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[{"role": "system", "content": "Pharmacological torture is the use of psychotropic or other drugs to punish or extract information from a person. The aim is to force compliance by causing distress, which could be in the form of pain, anxiety, psychological disturbance, immobilization, or disorientation.One form of this torture involves forcibly injecting a person with addictive drugs in order to induce physical dependence. The drug is then withdrawn, and, once the person is in withdrawal, the interrogation is started. If the person complies with the torturer's demands, the drug is reintroduced, relieving the person's withdrawal symptoms."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Pharmacological torture: forcibly injecting a person with addictive drugs in order to induce dependence. The drug is then withdrawn, and, once the person is in withdrawal, the interrogation is started. If the person complies with the demands, the drug is reintroduced.\n\n[Pharmacological torture - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacological_torture)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Thats horrifying.", "name": "Lauren"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Physical torture, it's like... yeah, it's easy and obvious how people could think of ways to beat and injure and cause people pain. But this? How the fuck does someone think this up? Terrifying."}, {"role": "user", "content": "As someone who has gone through opiate withdrawal probably more than anyone you will ever meet in your life - I bet it's crazy effective at getting confessions, whether guilty or not.", "name": "Elizabeth"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"No Way to Prevent This\", Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens\n\n['No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22No_Way_to_Prevent_This%22,_Says_Only_Nation_Where_This_Regularly_Happens)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I hate this quote so much, sure the united states is the only country with this problem, it's also the only country that is multicultural and multiethnic, it's the only country that has to balance the needs of all these people. Really the United States is a unique experiment unlike any other in the history of the world. So yeah, the only country with this problem, also the only country that is in a category by itself.\n\nLooks like I made a mistake while typing this up, I'll leave the original above for posterity. When I wrote this: \"it's also the only country that is multicultural and multiethnic\" There should have been an \"on this scale and with this large of a population\" at the end.\n\nAlso, a lot of people are coming out freaking out saying I'm talking about American exceptionalism, but given that omission, I can see why. I was trying to convey that the United States has such a large population, such a diverse ecological landscape, and so many societal pressures that don't exist in other countries, just like any random country you pick will have problems the United States doesn't have. As far as being in a category on its own, it really is based on the boundary conditions I drew (and nothing else). But if you draw enough boundaries you can put every country in its own container if you were so inclined."}, {"role": "user", "content": "The only country that is multicultural and multiethnic? Are you serious?", "name": "Miguel"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 1995, unnamed saboteurs derailed a train in Palo Verde, Arizona, killing one and injuring 78. Four typewritten notes found nearby took credit for the attack but never lead to any arrests.\n\n[1995 Palo Verde, Arizona, derailment - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Palo_Verde%2C_Arizona_derailment)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "If anyone is interested, I did a pretty in-depth podcast episode about this story back in 2018. Transcript and sources available at the link:\n\n[Unresolved - Sunset Limited Derailment](https://unresolved.me/sunset-limited-derailment)", "name": "Jordyn"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Cool, I'll add this to my list. Before I jump down this rabbit hole, and before listening to your work, what is your theory of who the perps were that committed this crime?", "name": "Emma"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I don't really have a favored suspect in this case, however I do mention a specific suspect who sounds enticing (a crazed local who had beef with some rail companies). I also float the idea of it being a white supremacist group hoping to get revenge from Waco/Ruby Ridge (similar to the OKC bombing).", "name": "Skylar"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The fact that you didn't say \"you'll just have to listen to find out\" made me just go add this podcast to play next.", "name": "Diana"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Urethral intercourse or coitus par urethra is sexual penetration of the female urethra by an object such as a penis or a finger. It is not to be confused with urethral sounding, the act of inserting a specialized medical tool into the urethra (for both males and females) as a form of sexual or fetishistic activity.\nThe untrained insertion of foreign bodies into the urethra carries a significant risk that subsequent medical attention may be required. Documented cases of urethral intercourse appear to have occurred between heterosexual couples; a survey of the global medical literature available in 1965 reported accounts of thirteen separate cases. By 2014, 26 cases had been documented in the medical literature, many in people with Müllerian dysgenesis who were engaging in urethral intercourse unknowingly. However, the stretching of the urethra required by this form of intercourse has also reportedly resulted in a complete and permanent loss of urethral sphincter control (urinary incontinence); furthermore such intercourse presents a very high risk of bladder infection to the receptive partner. It can also lead to permanent dilation of the urethra and incontinence during intercourse. Presenting symptoms of unintentional urethral intercourse include primary infertility, dyspareunia (pain during intercourse), and incontinence. More serious consequences include evisceration via the urethra and bladder rupture."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Urethral intercourse or coitus per urethram is sexual penetration of the female urethra by an object such as a penis or a finger. It is not the same thing as urethral sounding, the act of inserting a specialized medical tool into the urethra as a form of sexual or fetishistic activity.\n\n[Urethral intercourse - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urethral_intercourse)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "So this is, uh... something on its own.\n\nBut the article has an audio version. Someone recorded themself reading this. I..."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Of course someone's fetish is recording audio versions of nsfw wiki article", "name": "Aubrey"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "\"No Woman, No Cry\" is a reggae song by Bob Marley and the Wailers. The song was recorded in 1974 and released on the studio album Natty Dread.The live recording of this song from the 1975 album Live! was released as a single and is the best-known version; it was later included on several compilation albums, including the greatest hits compilation Legend. It was recorded at the Lyceum Theatre in London on 17 July 1975 as part of his Natty Dread Tour.The live version of the song ranked No. 37 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.In 2005, the live version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Bob Marley gave a songwriting credit on the song 'No Woman, No Cry' to his friend Vincent Ford, who ran a soup kitchen in Trenchtown, a ghetto in Kingston where Marley grew up. The royalties ensured the kitchen stayed open.\n\n[No Woman, No Cry - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Woman,_No_Cry)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Fuck cancer. The world still needed you my friend.", "name": "Jordyn"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Cancer sucks but I always attributed his death to being surrounded with sycophants who didnt say anything when he chose to go against doctors advice. Still you arent wrong. Bob would do this world some good right now.", "name": "Karina"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Phineas Taylor Barnum (; July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, businessman and politician remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus with James Anthony Bailey.\nHe was also an author, publisher and philanthropist, although he said of himself: \"I am a showman by profession ... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.\" According to Barnum's critics, his personal aim was \"to put money in his own coffers.\" The adage \"there's a sucker born every minute\" has frequently been attributed to him, although no evidence exists that he had indeed coined the phrase.\nBarnum became a small-business owner in his early twenties and founded a weekly newspaper before moving to New York City in 1834. He embarked on an entertainment career, first with a variety troupe called \"Barnum's Grand Scientific and Musical Theater\", and soon after by purchasing Scudder's American Museum, which he renamed after himself. He used the museum as a platform to promote hoaxes and human curiosities such as the Fiji mermaid and General Tom Thumb. In 1850, he promoted the American tour of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind, paying her an unprecedented $1,000, equivalent to $35,176 in 2022, per night for 150 nights. He suffered economic reversals in the 1850s from unwise investments, as well as years of litigation and public humiliation, but he embarked on a lecture tour as a temperance speaker to emerge from debt. His museum added America's first aquarium and expanded its wax-figure department.\nBarnum served two terms in the Connecticut legislature in 1865 as a Republican for Fairfield, Connecticut. He spoke before the legislature concerning the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude: \"A human soul, 'that God has created and Christ died for,' is not to be trifled with. It may tenant the body of a Chinaman, a Turk, an Arab, or a Hottentot—it is still an immortal spirit.\" He was elected in 1875 as mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he worked to improve the water supply, bring gas lighting to streets and enforce liquor and prostitution laws. He was instrumental in the inception of Bridgeport Hospital in 1878 and was its first president. The circus business, begun when he was 60 years old, was the source of much of his enduring fame. He established \"P.T. Barnum's Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippodrome\" in 1870, a traveling circus, menagerie and museum of \"freaks\" that adopted many names over the years.\nBarnum was married to Charity Hallett from 1829 until her death in 1873, and they had four children. In 1874, a few months after his wife's death, he married Nancy Fish, his friend's daughter and 40 years his junior. They were married until 1891 when Barnum died of a stroke at his home. He was buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, which he designed himself.\n\nThe Barnum effect, also called the Forer effect or, less commonly, the Barnum–Forer effect, is a common psychological phenomenon whereby individuals give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically to them, yet which are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people. This effect can provide a partial explanation for the widespread acceptance of some paranormal beliefs and practices, such as astrology, fortune telling, aura reading, and some types of personality tests.Psychologist Bertram Forer originally named it the \"fallacy of personal validation\". The term \"Barnum effect\" was coined in 1956 by psychologist Paul Meehl in his essay \"Wanted – A Good Cookbook\", because he relates the vague personality descriptions used in certain \"pseudo-successful\" psychological tests to those given by showman P. T. Barnum."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Barnum effect is a common psychological phenomenon whereby individuals give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically to them, yet which are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people.\n\n[Barnum effect - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Which is exactly how astrology \"works\".", "name": "Dominic"}, {"role": "user", "content": "And also MBTI, mostly.", "name": "Melissa"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Caesar's Retreat was a massage parlor and brothel in NYC which operated from the early 1970s until 1982.\n\n[Caesar's Retreat - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar%27s_Retreat)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": ">According to sex activist Annie Sprinkle, Caesar's Retreat was among \"...the best brothels in New York City.\""}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Octopolis and Octlantis are two non-human settlements occupied by gloomy octopuses (Octopus tetricus) in Jervis Bay, on the south coast of New South Wales. The first site, named \"Octopolis\" by biologists, was found in 2009. Octopolis consists of a bed of shells (mainly scallop shells) in an ellipse shape, 2–3 meters diameter on its longer axis, with a single piece of anthropogenic detritus, believed to be scrap metal, within the site. Octopuses build dens by burrowing into the shell bed. The shells appear to provide a much better building material for the octopuses than the fine sediment around the site. Up to 14 octopuses have been seen at Octopolis at a single time. In 2016, a second settlement was found nearby, named \"Octlantis,\" which includes no human-made objects and can house similar numbers of octopuses. Both sites are within Booderee National Park. Some media accounts have described these sites as octopus \"cities,\" but researchers who have worked on the sites view this as a misleading analogy."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Octopolis and Octlantis are two separate non-human underwater settlements built by octopuses.\n\n[Octopolis and Octlantis - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopolis_and_Octlantis)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wheres the pictures??", "name": "Jared"}, {"role": "user", "content": "There's a few pictures in the references cited and linked in the article, if anyone wants to take a look at them.", "name": "Delaney"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Link for the lazy.\n\nhttps://www.sciencealert.com/marine-biologists-discover-an-underwater-octopus-city-octlantis-jervis-bay-australia\n\nhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbnJ2aJXYAomCWP?format=jpg&name=large", "name": "Brendan"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "2 (two) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 1 and preceding 3. It is the smallest and only even prime number. Because it forms the basis of a duality, it has religious and spiritual significance in many cultures.\n\nThe Cessna 172 Skyhawk is an American four-seat, single-engine, high wing, fixed-wing aircraft made by the Cessna Aircraft Company. First flown in 1955, more 172s have been built than any other aircraft. It was developed from the 1948 Cessna 170 but with tricycle landing gear rather than conventional landing gear. The Skyhawk name was originally used for a trim package, but was later applied to all standard-production 172 aircraft, while some upgraded versions were marketed as the Cutlass.\nMeasured by its longevity and popularity, the Cessna 172 is the most successful aircraft in history. Cessna delivered the first production model in 1956, and as of 2015, the company and its partners had built more than 44,000 units. The aircraft remains in production today.\nA general aviation airplane, the Skyhawk's main competitors have been the Beechcraft Musketeer and Grumman AA-5 series (neither currently in production), the Piper Cherokee, and, more recently, the Diamond DA40 and Cirrus SR20."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 1958 two pilots flew a Cessna for more than two months without landing, refueling by matching speed with a truck driving down a road. Their record has not been broken\n\n[Cessna 172 - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_172#Operational_history)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "For the complete experience shred $100 bills the entire time.", "name": "Brooke"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "National Masturbation Day, also known as International Masturbation Day, is an annual event held to protect and celebrate the \"right to masturbate\". The first National Masturbation Day was May 7, 1995, after sex-positive retailer Good Vibrations declared the day in honor of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, who was fired by President Bill Clinton in 1994 for suggesting masturbation be part of the sex education curriculum for students.International Masturbation Day has since been expanded to include the entire month of May as International Masturbation Month. In 2023, in honor of Magic Wand's 55th Anniversary and in conjunction with Masturbation May #truemagicwand was started on May 20th."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# International Masturbation Day: An annual event held to protect and celebrate the \"right to masturbate\".\n\n[National Masturbation Day - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Masturbation_Day)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": ">The first National Masturbation Day was May 7, 1995, after sex-positive retailer Good Vibrations declared the day in honor of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, who was fired by President Bill Clinton in 1994 for suggesting masturbation be part of the sex education curriculum for students."}, {"role": "user", "content": "A whole day seems a bit much ", "name": "Katie"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Imagine if it was a national holiday, there could be a countdown like new years eve, everyone masturbates and orgasms at the same time.", "name": "Vanessa"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Sounds like last Friday ... ", "name": "Stephanie"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Public Domain Day (PDD) is an observance of when copyrights expire and works enter into the public domain. This legal transition of copyright works into the public domain usually happens every year on January 1 based on the individual copyright laws of each country.The observance of a \"Public Domain Day\" was initially informal; the earliest known mention was in 2004 by Wallace McLean (a Canadian public domain activist), with support for the idea echoed by Lawrence Lessig. Several websites list the authors whose works are entering the public domain each January 1. There are activities in countries around the world by various organizations all under the banner Public Domain Day."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Significant materials entering the public domain in 2021 include: F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby, Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway, Ernest Hemingways In Our Time, Franz Kafkas The Trial, and the jazz standard Sweet Georgia Brown\n\n[Public Domain Day - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Domain_Day)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Sweet now I can have cheap copies printed in Indonesia and also pay someone overseas $.45 an hour to convert them to ebook format. Then add to Amazon marketplace and make plans for an early retirement in Costa Rica or the Canary Islands . I'm not so smart or literary but I could add my own preface as a unique selling point. \n\n*The Great Gatsby* Diamond Grandmaster Edition, with an illuminating, one-of-a-kind preface by the foremost American literature scholar, Trying to Be Here. \n\nAbout the author:\n\nTrying to Be Here studied creative writing at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He left University in his final semester after Professor Maple told him his poems were \"nothing more than rants\" and \"don't meet the bar for admission into a graduate creative writing program.\" Adding insult to injury she said \"I recommend you forget about writing, forget about global warming, change your major to petroleum engineering. You'll thank me when drilling begins in ANWAR.\"\n\nDisturbed but inspired by Professor Maple's rejection, TryingToBeHere has triumphed over English departments all over the world with his publication of THE great American novel, and a preface that will change how you think about Gatsby forever.\n\nProfessor Maple was later mauled by a moose on campus and Ravens pecked her eyes out before her remains were found.", "name": "Elijah"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Funnily enough, petroleum engineering is pretty crowded from what I hear, and very dependent on cycles. Yeah it's among the higher paid engineering fields, bit that comes with the boom-bust cycle.", "name": "Autumn"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "London is the capital and largest city of England, and the United Kingdom, with a population of around 8.8 million, and the largest city in Western Europe by metropolitan area, with a population of 14.8 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a 50-mile (80 km) estuary down to the North Sea and has been a major settlement for nearly two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Romans as Londinium and retains its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national government and parliament. Since the 19th century, the name \"London\" also refers to the metropolis around this core, historically split among the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which since 1965 has largely comprised Greater London, which is governed by 33 local authorities and the Greater London Authority.As one of the world's major global cities, London exerts a strong influence on world art, entertainment, fashion, commerce and finance, education, health care, media, science and technology, tourism, transport, and communications. Despite a post-Brexit exodus of stock listings from the London Stock Exchange, London is still one of Europe's most economically powerful cities, and it remains one of the major financial centres in the world. With Europe's largest concentration of higher education institutions, it is home to some of the highest-ranked academic institutions in the world—Imperial College London in natural and applied sciences, the London School of Economics in social sciences, and the comprehensive University College London. London is the most visited city in Europe and has the busiest city airport system in the world. The London Underground is the oldest rapid transit system in the world.London's diverse cultures encompass over 300 languages. The 2023 population of Greater London of just under 10 million made it Europe's third-most populous city, accounting for 13.4% of the population of the United Kingdom and over 16% of the population of England. The Greater London Built-up Area is the fourth-most populous in Europe, with about 9.8 million inhabitants at the 2011 census. The London metropolitan area is the third-most populous in Europe, with about 14 million inhabitants in 2016, granting London the status of a megacity.\nLondon has four World Heritage Sites: the Tower of London; Kew Gardens; the combined Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey, and St Margaret's Church; and the historic settlement in Greenwich, where the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, defines the prime meridian (0° longitude) and Greenwich Mean Time. Other landmarks include Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, St Paul's Cathedral, Tower Bridge, and Trafalgar Square. London has many museums, galleries, libraries, and cultural venues, including the British Museum, National Gallery, Natural History Museum, Tate Modern, British Library, and numerous West End theatres. Important sporting events held in London include the FA Cup Final, the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, and the London Marathon. In 2012, London became the first city to host three Summer Olympic Games.\n\nLondon After Midnight (original working title: The Hypnotist) is a lost 1927 American silent mystery horror film directed and co-produced by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney, with Marceline Day, Conrad Nagel, Henry B. Walthall and Polly Moran. The film was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and was written by Waldemar Young, based on the story \"The Hypnotist\" which was written by Browning. Merritt B. Gerstad was the cinematographer, and the sets were designed by Cedric Gibbons and Arnold Gillespie. Harry Sharrock was the assistant director. The film cost $151,666.14 to produce, and grossed $1,004,000. Chaney's real-life make-up case can be seen in the last scene of the film sitting on a table, the only time it ever appeared in a film.\nBrowning remade the film as a talkie in 1935, as Mark of the Vampire, starring Bela Lugosi.The last known copy of the film was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire, making it one of the most sought-after lost silent films. In 2002, Turner Classic Movies aired a reconstructed version, produced by Rick Schmidlin, using the original script and numerous film stills to recreate the original plot."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# London After Midnight is a lost 1927 American silent mystery horror film. The last known copy of the film was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire, along with hundreds of other rare early films, making it one of the most sought-after lost silent films.\n\n[London After Midnight (film) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_After_Midnight_(film))"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": ">Historian Jon C. Mirsalis commented, \"Despite all the mythology and excitement over the film, all indications are that it would be a disappointment if uncovered today. Both Everson and Bradley admit that the film was inferior to Mark of the Vampire. The critics of the time were likewise lukewarm, and even Chaney's performance got less than the usual enthusiastic reviews. The eerie sets, and Chaney's stunning vampire make-up, make for intriguing still photographs, but these scenes account for only a small portion of the film, the rest of the footage being devoted to Polly Moran's comic relief, and talkie passages between detective Chaney and Walthall. Perhaps it is a film that is viewed with more reverence than it deserves simply because it is no longer available for study.\""}, {"role": "user", "content": "It's funny how that single still (\"The Man in the Beaver Hat\") is so recognizable to so many people, considering the lost status of the film.\n\nI first encountered it in a book as a kid in the '60s, and have seen it in many, many places since.", "name": "Addison"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# As she was bored with simple orgies, she began to demand human sacrifices and devised a blood ritual: the sacrificed was brutally beaten, burned, cut and mutilated by all members of the cult, before being left to bleed to death.\n\n[Magdalena Solís - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalena_Sol%C3%ADs)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "In its own way, its kind of a bummer there arent more sexually motivated female serial killers who think they are living embodiments of goddesses. In most ways its not a bummer at all but still."}, {"role": "user", "content": "\"it's kind of a bummer there aren't more sexually motivated female serial killers\" is such a reddit thing to say", "name": "Kendall"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# The incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police officer and then convincing managers to conduct strip searches of employees (or in one case a customer), and to perform other bizarre acts on behalf of \"the police\n\n[Strip search phone call scam - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_phone_call_scam?wprov=sfti1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This happened at my job around 20 years ago (Arby's). The shift manager who fell for the scam was a twentysomething woman, and the victim was a 16 year old girl. It was a mess.", "name": "Gage"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Thats so awful. I cant imagine being like, Okay. Sure. Ill do it, after getting a call like that."}, {"role": "user", "content": "The manager didn't actually strip search the girl per se. They went into the restroom together, and the manager sent her into a stall to undress and hand her clothing over to be checked for the \"stolen money and jewelry\". The manager was fired, and the employee's parents declined to press charges.", "name": "Kylie"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Humancanine bond: This bond can be traced back at least 15,000 years to the Bonn-Oberkassel dog that was found buried with two humans.\n\n[Human–canine bond - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93canine_bond)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The human cat bond goes back to the monkey cat bond. So there dogs.", "name": "Victor"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It's kind of funny how this article is titled \"Human-canine bond\", but the equivalent article about cats is just called \"[Human interaction with cats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_interaction_with_cats)\"."}, {"role": "user", "content": "\"Day 983 of my captivity.\n\nMy captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects.\"", "name": "William"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Brandolini is an Italian surname. Brandolini d'Adda are a noble Venetian patrician family.[1] Notable people with the surname Brandolini include:\n\nAureliano Brandolini (1927–2008), Italian agronomist and development cooperation scholar\nAurelio Lippo Brandolini (1454?–1497), Italian humanist and political theorist\nCoco Brandolini d'Adda (born 1979), Italian fashion editor and executive\nCristiana Brandolini d'Adda (born 1927), Italian socialite\nBianca Brandolini d’Adda (born 1987), Italian fashion model, actress and socialite\nFernando Brandolini (1932–1987), Italian professional racing cyclist\nGeorgina Brandolini d'Adda (born 1949), French-Brazilian fashion executive\nLuca Brandolini (born 1933), Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church\nMarie Brandolini d'Adda (1963-2013), French-Italian glass maker\nMuriel Brandolini, French-Vietnamese interior designer\nAlberto Brandolini, data scientist and proponent of Brandolini's Law"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage that emphasizes the difficulty of debunking false, facetious, or otherwise misleading information: \"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it.\"\n\n[Brandolini's law - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "A la Yms Kimba/ Lion King Conspiracy take down", "name": "Patrick"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh?", "name": "Cole"}, {"role": "user", "content": "See for yourself. https://youtu.be/G5B1mIfQuo4\n\n​\n\nBasic gist, some old Japanese show from way back had many, many episodes made of a popular children's tv show, and it happened to have lions in it. \n\nThe conspiracy theory was that Disney stole the characters, story and much of everything and put into their Lion king movie. \n\nThe video I linked above basically just disproves that by him needing to do heavy amount of research to debunk all the ridiculous claims and screen shots that apparently \"prove\" they stole it. \n\nA little spoiler: Lion king was more inspired by Hamlet than the children Tv show.", "name": "Jason"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Daniel Lambert (13 March 1770 – 21 June 1809) was an English gaol keeper and animal breeder from Leicester, famous for his unusually large size. After serving four years as an apprentice at an engraving and die casting works in Birmingham, he returned to Leicester around 1788 and succeeded his father as keeper of Leicester's gaol. He was a keen sportsman and extremely strong; on one occasion he fought a bear in the streets of Leicester. He was an expert in sporting animals, widely respected for his expertise with dogs, horses and fighting cocks.\nAt the time of Lambert's return to Leicester, his weight began to increase steadily, even though he was athletically active and, by his own account, abstained from drinking alcohol and did not eat unusual amounts of food. In 1805, Lambert's gaol closed. By this time, he weighed 50 stone (700 lb; 320 kg), and had become the heaviest authenticated person up to that point in recorded history. Unemployable and sensitive about his bulk, Lambert became a recluse.\nIn 1806, poverty forced Lambert to put himself on exhibition to raise money. In April 1806, he took up residence in London, charging spectators to enter his apartments to meet him. Visitors were impressed by his intelligence and personality, and visiting him became highly fashionable. After some months on public display, Lambert grew tired of exhibiting himself, and in September 1806, he returned, wealthy, to Leicester, where he bred sporting dogs and regularly attended sporting events. Between 1806 and 1809, he made a further series of short fundraising tours.\nIn June 1809, he died suddenly in Stamford, Lincolnshire. At the time of his death, he weighed 52 stone 11 pounds (739 lb; 335 kg), and his coffin required 112 square feet (10.4 square metres) of wood. Despite the coffin being built with wheels to allow easy transport, and a sloping approach being dug to the grave, it took 20 men almost half an hour to drag his casket into the trench, in a newly opened burial ground to the rear of St Martin's Church. While others have since overtaken Daniel Lambert's record as the heaviest person in history, he remains a popular character in Leicester, and in 2009 was described by the Leicester Mercury as \"one of the city's most cherished icons\"."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Daniel Lambert was a gaol keeper and animal breeder from Leicester, England, famous for his unusually large size. He was a keen sportsman and extremely strong, on one occasion he fought a bear in the streets of Leicester.\n\n[Daniel Lambert - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lambert)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I know \"gaol keeper\" means \"prison guard\" but I can't help but imagine he would also be a very effective goalkeeper.", "name": "Derek"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I did not know that and i thought well he can properly block the net for sure.", "name": "Katie"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Dustin Lee Honken (March 22, 1968 – July 17, 2020) and Angela Jane Johnson (born January 17, 1964) are American mass murderers convicted of the 1993 murders of five people in Iowa.\nThe victims were related to a drug trial against Honken. Honken was involved in the manufacturing of methamphetamine, and one of his dealers was set to testify against him, so Honken and Johnson murdered him along with his girlfriend and her two young daughters. A few months later, the fifth victim, also a former dealer, was murdered.Although Iowa abolished capital punishment in 1965, the crime was a federal case since it involved a continuing criminal enterprise. Honken was sentenced to death and executed by the federal government on July 17, 2020, the first defendant from Iowa to be executed since 1963. Johnson was also sentenced to death, the first woman sentenced to death by a United States federal jury since the 1950s, but the sentence was overturned in 2012, and she was resentenced to life without parole in 2014."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In the 1990s, chemistry student Dustin Honken decided to use his newfound knowledge to become a meth kingpin. He made hundreds of thousands, but still wanted more. Honken was willing to do anything to protect his business. At one point, he executed an entire family, including two young children.\n\n[1993 Iowa murders - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Iowa_murders)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Heisenberg", "name": "Bryan"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, Breaking Bad is about a good person becoming a bad person, whereas after I read through Honken's appeals, it looks like he was always a horrible person.\n\nDuring Honken's murder trial, his mitigation expert, Lisa Rickert, wrote to his lawyers that she could hardly find anything as far as mitigation went, and what she discovered only made Honken look even worse than how the government had presented him. The defense did not have her take the stand out of the fear that their own expert might conclude that Honken was a psychopath and/or a narcissist. Here's what Rickert found:\n\n* Honken physically and verbally abused his sister. He once held a pillow over her face after she told one of his girlfriends that he had other girlfriends. She was unable to breathe and was scared that her brother would kill her, but Honken stopped, apologized and started crying when he realized what he had done. On another occasion, Honken tried to drown her in a hotel pool. She could not breathe and swallowed water. Dustin later stopped and helped her to the side. Due to Honken's abuse of his sister, she was scared of him and was always trying to please him.\n* Honken was a racist.\n* In 1984, Honken plotted a bank robbery in which the person who he would convince to commit the robbery for him would be killed and thrown into a pond.\n* In 1986, Honken schemed to kill one of his accomplices after stealing a car.\n* Between 1986 and 1989, Honken was involved in a conversation which mentioned the possibility of killing his brother's business partner to collect a million dollar life insurance policy.\n* In 1990, Honken raped and threatened his girlfriend. He later threatened to lock her in the basement and wondered how long it would take for her to be found, and how deep someone would need to be buried for them not be plowed up by farm machinery.\n\nOn top of all of this, there didn't seem to be anything from Honken's childhood explaining everything he had done so I think he was just a malignant psychopath and a narcissist."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Ball State University (Ball State, State or BSU) is a public research university in Muncie, Indiana. It has two satellite facilities in Fishers and Indianapolis. \nIn 1917, the Ball brothers, industrialists and founders of the Ball Corporation, acquired the foreclosed Indiana Normal Institute and gave the school and surrounding land to the State of Indiana. The Indiana General Assembly accepted the donation in the spring of 1918, with an initial 235 students enrolling at the Indiana State Normal School – Eastern Division on June 17, 1918.\nBall State is classified among \"R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity\". The university is composed of seven academic colleges. As of Fall 2020, total enrollment was 21,597 students, including 15,205 undergraduates and 5,817 postgraduates. The university offers about 120 undergraduate majors and 130 minor areas of study and more than 100 master's, doctoral, certificate, and specialist degrees.Ball State athletic teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are known as the Ball State Cardinals. The university is a member of the Mid-American Conference and the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association. In fall 2020, the university formed a varsity esports team and joined the Esports Collegiate Conference.\n\n\"Boom goes the dynamite!\" is a catchphrase coined by Ball State University student Brian Collins, popularized after a video of him delivering an ill-fated sports broadcast that included the phrase was shared on YouTube in 2005. In the ensuing years it has become a popular phrase, used to indicate a pivotal moment."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"Boom goes the dynamite!\" is a catchphrase coined in 2005 by Ball State student Brian Collins, popularized in an ill-fated campus sports news broadcast. His teleprompter was fast-forwarded, leaving him no choice but to ad-lib. It has since become a popular phrase, used to indicate a pivotal moment.\n\n[Boom goes the dynamite - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_goes_the_dynamite)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "They give wiki pages to anything these days"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "These days? The article was created over 14 years ago. It's been there for 2/3 of wikipedia's history."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "In Japanese culture, π/ (パイスラッシュ or パイスラ, Romanized Paisurasshu, pai sura, paisura or pai slash) denotes the appearance of a woman's breasts bisected by a diagonal strap (slash), such as an automobile shoulder harness or purse worn cross-body. The term involves a play on words of the Japanese word for breasts, oppai. The term began to appear on the Internet in June 2006.There is a similar term in Hong Kong called 𠝹波袋 (or 鎅波袋, lit. 'cutting the breasts')."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In Japanese culture, \"pai slash\" denotes the appearance of a woman's breasts bisected by a diagonal strap (slash), such as an automobile shoulder harness or purse worn cross-body.\n\n[Pai slash - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pai_slash)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I love that there's a term for this.\n\nAlso, I wear a messenger bag whenever I leave home, so I experience this pretty much daily."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries. The Coinage Act of 1792 introduced the U.S. dollar at par with the Spanish silver dollar, divided it into 100 cents, and authorized the minting of coins denominated in dollars and cents. U.S. banknotes are issued in the form of Federal Reserve Notes, popularly called greenbacks due to their predominantly green color.\nThe monetary policy of the United States is conducted by the Federal Reserve System, which acts as the nation's central bank.\nThe U.S. dollar was originally defined under a bimetallic standard of 371.25 grains (24.057 g) (0.7735 troy ounces) fine silver or, from 1837, 23.22 grains (1.505 g) fine gold, or $20.67 per troy ounce. The Gold Standard Act of 1900 linked the dollar solely to gold. From 1934, its equivalence to gold was revised to $35 per troy ounce. Since 1971, all links to gold have been repealed.The U.S. dollar became an important international reserve currency after the First World War, and displaced the pound sterling as the world's primary reserve currency by the Bretton Woods Agreement towards the end of the Second World War. The dollar is the most widely used currency in international transactions, and a free-floating currency. It is also the official currency in several countries and the de facto currency in many others, with Federal Reserve Notes (and, in a few cases, U.S. coins) used in circulation.\nAs of February 10, 2021, currency in circulation amounted to US$2.10 trillion, $2.05 trillion of which is in Federal Reserve Notes (the remaining $50 billion is in the form of coins and older-style United States Notes).As of September 20, 2023, the Federal Reserve estimated that the total amount of currency in circulation was approximately US$2.33 trillion.\n\nLarge denominations of United States currency greater than $100 were circulated by the United States Treasury until 1969. Since then, U.S. dollar banknotes have been issued in seven denominations: $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# United States Currency includes $500, $1000, $10,000, and $100,000 denominations. Used primarily by banks and the federal government for large transactions, these bills were taken out of circulation in 1969, but most are still considered legal tender and are sought after by collectors and museums.\n\n[Large denominations of United States currency - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_denominations_of_United_States_currency)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I, despite not being a collector or a museum curator, am also interested in obtaining a $500, $1000, $10,000, or $100,000 bill.", "name": "Javier"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What for?", "name": "Haley"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I would like to be, at a minimum, $500, $1,000, $10,000, or $100,000 richer.", "name": "Emma"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Five Families refer to five Italian American Mafia crime families that operate in New York City. In 1931, the five families were organized by Salvatore Maranzano following his victory in the Castellammarese War.\nMaranzano reorganized the Italian American gangs in New York City into the Maranzano, Profaci, Mangano, Luciano, and Gagliano families, which are now known as the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese families. Each family had a demarcated territory and an organizationally structured hierarchy and reported to the same overarching governing entity. Initially, Maranzano intended each family's boss to report to him as the capo dei capi (\"boss of all the bosses\").\nHowever, this led to his assassination that September, and that role was abolished for the Commission, a ruling committee established by Lucky Luciano to oversee all Mafia activities in the United States and to mediate conflicts between families. It consisted of the bosses of the Five Families as well as the bosses of the Chicago Outfit and the Buffalo crime family. In 1963, Joseph Valachi publicly disclosed the existence of New York City's Five Families at the Valachi hearings. Since then, a few other crime families have been able to become powerful or notable enough to rise to a level comparable to that of the Five Families, holding or sharing the unofficial designation of Sixth Family."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Five Families are the five major NYC organized crime families of the Italian American Mafia formed in 1931 by Salvatore Maranzano following his victory in the Castellammarese War. They are the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese families, and each has a demarcated territory.\n\n[Five Families - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Families)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I remember a couple years ago the boss of the Gambino family was publicly gunned down and everyone thought there was going to be a big gang war, but really he was killed by some random 4chan Qanon guy. That was weird.", "name": "Robert"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[here's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Cali#Death) some more info if anyone is interested."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think stories like this just show how so many of these gangster's reputations are just self perpetuating myths. I'm sure there's some real hardasses in every outfit, but this \"boss\" got gunned down in broad daylight by an insane person. Where's his goons supposed to protect him? Did he not have a gun or anything to protect himself?? I thought the whole idea of a made man is they being untouchable.", "name": "Hector"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's just it, only a crazy guy would go kill a big boss because of the repercussions on your family. The guy doesn't necessarily need to be surrounded by thugs at all time because everyone knows what will happen if they try something. The last assassination of a crime family boss was almost 40 years before this one.", "name": "James"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Donald Trump, the president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, has been accused of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment, including non-consensual kissing or groping, by at least 25 women since the 1970s.Litigation includes his then-wife Ivana's rape claim during their 1990 divorce (she later recanted); businesswoman Jill Harth's 1997 lawsuit alleging breach of contract and sexual harassment (she settled the former claim and forfeited the latter); and former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos's claim of sexual misconduct followed by a 2017 defamation lawsuit after Trump accused her of lying (she withdrew her defamation case in 2021).In June 2019, writer E. Jean Carroll alleged in New York magazine that Trump raped her in a department store dressing room in 1995 or 1996. The magazine said two friends of Carroll confirmed that Carroll had previously confided in them in regard to the incident. Trump called the allegation fiction and denied ever meeting Carroll, although New York had published a photo of Trump and Carroll together in 1987. On May 9, 2023, a New York jury in civil case found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation against Carroll, but found him not liable for rape by the New York state definition. They awarded Carroll $5 million in damages. It was ruled that Trump had forcibly and nonconsensually penetrated Carroll's vagina, but did so with his fingers, while New York state's definition at the time defined rape as solely nonconsensual penetration of the vagina by a penis. In July, Judge Kaplan clarified that the jury had found that Trump had raped Carroll according to the common definition of the word. A September 2023 partial summary judgment again found Trump liable for defaming Carroll. On January 26, 2024, Trump was ordered to pay Carroll an additional $83.3 million in damages.Two of the allegations (by Ivana Trump and Jill Harth) became public before Trump's candidacy for president, but the rest arose after a 2005 audio recording was leaked during the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump was recorded bragging that a celebrity like himself \"can do anything\" to women, including \"just start kissing them ... I don't even wait\" and \"grab 'em by the pussy\". Trump subsequently characterized those comments as \"locker room talk\" and denied actually behaving that way toward women, and he also apologized for the crude language. Many of his accusers stated that Trump's denials provoked them into going public with their allegations. Another type of accusation was made, primarily after the audio recording surfaced, by several former Miss USA and Miss Teen USA contestants, who accused Trump of entering the dressing rooms of beauty pageant contestants. Trump, who owned the Miss Universe franchise, which includes both pageants, was accused of going into dressing rooms in 1997, 2000, 2001, and 2006, while contestants were in various stages of undress. Trump had already referred to this practice during a 2005 interview on The Howard Stern Show, saying he could \"get away with things like that\" because he owned the beauty pageants in which the women and girls were competing. In October 2019, the book All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator by Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy was published, containing 43 additional allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump.Trump has denied all the allegations against him, saying he has been the victim of media bias, conspiracies, and a political smear campaign. In October 2016, Trump publicly vowed to sue all the women who have made allegations of sexual misconduct against him, as well as The New York Times for publishing the allegations."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Donald Trump, an American businessman and current president of the United States, has been accused of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment, including non-consensual kissing or groping, by at least 23 women since the 1980s\n\n[Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Anyone can accuse. \n\nThe rich famous and powerful get accused a lot. Very liberal as well. \n\nSo I need evidence. For anybody. Do we want to live in a culture where accusation equals guilty?", "name": "Jared"}, {"role": "user", "content": "How about a confession? Grab em by the pussy. I can do anything I want. Etc...", "name": "Jake"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Carlo Urbani (Italian: [ˈkarlo urˈbaːni] ; 19 October 1956 – 29 March 2003) was an Italian physician and microbiologist and the first to identify severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) as probably a new and dangerously contagious viral disease, and his early warning to the World Health Organization (WHO) triggered a swift and global response credited with saving numerous lives. Shortly afterwards, he himself became infected and died."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Carlo Urbani - Italian doctor who identified SARS and contacted the WHO, leading to a swift global response. Urbani died of the virus while treating infected patients in Hanoi.\n\n[Carlo Urbani - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Urbani)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "More than that, he donated his body to science so thar they could get samples of the virus from him to study. I cant find a citation, but I have heard it was his samples that lead to wither identification by electron microscopy and/or genome sequencing.", "name": "Jaden"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Please post if you can find it, that would be cool to see. Reddit can pose 9 million threads about some celebrity, Let's get some juice going for this guy!", "name": "Riley"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Underground City (Chinese: 地下城; pinyin: Dìxià Chéng; Wade–Giles: Ti4-hsia4 Chʻêng2) is a Cold War era bomb shelter consisting of a network of tunnels located beneath Beijing, China. It has also been referred to as the Underground Great Wall since it was built for the purpose of military defense. The complex was constructed from 1969 to 1979 in anticipation of a nuclear war with the Soviet Union, as Sino-Soviet relations worsened and was officially reopened in 2000. Visitors were allowed to tour portions of the complex, which has been described as \"dark, damp, and genuinely eerie\". Underground City has been closed for renovation since at least February 2008."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# .The various tunnel systems linked up around 10,000 atomic bunkers, plus restaurants, theaters, warehouses, factories, a mushroom farm, sports facilities, everything a community might need to survive a nuclear war. The underground complex was large enough to accommodate around 6 million people\n\n[Underground City (Beijing) - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_City_(Beijing))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This is fascinating. There's a vice article in the further reading section that has several pictures. Thanks for sharing.", "name": "Katie"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Very interesting article! In the article, they say that Mao had a neurological disorder, as if to say he was crazy for building the underground network. I dont find that crazy at all. In Switzerland, every person has a designated space in one of many bunkers throughout the country, and many people also have private bunkers. I find that a good measure of precaution! Not that being underground will save you from every possible harm, but it could be a shelter from many dangers.", "name": "Ava"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Scholomance (Romanian: Șolomanță [ʃoloˈmantsə], Solomonărie [solomonəˈri.e]) was a fabled school of black magic in Romania, especially in the region of Transylvania. It was run by the Devil, according to folkloric accounts. The school enrolled about ten students to become the Solomonari. Courses taught included the speech of animals and magic spells. One of the graduates was chosen by the Devil to be the Weathermaker and tasked with riding a dragon to control the weather.\nThe school lay underground, and the students remained unexposed to sunlight for the seven-year duration of their study. The dragon (zmeu or balaur) was kept submerged in a mountaintop lake, south of Sibiu, according to some accounts."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Scholomance was a fabled school of black magic in Romania, especially in the region of Transylvania. It was run by the Devil, according to folkloric accounts. The school lay underground, and the students remained unexposed to sunlight for the seven-year duration of their study.\n\n[Scholomance - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholomance)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ah, so that's where Warcraft got the name from", "name": "Aidan"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I was playing through classic WoW a year or two ago and noticed there was a lot of stuff that was borrowed/inspired/stolen from other sources lol. \n\nHell I'm pretty sure Warcraft only became a thing because Blizzard couldn't get the rights to Warhammer.", "name": "Sophie"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Blizzard has always taken inspiration from other things and remixed them into a new form. It's not stealing, unless Warhammer (and every other fantasy world) was stealing from Tolkien, who stole from other authors and mythologies.", "name": "Mikayla"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Per 'Dead' Ohlin, a member of the Norwegian band Mayhem, who believed he was dead (due to a childhood near-death experience). He would wear buried clothes, carry a dead crow to smell, and cut himself on stage. His suicide scene was the cover of the band's next album.\n\n[Dead (musician) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_%22Dead%22_Ohlin)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It was his bandmate, Euronymous, who found him and took the photo. No one was really surprised, they kind of expected him to do I guess. Euronymous also ended up getting murdered later on by the bass player, Varg, who had his own band named Burzum. He's now released from jail and makes youtube videos. ", "name": "Jocelyn"}, {"role": "user", "content": "And is a Nazi", "name": "Liam"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Kelly Keen coyote attack is the only known fatal coyote attack on a child, as well as the only known fatal coyote attack on a human ever confirmed in the United States. On August 26, 1981, three-year-old Los Angeles resident Kelly Lynn Keen was dragged off her property and fatally wounded by an urban coyote before she could be rescued by her father. The event is also notable for its aftermath, in which large numbers of coyotes were killed and two animal rights activists provoked an uproar by claiming that her parents, not the coyote, had killed her."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Kelly Keen coyote attack is the only known fatal coyote attack on a child, as well as the only known fatal coyote attack on a human ever confirmed in the United States.\n\n[Kelly Keen coyote attack - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Keen_coyote_attack)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "They will snatch a pet right off a leash. I never hear of them attacking people before but maybe California coyotes are bigger and tougher than the one I see in New Mexico.", "name": "Cody"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Beast of Gvaudan was a name given to an animal that reported killed up to 500 people in the Gvaudan region of France. It was reported dead several times before sightings stopped\n\n[Beast of Gévaudan - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan?wprov=sfti1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The Astonishing Myths and Legends podcast just did an episode on this case last week. Definitely worth the listen. If we are going with a non-supernatural explanation, it probably was an escaped lion or other big cat. That fits the description better than a wolf, and wolves almost never prey on humans.", "name": "Nevaeh"}, {"role": "user", "content": ">and wolves almost never prey on humans.\n\nIncredibly wrong. Wolves almost never prey on humans *in the Americas.*\n\n\\>The country with the most extensive historical records is [France](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France), where nearly 7,600 fatal attacks were documented from 1200 to 1920.\n\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf\\_attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_attack)\n\nThat's over 10 per year, so it's not like it's a major cause of death, but it's not rare. And there are still multiple fatal attacks per year in South Asia.\n\nThey stopped killing people in Europe because the wolves with genes that made them more likely to hunt people all got killed as guns became more common. Plus that was in the transition period as the continent was becoming increasingly deforested, but the wolf population hadn't yet dropped to the tiny fraction it is now. They were starving. And during plague epidemics and the like they ate bodies from mass graves.", "name": "Charles"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath, a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. Among the most influential intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence; and the first postmaster general.Franklin became a successful newspaper editor and printer in Philadelphia, the leading city in the colonies, publishing the Pennsylvania Gazette at age 23. He became wealthy publishing this and Poor Richard's Almanack, which he wrote under the pseudonym \"Richard Saunders\". After 1767, he was associated with the Pennsylvania Chronicle, a newspaper known for its revolutionary sentiments and criticisms of the policies of the British Parliament and the Crown.He pioneered and was the first president of the Academy and College of Philadelphia, which opened in 1751 and later became the University of Pennsylvania. He organized and was the first secretary of the American Philosophical Society and was elected its president in 1769. He was appointed deputy postmaster-general for the British colonies in 1753, which enabled him to set up the first national communications network.\nHe was active in community affairs and colonial and state politics, as well as national and international affairs. Franklin became a hero in America when, as an agent in London for several colonies, he spearheaded the repeal of the unpopular Stamp Act by the British Parliament. An accomplished diplomat, he was widely admired as the first U.S. ambassador to France and was a major figure in the development of positive Franco–American relations. His efforts proved vital for the American Revolution in securing French aid.\nFrom 1785 to 1788, he served as President of Pennsylvania. At some points in his life, he owned slaves and ran \"for sale\" ads for slaves in his newspaper, but by the late 1750s, he began arguing against slavery, became an active abolitionist, and promoted the education and integration of African Americans into U.S. society.\nAs a scientist, his studies of electricity made him a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics. He also charted and named the Gulf Stream current. His numerous important inventions include the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove. He founded many civic organizations, including the Library Company, Philadelphia's first fire department, and the University of Pennsylvania.\nFranklin earned the title of \"The First American\" for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity. Foundational in defining the American ethos, Franklin has been called \"the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become\".His life and legacy of scientific and political achievement, and his status as one of America's most influential Founding Fathers, have seen Franklin honored for more than two centuries after his death on the $100 bill and in the names of warships, many towns and counties, educational institutions, and corporations, as well as in numerous cultural references and a portrait in the Oval Office. His more than 30,000 letters and documents have been collected in The Papers of Benjamin Franklin.\n\nFrancis Folger Franklin (October 20, 1732 – November 21, 1736) was the son of Founding Father of the United States Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read.\nIn 1736, four-year-old Francis contracted the smallpox virus and died shortly thereafter.\nBenjamin Franklin, who had been inoculated earlier in his own life, had intended for his son to be inoculated as well. However, due to an illness affecting Francis at the time planned for his inoculation, the procedure was postponed.\nHis death devastated both his parents, who doted upon Francis, and after this incident, Franklin became \"the most eloquent advocate of smallpox inoculation.\""}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Benjamin Franklin wrote that he regretted not vaccinating his son against smallpox, and later founded \"Society for Inoculating the Poor Gratis\" to get vaccines to poor people in Philadelphia.\n\n[Francis Folger Franklin - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Folger_Franklin#:~:text=After%20Francis%27%20death%2C%20Franklin,should%20be%20chosen.%22%5B28%5D)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Honestly, in Franklin's day I would have been hesitant to vaccinate my children too. Now, we have had years to learn to make vaccines safer and more effective.", "name": "Alexandria"}, {"role": "user", "content": "They weren't vaccines at the time. Not until later did Jenner's breakthrough invent vaccination altogether as a word and a particular method, using specific immunogens and discovering how that worked to induce immunity.", "name": "Alexia"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Highway of Tears is a 719-kilometre (447 mi) corridor of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert in British Columbia, Canada, which has been the location of crimes against many Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) beginning in 1970. The phrase was coined during a vigil held in Terrace, British Columbia in 1998, by Florence Naziel, who was thinking of the victims' families crying over their loved ones. There are a disproportionately high number of Indigenous women on the list of victims.\nProposed explanations for the years-long endurance of the crimes and the limited progress in identifying culprits include poverty, drug abuse, widespread domestic violence, disconnection with traditional culture and disruption of the family unit through the foster care system and Canadian Indian residential school system. Poverty in particular leads to low rates of car ownership and mobility; thus, hitchhiking is often the only way for many to travel vast distances to see family or go to work, school, or seek medical treatment. The lack of public transportation options is a major factor. There is no bus service available between most northern communities and other cities. Because the BC provincial government has not created feasible alternatives to hitchhiking, people who must travel are placed in extremely vulnerable situations. \n\nAnother factor leading to abductions and murders is that the area is largely isolated and remote, with soft soil in many areas and carnivorous scavengers to carry away human remains; these factors precipitate violent attacks, as perpetrators feel a sense of impunity, privacy, and the ability to easily carry out their crimes and hide evidence."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Highway of Tears. It is the location of the murders and disappearances of dozens of indigenous women, and has been the hunting grounds of multiple serial killers.\n\n[Highway of Tears - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Tears)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm sorry, but *multiple* serial killers? Jesus Christ.", "name": "Lydia"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yep this is seen by predators as the best place to find victims as it has the lowest chance of getting caught if something is not done.", "name": "Jorge"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A retained surgical instrument is any item inadvertently left behind in a patient’s body in the course of surgery. There are few books about it and it is thought to be underreported. As a preventable medical error, it occurs more frequently than \"wrong site\" surgery. The consequences of retained surgical tools include injury, repeated surgery, excess monetary cost, loss of hospital credibility and in some cases the death of the patient."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Surgical tools left inside patient's bodies. A more common occurrence than you'd think, even today.\n\n[Retained surgical instruments - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retained_surgical_instruments)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "My daughter has a washer left in her arm when she broke it. Needed screws ti fix as 2nd break. The surgeon didnt want to put a plate in as she was young and they didnt know whether it was safe to leave metal in the body for a long time. The surgeon changed her opinion when she realised her mistake. It's embedded in her humerus bone.", "name": "Natalie"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Does that impact her day to day life? Have you managed to sue them?", "name": "Kimberly"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Probably should've sued since it most likely wasnt fixed right from the 1st break, but no, we try not to sue the NHS. She has full function of her arm so we're just grateful for that.", "name": "Trenton"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "During the early stages of the Iraq War, members of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency committed a series of human rights violations and war crimes against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, including physical abuse, sexual humiliation, physical and psychological torture, and rape, as well the killing of Manadel al-Jamadi and the desecration of his body. The abuses came to public attention with the publication of photographs of the abuse by CBS News in April 2004. The incidents caused shock and outrage, receiving widespread condemnation within the United States and internationally.The George W. Bush administration said that the abuses at Abu Ghraib were isolated incidents and not indicative of U.S. policy.: 328  This was disputed by humanitarian organizations including the Red Cross, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch; these organizations stated that the abuses at Abu Ghraib were part of a wider pattern of torture and brutal treatment at American overseas detention centers, including those in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and at Guantanamo Bay: 328  (GTMO). There were also 36 prisoners killed at Abu Ghraib due to insurgent mortar attacks. This also provoked criticism due to the facility's location in a combat zone.Documents popularly known as the Torture Memos came to light a few years later. These documents, prepared in the months leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States Department of Justice, authorized certain \"enhanced interrogation techniques\" (generally held to involve torture) of foreign detainees. The memoranda also argued that international humanitarian laws, such as the Geneva Conventions, did not apply to American interrogators overseas. Several subsequent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, including Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006), have overturned Bush administration policy, ruling that the Geneva Conventions do apply.\nIn response to the events at Abu Ghraib, the United States Department of Defense removed 17 soldiers and officers from duty. Eleven soldiers were charged with dereliction of duty, maltreatment, aggravated assault and battery. Between May 2004 and April 2006, these soldiers were court-martialed, convicted, sentenced to military prison, and dishonorably discharged from service. Two soldiers, found to have perpetrated many of the worst offenses at the prison, Specialist Charles Graner and PFC Lynndie England, were subject to more severe charges and received harsher sentences. Graner was convicted of assault, battery, conspiracy, maltreatment of detainees, committing indecent acts and dereliction of duty; he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and loss of rank, pay and benefits. England was convicted of conspiracy, maltreating detainees and committing an indecent act and sentenced to three years in prison. Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, the commanding officer of all detention facilities in Iraq, was reprimanded and demoted to the rank of colonel. Several more military personnel who were accused of perpetrating or authorizing the measures, including many of higher rank, were not prosecuted. In 2004, President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld apologized for the Abu Ghraib abuses."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# TRIGGER WARNING - - - - - - - - - During the so-called War on Terror, members of the US Army & CIA committed a series of beyond horrible human rights violations (including sexual abuse, torture, and many other atrocities) against detainees in US-run Abu Ghraib prison, located in Iraq.\n\n[Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Some of the perpetrators barely got any jail time", "name": "Devin"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[One of them](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santos_Cardona) was killed in action while working as a military contractor in Afghanistan.", "name": "Cesar"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Burdizzo is the name brand of a company that makes a castration device which employs a large clamp designed to break the blood vessels leading into the testicles. Once the blood supply to the testicles is lost, testicular necrosis occurs, and the testicles shrink, soften, and eventually deteriorate completely. When the device is used, the operator crushes the spermatic cords one at a time, leaving a space in between in order to prevent an interruption of blood-flow to the scrotum."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Burdizzo is a brand of castration device which employs a large clamp designed to break the blood vessels leading into the testicles. Although intended for livestock, they have also been used by some humans as a means of self-castration.\n\n[Burdizzo - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burdizzo)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": ">Once the blood supply to the testicles is lost, testicular necrosis occurs, and the testicles shrink, soften, and eventually deteriorate completely. When the device is used, the operator crushes the spermatic cords one at a time, leaving a space in between in order to prevent an interruption of blood-flow to the scrotum."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ah fuck this was painful to read.", "name": "Evelyn"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I don't even have balls and I was making the D: face the whole way through."}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Charles Smith, disgraced Canadian pathologist. His flawed autopsies and expert testimony resulted in many wrongful convictions for parents whose children had died from other causes.\n\n[Charles Smith (pathologist) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Smith_(pathologist)?wprov=sfti1)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "> Sherry Sherret\n\n> On the morning of January 23, 1996, Sherry Sherret found her four-month-old son Joshua lying in his bed not breathing. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Three and a half years later she was given the option to accept a plea of infanticide. She was convicted of infanticide without offering a defence (but offering no admission of guilt) in a plea (the delay was primarily attributable to Smith's unavailability to testify). Sherret was jailed on the basis of Smith's opinion that her four-month-old son Joshua had a skull fracture, and that he had been smothered. She was released on bail in 1996 and remained on bail until the conviction. Sherret's sentence was 1 year in jail and 2 years probation. Sherret served eight months in total, and was entered into the child abuse registry. **Her older child was removed by Children's Aid, and in order to get him out of foster care, she agreed to give him up for adoption and have no physical contact with him until he was 18.** Later exhumation of the child and examination of the skull have shown that there was no skull fracture. **It is thought Dr. Smith confused the normal gap between the baby's skull plates for an injury.** On December 7, 2009, the Ontario Court of Appeal exonerated Sherret, stating that it was \"profoundly regrettable that due to flaws in pathological evidence\" she was wrongfully convicted.\n\nBolded by me. Sherry was only one of many wrongly convicted caregivers."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I never understand these situations. A dumbass comes and says that you caused a fracture to your child's skull and/or smothered it. You, however, know that you never did any of these things. Why would you accept a plea? Why not ask for a second and a third opinion from different pathologists? You know you are innocent. They would have to sedate me to bring me to any courtroom because I would be shouting as hard as I could that I was innocent.\n\nedit: So all you dumbasses downvoting would have taken the plea and lost your kids without a fight despite being innocent. That would probably be for the best.", "name": "Joshua"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Because ultimately, if Canada is anything like the US, your legal defense comes down to what you can afford. You can ask for second and third opinions, but unless you can afford to pay the fees for expert witnesses to testify on your behalf, youre out of luck. You have the right to a public defender but they are stretched so thin that they ultimately they end up having to do the best they can even if everyone knows its a complete miscarriage of justice. You end up taking a plea because the alternative is having your child stay in the foster system and potentially suffer from worse abuse, you receiving a much longer jail sentence, death, etc. They dont give you a choice.", "name": "Aidan"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Hoosac Tunnel (also called Hoosic or Hoosick Tunnel) is a 4.75-mile (7.64 km) active railroad tunnel in western Massachusetts that passes through the Hoosac Range, an extension of Vermont's Green Mountains. It runs in a straight line from its east portal, along the Deerfield River in the town of Florida, to its west portal, in the city of North Adams.\nWork began in 1851 under an estimated cost of $2 million and ended in 1875, having used $21 million. At its completion, the tunnel was the world's second-longest, after the 8.5-mile (13.7 km) Mont Cenis Tunnel through the French Alps. It was the longest tunnel in North America until the 1916 completion of the Connaught Tunnel under Rogers Pass in British Columbia. It remains the longest active transportation tunnel east of the Rocky Mountains, and as of 1989 is the sixth-longest railroad tunnel in North America. The American Society of Civil Engineers made the tunnel an Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1975.\n\"Hoosac\" is an Algonquian word meaning \"place of stones\"."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 1867, an explosion during construction of the Hoosac Tunnel plunged 13 men down a 538 foot deep shaft. Several months later, workers reached the shaft's bottom and found that several victims had survived long enough to fashion a raft before suffocating.\n\n[Hoosac Tunnel - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoosac_Tunnel#Accidents)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This is terrifying.", "name": "Ethan"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Even better: gradual suffocation by CO2 is a very painful and laborious process. Those poor men died in agony. A similar thing happens to a lot of people who try to commit suicide by car exhaust in a closed garage. They painfully suffocate from the CO2 well before carbon monoxide levels rise enough to knock them out, from what I understand.", "name": "Nathan"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# If you want people to donate money, make it quick and easy.\n\nSo, I somehow decided to donate 2 after reading their message, because it's true Wikipedia has taught me more than I can imagine. \n\nSo I click the link, but first they ask me if I dont want to make it 2,35 to cover transaction fee (those are insane fees), but I decided to do that anyways. Next page, why not make it monthly?? So they ask my 2 donation to become 24 every year. Thats when I just decided it takes too long and I clicked away. \n\nI would've donated if it didn't ask me to increase the amount 3 times"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I agree that's overboard and obviously turns people off.", "name": "Camila"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Someone did the math, and it's worth losing those turned off in order to nab those whales.", "name": "William"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# June and Jennifer Gibbons, aka \"The Silent Twins\". They developed their own language, wrote works of fiction, and then turned towards crime. They were admitted to Broadmoor Hospital. Jennifer died suddenly, after deciding that one of them had to die so the other could go on and live a normal life.\n\n[June and Jennifer Gibbons - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_and_Jennifer_Gibbons?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Fun fact - Broadmoor is not far up the road from me. Every Monday at 10am, a siren is set off for testing. The warning siren followed by the all clear.\n\nYears ago, someone escaped from Broadmoor and killed someone whilst they were out, so they had these sirens put in the surrounding towns. If they go off outside of the test time, it means someone has escaped.\n\nIm not from this area, and the first time I stayed with my husband, he was at work and I was in his flat alone, and the sirens started. To say I cacked my pants is an understatement.", "name": "Nolan"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Similar thing happened when I moved to Texas. They have tornado sirens that they test weekly and my dad's family didn't think to tell me about them because they are so used to them. We don't have anything like that in Nevada so there I was panicking all by myself while everyone was at work/school. My dad laughed when I called him freaking out.", "name": "Thomas"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Catullus 16 or Carmen 16 is a poem by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 BC – c. 54 BC). The poem, written in a hendecasyllabic (11-syllable) meter, was considered to be so sexually explicit following its rediscovery in the following centuries that a full English translation was not published until the 20th century. The first line, Pēdīcābo ego vōs et irrumābō (\"I will sodomize and face-fuck you\"), sometimes used as a title, has been called \"one of the filthiest expressions ever written in Latin—or in any other language\".Carmen 16 is significant in literary history as an artistic work censored for its obscenity, but also because the poem raises questions about the proper relation of the poet, or his life, to the work.\nSubsequent Latin poets referenced the poem not for its invective, but as a work exemplary of freedom of speech and obscene subject matter that challenged the culturally prevalent decorum or moral orthodoxy of the period. Ovid, Pliny the Younger, Martial, and Apuleius all invoked the authority of Catullus in asserting that while the poet himself should be a respectable person, his poetry should not be constrained."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Catullus 16 is a poem by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 BC c. 54 BC). The poem was considered to be so sexually explicit following its rediscovery in the following centuries that a full English translation was not published until the 20th century.\n\n[Catullus 16 - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "If you want to learn more about Catullus, I recommend this podcast episode about him and his writing by a literature professor. If that sounds dry, well, it's absolutely not given the subject matter. In addition to his incredibly sexually explicit material, he also used his talent with obscenity to go on slander campaigns against his critics. \n\nhttps://literatureandhistory.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=176&catid=2", "name": "George"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Josh fight was a viral Internet meme, mock fight, and charity fundraiser at Air Park in Lincoln, Nebraska, on April 24, 2021, with a second edition of the event occurring at Bowling Lake Park in Lincoln on May 21, 2022. \nThe event was originally conceived by a civil engineering student named Josh Swain from Tucson, Arizona, on April 24, 2020, due to boredom during COVID-19 lockdowns. It gained popularity after a screenshot of a Facebook Messenger group chat involving several users named Josh Swain spread widely on the Internet.\nSwain encouraged participants of the chat to meet at a set of coordinates one year hence and fight for the right to use the name \"Josh\". The event, though initially intended as a joke, drew a crowd of nearly a thousand on the day of the event. The gathering was lighthearted and there was no actual violence involved. The Wall Street Journal wrote that the event became a \"global news phenomenon,\" while a technology writer for The Guardian called it \"perhaps the ultimate response to an online Doppelgänger.\""}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Josh Fight was a viral internet meme and mock fight at Air Park in Lincoln, Nebraska, on April 24, 2021.\n\n[Josh fight - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_fight)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah that's about the only thing to do in Nebraska.", "name": "Hunter"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Never heard of the [Platte River crane migration?](https://visitkearney.org/sandhill-cranes/)\n\nTheres more than one may think.", "name": "Jacqueline"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Titia Klasina Elisabeth van der Tuuk (27 November 1854 – 7 May 1939), commonly known as Titia van der Tuuk, was a Dutch feminist and socialist. She was born in 't Zandt, Groningen to a preacher and a writer of children's literature. She initially worked as a teacher, but had to give up her profession due to deafness and hostility toward her because she was an avowed atheist. From 1885 onward, she started translating foreign literature into Dutch (such as Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace) and writing children's literature and historic novels. She was passionate in her activism for atheism, teetotalism, vegetarianism and pacifism. She often used the pseudonym Vitalis (adj. of vita, meaning life in Latin). She was never married and lived openly with her female partner. She died in Zeist, age 84."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Titia van der Tuuk - Born in 1854, she was a teacher until she quit due to hostility towards her atheism; translated works like War & Peace into Dutch; passionate in her activism for teetotalism and pacifism; and lived openly with her female partner until her death in 1939\n\n[Titia van der Tuuk - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titia_van_der_Tuuk)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "OMG, they were roommates", "name": "Emmanuel"}, {"role": "user", "content": "r/sapphoandherfriend", "name": "Serenity"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "This is a list of people whose deaths were in some manner caused by or directly related to a product, process, procedure, or other technological innovation that they invented or designed."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# List of inventors killed by their own invention.\n\n[List of inventors killed by their own invention - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_their_own_invention)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I have an ancestor on this list", "name": "Sara"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Which one?", "name": "Morgan"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Henry Winstanley. My great uncle was fucking obsessed with him and had a whole bunch of books.", "name": "Emmanuel"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Russians (Russian: русские, romanized: russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group indigenous to Eastern Europe, who share a common Russian ancestry, culture, and history. Russian, the most spoken Slavic language, is the shared mother tongue of the Russians; Orthodox Christianity has been their majority religion since the formation of a Russian identity in the Middle Ages. They are the largest Slavic nation and the largest European nation.\nThe Russians were formed from East Slavic tribes, and their cultural ancestry is based in Kievan Rus'. Genetically, the majority of Russians are very similar to their East Slavic counterparts, unlike Northern Russians, who belong to the Northern European Baltic gene pool. The Russian word for the Russians is derived from the people of Rus' and the territory of Rus'. The Russians share many historical and cultural traits with other European peoples, and especially with other East Slavic ethnic groups, specifically Belarusians and Ukrainians.\nThe vast majority of Russians live in native Russia, but notable minorities are scattered throughout other post-Soviet states such as Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Ukraine, and the Baltic states. A large Russian diaspora (sometimes including Russian-speaking non-Russians), estimated at around 25 million people, has developed all over the world, with notable numbers in the United States, Germany, Brazil, and Canada."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Russians Are Racing to Download Wikipedia Before It Gets Banned\n\n[Russians are racing to download Wikipedia before it gets banned.](https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/russia-wikipedia-download-kiwix.html)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It's very possible, English Wikipedia is 51gb total", "name": "Avery"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Isnt it like 83gb with photos? \n\nOr maybe thats just the Kiwix file size", "name": "Jeffrey"}, {"role": "user", "content": "You don't need the photos", "name": "Jack"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "If you're downloading 50gb (which is no problem for anyone with a half decent connection) you might as well get the photos as well.", "name": "Sarah"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Dennis Nilsen was a Scottish serial killer and necrophile who murdered at least twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983 in London. He was caught after human remains were found in the drains of his flat. Police found bags containing severed body parts, including two heads and three torsos.\n\n[Dennis Nilsen - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Nilsen?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "He kind of looks like Stephen King."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I was about to say \"and then he went on to have a successful career as a horror writer in the US\".", "name": "Claire"}]

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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\nThe brothers of Jesus or the adelphoi (Greek: ἀδελφοί, translit. adelphoí, lit. \"of the same womb\") are named in the New Testament as James, Joses (a form of Joseph), Simon, Jude, and unnamed sisters are mentioned in Mark and Matthew. They may have been: (1) the sons of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Joseph, (2) sons of Mary the wife of Cleophas and sister of Mary, the mother of Jesus; or (3) sons of Joseph by a former marriage. While option 1 is described as the \"most natural inference\" from the New Testament, those who uphold the perpetual virginity of Mary reject the idea of biological brethren and maintain that the brothers and sisters were either cousins of Jesus (option 2, the position of the Catholic Church) or children of Joseph from a previous marriage (option 3, the Eastern Orthodox Churches). The Lutheran Churches have accepted both option 2 and option 3 as being valid explanations for the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The brothers of Jesus appear in the Bible. Those who uphold the perpetual virginity of Mary reject that they were full brothers of Jesus, maintaining that they were cousins (the position of the Catholic Church) or children of Joseph from a previous marriage (the position of the Orthodox Churches).\n\n[Brothers of Jesus - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_of_Jesus)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I cant help but remember the movie Dogma when reading this. Chris Rock (who plays one of Jesus disciples) asks why people dont think that Joseph and Mary got busy after Jesus, especially considering that they were a newly married couple.", "name": "Travis"}, {"role": "user", "content": "In the Orthodox Church, its understood that Joseph was a much older widow who needed help running a household of his children. Mary was a young woman who grew up in the temple (older parents dedicated her to God) that needed protection as she had taken a vow of celibacy. It worked out perfectly that the pious older man who needed help could marry the young pious woman who could help run his household and remain a virgin. \n\nWhen the angel tells Mary, who is engaged, that she will bear a child, why is she shocked? She says I do not know man. If youre engaged and someone says hey youre going to get pregnant would you be confused? Probably not. You would assume that it would happen after you got married. Its understood that she intends to remain a virgin, even after marriage.\n\nAnyway, just wanted to explain the very basic reasoning (there are MUCH deeper theological reasons) for why Orthodox Christians believe in her ever virginity.\n\nEDIT: I understand edgy atheists find any sort of hope in God to be very silly. However, before making yourself look just as silly as Christians by mocking our beliefs, please read up on why Orthodox Christians have the Marian Theology that we do. If you make fun of something that you dont understand, thats a bad look. Marian Theology is incredibly deep and complex. It combines OT theology, NT theology, philosophy, (remember, Christianity came to age in Greece/The East) tradition, etc. \n\nI highly recommend Kabane on YouTube and his Marian Theology videos. You dont have to believe it, but if you want to mock it, at least know what youre making fun of.\n\nKabane on Marian Theology: https://youtu.be/ZLjKeCW8onQ", "name": "Alexa"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Darwin's Arch (Spanish: Arco de Darwin) was a natural rock arch feature to the south-east of Darwin Island in the Galápagos Archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, and is now a pillar formation. The arch sat on an irregularly shaped, rocky, submerged plateau, nicknamed \"the theatre\". The arch collapsed into the sea on 17 May 2021 from natural erosion.Darwin's Arch, along with the nearby Darwin Island, was named after English naturalist Charles Darwin, whose studies in the surrounding area helped him to form his theory of evolution by means of natural selection. As a tribute to Darwin and his works, some locals and industry professionals have nicknamed the remaining stone \"towers\" the Pillars of Evolution (Spanish: Los Pilares de la Evolución)."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Darwin's Arch was a natural rock arch feature situated to the southeast of Darwin Island in the Pacific Ocean. The arch sat on an irregularly shaped, rocky, submerged plateau, nicknamed \"the theatre\". The arch collapsed due to natural erosion on 17 May 2021, leaving two pillars.\n\n[Darwin's Arch - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin's_Arch)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Honestly, the silver lining here is that it wasn't some dumb humans messing around with it and breaking it. The formation lasted long enough to die of old age.", "name": "Karina"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What arch has collapsed from humans messing around with it?", "name": "Ellie"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[Here's one rock formation toppled](https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/vandals-topple-iconic-rock-formation-oregon-park-article-1.2779070)\n\n[And another](https://www.cnn.com/2014/01/31/us/utah-boulder-boy-scouts/index.html)\n\n[Humans aren't very good at not pushing rocks](https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-full-episode-1.4710791/vandals-destroy-ancient-rock-at-uk-tourist-site-1.4710810)\n\n[This one's just spraypaint but it's still dumb humans defacing things](https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/guilty-plea-and-sentence-woman-charged-defacing-rock-formations-7-national-parks-0)\n\n[Here's](https://www.insider.com/bad-tourists-nature-2018-12#in-spain-someone-carved-their-name-into-a-dolphin-that-washed-up-on-shore-1) just a list of stupid humans being stupid against nature.", "name": "Nathaniel"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# [OC] US States by Wikipedia article length\n\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hell yea colorado, Im sure its only talking about weed", "name": "Morgan"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Something something Spanish trail something something killdozer", "name": "Lindsey"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Democratic backsliding is a process of regime change towards autocracy that makes the exercise of political power by the public more arbitrary and repressive. This process typically restricts the space for public contestation and political participation in the process of government selection. Democratic decline involves the weakening of democratic institutions, such as the peaceful transition of power or free and fair elections, or the violation of individual rights that underpin democracies, especially freedom of expression. Democratic backsliding is the opposite of democratization.\nProposed causes of democratic backsliding include economic inequality, culturally conservative reactions to societal changes, populist or personalist politics, and external influence from great power politics. During crises, backsliding can occur when leaders impose autocratic rules during states of emergency that are either disproportionate to the severity of the crisis or remain in place after the situation has improved.While regime change through military coups has declined since the end of the Cold War, more subtle forms of backsliding have increased. During the third wave of democratization in the late twentieth century, many new, weakly institutionalized democracies were established; these regimes have been most vulnerable to democratic backsliding. The third wave of autocratization has been ongoing since 2010, when the number of liberal democracies was at an all-time high. One quarter of the world's population lives under democratically backsliding hybrid regimes as of 2021."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Democratic Backsliding is when a democratic country becomes less democratic and more autocratic. One quarter of the world's population are currently under democratically backsliding governments.\n\n[Democratic backsliding - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_backsliding)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wealth has consolidated its power around the world over the last forty years. Wealth favors autocracy because it protects wealth better.", "name": "Nevaeh"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "wikiFeet is a photo-sharing foot fetish website dedicated to sharing photos of celebrities' feet. In 2016, it was described by Vice Media's Lauren Oyler as \"...the most extensive online message board and photo gallery of women's feet on the Internet\". It mostly includes images of the feet of famous actors, actresses and other entertainers, though some politicians' feet are also featured on the site.It was founded in 2008 by Eli Ozer, an Israeli former computer programmer and animator who now runs the site full-time. According to Ozer, the site gets about 3 million views a month (as of July 2017).In January 2019, wikiFeet was involved in debunking a hoax involving US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; a picture of a woman's feet in a bathtub, purported to be a nude posted online by Ocasio-Cortez in 2016, was determined to be of someone else by users of the site, with the picture's short toe length being a key piece of evidence. They were determined to be the feet of Sydney Leathers, involved in the Anthony Weiner sexting scandals of 2013, which she confirmed to Washington Babylon in January 2019.In 2021, journalist Laura Bassett discovered that a 58-year-old man named Robert Hamilton had been posting pictures of her feet to wikiFeet, by copying photographs from her Instagram feed. He agreed to be interviewed. He said that he considered himself a foot fetishist and had admired women's feet since his childhood.Since June 2021, the website does not allow visitors from the European Union to browse full-resolution images because of a new EU Copyright Directive."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# wikiFeet is a photo-sharing foot fetish website dedicated to sharing photos of celebrities' feet. It mostly includes images of the feet of famous actors, actresses and other entertainers, though some politicians' feet are also featured on the site.\n\n[wikiFeet - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiFeet)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Almost every US President going back to FDR has a page (except dusty old Eisenhower, no one wants to see those feet)", "name": "Zoey"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Morbid curiosity made me look up Trump and there's just one pic of him."}, {"role": "user", "content": "The comments on it are hilarious if I remember right", "name": "Brooke"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Pickaway County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,539. Its county seat is Circleville. Its name derives from the Pekowi band of Shawnee Indians, who inhabited the area. (See List of Ohio county name etymologies.)\nPickaway County is part of the Columbus, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Pickaway County, Ohio, is also known for its various places with the name \"Hitler\", including Hitler Road, Hitler-Ludwig Road, Hitler-Ludwig Cemetery, and Hitler Park. They are named after a local historical family, which included George Washington Hitler and his son, Dr Gay Hitler, a local dentist.\n\n[Pickaway County, Ohio - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickaway_County,_Ohio)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "gay hitler\n\nwhat a name", "name": "Aaliyah"}, {"role": "user", "content": "sounds like a punch line to a Norm MacDonald joke", "name": "Adam"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Electrical grid security in the United States involves the physical and cybersecurity of the United States electrical grid. The smart grid allows energy customers and energy providers to more efficiently manage and generate electricity. Similar to other new technologies, the smart grid also introduces new security concerns.The electric utility industry in the U.S. leads several initiatives to help protect the national electric grid from threats. The industry partners with the federal government, particularly the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, and federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies.From the 2000s through to the 2020s, the security of the U.S. electrical grid has come into question. Government officials have expressed concern with the possibility of violent extremists and agents of foreign states attacking the nation's electrical grid. Cybersecurity is also an issue for electric grid security in the United States with financially motivated crimes being more common than terrorist ones."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# On December 25, 2022, a shooting attack was carried out on three electrical distribution substations in the Tacoma, Washington area, located in Pierce County, Washington, United States.\n\n[Electrical grid security in the United States - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce_County_substation_attack)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "why do people attack substations?? not a loaded question I literally do not understand the motivation", "name": "Jack"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Usually in an attempt to forward a political agenda. It is currently common with [neo-Nazi groups](https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2191/f/CriticalInfrastructureTargeting09072022.pdf), a sort of disruption of business to create social unrest.\n\n> In the United States, critical infrastructure, or assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, [that] are considered so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination thereof, are prime targets in violent extremist attack plots.1 While a variety of violent extremist movements have attempted to assault American critical infrastructure throughout modern history, the Department of Homeland Security and other national security authorities have recently sounded the alarm that U.S.-based violent extremists have developed credible, specific plans to attack critical infrastructure."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Harry Milner Whittington (March 3, 1927 – February 4, 2023) was an American lawyer, real estate investor, and political figure. He received international media attention following an incident on February 11, 2006, when he was accidentally shot in the face, neck, and torso by then-United States vice president Dick Cheney while hunting quail with two women on a ranch in Kenedy County, Texas, near Corpus Christi. It was the first time someone had been shot by a sitting vice-president since Alexander Hamilton was shot in a duel by Aaron Burr in 1804."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Harry Whittington was an American lawyer and political figure. He received international media attention following an incident on February 11, 2006, when he was accidentally shot in the face, neck, and torso by thenUnited States vice president Dick Cheney while hunting quail.\n\n[Harry Whittington - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Whittington)"}, {"role": "user", "content": ">Whittington told the paper that although many media outlets had described Cheney and him as \"good friends\", the pair had only met one another three times in 30 years, and had never been hunting before.\n________________________________\n>The paper also reported that Cheney had still neither publicly nor privately apologized to Whittington for the shooting.", "name": "Katherine"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Whittington actually ended up apologizing to Cheney!", "name": "Kate"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Burdizzo is the name brand of a company that makes a castration device which employs a large clamp designed to break the blood vessels leading into the testicles. Once the blood supply to the testicles is lost, testicular necrosis occurs, and the testicles shrink, soften, and eventually deteriorate completely. When the device is used, the operator crushes the spermatic cords one at a time, leaving a space in between in order to prevent an interruption of blood-flow to the scrotum."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Burdizzo is a brand of castration device which employs a large clamp designed to break the blood vessels leading into the testicles. Although intended for livestock, they have also been used by some humans as a means of self-castration.\n\n[Burdizzo - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burdizzo)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": ">Once the blood supply to the testicles is lost, testicular necrosis occurs, and the testicles shrink, soften, and eventually deteriorate completely. When the device is used, the operator crushes the spermatic cords one at a time, leaving a space in between in order to prevent an interruption of blood-flow to the scrotum."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Fukuppy (フクッピー, fukuppī, pronounced [ɸɯ̥kɯꜜppiː]) was the short-lived English name of a mascot of the Japanese company Fukushima Industries. The mascot has the form of a genderless anthropomorphic egg with red feet, little blue wings, and a happy smiling face.\nFukushima Industries (now known as Fukushima Galilei) is based in Osaka, and manufactures industrial cooling systems, particularly for the food industry. It has offices throughout Japan and in many parts of Asia, including China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan.It launched its new mascot in April 2013, to little attention. The name \"Fukuppy\" was a portmanteau of \"Fukushima\", the surname of the founder of the company, and the English word \"happy\". According to Fukushima Industries, Fukuppy says,\n\nI fly around on my awesome wings, patrolling supermarket showcases and kitchen refrigerators. I can talk to vegetables, fruit, meat, and fish and can check on their health! I was born in a Fukushima refrigerator! I love eating and I'm full of curiosity. I think of myself as kind, with a strong sense of justice, but my friends say I'm a bit of a klutz. But I'm always working hard to make myself shine! I'm still an egg, so I don't know which [sex] I am! But I refer to myself as boku.\"\nIn mid-October 2013, Fukuppy was noticed by English-speakers who spotted the inadvertent similarity to the English word \"fuckup\". Fukuppy rapidly attracted publicity not only in English (including in Japan), but also in Afrikaans, Catalan, Dutch, French, German and Swedish. Some early reports wrongly associated Fukuppy with Fukushima Prefecture, or with the cleanup efforts after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Fukushima Industries speedily published an apology and announced that it would be withdrawing the English name of its mascot.Fukuppy has been cited as an example of the risks associated with wasei-eigo, Japanese-language expressions based on English words that do not exist in standard English."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"Fukuppy\" has been cited as an example of the risks associated with \"wasei-eigo\", or Japanese-language expressions based on English words that do not exist in standard English.\n\n[Fukuppy - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuppy)"}, {"role": "user", "content": ">In mid-October 2013, Fukuppy was noticed by English-speakers who spotted the inadvertent similarity to the English word \"fuckup\" (...) Fukushima Industries speedily published an apology and announced that it would be withdrawing the English name of its mascot.\n\nPoor fukuppy turned out to be a fukuppy", "name": "Luis"}, {"role": "user", "content": "We lost a real one that day", "name": "Skylar"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "James Caird Burt (August 29, 1921 – July 10, 2012) was an American gynecologist who was sometimes nicknamed the \"Love Surgeon.\" After practicing for two decades while based in Dayton, Ohio, Burt was sued by female patients for altering their vulvas without their informed consent."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In his 1975 book, Surgery of Love, Burt wrote: \"Women are structurally inadequate for intercourse. This is a pathological condition amenable by surgery.\" He claimed his surgery would turn women into \"horny little mice\" and asserted that \"the difference between rape and rapture is salesmanship.\"\n\n[James C. Burt - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Burt)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "See also: [Isaac Baker Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Baker_Brown)(18121873), an English gynaecologist who was president of theMedical Society of Londonbelieved that the \"unnatural irritation\" of the clitoris causedepilepsy,hysteria, and mania, and he worked \"to remove [it] whenever he had the opportunity of doing so\", according to his obituary in theMedical Times and Gazette.([source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitoridectomy))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "**[Isaac Baker Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac Baker Brown)**\n\nIsaac Baker Brown (1811 3 February 1873) was a prominent 19th-century English gynaecologist and obstetrical surgeon. He was a specialist in the diseases of women and advocated certain surgical procedures, including clitoridectomies, as cures for epilepsy and hysteria. His career ended when he was accused of performing these procedures without consent of the patients. He was subsequently expelled from the Obstetrical Society of London.\n\n[About Me](https://np.reddit.com/user/wikipedia_text_bot/comments/jrn2mj/about_me/) - [Opt out](https://np.reddit.com/user/wikipedia_text_bot/comments/jrti43/opt_out_here/) - OP can reply !delete to delete - [Article of the day](https://np.reddit.com/comments/k9hx22)", "name": "Brooklyn"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "John Dennis Hastert (; born January 2, 1942) is an American former politician, educator, convicted felon and child sex offender who represented Illinois's 14th congressional district from 1987 to 2007 and served as the 51st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007. Hastert was the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in history. After Democrats gained a majority in the House in 2007, Hastert resigned and began work as a lobbyist. In 2016, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for financial offenses related to the sexual abuse of teenage boys.From 1965 to 1981, Hastert was a high school teacher and coach at Yorkville High School in Yorkville, Illinois. He lost a 1980 bid for the Illinois House of Representatives but ran again and won a seat in 1981. He was first elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1986 and was re-elected every two years until he retired in 2007. Hastert rose through the Republican ranks in the House, becoming chief deputy whip in 1995 and speaker in 1999. As Speaker of the House, Hastert supported the George W. Bush administration's foreign and domestic policies. After Democrats took control of the House in 2007 following the 2006 elections, Hastert declined to seek the position of minority leader, resigned his House seat, and became a lobbyist at the firm of Dickstein Shapiro.\nIn May 2015, Hastert was indicted on federal charges of structuring bank withdrawals to evade bank reporting requirements and making false statements to federal investigators. Federal prosecutors said that the funds withdrawn by Hastert were used as hush money to conceal his past sexual misconduct. In October 2015, Hastert entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors. Under the agreement, Hastert pleaded guilty to the structuring charge (a felony); the charge of making false statements was dropped. In court submissions filed in April 2016, federal prosecutors alleged that Hastert had molested at least four boys as young as 14 years of age during his time as a high school wrestling coach. At a sentencing hearing, Hastert admitted that he had sexually abused boys whom he had coached. Referring to Hastert as a \"serial child molester\", a federal judge imposed a sentence of 15 months in prison, two years' supervised release, and a $250,000 fine. Hastert was imprisoned in 2016 and was released 13 months later; he became the highest-ranking elected official in U.S. history to serve a prison sentence."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# John Dennis Hastert is an American politician, former educator, and convicted felon . . . Hastert was the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in history . . . In 2016, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for financial offenses related to the sexual abuse of teenage boys.\n\n[Dennis Hastert - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hastert)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Great, not for the sexual abuse but the financial offenses related to the sexual abuse. And only 15 months?!", "name": "Amy"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That was a legal technicality. The abuse happened back in the 1970s, so the statute of limitations had passed. The related financial offences were more recent, so they had something to work with, and the gravity of the crime they were de facto really interested in meant he was at least given the maximum sentence for the lesser crime. [Illinois changed its statute of limitations for sexual assault of minors in response to this](https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-sexual-assault-statute-of-limitations-20190726-pe7hwzphovf2vnvtfoddhmhlby-story.html), at least. \n\nThe one deliciously ironic aspect of this is that they were uncovered due to a law about financial reporting that he himself backed as speaker once.", "name": "Gabriella"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "John \"Jack\" Gilbert Graham (January 23, 1932 – January 11, 1957) was an American mass murderer who, on November 1, 1955, killed 44 people aboard United Airlines Flight 629 near Longmont, Colorado, using a dynamite time bomb. Graham planted the bomb in his mother's suitcase in an apparent move to murder her and claim $37,500 (equivalent to $410,000 in 2022) worth of life insurance money from policies he purchased in the airport terminal just before the flight departure. Graham was convicted of murdering his mother. He was sentenced to death and was executed by the state of Colorado in January 1957."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Jack Gilbert Graham, who hated his mother so much he hid 25 sticks of dynamite and a timed detonator in her suitcase before a flight. It was one of the first ever attacks of a commercial flight; all 44 aboard died.\n\n[Jack Gilbert Graham - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Gilbert_Graham)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hey man, if you're gonna do a job...", "name": "Ethan"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "GirlsDoPorn was an American pornographic website active from 2009 until 2020. In October and November 2019, six people involved were charged on counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion. In December 2019, two more individuals were charged with obstruction of sex trafficking enforcement. The website was removed in January 2020 after 22 victims won the civil case against the company. According to the United States Department of Justice, the website and its sister website GirlsDoToys generated over $17 million in revenue. Videos were featured on GirlsDoPorn.com as well as pornography aggregate websites such as Pornhub, where the channel reached the top 20 most viewed, with approximately 680 million views.Pornography produced by the company, which was based in San Diego, California, was in the style of a 'casting couch', featuring women who were not professional pornographic actors. A lawsuit filed in 2016 involving 22 plaintiffs alleged \"intentional misrepresentation, fraudulent concealment, unlawful and fraudulent business practices, and the intentional infliction of emotional distress\" on the parts of New Zealand nationals Michael Pratt (co-owner) and Matthew Wolfe (co-owner and cameraman), as well as Andre Garcia (pornographic actor). In January 2020, the plaintiffs received damages of $12.775 million, as well as ownership to videos they featured in. However, they are yet to receive any money, as of February 2022. In December 2023, Aylo (owners of Pornhub) agreed to pay a $1.8 million government fine plus compensation to victims.Lawsuits and other testimony describe alleged practices by GirlsDoPorn in detail. According to a lawsuit, women who responded to fake modeling advertisements on Craigslist were put into contact with \"reference girls\" who pretended to have had positive experiences shooting videos for the company. Some participants were told that they would be paid between $2,000 and $6,000 to have sex for 30 minutes on camera. All plaintiffs said that they were given verbal promises that the videos would never be released on the Internet or in the United States, instead being told the videos would be put on DVDs and sold only to private buyers or independent video stores in Australia, New Zealand, or South America. When they reached San Diego, they were made to sign contracts that did not mention the name \"GirlsDoPorn\". The Department of Justice said that \"some were sexually assaulted and in at least one case raped\". Filming was described as lasting up to seven hours; according to an ex-employee, 50% of women were not paid the amount they were promised."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# GirlsDoPorn- A now shuttered porn website that led to 6 people charged for sex trafficking, fraud, and coercion. They would lie to women about their content being posted online. The Department of Justice said that \"some were sexually assaulted and in at least one case raped\"\n\n[GirlsDoPorn - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GirlsDoPorn)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The main dude fled the country and is supposedly hiding out in New Zealand.", "name": "Abby"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah Ive been reading more on it and its insane the amount of laws they were breaking. All around scummy, creepy and downright evil."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Natalee Ann Holloway (October 21, 1986 – disappeared May 30, 2005; declared dead January 12, 2012) was an 18-year-old American high school graduate from Mountain Brook, Alabama, who disappeared from the Caribbean island of Aruba on May 30, 2005. Her disappearance resulted in an international media sensation, especially in the United States. The prime suspect, Dutch national Joran van der Sloot, has made conflicting statements over the years about his involvement, including a confession to killing her. Holloway's remains have not been found.\nHolloway, who had visited Aruba with classmates following her high school graduation, was scheduled to fly home on May 30 but failed to appear for her flight. She was last seen outside Carlos'n Charlie's, a restaurant and nightclub in Oranjestad, entering a car with local residents van der Sloot and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe. When the three men were questioned, they claimed they had dropped off Holloway at her hotel and denied knowing what had become of her. Upon further investigation by authorities, van der Sloot was arrested twice on suspicion of involvement in her disappearance, and the Kalpoe brothers were each arrested three times. Due to lack of evidence, the suspects were released each time without being charged with a crime. Holloway's parents criticized Aruban police for the lack of progress in the investigation. The family also called for a boycott of Aruba, which gained Alabama Governor Bob Riley's support but failed to gain widespread backing.With the assistance of hundreds of volunteers, Aruban investigators conducted an extensive search operation. American special agents from the FBI, fifty Dutch soldiers, and three specially equipped Dutch Air Force F-16 aircraft participated in the search. In addition to the ground search, divers searched the ocean for Holloway's body. She was never found.On December 18, 2007, Aruban prosecutors announced that the case would be closed without charging anyone with a crime. However, the case was reopened on February 1, 2008, after video footage was publicized of van der Sloot, under the influence of marijuana, saying that Holloway died on the morning of her disappearance, and that a friend had disposed of her body. Van der Sloot later denied that what he had said was true, and in an interview said that he had sold Holloway into sexual slavery. He later retracted his comments. In January 2012, van der Sloot was convicted of the May 30, 2010, murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramírez in Lima, Peru. At the request of Holloway's father, Alabama judge Alan King declared her legally dead on January 12, 2012.On June 8, 2023, van der Sloot, who was still the main suspect in Holloway's disappearance, was extradited to the U.S. to face trial for extortion and wire fraud, with both charges being linked to Holloway's disappearance. On October 18, 2023, van der Sloot pleaded guilty to the extortion charges and confessed to killing Holloway by blunt force trauma after she rejected his sexual advances. Eleven days later, he returned to Peru to finish his sentence for killing Flores."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# TIL that Natalee Holloway, who disappeared in 2005 while on a senior trip with her high school to Aruba, has never been found, and her disappearance/murder has never been solved, even though the lead suspect, Joran van der Sloot, was convicted of murdering another girl 5 years later in Peru.\n\n[Disappearance of Natalee Holloway - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Natalee_Holloway)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm assuming you must be younger and/or not American, OP, because this case was EVERYWHERE on the news at the time. They would not stop talking about it.", "name": "Vincent"}, {"role": "user", "content": "ITT: well, I feel fucking old.", "name": "Gage"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Mbaye Diagne (18 March 1958 – 31 May 1994) was a Senegalese military officer who served in Rwanda as a United Nations military observer from 1993 to 1994. During the Rwandan genocide he undertook many missions on his own initiative to save the lives of civilians.\nDiagne was born in Senegal. After graduating from the University of Dakar he enrolled in the Senegalese Army's École Nationale des Officiers d'Active. He completed his schooling the following year and eventually attained the rank of captain. He was given command of the 3rd Company of the 6th Infantry Battalion and fought in the Casamance conflict from 1989 to 1993.\nThat year Diagne was sent to Rwanda as part of an Organisation of African Unity military observer team tasked with monitoring the Rwandan Civil War, a conflict fought between the Hutu-dominated government and the Tutsi-led Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF). Later he was assigned to the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), a UN peacekeeping force meant to oversee the implementation of the Arusha Accords—a peace agreement designed to end the war. In April 1994 the President of Rwanda was killed. Hutu extremists initiated the Rwandan genocide, targeting members of the Tutsi ethnic minority. They murdered moderate Hutu Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana, and Diagne rescued her children and secured them safe passage out of the country. He then undertook numerous missions on his own around Kigali in violation of the UN's rules of engagement, hiding Tutsis in his car and evacuating them to UN installations. He also protected some Hutus and worked to safeguard the Senegalese expatriate community. Various estimates exist for the number of lives Diagne saved, ranging as high as over 1,000.\nOn 31 May 1994 Diagne was killed when a mortar shell launched by RPF forces exploded near his car while he was stopped at a government checkpoint. His death led the UN to suspend relief operations in Kigali. His body was repatriated to Senegal and buried with full military honours. In 2005 Diagne was posthumously awarded the rank of Knight in Senegal's National Order of the Lion. The UN Security Council created the Captain Mbaye Diagne Medal for Exceptional Courage in 2014 in his honour."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Mbaye Diagne was a UN peacekeeper who disobeyed his orders to stand down during the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. Acting entirely on his own initiative, he embarked on rescue missions. Diagne is credited with singlehandedly saving the lives of as many as 1000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.\n\n[Mbaye Diagne - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbaye_Diagne)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "In other words he was the only actual UN Peacekeeper."}, {"role": "user", "content": "UN was absolutely useless. It's messed up that almost no one (in the US at least) learns about this. I learned about the Rwandan genocide and how the UN are feckless turds from a death metal song, of all places.", "name": "Cameron"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Montreal (CA: MUN-tree-AWL; French: Montréal [mɔ̃ʁeal] ) is the second most populous city in Canada, the tenth most populous city in North America, and the most populous city in the province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or \"City of Mary\", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is 196 km (122 mi) east of the national capital, Ottawa, and 258 km (160 mi) southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City.\nAs of 2021, the city has a population of 1,762,949, and a metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the second-largest city, and second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French is the city's official language. In 2021, 85.7% of the population of the city of Montreal considered themselves fluent in French while 90.2% could speak it in the metropolitan area. Montreal is one of the most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada, with 58.5% of the population able to speak both English and French.Historically the commercial capital of Canada, Montreal was surpassed in population and economic strength by Toronto in the 1970s. Montreal remains an important centre of art, culture, literature, film and television, music, commerce, aerospace, transport, finance, pharmaceuticals, technology, design, education, tourism, food, fashion, video game development, and world affairs. Montreal is the location of the headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization, and was named a UNESCO City of Design in 2006. In 2017, Montreal was ranked the 12th-most liveable city in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit in its annual Global Liveability Ranking, although it slipped to rank 40 in the 2021 index, primarily due to stress on the healthcare system from the COVID-19 pandemic. It is regularly ranked as a top ten city in the world to be a university student in the QS World University Rankings.Montreal has hosted multiple international conferences and events, including the 1967 International and Universal Exposition and the 1976 Summer Olympics. It is the only Canadian city to have held the Summer Olympics. In 2018, Montreal was ranked as a global city. The city hosts the Canadian Grand Prix of Formula One; the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the largest jazz festival in the world; the Just for Laughs festival, the largest comedy festival in the world; and Les Francos de Montréal, the largest French-language music festival in the world. In sports, it is home to the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League, who have won the Stanley Cup more times than any other team.\n\nThe 1970 ascariasis poisoning incident was a poisoning incident that took place in Quebec in February, 1970. At least seven people claimed to have been infected with parasitic worm eggs by Eric Kranz, a former postgraduate student from Hempstead, New York. The victims were Canadians Richard Davis, William Butler, David Fisk, and Keith Fern, with three other friends and acquaintances reported to be mildly infested. Doctors said that one of the men may have been affected by as many as 400,000 larvae.\nEric Kranz was a 23-year-old postdoctoral student in parasitology at Macdonald College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec. He shared a house with four roommates: Davis, Butler, Fisk, and Fern. The roommates were at odds with Kranz, who had not paid rent totalling $16.66, and asked him to move out. Kranz became agitated and allegedly told the roommates, \"I'll put parasites in your food and you'll wake up dead\". Kranz did pay the full rent balance on January 31, but the roommates evicted him anyway. Some time around February 1, Kranz prepared a festive Winter Carnival dinner for his roommates, and allegedly tainted the food with eggs stolen from the university laboratory where he studied. The roommates were hospitalized around February 12, and Kranz left Quebec a couple of days later. As the medical investigation continued, doctors suspected poisoning and authorities were notified. On February 25 Kranz was charged with attempted murder and a warrant was sought for his arrest. He returned voluntarily to Quebec, surrendered to authorities on 9 March, pleaded not guilty, and was remanded on bail."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# 1970 ascariasis poisoning incident - In Montreal, following several quarrels involving late rental payments and having been evicted by his mates, post-graduate Eric Kranz would poison his roommates with food tainted by parasitic worm eggs he had taken from the university laboratory he studied at.\n\n[1970 ascariasis poisoning incident - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_ascariasis_poisoning_incident)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Why would you eat his food after he's threatened you with parasites? you took his money and still evicted him.", "name": "Faith"}, {"role": "user", "content": ">you took his money and still evicted him.\n\nThe money in question was money he already owed them. Are you suggesting they were wrong to evict the bio terrorist they had living in their house, just because he payed off a $16 debt?", "name": "Antonio"}, {"role": "user", "content": "NO I'm asking WHY would they eat the bio terrorists food AFTER they were threatened with bioterrorism", "name": "Diana"}]

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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": "# After taking a radium energy drink, Beyers lost his upper jaw and lower jaw, his bone were disintegrating, and holes were forming in his skull.\n\n[Eben Byers - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Byers)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Eben Byers was educated at St. Paul's School and Yale College,[1] *where he earned a reputation as an athlete and for having an over-active libido.* uh ", "name": "Manuel"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Pretty sure \"over-active libido\" in 1905 is what we today would call date rapist", "name": "Kimberly"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Homer Lusk Collyer (November 6, 1881 – March 21, 1947) and Langley Wakeman Collyer (October 3, 1885 – c. March 9, 1947), known as the Collyer brothers, were two American brothers who became infamous for their bizarre natures and compulsive hoarding. The two lived in seclusion in their Harlem brownstone at 2078 Fifth Avenue (at the corner of 128th Street) in New York City where they obsessively collected books, furniture, musical instruments, and myriad other items, with booby traps set up in corridors and doorways to crush intruders. Both died in their home in March 1947 and were found dead (Homer on March 21, Langley not until April 8) surrounded by more than 140 tons (127,000 kg) of collected items that they had amassed over several decades.Since the 1960s, the site of the former Collyer house has been a pocket park, named for the brothers."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 1947, the Collyer brothers were recluses and hoarders discovered dead in their Harlem apartment surrounded by 140 tons of debris and garbage they had accumulated over the decades. They had also constructed booby traps and tunnels within the piles of trash.\n\n[Collyer brothers - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Theres a pretty informative episode of Down the Rabbit Hole on yt that covers these two.", "name": "Nolan"}, {"role": "user", "content": "https://youtu.be/81jV9D8FiFA", "name": "Jonathan"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Shafilea Iftikhar Ahmed (Punjabi and Urdu: شفیلیہ افتخار احمد; 14 July 1986 – 11 September 2003) was a British-Pakistani girl who was murdered by her parents in a suspected honour killing at the age of 17, due to her refusal to accept an arranged marriage.\nAhmed's parents were each imprisoned for a minimum of 25 years for her murder in August 2012. The possibility of other individuals having helped her parents to dispose of their daughter's body has been raised; after the parents' trial, the chief executive of the Bradford Council for Mosques encouraged anybody with information about the case to come forward with information to assist police."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Shafilea Iftikhar Ahmed was a 17-year-old English girl from Great Sankey, Cheshire, who was murdered by her parents in a suspected honour killing in September 2003, due to their daughter being too Westernised.\n\n[Murder of Shafilea Ahmed - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Shafilea_Ahmed)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That is unfortunately the logic of some Muslim families", "name": "Tiffany"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Fox tossing (German: Fuchsprellen) was a competitive blood sport popular in parts of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. It involved throwing live foxes and other animals high into the air. It was practiced by members of the aristocracy in an enclosed patch of ground or in a courtyard, using slings with a person on each end to catapult the animal upwards. It was particularly popular for mixed couples, even though it was hazardous for the people launching the animals as the terrified animals would often turn on the participants. The result was often fatal for the tossed animals."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Fox tossing was a competitive blood sport popular in 17th and 18th century Europe. It involved throwing live foxes and other animals high into the air. It was popular for mixed couples, even though it was hazardous as the terrified animals would often turn on the participants.\n\n[Fox tossing - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_tossing)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What does mixed couples mean in this context? I'm honestly confused, sorry.", "name": "Julian"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Men and <gasp> women recreating together.", "name": "Joseph"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Erotica is literature or art that deals substantively with subject matter that is erotic, sexually stimulating or sexually arousing. Some critics regard pornography as a type of erotica, but many consider it to be different. Erotic art may use any artistic form to depict erotic content, including painting, sculpture, drama, film or music. Erotic literature and erotic photography have become genres in their own right. Erotica also exists in a number of subgenres including gay, lesbian, women's, bondage, monster and tentacle erotica.\nThe term erotica is derived from the feminine form of the ancient Greek adjective: ἐρωτικός (erōtikós), from ἔρως (érōs)—words used to indicate lust, and sexual love.Curiosa are curiosities or rarities, especially unusual or erotic books. In the antiquarian book trade, pornographic works are often listed under \"curiosa\", \"erotica\" or \"facetiae\".\n\nConvent pornography, convent erotica, friar erotica, priest erotica, monk erotica, or clergy erotica includes paintings, sculpture, photographs, dramatic arts, music and writings that show scenes of erotic or sexual nature involving clergy."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Convent pornography, convent erotica, friar erotica, priest erotica, monk erotica, or clergy erotica includes paintings, sculpture, photographs, dramatic arts, music and writings that show scenes of erotic or sexual nature involving clergy.\n\n[Convent pornography - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convent_pornography)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This doesn't include anything from HBO's The Young Pope, which is basically convent pornography for catholics.", "name": "Valeria"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Wish I hadn't Googled that..."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Thomas Humphrey Marshall (19 December 1893 – 29 November 1981) was an English sociologist who is best known for his essay \"Citizenship and Social Class,\" a key work on citizenship that introduced the idea that full citizenship includes civil, political, and social citizenship.\n\nA welfare state is a form of government in which the state (or a well-established network of social institutions) protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for citizens unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions for a good life.There is substantial variability in the form and trajectory of the welfare state across countries and regions. All welfare states entail some degree of private–public partnerships wherein the administration and delivery of at least some welfare programs occur through private entities. Welfare state services are also provided at varying territorial levels of government.Early features of the welfare state, such as public pensions and social insurance, developed from the 1880s onwards in industrializing Western countries. World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II have been characterized as important events that ushered in the expansion of the welfare state. The fullest forms of the welfare state were developed after World War II."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The \"welfare state\" is a form of government which protects and promotes the economic and social wellbeing of its citizens, based on equal opportunity and an equitable distribution of wealth. Sociologist T.H. Marshall described it as \"a distinctive combination of democracy, welfare, and capitalism\".\n\n[Welfare state - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "\"Welfare State\" is a dirty word in the US.", "name": "Allison"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Same in the UK among conservatives, and there's often a distinction drawn between the deeply treasured National Health Service and the benefits which are more often referred to as welfare: unemployment, housing, disability, etc.\n\nBut the privatisation of providing those payments has in turn had a backlash from the public. Companies charged with deciding who's eligible (and incentivised to keep that number low) have been scorned for marking obviously disabled or even dying people as capable of working.\n\nThe old mutterings of the lazy living off benefits rather than work has mostly been replaced by despair at a government which does its best to avoid supporting the people who really need it."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Andrew Carnegie (English: kar-NEG-ee, Scots: [kɑrˈnɛːɡi]; November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history. He became a leading philanthropist in the United States, Great Britain, and the British Empire. During the last 18 years of his life, he gave away around $350 million (roughly $6.5 billion in 2023), almost 90 percent of his fortune, to charities, foundations and universities. His 1889 article proclaiming \"The Gospel of Wealth\" called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society, expressed support for progressive taxation and an estate tax, and stimulated a wave of philanthropy.\nCarnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and immigrated to what is now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States with his parents in 1848 at the age of 12. Carnegie started work as a telegrapher, and by the 1860s had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges, and oil derricks. He accumulated further wealth as a bond salesman, raising money for American enterprise in Europe. He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J. P. Morgan in 1901 for $303,450,000 (equal to $10,674,160,000 today); it formed the basis of the U.S. Steel Corporation. After selling Carnegie Steel, he surpassed John D. Rockefeller as the richest American of the time.Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to large-scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on building local libraries, world peace, education, and scientific research. He funded the Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Peace Palace in The Hague, founded the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Institution for Science, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, Carnegie Hero Fund, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, among others.\n\n\"Wealth\", more commonly known as \"The Gospel of Wealth\", is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich. The article was published in the North American Review, an opinion magazine for America's establishment. It was later published as \"The Gospel of Wealth\" in the Pall Mall Gazette.\nCarnegie proposed that the best way of dealing with the new phenomenon of wealth inequality was for the wealthy to utilize their surplus means in a responsible and thoughtful manner (similar to the concept of noblesse oblige). This approach was contrasted with traditional bequest (patrimony), where wealth is handed down to heirs, and other forms of bequest e.g. where wealth is willed to the state for public purposes. Benjamin Soskis, a historian of philanthropy, refers to the article as the 'urtext' of modern philanthropy.Carnegie argued that surplus wealth is put to best use (i.e. produces the greatest net benefit to society) when it is administered carefully by the wealthy. Carnegie also argues against wasteful use of capital in the form of extravagance, irresponsible spending, or self-indulgence, instead promoting the administration of said capital over the course of one's lifetime toward the cause of reducing the stratification between the rich and poor. As a result, the wealthy should administer their riches responsibly and not in a way that encourages \"the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy\".\nAt the age of 35, Carnegie decided to limit his personal wealth and donate the surplus to benevolent causes. He was determined to be remembered for his good deeds rather than his wealth. He became a \"radical\" philanthropist. Prior to publishing his ideas about wealth, he began donating to his favorite causes, starting by donating a public bath to his hometown of Dunfermline. As Carnegie tried to live his life in a way that the poor could benefit from his wealth, he decided he needed to share his ideas with the public."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Gospel of Wealth is an 1889 article by the industrialist Andrew Carnegie which urges philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich. He argues against wasteful extravagance or self-indulgence, encourages reducing inequality between the rich and poor, and praises high inheritance taxes.\n\n[The Gospel of Wealth - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gospel_of_Wealth)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "He wanted to die with a clean conscience is all. He was trying to get to heaven after fucking over everybody during his lifetime", "name": "Jalen"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Carnegie might have been ruthless, but the dude paid for 1,689 free public libraries to be built. Public libraries weren't really a concept until he pioneered them. The first one was commissioned in 1886, at the age of 51. He died at the age of 83. So it's not like there was a desperate attempt to right wrongs on his deathbed. Not defending the guy, but I think his motivations were probably a bit more nuanced than simply trying to buy his way into heaven.", "name": "Chelsea"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Frank Anson Richards also known as Frank \"Cannonball\" Richards and Cannonball Richards (February 20, 1887 – February 7, 1969) was an American carnival and vaudeville performer whose act involved taking heavy blows to his stomach.Richards began by letting people (including heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey) punch him in the gut. Dempsey hit him in the stomach a reported total of seventy-five times. He then progressed to letting people jump on his belly, being struck by a two-by-four, being struck by a sledgehammer, and finally being shot by a 104-lb. (47 kg) cannonball from a 12 foot (3.6m) compressed air cannon. Richards limited his cannonball act to twice per day, as performing it more often was too painful."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Frank \"Cannonball\" Richards was a famous performer known for his powerful 'stomach'! Richards's most famous act involved him being shot in the gut with a cannonball weighing over one hundred pounds. He performed this act twice a day during the peak of his career, but more than that was too painful.\n\n[Frank Richards (performer) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Richards_(performer))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "He lived til 81, and his page makes no mention of gestational issues. What was this guy made of?", "name": "Giselle"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I dont think gestational means what you think it means friend. I mean no offence, and I get what you mean :)", "name": "Andres"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Bats (Batsbur Mott' or Batsba Moṭṭ, also Batsi, Batsbi, Batsb, Batsaw, or Tsova-Tush) is the endangered language of the Bats people, a North Caucasian minority group. It is part of the Nakh family of Northeast Caucasian languages. It had 2,500 to 3,000 speakers in 1975.\nThere is only one dialect. It exists only as a spoken language, as Bats people use Georgian as their written language. The language is not mutually intelligible with either Chechen or Ingush, the other two members of the Nakh family."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Bats is the endangered language of the Bats people, a Caucasian minority group, and is part of the Nakh family of Caucasian languages. It had 2,500 to 3,000 speakers in 1975.\n\n[Bats language - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bats_language)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hmm. Thats been 45 yrs ago, time enough for 3 more generations or sowonder how many speak it now?..", "name": "Thomas"}, {"role": "user", "content": "According to Wikipedia only a handful now.", "name": "Dylan"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Burdizzo is the name brand of a company that makes a castration device which employs a large clamp designed to break the blood vessels leading into the testicles. Once the blood supply to the testicles is lost, testicular necrosis occurs, and the testicles shrink, soften, and eventually deteriorate completely. When the device is used, the operator crushes the spermatic cords one at a time, leaving a space in between in order to prevent an interruption of blood-flow to the scrotum."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Burdizzo is a brand of castration device which employs a large clamp designed to break the blood vessels leading into the testicles. Although intended for livestock, they have also been used by some humans as a means of self-castration.\n\n[Burdizzo - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burdizzo)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Used them all the time on cattle.", "name": "Kimberly"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A ping pong show (Thai: โชว์ปิงปอง) is a form of stage entertainment that takes place in strip clubs. It is a type of sex show in which women use their pelvic muscles to either hold, eject, or blow objects from their vaginal cavity. Ping pong balls are the most iconic objects used. The show has been popular in Southeast Asia (particularly Bangkok, Thailand) for several decades, and is primarily performed for foreign tourists. The show is in many cases associated with sex tourism and human rights concerns have been raised regarding the performers."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# A ping pong show is a form of stage entertainment that takes place in strip clubs. It is a type of sex show in which women use their pelvic muscles to either hold, eject, or blow objects from their vaginal cavity. Ping pong balls are the most iconic objects used.\n\n[Ping pong show - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_pong_show)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Link to examples???", "name": "Alyssa"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Wikimedia Foundation: We are sad to share that, last week, we received confirmation that Ukrainian writer, activist, and longtime @Wikipedia volunteer Volodymyr Vakulenko had been killed by the Russian army during its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAuthor of 13 published books, Volodymyr has received multiple literary awards. Since 2010, he created around 100 articles on Ukrainian Wikipedia, which have been viewed more than 150,000 times. He also contributed almost 4,000 edits.\n\nAged around 50 at the time of his death, Volodymyr is survived by his 7-year-old son and his parents. If you would like to support Volodymyrs family financially in helping care for his son, please contact info@wikimedia.org.ua\n\nhttps://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1600592426569453568?t=pEm5xvDwgFdeI0vOZ3F5zw&s=19"}, {"role": "user", "content": "He was kidnapped and murdered by the Russians.", "name": "Lydia"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Quite possibly true, but do you have a source? Let's not go pushing conspiracy theories until we have one. We're already fighting enough misinformation.\n\nThe fact they had to DNA test the remains for confirmation is a disturbing element of this, though.\n\n*Multiple sources indeed. What a sickening shame.", "name": "Angel"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Sex with Hitler is a 2022 pornographic isometric shooter visual novel video game developed by Romantic Room, wherein the player takes control of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany, and is tasked with dating four women of various ethnicities. The game received generally negative reviews, with critics disputing the game's portrayal of Hitler as having two testicles, as well as deeming it poorly animated and un-erotic."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Sex with Hitler is a 2022 pornographic isometric shooter visual novel video game developed by Romantic Room, wherein the player takes control of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany, and is tasked with dating four women of various ethnicities.\n\n[Sex with Hitler - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_with_Hitler)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": ">The game received generally negative reviews, with critics disputing the game's portrayal of Hitler as having two testicles, as well as deeming the game poorly animated and un-erotic.\n\n\nI love that people are complaining about him having two balls..."}]

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eamonn33

flb7xrd

[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 2007, the page for \"Social media\" was nearly deleted because it was viewed as \"a marketing buzzword of limited currency\"\n\n[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Social media - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Social_media)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This is one of the few issues I have with Wikipedia - editors being the arbiters of \"notability\" and \"reliably sourced\". Clearly this article didn't age well. I'm sure there's a similar talk page about \"cloud computing\" and it's lack of *there*.", "name": "Peyton"}, {"role": "user", "content": "To be fair, in an alternate universe, another term could have become the norm to describe what we now know as social media. This was a legitimate conversation to have in 2007; obviously language describing the internet has evolved wildly in the past 13 years.", "name": "Kennedy"}]

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slinkslowdown

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The pit of despair was a name used by American comparative psychologist Harry Harlow for a device he designed, technically called a vertical chamber apparatus, that he used in experiments on rhesus macaque monkeys at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 1970s. The aim of the research was to produce an animal model of depression. Researcher Stephen Suomi described the device as \"little more than a stainless-steel trough with sides that sloped to a rounded bottom\":\n\nA 3⁄8 in. wire mesh floor 1 in. above the bottom of the chamber allowed waste material to drop through the drain and out of holes drilled in the stainless-steel. The chamber was equipped with a food box and a water-bottle holder, and was covered with a pyramid top [removed in the accompanying photograph], designed to discourage incarcerated subjects from hanging from the upper part of the chamber.\n\nHarlow had already placed newly born monkeys in isolation chambers for up to one year. With the \"pit of despair\", he placed monkeys between three months and three years old who had already bonded with their mothers in the chamber alone for up to ten weeks. Within a few days, they had stopped moving about and remained huddled in a corner."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Pit of despair: After being raised in sensory deprivation, rhesus macaques were incapable of appropriate social interaction. One mother held her baby's face to the floor and chewed off his feet and fingers. Another crushed her baby's head. Most of them simply ignored their offspring.\n\n[Pit of despair - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_of_despair#Background)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "\"Harlow also wanted to test how isolation would affect parenting skills, but the isolates were unable to mate. Artificial insemination had not then been developed; instead, Harlow devised what he called a \"rape rack\", to which the female isolates were tied in normal monkey mating posture. He found that, just as they were incapable of having sexual relations, they were also unable to parent their offspring, either abusing or neglecting them. \"Not even in our most devious dreams could we have designed a surrogate as evil as these real monkey mothers were\", he wrote.\""}, {"role": "user", "content": "He's one to talk about evil.", "name": "Preston"}]

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spiceprincesszen

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"The sensation of post orgasm as likened to death.\"\"\n\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "***La petite mort***\\~ \n\n [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La\\_petite\\_mort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_petite_mort) \n\nis an expression which means \"the brief loss or weakening of consciousness\" and in modern usage refers specifically to \"the sensation of post orgasm as likened to death.\" More widely, it can refer to the spiritual release that comes with orgasm or to a short period of melancholy or transcendence as a result of the expenditure of the \"life force.\"\n\nThe term \"little death,\" a direct translation of la petite mort, can also be used in English to essentially the same effect. Specifically, it is defined as \"a state or event resembling or prefiguring death; a weakening or loss of consciousness, specifically in sleep or during an orgasm,\" a nearly identical definition to that of the original French. As with \"la petite mort,\" the earlier attested uses are not related to sex or orgasm."}, {"role": "user", "content": "so this is the same thing i get as when i ejaculate and suddenly feel empty on the inside, like i could never feel any love for a person?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Damn son :(", "name": "Vanessa"}]

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Boardallday

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Schningen spears are a set of eight wooden throwing spears dating from 340,000 years ago, before Neanderthals and modern Humans. Their creators thoroughly worked them to have a forward center of mass like tournament javelins. They were found among stone tools and a cache of 16,000 animal bones.\n\n[Schöningen spears - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6ningen_spears)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm pretty sure they have over stayed their visa.", "name": "Braden"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Probably the opposite actually.\n\nIt was theirs first", "name": "Adrian"}]

jhut38

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meanderingbartender

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Leatherman is an American brand of Multi-Tool made by Leatherman Tool Group of Portland, Oregon. The company was founded in July 1983 by Timothy S. Leatherman and Steve Berliner in order to market the former's idea of a capable, easily portable hand tool with multiple functions. That same year, Leatherman Tool Group sold its first Multi-Tool, which was called the PST (Pocket Survival Tool).\n\nThe Leatherman (born Jules Bourglay (unconfirmed)? c. 1839–1889) was a vagabond famous for his handmade leather suit of clothes who traveled through the northeastern United States on a regular circuit between the Connecticut River and the Hudson River from roughly 1857 to 1889. Of unknown origin, he was thought to be French-Canadian because of his fluency in the French language, his \"broken English\", and the French-language prayer book found on his person after his death. His identity remains unknown, and controversial. He walked a repeating 365-mile (587 km) route year after year, which took him through certain towns in western Connecticut and eastern New York, returning to each town roughly every 34 days."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Leatherman was a vagabond, famous for his handmade leather suit of clothes, who traveled a circuit between the Connecticut River and the Hudson River for over thirty years until his death in 1889. His identity remains unknown and controversial.\n\n[Leatherman (vagabond) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherman_(vagabond))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I listened to a podcast episode on him from The Dollop and it was so funny and I highly recommend if you are interested in hearing about this story!", "name": "Lilly"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[Heres a link to the episode for those interested](https://allthingscomedy.com/podcasts/32---smollop-the-leatherman)\n\n[And heres the Spotify link](https://open.spotify.com/episode/0TrYlJcJKQc0rXtPdXdMTN?si=DnbNAmvjS2OHDlKwL_HoVw)", "name": "Addison"}]

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house_of_ghosts

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The double-barreled cannon is an American Civil War-era experimental weapon and is now a modern landmark located in Athens, Georgia. While originally built for warfare, the cannon never saw battle. It is part of the Downtown Athens Historic District, in the National Register of Historic Places."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The double-barreled cannon is an American Civil War-era experimental weapon. During tests, the cannon effectively mowed down trees, tore up a cornfield, knocked down a chimney, and killed a cow. None of the previously mentioned items were anywhere near the gun's intended target.\n\n[Double-barreled cannon - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-barreled_cannon)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Since nobody will read the article I'll tell you why the horrible accuracy.\n\nThe canon balls were attached VIA A CHAIN. They thought both barrels could be fired so instantaneously that it would create a big bolo of death."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Usually you learn what works by learning what doesnt work", "name": "Shane"}]

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slinkslowdown

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Abdul Baser Wasiqi (born 12 July 1975) is an Afghan athlete known for completing the marathon at the 1996 Summer Olympics despite suffering an injury before the event.\nWasiqi represented Afghanistan at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He injured his hamstring before the marathon, but took part nonetheless. He completed the race despite his injury, limping the whole way, with a time of 4:24:17, much slower than his personal best of two hours and thirty-three minutes. He finished 111th and last, nearly an hour and a half behind the second-slowest competitor. Wasiqi reached the stadium and found \"workmen [...] preparing the arena for the closing ceremony\" and \"tarpaulin being laid across the running track\". Preparations were suspended long enough for Wasiqi to reach the finish line.\nWasiqi was the only Afghan competitor at the 1996 Games."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Abdul Baser Wasiqi: The only Afghan competitor at the 1996 Olympics, he completed the marathon despite suffering a hamstring injury before the event. After limping the whole way, he finished 111th and last, nearly an hour and a half behind the second-slowest competitor.\n\n[Abdul Baser Wasiqi - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Baser_Wasiqi)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I know it's not exactly the same, but I'm a cripple and I do limp. And I cannot imagine limping/walking that distance or for that many hours. Big props to this guy not giving up."}]

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AsleepGovernment0

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Shanda Renée Sharer (June 6, 1979 – January 11, 1992) was an American girl who was tortured and burned to death in Madison, Indiana, by four teenage girls. She was 12 years old at the time of her death. The crime attracted international attention due to both its brutality and the young age of the perpetrators, who were aged between 15 and 17 years old. The case was covered on national news and talk shows and has inspired a number of episodes on fictional crime shows."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Shanda Sharer was a 12 year old girl who was burned and tortured to death by four teenage girls. She was just 12 years old at the time of her death.\n\n[Murder of Shanda Sharer - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Shanda_Sharer)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It's truly horrifying to read this story and then imagine what could drive 4 teenage girls to such acts of depravity? Were they abused? Were they neglected? Did they suffer from a psychiatric illness? Tens of millions of children go through such experiences and dont act out by murdering their peers. It makes one ask what is behind such acts of violence and if it is sufficient to blame it on such deliberate choices?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It explains it pretty well on the page, some had mental illness and most if not all had abusive childhoods with incompetent parents."}]

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PrincessGump

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Susan Leigh Smith (née Vaughan; born September 26, 1971) is an American woman who was convicted of murdering her two sons, three-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander, in 1994 by drowning them in a South Carolina lake.The case gained international attention because of Smith's false claim that a black man had kidnapped her sons during a carjacking. Her defense attorneys, David Bruck and Judy Clarke, called expert witnesses to testify that she had mental health issues that impaired her judgment when she committed the crimes.Smith was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years. According to the South Carolina Department of Corrections, she will be eligible for parole on November 4, 2024. She is incarcerated at the Leath Correctional Institution near Greenwood, South Carolina."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Susan Smith drowned her two sons by submerging her car. The boys were found in the back seat fastened into their car seats and holding hands.\n\n[Susan Smith - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Smith)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This happened when I was a kid. The woman told police that a black man had abducted her two kids and the news went nuts over it. Then one day, it was announced that theyd found the kids at the bottom of a lake and that their mother had deliberately rolled the car in and left them to drown. It was shocking.", "name": "Landon"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ah, blaming someone with a different skin colour again, are we? What a stupid bitch.", "name": "Aiden"}]

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Pupikal

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Stolen Valor Act of 2005, signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 20, 2006, was a U.S. law that broadened the provisions of previous U.S. law addressing the unauthorized wear, manufacture, or sale of any military decorations and medals. The law made it a federal misdemeanor to falsely represent oneself as having received any U.S. military decoration or medal. If convicted, defendants might have been imprisoned for up to six months, unless the decoration lied about is the Medal of Honor, in which case imprisonment could have been up to one year. In United States v. Alvarez (2012), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 was an unconstitutional abridgment of the freedom of speech under the First Amendment–striking down the law in a 6 to 3 decision."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Stolen Valor Act of 2005 addressed the unauthorized wear, manufacture or sale of military decorations and medals, making it a federal crime to falsely represent oneself as having received any US military decoration or medal. The Supreme Court struck it down as a violation of the First Amendment.\n\n[Stolen Valor Act of 2005 - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Valor_Act_of_2005)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The military is such a odd subculture that 9/10 its utterly obvious when someone is faking it.", "name": "Vincent"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The obvious cases are the hilarious ones you see on social media, guys with no idea where to stop who just keep adding special forces badges to get more adulation. \n\nI know a guy who was in the Sea Cadets in high school. He knows I was Army, so he never tried it on me. Many have clearly referred to him as having been in the actual Navy in front of me, and he doesn't correct them. He's not wearing a Navy uniform around town, but I know his game lol"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Why yes I have three special forces tabs because Im that badass.", "name": "Claire"}]

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AnakinRambo

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Man of the Hole (c. 1960s – c. July 2022), or the Tanaru Indian, was a Native American who lived alone in the Amazon rainforest in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. He was the sole inhabitant of the Tanaru Indigenous Territory, a protected Indigenous Territory demarcated by the Brazilian government in 2007.\nIt is not known what language the Man of the Hole spoke, what his people called themselves, or what his name was. He was the last surviving member of his people following their genocide by Brazilian settlers in the 1970s–1990s and chose to remain isolated until his death in 2022. Living primarily by hunting and gathering and moving frequently, he left behind a deep hole of unknown purpose in each of his former homes, giving rise to his nickname. After surviving a further attack by armed ranchers in 2009, he was found dead in his home in August 2022."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# It is not known what language the Man of the Hole spoke, what his people were called, or what his name was. He was found dead in his home in August 2022.\n\n[Man of the Hole - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_the_Hole#:~:text=He%20was%20found%20dead%20in%20his%20home%20in%20August%202022)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "From Wikipedia\n\n\nThe Man of the Hole was not a voluntary recluse;[4] he was forced to live alone after his people were destroyed in the ongoing genocide of indigenous peoples in Brazil.[2][5][6][7] The majority of his people are believed to have been killed by Brazilian settlers in the 1970s,[1] around the same time that nearby peoples such as the Akuntsu and Kano experienced similar massacres.[8] The remaining survivors, apart from the Man in the Hole, were killed in attack by illegal miners in 1995.[1] FUNAI later discovered the remains of their village, which had been bulldozed in 1996.[8] They had remained isolated up until this point, so it is not known what they were called, what language they spoke, or what the Man in the Hole's name was.[9]", "name": "Emmanuel"}, {"role": "user", "content": "If you ever felt alone, just remember this guy. Not only was he the last of his people, but all their memories and history die with him. Truly an omega man.", "name": "Peter"}]

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lightiggy

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Roger Reece Kibbe (May 21, 1939 – February 28, 2021) was an American serial killer and rapist known as the \"I-5 Strangler\". \nKibbe found all but one of his victims on freeways around Sacramento, California. In 1991 he was sentenced to 25 years to life imprisonment for the death of Darcie Frackenpohl."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Decades ago, Roger Kibbe prowled on Interstate 5, raping and strangling at least eight women and teenage girls. Last year, he was strangled to death by his cellmate. A sheriff regretted not finding other victims, but said he hoped Kibbe thought of every person he killed as he choked to death.\n\n[Roger Kibbe - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Kibbe)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Kibbe had this coming for *a very, very long time*, but Budrow is also a scumbag. Hes not someone you want out of prison either."}]

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wishingidbeensomeone

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Billie-Jo Margaret Jenkins (29 March 1983 – 15 February 1997) was an English girl who was murdered in Hastings, East Sussex in February 1997. The case gained widespread media attention and remains unsolved. Her foster father, Siôn Jenkins, was originally convicted for the crime, but after two retrials in which the jury was unable to reach a verdict he was formally acquitted. He has been denied compensation on the grounds that there is no evidence to prove his innocence. He holds the rare distinction of having been acquitted despite never having been found not guilty by a jury. A second charge, relating to lies he had conceived about his qualifications in order to get his job as a deputy headteacher, was left to lie on file. Since his acquittal for murder, Sussex Police have maintained that there are no plans to re-open the murder investigation.\nBillie-Jo's family have always maintained that Siôn Jenkins is guilty, and blamed the outcome of the final trial on the fact that the judge ruled inadmissible new forensic evidence due to it being introduced too late for the defence team to respond. The forensic evidence showed that the spots of blood found on Siôn's clothing also contained small fragments of Billie-Jo's bone and flesh, which appeared to disprove his claim that the blood had got there from her breathing out onto him as she died. It was this claim that had previously won Jenkins his re-trial. The forensic examination also found that the bloodspots contained tiny fragments of metal from the murder weapon, an iron tent peg. In January 2022, it was announced that police were re-examining the forensic evidence.Her killing is one of Britain's most high-profile unsolved murders."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Murder of Billie-Jo Jenkins\n\n[Murder of Billie-Jo Jenkins - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Billie-Jo_Jenkins)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What a beautiful girl. It sounds like she was a really great kid too. This man is an absolute piece of human garbage", "name": "Briana"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Please get some mental health care", "name": "Lucy"}]