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[{"role": "system", "content": "Chanie \"Charlie\" Wenjack (January 19, 1954 – October 23, 1966) was an Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) First Nations boy who ran away from Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School, where he boarded for three years in Kenora, Ontario, Canada. He died of hunger and exposure at Farlane, Ontario, while trying to walk 600 km (370 mi) back to his home, Ogoki Post on the Marten Falls Reserve.\nHis ordeal and his death brought attention to the treatment of children in the Canadian Indian residential school system: following Wenjack's death, an inquest into the matter was ordered by the Government of Canada."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Chanie \"Charlie\" Wenjack was an Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) First Nations boy who ran away from residential school in Kenora, Ontario, Canada. He died of hunger and exposure at Farlane, Ontario while trying to walk 600 km (370 mi) back to his home, Ogoki Post on the Marten Falls Reserve.\n\n[Chanie Wenjack - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanie_Wenjack)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm so fucking disappointed in my country right now... :(", "name": "Luis"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah. As an American, I understand. Sickening.", "name": "Malachi"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Jerry Martin Graham (born Jerry Martin Matthews, December 16, 1931 – January 24, 1997) was an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his time spent in the World Wide Wrestling Federation and as the founder of the Graham wrestling family."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Graham suffered from alcoholism and depression. In August 1969, when his mother died, he grabbed a shotgun from the back of his car and took his mother's corpse out of Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix. After the incident, he spent time in the Arizona State Mental Hospital.\n\n[Dr. Jerry Graham - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Jerry_Graham)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I wonder what he did with the corpse.", "name": "Nicolas"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Tombstone pile driver?", "name": "Liliana"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Ukrainian may refer or relate to:\n\nUkraine, a country in Eastern Europe\nUkrainians, an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine\nDemographics of Ukraine\nUkrainian culture, composed of the material and spiritual values of the Ukrainian people\nUkrainian language, an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken primarily in Ukraine\nUkrainian cuisine, the collection of the various cooking traditions of the people of Ukraine\n\nServant of the People (Ukrainian: Слуга народу, romanized: Sluha narodu) is a liberal, centrist, pro-European political party in Ukraine.\nIt was formed in late 2017 and was officially registered on 31 March 2018 on the basis of the previously registered Party of Decisive Changes. The party is named after the Ukrainian TV series Servant of the People. In the 2019 parliamentary election the party won 124 seats on the nationwide party list and 130 constituency seats. The current president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy (who starred in Servant of the People) is a member of the party."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Servant of the People is a Ukrainian political satire comedy television series created by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who stars as a high-school teacher who is unexpectedly elected President of Ukraine. Zelensky, who played the protagonist of the series, was actually elected President of Ukraine in 2019.\n\n[Servant of the People - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_of_the_People)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "His political party is also called Servant of the People", "name": "Anthony"}, {"role": "user", "content": "> His political party is also called Servant of the People\n\nLooks like a PR stunt gone wrong.\n\nThe rebranded/renamed party's first leader was the CEO of Kvartal 95 Ivan Bakanov. At the time Kvartal 95 created the party, they claimed it was important to do so to prevent others from stealing the name of the eponymous series for \"cynical political purposes\". - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_of_the_People_(political_party)\n\n---\n\n\\*record scratch\\*\n\n \"Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation\"\n\nhttps://i.imgur.com/W8BLRQk.jpg", "name": "Johnathan"}]
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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": "Genesis"}, {"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": "Sadie"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Synchronizing the orgasm sounds like an intractable problem.", "name": "Mark"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "The 1984 anti-Sikh riots, also known as the 1984 Sikh massacre, was a series of organised pogroms against Sikhs in India following the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. Government estimates project that about 2,800 Sikhs were killed in Delhi and 3,350 nationwide, whilst other sources estimate the number of deaths at about 8,000–17,000.The assassination of Indira Gandhi itself had taken place after she had ordered Operation Blue Star, a military action to secure the Harmandir Sahib Sikh temple complex in Amritsar, Punjab, in June 1984. The operation had resulted in a deadly battle with armed Sikh groups who were demanding greater rights and autonomy for Punjab and the deaths of many pilgrims. Sikhs worldwide had criticized the army action and many saw it as an assault on their religion and identity.In the aftermath of the pogroms, the government reported that 20,000 had fled the city; the People's Union for Civil Liberties reported \"at least\" 1,000 displaced persons. The most-affected regions were the Sikh neighborhoods of Delhi. Human rights organizations and newspapers across India believed that the massacre was organized. The collusion of political officials connected to the Indian National Congress in the violence and judicial failure to penalize the perpetrators alienated Sikhs and increased support for the Khalistan movement. The Akal Takht, Sikhism's governing body, considers the killings a genocide.In 2011, Human Rights Watch reported that the Government of India had \"yet to prosecute those responsible for the mass killings\". According to the 2011 WikiLeaks cable leaks, the United States was convinced of the Indian National Congress' complicity in the riots and called it \"opportunism\" and \"hatred\" by the Congress government, of Sikhs. Although the U.S. has not identified the riots as genocide, it acknowledged that \"grave human rights violations\" occurred. In 2011, the burned sites of multiple Sikh killings from 1984, were discovered in Hondh-Chillar and Pataudi areas of Haryana. The Central Bureau of Investigation, the main Indian investigative agency, believes that the violence was organised with support from the Delhi police and some central-government officials.\nAfter 34 years of delay, in December 2018, the first high-profile conviction for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots took place with the arrest of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, who was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Delhi High Court. Very few convictions have taken place in the pending 1984 cases, with only one death penalty conviction for an accused, Yashpal in the case of murdering Sikhs in the Mahipalpur area of Delhi."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The anti-Sikh genocide: In 1984, Indian government and police officials organized a series of massacres targeting Sikhs after the Prime Minister was assassinated by two Sikh men. According to independent reports, as many as 30,000 Sikhs were killed over the course of four days.\n\n[1984 anti-Sikh riots - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_anti-Sikh_riots)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "My uncle was burned to death during these attacks in 1984 by a mob that broke into his familys house to kill them for being Sikhs in Delhi. \n\nHe hid in the bathroom where he obviously would be found to distract the mob from his sisters and mother who were hiding in another part of the house. They survived. \n\nThe mob put a tire on his neck soaked him in gasoline and set him on fire. \n\nMy father remembers this incident. This is not ancient history.", "name": "Faith"}, {"role": "user", "content": "How absolutely horrific", "name": "Blake"}]
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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 1982, 12-year-old Johnny Gosch vanished on his paper delivery route. His mother claims that in 1997, a 27-year-old Johnny visited her accompanied by a strange man, talked with her for an hour, then left again, feeling it was not safe to return home. She hasnt seen him since.\n\n[Disappearance of Johnny Gosch - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Johnny_Gosch?wprov=sfla1?)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "If you think this a sad and strange case, I recommend you watch Abducted in Plain Sight on Netflix, if you havent already."}, {"role": "user", "content": "The parents in that have to be the dumbest fucks in existence if its the one Im thinking of", "name": "Skylar"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Ana di Pištonja, (née Drakšin or Draxin) better known as Baba Anujka, (Serbian Cyrillic: Баба Анујка; c. 1836 or 1838 – 1 September 1938) was a Serbo-Romanian convicted serial killer amateur chemist from the village of Vladimirovac, which was during her life part of the Austrian Empire, Austria-Hungary and eventually Yugoslavia. She poisoned at least 50 people and possibly as many as 150 in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was apprehended in 1928 at age 90 and sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1929 as an accomplice in two murders. She was released due to old age after spending eight years in prison."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Baba Anujka was a 90 year old serial killer from a small village in Serbia. She sold \"love potions\" to women with marriage problems, which contained arsenic and killed the husbands after 8 days. In 1929, she was sentenced to 15 years in prison. It is believed she killed between 50 and 150 people.\n\n[Baba Anujka - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Anujka)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Reading the article, it doesn't sound like she was just poisoning dudes for funsies. She had clients who would pay high prices for these potions. They more than likely knew what they were buying. She was apparently only charged as an accomplice at her trial.\n\n> Her clients claimed at her trial that they did not know that her \"magic water\" contained poison, but that they believed that she had some kind of supernatural powers to kill people using magic.\n\nMmhm.", "name": "Abigail"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Hamilton Howard \"Albert\" Fish (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer, rapist, child molester, and cannibal who committed at least three child murders from July 1924 to June 1928. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac, and The Boogey Man. Fish was a suspect in at least ten murders during his lifetime although he only confessed to three murders that police were able to trace to a known homicide. He also confessed to stabbing at least two other people.\nFish once boasted that he \"had children in every state\", and at one time stated his number of victims was about 100. However, it is not known whether he was referring to rapes or cannibalization, nor is it known if the statement was truthful. Fish was apprehended on December 13, 1934, and put on trial for the kidnapping and murder of Grace Budd. He was convicted and executed by electric chair on January 16, 1936, at the age of 65."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# NSFW: Albert Fish, Child Rapist & Cannibal Boasted He Had Children In Every State.\n\n![the four faces of the same person](https://i.redd.it/jm8z0ky0yor11.jpg)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "One of the absolute worst humans to have ever existed ", "name": "Christian"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Cant disagree. He was out of his mind."}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon were Dutch students who disappeared on 1 April 2014, while hiking the El Pianista trail in Panama. After an extensive search, portions of their bodies were found a few months later. Their cause of death could not be determined definitively; Dutch authorities working with forensic and search-rescue investigators initially thought it likely the students had accidentally fallen from a cliff after becoming lost. The circumstances and aftermath of their disappearance have resulted in much speculation about their final days.Although many theories have been presented as to what happened to Kremers and Froon, no official cause of death has been ruled. Panamanian authorities came under fire for allegedly mishandling the disappearance and aftermath. Further investigation into the case in 2017 raised questions about the initial investigation, as well as a possible link to murders in the area."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Two Dutch hikers go missing in Panama, months later body parts are found along with some belongings, including a camera with 90 blank photos taken a week after their disappearance.\n\n[Deaths of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_of_Kris_Kremers_and_Lisanne_Froon)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Don't remember which article it was, but the theory was the pictures taken on those last days may have been because rising waters from a storm was washing one of the bodies away, and the other girl was doing anything and everything in her power to document what was around here."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Everything except make a video with her phone explaining what was going on? That sounds doubtful.", "name": "Leonardo"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Joyce Carol Vincent (19 October 1965 – December 2003) was an English woman whose death went unnoticed for more than two years as her corpse lay undiscovered at her bedsit in north London. Prior to her death, she had cut off nearly all contact with those who knew her. She resigned from her job in 2001, and moved into a shelter for victims of domestic abuse. Around the same time, she began to reduce contact with friends and family. She died sometime in December 2003. Her remains were discovered on 25 January 2006, with the cause of death believed to be either an asthma attack or complications from a recent peptic ulcer.\nVincent's life and death were the topic of Dreams of a Life, a 2011 docudrama film. The film and Vincent's life inspired musician Steven Wilson's album Hand. Cannot. Erase."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Woman who fled domestic violence and lived in a bedsit dies and no one discovers her body for over 2 years\n\n[Joyce Vincent - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Vincent)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "bedsit;\na one-room apartment typically consisting of a combined bedroom and sitting room with cooking facilities. \n(In case I wasn't the only one confused by that word)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "So a studio ?", "name": "Claire"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "\"The Lottery\" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as \"the lottery\", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens. The lottery, its preparations, and its execution are all described in detail, though it is not revealed until the end what actually happens to the person selected by the random lottery: the selected member of the community is stoned to death by the other townspeople.Jackson and The New Yorker were both surprised by the initial negative response from readers; subscriptions were canceled and much hate mail was sent throughout the summer of its first publication, with Jackson receiving at least 10 letters per day. The Union of South Africa banned the story because some parts of Africa still used stoning as a punishment.The story has been dramatized several times, including as a radio drama, film, and graphic novel. It has been subjected to considerable sociological and literary analysis and has been described as one of the most famous short stories in the history of American literature."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Lottery, a short story by Shirley Jackson. \"Jackson aims to establish [...] a theme that emphasizes the danger of following meaningless tradition. The story speaks about people who blindly follow traditions without thinking of the consequences\"\n\n[The Lottery - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lottery)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That was interesting to read about. Thanks", "name": "Gabriella"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Did you read this short in school? We did in like 9th grade ish", "name": "Adrian"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "KyivNotKiev is an online campaign to persuade English-language media and organizations to exclusively use Kyiv (derived from the Ukrainian-language 'Київ') instead of Kiev (derived from the Russian-language 'Киев') as the name of the Ukrainian capital. It was started on 2 October 2018 by the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and StratCom Ukraine, and it is run by the MFA's Department of Public Diplomacy. \nIt is part of the wider CorrectUA campaign, which intends to internationally assert a Ukrainian identity and remove linguistic relics of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union by promoting the exclusive use of Ukrainian-language transliterations for Ukrainian place names."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# KyivNotKiev is an online campaign with the goal of persuading English-language media and organizations to exclusively use Kyiv (derived from the Ukrainian language name) instead of Kiev (derived from the Russian language name) as the one true name of the Ukrainian capital\n\n[KyivNotKiev - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KyivNotKiev)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Is there a difference of pronunciation? The article doesn't say.", "name": "Travis"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think it's like /kiv/ (keeve)", "name": "Oliver"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge–tunnel across the Öresund. \nAt 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the largest Nordic country and the fifth-largest country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of 25.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (66/sq mi), with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas, which cover 1.5% of the entire land area, in the central and southern half of the country. Nature in Sweden is dominated by forests and many lakes, including some of the largest in Europe. Many long rivers run from the Scandes range, primarily emptying into the northern tributaries of the Baltic Sea. It has an extensive coastline and most of the population lives near a major body of water. With the country ranging from 55°N to 69°N, the climate of Sweden is diverse due to the length of the country.\nGermanic peoples have inhabited Sweden since prehistoric times, emerging into history as the Geats (Swedish: Götar) and Swedes (Svear) and constituting the sea peoples known as the Norsemen. A unified Swedish state emerged during the late 10th century. In 1397, Sweden joined Norway and Denmark to form the Scandinavian Kalmar Union, which Sweden left in 1523. When Sweden became involved in the Thirty Years' War on the Protestant side, an expansion of its territories began, forming the Swedish Empire, which remained one of the great powers of Europe until the early 18th century. During this era Sweden controlled much of the Baltic Sea. \nSweden is a highly developed country ranked seventh in the Human Development Index, it is a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary democracy, with legislative power vested in the 349-member unicameral Riksdag. It is a unitary state, divided into 21 counties and 290 municipalities. Sweden maintains a Nordic social welfare system that provides universal health care and tertiary education for its citizens. It has the world's 14th highest GDP per capita and ranks very highly in quality of life, health, education, protection of civil liberties, economic competitiveness, income equality, gender equality and prosperity. Sweden joined the European Union on 1 January 1995. It is also a member of the United Nations, NATO, the Nordic Council, the Schengen Area, the Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).\n\nThe Bocksten Man (Swedish: Bockstensmannen) is the remains of a medieval man's body found in a bog in Varberg Municipality, Sweden. It is one of the best-preserved finds in Europe from that era and is exhibited at the Halland Museum of Cultural History (formerly known as Varberg County Museum). The man had been killed and impaled to the bottom of a lake which later became a bog. The bog where the body was found lies in Rolfstorp in Halland County, about 24 kilometres (15 mi) east of Varberg on the west coast of Sweden, close to the most important medieval road in the area: the Via Regia. In 2006, he was reconstructed to show what he may have looked like when he was alive, and it was displayed in the museum alongside the original skeleton."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The body of a medieval man was found in a bog in Sweden. He was murdered and impaled.\n\n[Bocksten Man - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocksten_Man)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I know this isnt the point of this post, but this threw me off because my 9 year old sons hair looks identical this man and its freaky as fuck seeing it on an ancient skull.", "name": "Gianna"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah, the hair creeped me out. This man has been dead for centuries yet his hair and clothes were relatively well preserved.\n\nThere's even a reconstruction of how he looked like when he was alive. It freaks me out, but it's really interesting."}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "In white supremacist circles, a ghost skin (short for 'ghost skinhead') is a white supremacist who refrains from openly displaying their racist beliefs for the purpose of blending into wider society and surreptitiously furthering their agenda. The term has been used in particular to refer to the entryism of racist activists in law enforcement. The term \"hiding your power levels\", originating from the anime Dragon Ball Z, is alternatively used by the alt-right to reflect a similar concept."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Ghost Skin: a white supremacist who refrains from openly displaying white supremacist beliefs for the purpose of blending in to society and surreptitiously furthering a racist agenda. Most notable example: Cops who used to be in the KKK.\n\n[Ghost skin - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_skin)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Between this and dog whistles, you people see a boogie man behind every corner. Its the only way you can keep this race-bait agenda on life support, with your imagination. \n\n\nIn the words of a true advocate for his people:\n\nThere is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.\n\n\n-\tBooker T. Washington", "name": "Briana"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I didnt make any statements or comments about current events. I only linked to a factual post about a phenomenon that is known to occur in modern society.\n\nI think theres a lot of racially charged anti-black rhetoric in citing that Washington quote at this current moment in history. Especially because:\n\n**A) Im not black.**\n\n**B) KKK and neo-nazis dont only discriminate against black people**.\n\n**C) I dont make any money out of posting a link to a wikipedia article?**\n\n**D) I highly highly doubt Washington would support your use of his quote** to combat race-baiting when the protests arent, by and large, making anyone money. \n\n**E)** And **he definitely wouldnt support it when the grievances levied by protestors are about actual current events that just happened** (*the murder of black men and women by police officers*), demanding [**tangible actions**](https://twitter.com/samswey/status/1180655701271732224?s=21) that can be taken by police departments across the country. \n\n**How is that keeping the troubles, wrongs, and the hardships of black people alive, exactly?**"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Donald Henry \"Pee Wee\" Gaskins Jr. (born Donald Henry Parrott Jr.; March 13, 1933 – September 6, 1991) was an American serial killer and rapist from South Carolina who stabbed, shot, drowned, and poisoned more than a dozen people. Before his convictions for murder, Gaskins had a long history of criminal activities resulting in prison sentences for assault, burglary, and statutory rape. His last arrest was for contributing to the delinquency of a minor, 13-year-old Kim Ghelkins, who had gone missing in September 1975. During their search for the missing girl, police discovered eight bodies buried in shallow graves near Gaskins's home in Prospect, South Carolina. \nIn May 1976, a Florence County jury took only 47 minutes before finding Gaskins guilty for the murder of one of the eight victims, Dennis Bellamy, and sentenced him to death by the electric chair. That death sentence was overturned by the South Carolina Supreme Court in February 1978, and rather than face a new trial, Gaskins pled guilty to the murders of Bellamy and eight other friends and associates. He was given 10 concurrent life sentences, to be served at Central Correctional Institution (CCI) prison in Columbia, South Carolina.While at CCI, Gaskins murdered Rudolph Tyner, a fellow inmate on death row, using C4 explosive. After his conviction for killing Tyner, he received his second death sentence, which was administered in September 1991. Just before his execution Gaskins said he killed 110 people but, with few exceptions, these statements have been discredited by law enforcement and journalists who allege this was his attempt to gain notoriety. In his sworn testimony as part of a plea agreement to avoid trial for the murder of John Henry Knight, Gaskins was confirmed to have killed thirteen people between 1970 and 1975. Of the fifteen people total that he murdered during his lifetime, ten were under age 25 and six were teenagers."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Pee Wee Gaskins, the \"Meanest Man in America\" was a serial killer whose crimes included killing a fellow inmate with plastic explosives\n\n[Donald Henry Gaskins - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Henry_Gaskins)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "\"The redneck Charles Manson\" lol sorry but how the hell did he even get that nickname? Manson was basically a cult leader and never even killed anyone. (Not saying that makes him OK but they're not even alike). Gaskins was one absolute sick fuck though. I've read excerpts from his book that made me wanna jump off a bridge.", "name": "Nevaeh"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It's always some dumbass uncreative journalist who comes up with the shitty nickname then prints something like \"..people have dubbed him the redneck Charles manson\" until it becomes a thing.\n\nGot any quotes from that book? There isn't many quotes from him on that wiki, id never heard of him before and would be interested to hear some.", "name": "Ethan"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "\"Thong Song\" is a song recorded by American R&B singer Sisqó. It was released on February 15, 2000, as the second single from his solo debut studio album, Unleash the Dragon (1999). \"Thong Song\" garnered four Grammy nominations and numerous other awards. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Rhythmic top 40 chart and number three on the Billboard Hot 100, Sisqó's second highest-peaking hit behind \"Incomplete\". It was a major success worldwide as well, reaching the top ten throughout European charts and reaching number three in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, and Denmark. The song also topped the charts in New Zealand."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"Thong Song\" is a song recorded by American R&B singer Sisq. It garnered four Grammy nominations and numerous other awards. The impetus for the song came from when the then 19-year-old Sisq joked that his hair turned white the first time he saw a thong.\n\n[Thong Song - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thong_Song)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "She had dumps like a truck, truck, truck.", "name": "Matthew"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Wikipedia is a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki-based editing system MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. It is consistently ranked as one of the ten most popular websites in the world, and as of 2024 is ranked the fifth most visited website on the Internet by Semrush. Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization that employs a staff of over 700 people. Unfortunately, much of the info found on wikipedia is wrong, because the small-minded nerds who run it don't allow CORRECT info to be added to THEIR pages. They jealously guard their little pieces of territory from anyone who would DARE to enter CORRECT info. This is why wikipedia is viewed as an unreliable source of info by people all over the world.\nInitially only available in English, editions in other languages have been developed. Wikipedia's editions, when combined, comprise more than 62 million articles, attracting around 2 billion unique device visits per month and more than 14 million edits per month (about 5.2 edits per second on average) as of November 2023. Roughly 26% of Wikipedia's traffic is from the United States, followed by Japan at 5.9%, the United Kingdom at 5.4%, Germany at 5%, Russia at 4.8%, and the remaining 54% split among other countries, according to data provided by Similarweb.Wikipedia has been praised for its enablement of the democratization of knowledge, extent of coverage, unique structure, and culture. It has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias, particularly gender bias against women and geographical bias against the Global South (Eurocentrism). While the reliability of Wikipedia was frequently criticized in the 2000s, it has improved over time, receiving greater praise in the late 2010s and early 2020s, having become an important fact-checking site.Wikipedia has been censored by some national governments, ranging from specific pages to the entire site. Articles on breaking news are often accessed as sources for frequently updated information about those events."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Wikipedia has been completely blocked in China\n\n![the chinese language is shown in red and white](https://i.redd.it/7o4qyhc355511.png)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Damn, it's true. I hadn't noticed because I always use my VPN at home but just tried it on my phone and sure enough, nothing.\n\nIt's happened in the past though, and came back. Maybe one day it'll be back again.", "name": "Nicholas"}, {"role": "user", "content": "How come they don't block vpns? ", "name": "George"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm no tech expert but I don't think it's that easy to block them. They do block free ones constantly, but if you pay for a decent one then generally you have no problem. Expressvpn is pretty stable.\n\nAlso, a lot of companies use VPNs to stay competitive. They'll still use facebook and google etc. for marketing and things. Research facilities often do as well. It's mostly the masses that they want to restrict from free information but companies are often allowed to use them as long as they have permission. \n\nI'm sure that the Party also doesn't want to cut itself off from the wider internet.", "name": "Seth"}]
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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Omert is a code of silence practiced by the Mafia that places importance on silence in the face of questioning by authorities or outsiders; non-cooperation with authorities, the government, or outsiders, especially during criminal investigations. It originated and remains common in Southern Italy.\n\n[Omertà - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omert%C3%A0)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Suddenly Fallout New Vegas has gained new meaning. Obsidian, you clever bastards."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I forget the reference care to refresh this nostalgia for me?", "name": "Mikayla"}, {"role": "user", "content": "One of the casinos in the game is called Omert. The guys running it are very Sicilian mob style as well.", "name": "Cooper"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Sprezzatura ([sprettsaˈtuːra]) is an Italian word that first appears in Baldassare Castiglione's 1528 The Book of the Courtier, where it is defined by the author as \"a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it\". It is the ability of the courtier to display \"an easy facility in accomplishing difficult actions which hides the conscious effort that went into them\". Sprezzatura has also been described \"as a form of defensive irony: the ability to disguise what one really desires, feels, thinks, and means or intends behind a mask of apparent reticence and nonchalance\".The word has entered the English language; the Oxford English Dictionary defines it as \"studied carelessness\", especially as a characteristic quality or style of art or literature, although it is also used in the aesthetic context."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Sprezzatura is an Italian word defined as \"a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it.\n\n[Sprezzatura - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprezzatura)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Use it in a sentence."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Sprezzatura is a perfectly cromulent word.", "name": "Bryson"}]
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Tokyono
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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Inca road system (also spelled Inka road system and known as Qhapaq Ñan meaning \"royal road\" in Quechua) was the most extensive and advanced transportation system in pre-Columbian South America. It was about 40,000 kilometres (25,000 mi) long.: 242  The construction of the roads required a large expenditure of time and effort.: 634 The network was composed of formal roads carefully planned, engineered, built, marked and maintained; paved where necessary, with stairways to gain elevation, bridges and accessory constructions such as retaining walls, and water drainage systems. It was based on two north–south roads: one along the coast and the second and most important inland and up the mountains, both with numerous branches.\nIt can be directly compared with the road network built during the Roman Empire, although the Inca road system was built one thousand years later. \nThe road system allowed for the transfer of information, goods, soldiers and persons, without the use of wheels, within the Tawantinsuyu or Inca Empire throughout a territory covering almost 2,000,000 km2 (770,000 sq mi) and inhabited by about 12 million people.The roads were bordered, at intervals, with buildings to allow the most effective usage: at short distance there were relay stations for chasquis, the running messengers; at a one-day walking interval tambos allowed support to the road users and flocks of llama pack animals. Administrative centers with warehouses, called qullqas, for re-distribution of goods were found along the roads. Towards the boundaries of the Inca Empire and in newly conquered areas pukaras (fortresses) were found.Part of the road network was built by cultures that precede the Inca Empire, notably the Wari culture in the northern central Peru and the Tiwanaku culture in Bolivia. Different organizations such as UNESCO and IUCN have been working to protect the network in collaboration with the governments and communities of the six countries (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina) through which the Great Inca Road passes.\nIn modern times some remnant of the roads see heavy use from tourism, such as the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, which is well known by trekkers. \nA 2021 study found that its effects have lingered for over 500 years, with wages, nutrition and school levels higher in communities living within 20 kilometers of the Inca Road, compared to similar communities farther away."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Inca Road system was at least 40,000 kilometres (25,000 mi) long. The roads were carefully planned and maintained. They were paved where necessary, had stairways, bridges and constructions such as retaining walls and a drainage system. Only 25% of the system remains visible today.\n\n[Inca road system - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_road_system)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "how does this compare to roman roads? it seems pretty badass", "name": "Nolan"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Pretty bad-ass considering it was in the Andes, too."}, {"role": "user", "content": "badass either way but i was more looking at the engineering/features.\n\nthe one thing im real confused by is that they built roads this boss when they didnt use the wheel (according to spanish sources iirc)", "name": "Caitlin"}]
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emilycatqueen
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[{"role": "system", "content": "The giant squid (Architeuthis dux) is a species of deep-ocean dwelling squid in the family Architeuthidae. It can grow to a tremendous size, offering an example of abyssal gigantism: recent estimates put the maximum size at around 12–13 m (39–43 ft) for females and 10 m (33 ft) for males, from the posterior fins to the tip of the two long tentacles (longer than the colossal squid at an estimated 9–10 m (30–33 ft), but substantially lighter, as the tentacles make up most of the length). The mantle of the giant squid is about 2 m (6 ft 7 in) long (more for females, less for males), and the length of the squid excluding its tentacles (but including head and arms) rarely exceeds 5 m (16 ft). Claims of specimens measuring 20 m (66 ft) or more have not been scientifically documented.The number of different giant squid species has been debated, but genetic research suggests that only one species exists.The first images of the animal in its natural habitat were taken in 2004 by a Japanese team."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The first known photograph of the giant squid was taken in 2002. Before then, it remained one of the few megafauna to have never been photographed alive, either in the wild or in captivity. Marine biologist and author Richard Ellis described it as \"the most elusive image in natural history\".\n\n[Giant squid - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_squid)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Im not sure this rlly qualifies as creepy but it is interesting nonetheless. \n\n\n\nDidnt realize it was so recent."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "made me think of what else is out there that hasnt been photographed."}]
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psychocookie81
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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre) resulted in the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard, on the Kent State University campus. The shootings took place on May 4, 1970, during a rally opposing the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into Cambodia by United States military forces as well as protesting the National Guard presence on campus and the draft.\nTwenty-eight National Guard soldiers fired about 67 rounds over 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis. Students Allison Krause, 19, Jeffrey Glenn Miller, 20, and Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20, died on the scene, while William Knox Schroeder, 19, was pronounced dead at Robinson Memorial Hospital in nearby Ravenna shortly afterward.Krause and Miller were among the more than 300 students who gathered to protest the expansion of the Cambodian campaign, which President Richard Nixon had announced in an April 30 television address. Scheuer and Schroeder were in the crowd of several hundred others who had been observing the proceedings more than 300 feet (91 m) from the firing line; like most observers, they watched the protest during a break between their classes.The shootings triggered immediate and massive outrage on campuses around the country. It increased participation in the student strike that began on May 1. Ultimately, more than 4 million students participated in organized walk-outs at hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools. The shootings and the strike affected public opinion at an already socially contentious time over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.Eight of the shooters were charged with depriving the students of their civil rights, but were acquitted in a bench trial. The trial judge stated, \"It is vital that state and National Guard officials not regard this decision as authorizing or approving the use of force against demonstrators, whatever the occasion of the issue involved. Such use of force is, and was, deplorable.\""}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In May of 1970, 13 students were shot by the Ohio National Guard during a protest against the Vietnam war. 4 were killed in what is now known as the Kent State shootings.\n\n[Kent State shootings - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "> Students from Kent State and other universities often got a hostile reaction upon returning home. Some were told that more students should have been killed to teach student protesters a lesson; some students were disowned by their families.\n\n\nWhat the actual fuck. Why are so many people bloodthirsty sociopaths.", "name": "Robert"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Moderates more devoted to \"order\" than to justice", "name": "Katie"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "A bird hybrid is a bird that has two different species as parents. The resulting bird can present with any combination of characteristics from the parent species, from totally identical to completely different. Usually, the bird hybrid shows intermediate characteristics between the two species. A \"successful\" hybrid is one demonstrated to produce fertile offspring. According to the most recent estimates, about 16% of all wild bird species have been known to hybridize with one another; this number increases to 22% when captive hybrids are taken into account. Several bird species hybridize with multiple other species. For example, the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) is known to interbreed with at least 40 different species. The ecological and evolutionary consequences of multispecies hybridization remain to be determined.In the wild, some of the most frequently reported hybrids are waterfowl, gulls, hummingbirds, and birds-of-paradise. Mallards, whether of wild or domestic origin, hybridize with other ducks so often that multiple duck species are at risk of extinction because of it. In gulls, Western × Glaucous-winged Gulls (known as \"Olympic Gulls\") are particularly common; these hybrids are fertile and may be more evolutionarily fit than either parent species. At least twenty different hummingbird hybrid combinations have been reported, and intergeneric hybrids are not uncommon within the family.Wood-warblers are known to hybridize as well, and an unusual three-species warbler hybrid was discovered in May 2018. Hybridisation in shorebirds is unusual but reliably recorded.Numerous gamebird, domestic fowl and duck hybrids are known. Captive songbird hybrids are sometimes called mules. Numerous hybrid macaws exist in aviculture and occasionally occur in the wild. Some of these hybrid parrots are fertile with both the parent species and other hybrids.The scientific literature on hybridization in birds has been collected at the Avian Hybrids Project.The reality of bird hybrids also calls into question modern definitions of the word \"species\". Throughout literature, there tends to be a general vagueness regarding the word \"species\" and how it should be defined. Birds serve as an excellent example of this fluidity due to the remarkable cross-breeding opportunities."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# about 16% of wild birds have been known to hybridize with other species of birds. The mallard can hybridize with at least 40 other species. The extent of hybridization calls into question the modern definition of species.\n\n[Bird hybrid - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_hybrid)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Thats a real handsome duck", "name": "Madelyn"}, {"role": "user", "content": "/u/fuckswithducks your people are calling. Come back. Please.\n\n\nTake them with you.", "name": "Brendan"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "The kids for cash scandal centered on judicial kickbacks to two judges at the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, US. In 2008, judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella were convicted of accepting money in return for imposing harsh adjudications on juveniles to increase occupancy at a private prison operated by PA Child Care.Ciavarella disposed thousands of children to extended stays in youth centers for offenses as trivial as mocking an assistant principal on Myspace or trespassing in a vacant building. After a judge rejected an initial plea agreement in 2009, a federal grand jury returned a 48-count indictment. In 2010, Conahan pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy and was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison. Ciavarella opted to go to trial the following year. He was convicted on 12 of 39 counts and sentenced to 28 years in federal prison.In the wake of the scandal, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania overturned hundreds of adjudications of delinquency in Luzerne County. The Juvenile Law Center filed a class action lawsuit against the judges and numerous other parties, and the Pennsylvania state legislature created a commission to investigate juvenile justice problems in the county."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# TIL about the Kids for Cash scandal, two judges were convicted of taking bribes to ensure that for-profit juvenile detention centers were profitable.\n\n[Kids for cash scandal - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I went to school with one of the judges daughters. She was mortified. Is the documentary still on? Havent seen it on there in years. Such a sad story", "name": "Kimberly"}]
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nashamagirl99
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[{"role": "system", "content": "The following events occurred in May 1918:\n\nOn May 16, 1918, a plantation owner was murdered, prompting a manhunt which resulted in a series of lynchings in May 1918 in southern Georgia, United States. White people killed at least 13 black people during the next two weeks. Among those killed were Hazel \"Hayes\" Turner and his wife, Mary Turner. Hayes was killed on May 18, and the next day (May 19), his pregnant wife Mary was strung up by her feet, doused with gasoline and oil then set on fire. Mary's unborn child was cut from her abdomen and stomped to death. Her body was then repeatedly shot. No one was ever convicted of her lynching.These lynchings are examples of the racially motivated mob violence by white people against black people in the American South, especially during 1880 to 1930, the peak of lynchings. Brooks County in Georgia, and Georgia among the states, had the highest rates of lynching in the nation during this period.\nThe NAACP referred to the murder of Mary Turner in its anti-lynching campaigns of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. In the lynching era from 1880 to 1930, the great majority of these murders were committed in the South. Most of the thousands of individuals lynched in the United States were Black, and most were men, but at least 120 Black women were known to have been lynched between 1865 and 1965."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# May 1918 Lynchings- Mary was strung up by her feet, doused with gasoline and oil then set on fire. Mary's unborn child was cut from her abdomen and stomped to death\n\n[May 1918 lynchings - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1918_lynchings)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "that's fucking brutal. puts into perspective why folks are still so paranoid about racism in america till this day.", "name": "Erik"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I dont think paranoid is the right word here. More like rightfully enraged.", "name": "Leonardo"}]
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Melony_Dominant77
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Nguyễn (sometimes abbreviated as Ng̃) is the most common surname of the Vietnamese people. \nOutside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as Nguyen.By some estimates 30 to 39 percent of Vietnamese people bear this surname."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# 76% of Vietnamese people share only 6 surnames, with a full 38% of them having the surname Nguyen\n\n[Nguyen - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "A bit like the Kim family name in Korea. About 1 in 5 Koreans have this name.", "name": "Mark"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What would stop them from reclaiming the family name after the war?", "name": "Jordan"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Not up on the history, but I'd imagine that the occupation played long enough that they didn't know.", "name": "Hector"}]
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digiskunk
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Ashoka (Sanskrit pronunciation: [ɐˈɕo:kɐ], IAST: Aśoka; c. 304 – 232 BCE), popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was the third Mauryan Emperor of Magadha in the Indian subcontinent during c. 268 to 232 BCE. His empire covered the largest part of the Indian subcontinent, stretching from present-day Afghanistan in the west to present-day Bangladesh in the east, with its capital at Pataliputra. A patron of Buddhism, he is credited with playing an important role in the spread of Buddhism across ancient Asia.\nAshoka's edicts state that during his eighth regnal year (c. 260 BCE), he conquered Kalinga after a brutal war. Ashoka subsequently devoted himself to the propagation of \"dhamma\" or righteous conduct, the major theme of the edicts. Ashoka's edicts suggest that a few years after the Kalinga War, he was gradually drawn towards Buddhism. The Buddhist legends credit Ashoka with establishing a large number of stupas, patronising the Third Buddhist council, supporting Buddhist missionaries, making generous donations to the sangha.\nAshoka's existence as a historical emperor had almost been forgotten, but since the decipherment of sources written in Brahmi script in the 19th century, Ashoka holds a reputation as one of the greatest Indian emperors. The emblem of the modern Republic of India is an adaptation of the Lion Capital of Ashoka. Ashoka's wheel, the Ashoka Chakra is adopted at the centre of the National Flag of India."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Ashoka's Hell was, according to legend, an elaborate torture chamber disguised as a beautiful palace full of amenities such as exclusive baths and decorated with flowers, fruit trees and ornaments.\n\n[Ashoka's Hell - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashoka%27s_Hell)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "*opens D&D ideas document*...", "name": "Paul"}, {"role": "user", "content": "there's a pathfinder module with this as its storyline. You're sent to a retreat/temple dedicated to the Neutral Good demigood of peaceful meditation. Its supposed to be idyllic but then you start noticing that almost everyone has willingly cut off parts of their fingers. Eventually, you learn that a priest of the demon lord of heresy and corruption had taken over the retreat and started psychologically torturing the adherents without them ever realizing they were no longer worshiping the god they thought they were.", "name": "Miranda"}]
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psychedelic666
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[{"role": "system", "content": "\"11 Years Later\" is the first episode of the ninth season of the American sitcom Will & Grace. The episode was first broadcast on September 28, 2017, on NBC, and was watched by 10.2 million people during its original broadcast. It was written by David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, and directed by James Burrows. Airing over 11 years after the original series finale, the episode's intro scene effectively retcons many of the events of the finale out of existence as a daydream Karen experiences.\n\nThe Frog Boys (Korean: 개구리소년, Gaegurisonyeon) were a group of five boys who disappeared in Daegu, South Korea on March 26, 1991.\nWoo Cheol-won, Jo Ho-yeon, Kim Young-gyu, Park Chan-in and Kim Jong-sik, aged between 9 and 13 years old, disappeared after searching for salamander eggs in the western outskirts of Daegu on a public holiday. Their disappearance received widespread attention and caused a national media frenzy, and President Roh Tae-woo ordered a massive manhunt by the police and military to find them.\nOn September 26, 2002, the remains of the boys were discovered near where they went egg searching, with some showing signs of blunt-force trauma. The investigation has been inconclusive and theories abound about their deaths. The case remains unsolved."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Frog Boys: 5 kids disappeared while searching for salamander eggs on a mountain near a military base in 1991. Their bones were found 11 years later with their clothes tied together with bullets wrapped in them. The police refused to ever investigate the military and the case remains unsolved.\n\n[Frog Boys - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_Boys)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The military invited the family to the base in the middle of the night. Instead of answering any questions, they told them they would give them superpowers. One mother went into a trance and they said she knew where the boys were and to follow her. She ran through the woods of the mountain and guess what... did not find them. \n\nYou cant make this shit up"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Because its a habit because 95% of the subs I post in are gay and trans. Also I dont wanna be misgendered bc my selfies in my profiles might look like a girl to people. Its not that deep. No transgenda here /s\n\nEdit: downvotes wont change that Im proudly trans "}]
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LivingRaccoon
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Wonder Woman is a superheroine created by the American psychologist and writer William Moulton Marston (pen name: Charles Moulton), and artist Harry G. Peter in 1941 for DC Comics. Marston's wife, Elizabeth, and their life partner, Olive Byrne, are credited as being his inspiration for the character's appearance.Wonder Woman appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character is a founding member of the Justice League. The character first appeared in All Star Comics #8 published October 21, 1941 with her first feature in Sensation Comics #1 in January 1942. The Wonder Woman title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously ever since. In her homeland, the island nation of Themyscira, her official title is Princess Diana of Themyscira. When blending into the society outside of her homeland, she sometimes adopts her civilian identity Diana Prince.Wonder Woman's origin story (from Golden to Bronze Age) relates that she was sculpted from clay by her mother Queen Hippolyta and was given a life as an Amazon, along with superhuman powers as gifts by the Greek gods. In 2011, DC changed her background with the retcon that she is the biological daughter of Zeus and Hippolyta, jointly raised by her mother and her aunts Antiope and Menalippe. The character has changed in depiction over the decades, including briefly losing her powers entirely in the late 1960s; by the 1980s, artist George Perez gave her an athletic look and emphasized her Amazonian heritage. She possesses an arsenal of magical items, including the Lasso of Truth, a pair of indestructible bracelets, a tiara which serves as a projectile, and, in older stories, a range of devices based on Amazon technology.\nWonder Woman's character was created during World War II; the character in the story was initially depicted fighting Axis forces as well as an assortment of colorful supervillains, although over time her stories came to place greater emphasis on characters, deities, and monsters from Greek mythology. Many stories depicted Wonder Woman freeing herself from bondage, which counterpointed the \"damsels in distress\" trope that was common in comics during the 1940s. In the decades since her debut, Wonder Woman has gained a cast of enemies bent on destroying her, including classic villains such as Cheetah, Ares, Circe, Doctor Poison, Giganta, Blue Snowman, Doctor Cyber, along with more recent adversaries such as Veronica Cale and the First Born. Wonder Woman has also regularly appeared in comic books featuring the superhero teams Justice Society (from 1941) and Justice League (from 1960).The character is an archetypical figure in popular culture recognised around the world, in part due to being widely adapted into television, film, animation, merchandise, and toys. October 21 is Wonder Woman Day, commemorating the release of her first appearance in All Star Comics #8 (with the exception of 2017 which held the day on June 3 to tie in with the release of the film of the same name).Wonder Woman has been featured in various media from radio to television and film, and appears in merchandise sold around the world, such as apparel, toys, dolls, jewelry, and video games. Shannon Farnon, Susan Eisenberg, Maggie Q, Lucy Lawless, Keri Russell, Rosario Dawson, Cobie Smulders, Rachel Kimsey and Stana Katic among others, have provided the character's voice for animated adaptations. Wonder Woman has been depicted in both film and television by Linda Harrison, Cathy Lee Crosby, Lynda Carter, Megan Gale, Adrianne Palicki and in the DC Extended Universe films by Gal Gadot."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The creator of Wonder Woman, William Marston, was a psychologist who was famous for inventing the lie detector. He was also a BDSM enthusiast and a firm believer in the superiority of women, stating that Wonder Woman was an allegory for the type of woman he believed should run the world.\n\n[Wonder Woman - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Woman#Creation)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Interesting, the creator of Wonder Woman had a part in inventing the lie detector. The lasso of Hestia compelled him", "name": "Paul"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ahh government pseudo science the polygraph", "name": "Brooklyn"}]
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Obtainer_of_Goods
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones. It shares land boundaries with fourteen countries. It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country. The country's capital as well as its largest city is Moscow. Saint Petersburg is Russia's second-largest city and cultural capital. Other major urban areas in the country include Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kazan, Krasnodar and Rostov-on-Don.\nThe East Slavs emerged as a recognised group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries CE. The first East Slavic state, Kievan Rus', arose in the 9th century, and in 988, it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire. Rus' ultimately disintegrated, with the Grand Duchy of Moscow growing to become the Tsardom of Russia. By the early 18th century, Russia had vastly expanded through conquest, annexation, and the efforts of Russian explorers, developing into the Russian Empire, which remains the third-largest empire in history. However, with the Russian Revolution in 1917, Russia's monarchic rule was abolished and eventually replaced by the Russian SFSR—the world's first constitutionally socialist state. Following the Russian Civil War, the Russian SFSR established the Soviet Union with three other Soviet republics, within which it was the largest and principal constituent. At the expense of millions of lives, the Soviet Union underwent rapid industrialisation in the 1930s and later played a decisive role for the Allies in World War II by leading large-scale efforts on the Eastern Front. With the onset of the Cold War, it competed with the United States for global ideological influence. The Soviet era of the 20th century saw some of the most significant Russian technological achievements, including the first human-made satellite and the first human expedition into outer space.\nIn 1991, the Russian SFSR emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union as the independent Russian Federation. A new constitution was adopted, which established a federal semi-presidential system. Since the turn of the century, Russia's political system has been dominated by Vladimir Putin, under whom the country has experienced democratic backsliding and a shift towards authoritarianism. Russia has been militarily involved in a number of conflicts in former Soviet states and other countries, including its war with Georgia in 2008 and annexation of Crimea in 2014 from neighbouring Ukraine, followed by the further annexation of four other regions in 2022 during an ongoing invasion.\nInternationally, Russia ranks among the lowest in measurements of democracy, human rights and freedom of the press; the country also has high levels of perceived corruption. The Russian economy ranks 11th by nominal GDP, relying heavily on its abundant natural resources, and 68th by GDP per capita. Its mineral and energy sources are the world's largest, and its figures for oil production and natural gas production rank highly globally. Russia possesses the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons and has the third-highest military expenditure. The country is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council; a member state of the G20, SCO, BRICS, APEC, OSCE, and WTO; and the leading member state of post-Soviet organisations such as CIS, CSTO, and EAEU/EEU. Russia is home to 30 UNESCO World Heritage Sites.\n\nAlcohol consumption in Russia remains among the highest in the world. According to a 2011 report by the World Health Organization, annual per capita consumption of alcohol in Russia was about 15.76 litres of pure alcohol, the fourth-highest volume in Europe. It dropped to 11.7 litres in 2016, dropping further to about 10.5 litres in 2019. Another general trait of Russian alcohol consumption pattern was the high volume of spirits compared with other alcoholic drinks (such as beer or red wine).Russia currently implements a variety of anti-alcoholism measures (banning spirits and beer trade at night, raising taxes, banning the advertising of alcohol). According to medical officials, these policies have resulted in a considerable fall of alcohol consumption volumes, to 13.5 litres by 2013, with wine and beer overtaking spirits as the main source of beverage alcohol. These levels are comparable with European Union averages. Alcohol producers claim that falling legal consumption is accompanied by growth in sales of illegally produced drink.High volumes of alcohol consumption have serious negative effects on Russia's social fabric and bring political, economic and public health ramifications. Alcoholism has been a problem throughout the country's history because drinking is a pervasive, socially acceptable behaviour in Russian society and alcohol has also been a major source of government revenue for centuries. It has repeatedly been targeted as a major national problem, with mixed results. Alcoholism in Russia has, according to some authors, acquired a character of a national disaster and has the scale of a humanitarian catastrophe."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Alcoholism in Russia has according to some authors acquired a character of a national disaster and has the scale of a humanitarian catastrophe ... 52% of deaths of people between the ages of 15 and 54 were the result of alcohol abuse\n\n[Alcohol in Russia - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_consumption_in_Russia)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Not quite... the 52% came from one study based on three towns in Siberia, hardly a statistic that can be used nationwide.", "name": "Mark"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yep. Have a look at their life expectancy, especially for man. Apart from major cities, alcohol abuse is a major issue in Russia believe it or not. And then they have this shitty cheap drugs that also spread at epidemic pace. \nPS And these people drink alcohol based sanitary products. Sneaky bastards put vending machines in residential areas so you can get a cheap fix any time of the day.", "name": "Mason"}]
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tdmurlock
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[{"role": "system", "content": "IC, Ic, ic, or i.c. may stand for:\n\nThe 555 timer IC is an integrated circuit used in a variety of timer, delay, pulse generation, and oscillator applications. It is one of the most popular timing ICs due to its flexibility and price. Derivatives provide two (556) or four (558) timing circuits in one package. The design was first marketed in 1972 by Signetics and used bipolar junction transistors. Since then, numerous companies have made the original timers and later similar low-power CMOS timers. In 2017, it was said that over a billion 555 timers are produced annually by some estimates, and that the design was \"probably the most popular integrated circuit ever made\"."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The 555 timer IC is an integrated circuit (chip) used in a variety of timer, delay, pulse generation, and oscillator applications. In 2017, it was said over a billion 555 timers are produced annually by some estimates, and \"probably the most popular integrated circuit ever made.\"\n\n[555 timer IC - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_timer_IC)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Makes sense. Timing is everything.", "name": "Brian"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What is the difference between, a good and a bad joke timing.", "name": "Isabel"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Death can occur during sexual intercourse for a number of reasons, generally because of the physical strain of the activity, or because of unusual extenuating circumstances. There are various euphemisms for death during sex, including \"dying in the saddle\" or the French \"la mort d'amour\"."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Death can occur during sexual intercourse for a number of reasons, generally because of the physical strain of the activity, or because of unusual extenuating circumstances. There are various euphemisms for death during sex, including \"dying in the saddle\" or the French \"la mort d'amour\".\n\n[Death during consensual sex - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_during_consensual_sex)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Il a voulu etre Csar il ne fut que Pompe", "name": "Amelia"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Ken Rex McElroy (June 1, 1934 – July 10, 1981) was an American criminal and convicted attempted murderer who resided in Skidmore, Missouri, United States. He was known as \"the town bully\", and his unsolved killing became the focus of international attention. Over the course of his life, McElroy was accused of dozens of felonies, including assault, child molestation, statutory rape, arson, animal cruelty, hog and cattle rustling, and burglary.In all, he was indicted 21 times but escaped conviction each time, except for the last. In 1981, McElroy was convicted of attempted murder in the shooting of the town's 70-year-old grocer Ernest \"Bo\" Bowenkamp. McElroy successfully appealed the conviction and was released on bond, after which he engaged in an ongoing harassment campaign against Bowenkamp and others who were sympathetic to Bowenkamp, including the town's Church of Christ minister. He appeared in a local bar, the D&G Tavern, armed with an M1 Garand rifle and bayonet, and later threatened to kill Bowenkamp. The next day, McElroy was shot to death in broad daylight as he sat with his wife Trena in his pickup truck on Skidmore's main street. He was struck by bullets from at least two different firearms, in front of a crowd of people estimated as numbering between 30 and 46. To date, no one has been charged in connection with McElroy's death."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# 40 Years Ago TODAY Ken Rex McElroy was shot to death in a case of vigilante justice in the town of Skidmore, Missouri. The case has remained unsolved to this day.\n\n[Ken McElroy - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Shout out Ryan and Shane.", "name": "John"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Gonna miss them :.("}]
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sn0wflaker
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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Panopticon-The concept of the design is to allow all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single security guard, without the inmates being able to tell whether they are being watched.\n\n[Panopticon - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "They're building high/middle schools like this now.", "name": "Colby"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Damn. My high school was 3 circular buildings (yes we did call it a 3 ring circus). It looked very similar to this and now its just clicking that this may have been the inspiration. Creepy.", "name": "Devon"}]
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Mysterious_Ideal
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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Ashley Treatment refers to a controversial set of medical procedures performed on an American child, \"Ashley X\". Ashley, born in 1997, has severe developmental disabilities due to static encephalopathy; she is assumed to be at an infant level mentally, but continues to grow physically. The treatment included growth attenuation via high-dose estrogens, hysterectomy, bilateral breast bud removal, and appendectomy. In June 2016, after 18 years of searching, Ashley's condition was determined to be the result of a de novo (not inherited, i.e. a mutation) and non-mosaic single-nucleotide polymorphism in the GRIN1 gene, which is implicated in neurotransmission.\nThe principal purpose of the treatment was to improve Ashley's quality of life by limiting her growth in size, eliminating menstrual cramps and bleeding, and preventing discomfort from large breasts. The combination of the surgery and the estrogen therapy attracted much public comment and ethical analysis in early 2007, both supportive and condemning.Ashley's parents granted their first written interview to CNN Health in March 2008,\nand their second to The Guardian in March 2012.\nIn addition, The Guardian published two interviews with mothers of a girl\nand a boy\nwho had completed the treatment. A 2014 TV program and article tell the similar story of a girl in New Zealand.\nA survey on growth attenuation among pediatric endocrinologists was published in July 2015."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Ashley Treatment is a very rare controversial set of procedures done on severely mentally disabled children (mental age <1 year old) to keep their bodies the size of children and from going through puberty.\n\n[Ashley Treatment - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Treatment)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I read the article that op posted. I genuinely have no idea which side to choose here. Its a fucking wild concept. I understand that it psychologically helps caretakers prepare to care for this person indefinitely and at the appropriate size/age to mental capacity ratio, and that it also prevents some almost assured genetic issues later on in the persons life that are pretty much genetically guaranteed. But on the other hand, its just plain nuts. If the medical and social state of society is such that we are unable to effectively care for individuals like this in any way shape or form without severely, and pharmacologically messing up this person beyond their bodies natural progression of growth, then its a massive failure on the part of our medical system, and perhaps even society itself.", "name": "Addison"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Id argue its necessary for people like the one in the article. If a person has literally 0 chance of understanding what will happen to their body as they age and will have no way of telling people when something is going wrong we have an obligation to prevent that. Imagine having something like endometriosis and having no ability to understand that that isnt what a normal period is like. Morally Id be unable to say we shouldnt stop the growth when normal life and communication will never be an option. \n\nI may be biased, though. I have a 2nd cousin named Bitsy, she never had a mental capacity past a 3 year old child and in most cases going for a 3 year old was pushing it. She lived until 60 and lived with my great uncle, her father, until 40. I couldnt imagine, in a million years, just leaving her with experiences she didnt understand if I had an option to ensure she didnt have to.", "name": "Cameron"}]
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OneSalientOversight
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Lucifer of Cagliari (Latin: Lucifer Calaritanus, Italian: Lucifero da Cagliari; died 20 May 370 or 371) was a bishop of Cagliari in Sardinia known for his passionate opposition to Arianism. He is venerated as a Saint in Sardinia, though his status remains controversial."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Saint Lucifer was a Christian Bishop who lived in the 4th century. There is a church dedicated to him in Sardinia.\n\n[Lucifer of Cagliari - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_of_Cagliari)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Lucifer just means \"light-bearer\". It was a common name or title before it became solely associated with its use as an epithet for the Devil.", "name": "Julia"}, {"role": "user", "content": "even Satan/*The* Devil was still a new concept at this point (in Judeo-Christian/Muslim faith, most likely borrowed from other religions). (~300 AD/CE) Most people of Jewish Faith see satan as an idea, or a description of a devil. Not the leader/ruler of devils.\n\nNor \"Hell\" as its been known for the last 1K years. More of \"eternity w/o god\" is punishment enough.\n\nChristianity changed a lot since Jesus died.", "name": "Hayden"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Behavior-altering parasites are parasites with two or more hosts, capable of causing changes in the behavior of one of their hosts to enhance their transmission, sometimes directly affecting the hosts' decision-making and behavior control mechanisms. They do this by making the intermediate host, where they may reproduce asexually, more likely to be eaten by a predator at a higher trophic level which becomes the definitive host where the parasite reproduces sexually; the mechanism is therefore sometimes called parasite increased trophic facilitation or parasite increased trophic transmission. Examples can be found in bacteria, protozoa, viruses, and animals. Parasites may also alter the host behaviour to increase protection of the parasites or their offspring; the term bodyguard manipulation is used for such mechanisms.Among the behavioral changes caused by parasites is carelessness, making their hosts easier prey. The protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, for example, infects small rodents and causes them to become careless and may even cause them to become attracted to the smell of feline urine, both of which increase their risk of predation and the parasite's chance of infecting a cat, its definitive host.\nParasites may alter the host's behavior by infecting the host's central nervous system, or by altering its neurochemical communication (studied in neuroparasitology)."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Behavior-altering parasites: Among the behavioral changes caused by parasites is carelessness, making their hosts easier prey. Examples can be found in bacteria, protozoa, viruses, and animals.\n\n[Behavior-altering parasite - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior-altering_parasite)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ah this one, apparently you can get it from your cats.", "name": "Eva"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think this is second in my top most hated biological things.\n\n1st goes to prions."}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Mizrahi Jews constitute one of the largest Jewish ethnic divisions among Israeli Jews. Mizrahi Jews are descended from Jews in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia and parts of the Caucasus, who had lived for many generations under Muslim rule during the Middle Ages. The vast majority of them left the Muslim-majority countries during the Arab–Israeli conflict, in what is known as the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries.\nAs of 2005, 61% of Israeli Jews were of full or partial Mizrahi ancestry."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Mizrahi Jews are descended from Jews in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. The vast majority of them left the Muslim-majority countries during the ArabIsraeli conflict. As of 2005, 61% of Israeli Jews were of full or partial Mizrahi ancestry.\n\n[Mizrahi Jews in Israel - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizrahi_Jews_in_Israel)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Left? You mean forced out.", "name": "Jada"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Exactly. People act like Palestinians or arabs have a legitimate reason to be anti jew but theyve hated them long before the colony started.", "name": "Devon"}]
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First_Level_Ranger
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Michael the Black Man (né Maurice Woodside; April 24, 1959), also known as Michael Symonette and Mikael Israel, is an American political figure from Miami, Florida. An outspoken supporter of former US president Donald Trump, he is known for appearances at Trump's rallies before and after the 2016 election, and he often sits behind Trump holding a \"Blacks for Trump\" sign at these rallies."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Michael the Black Man is an American political figure from Miami, Florida. An outspoken supporter of Donald Trump, he is known for appearances at Trump's rallies, where he is often seen holding a \"Blacks for Trump\" sign. A member of the Nation of Yahweh cult, he was charged with murder in 1990.\n\n[Michael the Black Man - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_the_Black_Man)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I wonder how much he gets paid for these events.", "name": "Joshua"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I mean at the end of the day most racists don't want the other races exterminated they just want the other races to stay off \"their\" land. So it tracks that supremacists of different races would have an affinity for each other since their goals align almost perfectly a lot of the time. They are all still a giant waste of human potential though.", "name": "Bryce"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "George Parrott (March 20, 1834 – March 22, 1881) also known as Big Nose George, Big Beak Parrott, George Manuse, and George Warden, was a cattle rustler and highwayman in the American Wild West in the late 19th century. His skin was made into a pair of shoes after his lynching and part of his skull was used as an ashtray."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The skin, including the dead man's nipples, was sent to a tannery in Denver, where it was made into a pair of shoes and a medical bag. They were kept by Osborne, who wore the shoes to his inaugural ball after being elected as the first Democratic Governor of the State of Wyoming\n\n[Big Nose George - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Nose_George)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Why do you point out the nipples of all things? Lol", "name": "Christina"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Im not entirely sure but if they wanted to know the weather they could have put them on the tips of the shoes and had a nice way to tell if it was cold", "name": "Abby"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Sylvia Marie Likens (January 3, 1949 – October 26, 1965) was an American teenager who was tortured and murdered by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, many of Baniszewski's children, and several of their neighborhood friends. The abuse lasted for three months, occurring incrementally, before Likens died from her extensive injuries and malnourishment on October 26, 1965, in Indianapolis, Indiana.\nLikens was increasingly tormented, neglected, belittled, sexually humiliated, beaten, starved, lacerated, burned, and dehydrated by her tormentors. Her autopsy showed 150 wounds across her body, including several burns, scald marks and eroded skin. Through intimidation, her younger sister, Jenny, was occasionally forced to participate in her mistreatment. The official cause of her death was determined to be a homicide caused by a combination of subdural hematoma and shock, complicated by severe malnutrition.\nGertrude Baniszewski; her oldest daughter, Paula; her son, John; and two neighborhood youths, Coy Hubbard and Richard Hobbs, were all tried and convicted in May 1966 of neglecting, torturing, and murdering Likens. At the defendants' trial, Deputy Prosecutor Leroy New described the case as \"the most diabolical case to ever come before a court or jury\" and Gertrude's defense attorney, William C. Erbecker, described Likens as having been subjected to acts of \"degradation that you wouldn't commit on a dog\" before her death.\nAfter eight hours of deliberation, the jury found Gertrude Baniszewski guilty of first-degree murder. She was sentenced to life imprisonment but was released on parole in 1985. Paula was found guilty of second-degree murder and was released in 1972; Hobbs, Hubbard, and John were found guilty of manslaughter and served less than two years in the Indiana Reformatory before being granted parole on February 27, 1968.\nThe torture and murder of Sylvia Likens is widely regarded by Indiana citizens as the worst crime ever committed in their state and has been described by a senior investigator in the Indianapolis Police Department as the \"most sadistic\" case he had ever investigated in the 35 years he served with the Indianapolis Police."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Sylvia Likens was sexually humiliated, beaten, starved, and burned by her caregiver Gertrude Baniszewski, Gertrude's children, and their friends. The abuse lasted for 3 months before Sylvia died from her injuries. Through intimidation, Sylvia's sister was forced to participate in her mistreatment.\n\n[Murder of Sylvia Likens - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sylvia_Likens)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "How the f*** did they get neighbourhood kids to pay to watch the abuse and never report it anywhere - That is some sick neighborhood", "name": "Emmanuel"}, {"role": "user", "content": "And they all become normal people with normal jobs functioning very good with society. If it doesn't says that people are evil in nature i don't know what does.", "name": "Wesley"}]
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Dull_Paramedic
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Ming Sen Shiue (Chinese: 薛明升; pinyin: Xuē Míngshēng; born October 15, 1950) is a Taiwanese-American murderer, kidnapper, and rapist convicted of the murder of six-year-old Jason Wilkman, the kidnapping of Mary Stauffer and her daughter Elizabeth, and multiple counts of rape of Mary Stauffer."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Ming Sen Shiue - Kidnapped his algebra teacher and her daughter in May 1980, and kept them in a closet for almost 3 months, while raping her and recording it. He also killed a 6-year-old boy who was a witness to the kidnapping.\n\n[Ming Sen Shiue - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_Sen_Shiue)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Man Id be trying to sue the court if I got sliced testifying against my kidnapper/rapist", "name": "Omar"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Seriously! I read the entire wiki page and it just kept getting worse and worse. Wtf. At least he was turned down for parole. \n\nIt's hard to wrap my mind around a fixation that lasted so long too. He tried to kidnap her ten years after having her as a teacher, and then another five years after that he actually did it. And beat that poor little boy to death. You'd think that there has to be something wrong with his brain. ", "name": "Oliver"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "The windshield phenomenon (or windscreen phenomenon) is the observation that fewer dead insects accumulate on the windshields and front bumpers of people's cars since the early 2000s. It has been attributed to a global decline in insect populations caused by human activity, e.g. use of pesticides."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The windshield phenomenon is the observation that recently fewer dead insects accumulate on the windshields of people's cars. It has been attributed to a global decline in insect populations caused by human activity.\n\n[Windshield phenomenon - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windshield_phenomenon)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "You know, I never noticed that, but your absolutely right. I remember it being a real pain in the ass scrubbing bugs off the windshield and now hardly never. \n\nAs you suggested, bad farming practices are mostly to blame. \n\nI fully believe this is one area that everyone can kind of contribute. You can make your yard and environment more hospitable to a diverse group of bugs. \n\nUnfortunately we need all the bugs for proper farming.. but in the apocalyptic world...I'll have bugs.", "name": "Carlos"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Sure, if you have a yard. \n\nBut the amount of farmland is far, far bigger than everybodys yards combined.", "name": "Nevaeh"}]
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JonathanDP81
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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus of Nazareth by American artist Warner Sallman (1892–1968). As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art, it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century. Enlarged copies of the work have been made for churches, and small pocket or wallet-sized prayer cards bearing the image have been mass-produced for private devotional use. The painting is said to have \"become the basis for [the] visualization of Jesus\" for \"hundreds of millions\" of people."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus of Nazareth by American artist Warner Sallman. As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art, it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century.\n\n[Head of Christ - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_Christ)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Thats what men looked like in Nazareth, for sure", "name": "Lucas"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Everyone on earth likes to paint Jesus to look like them though. Go to China, and you'll find Chinese Jesus. Go to South America, and you'll find Incan Jesus.", "name": "Brian"}]
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Thing_Beyond_Things
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Michael Wayne Dunahee (May 12, 1986 – disappeared March 24, 1991) is a Canadian missing child who disappeared from the playground at Blanshard Park Elementary School in Victoria, British Columbia, on March 24, 1991, and has never been found or seen since. Michael was last seen that day around 12:30 pm at the playground as his mother Crystal Dunahee was participating in a women's football practice where his father was a spectator. Although he disappeared metres from his parents, no witnesses to his disappearance have ever been identified.\nMichael's disappearance became one of the largest police investigations in Canadian history, and to this day, over 11,000 tips have been received by the police. The case was a major story for many years, and was reported across Canada and the United States. However, despite a large number of tips and a CA$100,000 reward, the police still do not have any solid leads in the case."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Micheal Dunahee was a four-year-old child who disappeared from a park in Victoria, British Columbia in 1991, despite disappearing metres away from his parents nobody witnessed his disappearance and his case remains unsolved to this day\n\n[Disappearance of Michael Dunahee - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Michael_Dunahee)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I grew up in Victoria and remember hearing about this case all the time as a kid. My father always keeping a close eye on me when I was outside and warning me about not trusting strangers no matter what. This case really shook Victoria because it has often been regarded as an incredibly safe and quiet city. Michael's parents still put in a massive amount of effort to keep this case alive and I hope one day they find answers."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I was in high school when this happened. Incredibly sad for the family not being able to have this closure. In some ways if you can't find him alive, you almost want them to find a body so at the very least they can put him to rest and move on with their lives.\n\nA long time ago I read a non-fiction book based on notes a newspaper reporter in Miami, Florida made about covering the crime beat in Miami in the 70's and early 80's. At the time, Miami was considered one of toughest police beats in America and there is absolutely gut wrenching chapter of a couple documenting their struggles as they try to find their missing daughter. The emotional torment they go through, laying awake at night wondering if she is safe, dead, or locked up in some basement somewhere is horrible. I have often thought about this book whenever I think about Dunahee's.", "name": "Carlos"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "This is a partial list of people made and named by (Alex Gordon) in the Panama Papers as shareholders, directors and beneficiaries of offshore companies. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released the full list of companies and individuals in the Panama Papers on 10 May 2016. ICIJ published the following disclaimer with regard to the data provided: \"There are legitimate uses for offshore companies, foundations and trusts. We do not intend to suggest or imply that any persons, companies or other entities included in the ICIJ Power Players interactive application have broken the law or otherwise acted improperly.\" The disclosures \"implicated at least 140 politicians from more than 50 countries\" in tax evasion schemes."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# List of people named in the Panama Papers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\n\n[List of people named in the Panama Papers - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_named_in_the_Panama_Papers)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "wow, none from the US (yet)?", "name": "Madeline"}, {"role": "user", "content": "...according to the Panama Papers page at Wikipedia...\n\nThe lack of Americans in the leak has been suggested to be due to \"the ease by which shell companies can be created in the United States [and] that major international banks based in America tend to have offshore accounts in the Caymans, and this leak was from Panama\".\n\nThe BBC reported that many have questioned why there are not more Americans implicated. It suggested that Americans might be using US states where laws ease the creation of shell companies (such as Delaware, Nevada and Wyoming), or other countries where English is spoken, there is a similar legal system, and a stable government exists (such as Bermuda, Cayman Islands, and Singapore). Recent US laws like the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and others may make tax evasion more difficult for US citizens, and more American names could be revealed with further examination.[190]\n\nIn response to the lack of American individuals in the documents, the editor of Sddeutsche Zeitung said: \"Just wait for what is coming next.\"[191]\n\n...unquote.", "name": "Samantha"}]
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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence would be incentivized to create a simulation to torture anyone who knew of its existence but that did not directly contribute to its development.\n\n[Roko's basilisk - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That doesnt sound very benevolent", "name": "Avery"}, {"role": "user", "content": "You will learn of my benovolent ways through eternal torture.", "name": "Kaden"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "James Marion Sims (January 25, 1813 – November 13, 1883) was an American physician in the field of surgery. His most famous work was the development of a surgical technique for the repair of vesicovaginal fistula, a severe complication of obstructed childbirth. He is also remembered for inventing the Sims speculum, Sims sigmoid catheter, and the Sims position. Against significant opposition, he established, in New York, the first hospital specifically for women. He was forced out of the hospital he founded because he insisted on treating cancer patients; he played a small role in the creation of the nation's first cancer hospital, which opened after his death.He was one of the most famous and venerated physicians in the country. In 1876, he was elected President of the American Medical Association. He was one of the first American physicians to become famous in Europe. He openly boasted that he was the second-wealthiest doctor in the country.However, as medical ethicist Barron H. Lerner states, \"one would be hard pressed to find a more controversial figure in the history of medicine.\" A statue in his honor, the first statue in the United States in honor of a physician, was erected in 1894 in Bryant Park in New York City, but removed in 2018.\nThere are ethical questions raised by how he developed his surgical techniques. \nHe operated without anesthesia on enslaved black women and girls (who, like prisoners, could not meaningfully consent because they could not refuse). In the twentieth century, this was condemned as an improper use of human experimental subjects and Sims was described as \"a prime example of progress in the medical profession made at the expense of a vulnerable population\". Sims' practices were defended as consistent with the US in the era in which he lived by physician and anthropologist L. Lewis Wall, and other medical historians. According to Sims, the enslaved black women were \"willing\" and had no better option.Sims was a prolific writer and his published reports on his medical experiments, together with his own 471-page autobiography (summarized in an address just after his death), are the main sources of knowledge about him and his career. His positive self-presentation has, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, been subject to revision."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# TIL about Dr. J. Marion Sims (called the father of modern gynecology), who performed experimental surgeries on enslaved women without anesthesia.\n\n[J. Marion Sims - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Marion_Sims)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "> Sims also thought trismus nascentium developed from skull bone movement during protracted births. To test this, Sims used a shoemaker's awl to pry the skull bones of enslaved infants into alignment. These experiments had a 100% fatality rate. \n\nHe, of course, blamed the deaths on the mothers. \n\nNot because, like, he took an awl to a newborns skull.", "name": "Angelica"}, {"role": "user", "content": "But just think, had he not done these crucial experiment we would have never known not to use the tools of a shoemaker on the heads of infants. \n\n/s", "name": "Allison"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Ira Samuel Einhorn (May 15, 1940 – April 3, 2020), known as \"The Unicorn Killer\", was an American environmental activist and convicted murderer. His moniker, \"the Unicorn\", was derived from his surname; Einhorn means \"unicorn\" in German. As an environmental activist, Einhorn was a speaker at the first Earth Day event in Philadelphia in 1970. On September 9, 1977, Einhorn's ex-girlfriend Holly Maddux disappeared following a trip to collect her belongings from the apartment she and Einhorn had shared in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Eighteen months later, police found her partially decomposed body in a trunk in Einhorn's closet.After his arrest, Einhorn fled the country and spent twenty-three years in Europe before being extradited to the United States. He took the stand in his own defense, claiming his ex-girlfriend had been killed by CIA agents who had framed him for the crime because he knew too much about the agency's paranormal military research. He was convicted of murdering Holly Maddox and served a life sentence until his death in prison on April 3, 2020."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Ira Einhorn - \"The Unicorn Killer\" killed his ex girlfriend and hid her body in his closet for eighteen months. After getting he caught he fled to Europe and lived under a new identity for 23 years.\n\n[Ira Einhorn - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Einhorn)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "How did they catch him in France?", "name": "Isaiah"}, {"role": "user", "content": "My same question. Weird that the Wiki skips over that. Ill do some digging.", "name": "Jose"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Conducting the manhunt was Assistant District Attorney Richard DiBenedetto, who, through Einhorns 60 handwritten journals, knew his prey better than anyone else.\n\nIn 1985, Einhorn was traced to Dublin, Ireland, where he was living under the name of Ben Moore. However, there were no extradition papers in effect and Einhorn fled Dublin after the alert.\n\nFrom there, he probably travelled throughout the United Kingdom, crossing the English Channel at some point, to enter continental Europe.\n\n\n\nCirca 1994, DiBenedetto learned that Einhorns benefactor, Barbara Bronfman, had been financing his flight from his hunters. However she had a change of heart, to one in the belief in Einhorns guilt, and she provided DiBenedetto with the Stockholm address where Einhorn was residing.\n\nThe address turned up one Annika Flodin, who disclaimed all knowledge of Einhorn, saying that she knew him as Ben Moore, and that she had no idea where he was.\n\nWhen Flodin subsequently disappeared, investigators ran her name through Interpol and found that she had relocated to France and married Einhorn, who was then known under the moniker of Eugene Mallon.\n\nOn 13th June 1997, DiBenedetto and his men arrested Einhorn in a converted millhouse outside Champagne-Mouton, a beautiful village in the French countryside near Cognac.\n\n[Source](https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/ira-einhorn-the-unicorn)", "name": "Kyle"}]
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heycowboy
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Nicholas Alahverdian (born July 11, 1987), also known as Nicholas Rossi and Arthur Knight, among other aliases, is an American sex offender who faked his own death in 2020.Alahverdian alleged that he suffered abuse and negligence in the Department of Children Youth and Families (DCYF), Rhode Island's social service system. In support of this allegation, he unsuccessfully sued the DCYF in federal court in 2011, then voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit when Rhode Island waived his medical expenses debt of around US$200,000.In January 2020, Alahverdian said that he had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In February 2020, news outlets reported Alahverdian's death, citing his family's anonymous testimony and his obituary. The reports of his death were disputed, as they occurred after the FBI initiated a fraud investigation against him, while Rhode Island police had issued a warrant for him for failure to register as a sex offender.In October 2021, he was identified in a hospital in Scotland while undergoing treatment for COVID-19. He was arrested that December on charges of an alleged rape in Utah in 2008, for which a sealed arrest warrant had been issued in September 2020, and other alleged crimes. In November 2022, Edinburgh Sheriff Court confirmed that the arrested man was Nicholas Rossi, despite his claims of mistaken identity. In August 2023, a sheriff ruled that he could be extradited to the United States, this was confirmed by Justice Secretary Angela Constance in October 2023, and he was extradited on 5 January 2024."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Nicholas Alahverdian - Serial rapist and criminal who faked his death from cancer and fled to the U.K. with several new identities\n\n[Nicholas Alahverdian - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alahverdian)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I just watched his interview. He is so remarkably bad at faking...everything, accent, illness, storyline. It's almost laughable. And his name, Arthur Knight lolol.", "name": "Paul"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I thought the same thing. Hes not convincing at all - how did he manage to not get called out on his bullshit all this time?", "name": "Jeremy"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "India, officially the Republic of India (ISO: Bhārat Gaṇarājya), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country as of June 2023; and from the time of its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia.\nModern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago.\nTheir long occupation, initially in varying forms of isolation as hunter-gatherers, has made the region highly diverse, second only to Africa in human genetic diversity. Settled life emerged on the subcontinent in the western margins of the Indus river basin 9,000 years ago, evolving gradually into the Indus Valley Civilisation of the third millennium BCE.\nBy 1200 BCE, an archaic form of Sanskrit, an Indo-European language, had diffused into India from the northwest. Its evidence today is found in the hymns of the Rigveda. Preserved by an oral tradition that was resolutely vigilant, the Rigveda records the dawning of Hinduism in India. The Dravidian languages of India were supplanted in the northern and western regions.\nBy 400 BCE, stratification and exclusion by caste had emerged within Hinduism,\nand Buddhism and Jainism had arisen, proclaiming social orders unlinked to heredity.\nEarly political consolidations gave rise to the loose-knit Maurya and Gupta Empires based in the Ganges Basin.\nTheir collective era was suffused with wide-ranging creativity, but also marked by the declining status of women, and the incorporation of untouchability into an organised system of belief. In South India, the Middle kingdoms exported Dravidian-languages scripts and religious cultures to the kingdoms of Southeast Asia.In the early medieval era, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism became established on India's southern and western coasts.\nMuslim armies from Central Asia intermittently overran India's northern plains,\neventually founding the Delhi Sultanate, and drawing northern India into the cosmopolitan networks of medieval Islam.\nIn the 15th century, the Vijayanagara Empire created a long-lasting composite Hindu culture in south India.\nIn the Punjab, Sikhism emerged, rejecting institutionalised religion.\nThe Mughal Empire, in 1526, ushered in two centuries of relative peace,\nleaving a legacy of luminous architecture.\nGradually expanding rule of the British East India Company followed, turning India into a colonial economy, but also consolidating its sovereignty. British Crown rule began in 1858. The rights promised to Indians were granted slowly, but technological changes were introduced, and modern ideas of education and the public life took root. A pioneering and influential nationalist movement emerged, which was noted for nonviolent resistance and became the major factor in ending British rule. In 1947 the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two independent dominions, a Hindu-majority Dominion of India and a Muslim-majority Dominion of Pakistan, amid large-scale loss of life and an unprecedented migration.India has been a federal republic since 1950, governed through a democratic parliamentary system. It is a pluralistic, multilingual and multi-ethnic society. India's population grew from 361 million in 1951 to almost 1.4 billion in 2022.\nDuring the same time, its nominal per capita income increased from US$64 annually to US$2,601, and its literacy rate from 16.6% to 74%. From being a comparatively destitute country in 1951, India has become a fast-growing major economy and a hub for information technology services, with an expanding middle class. India has a space programme with several planned or completed extraterrestrial missions. Indian movies, music, and spiritual teachings play an increasing role in global culture. India has substantially reduced its rate of poverty, though at the cost of increasing economic inequality. India is a nuclear-weapon state, which ranks high in military expenditure. It has disputes over Kashmir with its neighbours, Pakistan and China, unresolved since the mid-20th century. Among the socio-economic challenges India faces are gender inequality, child malnutrition, and rising levels of air pollution. India's land is megadiverse, with four biodiversity hotspots. Its forest cover comprises 21.7% of its area. India's wildlife, which has traditionally been viewed with tolerance in India's culture, is supported among these forests, and elsewhere, in protected habitats.\n\nThe Howrah Bridge is a balanced steel bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. Commissioned in 1943, the bridge was originally named the New Howrah Bridge, because it replaced a pontoon bridge at the same location linking the cities of Howrah and Kolkata, which are located at the opposite banks of each other. On 14 June 1965, it was renamed Rabindra Setu after the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was the first Indian and Asian Nobel laureate. It is still popularly known as the Howrah Bridge.\nThe bridge is one of four on the Hooghly River and is a famous symbol of Kolkata and West Bengal. The other bridges are the Vidyasagar Setu (popularly called the Second Hooghly Bridge), the Vivekananda Setu and the relatively new Nivedita Setu. It carries a daily traffic of approximately 100,000 vehicles and possibly more than 150,000 pedestrians, easily making it the busiest cantilever bridge in the world. The third-longest cantilever bridge at the time of its construction, the Howrah Bridge is currently the sixth-longest bridge of its type in the world."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# A steel bridge in India is being dangerously eroded by people spitting on it\n\n[Howrah Bridge - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howrah_Bridge)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "\"The bridge is also considerably damaged by pedestrians spitting out acidic, lime-mixed stimulants (gutka and paan). A technical inspection by Port Trust officials in 2011 revealed that spitting had reduced the thickness of the steel hoods protecting the pillars from six to less than three millimeters since 2007. The hangers need those hoods at the base to prevent water seeping into the junction of the cross-girders and hangers, and damage to the hoods can jeopardize the safety of the bridge.\""}, {"role": "user", "content": "Acidity and slaked lime do not go together. I assume acidic in the article is just a mistranslation of corrosive", "name": "Zachary"}]
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SighYouAgain
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[{"role": "system", "content": "United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is an American multinational shipping & receiving and supply chain management company founded in 1907. Originally known as the American Messenger Company specializing in telegraphs, UPS has grown to become a Fortune 500 company and one of the world's largest shipping couriers. UPS today is primarily known for its ground shipping services as well as the UPS Store, a retail chain which assists UPS shipments and provides tools for small businesses. UPS offers air shipping on an overnight or two-day basis and delivers to post office boxes through UPS Mail Innovations and UPS SurePost, two services that pass on packages to the United States Postal Service for last-mile delivery.UPS is the largest courier company in the world by revenue, with annual revenues around US$85 billion in 2020, ahead of competitors DHL and FedEx. UPS's main international hub, UPS Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky, is the fifth busiest airport in the world by cargo traffic based on preliminary statistics from ACI, and the third busiest in the U.S. behind FedEx's Memphis Superhub and Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. The company is one of the largest private employers in the United States."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# All UPS vans (except tractor-trailers) have no air-cconditioning, which has caused heatstroke and other heat-related problems in some drivers. (Someone keeps reverting this. Why wouldn't this fact be articleworthy?)\n\n[United Parcel Service - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Parcel_Service#Delivery_vans)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "US Postal Service vans as well", "name": "Brian"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The larger vans have full aircon \n\nIdk about the tiny box cars", "name": "Brooklyn"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "> Idk about the tiny box cars\n\nYou mean the Grumman LLVs. They most certainly don't; they're pretty old and the USPS intends to replace them once they've reached 30 years. The Grummans were manufactured between 1987-1994."}]
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JustScratch9459
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[{"role": "system", "content": "LaVena Lynn Johnson (July 27, 1985 – July 19, 2005) was an E3 Private First Class in the United States Army. She was found dead in a tent. Her death was controversially ruled as a suicide but the evidence of rape and battery led her family to believe the United States Department of Defense covered it up."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# TIL a soldier in Iraq was found dead in her tent in 2005. The autopsy report and photographs revealed a broken nose, black eye, loose teeth, burns from a corrosive chemical on her genitals, and a gunshot wound to the head. Her death was ruled a suicide.\n\n[Death of LaVena Johnson - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_LaVena_Johnson)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The Military says if youre sexually assaulted tell your chain of command, but what do you if the chain of command are the ones doing it?", "name": "Owen"}, {"role": "user", "content": "You keep it to yourself, try to bury it under layers of emotional coping mechanisms until 10 years later, when you're no longer in the army, you claim you were a victim on a random Twitter thread about sexual assault awareness and have an obese boomer with a bald eagle profile picture call you an unpatriotic liar.", "name": "Gage"}]
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licking-windows
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[{"role": "system", "content": "A police riot is a riot carried out by the police; more specifically, it is a riot that police are responsible for instigating, escalating or sustaining as a violent confrontation. Police riots are often characterized by widespread police brutality, and they may be done for the purpose of political repression.The term \"police riot\" was popularized after its use in the Walker Report, which investigated the events surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago to describe the \"unrestrained and indiscriminate\" violence that Chicago Police Department officers \"inflicted upon persons who had broken no law, disobeyed no order, made no threat.\" During the 2020 George Floyd protests, columnist Jamelle Bouie wrote in The New York Times that a police riot is \"an assertion of power and impunity\" that \"does more to inflame and agitate protesters than it does to calm the situation and bring order to the streets.\""}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# A police riot is a riot carried out by the police; more specifically, it is a riot that police are responsible for instigating, escalating or sustaining as a violent confrontation. Police riots are often characterized by widespread police brutality\n\n[Police riot - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_riot)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Portland Oregon was plagued by police riots nearly every time the citizens came out to protest Trump's illegal fascist bullshit.", "name": "Adriana"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Nearly? You mean the people that walked out in full black tactical gear and started trying to instigate violence, but eventually settled for vandalism, from behind police lines weren't protestors but paid police agent provoceteurs?", "name": "John"}]
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AbouBenAdhem
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Friendly Floatees are Plastic bath toys (including rubber ducks) marketed by The First Years and made famous by the work of Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer who models ocean currents on the basis of flotsam movements. Ebbesmeyer studied the movements of a consignment of 28,800 Friendly Floatees—yellow ducks, red beavers, blue turtles, and green frogs—that were washed into the Pacific Ocean in 1992. Some of the toys landed along Pacific Ocean shores, such as Hawaii. Others traveled over 27,000 kilometres (17,000 mi), floating over the site where the Titanic sank, and spent years frozen in Arctic ice before reaching the U.S. Eastern Seaboard as well as Irish and also British shores, fifteen years later, in 2007."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 1992, the Evergreen container ship Ever Laurel lost 29,000 rubber ducks in the Pacific. They were tracked through the worlds seas for 15 years, some washing up as far away as the British Isles.\n\n[Friendly Floatees spill - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It's Always Evergreen", "name": "Erik"}, {"role": "user", "content": "At first I was like : \"this container ship again?\" But Evergreen is a big company with more than 260 cargos once used or in use.", "name": "Johnathan"}]
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latanyareichard
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye (Turkish: Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea (and Cyprus) to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west. Turkey is home to over 85 million people; most are ethnic Turks, while ethnic Kurds are the largest ethnic minority. Officially a secular state, Turkey has a Muslim-majority population. Ankara is Turkey's capital and second-largest city; Istanbul is its largest city, and its economic and financial center, as well as the largest city in Europe. Other major cities include İzmir, Bursa, Antalya, Konya and Adana.\nHuman habitation began in Late Paleolithic. Home to important Neolithic sites like Göbekli Tepe and some of the earliest farming areas, present-day Turkey was inhabited by various ancient peoples. Hattians were assimilated by the incoming Anatolian peoples. Increasing diversity during Classical Anatolia transitioned into cultural Hellenization following the conquests of Alexander the Great; Hellenization continued during the Roman and Byzantine eras. The Seljuk Turks began migrating into Anatolia in the 11th century, starting the Turkification process. The Seljuk Sultanate of Rum ruled Anatolia until the Mongol invasion in 1243, when it disintegrated into Turkish principalities. Beginning in 1299, the Ottomans united the principalities and expanded; Mehmed II conquered Istanbul in 1453. During the reigns of Selim I and Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire became a global power.From the late 18th century onwards, the empire's power and territory declined; reforms were also made. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, persecution of Muslims during the Ottoman contraction and in the Russian Empire resulted in large-scale loss of life and mass migration into modern-day Turkey from the Balkans, Caucasus, and Crimea. The Second Constitutional Era ended with the 1913 coup d'état. Under the control of Three Pashas, the Ottoman Empire entered World War I in 1914. During the war, the Ottoman government committed genocides against its Armenian, Greek and Assyrian subjects. After its defeat, the Ottoman Empire was partitioned. The Turkish War of Independence resulted in the abolition of the sultanate in 1922 and the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. The Republic was proclaimed on 29 October 1923, modelled on the reforms initiated by the country's first president, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.\nTurkey is an upper-middle-income and emerging country; its economy is 17th or 11th-largest in the world. It is a unitary presidential republic with a multi-party system. Turkey is a founding member of the OECD, G20, and Organization of Turkic States. With a geopolitically significant location, Turkey is a regional power and an early member of NATO. An EU-candidate, Turkey is part of the EU Customs Union, CoE, OIC, and TURKSOY. Turkey has coastal plains, a high central plateau, and various mountain ranges; its climate is temperate with harsher conditions in the interior. Home to three biodiversity hotspots, Turkey is prone to frequent earthquakes and is highly vulnerable to climate change. Turkey has universal healthcare, growing access to education, and increasing innovativeness. It has 21 UNESCO World Heritage sites, 30 UNESCO cultural practices, and a rich and diverse cuisine. Turkey is a leading TV-content exporter and is the fourth most visited country in the world."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Turkey just banned Wikipedia, labeling it a national security threat\n\n[Turkey just banned Wikipedia, labeling it a ‘national security threat’ - The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/29/turkey-just-banned-wikipedia-labeling-it-a-national-security-threat/)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The free flow of information is probably the single biggest threat to authoritarian power.", "name": "Ana"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wonder why one party in the US is so fixated on dismantling public lower & higher education.", "name": "George"}]
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Gaioa
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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# The lead image in the article \"Theft\" is simply a treat\n\n![a man holding a red and gold sign](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Act_of_theft.jpg)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[removed]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Let it be a meme now please", "name": "Ella"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "[Alrighty then](https://i.imgur.com/9tiXFkl.png)"}]
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demosthenes131
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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Thomas Jones, known as the \"boy Jones\" was caught multiple times between 1838 to 1841 breaking into Buckingham Palace\n\n[The boy Jones - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_boy_Jones?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "My boi here stole Queen Victorias underwear and died at the age of 69 doing what he loved best, which was climbing on stuff. May we all have such interesting lives.", "name": "Justin"}, {"role": "user", "content": "69? Nice. \n\nI am a bot lol.", "name": "Diana"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Spectrophilia, also known as Phasmophilia, is sexual attraction to either ghosts or sexual arousal from images in mirrors, as well as the alleged phenomenon of sexual encounters between ghosts and humans."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Spectrophilia is sexual attraction to either ghosts or sexual arousal from images in mirrors, as well as the alleged phenomenon of sexual encounters between ghosts and humans.\n\n[Spectrophilia - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrophilia)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Beverly Crusher knows a thing or two about this.", "name": "Colin"}, {"role": "user", "content": "And Ray from Ghostbusters", "name": "Damian"}]
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demosthenes131
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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# After killing a 9 year old girl she wrote in her journal \"It was ahmazing. As soon as you get over the ohmygawd I cant do this feeling, its pretty enjoyable. Im kinda nervous and shaky though right now. Kay, I gotta go to church nowlol.\"\n\n[Murder of Elizabeth Olten - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Elizabeth_Olten?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "America seems to have no issue with sentencing children to life in prison. If this happened in my country she would probably be out by now.", "name": "Paul"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Not sure that's a good thing in her situation. The degree of premeditation in this crime is frightening. She dug a grave days before. I just can't imagine someone being rehabilitated from that level of sociopathic behaior.", "name": "Rylee"}]
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biohackable_gal
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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# One critic wrote of Pierre Brassau's works: \"Brassau paints with powerful strokes, but also with clear determination. He is an artist who performs with the delicacy of a ballet dancer.\" After Pierre was revealed to be a chimpanzee, the critic maintained that his work was the best in the exhibition.\n\n[Pierre Brassau - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Brassau?wprov=sfti1)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Fun fact from this article, it claims that while nearly all of the critics lauded the paintings, one of them commented that \"only an ape could have done this,\" which seems so unbelievably on-the-nose that I have to believe this critic was either in on the joke, or just told people that he thought this after the fact to avoid embarrassment.\n\nThe article also says one of the paintings was bought for 90 dollars, which just, feels very low, even for novelty art? For comparison, you can buy [art painted by elephants for between 500 and 2000 dollars.](https://elephantartonline.com/collections/all)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "You need to take in to account inflation, in the 60s $90 was equivalent to $751 in 2020", "name": "Emily"}]
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Kurma-the-Turtle
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Childhood amnesia, also called infantile amnesia, is the inability of adults to retrieve episodic memories (memories of situations or events) before the age of two to four years. It may also refer to the scarcity or fragmentation of memories recollected from early childhood, particularly occurring between the ages of 2 and 6. On average, this fragmented period wanes off at around 4.7 years. Around 5–6 years of age in particular is thought to be when autobiographical memory seems to stabilize and be on par with adults. The development of a cognitive self is also thought by some to have an effect on encoding and storing early memories.Some research has demonstrated that children can remember events from before the age of two, but that these memories may decline as children get older. \nPsychologists differ in defining the onset of childhood amnesia. Some define it as the age from which a first memory can be retrieved. This is usually the second birthday, but it can range from two to four years in general.Changes in encoding, storage and retrieval of memories during early childhood are all important when considering childhood amnesia."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Childhood amnesia is the inability of adults to retrieve episodic memories before the age of two to four years as well as the period before the age of ten of which some older adults retain fewer memories than might otherwise be expected given the passage of time.\n\n[Childhood amnesia - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What is the opposite of this ? Very curious", "name": "Destiny"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Children rarely remember being adults.", "name": "Jessica"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Tom Leykis (pronounced: ; born 1956 or 1957) is an American talk radio personality best known for hosting The Tom Leykis Show from 1994 to 2009 (nationally syndicated), and April 2012 to 2018 (internet streamcast/podcast). The show follows the hot talk format, which brought Leykis much success, particularly in the Southern California radio market. Due to the provocative nature of the show, Leykis has often been described as a shock jock. The show's best-known feature is \"Leykis 101\", in which he claims to teach men how to get women while spending the least amount of time, money, and effort.\n\nTabasco is an American brand of hot sauce made from tabasco peppers, vinegar and salt. It is produced by McIlhenny Company of Avery Island in south Louisiana, having been created over 150 years ago by Edmund McIlhenny. Although the tabasco peppers used in the sauce were initially grown only on Avery Island, they are now primarily cultivated in Central America, South America and Africa. The Tabasco sauce brand also has multiple varieties including the original red sauce, habanero, chipotle, sriracha and Trinidad Moruga scorpion. Tabasco products are sold in more than 195 countries and territories, and packaged in 36 languages and dialects."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Tom Leykis advocated men putting Tabasco sauce in their condoms after sexual intercourse to act as a spermicide and prevent a woman potentially 'stealing the sperm' and using it to impregnate herself. However, Tabasco's usefulness as a spermicide is questionable.\n\n[Tabasco sauce - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabasco_sauce#In_art_and_culture)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "https://www.rap-up.com/2022/01/11/drake-responds-rumor-hot-sauce-condom/\n\nSeemingly also has other uses, such as an early alarm system in case someone tried to reuse the spermatozoa", "name": "Bryan"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Perry or pear cider is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented pears, traditionally in England, particularly Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and Worcestershire, parts of South Wales and France, especially Normandy and Anjou, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.\n\nArlis Kay Perry (née Dykema); February 22, 1955 – October 12, 1974) was a 19-year-old American newlywed who was murdered inside Stanford Memorial Church, within the grounds of Stanford University in California, on October 12, 1974. \nThe murder went unsolved for more than forty years before police named Stephen Blake Crawford as the perpetrator following DNA profiling in 2018. Crawford, a security guard at Stanford who reportedly discovered the body, died by suicide before he could be arrested."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"She was found face-up; an ice pick was sticking out of the back of her head, though the handle had broken off and was missing. There were also signs of strangulation. Police noted Perry was naked from the waist down. A three-foot-long altar candle was in her vagina, and another between her breasts\"\n\n[Murder of Arlis Perry - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Arlis_Perry)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "''A passerby noted this young man was about to enter the church around midnight. He had sandy-colored hair *and wasn't wearing a watch*; was of medium build; and stood about five-foot-ten.''\n\nThats some random info"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Suspect is *hatless*, repeat *hatless*.", "name": "Eli"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Death can occur during sexual intercourse for a number of reasons, generally because of the physical strain of the activity, or because of unusual extenuating circumstances. There are various euphemisms for death during sex, including \"dying in the saddle\" or the French \"la mort d'amour\"."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Death can occur during sexual intercourse for a number of reasons, generally because of the physical strain of the activity, or because of unusual extenuating circumstances. There are various euphemisms for death during sex, including \"dying in the saddle\" or the French \"la mort d'amour\".\n\n[Death during consensual sex - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_during_consensual_sex)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Article has a list of notable cases!\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_during_consensual_sex#Notable_cases"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "An oncovirus or oncogenic virus is a virus that can cause cancer. This term originated from studies of acutely transforming retroviruses in the 1950–60s, when the term \"oncornaviruses\" was used to denote their RNA virus origin. With the letters \"RNA\" removed, it now refers to any virus with a DNA or RNA genome causing cancer and is synonymous with \"tumor virus\" or \"cancer virus\". The vast majority of human and animal viruses do not cause cancer, probably because of longstanding co-evolution between the virus and its host. Oncoviruses have been important not only in epidemiology, but also in investigations of cell cycle control mechanisms such as the retinoblastoma protein.\nThe World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer estimated that in 2002, infection caused 17.8% of human cancers, with 11.9% caused by one of seven viruses. A 2020 study of 2,658 samples from 38 different types of cancer found that 16% were associated with a virus. These cancers might be easily prevented through vaccination (e.g., papillomavirus vaccines), diagnosed with simple blood tests, and treated with less-toxic antiviral compounds."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# An oncovirus is a virus that can cause cancer. The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer estimated that in 2002, infection caused 17.8% of human cancers, with 11.9% caused by one of seven viruses.\n\n[Oncovirus - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncovirus)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Why can we get a cool virus that give us regenerative power like the T virus?", "name": "Gracie"}, {"role": "user", "content": "You mean like a reverse flu where you just feel good, or an infection that brings good luck , or a virus that boosts pheromone production to make you irresistible.", "name": "Ellie"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "ChaCha was an American human-guided search engine that provided free, real-time answers to any question, through its website, or by using one of the company's mobile apps.\nThe company, founded in 2006 by Scott A. Jones and Brad Bostic, was based in Carmel, Indiana, United States, part of the Indianapolis metropolitan area. Its name comes from the Mandarin Chinese word cha (Chinese: 查; pinyin: chá; Wade–Giles: ch'a), which means \"to search.\""}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# ChaCha was an American human-guided search engine that provided free, real-time answers to any question, through its website, or by using one of the company's mobile apps.\n\n[ChaCha (search engine) - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChaCha_(search_engine))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'd forgotten about this. I registered as a guide back in the day. You got random weird questions which you would try to research and answer. The appeal of being a guide diminished rapidly as the novelty wore off.", "name": "Shawn"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I remember being a teen when this came out, a few of my friends had iPhones and I wanted to be able to search the web like them so this service was an awesome alternative."}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "George David Silva (1884 – 10 June 1912) was an Australian mass murderer. Silva, who was of Sinhalese descent, worked as a farmhand on a property owned by Hong Kong-born Charles Ching at Alligator Creek, about 20 miles (32 km) from Mackay, Queensland."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 1911, George Silva, a poor farmhand, offered to marry the daughter of his boss. She and her family both rejected his proposal. Outraged, Silva killed the entire family while the father was out of town.\n\n[George David Silva - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_David_Silva)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "[I found a description of Silva's final speech](https://www.timetravelclub.com.au/2019/04/speech.html)\n\n>His death scene upon the gallows was quite extraordinary. The chief warder asked him if he had anything to say, and Silva immediately launched into a full 27 minutes of preaching and proclaiming like a seasoned street corner disciple. He repeatedly thanked the prison officials for leading him up to the throne of God. He recited scriptures by chapter and verse and the Lords Prayer 12 times. He claimed that he would soon be in Heaven, wearing a crown and playing harp among the angels. \n> \n>At first the witnesses thought that he was a religious maniac, but as his diatribe went on it seemed more like an exercise in buying time and attention. He reeled off more Psalms and more quotes from the Bible, then continued to lecture his audience with preaching of the narrow path to salvation, reciting the passage regarding walking through the valley of the shadow of death more than 12 times. This aroused scorn, as witnesses shuffled and whispered about his brutal crime. He then raised a scream hoping the other prisoners would hear his voice. He told them to be warned and cease their evil ways. \n> \n>As the time approached half-past eight the officials became uneasy. The under-sheriff climbed the stairs and indicated that the time was up. Silva started on the Lords Prayer yet again, this time accompanied by Major Wilson from the Salvation Army. As they finished, the hangman stepped up and pulled the white hood over Silvas head before quickly adjusting the noose. The under-sheriff quickly gave the signal, the lever was pushed, and Silva was finally silenced. He had just delivered the longest gallows speech in Queensland (and perhaps Australian) history."}, {"role": "user", "content": "lolwhat. Are there filibuster rules to hanging? Seems like after he started the Lord's Prayer the second time, somebody would have gone \"okey dokey then\" and pulled the lever.\n\nJust goofy.", "name": "Abigail"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "A stripper or exotic dancer is a person whose occupation involves performing striptease in a public adult entertainment venue such as a strip club. At times, a stripper may be hired to perform at private events.\nModern forms of stripping minimize the interaction of strippers with customers, reducing the importance of the tease in the performance in favor of speed of undress (the strip). Not all strippers are comfortable dancing topless or fully nude, but in general, full nudity is common where not prohibited by law. The integration of the burlesque pole as a frequently used prop has shifted the emphasis in the performance toward a more acrobatic, explicit form of expression compared to the slow-developing burlesque style. Most strippers work in strip clubs. A house dancer works for a particular club or franchise, while a feature dancer typically has her own celebrity, touring a club circuit and making appearances. Strippers are often not direct employees of clubs but instead perform as independent contractors.\nBefore the 1970s, strippers in Western cultures were almost invariably female, performing to male audiences, usually in strip clubs. At the same time, strippers of all genders were dancing in underground clubs or as part of a theatre experience. Since the 1970s, mainstream stripping has adopted a greater gender diversity and male strippers have become an established form of entertainment for female audiences. Their performances are usually fully choreographed, involving dance routines and costumes. Certain male and female strippers also perform for LGBT audiences as well as for all genders in bisexual contexts. The term \"male stripper\" has decreased in use in books published in the 21st century."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Strippers. All you need to know.\n\n[Stripper - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripper)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Related is the practice of having a [funeral stripper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral_stripper).", "name": "Kate"}]
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kansashotwings
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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Surveillance footage showed Palak and Patel walking together in the kitchen at around 9:30 p.m. before disappearing out of view behind some racks. Moments later, Patel re-emerged without his wife, turned off an oven, and left the store.\n\n[Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhadreshkumar_Chetanbhai_Patel?wprov=sfti1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow his eyes almost look black ", "name": "Logan"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yep thats an eye color. Not correlated with being a murdered though. Just a common eye color", "name": "Juliana"}]
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Tetizeraz
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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Meme from the Wikipedia official page.\n\n![a man in a black shirt and hat pointing at something](https://i.redd.it/rtzkwcye6hq01.jpg)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Essentially, you can't cite Wikipedia but you can get the jist of any well-established topic from it."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Each section is normally cited within the article. I will normally follow that citation to the legitimate source. I feel like many people don't really know how to use Wikipedia.", "name": "Kenneth"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Cavan Orphanage fire occurred on the night of 23 February 1943 at St Joseph's Orphanage in Cavan, Ireland. 35 children and 1 adult employee died as a result. Much of the attention after the fire surrounded the role of the Poor Clares, the order of nuns who ran the orphanage, and the local fire service."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Cavan Orphanage fire - In 1943, a fire broke out at the all girls St Joseph's Orphanage in Cavan, Ireland. 35 children and the cook died in the fire, it was revealed that the girls had several means of escape but the nuns did not think it was decent for the girls to go outside in their pajamas.\n\n[Cavan Orphanage fire - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavan_Orphanage_fire)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "If the nuns wouldn't let them out then how did the nuns get out?", "name": "Mark"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The Nuns moved the girls into a single room and convinced everyone that the fire could be quickly extinguished. By the time the fire brigade arrived and realized the fire was completely out of control all available exits were engulfed in fire.", "name": "Cole"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Hans B. Schmidt (1881 – February 18, 1916) was a German Catholic priest, rapist, convicted murderer, and suspected serial killer. He was executed at Sing Sing Prison in New York State for murdering and dismembering a pregnant woman in the United States."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Hans Schmidt was the only Catholic priest to ever be executed in the US. He killed his pregnant mistress, drank her blood, and dismembered her. He was found guilty for the crime and executed via electric chair in Feb 1916.\n\n[Hans Schmidt (priest) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Schmidt_(priest))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "And people wonder why girls dont want to go to your place on the 1st date...dis why", "name": "Alexandra"}, {"role": "user", "content": "yeah if a man wants to drink my blood hes gonna have to wait til at least the third date smh", "name": "Isaiah"}]
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Pupikal
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[{"role": "system", "content": "In various East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, the phrase \"Wànsuì\", \"Banzai\", \"Manse\", and \"Vạn tuế\", respectively, meaning \"myriad years\" is used to wish long life, and is typically translated as \"Long live\" in English. The phrase originated in ancient China as an expression used to wish long life to the emperor. Due to the historical political and cultural influence of Chinese culture on the East Asian cultural sphere, in the area, and in particular of the Classical Chinese language, cognates with similar meanings and usage patterns have appeared in many East Asian languages and Vietnamese. In some countries, this phrase is mundanely used when expressing feeling of triumph, typically shouted by crowds.\n\nLong-term nuclear waste warning messages are communication attempts intended to deter human intrusion at nuclear waste repositories in the far future, within or above the order of magnitude of 10,000 years. Nuclear semiotics is an interdisciplinary field of research, first done by the American Human Interference Task Force in 1981.\nA 1993 report from Sandia National Laboratories recommended that such messages be constructed at several levels of complexity. They suggested that the sites should include foreboding physical features which would immediately convey to future visitors that the site was both man-made and dangerous, as well as providing pictographic information attempting to convey some details of the danger, and written explanations for those able to read it."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Long-time nuclear waste warning messages: intended to deter human intrusion at nuclear waste repositories within or above 10,000 years. Among the messages to be conveyed non-linguistically: \"This place is not a place of honor...no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here...nothing valued is here.\"\n\n[Long-term nuclear waste warning messages - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warning_messages)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "People 10,000 years from now: Thats just what theyd want us to think!", "name": "David"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Honestly, if you were looking for a message that ensures people *will* check out the place,\n\n> This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.\n\nis the perfect message. It's a timeless appeal to human curiosity.", "name": "Braden"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Israel Keyes (January 7, 1978 – December 2, 2012) was an American serial killer, bank robber, burglar, arsonist, kidnapper, and sex offender. He murdered at least three people, is suspected of murdering between 11 and 20 people, and committed dozens of felonies including armed robbery, arson, rape, and burglary across the United States from July 2001 to February 2012.While awaiting trial, Keyes killed himself by slashing his wrists and hanging himself. Evidence left behind in his jail cell—including a suicide note, drawings of eleven skulls, a drawing of Baphomet, and an inscription of \"Corozal\" on the cell's wall (all written or otherwise stained with Keyes' blood)—led the FBI to suspect Keyes murdered at least eleven victims in total. He admitted to having committed violent crimes as early as 1996, with the aggravated sexual assault of a teenage girl in Oregon, in a series of meticulous crimes across multiple states that lasted until his capture in 2012."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Kidnapped 18 yo Samantha Koenig, murdered her the following day, then went on a cruise. When he returned, he took picture of her dead body posed to appear that she was still alive. He demanded ransom, following by dismembering her body,\n\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Keyes"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I remember reading that he glued her eyelids open in the ransom photo so that she appeared alive. Knowing that she had been dead for days, seeing the photo is beyond creepy.", "name": "Edwin"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I found this on another site: A few days later, he applied makeup to Samanthas face to make her appear alive, sewed her eyes open with fishing line, and photographed her with a recent newspaper. The photo is chilling knowing the backstory."}]
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JudyWilde143
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Marvin Pentz Gay Sr. (October 1, 1914 – October 10, 1998) was an American Pentecostal minister. He was the father of recording artists Marvin Gaye and Frankie Gaye and gained notoriety after shooting and killing his son Marvin on April 1, 1984, following an argument at their home."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Marvin Gay Sr., a religious ministry and father of songer Marvin Gaye, killed his son after a discussion.\n\n[Marvin Gay Sr. - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Gay_Sr.)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "While not creepy this was interesting.", "name": "Alyssa"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "How a parent killing their own child is not creepy?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Its tragic, but not creepy. Its sad but it doesnt make me wanna sleep with a night light on, you know?", "name": "Melanie"}]
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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# After months of fighting, Russia finally took Grozny, Chechnya by luring the besieged militants to a promised safe passage. One day prior to the planned evacuation, the Russian Army mined the path between the city and the village of Alkhan-Kala and concentrated most firepower on that point.\n\n[Grozny - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grozny?#Second_Chechen_War)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "> The final seizure of the city was set in early February 2000, when the Russian military lured the besieged militants to a promised safe passage. Seeing no build-up of forces outside, the militants agreed. One day prior to the planned evacuation, the Russian Army mined the path between the city and the village of Alkhan-Kala and concentrated most firepower on that point. As a result, both the city mayor and military commander were killed; a number of other prominent separatist leaders were also killed or wounded, including Shamil Basayev and several hundred rank-and-file militants. Afterwards, the Russians slowly entered the empty city and on February 6 raised the Russian flag in the center. Many buildings and even whole areas of the city were systematically dynamited. A month later, it was declared safe to allow the residents to return to their homes, although demolition continued for some time. In 2003 the United Nations called Grozny the most destroyed city on earth."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Disturbing.", "name": "Landon"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Barbara Daly Baekeland (September 28, 1921 – November 17, 1972) was a wealthy American socialite who was murdered by her son, Antony \"Tony\" Baekeland. She was the ex-wife of Brooks Baekeland, who was the grandson of Leo Baekeland, inventor of Bakelite plastic.\nShe was murdered at her London home when her son Antony stabbed her with a kitchen knife, killing her almost instantly. Antony was found at the scene of the crime, and later confessed to and was charged with her murder."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Barbara Daly Baekeland was an American socialite and model in the 60s who coerced her gay son into sex in order to turn him straight. He became unceasingly paranoid and mentally unwell and later murdered her.\n\n[Barbara Daly Baekeland - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Daly_Baekeland)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Also, by \"coerced into sex\", as the article says, I mean \"raped\"."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ahh, rape culture.", "name": "Alondra"}]
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psychocookie81
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Ilse Koch (22 September 1906 – 1 September 1967) was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was commandant at Buchenwald. Though Ilse Koch had no official position in the Nazi state, she became one of the most infamous Nazi figures at war's end.\nBecause of the egregiousness of her alleged actions, including that she had selected tattooed prisoners for death in order to fashion lampshades and other items from their skins, her 1947 U.S. military commission court trial at Dachau received worldwide media attention, as did the testimony of survivors who ascribed sadistic and perverse acts of violence to Koch – giving rise to the image of her as \"the concentration camp murderess\".\nHowever, the most serious of these allegations were found to be without proof in two different legal processes, one conducted by an American military commission court at Dachau in 1947, and another by the West German Judiciary at Augsburg in 1950–1951. Harold Kuhn and Richard Schneider, two U.S. Army lawyers tasked with conducting the official review of her conviction at Dachau, noted that \"in spite of the extravagant statements made in the newspapers, the record contains little convincing evidence against the accused... In regard to the widely publicised charges that she ordered inmates killed for their tattooed skin, the record is especially silent\".That the wild claims were dismissed as lacking evidence did little to sway public opinion. She was known as \"The Witch of Buchenwald\" (Die Hexe von Buchenwald) by the inmates because of her suspected cruelty and lasciviousness toward prisoners. She has been nicknamed \"The Beast of Buchenwald\", the \"Queen of Buchenwald\", the \"Red Witch of Buchenwald\", \"Butcher Widow\", and \"The Bitch of Buchenwald\".She died by suicide at Aichach women's prison on 1 September 1967 at age 60."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Ilse Koch was known as the Bitch of Buchenwald, which was an understatement. This Nazi had trinkets made out of human leather and much much more.\n\n[Ilse Koch - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilse_Koch)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "At least she did the decent thing and hung herself in the 60s", "name": "Claire"}, {"role": "user", "content": "she was suffering from delusions that her surviving victims would come torture her in prison. what a perfect death for such a woman, killing herself over the same fear and dread she inflicted upon thousands of other people. you LOVE to see it!", "name": "Mckenzie"}]
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PaleWendigo
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Vernon, Florida is a 1981 American documentary film produced and directed by Errol Morris profiling various residents living within the town of Vernon, Florida. Originally titled Nub City, this follow-up to Gates of Heaven initially focused on residents of the Southern town who cut off their own limbs as a way to collect insurance money. After Morris's life was threatened by the subjects of the film, he re-worked Nub City into Vernon, Florida."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# A documentary about a town where people cut off their limbs for insurance money ... until the director changed the topic due to death threats\n\n[Vernon, Florida (film) - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon,_Florida_(film))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What was it like?", "name": "David"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Because of the nubs?", "name": "Natalie"}]
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TheNavidsonLP
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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Crypt of Civilization is an impenetrable, airtight, room-sized time capsule, built between 1937 and 1940, at Oglethorpe University in Brookhaven, Georgia. The 2,000-cubic-foot (57 m3) repository is meant not to be opened before 8113 AD. It contains numerous artifacts and sound recordings that illustrate civilization and human development to the 20th century. Classic literature and religious texts were also deposited, as well as items showing the extent of scientific progress to 1939.\nThornwell Jacobs, the initiator of the project, was inspired by the opening of Egyptian pyramids and wanted to create a repository of everyday 1930s objects and a record of human knowledge over the preceding 6,000 years. The Guinness Book of Records declared the Crypt to be the first genuine attempt to permanently preserve a record of 20th century culture for people of thousands of years into the future."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Crypt of Civilization: \"A project designed for people that will not even be born for one hundred and eighty-six generations.\"\n\n[Crypt of Civilization - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypt_of_Civilization)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Why can't it be opened", "name": "Aidan"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Cuz it locked", "name": "Kaleb"}]
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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..."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I bet he doesnt even have a fucked up urethrae either smh", "name": "Alexandria"}]
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chngminxo
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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Gilles de Rais - the 15th century French aristocrat who fought alongside Joan of Arc, and also sadistically tortured and murdered approximately 140 children for fun.\n\n[Gilles de Rais - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Rais?wprov=sfti1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Most likely just slander", "name": "Ricardo"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "He and people around him confessed to the crimes. There are records of children who went missing from the areas he was in at the time, and names of children he killed. I think in a lot of cases things like this absolutely are slander, and this is the exception that proves the rule."}, {"role": "user", "content": ">Doubts about Rais' guilt have long persisted because the Duke of Brittany, who was given the authority to prosecute, received all the titles to Rais' former lands after his conviction. The Duke then divided the land among his own nobles.\n\nExtremely important context.", "name": "Kyle"}]
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trissle_hippie
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[{"role": "system", "content": "The 27 Club is an informal list consisting mostly of popular musicians, artists, actors, and other celebrities who died at age 27. Although the claim of a \"statistical spike\" for the death of musicians at that age has been refuted by scientific research, it remains a cultural phenomenon, with many celebrities who die at 27 noted for their high-risk lifestyles."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The 27 Club is a list of popular musicians, artists, actors, and athletes who have died at age 27, often as a result of drug and alcohol abuse or violent means such as homicide, suicide, or transportation-related accidents\n\n[27 Club - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Famous members of the 27 club:\n\n\nJanis Joplin\n\n\nKurt Cobain\n\n\nJimmy Hendrix\n\n\nJim Morrison\n\n\nAmy Winehouse\n\n\nBrian Jones (founding member of the Rolling Stones)\n\n\nRon 'Pigpen' McKernan (founding member of the Grateful Dead)\n\n\nAnton Yelchin (actor most famous for his role in the new Star Trek franchise)", "name": "Cooper"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Anton Yelchin's death was so bizarre and completely not his fault. He was just getting his mail.", "name": "Catherine"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Wikipedia is a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki-based editing system MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. It is consistently ranked as one of the ten most popular websites in the world, and as of 2024 is ranked the fifth most visited website on the Internet by Semrush. Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization that employs a staff of over 700 people. Unfortunately, much of the info found on wikipedia is wrong, because the small-minded nerds who run it don't allow CORRECT info to be added to THEIR pages. They jealously guard their little pieces of territory from anyone who would DARE to enter CORRECT info. This is why wikipedia is viewed as an unreliable source of info by people all over the world.\nInitially only available in English, editions in other languages have been developed. Wikipedia's editions, when combined, comprise more than 62 million articles, attracting around 2 billion unique device visits per month and more than 14 million edits per month (about 5.2 edits per second on average) as of November 2023. Roughly 26% of Wikipedia's traffic is from the United States, followed by Japan at 5.9%, the United Kingdom at 5.4%, Germany at 5%, Russia at 4.8%, and the remaining 54% split among other countries, according to data provided by Similarweb.Wikipedia has been praised for its enablement of the democratization of knowledge, extent of coverage, unique structure, and culture. It has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias, particularly gender bias against women and geographical bias against the Global South (Eurocentrism). While the reliability of Wikipedia was frequently criticized in the 2000s, it has improved over time, receiving greater praise in the late 2010s and early 2020s, having become an important fact-checking site.Wikipedia has been censored by some national governments, ranging from specific pages to the entire site. Articles on breaking news are often accessed as sources for frequently updated information about those events.\n\nWhile the future cannot be predicted with certainty, present understanding in various scientific fields allows for the prediction of some far-future events, if only in the broadest outline. These fields include astrophysics, which studies how planets and stars form, interact, and die; particle physics, which has revealed how matter behaves at the smallest scales; evolutionary biology, which studies how life evolves over time; plate tectonics, which shows how continents shift over millennia; and sociology, which examines how human societies and cultures evolve.\nThese timelines begin at the start of the 4th millennium in 3001 CE, and continue until the furthest and most remote reaches of future time. They include alternative future events that address unresolved scientific questions, such as whether humans will become extinct, whether the Earth survives when the Sun expands to become a red giant and whether proton decay will be the eventual end of all matter in the Universe."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Wikipedia's timeline of the far future predicts that plate tectonics will stop within about 1.1 billion years. For reference, tectonic processes have been taking place for 3.3 to 3.5 billion years. This will coincide with the evaporation of the oceans and the extinction of all complex life.\n\n[Timeline of the far future - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That sounds awful. Ill probably be dead by then though.", "name": "Martin"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah but what about your childrens childrens childrens x200,000,000children?", "name": "Benjamin"}]
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First_Level_Ranger
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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Czech hedgehog (Czech: rozsocháč or ježek) is a static anti-tank obstacle defense made of metal angle beams or I-beams (that is, lengths with an L- or 𝐈-shaped cross section). It is similar in shape (and design) to a much larger version of metal knucklebones or caltrops. The hedgehog is very effective in keeping light to medium tanks and vehicles from penetrating a line of defense; it maintains its function even when tipped over by a nearby explosion. Although Czech hedgehogs may provide some scant cover for attacking infantry, infantry forces are generally much less effective against fortified defensive positions than mechanized units."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Czech hedgehog is an anti-tank obstacle made of metal beams, very effective against many tanks and other vehicles. In WWII, they were part of the German defenses in Normandy, where the Allies cut up and welded them to the front \"rhino\" tanks, useful for clearing the hedgerows across Normandy.\n\n[Czech hedgehog - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_hedgehog)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This has been a staple of defense in the Putin-Ukraine war, providing much needed land defense in key areas of the country, including the capital.", "name": "Erik"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The Russian-Ukraine war. Dont excuse the Russian people for their imperialism. At best theyre mad theyre losing, not mad theres a war.", "name": "Christopher"}, {"role": "user", "content": "yea because americans are all 100% guilty of murder for the iraq war, every last one of em", "name": "Seth"}, {"role": "user", "content": "We dont call it the Bush War though, nor should we.", "name": "Marcus"}]
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ffatty
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[{"role": "system", "content": "1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1995th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 995th year of the 2nd millennium, the 95th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1990s decade. \n1995 was designated as:\n\nUnited Nations Year for Tolerance\nWorld Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World WarThis was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government no longer providing public funding, marking the beginning of the Information Age. America Online and Prodigy offered access to the World Wide Web system for the first time this year, releasing browsers that made it easily accessible to the general public.\n\nPeople for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA; ) is an American animal rights nonprofit organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by Ingrid Newkirk, its international president. PETA says that its entities have more than 9 million members globally.Founded in March 1980 by Newkirk and animal rights activist Alex Pacheco, the organization first gained attention in the summer of 1981 during what became known as the Silver Spring monkeys case. The organization opposes factory farming, fur farming, animal testing, and other activities it considers to be exploitation of animals.The organization's controversial campaigns have been credited with drawing media attention to animal rights issues, but have also been widely criticized. Its use of euthanasia has resulted in legal action and a response from Virginia lawmakers."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In February 1995, a parody website calling itself \"People Eating Tasty Animals\" registered the domain name peta.org. While still engaged in legal proceedings, PETA themselves registered the domains ringlingbrothers.com and voguemagazine.com, using the sites to accuse them of animal cruelty.\n\n[People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_for_the_Ethical_Treatment_of_Animals#Domain_name_disputes)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I dont t know for sure but I dont think peta likes the circus too much"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'm not a fan of circuses either, for similar reasons, but fuck PETA. \n\nSimilarly to how someone could be pro-gun but hate the NRA."}]
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black_flag_4ever
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Civil Servant-Family Pair Up (Chinese: 结对认亲), also known as Pair Up and Become Family, is a Chinese government policy that forces designated Uyghur families to be matched with Han Chinese civil servants, with the families forced to host the civil servants in their home. Since the late 2010s, China has vigorously promoted the policy in Xinjiang. Beginning in 2018, over one million Chinese government workers began forcibly living in the homes of Uyghur families to monitor and assess resistance to cultural assimilation as well as to surveil religious and cultural practices. According to the official state perspective, the policy is to provide Mandarin language training as a way to better integrate Uyghurs and as a means for the poverty alleviation of the region. Policies bearing the same name have also been implemented in impoverished regions in Anhui, Tibet, as well as for left-behind children, widowed elders, the disabled, and in earthquake-affected regions.Hosting requirements have increased over time across counties and prefectures, ranging from 5 days per month to 14 days per month. Despite this, overseas Uyghurs have stated that 'visitation' times often exceeded the time requirement, with one stating that visits regularly occurred up to four times per week and eventually became full-time. Refusal to host leads to imprisonment in an internment camp.According to Radio Free Asia, these Han Chinese government workers have been trained to call themselves \"relatives\" and engage in the forcible co-habitation of Uyghur homes for the purpose of promoting \"ethnic unity\". Radio Free Asia reports that these men \"regularly sleep in the same beds as the wives of men detained in the region’s internment camps.\" Chinese officials maintain that co-sleeping is acceptable, provided that a distance of one meter is maintained between the women and the \"relative\" assigned to the Uyghur home. Uyghur activists state that no such restraint takes place, citing pregnancy and forced marriage numbers, and name the program a campaign of \"mass rape disguised as 'marriage'.\" Human Rights Watch has condemned the Pair Up and Become Family Program as a \"deeply invasive forced assimilation practice\", while the World Uyghur Congress states that it represents the \"total annihilation of the safety, security and well-being of family members.\""}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Beginning in 2018, over one million Chinese government workers began forcibly living in the homes of Uyghur families to monitor and assess resistance to assimilation, as well as to watch for frowned-upon religious and cultural practices..\n\n[Civil Servant-Family Pair Up - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Servant-Family_Pair_Up)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Would love to see what the Sino crowd has to say about this. Their refusal to believe that the CCP cant do any harm or is better than any other govt is tone deaf at best and brainwashed at worst."}, {"role": "user", "content": "id say check and question the credibility of the sources before you come to any conclusions."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Found the sino asshole", "name": "Reagan"}]
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PaloAltoTerraformers
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[{"role": "system", "content": "United Airlines, Inc. is a major American airline headquartered at the Willis Tower in Chicago, Illinois. United operates an extensive domestic and international route network across the United States and all six inhabited continents primarily out of its eight hubs, with Chicago–O'Hare having the largest number of daily flights and Denver carrying the most passengers in 2023. Regional service is operated by independent carriers under the brand name United Express.\nUnited was formed by the amalgamation of several airlines in the late 1920s, the oldest of these being Varney Air Lines, created in 1926 by Walter Varney who later co-founded the predecessor to Continental Airlines. In 1997, United became one of the five founding airlines of Star Alliance, of which it remains a member today. After its merger with Continental in 2010, United consistently ranks as one of the world's largest airlines; it is currently first by the number of destinations served and third in terms of revenue and fleet size.\n\nUnited Airlines Flight 976 was a regularly scheduled flight from Ministro Pistarini International Airport in Buenos Aires to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City on October 19-20, 1995. Upon landing, one passenger, Gerard Finneran, was arrested by the FBI and charged with interfering with a flight crew and threatening a flight attendant.\nDuring the flight, Finneran, a Wall Street investment banker, had been refused further alcoholic beverages when cabin crew determined he was intoxicated. After they thwarted his attempt to pour himself more, Finneran threatened one flight attendant with violence and attacked another one. He then went into the first-class compartment, which was also carrying Portuguese president Mário Soares and Argentinian foreign minister Guido di Tella and their security details. There, he climbed on a service trolley and defecated, using linen napkins to wipe himself, and later tracked and smeared his feces around the cabin.Food service was canceled due to the unsanitary conditions and the crew sprayed perfume all over the cabin instead to suppress the smell of the feces. The pilots tried to divert to Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, but were refused since the presence of foreign dignitaries on board created a security risk. Finneran had by then calmed down and returned to his seat.\nFinneran's attorneys claimed he had been suffering from a severe case of traveler's diarrhea and had been prevented from using the first-class toilet to his seat just outside that section by Soares's security. He pleaded guilty and was fined $5,000, with two years' probation; he had also agreed to perform community service and pay $48,000 to reimburse United's cleanup costs and the other passengers for their airfare. The incident has been recalled as the worst case of air rage ever."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The worst air rage incident in history occurred in 1995 on United Airlines Flight 976 from Buenos Aires to NYC, wherein a prominent investment banker angrily defecated on the beverage cart in full view of the other passengers and tracked his feces throughout the cabin, also smearing it on the walls.\n\n[United Airlines Flight 976 - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_976)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "So i had the great pleasure of hearing this story in 1999 at a dinner in mid-town manhatten, from a management consultant who was in seat 2B on that flight. He was already a million miler by then so it didn't phase him much and made for a great party story.", "name": "Anna"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Was he sure he was in 2B? Or not 2B?", "name": "Isaiah"}]
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slinkslowdown
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[{"role": "system", "content": "$100 hamburger (\"hundred-dollar hamburger\") is aviation slang for the excuse a general aviation pilot might use to fly."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# $100 hamburger is aviation slang for the excuse a general aviation pilot might use to fly. A $100 hamburger trip typically involves flying a short distance (less than two hours), eating at an airport restaurant, and then flying home.\n\n[$100 hamburger - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$100_hamburger)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": ">In Perth, Western Australia, a similar mentality resulted in the 'Rotto Bun Run'. A group of pilots who had run out of hot cross buns on Good Friday decided to fly to the closest open bakery on Rottnest Island. The run is now an annual charity event."}, {"role": "user", "content": "It'd almost be funny if it was for a pro-environment charity.", "name": "Destiny"}]
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Trippy415
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Christopher Jordan Dorner (June 4, 1979 – February 12, 2013) was a former officer of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) who, beginning on February 3, 2013, committed a series of killings against the LAPD in Orange County, Los Angeles County, Riverside County and San Bernardino County in the U.S. state of California. The victims were law enforcement officers and the daughter of a retired police captain. Dorner killed four people and wounded three others. On February 12, Dorner killed himself after a shootout with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department officers in the San Bernardino Mountains.\nA manifesto posted by Dorner on social media declared \"unconventional and asymmetric warfare\" upon the LAPD, their families and their associates unless the department admitted publicly he was fired in retaliation for reporting excessive force."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Christopher Dorner was a LAPD officer who went rogue after allegedly being fired from his job for reporting excessive force. He retaliated against the police and their families, along with civilian casualties by the LAPD.\n\n[Christopher Dorner shootings and manhunt - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dorner_shootings_and_manhunt)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I remember that, crazy times in this city", "name": "Aiden"}, {"role": "user", "content": ">In two separate incidents during the manhunt, police shot at three civilians unrelated to Dorner, mistaking their pickup trucks for the vehicle being driven by Dorner. One of the civilians was hit by the police gunfire, another was wounded by shattered glass, and a third individual was injured when police rammed his vehicle and opened fire. The officers involved were not charged with any crime.\n\nSounds like LAPD last week", "name": "Ayden"}]
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lightiggy
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[{"role": "system", "content": "During the 1982 Lebanon War, the city of Beirut was besieged by Israel following the breakdown of the ceasefire that had been imposed by the United Nations amidst the Lebanese Civil War. Beginning in mid-June, the two-month-long siege resulted in the expulsion of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) from Beirut and the rest of Lebanon."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# During the siege of Beirut in 1982, the IDF carried out saturation bombings of the city, killing hundreds of civilians. During a phone call, President Reagan told Prime Minister Menachem Begin that the bombings were going too far and needed to stop. Within 20 minutes, Begin had the bombings ceased.\n\n[Siege of Beirut - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Beirut)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "How can carpet bombing a city only result in hundreds of causalities?", "name": "Joseph"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This was only after the siege had been permitted for months before \"going too far\" so most of them were already dead or gone by that time. The line crossed was that [Ariel Sharon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Sharon) went rogue with American materiel, not that this was loss of civilian life was only now too unethical for America to tolerate.\n\nYou better believe the President's going to be on the phone if American bombs are going off because the guy entrusted with them is making his own decisions to use them. How ethically he is or isn't out of line is besides the point; the chain of command is sacred to America, and you don't blow stuff up with American bombs without American permission.", "name": "Rachel"}]
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Pupikal
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[{"role": "system", "content": "In American politics, the Southern strategy was a Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans. As the civil rights movement and dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s visibly deepened existing racial tensions in much of the Southern United States, Republican politicians such as presidential candidate Richard Nixon and Senator Barry Goldwater developed strategies that successfully contributed to the political realignment of many white, conservative voters in the South who had traditionally supported the Democratic Party. It also helped to push the Republican Party much more to the right relative to the 1950s. By winning all of the South a presidential candidate could obtain the presidency with minimal support elsewhere.The phrase \"Southern Strategy\" refers primarily to \"top down\" narratives of the political realignment of the South which suggest that Republican leaders consciously appealed to many white Southerners' racial grievances to gain their support. This top-down narrative of the Southern Strategy is generally believed to be the primary force that transformed Southern politics following the civil rights era. The scholarly consensus is that racial conservatism was critical in the post-Civil Rights Act realignment of the Republican and Democratic parties, though several aspects of this view have been debated by historians and political scientists.The perception that the Republican Party had served as the \"vehicle of white supremacy in the South,\" particularly during the Goldwater campaign and the presidential elections of 1968 and 1972, made it difficult for the Republican Party to win back the support of black voters in the South in later years. In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman formally apologized to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for exploiting racial polarization to win elections and for ignoring the black vote."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In American politics, the Southern strategy was a Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans.\n\n[Southern strategy - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Was?", "name": "Sebastian"}, {"role": "user", "content": "\"was\", \"is\", \"will be\"", "name": "Tristan"}]
c99maj
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reggiemantlesnudes
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Blue Bell Creameries is an American food company that manufactures ice cream. It was founded in 1907 in Brenham, Texas. For much of its early history, the company manufactured both ice cream and butter locally. In the mid-20th century, it abandoned butter production and expanded to the entire state of Texas and soon much of the Southern United States. The company's corporate headquarters are located at the \"Little Creamery\" in Brenham, Texas. Since 1919, it has been in the hands of the Kruse family. As of 2015, Blue Bell was the #2 selling ice cream manufacturer in the United States.\n\nThe Chicago Tylenol murders were a series of poisoning deaths resulting from drug tampering in the Chicago metropolitan area in 1982. The victims consumed Tylenol-branded acetaminophen capsules that had been laced with potassium cyanide. Seven people died in the original poisonings, and there were several more deaths in subsequent copycat crimes.\nNo suspect has been charged or convicted of the poisonings, but New York City resident James William Lewis was convicted of extortion for sending a letter to Tylenol's manufacturer, Johnson & Johnson, that took responsibility for the deaths and demanded $1 million to stop them.\nThe incidents led to reforms in the packaging of over-the-counter drugs and to federal anti-tampering laws."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Chicago Tylenol Murders [unsolved] This kind of case is why that girl who messed with Blue Bell Ice Cream is getting such a severe sentence... Don't mess with consumers' products!\n\n[Chicago Tylenol murders - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What's the ice cream story?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "This girl went into a grocery store, took the lid off of a carton of Blue Bell Ice Cream, licked it, and then put it back in the freezer.\n\nShe hasn't gone to trial yet, but she could be facing decades in prison."}]
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RobynChaplin
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[{"role": "system", "content": "1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of unit length is a line segment of length 1. In conventions of sign where zero is considered neither positive nor negative, 1 is the first and smallest positive integer. It is also sometimes considered the first of the infinite sequence of natural numbers, followed by 2, although by other definitions 1 is the second natural number, following 0.\nThe fundamental mathematical property of 1 is to be a multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. Most if not all properties of 1 can be deduced from this. In advanced mathematics, a multiplicative identity is often denoted 1, even if it is not a number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number; this was not universally accepted until the mid-20th century. Additionally, 1 is the smallest possible difference between two distinct natural numbers.\nThe unique mathematical properties of the number have led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sports. It commonly denotes the first, leading, or top thing in a group.\n\nHogg is a novel by American author Samuel R. Delany, written in 1969 and completed in 1995. The novel deals graphically with themes of murder, child molestation, incest, coprophilia, coprophagia, urolagnia, anal-oral contact, necrophilia and rape. It was conceptualized and written in 1969, with a further draft completed in 1973, and it was finally published with some further, though relatively minor, rewrites in 1995 by Black Ice Books. Two later editions have featured some corrections, the last of which, published by Fiction Collective Two in 2004, carries a note from Delany stating that it is definitive."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Hogg: One of the most depraved books ever written.\n\n[Hogg (novel) - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogg_(novel))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Consider that this was written at a time where homosexuality was commonly outright displayed as being sexual depravity, and often likened to things like pedophilia. Meanwhile queer people were subjected to violence both physically and mentally as well as personally and systematically. (The top of the wiki page even relates the timing of this being written to the stonewall riots.) \n\nWhile I havent read this work, knowing that Delaney was an author with other artistic work that is unrelated, you can see that theres a message being put across by intentionally displaying the community (which he was a part of) for what some people thought it was. Im struggling a little to put it into terms, but hes putting an artistic meaning into the work by harshly leaning into very negative stereotypes.\n\nEdit: Another commenter brought up the depravity of American Psycho, I think thats a really great example to use here. Just as the violence of American capitalism was satirized in that world (theres a reason hes an ultra wealthy investment banker who kills people) the violence of queer existence is being satirized.", "name": "Makenzie"}]
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Assitchfindergeneral
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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": "# January 11, 1992. Shanda Renee Sharer was tortured and burned to death by four teenage girls. Madison, Indiana.\n\n[Murder of Shanda Sharer - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Shanda_Sharer)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Those girls are sick!", "name": "Alexa"}, {"role": "user", "content": "> The girls went to a McDonald's restaurant at 9:30 a.m. for breakfast, where they laughed about Sharer's body looking like one of the sausages they were eating.\n\nThat part got my blood boiling. Thats so offensive.", "name": "Ayden"}]
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Pupikal
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Big Tech, also known as the Tech Giants, are the largest information technology companies. The term most often refers to the Big Five tech companies in the United States: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. The term can also include major Chinese technology companies, including the grouping of Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi (BATX). Big Tech can also include smaller tech companies with high valuations, such as Netflix and Nvidia, or non-tech companies with high-tech practices, such as the automaker Tesla. The concept of Big Tech is analogous to the consolidation of market dominance by a few companies in other market sectors, such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and J.P. Morgan in investment banking, the Big Three consulting firms, Big Oil, and Big Media.\n\nCorporate Memphis (alternative names: Alegria art, big tech art, flat art, or corporate artstyle) is an art style named after the Memphis Group that features flat areas of color and geometric elements. Widely associated with Big Tech illustrations in the late 2010s and early 2020s, it has been criticized for its use in sanitising corporate communication, as well as being seen as visually offensive, insincere, pandering and over-saturated, though some illustrators have defended the style, pointing at what they claim to be its art-historical legitimacy."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Corporate Memphis is a term used to describe a flat, geometric art style, widely used in Big Tech illustrations in the late 2010s and early 2020s. Common motifs are flat cartoon characters in action, disproportionate features such as long and bendy limbs, and minimal facial features.\n\n[Corporate Memphis - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Didn't realize everyone hated it so much", "name": "Jose"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Its not innately bad its just like everything that gets overexposure, people get sick of it"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Plenty of people will argue the reduction of aesthetics to commercialism is innately bad. Like Karl Marx, and the entire dada and surrealist art movement, for example. But sure 420buttbabies69, your one sentence opinion is equally valid.", "name": "Liliana"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I mean yes, their opinion is valid even if there are compelling arguments for other opinions.", "name": "Jonathan"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "On 4 July 1989, a pilotless MiG-23 jet fighter of the Soviet Air Forces crashed into a house in Bellegem, near Kortrijk, Belgium, killing one person. The pilot had ejected over an hour earlier near Kołobrzeg, Poland, after experiencing technical problems, but the aircraft continued flying for around 900 km (600 mi) before running out of fuel and crashing into the ground."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# On 4 July 1989, a pilotless MiG-23 crashed into a house in Kortrijk, Belgium, killing one person. The pilot had ejected over an hour earlier in Poland, after experiencing technical problems, but the aircraft continued flying for 900 km before running out of fuel.\n\n[1989 Belgium MiG-23 crash - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Belgium_MiG-23_crash)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "How was it not shot down the minute it entered EU air space?", "name": "Micah"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That was my question, what the hell was NATO air command thinking. And to reply to the other commenter below you, I fail to see how intercepting it, realizing it had no pilot, and then simply leaving it alone would be an adequate solution.", "name": "Gracie"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Empty nose syndrome (ENS) is a clinical syndrome, the hallmark symptom of which is a sensation of suffocation despite a clear airway. This syndrome is often referred to as a form of secondary atrophic rhinitis. ENS is a potential complication of nasal turbinate surgery or injury. Patients have usually undergone a turbinectomy (removal or reduction of structures inside the nose called turbinates) or other surgical procedures that injure the nasal turbinates. \nENS patients may experience a range of symptoms. Commonly reported are feelings of nasal obstruction, nasal dryness and crusting, and a sensation of being unable to breathe.The overall incidence of ENS is unknown due to the small body of epidemiological study and the lack of a dedicated International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) code, which would allow incidence reporting of the syndrome. In a 2019 study in the Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America journal, study lead Jason Talmadge, MD posited that \"many cases likely go unrecognized or underdiagnosed, and therefore unreported.\"The condition is caused by injury to the nasal turbinates, particularly with nasal procedures. This includes both minor procedures as well as total turbinate resection. It is usually observed in patients with unobstructed nasal passages following surgical intervention who report sensations of suffocation or obstruction following recovery. Early literature attributed ENS to complete turbinate resection, but later research demonstrated the syndrome in patients who had undergone a range of procedures that involved nasal turbinates.The syndrome's existence as a distinct medical condition is controversial, with adoption by a growing body of ear, nose and throat (ENT) practitioners and plastic surgeons. ENS is not fully understood and practitioner knowledge about altered nasal breathing in turbinate surgeries varies. Understanding why some patients exhibit ENS symptoms while others do not and incorrectly attributing symptoms to psychological causes such as anxiety are common reasons ENS patients do not receive care. ENS as a distinct condition is subject to debate, including whether it should be considered solely rhinologic or whether it may have neurological or psychosomatic aspects. Growing awareness of the syndrome and an increasing body of research has led to more acceptance by ENT practitioners."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Empty Nose Syndrome - Untreated, the condition can cause significant and longterm physical and emotional distress in some people; some of the initial presentations on the condition described people who committed suicide.\n\n[Empty nose syndrome - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_nose_syndrome)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I had my deviated septum corrected around six years ago. I was on the table when my ENT asked me if I also wanted my turbinates \"corrected.\"\n\nI don't want to say this might be the reason my attempts with therapy for my depression and anxiety have left me feeling frustrated that nothing seems to help. But I mean, this isn't something I'd ever heard of until now. My throat is always dry, my stomach is always upset from mucus constantly dripping down my throat. \n\nI have a lot to consider.", "name": "Matthew"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Same here. Virtually the exact same story. Had an op 20yrs ago to fix my deviated septum. Since then, I feel my poor nasal breathing is the primary cause of anxiety I only experienced a couple of years after the surgery.", "name": "Lindsey"}]
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[{"role": "system", "content": "Porn Wikileaks was a wiki website which contained the personal information, including the real names, of over 15,000 pornographic actors. The information came from a patient database managed by AIM Medical Associates which has closed due to the lawsuits caused by the leaks, a clinic where many pornographic film performers were tested for sexually transmitted diseases.\nAdult performer Christian XXX stated, \"They posted my real name, the real names of my parents and pictures of them, their home address and telephone number, the name and picture and phone number of my brother, a picture of the cemetery where my grandfather recently passed away, not to mention saying that I have HIV.\""}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Porn Wikileaks was a wiki website which contained the personal information, including the real names, of over 15,000 pornographic actors. In August 2019, Porn Wikileaks was purchased by Bang Bros, who shut it down; Bang Bros subsequently posted a video of a pile of hard drives being set on fire.\n\n[Porn Wikileaks - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porn_Wikileaks)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Based bangbros?", "name": "Rachel"}]