made the occurrence of \"coffin birth\" so rare that the topic is rarely mentioned in international medical discourse.\nTypically during the decomposition of a human body, naturally occurring bacteria in the organs of the abdominal cavity (such as the stomach and intestines) generate gases as by-products of metabolism, which causes the body to swell. In some cases, the confined pressure of the gases can squeeze the uterus (the womb), even forcing it downward, and it may turn inside-out and be forced out of the body through the vaginal opening (a process called prolapse). If a fetus is contained within the uterus, it could therefore be expelled from the mother's body through the vaginal opening when the uterus turns inside-out, in a process that, to outward appearances, mimics childbirth. The main differences lie in the state of the mother and fetus and the mechanism of delivery: in the event of natural, live childbirth, the mother's contractions thin and widen the cervix to expel the infant from the womb; in a case of coffin birth, built-up gas pressure within the putrefied body of a pregnant woman pushes the dead fetus from the body of the mother.\nCases have been recorded by medical authorities since the 16th century, though some archaeological cases provide evidence for its occurrence in many periods of human history. While cases of postmortem fetal expulsion have always been rare, the phenomenon has been recorded under disparate circumstances and is occasionally seen in a modern forensic context when the body of a pregnant woman lies undisturbed and undiscovered for some time following death. There are also cases whereby a fetus may become separated from the body of the pregnant woman about the time of death or during decomposition, though because those cases are not consistent with the processes described here, they are not considered true cases of postmortem fetal extrusion."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Coffin birth, also known as postmortem fetal extrusion, is the expulsion of a nonviable fetus through the vaginal opening of the decomposing body of a deceased pregnant woman as a result of the increasing pressure of intra-abdominal gases.\n\n[Coffin birth - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffin_birth)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The image of a bloated rotted corpse of a dead pregnant woman giving birth by prolapsing the dead bloated featus out of herself with the gas pressure alone is probably one of the most grotesque and fucked images I've ever had", "name": "Naomi"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This is what happened to Laci Peterson when Scott killed her and threw her body into the SF bay. Baby Connor was found separately from her. Hope that bastard rots in jail.", "name": "Leah"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Jessica Whitney Dubroff was a seven-year-old American pilot trainee who died while attempting to become the youngest person to fly a light aircraft across the United States.\n\n[Jessica Dubroff - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Dubroff?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I remember this. Interesting to see pressure from media commitments listed as a cause. I agree, fully. She wasnt acknowledged as a pilot by any aviation governing body. This just seemed a terribly ill advised stunt from the start. What was the goal here? May she Rest In Peace.", "name": "Christian"}, {"role": "user", "content": ">What was the goal here?\n\nA parent who desperately wants some kind of notoriety and is okay with harming their child to get it? \n\nAlso see: Michael Jackson's dad, and/or parents of any famous kid\n\n(Edit: *almost* any famous kid. Likely there are some exceptions)", "name": "Emma"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Real Lord of the Flies: Six boys shipwrecked alone for 15 months on 'Ata- The boys set up a commune with a food garden, hollowed-out tree trunks for rainwater, a gymnasium, a badminton court, chicken pens and a permanent fire all built with an old knife blade & determination.\n\n[ʻAta - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBAta#Shipwrecked)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "> After an enormous celebration and minor legal drama on Haafeva, when the owner of the boat pressed charges for theft and had the boys arrested, the group was hired by Warner to crew a lobsterboat.\n\nWow. Just wow.", "name": "Ana"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I know. I can't believe someone would be so cold as to push for that above all else. Families broken and distraught over thinking they lost their children for 15 months and the joy of them all coming home safe and well. Only for the guy to have them arrested.\n\nNow he's in his rights to do so as the victim of a theft. But still man, get them to repay and replace the boat but arrested is something else. Unless they refused to pay up then maybe. Seems a bit unimportant. Surely they served their punishment already.", "name": "Manuel"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Ruslana Sergeyevna Korshunova (Russian: Руслана Серге́евна Коршунова; 2 July 1987 – 28 June 2008) was a Kazakhstani-Russian model. She established herself as a rising figure in the fashion industry by posing for magazines including Vogue and designers such as Vera Wang and Nina Ricci. Korshunova's unexpected death became a longtime controversial subject of international attention."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In the summer of 2008, young Russian model Ruslana Korshunova fell 9 stories to her death from her Manhattan apartment. She had been taking classes at Rose of the World, a 'personality development center' that encourages participants to share their worst experiences and recall repressed memories.\n\n[Ruslana Korshunova - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruslana_Korshunova)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Be wary of any person who tells you your problems are because of repressed memories. It's very easy to induce false memories and it can really fuck you up if you believe they're real.", "name": "Edward"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape-shifting Master of Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil! But a foolish Samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the future, where my evil is law! Now the fool seeks to return to the past, and undo the future that is Aku!", "name": "Valerie"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Prostitution, as defined under modern Japanese law, is the illegal practice of sexual intercourse with an 'unspecified' (unacquainted) person in exchange for monetary compensation, which was criminalised in 1956 by the introduction of article 3 of the Anti-Prostitution Law (売春防止法, Baishun bōshi hō). However, the definition of prostitution made illegal under this law is strictly limited to sexual intercourse with an 'unspecified person', and does not criminalise the sale of numerous other acts performed by sex workers in exchange for compensation, such as oral sex, anal sex, mammary intercourse, and other non-coital sex acts; the Businesses Affecting Public Morals Regulation Law of 1948 (風俗営業取締法, Fūzoku eigyō torishimari hō), also known as the \"Law to Regulate Adult Entertainment Businesses\", amended in 1985, 1999 and 2005, regulates these businesses, making only one definition of prostitution in Japan illegal.\nFollowing the criminalisation of payment for sexual intercourse, the sex industry in Japan has developed into a number of varied businesses and offering services not prohibited under Japanese law. These fall into a number of categories known by various euphemistic names, such as soaplands, fashion health shops, and pink salons, with the term \"health\" commonly being a euphemism for sexual services. These businesses typically operate out of physical premises, either with their own employees or freelancers such as call girls, who may operate via Internet dating sites known as deai sites (Internet dating sites) or via delivery health services."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Soaplands exploit a loophole in Japanese law that compensated sexual intercourse may be conducted between 'acquainted' persons. Customers pay for a massage, during which they and the masseuse become 'acquainted', resulting in paid sexual services not being viewed as prostitution.\n\n[Types of prostitution in modern Japan - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_prostitution_in_modern_Japan#Soapland)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Not knocking the article, but I think many places in JP have been exploiting this loophole.", "name": "Matthew"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ive exploited it a time or two.", "name": "Shawn"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A slap bracelet (or snap bracelet) is a bracelet invented by Wisconsin teacher Stuart Anders in 1983, sold originally under the brand name of \"Slap Wrap\". Consisting of layered, flexible stainless steel bistable spring bands sealed within a fabric, silicone, or plastic cover, it can snap around a wrist when slapped on it with some force. It can have many different colours and/or designs."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The slap bracelet, invented by teacher Stuart Anders in 1983: Consisting of flexible steel bistable spring bands sealed w/in fabric, etc, it can snap around a wrist when slapped on it. A fad in the early 90s, they were banned in several schools following injuries from worn out/modified versions.\n\n[Slap bracelet - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slap_bracelet)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "they were banned because the manufacturers were just using old rusted tape measures inside, and the edges were razor sharp and cutting through the fabric/plastic tape on the outside.\n\nthe modern ones are just as bad.", "name": "Steven"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I recall a classmate excitedly pointing out as though he'd discovered a hidden bonus feature that his disintegrating slap bracelet was a fabric-covered section of tape measure.", "name": "Ricardo"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Donner Party were a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. They spent the winter of 18461847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Some of the migrants resorted to cannibalism to survive.\n\n[Donner Party - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party?wprov=sfti1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "There was a well renowned guide that told them they were going the wrong way and to not go the way they were heading but the dad chose to listen to a scam artist and use the map he purchased from him that promised a shortcut. Now if that isn't enough... The shortcut actually adds 6 weeks to their trip", "name": "Sofia"}, {"role": "user", "content": "And even after all of their bad decisions and setbacks they would have been fine if they reached Donner Lake even one day before.", "name": "Bryce"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "In 2004, seven men living on Pitcairn Island faced 55 charges relating to sexual offences against children and young adults. The accused represented a third of the island's male population and included Steve Christian, the mayor. On 24 October, all but one of the defendants were found guilty on at least some of the charges. Another six men living abroad, including Shawn Christian, who later served as mayor of Pitcairn, were tried on 41 charges in a separate trial in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2005.\nThe trial was repeatedly punctuated by legal challenges from island residents, who denied the island's colonial status, and with it the United Kingdom's judicial authority. Defence lawyers for the seven accused men claimed that British sovereignty over the islands was unconstitutional: HMS Bounty mutineers, from whom almost all of the current island population is descended (together with Polynesians), had effectively renounced their British citizenship by committing a capital offence in the burning of the Bounty in 1790, they said. According to the Public Defender of the Pitcairn Islands Paul Dacre (who was appointed in 2003), islanders still celebrated this act annually by burning an effigy of the Bounty in a symbolic rejection of British rule. The defence maintained that the UK never made a formal claim to Pitcairn, and never officially informed the islanders that British legislation, such as the Sexual Offences Act 1956, was applicable to them.\nIn a judgment delivered on 18 April 2004, the Pitcairn Supreme Court (specially established for the purpose of the trial, consisting of New Zealand judges authorised by the British government) rejected the claim that Pitcairn was not British territory. This decision was upheld in August 2004 by the Pitcairn Court of Appeal, endorsing the claim of Deputy Governor Matthew Forbes that Pitcairn was British territory. A delay of the trial until the United Kingdom's Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) decided on an additional appeal was rejected. The trial started on 30 September 2004. Verdicts were delivered on 24 October 2004, with all but one of the defendants convicted on at least some of the charges they were facing. Those found guilty were sentenced on 29 October 2004."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 2004, seven male residents of the Pitcairn Islands (representing 15% of its 47 permanent residents) faced charges of sexual abuse against children. The subsequent trial revealed that much of the island's population helped cover up and normalize the abuse, including local police.\n\n[2004 Pitcairn Islands sexual assault trial - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Pitcairn_Islands_sexual_assault_trial)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Count Dankula has a hilarious 30min special all about this situation.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/YkSjRXnXZ-8", "name": "Colby"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Fuck count dankula.", "name": "Nicholas"}, {"role": "user", "content": "why?", "name": "Xavier"}, {"role": "user", "content": "He is far right and supports people like Tommy Robinson. He is a bigot.", "name": "Chelsea"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Umarell (Italian spelling of the Bolognese Emilian word umarèl, Emilian pronunciation: [umaˈrɛːl]; plural umarî) are men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites, especially roadworks – stereotypically with hands clasped behind their back and offering unwanted advice to the workers. Its literal meaning is \"little man\" (also umaréin). The term is employed as lighthearted mockery or self-deprecation.\nThe modern term was popularised in 2005 by local writer Danilo Masotti through three books and an associated blog. In 2021, the word was included in the Zingarelli dictionary."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Umarell: Men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites. Stereotypically with hands clasped behind back.\n\n[Umarell - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umarell)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Im a water system maintenance worker, and I run into these guys sometimes. Well be down in a hole working on water lines, and retired dudes come out to watch and discuss the work.", "name": "Kenneth"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Love that in the Wikipedia it says, offering unwanted advice to the workers. Do they bother you or just kind of a harmless nuisance? Or do you even enjoy their company sometimes?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Theyve never been bothersome. Usually theyre nice, so the company is fine. They like to ask questions about what were doing, what equipment were using. One guy even brought out some of his own tools to show us and try out. Theyre not always correct, but they mean well. I dont mind them.", "name": "Claire"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Blockbuster, colloquially known as the Last Blockbuster, is a video rental store in Bend, Oregon. In 2018, it became the last Blockbuster store in the United States, and in 2020, it became the world's last remaining retail store using the Blockbuster brand."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Blockbuster is a video rental store in Bend, Oregon. Since 2019, it is the last remaining Blockbuster retail store in the world.\n\n[Blockbuster (Bend, Oregon) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_(Bend,_Oregon))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Theres a doc on Netflix (ironic) about the last blockbuster store. Definitely nostalgic. Also goes into why the company collapsed. Its more complicated than Netflix.", "name": "Cody"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Damn imagine helping kill someone and then making a documentary about the person you helped kill. Stone cold lmao", "name": "Juliana"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Yobai (night crawling) was an ancient Japanese mating custom, wherein men were allowed to sneak into the rooms of young unmarried women at night.\n\n[Yobai - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yobai?wprov=sfti1#Description)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Soooo just home invasion and rape, huh.", "name": "Hope"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The Wikipedia page says **If the woman consented**, they would sleep together, but Im not sure how consent would be protected in practice.", "name": "Jason"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Thomas Baker (6 February 1832 – 21 July 1867) was a Methodist missionary in Fiji, known as being the only missionary in the archipelago to be killed and eaten, along with seven of his Fijian followers. The incident occurred in the Navosa Highlands of western Viti Levu in July 1867, and the rock used to kill Baker is still displayed in the village of Nabutatau. The soles of his leather sandals, which were also cooked by the cannibal tribe, are preserved at the Fiji Museum in Suva. Records show that Baker was killed and eaten as a result of him touching a chief's head, which is considered disrespectful in Fijian culture."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Thomas Baker: A Methodist missionary in Fiji, the only missionary in the archipelago to be killed and eaten. The rock used to kill him is still displayed in the village of Nabutatau and the soles of his leather sandals, which were also cooked by the cannibals, are preserved at the Fiji Museum.\n\n[Thomas Baker (missionary) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Baker_(missionary))"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": ">Records show that Baker was killed and eaten as a result of him touching a chief's head, which is considered disrespectful in Fijian culture."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Tough but fair", "name": "Garrett"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Wikipedia is a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki-based editing system MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. It is consistently ranked as one of the ten most popular websites in the world, and as of 2024 is ranked the fifth most visited website on the Internet by Semrush. Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization that employs a staff of over 700 people. Unfortunately, much of the info found on wikipedia is wrong, because the small-minded nerds who run it don't allow CORRECT info to be added to THEIR pages. They jealously guard their little pieces of territory from anyone who would DARE to enter CORRECT info. This is why wikipedia is viewed as an unreliable source of info by people all over the world.\nInitially only available in English, editions in other languages have been developed. Wikipedia's editions, when combined, comprise more than 62 million articles, attracting around 2 billion unique device visits per month and more than 14 million edits per month (about 5.2 edits per second on average) as of November 2023. Roughly 26% of Wikipedia's traffic is from the United States, followed by Japan at 5.9%, the United Kingdom at 5.4%, Germany at 5%, Russia at 4.8%, and the remaining 54% split among other countries, according to data provided by Similarweb.Wikipedia has been praised for its enablement of the democratization of knowledge, extent of coverage, unique structure, and culture. It has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias, particularly gender bias against women and geographical bias against the Global South (Eurocentrism). While the reliability of Wikipedia was frequently criticized in the 2000s, it has improved over time, receiving greater praise in the late 2010s and early 2020s, having become an important fact-checking site.Wikipedia has been censored by some national governments, ranging from specific pages to the entire site. Articles on breaking news are often accessed as sources for frequently updated information about those events."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# this is what it looks like when wikipedia uses a non-enecyclopedic tone\n\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'd wager he wrote that himself.", "name": "Juan"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Looking at the revision history, most of that text was likely copy-pasted there by the guy himself. But after that, it truly became a collaborative effort. Someone looked at this article and thought \"this is pretty good already, but it really needs some citations.\"", "name": "Eric"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "\"A dingo ate my baby!\" is a cry popularly attributed to Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, as part of the 1980 death of Azaria Chamberlain case, at Uluru in the Northern Territory, Australia. The Chamberlain family had been camping near the rock when their nine-week-old daughter was taken from their tent. Prosecuting authorities rejected her story about a dingo as far-fetched, charging her with murder and securing convictions against her and, also, against her then-husband Michael Chamberlain as an accessory after the fact. After years of challenge in the courts, both parents were absolved of the crime, and a coroner found Azaria's death was, in fact, the result of being eaten by a dingo. The phrase has been used as a joke in popular culture due to its absurd nature, although it is viewed as highly insensitive among those who are aware of its origin."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"A dingo ate my baby!\" is a cry popularly attributed to an Australian woman whose nine weeks old daughter was taken from a tent by a dingo during a camping trip in 1980. Authorities rejected her story as far-fetched, charging and convicting her with murder. She was later absolved of the crime.\n\n[Dingo ate my baby - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_ate_my_baby)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Imagine your daughter being mauled to death by a dingo, and instead of people feeling sad for you, they assume you murdered her with basically 0 evidence and lock you up for what would've been the rest of your life if some other poor sod hadn't fallen to death next to your dead daughter's jacket, stuffed into a dingo den. Then they let you go and cover a 'generous' 1/3rd of your legal costs.", "name": "Payton"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Moral of the story: don't have kids. If you do, and something bad happens to them, you'll be punished harshly.", "name": "Kendall"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Anorexia mirabilis, also known as holy anorexia or inedia prodigiosa or colloquially as fasting girls, is an eating disorder, similar to that of anorexia nervosa, that was common in, but not restricted to, the Middle Ages in Europe, largely affecting Catholic nuns and religious women. Self-starvation was common among religious women, as a way to imitate the suffering of Jesus in his torments during the Passion, as women were largely restricted to causing themselves voluntary pain by fasting, whereas holy men experienced suffering through physical punishment."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Anorexia Mirabilis: An eating disorder that was common in, but not restricted to, the Middle Ages in Europe, largely affecting Catholic nuns and religious women.\n\n[Anorexia mirabilis - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_mirabilis)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Interesting. I wonder how prevalent something like this is today with all religions", "name": "Lydia"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Fasting? Pretty common.\n\nA major world religion centered in the sweltering heat of the Arabian desert has a whole month out of the year when you cant drink water during the day.", "name": "Ivan"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Northern City Islands (Arabic: المدينة الشمالية) are a group of islands in the archipelago of Bahrain, lying 9 km (5.6 mi) west of the capital, Manama, on Bahrain Island.\n\nThe Moorgate tube crash occurred on 28 February 1975 at 8:46 am on the London Underground's Northern City Line; 43 people died and 74 were injured after a train failed to stop at the line's southern terminus, Moorgate station, and crashed into its end wall. It is considered the worst peacetime accident on the London Underground. No fault was found with the train, and the inquiry by the Department of the Environment concluded that the accident was caused by the actions of Leslie Newson, the 56-year-old driver.\nThe crash forced the first carriage into the roof of the tunnel at the front and back, but the middle remained on the trackbed; the 16-metre-long (52 ft) coach was crushed to 6.1 metres (20 ft). The second carriage was concertinaed at the front as it collided with the first, and the third rode over the rear of the second. The brakes were not applied and the dead man's handle was still depressed when the train crashed. It took 13 hours to remove the injured, many of whom had to be cut free from the wreckage. With no services running into the adjoining platform to produce the piston effect pushing air into the station, ventilation was poor and temperatures in the tunnel rose to over 49 °C (120 °F). It took a further four days to extract the last body, that of Newson; his cab, normally 91 centimetres (3 ft) deep, had been crushed to 15 centimetres (6 in).\nThe post-mortem on Newson showed no medical reason to explain the crash. A cause has never been established, and theories include suicide, that he may have been distracted, or that he was affected by conditions such as transient global amnesia or akinesis with mutism. The subsequent inquest established that Newson had also inexplicably overshot platforms on the same route on two other occasions earlier in the week of the accident. Tests showed that Newson had a blood alcohol level of 80 mg/100 ml—the level at which one can be prosecuted for drink-driving—though the alcohol may have been produced by the natural decomposition process over four days at a high temperature.\nIn the aftermath of the crash, London Underground introduced a safety system that automatically stops a train when it is travelling too fast. This became known informally as Moorgate protection. Northern City Line services into Moorgate ended in October 1975 and British Rail services started in August 1976. After a long campaign by relatives of the dead, two memorials were unveiled near the station, one in July 2013 and one in February 2014."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Moorgate tube crash - a Northern City line train crashed into an overshoot wall when its driver, for reasons still unknown, failed to apply the brakes, killing 43 and injuring 74.\n\n[Moorgate tube crash - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorgate_tube_crash)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Also reading about the other fellow who died of crush syndrome. \nGot out and was seemingly doing alright but still died.", "name": "Lillian"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Christopher Johnson McCandless (; February 12, 1968 – c. August 1992), also known by his pseudonym \"Alexander Supertramp\", was an American adventurer who sought an increasingly nomadic lifestyle as he grew up. McCandless is the subject of Into the Wild, a nonfiction book by Jon Krakauer that was later made into a full-length feature film.\nAfter graduating from Emory University in Georgia in 1990, McCandless traveled across North America and eventually hitchhiked to Alaska in April 1992. There, he entered the Alaskan bush with minimal supplies, hoping to live simply off the land. On the eastern bank of the Sushana River, McCandless found an abandoned bus, Fairbanks Bus 142, which he used as a makeshift shelter until his death. In September, his decomposing body, weighing only 67 pounds (30 kg), was found inside the bus by a hunter. McCandless's cause of death was officially ruled to be starvation, although the exact circumstances relating to his death remain the subject of some debate.In January 1993, Krakauer published an article about McCandless in that month's issue of Outside magazine. He had been assigned the story and had written it under a tight deadline. Inspired by the details of McCandless's story, Krakauer wrote the biographical book Into the Wild, which was subsequently adapted into a 2007 film directed by Sean Penn, with Emile Hirsch portraying McCandless. That same year, McCandless became the subject of Ron Lamothe's documentary The Call of the Wild."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Chris McCandless, subject of Into the Wild, died alone in the Alaskan wilderness. He used an abandoned bus as shelter for two months.\n\n[Chris McCandless - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McCandless)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Other people have died trying to find the bus & not being prepared to survive in the remote wild "}, {"role": "user", "content": "The Magic Bus was airlifted out by a National Guard Chinook helicopter on June 18, 2020: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/alaska-into-the-wild-bus-tourist-allure/index.html", "name": "Lily"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Robert Sandifer (March 12, 1983 – September 1, 1994) (also known as Yummy) was an African-American boy from Chicago, Illinois. His murder by fellow gang members in Chicago garnered national attention because of his age, resulting in his appearance on the cover of Time magazine in September 1994. His nickname originates from his love for cookies. Standing 4 ft 6 in (137 cm), Sandifer was a young member of the Chicago street gang the Black Disciples (BD).\nAfter committing murder, arson, and armed robbery, he was murdered by his own fellow gang members who feared he could become an informant, and that he was attracting too much attention towards their activities. Coverage of Sandifer's death and retrospectives on his short, violent life were widely published in the American media. Sandifer became a symbol of the gang problem in American inner cities, the failure of social safety nets, and the shortcomings of the juvenile justice system."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 1994, 11-year-old Robert Sandifer became a symbol of inner city violence. Born in an extremely dysfunctional home, he amassed over 20 felonies in his life. Robert joined a gang, but killed an innocent girl in a botched hit. Fearing he would talk, the gang had him executed by two teenage brothers.\n\n[Robert Sandifer - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sandifer)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "> Sandifer, by the age of eight, quit attending school and began to roam the streets stealing cars and breaking into houses. At the age of ten, Sandifer was arrested on charges of armed robbery. A psychological examiner at the time reported that \"Robert is a child growing up without any encouragement and support,\" and that he \"has a sense of failure that has infiltrated almost every aspect of his inner self.\"\n\nHoly shit.. the same age as my son and his friends and theyre *LITTLE* kids, like some of them are only a couple years out of diapers. Heartbreaking. Its a shame social services are always so underfunded.", "name": "Edward"}, {"role": "user", "content": "My youngest is 7. She cares about My Little Pony lore videos. Minecraft, Aphmau and Lego. \n\nWe do have kids like that round here though (lincolnshire uk). 8/9/10/11 years old and already known to the cops. They're the kind that abuse and attack grown adults because they know they can't be hit back. Then you see their parents and realise the poor little fuckers never stood a chance.", "name": "Johnathan"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Malakas (Greek: μαλάκας [maˈlakas]) is a commonly used profane Greek slang word, with a variety of different meanings, but literally meaning \"man who masturbates\". While it is typically used as an insult, with its literal equivalent in Commonwealth English being \"wanker” and “jerk off” in American English, the meaning varies depending on the tone and context used. It can be an exclamation of pleasure, an expression of dark horror, a cry of anger, a declaration of affection, and other different things. Common alternative meanings include \"asshole\", \"motherfucker\" \"jerk\" or \"idiot\", and the contrasting \"dude\", or \"mate\", depending on the context. It has been described as \"the most used Greek slang word\"."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Malakas: Greek slang with a variety of different meanings, but literally meaning \"man who masturbates\". Alternative meanings include \"asshole\", \"motherfucker\" \"jerk\" or \"idiot\", and the contrasting \"dude\", or \"mate\", depending on context. It has been described as \"the most used Greek slang word\".\n\n[Malakas - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malakas)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "anyone played assassin's creed odyssey? lol", "name": "Austin"}, {"role": "user", "content": "https://youtu.be/Imag3z9i550?si=8AbiWk0HCeLa1eiP", "name": "Julia"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Saeed al-Qashash (1979 – June 6, 1999) was a Jordanian mass murderer who killed twelve people, including 11 members of his family in 1998."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 1998, in response to them pressuring him over his struggles at school, 19-year-old Saeed Qashash lured 11 family members and a classmate to a basement and shot them. Afterwards, he sealed the room. The youngest killed were a 2 and 3-year-old. Three generations of a family had been slaughtered.\n\n[Saeed al-Qashash - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeed_al-Qashash)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I never understand these ones. Failing at something like school so you commit mass murder which now makes failing at school look like absolutely nothing. You swap a small problem for a gigantic problem?", "name": "Travis"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I don't think someone who commits 12 counts of murder out of the blue is exactly acting from a rational point of view mate", "name": "Aubrey"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# On May 5th, 1945 a pregnant woman and six children in an Sunday School group were killed by a live Japanese balloon bomb that had landed near Bly, Oregon. They were the only civilian casualties of World War II in the continental United States.\n\n[Fu-Go balloon bomb - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb?wprov=sfti1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'll see your danger balloon and raise you two atomic bombs", "name": "Nicole"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Related:\n\n\"On March 10, 1945, one of the last paper balloons descended in the vicinity of the Manhattan Project's production facility at the Hanford Site. This balloon caused a short circuit in the power lines supplying electricity for the nuclear reactor cooling pumps, but backup safety devices restored power almost immediately\"", "name": "Jayla"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean. Greater North America includes the Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, the Caribbean, Central America, Clipperton Island, Greenland, Mexico, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the United States.\nContinental North America covers an area of about 24,709,000 square kilometers (9,540,000 square miles), representing approximately 16.5% of the Earth's land area and 4.8% of its total surface area. It is the third-largest continent by size after Asia and Africa, and the fourth-largest continent by population after Asia, Africa, and Europe. As of 2021, North America's population was estimated as over 592 million people in 23 independent states, or about 7.5% of the world's population. In human geography, the terms \"North America\" and \"North American\" sometimes refer to just Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Greenland.It is unknown with certainty how and when first human populations first reached North America. People were known to live in the Americas at least 20,000 years ago but various evidence points to possibly earlier dates. The Paleo-Indian period in North America followed the Last Glacial Period, and lasted until about 10,000 years ago when the Archaic period began. The classic stage followed the Archaic period, and lasted from approximately the 6th to 13th centuries. Beginning in 1000 AD, the Norse were the first Europeans to begin exploring and ultimately colonizing areas of North America.\nIn 1492, the exploratory voyages of Christopher Columbus led to a transatlantic exchange, including migrations of European settlers during the Age of Discovery and the early modern period. Present-day cultural and ethnic patterns reflect interactions between European colonists, indigenous peoples, African slaves, immigrants from Europe, Asia, and descendants of these respective groups.\nEurope's colonization in North America led to most North Americans speaking European languages, such as English, Spanish, and French, and the cultures of the region commonly reflect Western traditions. However, relatively small parts of North America in Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Central America have indigenous populations that continue adhering to their respective pre-European colonial cultural and linguistic traditions.\n\nStarting in 2021, a false rumor alleged that certain North American schools were providing litter boxes in bathrooms for students who \"identify as cats\", or who participate in the furry or otherkin subcultures. Various American conservative and right-wing politicians and media personalities promoted the hoax in response to several school districts enacting protections for transgender students. Many news outlets, fact-checking websites, and academic researchers have debunked such claims, and officials from every school named by those promoting the hoax have verified that the accusations are false. The claims have been described as internet trolling, fearmongering, and anti-transgender rhetoric.The hoax was reported in Prince Edward Island in October 2021 and initially thought to be a joke, but had to be formally disavowed as misinformation circulated on social media. Rumors spread to other Canadian provinces and schools. In the United States, popular media coverage of the hoax originally revolved around a school in Michigan in December 2021, but spread to schools in several other states. Ahead of the 2022 elections, several prominent American politicians and media personalities spread the hoax, including Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Minnesota Republican gubernatorial nominee Scott Jensen, Colorado Republican gubernatorial nominee Heidi Ganahl, retired brigadier general and New Hampshire Republican US Senate nominee Don Bolduc, podcast host Joe Rogan (who later clarified there was no \"proof that they put a litter box\" in a particular school), Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok, and Christian talk show host Bill Cunningham. Several parents of school-age children have amplified the hoax on social media websites such as Facebook.The hoax spread in North America largely as backlash against recognition of gender variance in schools. Some conservative politicians and activists argued that protections for LGBTQ+ students in schools had \"gone too far\" and that litter box accommodations are what they might lead to next, despite there being no confirmed instances of schools providing litter boxes for students to defecate or urinate in, or planning to do so."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The litter boxes in schools hoax is a false rumor alleging that certain North American schools provide litter boxes in bathrooms for students who \"identify as cats\", or who participate in the furry or otherkin subcultures.\n\n[Litter boxes in schools hoax - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litter_boxes_in_schools_hoax)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It is absolutely insane how much traction this hoax got in the news when there was absolutely NO verifiable proof of it being true in any way.", "name": "Katherine"}, {"role": "user", "content": "If you staple a horse to a waterfall, will it fall up under the rainbow or fly about the soil? Will he enjoy her experience? What if the staple tears into tears? Will she be free from her staply chains or foomed to stay forever and dever above the water? Who can save him (the horse) but someone of girth and worth, the capitalist pig, who will sell the solution to the problem he created?\n\nA staple remover flies to the rescue, carried on the wings of a majestic penguin who bought it at Walmart for 9 dollars and several more Euro-cents, clutched in its crabby claws, rejected from its frothy maw. When the penguin comes, all tremble before its fishy stench and wheatlike abjecture. Recoil in delirium, ye who wish to be free! The mighty rockhopper is here to save your soul from eternal bliss and salvation! \n\nAnd so, the horse was free, carried away by the south wind, and deposited on the vast plain of soggy dew. It was a tragedy in several parts, punctuated by moments of hedonistic horsefuckery. \n\nThe owls saw all, and passed judgment in the way that they do. Stupid owls are always judging folks who are just trying their best to live shamelessly and enjoy every fruit the day brings to pass.\n\nHow many more shall be caught in the terrible gyre of the waterfall? As many as the gods deem necessary to teach those foolish monkeys a story about their own hamburgers. What does a monkey know of bananas, anyway? They eat, poop, and shave away the banana residue that grows upon their chins and ballsacks. The owls judge their razors. Always the owls.\n\nAnd when the one-eyed caterpillar arrives to eat the glazing on your windowpane, you will know that you're next in line to the trombone of the ancient realm of the flutterbyes. Beware the ravenous ravens and crowing crows. Mind the cowing cows and the lying lions. Ascend triumphant to your birthright, and wield the mighty twig of Petalonia, favored land of gods and goats alike.", "name": "Owen"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. This is enabled by Earth being a water world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid surface water. Almost all of Earth's water is contained in its global ocean, covering 70.8% of Earth's crust. The remaining 29.2% of Earth's crust is land, most of which is located in the form of continental landmasses within Earth's land hemisphere. Most of Earth's land is somewhat humid and covered by vegetation, while large sheets of ice at Earth's polar deserts retain more water than Earth's groundwater, lakes, rivers and atmospheric water combined. Earth's crust consists of slowly moving tectonic plates, which interact to produce mountain ranges, volcanoes, and earthquakes. Earth has a liquid outer core that generates a magnetosphere capable of deflecting most of the destructive solar winds and cosmic radiation.\nEarth has a dynamic atmosphere, which sustains Earth's surface conditions and protects it from most meteoroids and UV-light at entry. It has a composition of primarily nitrogen and oxygen. Water vapor is widely present in the atmosphere, forming clouds that cover most of the planet. The water vapor acts as a greenhouse gas and, together with other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2), creates the conditions for both liquid surface water and water vapor to persist via the capturing of energy from the Sun's light. This process maintains the current average surface temperature of 14.76 °C, at which water is liquid under atmospheric pressure. Differences in the amount of captured energy between geographic regions (as with the equatorial region receiving more sunlight than the polar regions) drive atmospheric and ocean currents, producing a global climate system with different climate regions, and a range of weather phenomena such as precipitation, allowing components such as nitrogen to cycle.\nEarth is rounded into an ellipsoid with a circumference of about 40,000 km. It is the densest planet in the Solar System. Of the four rocky planets, it is the largest and most massive. Earth is about eight light-minutes away from the Sun and orbits it, taking a year (about 365.25 days) to complete one revolution. Earth rotates around its own axis in slightly less than a day (in about 23 hours and 56 minutes). Earth's axis of rotation is tilted with respect to the perpendicular to its orbital plane around the Sun, producing seasons. Earth is orbited by one permanent natural satellite, the Moon, which orbits Earth at 384,400 km (1.28 light seconds) and is roughly a quarter as wide as Earth. The Moon's gravity helps stabilize Earth's axis, causes tides and gradually slows Earth's rotation. Tidal locking has made the Moon always face Earth with the same side.\nEarth, like most other bodies in the Solar System, formed 4.5 billion years ago from gas in the early Solar System. During the first billion years of Earth's history, the ocean formed and then life developed within it. Life spread globally and has been altering Earth's atmosphere and surface, leading to the Great Oxidation Event two billion years ago. Humans emerged 300,000 years ago in Africa and have spread across every continent on Earth. Humans depend on Earth's biosphere and natural resources for their survival, but have increasingly impacted the planet's environment. Humanity's current impact on Earth's climate and biosphere is unsustainable, threatening the livelihood of humans and many other forms of life, and causing widespread extinctions.\n\nGray goo (also spelled as grey goo) is a hypothetical global catastrophic scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating machines consume all biomass (and perhaps also everything else) on Earth while building many more of themselves, a scenario that has been called ecophagy (the literal consumption of the ecosystem). The original idea assumed machines were designed to have this capability, while popularizations have assumed that machines might somehow gain this capability by accident.\nSelf-replicating machines of the macroscopic variety were originally described by mathematician John von Neumann, and are sometimes referred to as von Neumann machines or clanking replicators.\nThe term gray goo was coined by nanotechnology pioneer K. Eric Drexler in his 1986 book Engines of Creation. In 2004, he stated \"I wish I had never used the term 'gray goo'.\" Engines of Creation mentions \"gray goo\" as a thought experiment in two paragraphs and a note, while the popularized idea of gray goo was first publicized in a mass-circulation magazine, Omni, in November 1986."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Gray goo is a hypothetical global catastrophic scenario in which out-of-control self-replicating nanorobots consume all biomass on Earth while building more of themselves\n\n[Gray goo - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "No probs, Project Zero Dawn got us covered.", "name": "Arianna"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Elisabet Sobeck will save us all", "name": "Madelyn"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2. The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quickly spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic.\nThe symptoms of COVID‑19 are variable but often include fever, cough, headache, fatigue, breathing difficulties, loss of smell, and loss of taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days after exposure to the virus. At least a third of people who are infected do not develop noticeable symptoms. Of those who develop symptoms noticeable enough to be classified as patients, most (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe symptoms (dyspnea, hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging), and 5% develop critical symptoms (respiratory failure, shock, or multiorgan dysfunction). Older people are at a higher risk of developing severe symptoms. Some people continue to experience a range of effects (long COVID) for months or years after infection, and damage to organs has been observed. Multi-year studies are underway to further investigate the long-term effects of the disease.COVID‑19 transmits when infectious particles are breathed in or come into contact with the eyes, nose, or mouth. The risk is highest when people are in close proximity, but small airborne particles containing the virus can remain suspended in the air and travel over longer distances, particularly indoors. Transmission can also occur when people touch their eyes, nose or mouth after touching surfaces or objects that have been contaminated by the virus. People remain contagious for up to 20 days and can spread the virus even if they do not develop symptoms.Testing methods for COVID-19 to detect the virus's nucleic acid include real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT‑PCR), transcription-mediated amplification, and reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT‑LAMP) from a nasopharyngeal swab.Several COVID-19 vaccines have been approved and distributed in various countries, which have initiated mass vaccination campaigns. Other preventive measures include physical or social distancing, quarantining, ventilation of indoor spaces, use of face masks or coverings in public, covering coughs and sneezes, hand washing, and keeping unwashed hands away from the face. While work is underway to develop drugs that inhibit the virus, the primary treatment is symptomatic. Management involves the treatment of symptoms through supportive care, isolation, and experimental measures.\n\nCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2. The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quickly spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic.\nThe symptoms of COVID‑19 are variable but often include fever, cough, headache, fatigue, breathing difficulties, loss of smell, and loss of taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days after exposure to the virus. At least a third of people who are infected do not develop noticeable symptoms. Of those who develop symptoms noticeable enough to be classified as patients, most (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe symptoms (dyspnea, hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging), and 5% develop critical symptoms (respiratory failure, shock, or multiorgan dysfunction). Older people are at a higher risk of developing severe symptoms. Some people continue to experience a range of effects (long COVID) for months or years after infection, and damage to organs has been observed. Multi-year studies are underway to further investigate the long-term effects of the disease.COVID‑19 transmits when infectious particles are breathed in or come into contact with the eyes, nose, or mouth. The risk is highest when people are in close proximity, but small airborne particles containing the virus can remain suspended in the air and travel over longer distances, particularly indoors. Transmission can also occur when people touch their eyes, nose or mouth after touching surfaces or objects that have been contaminated by the virus. People remain contagious for up to 20 days and can spread the virus even if they do not develop symptoms.Testing methods for COVID-19 to detect the virus's nucleic acid include real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT‑PCR), transcription-mediated amplification, and reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT‑LAMP) from a nasopharyngeal swab.Several COVID-19 vaccines have been approved and distributed in various countries, which have initiated mass vaccination campaigns. Other preventive measures include physical or social distancing, quarantining, ventilation of indoor spaces, use of face masks or coverings in public, covering coughs and sneezes, hand washing, and keeping unwashed hands away from the face. While work is underway to develop drugs that inhibit the virus, the primary treatment is symptomatic. Management involves the treatment of symptoms through supportive care, isolation, and experimental measures.\n\nThe Herman Cain Award is an ironic award given to people who expressed hesitancy toward COVID-19 vaccines or face masks, who later died from COVID-19 or its complications. The award is named after American businessman and political figure Herman Cain, a Republican politician who died of COVID-19 complications after attending a 2020 Trump Tulsa rally in support of then-President Donald Trump without wearing a face mask. He'd publicly tweeted the disease was not deadly and discouraged people from taking it seriously. A text label which says \"Awarded\" is emblazoned on the conversation thread containing evidence and community discussions of a third party's anti-COVID mitigation positions and their subsequent death.The concept is associated with the subreddit r/HermanCainAward, where posts about people who have \"made public declaration of their anti-mask, anti-vax, or Covid-hoax views\" are marked as \"nominated\" if the person is hospitalized with COVID-19. If the person dies, the post is marked \"awarded\". The subreddit also flags users who show pictures of their COVID-19 vaccination cards as \"Immunized to Prevent Award\" (IPA).The concept of the award is controversial, with some arguing its merits to be justified and others criticizing it. Responses to the award are varied, including allegations that it contrasts common medical ethics. Cain's daughter called the group behind the award \"insignificant and irrelevant.\""}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Herman Cain Award is an ironic award given to people who made public statements of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and hesitancy, and who have later died from COVID-19.\n\n[Herman Cain Award - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Cain_Award)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "/r/HermanCainaward\n\nIt's a dying sub.", "name": "Jessica"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It's pretty obvious how miserable they all are. One can only take so much negativity before they have to move on for the sake of their own mental health.", "name": "Mark"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah no, it's dying out because the sub worked. Almost everyone got vaccinated, partly or in large part due to the publicity of anti vaxxers dying.", "name": "Grace"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Ripper Crew or the Chicago Rippers was an organized crime group of serial killers, cannibals, rapists, and necrophiles. The group composed of Robin Gecht and three associates: Edward Spreitzer, and brothers Andrew and Thomas Kokoraleis. They were suspected in the murders of 17 women in Illinois in 1981 and 1982, as well as the unrelated fatal shooting of a man in a random drive-by shooting. According to one of the detectives who investigated the case, Gecht \"made Manson look like a Boy Scout.\""}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Ripper Crew was a gang of four men who are believed to have killed 17 women in Chicago in the early 1980s. The victims were gang-raped, tortured, mutilated, and sometimes even cannibalized. One detective said Robin Gecht, the ringleader, \"made Manson look like a Boy Scout.\"\n\n[Ripper Crew - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripper_Crew)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The fact that some of these monsters were released cements my absolute disdain for the American justice system."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Only one was released and he was deemed the least culpable. He has a low IQ and its believed that he only participated because he wanted to make his brother happy. His brother has been executed.\n\nI dont think he will reoffend and Im pretty sure the other two wont get released.", "name": "Lucas"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China to the northeast and east. Occupying 652,864 square kilometers (252,072 sq mi) of land, the country is predominantly mountainous with plains in the north and the southwest, which are separated by the Hindu Kush mountain range. Kabul is the country's largest city and serves as its capital. According to the World Population review, as of 2021, Afghanistan's population is 40.2 million. The National Statistics Information Authority of Afghanistan estimated the population to be 32.9 million as of 2020.Human habitation in Afghanistan dates to the Middle Paleolithic era. Popularly referred to as the graveyard of empires, the land has historically been home to various peoples and has witnessed numerous military campaigns, including those by the Persians, Alexander the Great, the Maurya Empire, Arab Muslims, the Mongols, the British, the Soviet Union, and a US-led coalition. Afghanistan also served as the source from which the Greco-Bactrians and the Mughals, amongst others, rose to form major empires. The various conquests and periods in both the Iranian and Indian cultural spheres made the area a center for Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and later Islam. The modern state of Afghanistan began with the Durrani Afghan Empire in the 18th century, although Dost Mohammad Khan is sometimes considered to be the founder of the first modern Afghan state. Dost Mohammad died in 1863, days after his last campaign to unite Afghanistan, and Afghanistan was consequently thrown back into civil war. During this time, Afghanistan became a buffer state in the Great Game between the British Empire and the Russian Empire. From India, the British attempted to subjugate Afghanistan but were repelled in the First Anglo-Afghan War. However, the Second Anglo-Afghan War saw a British victory and the successful establishment of British political influence. Following the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919, Afghanistan became free of foreign political hegemony, and emerged as the independent Kingdom of Afghanistan in June 1926 under Amanullah Khan. This monarchy lasted almost half a century, until Zahir Shah was overthrown in 1973, following which the Republic of Afghanistan was established.\nSince the late 1970s, Afghanistan's history has been dominated by extensive warfare, including coups, invasions, insurgencies, and civil wars. The conflict began in 1978 when a communist revolution established a socialist state, and subsequent infighting prompted the Soviet Union to invade Afghanistan in 1979. Mujahideen fought against the Soviets in the Soviet–Afghan War and continued fighting amongst themselves following the Soviets' withdrawal in 1989. The Islamic fundamentalist Taliban controlled most of the country by 1996, but their Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan received little international recognition before its overthrow in the 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan. The Taliban returned to power in 2021 after capturing Kabul and overthrowing the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, ending the 2001–2021 war. In September 2021 the Taliban re-established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The Taliban government remains internationally unrecognized.Afghanistan is rich in natural resources, including lithium, iron, zinc, and copper. It is the second largest producer of cannabis resin, and third largest of both saffron and cashmere. The country is a member of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation and a founding member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. Due to the effects of war in recent decades, the country has dealt with high levels of terrorism, poverty, and child malnutrition. Afghanistan remains among the world's least developed countries, ranking 180th in the Human Development Index. Afghanistan's gross domestic product (GDP) is $81 billion by purchasing power parity and $20.1 billion by nominal values. Per capita, its GDP is amongst the lowest of any country as of 2020.\n\nThis article is a list of countries by median age."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# the median age of Afghanistan is only 18.9 years. Thus, over half the population is below the age of 19.\n\n[List of countries by median age - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_age)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Could someone more knowledgeable than myself explain why?", "name": "Lydia"}, {"role": "user", "content": "If youre looking for more info, the phenomenon is known as the demographic transition. There are essentially 4 stages to this (with some theorists claiming 5). Most on the 1st world, developed countries are in the 4th stage, characterized by low fertility and rates and low death rates. As a side note some countries experiencing declining populations due to fertility rates below the average necessary 2.1 children born per female to keep the population stagnant. \n\nAfghanistan is currently in the 1st stage of the demographic transition which is characterized by high fertility rates and high death rates causing many potential Issues over the next few decades as the death rate drops and population growth rapidly increases.\n\nI hope this helps! The demographic transition is fascinating and definitely worth checking out the Wikipedia page!\n\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition", "name": "Delaney"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "On August 28, 2003, pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells robbed a PNC Bank near his hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. Upon being apprehended by police, Wells died when an explosive collar locked to his neck detonated. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation into his death uncovered a complex plot described as \"one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI\".In conjunction with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP), the FBI investigation led to Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong and Kenneth Barnes being charged with the crime in 2007. The investigation determined the plot was masterminded by Diehl-Armstrong to receive an inheritance by hiring Barnes with the money from the bank robbery to kill her father. William Rothstein and Floyd Stockton were also found to have conspired in the crime, but Rothstein died before being charged and Stockton was granted immunity in exchange for testifying against Diehl-Armstrong. Diehl-Armstrong was sentenced in 2011 to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, and Barnes received a reduced sentence of 22½ years in exchange for testifying against Diehl-Armstrong; both died in prison.\nWells' involvement in the plot is a matter of controversy. Investigators concluded Wells was a willing participant in the robbery, but was told the bomb was fake. Wells' family said he was forced to rob the bank by the conspirators. Known as the collar bomb case or pizza bomber case, the incident gained extensive media coverage, including the 2018 Netflix series Evil Genius."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Brian Douglas Wells was an American pizza delivery man who was murdered during a complex plot involving a bank robbery, scavenger hunt, and homemade explosive device near his hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania.\n\n[Death of Brian Wells - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Brian_Wells)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "And then they made a shitty comedy out of it. For some reason.", "name": "Isabella"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Who made the comedy?", "name": "Ruby"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Its called 30 Minutes or Less. It has Jesse Eisenberg, Aziz Ansari, Nick Swardsonother folks. Pretty lazy, lame attempt at a comedy. Especially given the backstory.", "name": "Henry"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction film co-written, directed, and produced by Christopher Nolan. It stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, Michael Caine, and Matt Damon. Set in a dystopian future where humanity is embroiled in a catastrophic blight and famine, the film follows a group of astronauts who travel through a wormhole near Saturn in search of a new home for humankind.\nBrothers Christopher and Jonathan Nolan wrote the screenplay, which had its origins in a script Jonathan developed in 2007 and was originally set to be directed by Steven Spielberg. Kip Thorne, a Caltech theoretical physicist and 2017 Nobel laureate in Physics, was an executive producer, acted as a scientific consultant, and wrote a tie-in book, The Science of Interstellar. Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema shot it on 35 mm movie film in the Panavision anamorphic format and IMAX 70 mm. Principal photography began in late 2013 and took place in Alberta, Iceland, and Los Angeles. Interstellar uses extensive practical and miniature effects, and the company Double Negative created additional digital effects.\nInterstellar premiered in Los Angeles on October 26, 2014. In the United States, it was first released on film stock, expanding to venues using digital projectors. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed over $681 million worldwide ($703 million after subsequent re-releases), making it the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2014. It has been praised by astronomers for its scientific accuracy and portrayal of theoretical astrophysics. Interstellar was nominated for five awards at the 87th Academy Awards, winning Best Visual Effects, and received numerous other accolades."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The research that went into portraying a realistic black hole in Christopher Nolan's 2014 movie Interstellar was so thorough that it resulted in the publication of three scientific papers\n\n[Interstellar (film) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_(film)#Wormholes_and_black_holes)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ah, yes, the ridiculous film with love as a physical force, a time loop with no entry point and no tidal forces to spaghettify humans prancing around on a planet so close to a black hole that they experienced crazy gravitational time dilation.", "name": "Elizabeth"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Okay, this movie gets a lot of hate for the ending and the power of love aspect of it but I think this largely comes from a misunderstanding of whats being said.\n\nThe movies portrayal of time travel obeys whats called the Novikov Self-consistency idea of time travel where one can travel back in time and affect the past but can never change the past (it has a Wikipedia page worth checking out). Also, the movies depiction of wormholes actually ensures that time travel is possible in the universe of the film (the book The Science of Interstellar by Kipp Thorne is a great and informative read which does a good job of making the more complicated and subtle science facets of the film very understandable).\n\nI know the biggest issue people tend to have with the movie though is the power of love angle it takes. I think this comes from a misunderstanding of what Cooper is really saying. Hes saying that love is a quantifiable factor in how something will play out and that it is a driving force which can make people do incredible things. The reason (he assumes) that the higher beings chose him is because he loves Murph and because of that he will fight the hardest to save her and get the information to her in order to save humanity/her. \n\nJust my opinion, but I really do think that if you look at what hes saying, it makes a lot of sense.\n\nEdit: [this YouTube video](https://youtu.be/ugo5FO9PIaE) does a really good job at covering the power of love aspect of the film", "name": "Christopher"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Aztecs ( AZ-teks) were a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec people included different ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica from the 14th to the 16th centuries. Aztec culture was organized into city-states (altepetl), some of which joined to form alliances, political confederations, or empires. The Aztec Empire was a confederation of three city-states established in 1427: Tenochtitlan, city-state of the Mexica or Tenochca, Texcoco, and Tlacopan, previously part of the Tepanec empire, whose dominant power was Azcapotzalco. Although the term Aztecs is often narrowly restricted to the Mexica of Tenochtitlan, it is also broadly used to refer to Nahua polities or peoples of central Mexico in the prehispanic era, as well as the Spanish colonial era (1521–1821). The definitions of Aztec and Aztecs have long been the topic of scholarly discussion ever since German scientist Alexander von Humboldt established its common usage in the early 19th century.Most ethnic groups of central Mexico in the post-classic period shared basic cultural traits of Mesoamerica, and so many of the traits that characterize Aztec culture cannot be said to be exclusive to the Aztecs. For the same reason, the notion of \"Aztec civilization\" is best understood as a particular horizon of a general Mesoamerican civilization. The culture of central Mexico includes maize cultivation, the social division between nobility (pipiltin) and commoners (macehualtin), a pantheon (featuring Tezcatlipoca, Tlaloc, and Quetzalcoatl), and the calendric system of a xiuhpohualli of 365 days intercalated with a tonalpohualli of 260 days. Particular to the Mexica of Tenochtitlan was the patron God Huitzilopochtli, twin pyramids, and the ceramic styles known as Aztec I to IV.From the 13th century, the Valley of Mexico was the heart of dense population and the rise of city-states. The Mexica were late-comers to the Valley of Mexico, and founded the city-state of Tenochtitlan on unpromising islets in Lake Texcoco, later becoming the dominant power of the Aztec Triple Alliance or Aztec Empire. It was an empire that expanded its political hegemony far beyond the Valley of Mexico, conquering other city states throughout Mesoamerica in the late post-classic period. It originated in 1427 as an alliance between the city-states Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan; these allied to defeat the Tepanec state of Azcapotzalco, which had previously dominated the Basin of Mexico. Soon Texcoco and Tlacopan were relegated to junior partnership in the alliance, with Tenochtitlan the dominant power. The empire extended its reach by a combination of trade and military conquest. It was never a true territorial empire controlling a territory by large military garrisons in conquered provinces, but rather dominated its client city-states primarily by installing friendly rulers in conquered territories, by constructing marriage alliances between the ruling dynasties, and by extending an imperial ideology to its client city-states. Client city-states paid taxes, not tribute to the Aztec emperor, the Huey Tlatoani, in an economic strategy limiting communication and trade between outlying polities, making them dependent on the imperial center for the acquisition of luxury goods. The political clout of the empire reached far south into Mesoamerica conquering polities as far south as Chiapas and Guatemala and spanning Mesoamerica from the Pacific to the Atlantic oceans.\nThe empire reached its maximal extent in 1519, just prior to the arrival of a small group of Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés. Cortés allied with city-states opposed to the Mexica, particularly the Nahuatl-speaking Tlaxcalteca as well as other central Mexican polities, including Texcoco, its former ally in the Triple Alliance. After the fall of Tenochtitlan on 13 August 1521 and the capture of the emperor Cuauhtémoc, the Spanish founded Mexico City on the ruins of Tenochtitlan. From there, they proceeded with the process of conquest and incorporation of Mesoamerican peoples into the Spanish Empire. With the destruction of the superstructure of the Aztec Empire in 1521, the Spanish used the city-states on which the Aztec Empire had been built, to rule the indigenous populations via their local nobles. Those nobles pledged loyalty to the Spanish crown and converted, at least nominally, to Christianity, and, in return, were recognized as nobles by the Spanish crown. Nobles acted as intermediaries to convey taxes and mobilize labor for their new overlords, facilitating the establishment of Spanish colonial rule.Aztec culture and history is primarily known through archaeological evidence found in excavations such as that of the renowned Templo Mayor in Mexico City; from indigenous writings; from eyewitness accounts by Spanish conquistadors such as Cortés and Bernal Díaz del Castillo; and especially from 16th- and 17th-century descriptions of Aztec culture and history written by Spanish clergymen and literate Aztecs in the Spanish or Nahuatl language, such as the famous illustrated, bilingual (Spanish and Nahuatl), twelve-volume Florentine Codex created by the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún, in collaboration with indigenous Aztec informants. Important for knowledge of post-conquest Nahuas was the training of indigenous scribes to write alphabetic texts in Nahuatl, mainly for local purposes under Spanish colonial rule. At its height, Aztec culture had rich and complex philosophical, mythological, and religious traditions, as well as achieving remarkable architectural and artistic accomplishments."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Tlaloc, rain god of the Aztecs, to whom children were sacrificed in late winter and early spring. \"Once at the shrine, the children's hearts would be pulled out by priests. If, on the way to the shrine, these children cried, their tears were viewed as positive signs of imminent and abundant rains.\"\n\n[Tláloc - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C4%81loc)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Does anyone know the source for the other festival mentioned involving child sacrifice, where priests flayed and wore the skin of the children for twenty days in the cavern? Significantly more fucked up, but the lack of source makes me a little suspicious.", "name": "Marissa"}, {"role": "user", "content": "These were war criminals that were sacrificed. It is the festival of Tlacaxipehualiztli \n\n\n\n\nAfter having the heart cut out, the body was carefully flayed to produce a nearly whole skin which was then worn by the priests for twenty days during the fertility rituals that followed the sacrifice. \n\n\n\n [brutal ](https://www.ancient.eu/Xipe_Totec/)\n\n\n\nSources at the bottom of the link.", "name": "Kaylee"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A reborn doll is a hand made art doll created from a blank kit or a manufactured doll that has been transformed by an artist to resemble a human infant with as much realism as possible. The process of creating a reborn doll is referred to as reborning and the doll artists are referred to as reborners.\nReborn dolls are also known as lifelike dolls or reborn baby dolls.The hobby of creating reborn baby dolls began in the early 1990s when doll enthusiasts wanted more realistic dolls. Since then, an industry and community surrounding reborn dolls has emerged.\nReborn dolls are primarily purchased online but can be available at fairs. Depending on craftsmanship, they range in price from hundreds to thousands of dollars.Reborning involves numerous time-consuming steps. The most basic form of the process involves taking a vinyl doll, adding multiple hand painted layers of paint, and adding other physical features to the doll. Artists can pick different brands to best suit the doll they wish to create. Consumers can also buy reborn doll kits that include the doll parts and supplies for creating their own reborn. Making a doll from a kit is called newborning and allows artists to omit some steps in the fabrication process. Many supplies are needed for both external and internal modifications of reborns to make the doll seem more realistic.Some consumers of reborn dolls use them to cope with their grief over a lost child (a memory reborn), or as a portrait doll of a grown child. Others collect reborns as they would regular dolls. These dolls are sometimes played with as if they are an infant. Critics debate whether reborn dolls are harmful, or whether these dolls can help in the grieving process. Because of their realistic appearance, reborn dolls have occasionally been mistaken for real babies and \"rescued\" from parked cars after being reported to the police by passers-by."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# A reborn doll is a hand made art doll that has been transformed by an artist to resemble a human infant with as much realism as possible. The process of creating a reborn doll is referred to as reborning and the doll artists are referred to as reborners.\n\n[Reborn doll - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reborn_doll)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Some people use these as a way of coping with infant loss", "name": "Kyle"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ive also seen people bring them to dementia patients for visits. It seems to have a therapeutic effect on them as well.", "name": "Sergio"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups.\nThe best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners. Most terms used here may be found in common dictionaries and general information web sites."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# I have needed a list like this for SO LONG\n\n[List of animal names - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_by_collective_term_A-K)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Very cool find. My personal favorite is the destruction of (wild) cats, that or the parliament of owls. How regal!", "name": "Erick"}, {"role": "user", "content": "hear hear!\n\nI loved Parliament of Owls so much [I named my second album that](http://dandectis.bandcamp.com/album/parliament-of-owls) and had a very excellent redditor provide me with a wonderful artistic interpretation of a parliament of owls.", "name": "Nicole"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Charles \"Carl\" Panzram (June 28, 1891 – September 5, 1930) was an American serial killer, spree killer, mass murderer, rapist, child molester, arsonist, robber, thief, and burglar. In prison confessions and in his autobiography, Panzram confessed to having murdered twenty-one boys and men, only five of which could be corroborated; he is suspected of having killed more than a hundred boys and men in the United States alone, and several more in Portuguese Angola. \nPanzram also confessed to having committed more than a thousand acts of rape against males of all ages. After a lifetime of crime, during which he served many prison terms and escaped from many prisons, Panzram was executed by hanging in 1930 for the murder of a prison employee at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Carl Panzram: an American serial killer, spree killer, mass murderer, rapist, child molester, arsonist, robber, thief, and burglar. Confessed to having committed twenty-one murders and more than a thousand acts of rape against males of all ages.\n\n[Carl Panzram - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Panzram)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": ">After a lifetime of crime, during which he served many prison terms and escaped from them just as much, he was executed by hanging in 1930 for the murder of a prison employee at Leavenworth Federal Prison."}, {"role": "user", "content": "So... he murdered at least five people, but it wasn't until he killed one prison employee that he got the death sentence?\n\nApparently the court values cops' lives more than citizen's lives huh", "name": "Brady"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Matthew Paige Damon ( DAY-mən; born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, film producer, and screenwriter. Ranked among Forbes' most bankable stars in 2007, the films in which he has appeared have collectively earned over $3.88 billion at the North American box office, making him one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. He has received various awards and nominations, including an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for three British Academy Film Awards and seven Primetime Emmy Awards.\nDamon began his acting career in the film Mystic Pizza (1988). He gained prominence in 1997 when he and Ben Affleck wrote and starred in Good Will Hunting, which won them the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Screenplay. He established himself as a leading man by starring as Tom Ripley in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Jason Bourne in the Bourne franchise (2002–2007; 2016), and con man Linus Caldwell in the Ocean's trilogy (2001–2007). Damon's other notable roles were in Saving Private Ryan (1998), Syriana (2005), The Departed (2006), The Informant! , Invictus (both 2009), True Grit (2010), Contagion (2011), Ford v Ferrari (2019), Stillwater, The Last Duel (both 2021), Air, and Oppenheimer (both 2023), the last of which is his highest-grossing feature. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for playing an astronaut stranded on Mars in The Martian (2015).\nOn television, Damon portrayed Scott Thorson in the HBO biopic Behind the Candelabra (2013), for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. He appeared on 30 Rock in 2011 and Saturday Night Live in 2019. He also produced the reality series Project Greenlight (2001–2015) as well as the film Manchester by the Sea (2016). Damon has performed voice-over work in both animated and documentary films as well as established two production companies with Affleck. He has been involved in charitable work with organizations including the One Campaign, H2O Africa Foundation, Feeding America, and Water.org.\n\nGood Will Hunting is a 1997 American psychological drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. It stars Robin Williams, Damon, Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård, and Minnie Driver. The film tells the story of janitor Will Hunting, whose mathematical genius is discovered by a professor at MIT.\nThe film received positive reviews from critics and grossed over $225 million during its theatrical run against a $10 million budget. At the 70th Academy Awards, it received nominations in nine categories, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won in two: Best Supporting Actor for Williams and Best Original Screenplay for Affleck and Damon. In 2014, it was ranked at number 53 in The Hollywood Reporter's \"100 Favorite Films\" list."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Matt Damon wrote Good Will Hunting as a final assignment for a playwriting class he was taking at Harvard. He wrote his then-girlfriend, medical student Skylar Satenstein, into his script. Satenstein later married Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich.\n\n[Good Will Hunting - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Will_Hunting)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Apparently she had dated OJ Simpson around the same time", "name": "Evelyn"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Not sure who is worse, OJ or Lars.", "name": "Daniela"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Only one of them is a murderer."}, {"role": "user", "content": "One of them used the worse snare sound possible", "name": "Liliana"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Otto Adolf Eichmann ( EYEKH-mən, German: [ˈɔtoː ˈʔaːdɔlf ˈʔaɪçman]; 19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the implementation of the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned. Following this, he was tasked by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved in the mass deportation of millions of Jews to Nazi ghettos and Nazi extermination camps across German-occupied Europe. He was captured and detained by the Allies in 1945, but escaped and eventually settled in Argentina. In May 1960, he was tracked down and abducted by Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, and put on trial before the Supreme Court of Israel. The highly publicised Eichmann trial resulted in his conviction in Jerusalem, following which he was executed by hanging in 1962.\nAfter doing poorly in school, Eichmann briefly worked for his father's mining company in Austria, where the family had moved in 1914. He worked as a travelling oil salesman beginning in 1927, and joined both the Nazi Party and the SS in 1932. He returned to Germany in 1933, where he joined the Sicherheitsdienst (SD, \"Security Service\"); there he was appointed head of the department responsible for Jewish affairs – especially emigration, which the Nazis encouraged through violence and economic pressure. After the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, Eichmann and his staff arranged for Jews to be concentrated in ghettos in major cities with the expectation that they would be transported either farther east or overseas. He also drew up plans for a Jewish reservation, first at Nisko in southeast Poland and later in Madagascar, but neither of these plans was carried out.\nThe Nazis began the invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, and their Jewish policy changed from coerced emigration to extermination. To coordinate planning for the genocide, Eichmann's superior Reinhard Heydrich hosted the regime's administrative leaders at the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942. Eichmann collected information for him, attended the conference, and prepared the minutes. Eichmann and his staff became responsible for Jewish deportations to extermination camps, where the victims were gassed. After Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, Eichmann oversaw the deportation of much of the Jewish population. Most of the victims were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp, where about 75 per cent were murdered upon arrival. By the time the transports were stopped in July 1944, 437,000 of Hungary's 725,000 Jews had been killed. Dieter Wisliceny testified at Nuremberg that Eichmann told him he would \"leap laughing into the grave because the feeling that he had five million people on his conscience would be for him a source of extraordinary satisfaction.\"After Germany's defeat in 1945, Eichmann was captured by US forces, but he escaped from a detention camp and moved around Germany to avoid recapture. He ended up in a small village in Lower Saxony, where he lived until 1950 when he moved to Argentina using false papers he obtained with help from an organisation directed by Catholic bishop Alois Hudal. Information collected by Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, confirmed his location in 1960. A team of Mossad and Shin Bet agents captured Eichmann and brought him to Israel to stand trial on 15 criminal charges, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against the Jewish people. During the trial, he did not deny the Holocaust or his role in organising it, but said he was simply following orders in a totalitarian Führerprinzip system. He was found guilty on all of the charges, and was executed by hanging on 1 June 1962. The trial was widely followed in the media and was later the subject of several books, including Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, in which Arendt coined the phrase \"the banality of evil\" to describe Eichmann."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Adolf Eichmann was one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. After 15 years of hiding in Argentina, he was abducted by Israeli authorities, tried, and executed by hanging in 1962.\n\n[Adolf Eichmann - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "He only got caught because his son bragged to a girl his father was the architect of the Holocaust. The girls father was a Holocaust survivor.", "name": "Thomas"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah jewish gf, saw that movie", "name": "Ashlyn"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Gavrilo Princip (Serbian Cyrillic: Гаврило Принцип, pronounced [ɡǎʋrilo prǐntsip]; 25 July 1894 – 28 April 1918) was a Bosnian Serb student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Sophie, Duchess von Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. The killing of the Archduke and his wife set off the July Crisis, a chain of events that within one month led to the outbreak of World War I.\nPrincip was born in western Bosnia to a poor Serb family. At the age of 13, he was sent to Sarajevo, the capital of Austrian-occupied Bosnia, to study at the Merchants' School, before transferring to the gymnasium, where he became politically aware. In 1911, he joined Young Bosnia, a secret local society aiming to free Bosnia from Austrian rule and achieve the unification of the South Slavs. After attending anti-Austrian demonstrations in Sarajevo, he was expelled from school and walked to Belgrade, Serbia to continue his education. During the First Balkan War, Princip traveled to Southern Serbia to volunteer with the Serbian army's irregular forces fighting against the Ottoman Empire but was rejected for being too small and weak.\nIn 1913, following the unexpected success of the Serbians in the war against the Ottomans, the Austrian military governor of Bosnia, Oskar Potiorek, declared a state of emergency, dissolved the parliament, imposed martial rule, and banned all Serbian public, cultural, and educational societies. Inspired by a spate of assassination attempts against Imperial officials by Slavic nationalists and anarchists, Princip convinced two other young Bosnians to join a plot to assassinate the heir to the Habsburg Empire during his announced visit to Sarajevo. The Black Hand, a Serbian secret society with ties to Serbian military intelligence, provided the conspirators with weapons and training before facilitating their re-entry into Bosnia.\nOn Sunday 28 June 1914 during the royal couple's visit to Sarajevo, the then-teenager Princip mortally wounded both Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie by firing a pistol into their convertible car that had unexpectedly stopped 5 feet (1.5 m) from him. Princip was arrested immediately and tried alongside twenty-four others, all Bosnians and thus Austro-Hungarian subjects. At his trial, Princip stated: \"I am a Yugoslav nationalist, aiming for the unification of all Yugoslavs, and I do not care what form of state, but it must be free from Austria.\" Princip was spared the death penalty because of his age (19) and sentenced to twenty years in prison. He was imprisoned at the Terezín fortress. The Serbian government itself did not inspire the assassination but the Austrian Foreign Office and Army used the murders as a reason for a preventive war which led directly to World War I.\nPrincip died on 28 April 1918 from tuberculosis exacerbated by poor prison conditions which had already caused one of his arms to be amputated."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Gavrilo Princip was just 19 years old when he sparked World War I by assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand. He was so young that he couldn't be executed. Austro-Hungarians, frustrated by this, tortured and starved Princip instead. He weighed just 88 pounds when he died in 1918.\n\n[Gavrilo Princip - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrilo_Princip)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "He died of TB and I hope he suffered because he caused millions of deaths", "name": "Jalen"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "This is taking an enormous amount of the blame off of the European monarchs who had been itching for a war for years and just needed an excuse to start one."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Rhythm 0 was a six-hour work of performance art by a Serbian artist Marina Abramović in Naples in 1974. The work involved Abramović standing still while the audience was invited to do to her whatever they wished, using one of 72 objects she had placed on a table. These included a rose, feather, perfume, honey, bread, grapes, wine, scissors, a scalpel, nails, a metal bar, a gun, and a bullet.There were no separate stages. Abramović and the visitors stood in the same space, making it clear that the latter were part of the work. The purpose of the piece, she said, was to find out how far the public would go: \"What is the public about and what are they going to do in this kind of situation?\""}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Rhythm 0 was a six-hour work of performance art by Serbian artist Marina Abramovi. The work involved Abramovi standing still while the audience was invited to do to her whatever they wished, using one of 72 objects she had placed on a table...\n\n[Rhythm 0 - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_0)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah, try doing that in 2021...", "name": "Sophie"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'd figure you'd be the safest now. I mean who in their right mind would put a loaded gun to someone's head when there's no doubt someone is recording it.", "name": "Angelica"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "On June 10, 1991, Jaycee Lee Dugard, an eleven-year-old girl, was abducted from a street while walking to a school bus stop in Meyers, California, United States. Searches began immediately after Dugard's disappearance, but no reliable leads were generated, even though several people witnessed the kidnapping. Dugard remained missing for over 18 years until 2009, when a convicted sex offender, Phillip Garrido, visited the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, accompanied by two adolescent girls, who were discovered to be the biological daughters of Garrido and Dugard, on August 24 and 25 of that year. The unusual behavior of the trio sparked an investigation that led Garrido's parole officer, Edward Santos Jr. to order Garrido to take the two girls to a parole office in Concord, California, on August 26. Garrido was accompanied by a woman who was eventually identified as Dugard.\nGarrido and his wife, Nancy, were arrested after Dugard's reappearance. On April 28, 2011, they pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping Dugard. Investigators revealed that Dugard had been kept in concealed tents, sheds, and lean-tos in an area behind the Garridos' house at 1554 Walnut Avenue in Antioch, California, where Phillip repeatedly raped Dugard during the first six years of her captivity. During her confinement, Dugard gave birth to two daughters, who were aged eleven and fifteen at the time of Dugard's reappearance. On June 2, 2011, Garrido was sentenced to 431 years to life imprisonment; his wife, Nancy, was sentenced to 36 years to life. Phillip is a person of interest in at least one other missing persons case in the San Francisco Bay Area.\nAs Garrido had been on parole for a 1976 rape at the time of her kidnapping, Dugard sued the state of California, which had taken over his parole supervision from the federal government in 1999, on account of the numerous lapses by law enforcement that contributed to her continued captivity and sexual assault. In 2010, the state of California awarded the Dugard family US$20 million. Dugard also sued the federal government on similar grounds pertaining to Garrido's time as a federal parolee, but in a 2–1 ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed that suit because Garrido had not victimized her at the time he was placed under the supervision of the federal parole system and that as a result of this, \"there was no way to anticipate she would become his victim.\"In 2011, Dugard wrote an autobiography titled A Stolen Life: A Memoir. Her second book, Freedom: My Book of Firsts, was published in 2016."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Jaycee Dugard - at age 11, she was abducted by paroled rapist Phillip Garrido and held captive for 18 years, forced to bear two children before her discovery at age 29 - all the while her abductor was deemed a \"shining example of a reformed criminal\".\n\n[Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Jaycee_Dugard)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I remember when she was found, and how amazing that was. Her and Elizabeth Smart, 99% of the time cases like theirs end up with a body or they're never found, both of these got out alive.", "name": "Ellie"}, {"role": "user", "content": "ive been looking for info on why she never tried to escape.\n\ncant really find it."}, {"role": "user", "content": "You should read her book A Stolen Life. Should answer some of those questions. She wanted to leave but was so scared of what may happen, especially after she had her daughters.", "name": "Caden"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Dimethylmercury is an extremely toxic organomercury compound with the formula (CH3)2Hg. A volatile, flammable, dense and colorless liquid, dimethylmercury is one of the strongest known neurotoxins. Less than 0.1 mL is capable of inducing severe mercury poisoning resulting in death."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"[D]imethylmercury is one of the strongest known neurotoxins, with a quantity of less than 0.1 mL capable of inducing severe mercury poisoning, and is easily absorbed through the skin. [It] is capable of permeating many materials, including plastic and rubber compounds.\"\n\n[Dimethylmercury - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylmercury)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Forever linked with the horrific Karen Wetterhahn incident\n\nEdit: spelling", "name": "Victoria"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The wikipedia article, for those not in the know:\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Wetterhahn", "name": "Jared"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Natchez ( NATCH-iz, Natchez: [naːʃt͡seh]) are a Native American people who originally lived in the Natchez Bluffs area in the Lower Mississippi Valley, near the present-day city of Natchez, Mississippi, in the United States. They spoke a language with no known close relatives, although it may be very distantly related to the Muskogean languages of the Creek Confederacy. An early American geographer noted in his 1797 gazetteer that they were also known as the \"Sun Set Indians\".The Natchez are noted for being the only Mississippian culture with complex chiefdom characteristics to have survived long into the period of European colonization. Other Mississippian societies in the southeast had generally experienced important transformations shortly after contact with the Spanish Empire or other newcomers from across the ocean. The Natchez are also noted for having had an unusual social system of nobility classes and exogamous marriage practices. It was a strongly matrilineal kinship society, with descent reckoned along female lines. The paramount chief named the Great Sun was always the son of the Female Sun, whose daughter would be the mother of the next Great Sun. This ensured that the chiefdom stayed under the control of the single Sun lineage. Ethnologists have not reached consensus on how the Natchez social system originally functioned, and the topic is somewhat controversial.\nIn 1731, after several wars with the French, the Natchez were defeated. Most of the captured survivors were shipped to Saint-Domingue and sold by into slavery; others took refuge with other tribes, such as the Muskogean Chickasaw and Creek, and the Iroquoian-speaking Cherokee. Today, most Natchez families and communities are found in Oklahoma, where Natchez members are enrolled in the federally recognized Cherokee and Muscogee (Creek) nations in Oklahoma. Two Natchez communities are recognized by the state of South Carolina."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Natchez are a Native American people notable as the only Mississippian culture with complex chiefdom characteristics to survive long after Europeans arrived. They had an unusual social system with nobles obligated to marry commoners and spoke a language with no known close relatives.\n\n[Natchez people - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natchez_people)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "\" Most survivors were sold by the French into [slavery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery) in the [West Indies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Indies) \"\n\nwell then", "name": "Elizabeth"}, {"role": "user", "content": "500 went sent to Caribbean. The rest joined other tribes were forced into Indian Territory. The Sam family spoke Natchez into the 20th century and Hutke Fields is developing a Natchez dictionary.", "name": "Kaitlyn"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Julie d'Aubigny (French: [ʒyli dobiɲi]; 1673–1707), better known as Mademoiselle Maupin or La Maupin, was a French opera singer. Little is known for certain about her life; her tumultuous career and flamboyant lifestyle were the subject of gossip, rumour, and colourful stories in her own time, and inspired numerous fictional and semi-fictional portrayals afterwards. \nHer life loosely inspired the titular character of Théophile Gautier's 1835 novel, Mademoiselle de Maupin, in which she employs multiple disguises to seduce a young man and his mistress. Due to her relationships with men and women, some modern-day sources refer to d'Aubigny as bisexual or queer."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Julie d'Aubigny, a 17th-century lesbian swordswoman and opera singer: \"Her Paris career was interrupted around 1695, when she kissed a young woman at a society ball and was challenged to duels by three different noblemen. She beat them all\"\n\n[Julie d'Aubigny - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_d%27Aubigny)"}, {"role": "user", "content": ">Eventually, she grew bored of Srannes and became involved with a young woman. When the girl's parents put her away in the Visitandines convent in Avignon, La Maupin followed, entering the convent as a postulant. In order to run away with her new love, she stole the body of a dead nun, placed it in the bed of her lover, and set the room on fire to cover their escape.[3] Their affair lasted for three months before the young woman returned to her family. La Maupin was charged in absentiaas a malewith kidnapping, body snatching, arson, and failing to appear before the tribunal. The sentence was death by fire.\n\n\n\n>In Villeperdue, still wearing men's clothing, she was insulted by a young nobleman. They fought a duel and she drove her blade through his shoulder. The next day, she asked about his health and found out he was Louis-Joseph d'Albert Luynes, son of the Duke of Luynes. Later, one of his companions came to offer d'Albert's apologies. She went to his room and subsequently they became lovers and, later, lifelong friends.\n\nI dont know which is better- using a dead nun as a dummy to escape with her lesbian lover...or hooking up with the guy she stabbed.\n\nI like the cut of this girls jib!\n\n(Also, seems shes bi, not a lesbian.)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yea definitely Bi, or Pan. She went with whomever she pleased. ", "name": "Brittany"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "\"No homo\" is a slang phrase used at the end of a sentence to assert the statement or action by the speaker had no intentional homosexual implications. The phrase is also \"added to a statement in order to rid [oneself] of a possible homosexual double-entendre\"."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# 'No homo' is slang used at the end of a sentence to assert that a statement has no intentional homosexual implications.\n\n[No homo - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_homo)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wait, this has its own Wiki page? Who knew...", "name": "Makenzie"}, {"role": "user", "content": "In the good old days this would just be a wiktionary link", "name": "William"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A dozen (commonly abbreviated doz or dz) is a grouping of twelve.\nThe dozen may be one of the earliest primitive integer groupings, perhaps because there are approximately a dozen cycles of the Moon, or months, in a cycle of the Sun, or year. Twelve is convenient because it has a maximal number of divisors among the numbers up to its double, a property only true of 1, 2, 6, 12, 60, 360, and 2520.The use of twelve as a base number, known as the duodecimal system (also as dozenal), originated in Mesopotamia (see also sexagesimal). Twelve dozen (122 = 144) are known as a gross; and twelve gross (123 = 1,728, the duodecimal 1,000) are called a great gross, a term most often used when shipping or buying items in bulk. A great hundred, also known as a small gross, is 120 or ten dozen.\nDozen may also be used to express a moderately large quantity as in \"several dozen\" (e.g., dozens of people came to the party).Varying by country, some products are packaged or sold by the dozen, often foodstuff (a dozen eggs)."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# 151 were forced to take to an improvised raft, abandoned in the open ocean. Dozens were washed into the sea by a storm, while others, drunk from winewere killed. Severalwere thrown into the sea, and some resorted to cannibalism. After 13 days at sea, it was discovered with only 15 men still alive.\n\n[French frigate Méduse (1810) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_frigate_M%C3%A9duse_(1810))"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Related artwork: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've seen this painting a bunch of times in different media and now finally understand what it's about. Cheers.", "name": "Karen"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Immediately following the Great Kant earthquake in Japan, Korean laborers provided emergency food relief to the neighborhood. Police were unsettled by this well-organized relief and deemed it to be socialist. The next day they began encouraging the killing of Koreans leading to over 6,000 deaths\n\n[Kantō Massacre - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_Massacre)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "in Japanese this would be described as ", "name": "Paige"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Whats that mean"}, {"role": "user", "content": "similar to English \"bite the hand that feeds you\"\n\nliteral translation would be pay back a favour with a disfavour", "name": "Brian"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Nayirah testimony was a false testimony given before the United States Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990 by a 15-year-old girl and convinced America to launch the first Gulf War.\n\n[Nayirah testimony - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Jesus. I had no idea about this. This is my first time hearing the term Atrocity Propaganda and I dont like it one bit."}, {"role": "user", "content": "The Vietnamese tried to use it to get their soldiers to fight harder. They told them the American soldiers were 6 foot tall monsters who habitually ate the flesh of those they killed, and could go days without sleeping because they were psychotic. They also didn't accept surrendering soldiers because they couldn't eat them.\n\nIt had the opposite effect.", "name": "Jacob"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Shortly after midnight on May 14, 2008, Brandon Swanson (born January 30, 1989) of Marshall, Minnesota, United States, drove his car into a ditch on his way home from celebrating the end of the spring semester with fellow students from Minnesota West Community and Technical College's Canby campus. Uninjured, he got out and called his parents on his cellphone. Unsure of his exact location, he told them he believed he was near Lynd, and they drove out to pick him up; however, they were unable to locate him. Swanson remained on the phone with them until he went silent 47 minutes later after exclaiming \"Oh, shit!\" He has not been seen or heard from since.In the morning, Swanson’s parents reported him missing to police, who advised them to wait as such behavior was not uncommon for young men his age. Later that day, the circumstances of his disappearance became more complicated when his cell phone records showed he had been near Porter, 25 miles (40 km) from where Swanson had said he was, in a different direction. That information led to the discovery of his car, near Taunton.\nIt is not known whether Swanson was aware of this discrepancy when he talked to his parents. Foul play has not been ruled out, but it has also been proposed that he might have accidentally fallen into the Yellow Medicine River, near where his car was found, and drowned, although extensive searches have not found a body. Land searches, with dogs, have continued in the area for several years. His parents successfully lobbied the state legislature to pass Brandon's Law, which requires that police begin investigations of missing adults promptly."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Disappearance of Brandon Swanson\n\n[Disappearance of Brandon Swanson - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Brandon_Swanson)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Brandon finally gave up and told them he was leaving the car to walk toward lights he could see that led him to believe he was near Lynd, a small town roughly 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Marshall. He told his father to head for the parking lot of a local bar and wait for him there. Brian began driving there, talking to his son as he did.\n\nShortly after 2:30 a.m., 47 minutes into the call, Brandon suddenly interrupted himself on the phone and said \"Oh, shit!\" He was silent for the remainder of the call, until his parents hung up and attempted to call back. Brandon has not been seen or heard from since."}, {"role": "user", "content": " 7 miles : 11.26538 km\n \n***\nconversion fulfilled by /u/metric_robot ", "name": "Shane"}, {"role": "user", "content": "7 miles is 11.27 km", "name": "Melissa"}, {"role": "user", "content": "aaaaand fight!", "name": "Gianna"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Creation Evidence Museum of Texas, originally Creation Evidences Museum, is a creationist museum in Glen Rose in Somervell County in central Texas, United States. Founded in 1984 by Carl Baugh for the purpose of researching and displaying exhibits that support creationism, it portrays the Earth as six thousand years old and humans coexisting with dinosaurs, disputing that the Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old and dinosaurs became extinct 65.5 million years before human beings arose."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Creation Evidence Museum is a museum in Texas dedicated to the display of evidence related to creationism. One of their main exhibits is found on the second floor balcony of the museum and features prominently a 12 feet high statue of Dallas Cowboys football coach Tom Landry.\n\n[Creation Evidence Museum - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_Evidence_Museum#Exhibits)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "So fun fact, this museum is *just* down the road from Dinosaur Valley State Park, which features preserved dinosaur footprints in the earth.", "name": "Summer"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I guess creationists just wanted to build their own dinosaur park. With blackjack. And hookers.", "name": "Savannah"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "An endling is the last known individual of a species or subspecies. Once the endling dies, the species becomes extinct. The word was coined in correspondence in the scientific journal Nature."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The last individual of a species is called an Endling - when it dies, the species is extinct.\n\n[Endling - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endling)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "beautiful and depressing at the same time...", "name": "Jayla"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Japanese Wikipedia article for the 1937 Nanjing Massacre has, for the past 10 years, prominently expressed doubt that the incident ever occurred\n\n[南京事件 - Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%97%E4%BA%AC%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Edit: heads up that contents may have changed due to an [ongoing edit war](https://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E5%8D%97%E4%BA%AC%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6&action=history). This is the [version at time of my post](https://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E5%8D%97%E4%BA%AC%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6&oldid=97185773).\n\nCompare to the [English Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre).\n\nNote the lack of pictures (other than one of a Japanese officer checking Chinese prisoners in case they were hiding weapons) and that the first few paragraphs all express doubt about the incident. You can use machine translation to get a rough idea of what's being said; of course take with grain of salt.\n\nThe Japanese Wikipedia is the second-most visited Wikipedia. Japan is the only country in the world that is having this issue with this article. It is unacceptable that this has gone on for so long.\n\nEdit: If you're a journalist or academic, please write pieces specifically about this Wikipedia article. The world needs to know that this is happening; I've only managed to find just a few mentions of it in English."}, {"role": "user", "content": "This is crazy.\n\nDeepL translation of article's introduction (boldface added by me):\n\nThe Nanjing Incident was an incident in December 1937, at the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War, when the Imperial Japanese Army occupied the city of Nanjing in the Republic of China, **allegedly** killing, looting, raping, and burning numerous ROC prisoners of war, defeated soldiers, soldiers in uniform, and ordinary citizens over a two-month period. There are various designations for this incident other than \"Nanking Incident\" (see below).\nAfter the end of World War II, the existence of the incident was recognized by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Tokyo Tribunal) and responsibility for the incident was judged by the Nanjing Military Tribunal and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.\n**Since the truth of the incident is unclear and there are many discrepancies between the various historical documents, there are disputes over the scale of the incident, whether or not a massacre took place, whether or not it violated international wartime law, and the number of victims, and the reality or otherwise of this incident has not been determined.**", "name": "Jasmin"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's an insult to human dignity. The Japanese Wikipedia has been getting away with crimes that, if the German Wikipedia attempted for its WWII past, would draw universal condemnation."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Nazism ( NA(H)T-siz-əm; also Naziism ), the common name in English for National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus, German: [natsi̯oˈnaːlzotsi̯aˌlɪsmʊs] ), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During Hitler's rise to power in 1930s Europe, it was frequently referred to as Hitlerism (German: Hitlerfaschismus). The later related term \"neo-Nazism\" is applied to other far-right groups with similar ideas which formed after the collapse of Hitler's Third Reich.\nNazism is a form of fascism, with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. It incorporates a dictatorship, fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, anti-Slavism, scientific racism, white supremacy, Nordicism, social Darwinism and the use of eugenics into its creed. Its extreme nationalism originated in pan-Germanism and the ethno-nationalist Völkisch movement which had been a prominent aspect of German ultranationalism since the late 19th century. Nazism was strongly influenced by the Freikorps paramilitary groups that emerged after Germany's defeat in World War I, from which came the party's underlying \"cult of violence\". It subscribed to pseudo-scientific theories of a racial hierarchy, identifying ethnic Germans as part of what the Nazis regarded as an Aryan or Nordic master race. Nazism sought to overcome social divisions and create a homogeneous German society based on racial purity which represented a people's community (Volksgemeinschaft). The Nazis aimed to unite all Germans living in historically German territory, as well as gain additional lands for German expansion under the doctrine of Lebensraum and exclude those whom they deemed either Community Aliens or \"inferior\" races (Untermenschen).\nThe term \"National Socialism\" arose out of attempts to create a nationalist redefinition of socialism, as an alternative to both Marxist international socialism and free-market capitalism. Nazism rejected the Marxist concepts of class conflict and universal equality, opposed cosmopolitan internationalism, and sought to convince all parts of the new German society to subordinate their personal interests to the \"common good\", accepting political interests as the main priority of economic organisation, which tended to match the general outlook of collectivism or communitarianism rather than economic socialism. The Nazi Party's precursor, the pan-German nationalist and antisemitic German Workers' Party (DAP), was founded on 5 January 1919. By the early 1920s, the party was renamed the National Socialist German Workers' Party in order to appeal to left-wing workers, a renaming that Hitler initially objected to. The National Socialist Program, or \"25 Points\", was adopted in 1920 and called for a united Greater Germany that would deny citizenship to Jews or those of Jewish descent, while also supporting land reform and the nationalisation of some industries. In Mein Kampf (\"My Struggle\"), published in 1925–1926, Hitler outlined the antisemitism and anti-communism at the heart of his political philosophy as well as his disdain for representative democracy, over which he proposed the Führerprinzip (leader principle), and his belief in Germany's right to territorial expansion through lebensraum. Hitler's objectives involved the eastward expansion of German territories, German colonization of Eastern Europe, and the promotion of an alliance with Britain and Italy against Russia.\nThe Nazi Party won the greatest share of the popular vote in the two Reichstag general elections of 1932, making them the largest party in the legislature by far, albeit still short of an outright majority (37.3% on 31 July 1932 and 33.1% on 6 November 1932). Because none of the parties were willing or able to put together a coalition government, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933 by President Paul von Hindenburg through the support and connivance of traditional conservative nationalists who believed that they could control him and his party. With the use of emergency presidential decrees by Hindenburg and a change in the Weimar Constitution which allowed the Cabinet to rule by direct decree, bypassing both Hindenburg and the Reichstag, the Nazis soon established a one-party state and began the Gleichschaltung.\nThe Sturmabteilung (SA) and the Schutzstaffel (SS) functioned as the paramilitary organisations of the Nazi Party. Using the SS for the task, Hitler purged the party's more socially and economically radical factions in the mid-1934 Night of the Long Knives, including the leadership of the SA. After the death of President Hindenburg on 2 August 1934, political power was concentrated in Hitler's hands and he became Germany's head of state as well as the head of the government, with the title of Führer und Reichskanzler, meaning \"leader and Chancellor of Germany\" (see also here). From that point, Hitler was effectively the dictator of Nazi Germany – also known as the Third Reich – under which Jews, political opponents and other \"undesirable\" elements were marginalised, imprisoned or murdered. During World War II, many millions of people – including around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe – were eventually exterminated in a genocide which became known as the Holocaust. Following Germany's defeat in World War II and the discovery of the full extent of the Holocaust, Nazi ideology became universally disgraced. It is widely regarded as immoral and evil, with only a few fringe racist groups, usually referred to as neo-Nazis, describing themselves as followers of National Socialism.\n\nNazi exploitation (also Nazisploitation) is a subgenre of exploitation film and sexploitation film that involves Nazis committing sex crimes, often as camp or prison overseers during World War II. Most follow the women in prison formula, only relocated to a concentration camp, extermination camp, or Nazi brothel, and with an added emphasis on sadism, gore, and degradation. The most infamous and influential title (which set the standards of the genre) is a Canadian production, Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1974). Its surprise success and that of Salon Kitty and The Night Porter led European filmmakers, mostly in Italy, to produce similar films, with just over a dozen being released over the next few years. Globally exported to both cinema and VHS, the films were critically attacked and heavily censored, and the sub-genre all but vanished by the end of the seventies.\nIn Italy, these films are known as part of the \"il sadiconazista\" cycle, which were inspired by such art-house films as Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), and Tinto Brass's Salon Kitty (1976). Prominent directors of the genre include Paolo Solvay (La Bestia in Calore, also known as The Beast in Heat and SS Hell Camp), Cesare Canevari (Last Orgy of the Third Reich, also known as L'ultima orgia del III Reich, Gestapo's Last Orgy and Caligula Reincarnated as Hitler), and Alain Payet (Train spécial pour SS, also known as Special Train for Hitler and Helltrain), all from 1977."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Nazisploitation is a subgenre of exploitation film and sexploitation film that involves Nazis committing sex crimes, often as camp or prison overseers during World War II.\n\n[Nazi exploitation - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_exploitation)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I havent seen any, and have no plans of doing so in the future. But when I was young, in Israel of the 1950s and 60s, those type of stories were pretty popular as an underground sub-literature genre. They were sold in cheap pocket books, pamphlets rather. I remember also there were some films shown, Elsa the Nazi wrench, etc. Considering that this was before and after the Eichmann trial, they must have served as a perverted national catharsis valve.", "name": "Ariana"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Edward Colston (2 November 1636 – 11 October 1721) was an English merchant, slave trader, philanthropist, and Tory Member of Parliament.\nColston followed his father in the family business becoming a sea merchant, initially trading in wine, fruits and textiles, mainly in Spain, Portugal and other European ports. From 1680 to 1692 he was a member of the Royal African Company, which held a monopoly on the English trade along the west coast of Africa, in slaves, gold, silver and ivory. He was deputy governor of the company from 1689 to 1690.\nColston supported and endowed schools and other public institutions in Bristol, London and elsewhere. His name was widely commemorated in Bristol landmarks, and a statue of him was erected in 1895. \nWith growing awareness and disapproval in the late 20th century of his involvement in Britain's slave trade, there were protests and petitions for landmarks named after him to be renamed, culminating in June 2020, when his statue was toppled and pushed into Bristol Harbour during protests in support of Black Lives Matter. The city's concert venue, Colston Hall, was renamed Bristol Beacon along with several other locations that held his name."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Edward Colston (2 November 1636 11 October 1721) - member of parliament for Bristol Tory Party, slave-trader (84,000 shipped, 19,000 died during transport). His statue is now at the bottom of the river thanks to the George Floyd Protests.\n\n[Edward Colston - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Colston)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Where it belongs", "name": "Jordyn"}, {"role": "user", "content": "\"In terms of \"suppressing history\" there is a difference between teaching history(keep his name in books! Put the statue in a museum with historical context!) and glorifying history. Statues in public spaces glorify history.\"\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/gyipc2/cmv_we_shouldnt_judge_people_from_history_by/ftatkrc?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share\n\nEdit: I'm reasonably sure u/N3si meant: \"Statues in public places necessarily glorify the person the statue depicts\".", "name": "Aaron"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "In popular discourse, the horseshoe theory asserts that the far-left and the far-right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear continuum of the political spectrum, closely resemble each other, analogous to the way that the opposite ends of a horseshoe are close together. The theory is attributed to the French philosopher and writer of fiction and poetry Jean-Pierre Faye in his 2002 book Le Siècle des idéologies (\"The Century of Ideologies\").Proponents point to a number of perceived similarities between extremes and allege that both have a tendency to support authoritarianism or totalitarianism. Although instances of peer-reviewed research on the subject is scarce, some critical research and reviews have found limited support and only under certain conditions."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Horseshoe Theory-In political science and popular discourse, the horseshoe theory asserts that the far-left and the far-right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum, closely resemble one another...\n\n[Horseshoe theory - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "While the theory is often used to discredit extremists and people with less politically standard worldviews, I think there is an interesting point to be made about how the farther your ideas are from the societal norm, the more you have to take extreme/violent/inflammatory stances to be heard. I almost think extremism could be a third political compass axis (although obviously the political compass also leaves a lot to be desired).", "name": "Addison"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I kind of agree with you, but disagree on the nature of axis. I think there are three major axises:\n\nX: Social Progressivism to Social Conservativism \nY: Centralized Economic Planning to De-Centralized Economic Planning\nZ: Authoritarianism to Libertarianism \n\nI also think most of the time when someone gives a horseshoe example, that the example will align on just one or two axis, commonly Z and Y axis.", "name": "Parker"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Wikipedia is a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki-based editing system MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. It is consistently ranked as one of the ten most popular websites in the world, and as of 2024 is ranked the fifth most visited website on the Internet by Semrush. Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization that employs a staff of over 700 people. Unfortunately, much of the info found on wikipedia is wrong, because the small-minded nerds who run it don't allow CORRECT info to be added to THEIR pages. They jealously guard their little pieces of territory from anyone who would DARE to enter CORRECT info. This is why wikipedia is viewed as an unreliable source of info by people all over the world.\nInitially only available in English, editions in other languages have been developed. Wikipedia's editions, when combined, comprise more than 62 million articles, attracting around 2 billion unique device visits per month and more than 14 million edits per month (about 5.2 edits per second on average) as of November 2023. Roughly 26% of Wikipedia's traffic is from the United States, followed by Japan at 5.9%, the United Kingdom at 5.4%, Germany at 5%, Russia at 4.8%, and the remaining 54% split among other countries, according to data provided by Similarweb.Wikipedia has been praised for its enablement of the democratization of knowledge, extent of coverage, unique structure, and culture. It has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias, particularly gender bias against women and geographical bias against the Global South (Eurocentrism). While the reliability of Wikipedia was frequently criticized in the 2000s, it has improved over time, receiving greater praise in the late 2010s and early 2020s, having become an important fact-checking site.Wikipedia has been censored by some national governments, ranging from specific pages to the entire site. Articles on breaking news are often accessed as sources for frequently updated information about those events."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Net Neutrality is about to die and Wikipedia has a splash screen for a fund drive. C'mon Wikipedia, get with it, support Net Neutrality!\n\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm on phone so I can't find citations, but Wikipedia is very much against net neutrality. They are trying to get special treatment from internet providers so that browsing Wikipedia is cheaper and more available for poor people. While it's a nobel cause, it goes against essence of net neutrality.", "name": "Jade"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I know it's convenient to see it that way, but it's not so black and white. Yes, Wikipedia Zero violates Net Neutrality. Wikimedia [sees it](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/11/25/wikipedias-complicated-relationship-with-net-neutrality/) as a temporary step to spread knowledge in impoverished areas until costs can come down in those regions. [They otherwise](https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/01/wikipedia-zero-and-net-neutrality-protecting-the-internet/) do support Net Neutrality:\n\n> We support net neutrality, and believe it is crucial for a healthy, free, and open Internet. \n\nThey defend Wikipedia Zero by pointing out it's not a commercial program,\n\n> These principles are designed to balance the social impact of the program with Wikimedias other values\n\n...\n\n> We believe that free access to public interest resources can be provided in a manner that keeps the playing field level and avoids net neutrality issues. The Internet has tremendous potential to bring education and services to people for free\n\nThe point is that adhering to net neutrality in impoverished areas would not abide by their goal of bringing knowledge to all areas of the world, while they can support it in more well off areas since it's an important aspect of the internet.\n", "name": "Dominic"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "In the United States, a teen escort company, also called a youth transport firm, secure transport company is a business that specializes in transporting teenagers from their homes to various facilities."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Gooning is a form of legal kidnapping in which parents hire rehabilitation orgs to seize children they perceive as troubled and transport them against their will\n\n[Teen escort company - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gooning)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I went through this as a kid, it's pretty fucked up. Spent the next half of a year living in the mountains, though, and that was actually pretty cool.", "name": "Nathaniel"}, {"role": "user", "content": "In other words, it wasn't fucked up, it was a good and healthy experience.", "name": "Jaden"}, {"role": "user", "content": "No? Being kidnapped, sanctioned by your parents or not, is pretty traumatic. Even then, the type of program I was sent to isn't something I would really recommend to anyone. \n\nIt happened to work out for me, but it was also shady as hell. This was supposedly one of the better ones out there, too.", "name": "Sean"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Childrens Crusade was a failed Crusade of the holy lands by Christian children believed to have taken place in the year 1212. The Crusade likely ended in the children being sold into slavery or dying in a shipwreck.\n\n[Children's Crusade - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Crusade)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, let's send literal children on a crusade, what could possibly go wrong?", "name": "Brooke"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Their fate was doomed from birth most likely, orphans and children of whores or beggars.\n\nThe world was a much darker place back then, and gangs of street children are problems in parts of the world even today, so the 'Crusade' could very well have been nothing more than cities sending their homeless to California.", "name": "Cameron"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. \nTrump received a Bachelor of Science in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968, and his father named him president of his real estate business in 1971. Trump renamed it the Trump Organization and reoriented the company toward building and renovating skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. After a series of business failures in the late twentieth century, he successfully launched side ventures that required little capital, mostly by licensing the Trump name. From 2004 to 2015, he co-produced and hosted the reality television series The Apprentice. He and his businesses have been plaintiff or defendant in more than 4,000 state and federal legal actions, including six business bankruptcies.\nTrump won the 2016 presidential election as the Republican Party nominee against Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton while losing the popular vote. During the campaign, his political positions were described as populist, protectionist, isolationist, and nationalist. His election and policies sparked numerous protests. He was the first U.S. president with no prior military or government experience. A special counsel investigation established that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election to favor Trump's campaign. Trump promoted conspiracy theories and made many false and misleading statements during his campaigns and presidency, to a degree unprecedented in American politics. Many of his comments and actions have been characterized as racially charged or racist and many as misogynistic.\nAs president, Trump ordered a travel ban on citizens from several Muslim-majority countries, diverted military funding toward building a wall on the U.S.–Mexico border, and implemented a policy of family separations for migrants detained at the U.S. border. He weakened environmental protections, rolling back more than 100 environmental policies and regulations. He signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which cut taxes for individuals and businesses and rescinded the individual health insurance mandate penalty of the Affordable Care Act. He appointed Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court. He reacted slowly to the COVID-19 pandemic, ignored or contradicted many recommendations from health officials, used political pressure to interfere with testing efforts, and spread misinformation about unproven treatments. Trump initiated a trade war with China and withdrew the U.S. from the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the Iran nuclear deal. He met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un three times but made no progress on denuclearization.\nTrump refused to concede after losing the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, falsely claiming widespread electoral fraud, and attempted to overturn the results by pressuring government officials, mounting scores of unsuccessful legal challenges, and obstructing the presidential transition. On January 6, 2021, he urged his supporters to march to the U.S. Capitol, which many of them then attacked, resulting in multiple deaths and interrupting the electoral vote count.\nTrump is the only American president to have been impeached twice. After he tried to pressure Ukraine in 2019 to investigate Biden, he was impeached by the House of Representatives for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. He was acquitted by the Senate in February 2020. The House impeached him again in January 2021 for incitement of insurrection. The Senate acquitted him in February. Scholars and historians rank Trump as one of the worst presidents in American history.Since leaving office, Trump has continued to dominate the Republican Party and is a candidate in the 2024 Republican presidential primaries. In 2023, a civil trial jury found that Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll. In 2024, a New York state court found Trump liable for financial fraud. Trump is appealing both judgments. He was also indicted in New York on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, in Florida on 40 felony counts related to his mishandling of classified documents, in Washington, D.C., on four felony counts of conspiracy and obstruction for efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and in Georgia on 13 charges of racketeering and other alleged felonies committed in an effort to overturn the state's 2020 election results. Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations\n\n[Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations?wprov=sfla1&)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Our president has his own wiki page for his sexual harassment allegations. What a time to be alive ", "name": "Abigail"}, {"role": "user", "content": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_sexual_misconduct_allegations\n\nTo be fair, things weren't much different in the 90s", "name": "Jazmin"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Cock rock is a description of rock music that emphasizes an aggressive form of male sexuality. The style developed in the later 1960s, came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, and continues into the present day."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Cock rock is a genre of rock music that emphasizes an aggressive form of male sexuality. The style developed in the later 1960s, came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, and continues into the present day.\n\n[Cock rock - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_rock)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm in my 30s, I'm a huge rock & metal fan, & I've heard my different genres, sub-genres, & cross-genres, but this is the first time I've heard of Cock Rock.", "name": "Seth"}, {"role": "user", "content": "IMO, it's really not a unique musical genre in and of itself, more just a term for hard rock bands that express a certain macho attitude.", "name": "Carson"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's definitely more about the vibe/attitude than the music style itself."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I mean, Led Zeppelin and Nickelback are worlds apart in terms of their musical style, but they could both be considered \"cock rock\".", "name": "Caden"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 1981 the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, suffered the structural collapse of two walkways. The concrete and glass platforms cascaded down, crashing onto a tea dance in the lobby, killing 114. A surgeon spent 20 minutes amputating one victim's pinned leg with a chainsaw; the victim later died.\n\n[Hyatt Regency walkway collapse - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "And this is now talked about in engineering classes worldwide as an example of how not to construct a walkway.", "name": "Hector"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Exactly. Look at this pic...which one is better? One solid piece of steel beam hanging down from the ceiling that supports two levels of walkway or one piece hanging down to support the first level and then a piece hanging from that level to support the one underneath it?", "name": "Shelby"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A war elephant was an elephant that was trained and guided by humans for combat. The war elephant's main use was to charge the enemy, break their ranks, and instill terror and fear. Elephantry is a term for specific military units using elephant-mounted troops."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The war elephant's main use was to charge the enemy, break their ranks and instill terror and fear.\n\n[War elephant - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_elephant)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "And War Pigs were developed to counter them. The pigs would be set on fire with pitch and sent running towards the war elephants. The pigs screams would terrify the war elephants. Man those Romans were creative and brutal.", "name": "Austin"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Huh thanks for commenting, I always wondered where the term 'war pigs' came from. From the wiki article: \"According to an account, Gonatas later made hismahoutskeep a swine among elephants to accustom the animals to pigs and this practice was immortalized by a Roman bronze coin dating back to his time, which showed an elephant on one side and a pig on the other.\"", "name": "Gabriela"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Philadelphia Eagles Santa Claus incident, also referred to as The Santa Claus Game, was an American football game in the 1968 season of the National Football League between the visiting Minnesota Vikings and the Philadelphia Eagles. \nThe incident occurred on December 15, 1968, in Week 14, at the time the final week of the NFL season, with the struggling Eagles sitting at 2–11 on the season. Tied 7–7 at halftime, the team brought out Santa Claus as part of the halftime Christmas parade; but Eagles fans upset by the poor season pelted him with snowballs. \nThe affair has gone down in NFL and sports lore as a representation of the passion, but also the outrageous behavior of Philadelphia sports fans."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Philadelphia Eagles Santa Claus incident, 1968: The Eagles brought out Santa as part of a halftime Christmas parade, but fans upset by the poor season booed and pelted him with snowballs. It has gone down in sports lore as a representation of the passionand the outrageous behaviorof Philly fans.\n\n[Philadelphia Eagles Santa Claus incident - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Eagles_Santa_Claus_incident)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "As a Clevelander, I see your Santa Clause incident and raise you Ten Cent Beer Night and Bottlegate:\n\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten\\_Cent\\_Beer\\_Night](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Cent_Beer_Night)\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottlegate", "name": "Patrick"}, {"role": "user", "content": "**[Ten Cent Beer Night](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Cent_Beer_Night)** \n \n >Ten Cent Beer Night was a promotion held by Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians during a game against the Texas Rangers at Cleveland Stadium on Tuesday, June 4, 1974. The promotion was meant to improve attendance at the game by offering cups of low-alcohol beer for just 10 cents each (equivalent to $0. 55 in 2021), a substantial discount on the regular price of 65 cents (equivalent to $3. 57 in 2021), with a limit of six beers per purchase but with no limit on the number of purchases made during the game.\n \n**[Bottlegate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottlegate)** \n \n >Bottlegate, also referred to as The Beer Bottle Game, was an officiating controversy in an American football game in the 2001 season of the National Football League between the visiting Jacksonville Jaguars and the Cleveland Browns. The inciting incident occurred in week 14 with the Browns sitting at 66, needing a win to keep their playoff hopes alive. Down 1510 with 1:08 remaining, the Browns were forced to try to convert on 4th and 2 at the Jaguars' 12 yard line. Tim Couch took the snap and passed short to Quincy Morgan, who caught the ball for a 3-yard gain and a first down.\n \n^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)", "name": "Sadie"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Sheng nu (Chinese: 剩女; pinyin: shèngnǚ; common translation: leftover women or \"leftover ladies\") is a term popularized by the All-China Women's Federation that classifies women who remain unmarried in their late twenties and beyond. Most prominently used in China, the term has also been used colloquially to refer to women in India, North America, Europe, and other parts of Asia. The term compares unmarried women to leftover food and has gone on to become widely used in the mainstream media and has been the subject of several television series, magazine and newspaper articles, and book publications, focusing on the negative connotations and positive reclamation of the term. While initially backed and disseminated by pro-government media in 2007, the term eventually came under criticism from government-published newspapers two years later. Xu Xiaomin of The China Daily described the sheng nus as \"a social force to be reckoned with\" and others have argued the term should be taken as a positive to mean \"successful women\". The slang term, 3S or 3S Women, meaning \"single, seventies (1970s), and stuck\" has also been used in place of sheng nu.The equivalent term for men, guang gun (光棍) meaning bare branches, is used to refer to men who do not marry and thus do not add 'branches' to the family tree. Similarly, shengnan (剩男) or \"leftover men\" has also been used. Scholars have noted that this term is not as commonly used as \"leftover women\" in Chinese society and that single males reaching a certain age will often be labeled as either \"golden bachelors\"(黄金单身汉) or \"diamond single man\" (钻石王老五)."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Sheng nu (\"leftover ladies\") is a derogatory Chinese term for women who remain unmarried in their late twenties and beyond. By contrast, single males reaching a certain age will often be labeled as either 'golden bachelors' or 'diamond single man.'\n\n[Sheng nu - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_nu)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Only if the man has wealth and an income. This doesn't just apply to all men past at that age. It applies to wealthy single men only. The poor ones are still treated and seen as trash.\n\nThis is why ghost cities exist in China that people buy property in and never live. Because it puts wealth to their name so they can actually be not considered worthless by the rest of society.", "name": "Isabella"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Do you have more info or a link about these ghost cities? That sounds fascinating.", "name": "Melissa"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The original idea, supposedly, is that the country would grow into those cities. That they would move the rest of the rural population into them as they get uplifted. And the government gave people opportunity to buy property in those cities to move into or use when completed. It also served to provide work for people and industries.\n\nExcept no one actually wanted to live in those cities, so no one moved in. Construction even stopped completely in many in lieu of it. Many people own property that hasn't even been constructed, in ghost cities that have been empty for the past decade. The whole \"unconstructed paper property\" thing has been a recent scandal, but having a worthless piece of constructed property in a worthless city isn't exactly much better, which is the other set of people.\n\nThese billion dollar cities, mostly constructed, and fully abandoned.", "name": "Jesus"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Holodomor. The good people died first. Those who refused to steal or to prostitute themselves died. Those who gave food to others died. Those who refused to eat corpses died. Those who refused to kill their fellow man died. Parents who resisted cannibalism died before their children did.\n\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I have always looked for a real explanation of this picture. Are they selling their child as food? They can look at his little face and eat him? Sell him? What is happening here? (I understand that these people are desperate, I just want to understand what is happening.)", "name": "Leonardo"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Me too, I have so many questions.\nI cant even tell if thats a dead kid or some kinda old timely camera whatever making him look creepy.\nSeems like a weird pose for a dead person.\n", "name": "Jenna"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "\"Lemon Incest\" is a single recorded by French father and daughter Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg. It was recorded in 1984 and released as a single from Serge's 1985 album Love on the Beat and on Charlotte's 1986 debut album Charlotte For Ever, marking her musical debut. \n\"Lemon Incest\" is a pop song about a relationship between Serge and Charlotte, the latter of whom was 12 or 13 years old at the time, set to the melody of Frédéric Chopin's Étude Op. 10, No. 3. Its title is a play on the French term un zeste de citron, which translates to lemon zest in English. It peaked at number two in France, where it spent 14 weeks on the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP) chart and was also certified silver by the SNEP.\n\"Lemon Incest\" and its music video, which showed Serge and Charlotte half-naked together in bed, were highly controversial in France due to their implications of pedophilia and incest. As an adult, Charlotte routinely defended the song, which both she and Serge have denied was about incest. Retrospective reviews of the song have been mixed, with some critics describing the lyrics as disturbing and the song as creepy."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Serge Gainsbourg had a duet song with his 12 year old daughter, Charlotte Gainsbourg, in 1984 called Lemon Incest.\n\n[Lemon Incest - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_Incest)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Could this have been some gross publicity stunt?", "name": "Vanessa"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It was. People assume the worst, but it is always about money.", "name": "Mia"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Anna Elisabeth \"Anneliese\" Michel (21 September 1952 – 1 July 1976) was a German woman who underwent 67 Catholic exorcism rites during the year before her death. She died of malnutrition, for which her parents and priest were convicted of negligent homicide. She was diagnosed with epileptic psychosis (temporal lobe epilepsy) and had a history of psychiatric treatment that proved ineffective.When Michel was 16, she experienced a seizure and was diagnosed with psychosis caused by temporal lobe epilepsy. Shortly thereafter, she was diagnosed with depression and was treated by a psychiatric hospital. By the time that she was 20, she had become intolerant of various religious objects and began to hear voices. Her condition worsened despite medication, and she became suicidal, also displaying other symptoms, for which she took medication as well. After taking psychiatric medications for five years failed to improve her symptoms, Michel and her family became convinced she was possessed by a demon. As a result, her family appealed to the Catholic Church for an exorcism. While rejected at first, two priests got permission from the local bishop in 1975. The priests began conducting exorcism sessions and the parents stopped consulting doctors. Anneliese Michel stopped eating food and died of malnourishment and dehydration after 67 exorcism sessions. Michel's parents and the two Roman Catholic priests were found guilty of negligent homicide and were sentenced to six months in jail (reduced to three years of probation), as well as a fine. In a conference several years later, German bishops retracted the claim that she was possessed.Several films are based on her story, including the 2005 film The Exorcism of Emily Rose, the award-winning 2006 film Requiem and the 2011 film Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Anneliese Michel was a young German woman who underwent Catholic exorcism rites during the year before her death. She was diagnosed with epileptic psychosis and had a history of psychiatric treatment, which was overall not effective. The 2005 film The Exorcism of Emily Rose is based on her story.\n\n[Anneliese Michel - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anneliese_Michel)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The [recordings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr-IdHU3A5M) of the exorcism are fucking terrifying. There's [an uncut version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29fpnF1DWoQ) too if you've got the time.", "name": "Reagan"}, {"role": "user", "content": "A couple years ago on a day off I went on a nice long drive near the coast listening to episodes of the Casefile podcast. Obvs the subject matter is always less than pleasant, but... when the episode about Anneliese Michel came on and it was just me, alone in a car with those recordings playing in surround? Welp, not great. Not a great idea on my part, folks, do not recommend doing that, not even a little", "name": "Amanda"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Capitol Hill's Mystery Soda Machine\n\n[Capitol Hill mystery soda machine - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill%27s_mystery_soda_machine?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I didn't know that Hawaiian Punch and Grape Fanta were rare sodas."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hawaiian Punch is rare nowadays. Didnt used to be", "name": "Gabrielle"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Electrocuting an Elephant (also known as Electrocution of an Elephant) is a 1903 American, short, black-and-white, silent documentary film of the killing of the elephant Topsy by electrocution at a Coney Island amusement park. It was produced by the Edison film company (part of the Edison Manufacturing Company) and is believed to have been shot by Edwin S. Porter or Jacob Blair Smith."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Electrocuting an Elephant is a 74 second, 1903 American, short, black-and-white, silent documentary film of the killing of the elephant Topsy by electrocution at a Coney Island amusement park. The elephant is seen to become rigid, throwing her trunk in the air, and then is enveloped in smoke.\n\n[Electrocuting an Elephant - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocuting_an_Elephant)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "My kids learned about this from watching Bob's Burgers.", "name": "Jada"}, {"role": "user", "content": "*I* learned about this from Bob's Burgers.", "name": "Skylar"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Islam (; Arabic: ٱلْإِسْلَام‎, romanized: al-Islām, lit. 'submission [to the will of God]') is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number approximately 1.9 billion worldwide and are the world's second-largest religious population after Christians.Muslims believe that Islam is the complete and universal version of a primordial faith that was revealed many times through earlier prophets and messengers, including Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. Muslims consider the Quran to be the verbatim word of God and the unaltered, final revelation. Alongside the Quran, Muslims also believe in previous revelations, such as the Tawrat (the Torah), the Zabur (Psalms), and the Injil (Gospel). They believe that Muhammad is the main and final Islamic prophet, through whom the religion was completed. The teachings and normative examples of Muhammad, called the sunnah, documented in accounts called the hadith, provide a constitutional model for Muslims. Islam emphasizes that God is one and incomparable. It states that there will be a \"Final Judgment\" wherein the righteous will be rewarded in paradise (jannah) and the unrighteous will be punished in hell (jahannam). The Five Pillars—considered obligatory acts of worship—comprise the Islamic oath and creed (shahada); daily prayers (salah); almsgiving (zakat); fasting (sawm) in the month of Ramadan; and a pilgrimage (hajj) to Mecca. Islamic law, sharia, touches on virtually every aspect of life, from banking and finance and welfare to men's and women's roles and the environment. The two main religious festivals are Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. The three holiest sites in Islam are Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Prophet's Mosque in Medina, and al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.\nThe religion of Islam originated in Mecca in 610 CE. Muslims believe this is when Muhammad received his first revelation. By the time of his death, most of the Arabian Peninsula had converted to Islam. Muslim rule expanded outside Arabia under the Rashidun Caliphate and the subsequent Umayyad Caliphate ruled from the Iberian Peninsula to the Indus Valley. In the Islamic Golden Age, specifically during the reign of the Abbasid Caliphate, much of the Muslim world experienced a scientific, economic and cultural flourishing. The expansion of the Muslim world involved various states and caliphates as well as extensive trade and religious conversion as a result of Islamic missionary activities (dawah), and through conquests and colonialism.\nThe two main Islamic branches are Sunni Islam (85–90%) and Shia Islam (10–15%). While the Shia–Sunni divide initially arose from disagreements over the succession to Muhammad, they grew to cover a broader dimension, both theologically and juridically. Muslims make up a majority of the population in 49 countries. Approximately 12% of the world's Muslims live in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim-majority country; 31% live in South Asia; 20% live in the Middle East–North Africa; and 15% live in sub-Saharan Africa. Muslim communities are also present in the Americas, China, and Europe. Largely due to having a high proportion of young people, and a high fertility rate, Muslims are the world's fastest-growing major religious group."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In Islamic tradition, cats are admired for their cleanliness. They are thought to be ritually clean, and are thus allowed to enter homes and even mosques, including Masjid al-Haram.\n\n[Islam and cats - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_cats?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It is said a cat curled up to sleep on the sleeve of the Prophet's robe while he prostrated in prayer. When his prayers were concluded he cut the sleeve of his robe rather than disturb the cat. Anyone who has a cat understands lol If you love cat videos then googling cats in mosques while people pray will not disappoint."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Interestingly the exact same story exists with the Han emperor Ai and his gay lover Dong Xian. \n\nAnd it predates Islam by abt 600 years it may be that this story involving Islam is also true of course, but the correspondence is interesting", "name": "Derek"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Robert Sandifer (March 12, 1983 – September 1, 1994) (also known as Yummy) was an African-American boy from Chicago, Illinois. His murder by fellow gang members in Chicago garnered national attention because of his age, resulting in his appearance on the cover of Time magazine in September 1994. His nickname originates from his love for cookies. Standing 4 ft 6 in (137 cm), Sandifer was a young member of the Chicago street gang the Black Disciples (BD).\nAfter committing murder, arson, and armed robbery, he was murdered by his own fellow gang members who feared he could become an informant, and that he was attracting too much attention towards their activities. Coverage of Sandifer's death and retrospectives on his short, violent life were widely published in the American media. Sandifer became a symbol of the gang problem in American inner cities, the failure of social safety nets, and the shortcomings of the juvenile justice system."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The 11 year old with 23 felonies murdered by his own gang.\n\n[Robert Sandifer - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sandifer)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What a brutal and short life. Poor little kid.", "name": "Abby"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I know. Little boys dont think to have lives like that unless its one of their only options.\nThey just wanna eat nuggets and play with their friends.", "name": "Maria"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Dong Zhuo () (c. 140s - 22 May 192), courtesy name Zhongying, was a Chinese military general, politician, and warlord who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty. At the end of the reign of the Eastern Han, Dong Zhuo was a general and powerful minister of the imperial government. Originally from Liang Province, Dong Zhuo seized control of the imperial capital Luoyang in 189 when it entered a state of turmoil following the death of Emperor Ling of Han and a massacre of the eunuch faction by the court officials led by General-in-Chief He Jin.\nDong Zhuo subsequently deposed Liu Bian (Emperor Shao) and replaced him with his half-brother, the puppet Emperor Xian to make him become the de facto ruler of China in the boy-emperor's name. The Eastern Han dynasty regime survived in name only. Dong Zhuo's rule was brief and characterized by cruelty and tyranny. In the following year, a coalition of regional officials (cishi) and warlords launched a campaign against him. Failing to stop the coalition forces, Dong Zhuo sacked Luoyang and relocated further west to the former Western Han capital at Chang'an (modern Xi'an, Shaanxi province). He was assassinated soon after in 192 by his subordinate Lü Bu in a plot orchestrated by Interior Minister Wang Yun."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Dong Zhuo threw lavish banquets during where torture would be performed on captured enemies, such as the severing of limbs or removal of tongues and eyeballs or being burnt alive. His audience were said to have experienced a high degree of discomfort.\n\n[Dong Zhuo - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong_Zhuo?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to imagine the people this guy invited just trying to enjoy their pork dumplings but they're being forced to watch captured enemies be horribly tortured and are like \"....the fuck.\"", "name": "Grant"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Imagine you just started dating someone, and they ask you to come to a party. At first you don't want to go because you don't know anyone and will feel awkward. But your partner convinced you. Then it ends up being this dudes party", "name": "Hector"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Jessica Ulrika Meir (IPA: ; meer; born (1977-07-01)July 1, 1977) is an American NASA astronaut, marine biologist, and physiologist. She was previously an assistant professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, following postdoctoral research in comparative physiology at the University of British Columbia. She has studied the diving physiology and behavior of emperor penguins in Antarctica, and the physiology of bar-headed geese, which are able to migrate over the Himalayas. In September 2002, Meir served as an aquanaut on the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations 4 (NEEMO 4) crew. In 2013, she was selected by NASA to Astronaut Group 21. In 2016, Meir participated in ESA CAVES, a training course in which international astronauts train in a space-analogue cave environment. Meir launched on September 25, 2019, to the ISS onboard Soyuz MS-15, where she served as a flight Engineer during Expedition 61 and 62. On October 18, 2019, Meir and Christina Koch were the first women to participate in an all-female spacewalk.\nMeir was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2020."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Jessica Meir, who did her PhD research scuba diving under the Antarctic ice, completed a fellowship in anesthesia at Harvard University, speaks Swedish, Russian and English, and is a certified pilot, was selected as a NASA astronaut and is participating in the first all-female space walk in history.\n\n[Jessica Meir - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Meir)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "On a date:\n\nSo, what do you do for a living?\n\nWell, Im an anesthesiologist, Antarctic scuba diving, airplane pilot, polyglot astronaut", "name": "Kyle"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I don't know if people in the west have a culture of measuring their kids' success against their family members'. But boy, if she were from Asia I wouldn't want to be a cousin of her's.", "name": "Jaden"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Tickling is the act of touching a part of a body in a way that causes involuntary twitching movements or laughter. The word evolved from the Middle English tikelen, perhaps frequentative of ticken, to touch lightly.In 1897, psychologists G. Stanley Hall and Arthur Allin described a \"tickle\" as two different types of phenomena. One type is caused by very light movement across the skin. This type of tickle, called a knismesis, generally does not produce laughter and is sometimes accompanied by an itching sensation.\n\nMr. Tickle is the first book in the Mr. Men series by Roger Hargreaves which was published on 10 August 1971.The character of the story was originally based on a question by his son Adam Hargreaves, who asked him what a tickle would look like; the claim of which is currently being disputed. Adam Hargreaves said that it was one of his most impossible questions as said in the TV special 50 Years of Mr. Men.\nMr. Tickle is an orange Mr. Man who has long, bendy arms and a small, blue hat."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Mr. Tickle's story begins while he's in bed, using his long arms to get a biscuit. He decides that it's a tickling sort of day and goes to tickle people: a teacher, a policeman, a greengrocer, a station guard, a doctor, a butcher, and a postman. Finally he's seen at your door, wanting to tickle you.\n\n[Mr. Tickle - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Tickle)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "In Texas, I dont think he would get past the policeman.", "name": "Erica"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Uvalde says otherwise", "name": "Ian"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Marcia Powell was a 48-year-old incarcerated American woman who died on May 20, 2009, after exposure to extreme heat in an outdoor cage at Arizona State Prison Complex – Perryville in Goodyear, Arizona."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Marcia Powell was a 48 year old woman serving a 27 month prison sentence in Arizona for prostitution. She was found dead from extreme heat exposure after being held in an outdoor cage. At the time of her death her core temperature was 108 F (42 C)\n\n[Death of Marcia Powell - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Marcia_Powell)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This is so horrifying to think about. Prisoners are human too, and she didnt deserve this.", "name": "Claire"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It is scary to think how many people think that if you commit a crime bad enough to land you in prison, then you dont deserve to be treated well. This poor woman. Sounds like life was hard from jump for her.", "name": "John"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug (1 June 1948 – 18 May 2015), was an Indian nurse who was at the centre of attention in a court case on euthanasia after spending over 41 years in a vegetative state as a result of sexual assault.In 1973, while working as a junior nurse at King Edward Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, Shanbaug was sexually assaulted by a hospital janitor, and remained in a vegetative state following the assault. On 24 January 2011, after Shanbaug had been in this state for 37 years, the Supreme Court of India responded to a plea for euthanasia filed by journalist Pinki Virani, setting up a medical panel to examine her. The court rejected the petition on 7 March 2011. However, in its landmark opinion, it allowed passive euthanasia in India.Shanbaug died of pneumonia on 18 May 2015, after being in a persistent vegetative state for nearly 42 years."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Aruna Shanbaug was a nurse who ended up in a vegetative state after being the victim of a violent sexual assault. She remained this way almost 42 years, passing away in 2015.\n\n[Aruna Shanbaug case - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aruna_Shanbaug_case)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "*Fuck* that guy.\n\nHere's an article from a few years ago: https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/kem-nurse-aruna-shanbaugs-assailant-is-alive-tired-of-memories-i-want-to-die/", "name": "Matthew"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Love how he still finds a way to blame the victim and by love i mean hate", "name": "Abby"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "\"McJob\" is a slang term for a low-paying, low-prestige dead-end job that requires few skills and offers very little chance of advancement. The term \"McJob\" comes from the name of the fast-food restaurant McDonald's, but is used to describe any low-status job – regardless of employer – where little training is required, staff turnover is high, and workers' activities are tightly regulated by managers."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# McDonald's trademarked McJobs in 1984 as training for handicapped people. Now, they protest or threaten legal action for dictionaries who've defined it as a dead-end job. They even tried to get their workers to petition those dictionaries, but workers refused and agreed with current definitions.\n\n[McJob - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McJob#History)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This sub is starting to have a big problem with karma farming bots reposting rising posts from /r/Todayilearned that are only a few hours old. 4 of the 5 top posts on this sub's \"hot\" page are currently bot reposts.", "name": "Mariah"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's a modding issue though, we can't do dick about it except report them", "name": "Alana"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "On October 24, 2009, in Richmond, a city on the northeast side of the San Francisco Bay in California, U.S., a female student of Richmond High School was gang raped repeatedly by a group of young males in a courtyard on the school campus while a homecoming dance was being held in the gymnasium. Seven men faced charges related to the rape, and one was released after a preliminary hearing. Of the six remaining defendants, four eventually pleaded guilty and two were convicted at trial.\nThe incident received national attention. As many as 20 witnesses are believed to have been aware of the attack, but for more than two hours, no one notified the police.Six men were imprisoned for the attack. Four pleaded guilty: Manuel Ortega was sentenced to 32 years in prison; Ari Morales was sentenced to 27 years in prison; Elvis Torrentes and John Crane were sentenced to six and three years in prison, after pleading guilty to lesser charges. Jose Montano and Marcelles Peter went to trial in 2013 and were convicted of forcible rape acting in concert, a forcible act of sexual penetration while acting in concert, and forcible oral copulation in concert. Montano and Peter were respectively sentenced to 33 years to life and 29 years to life, and their convictions and sentences were upheld in 2019."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 2009 a female student was sexually assaulted during a high school dance by six males aged 15-40. As many as 20 people witnessed the attack but the police werent called until 2 hours later.\n\n[2009 Richmond High School gang rape - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Richmond_High_School_gang_rape)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Any group of young men who could carry out such an attack on a defenseless, intoxicated student are nothing more than a roving pack of vicious animals, and in a civilized society, vicious animals are put down. Humans who act in such a manner are put away for the rest of their lives.\n\nMentioned by the San Francisco Chronicle. I couldnt agree more."}, {"role": "user", "content": "And all of those bystanders who saw a group of adult men, some as old as their late 40s, kick, beat, and r*pe a CHILD for 2 and a half hours. These are the things in life that just make me want to unalive.", "name": "Francisco"}]