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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Mary the Queen of Scots was Not Beheaded with a Single Strike...after her Death \"Her Lips Stirred up and down a Quarter of an Hour after Her Head was Cut Off\"\n\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "She had a pretty face", "name": "Aubrey"}, {"role": "user", "content": "She was renowned for her beauty, back in the day. Poets wrote on it and everything. A combination of a very pretty face, thick red-gold hair and unusual height (she was about 5'11\", tall for a woman even today).", "name": "Layla"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"We Didn't Start the Fire\" is a song by American musician Billy Joel, released in 1989. Its fast-paced lyrics include brief references to 118 significant political, cultural, scientific, and sporting events between 1949 (the year of Joel's birth) and 1989, in a mainly chronological order.\n\n[We Didn't Start the Fire - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn%27t_Start_the_Fire)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "More:\n\n>\nJoel later criticized the song on strictly musical grounds. In 1993, when discussing it with documentary filmmaker David Horn, Joel compared its melodic content unfavorably to his song \"The Longest Time\": \"Take a song like 'We Didn't Start the Fire.' It's really not much of a song ... If you take the melody by itself, terrible. Like a dentist drill.\""}, {"role": "user", "content": "Im so glad to hear the guy who wrote for the longest time hates it. That song is so annoying", "name": "Sergio"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Rain is water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then fall under gravity. Rain is a major component of the water cycle and is responsible for depositing most of the fresh water on the Earth. It provides water for hydroelectric power plants, crop irrigation, and suitable conditions for many types of ecosystems.\nThe major cause of rain production is moisture moving along three-dimensional zones of temperature and moisture contrasts known as weather fronts. If enough moisture and upward motion is present, precipitation falls from convective clouds (those with strong upward vertical motion) such as cumulonimbus (thunder clouds) which can organize into narrow rainbands. In mountainous areas, heavy precipitation is possible where upslope flow is maximized within windward sides of the terrain at elevation which forces moist air to condense and fall out as rainfall along the sides of mountains. On the leeward side of mountains, desert climates can exist due to the dry air caused by downslope flow which causes heating and drying of the air mass. The movement of the monsoon trough, or intertropical convergence zone, brings rainy seasons to savannah climes.\nThe urban heat island effect leads to increased rainfall, both in amounts and intensity, downwind of cities. Global warming is also causing changes in the precipitation pattern globally, including wetter conditions across eastern North America and drier conditions in the tropics. Antarctica is the driest continent. The globally averaged annual precipitation over land is 715 mm (28.1 in), but over the whole Earth, it is much higher at 990 mm (39 in). Climate classification systems such as the Köppen classification system use average annual rainfall to help differentiate between differing climate regimes. Rainfall is measured using rain gauges. Rainfall amounts can be estimated by weather radar.\n\nHurricane Camille was a powerful, deadly and destructive Category 5 major hurricane which became the second most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the United States (behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane) and is one of just four Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall in the U.S.\nThe most intense storm of the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season, Camille originated as a tropical depression on August 14, south of Cuba, from a long-tracked tropical wave. Located in a favorable environment for strengthening, the storm quickly intensified into a Category 2 hurricane before striking the western part of Cuba on August 15. Emerging into the Gulf of Mexico, Camille underwent another period of rapid intensification and became a Category 5 hurricane the next day as it moved northward towards Louisiana and Mississippi. Despite weakening slightly on August 17, the hurricane quickly re-intensified back into a Category 5 hurricane before it made landfall a half hour before midnight in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. At peak intensity, the hurricane had peak 1-minute sustained winds of 175 miles per hour (282 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 900 mbar (26.58 inHg), the second-lowest pressure recorded for a U.S. landfall behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane. As Camille pushed inland, it quickly weakened and was a tropical depression by the time it was over the Ohio Valley. Once it emerged offshore, Camille was able to restrengthen to a strong tropical storm before becoming extratropical on August 22. Camille was absorbed by a frontal storm over the North Atlantic later that day.\nCamille caused tremendous damage in its wake and produced a peak official storm surge of 24 feet (7.3 m). It flattened nearly everything along the Mississippi coast and caused additional flooding and deaths inland while crossing the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. In the U.S., Camille killed more than 259 people and caused $1.42 billion in damages (equivalent to $11.3 billion in 2022)."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"Rainfall was so heavy that reports were received of birds drowning in trees and of survivors having to cup hands around their mouth and nose in order to breathe through the deluge... It was 'the probable maximum rainfall which meteorologists compute to be theoretically possible.'\"\n\n[Hurricane Camille - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Camille#Virginia)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "While Hurricane Camille is perhaps best associated with its effects on the gulf coast, unexpectedly, hundreds of miles away, Camille dropped a biblical amount of rain in Virginia. The entire Virginia subsection details how disastrous and weird the storm was, including an unofficial estimate of 40 inches of rain in a roughly '3 to 5 hour period'. There's also the tale of a family of 21 dying during the storm."}, {"role": "user", "content": "40 inches is 101.6 cm", "name": "Chloe"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Nutty Putty Cave is a hydrothermal cave located west of Utah Lake in Utah County, Utah in the United States. The cave was formerly popular with amateur and professional cavers alike despite being known for its narrow passageways. It was closed to the public in 2009 following a fatal accident that year. Before that, it was popular among Boy Scout troops and college students."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# After 28 hours of desperate attempts to rescue John Edward Jones, he died stuck in a crevice in Nutty Putty Cave. It now serves as his tomb.\n\n[Nutty Putty Cave - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutty_Putty_Cave)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Check out [Floyd Collins](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Collins). At least poor Mr Jones wasnt turned into a tourist attraction. ", "name": "Aubrey"}, {"role": "user", "content": "> ...the body was buried in the burial ground of the Collins family's farm, near Crystal Cave, now known as \"Floyd Collins Crystal Cave.\" In 1927, Floyd Collins' father, Lee Collins, sold the homestead and cave. The new owner placed Collins' body in a glass-topped coffin and exhibited it in Crystal Cave for many years. \n\nWhat the fuck.", "name": "Noah"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "John David Battaglia Jr. (August 2, 1955 – February 1, 2018) was an American convicted murderer who was executed by the state of Texas for filicide. He was convicted of killing his two young daughters in May 2001 in an act of \"ultimate revenge\" against his estranged ex-wife, Mary Jeane Pearle, who had separated from him after his numerous instances of assault and violence. Battaglia was executed for the murders on February 1, 2018."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# John Battaglia- Texas father who murdered his two daughters as revenge while on the phone with estranged wife. Before shooting, one girl cried \"No, Daddy, please don't, don't do it.\"\n\n[John Battaglia - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Battaglia)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Parents who kill their own kids to get back at their exes are beyond sick and depraved. I don't understand it. As a parent myself it goes against everything that a parent should stand for. Parents should love, nurture and protect their children. Not kill them.", "name": "Miguel"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Heard of a case once where a man did the exact same thing, murdered a child to torture the mother but in this case I believe it was a toddler girl who was set on fire in the middle of the street in her stroller. Absolutely horrifying. And if I remember correctly, he showed no remorse or regret for doing so, even saying something nasty to the mother during the trial. There's a special place in hell for people like this.", "name": "Cesar"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Can I ask how you ended up on the subreddit \nr/creepywikipedia ? Because while none of us asked for another example I really don't think you know your audience.\n\nit seems a little weird that you jump to \"you must be getting sexual gratification out of posting that\" when this whole sub is for creepy and disturbing things. And in fact the topic of this post is specifically about someone being killed by their parent. Also to spite the other parent. Which is what that person was describing.\n\nI could ask if you get sexual gratification from coming to this sub. Since you're pointing it at other people it could be projection.\n\nBut that seems weird.", "name": "Juliana"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Sempronius Densus was a centurion in the Praetorian Guard in the 1st century. He was bodyguard to the emperor's heir, and is remembered by history for his courage and loyalty in singlehandedly defending his charge from scores of armed assassins, while all his comrades deserted or switched sides."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Galba, the sixth Roman emperor, was so unpopular that after he was murdered by his successor Otho, around 120 people claimed credit for killing him, hoping that Otho would reward them. However, Otho was then deposed by Vitellius, who ordered them all executed.\n\n[Sempronius Densus - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sempronius_Densus#Outcome)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Man, there really are certain Wikipedia pages you can just tell were created in the midlate 2000s and then barely touched thereafter.\n\n* Sparsely cited\n\n* Most of the references are dead links with no archive provided\n\n* Book links are to [a random website hosting the text](http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/tacitusc/histries/chap2.htm) instead of something like [the Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/histories01taciuoft/page/22/mode/2up?view=theater)\n\n* Feels like an essay", "name": "Breanna"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The Wikipedia our teachers warned us about", "name": "Naomi"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Tsundoku (積ん読) is the phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them. The term is also used to refer to books ready for reading later when they are on a bookshelf.\nThe term originated in the Meiji era (1868–1912) as Japanese slang. It combines elements of the terms tsunde-oku (積んでおく, \"to pile things up ready for later and leave\"), and dokusho (読書, \"reading books\"). There are suggestions to use the word in the English language and include it in dictionaries like the Collins Dictionary.The American author and bibliophile A. Edward Newton commented on a similar state in 1921.In his 2007 book, The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb coined the term \"antilibrary\", which has been compared with tsundoku."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Tsundoku is a Japanese term for the phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them.\n\n[Tsundoku - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I like to call it my pile of shame", "name": "Jackson"}, {"role": "user", "content": "No shame. Thats only if you snake a cum tunnel into the middle.", "name": "Natalia"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The fuck are you saying", "name": "Ashlyn"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The barber surgeon, one of the most common European medical practitioners of the Middle Ages, was generally charged with caring for soldiers during and after battle. In this era, surgery was seldom conducted by physicians, but instead by barbers, who, possessing razors and dexterity indispensable to their trade, were called upon for numerous tasks ranging from cutting hair to pulling teeth to amputating limbs.\nIn this period, surgical mortality was very high due to blood loss, shock and infection. Yet, since doctors thought that blood letting to balance 'humours' would improve health, barbers also used blood letting razors and applied leeches. Meanwhile, physicians considered themselves to be above surgery. Physicians mostly observed during surgery and offered consulting, but otherwise often chose academia or working in universities."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In this era, surgery was seldom conducted by physicians, but instead by barbers, who, possessing razors and coordination indispensable to their trade, were called upon for numerous tasks ranging from cutting hair to amputating limbs.\n\n[Barber surgeon - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_surgeon)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "After they performed surgery, they would wash and hang the used towels out front to dry. Not all the blood would wash out, so the towels would be red and white. Thats why barbers shops used to have red and white spinning poles in front of their locations.", "name": "Genesis"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Whoa, I had always wondered why these spinning poles were there in front of barber shops...Damn thanks for the info", "name": "Madelyn"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Patrick Daniel Tillman Jr. (November 6, 1976 – April 22, 2004) was an American professional football player for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL) who left his sports career and enlisted in the United States Army in May 2002 in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. His service in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as subsequent death, were the subject of national attention. Attention increased after it was revealed that he was killed by friendly fire.Tillman played college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils, earning first-team All-American honors in 1997. After playing four seasons in the NFL, Tillman joined the Army Rangers and served several combat tours before he was killed in the mountains of Afghanistan. At first, the Army reported that Tillman had been killed by enemy fire. A month later, on May 28, 2004, the Pentagon notified the Tillman family that he was actually killed by fire from his own side. The family and other critics allege that the Department of Defense delayed the disclosure until weeks after Tillman's memorial service out of a desire to protect the image of the U.S. military. In 2007, the Pentagon released a report ruling Tillman's death as accidental.\nTillman was posthumously promoted from specialist to corporal. He also posthumously received the Silver Star and Purple Heart medals."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Pat Tillman: NFL player who joined the Army after 9/11. The Army lied about the nature of his death from friendly fire. His brother testified before Congress: \"The deception surrounding this case was an insult to the family, but more importantly, its primary purpose was to deceive a whole nation.\"\n\n[Pat Tillman - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "pretty fucking mental that his unit burned his body armor, uniform and journal. it wouldn't surprise me if he was killed on purpose, being against the Iraq War was \\*very\\* unpopular at the time (especially in right wing circles) and the military has a pretty sordid history with fragging", "name": "Jared"}, {"role": "user", "content": "im almost 100% certain he was murdered. Tillman became increasingly outspoken against the war as his deployment went on", "name": "Micah"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Mount Everest (Nepali: सगरमाथा, romanized: Sagarmāthā; Standard Tibetan: ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ, romanized: Chomolungma; Chinese: 珠穆朗玛峰; pinyin: Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng) is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. Its elevation (snow height) of 8,848.86 m (29,031 ft 8+1⁄2 in) was most recently established in 2020 by the Chinese and Nepali authorities.Mount Everest attracts many climbers, including highly experienced mountaineers. There are two main climbing routes, one approaching the summit from the southeast in Nepal (known as the \"standard route\") and the other from the north in Tibet. While not posing substantial technical climbing challenges on the standard route, Everest presents dangers such as altitude sickness, weather, and wind, as well as hazards from avalanches and the Khumbu Icefall. As of November 2022, 310 people have died on Everest. Over 200 bodies remain on the mountain and have not been removed due to the dangerous conditions.The first recorded efforts to reach Everest's summit were made by British mountaineers. As Nepal did not allow foreigners to enter the country at the time, the British made several attempts on the north ridge route from the Tibetan side. After the first reconnaissance expedition by the British in 1921 reached 7,000 m (22,970 ft) on the North Col, the 1922 expedition pushed the north ridge route up to 8,320 m (27,300 ft), marking the first time a human had climbed above 8,000 m (26,247 ft). The 1924 expedition resulted in one of the greatest mysteries on Everest to this day: George Mallory and Andrew Irvine made a final summit attempt on 8 June but never returned, sparking debate as to whether they were the first to reach the top. Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made the first documented ascent of Everest in 1953, using the southeast ridge route. Norgay had reached 8,595 m (28,199 ft) the previous year as a member of the 1952 Swiss expedition. The Chinese mountaineering team of Wang Fuzhou, Gonpo, and Qu Yinhua made the first reported ascent of the peak from the north ridge on 25 May 1960.\n\nGreen Boots is the body of an unidentified climber that became a landmark on the main Northeast ridge route of Mount Everest. The body has not been officially identified, but is believed to be Tsewang Paljor, an Indian member of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police expedition (ITBP) who died as part of the 1996 climbing disaster on the mountain wearing green Koflach mountaineering boots. All expeditions from the north side encountered the body curled in the limestone alcove cave at 8,500 m (27,900 ft), until it was moved by the Chinese in 2014."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Green boots is the nickname of an unidentified corpse on Mount Everest thats been used as a landmark since 1996. His body is among approximately 200 others that found their final resting place on the mountain.\n\n[Green Boots - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Boots)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I don't know how I'm going to die, but I'm happy knowing that dying from hypothermia on Mount Everest or getting eaten by a shark aren't on the list of possibilities.", "name": "Aubrey"}, {"role": "user", "content": "How is being eaten by a shark not a possibility?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "They avoid the ocean I assume. ", "name": "Nathaniel"}, {"role": "user", "content": "But what about potential sharknados?", "name": "Hannah"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A Serbian Film (Serbian: Српски филм/Srpski film) is a 2010 Serbian exploitation horror film produced and directed by Srđan Spasojević in his feature directorial debut, with Aleksandar Radivojević co-writing. It tells the experience of a financially struggling pornstar who agrees to participate in an \"art film\", only to discover that he has been drafted into a snuff film with pedophilic and necrophilic themes. The film stars Serbian actors Srđan Todorović, Sergej Trifunović, and Jelena Gavrilović.\nUpon its debut on the art film circuit, A Serbian Film received substantial attention and controversy for its depictions of graphic violence and sexual content. The film has been banned in several countries including the Philippines, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Norway, and was temporarily banned from screening in Brazil. It also required compulsory cuts in order to be released in the United Kingdom and received an NC-17 rating in the United States. The film's notoriety has continued to the present day, and a number of sources have described A Serbian Film as the single most disturbing movie of all time."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# A Serbian Film: Upon its debut on the art film circuit, A Serbian Film received substantial attention and controversy for its graphic violence and sexual content. The film has been banned in several countries and is widely regarded by many as the most disturbing movie of all time.\n\n[A Serbian Film - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Serbian_Film)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've heard about it for a long time and seems that it was a nice of me never to actually watch it. Yeah, it is in my personal WTF list along with \"a man behind the sun\" and \"begotten\".", "name": "Richard"}]

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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": "# I found a Wikipedia page that's been vandalized\n\nI don't know how to fix it, but hopefully someone here can. I verified this is happening with a few of my friends too.\n\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles\\_Curtis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Curtis)\n\n​\n\nhttps://preview.redd.it/qcusmllf8ekc1.png?width=2879&format=png&auto=webp&s=404f5dbfdb0042c4d563339a0c5fbd1af2e4ccd7"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Safely use the bathroom in high school without being beaten to death by their classmates, for one.", "name": "Leonardo"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The following is a list of unidentified, or formerly unidentified, sounds. All of the sound files in this article have been sped up by at least a factor of 16 to increase intelligibility by condensing them and raising the frequency from infrasound to a more audible and reproducible range."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Not as creepy as other stuff here, but listening to these eerie sounds gives my a good chill at night\n\n[List of unexplained sounds - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unexplained_sounds)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Awesome! Anything more like this?", "name": "Kylie"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Me too!", "name": "Luke"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The John Thomas sign, also known as the Throckmorton sign, is a slang or joke term used in the field of radiology. It refers to the position of a penis as it relates to pathology on an X-ray of a pelvis. When the penis (visible on the X-ray as a shadow) points towards the same side as a unilateral medical condition such as a broken bone, this is considered a \"positive John Thomas sign,\" and if the shadow points to the other side, it is a \"negative John Thomas sign.\"Studies have shown that the \"sign\" is no better than chance at identifying the location of a hip fracture. In those cases where the John Thomas sign is positive, it has been proposed that a person with a displaced hip fracture may try to lie on the injured side to immobilize the fracture and reduce pain; the penis then inclines toward the downward (injured) side.Andy Murray, British professional tennis player, released a picture of his pelvic X-ray following his hip resurfacing surgery on January 29, 2019 clearly demonstrating an example of a negative John Thomas or Throckmorton sign where his penis pointed away from the site of injury. The release of the X-ray image with visible genitalia was discussed by Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain, prompting Murray, who was watching at the time, to message the show, stating, \"Please can you stop discussing my genitals on national TV, I was heavily medicated at the time of posting.\"\n\n\n== References =="}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The John Thomas sign is a slang or joke term used in the field of radiology. It refers to the position of a penis as it relates to pathology on an X-ray of a pelvis.\n\n[John Thomas sign - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thomas_sign)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've always heard this as a Throckmorton sign.", "name": "Adam"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Eben Byers: Wealthy American playboy and amateur sportsman who was so thrilled when a radium-spiked tonic seemed to cure his chronic pain that he drank 1400 bottles in two and 1/2 years, besides sending cases to girlfriends and dosing his racehorses. Then his bones started to disintegrate...\n\n[Eben Byers - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Byers?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "From the article: \"In 1931 theFederal Trade Commissionasked him to testify about his experience, but he was too sick to travel so the commission sent a lawyer to take his statement at his home; the lawyer reported that Byers's \"whole upper jaw, excepting two front teeth and most of his lower jaw had been removed\" and that \"All the remaining bone tissue of his body was disintegrating, and holes were actually forming in his skull.\"\""}, {"role": "user", "content": "Whatta you lookin at smoothskin?", "name": "Diana"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A shell grotto is a type of folly, a grotto decorated with sea shells. The shell grotto was a popular feature of many British country houses in the 17th and 18th centuries. It suited the Baroque and Rococo styles (which used swirling motifs similar to sea shells) and often represented the mimicry of architectural features from the Italian Renaissance (themselves copies from Classical times). The idea of a grotto was originally a means to enhance a dank undercroft, or provide an antechamber before a piano nobile, but later it became a garden feature independent of the house, sometimes on the edge of a lake, with water flowing through it.\n\nThe Shell Grotto is an ornate subterranean passageway shell grotto in Margate, Kent, England. Almost all the surface area of the walls and roof is covered in mosaics created entirely of seashells, totalling about 2,000 square feet (190 m2) of mosaic, or 4.6 million shells. It was claimed to have been \"discovered in 1835\", but its age and purpose remain unknown. The grotto is a Grade I-listed building and open to the public."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Shell Grotto is an ornate subterranean passageway shell grotto in Margate, Kent. Almost all the surface area of the walls and roof is covered in seashells. It was discovered in 1835, but its age and purpose remain unknown.\n\n[Shell Grotto, Margate - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_Grotto,_Margate)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Was this place ever underwater? I know a mermaid that once had a similar cave when she went through a human phase.", "name": "Autumn"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hahaha dude that was my first thought too :)", "name": "Laura"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "An endling is the last known individual of a species or subspecies. Once the endling dies, the species becomes extinct. The word was coined in correspondence in the scientific journal Nature."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"An endling is the last known individual of a species or subspecies. Once the endling dies, the species becomes extinct.\"\n\n[Endling - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endling)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Crazy to think there will be a homo sapien endling far enough in the future", "name": "Mia"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I prefer to believe there will be several that are killed at once, perhaps in a space ship somewhere.", "name": "Daniela"}]

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

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party, were a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Some of the migrants resorted to cannibalism to survive, primarily eating the bodies of those who had succumbed to starvation, sickness or extreme cold, but in one case two Native American guides were deliberately killed for this purpose.The Donner Party originated from Springfield, Illinois, and departed Independence, Missouri, on the Oregon Trail in the spring of 1846, behind many other pioneer families who were attempting to make the same overland trip. The journey west usually took between four and six months, but the Donner Party was slowed after electing to follow a new route called the Hastings Cutoff, which bypassed established trails and instead crossed the Rocky Mountains' Wasatch Range and the Great Salt Lake Desert in present-day Utah. The desolate and rugged terrain, and the difficulties they later encountered while traveling along the Humboldt River in present-day Nevada, resulted in the loss of many cattle and wagons, and divisions soon formed within the group.\nBy early November, the migrants had reached the Sierra Nevada but became trapped by an early, heavy snowfall near Truckee Lake (now Donner Lake) high in the mountains. Their food supplies ran dangerously low, and in mid-December some of the group set out on foot to obtain help. Rescuers from California attempted to reach the migrants, but the first relief party did not arrive until the middle of February 1847, almost four months after the wagon train became trapped. Of the 87 members of the party, 48 survived the ordeal. Historians have described the episode as one of the most fascinating tragedies in California history and in the entire record of American westward migration."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Donner Party was a group of pioneers who attempted to reach California using a newly \"discovered\" trail. After crossing the Salt Lake Desert they were stuck in the Sierra Nevada, having to resort to cannibalism to survive. Of 89 people only 48 survived.\n\n[Donner Party - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I also heard that native Americans tried to reportedly offer them food but the Donners were so scared of contact with them it didnt happen.", "name": "Jake"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Werent they attacked by native americans during their expedition? I warrant that might have had something to do with their wariness.", "name": "Victoria"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[Indeed they were.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party) It seems many of their horses and oxen were killed or stolen, while at least one man was said to have been killed by Paiute Indians.", "name": "Parker"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# We're back! Under new management.\n\nThe old admin didn't reopen the sub or reply to any modmail for some reason. I didn't really want the responsibility of such a large sub but always enjoyed it and nobody else wanted to take charge or they were denied.\n\nRules will stay as they were for now.\n\n~~I'd greatly appreciate some help modding, especially if you have experience of a big sub. Please reply below.~~\n\nThanks and lets go!\n\nEDIT: I never expected such an immediate response from so many users glad the sub is back, thank you all!\n\nAlso thanks to everyone that has offered to help mod, an overwhelming response. I'll go through them all this weekend, we wont need you all but thank you so much for offering."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Seems like they decided to not join back after the blackout..\nIm very happy too see this sub up again and for posts to start being posted :)", "name": "John"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Lol I forgot about that blackout, did it even do anything", "name": "Aubrey"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Other than subs like this being unavailable absolutely nothing", "name": "Lily"}]

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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\nA kitten is a juvenile cat. After being born, kittens display primary altriciality and are fully dependent on their mothers for survival. They normally do not open their eyes for seven to ten days. After about two weeks, kittens develop quickly and begin to explore the world outside their nest. After a further three to four weeks, they begin to eat solid food and grow baby teeth. Domestic kittens are highly social animals and usually enjoy human companionship."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Ok, the Wikipedia guy staring back at me on every Wikipedia article is getting creepy. Agree?\n\n[Kitten - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kittens)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "He's staring at you for (a) not knowing his name and calling him \"Wikipedia guy\", and (b) for using Wikipedia but not donating a buck or two.", "name": "Caroline"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It's true. I chucked them a couple of quid and you can hardly see it but his expression's shifted from \n\n\"*Hey. Yeah, you. You're a real piece of shit, you know that?*\"\n\nto\n\n\"*Hey. Nice going. You're okay, buddy.*\"\n\nBeats me how they did it. PHP probably.", "name": "Connor"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Cock rock is a description of rock music that emphasizes an aggressive form of male sexuality. The style developed in the later 1960s, came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, and continues into the present day."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Cock rock is a genre of rock music that emphasizes an aggressive form of male sexuality. The style developed in the later 1960s, came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, and continues into the present day.\n\n[Cock rock - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_rock)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm in my 30s, I'm a huge rock & metal fan, & I've heard my different genres, sub-genres, & cross-genres, but this is the first time I've heard of Cock Rock.", "name": "Bradley"}, {"role": "user", "content": "IMO, it's really not a unique musical genre in and of itself, more just a term for hard rock bands that express a certain macho attitude.", "name": "Benjamin"}]

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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": "It also is a textbook example of the impact of key changes when done right.", "name": "Justin"}]

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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.Initially 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 from the late 2010s onward while becoming 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": "# I came across this massive list of creepy Wikipedia articles.\n\nhttp://phocks.org/stumble/creepy/ "}, {"role": "user", "content": "[removed]"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well I am not as holy or as awesome as your username!"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Girly Chew (August 27, 1963 – September 9, 1999) was a Malaysian-born woman who disappeared on September 9, 1999, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The investigation into the murder of Girly Chew revealed a conspiracy theory involving reptilian queens, UFOs and reports of cannibalism. Girly Chew's husband Diazien Hossencofft and his girlfriend Linda Henning were convicted of her murder. Her body has never been found."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Girly Chew Hossencofft was a Malaysian-born woman who disappeared on September 9, 1999 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The investigation into the murder of Girly Chew revealed a conspiracy theory involving reptilian queens, UFOs and reports of cannibalism.\n\n[Murder of Girly Chew Hossencofft - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Girly_Chew_Hossencofft)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I remember watching a Dateline (I think) about this case. Does anyone know of any podcasts that cover it?", "name": "Jeremy"}, {"role": "user", "content": "My Favorite Murder does an episode on it!", "name": "Zachary"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Peter Gerard Scully (born 13 January 1963) is an Australian sex offender and murderer imprisoned for life in the Philippines after being convicted of one count of human trafficking and five counts of rape by sexual assault of children. Scully was sentenced to life imprisonment in June 2018. In November 2022, he received a second conviction and was sentenced to an additional 129 years in prison."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Peter Scully is a child porn producer and rapist currently serving a life sentence in the Philippines. He is notorious for his involvement in the child porn video Daisys Destruction, which chronicles the physical and mental ruin of 1 year old daisy as she learns to please her mistress.\n\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Scully[Peter Scully](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Scully)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I attended the trial of the owner of Hurt2theCore, the dark web site that hosted Daisy's Destruction. Two days of details of the most horrific crimes imaginable. The judge had to watch the video. It was pretty harrowing. I wrote about it here:\n\n[You wanted Darker Web?](https://medium.com/@eileyinmelbourne/you-wanted-darker-web-8b7a9d5f5725)\n\n​\n\nETA, I wrote a far more expanded expose on Hurt2theCore (and hurtcore in general) in my book, [The Darkest Web](https://www.amazon.com/Eileen-Ormsby/e/B00SSP75XO)", "name": "Valerie"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh my god Ive read all your books. Im halfway through a criminology degree and Im picking up subjects on cybercrime because its made me want to help take scum like this down. Thankyou so much for covering such difficult topics and showing me a direction I can turn my passion for justice in!", "name": "Mary"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Kentucky meat shower was an incident occurring for a period of several minutes between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. on March 3, 1876, where what appeared to be chunks of red meat fell from the sky in a 100-by-50-yard (90-by-45-meter) area near Olympia Springs in Bath County, Kentucky. There exist several explanations (from blood rain to vulture ejecta) as to how this occurred and what the \"meat\" was. Although the exact type of meat was never identified, various reports suggested it was beef, lamb, deer, bear, horse, or possibly human."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Kentucky meat shower was an incident in 1876, where what appeared to be chunks of red meat fell from the sky in a 100-by-50-yard area in Bath County, Kentucky. The exact type of meat was never identified, although various reports suggested it was beef, lamb, deer, bear, horse, or even human.\n\n[Kentucky meat shower - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_meat_shower)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Kentucky Meat Shower sounds like a great band name.", "name": "Gabrielle"}, {"role": "user", "content": "According to Urban Dictionary:\n> When you are having sexual encounters with multiple rednecks and they pour chicken grease all over your naked body and start to rub their erect dongs all over you.", "name": "Faith"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "This Is Your Brain on Drugs was a large-scale US anti-narcotics campaign by Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA) launched in 1987, that used three televised public service announcements (PSAs) and a related poster campaign."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# This Is Your Brain on Drugs was a US anti-narcotics ad campaign launched in 1987. In the first TV ad, a man holds up an egg and says, \"This is your brain.\" For a frying pan, he says, \"This is drugs.\" He then cracks open the egg, fries it, and says, \"This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?\"\n\n[This Is Your Brain on Drugs - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Your_Brain_on_Drugs)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Some reactions described in the article:\n\n>\nTV Guide named the commercial one of the top one hundred television advertisements of all time, and Entertainment Weekly named it the 8th best commercial of all time.\n\n...\n\n>\nThe American Egg Board took issue with the PSA, claiming that eggs were being correlated with the unhealthiness of drug use. The board worried that young children might misinterpret the TV message and believe that eggs were harmful."}, {"role": "user", "content": "The 80s were tough for eggs. They also got blamed for cholesterol, and some people never unlearned that.", "name": "Dylan"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Lieback v McDonald's- the hot coffee lawsuit paramount in the misinformation campaign that refueled tort reform efforts in 1994\n\n[Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Watch the documentary called hot coffee. Its about this case and tort reform. Its excellent.", "name": "Zachary"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes people should inform themselves about this case. A lot of folks still think that this was a nuisance suit brought against McDonalds by a crazy lady. Not at all! Its horrible what happened to her. Theyd had HUNDREDS of complaints about the coffee being too hot and did nothing.", "name": "Shelby"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ah, just to clarify \"they did nothing\" is actually an improvement on what they did. They didn't just ignore the complaints.\n\nThey discussed doing something. They did studies on how many people would be burned. They figured out how much money they would save with the hotter coffee. They made the informed decision to knowingly burn people because it would give them more profits. \"Did nothing\" makes them sound lazy or unresponsive. They were deliberate about it, fully knowing the human cost.", "name": "Brody"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Oba Chandler (October 11, 1946 – November 15, 2011) was an American serial killer and mass murderer who was convicted and executed for the June 1989 murders of Joan Rogers and her two daughters, whose bodies were found floating in Tampa Bay, Florida, with their hands and feet bound. Autopsies showed the victims had been thrown into the water while still alive, with ropes tied to a concrete block around their necks. The case became high-profile in 1992 when local police posted billboards bearing enlarged images of the suspect's handwriting recovered from a pamphlet in the victims' car. Chandler was identified as the killer when his neighbor recognized the handwriting.\nPrior to his arrest, Chandler worked as an unlicensed aluminum-siding contractor. Against the advice of his attorneys, he testified in his own defense, saying he had met the Ohio women and had given them directions. Chandler said he never saw them again, except in newspaper coverage and on the billboards set up by authorities. Police originally theorized that two men were involved in the murders, but this was discounted once Chandler was arrested. Following his conviction, Chandler was incarcerated at Union Correctional Institution. During his seventeen years of incarceration until his execution, he did not have a single visitor.\nChandler was executed on November 15, 2011. He wrote a last statement to prison officials: \"You are killing a [sic] innocent man today\". The statement was read at a post-execution news conference. In February 2014, DNA evidence identified Chandler as the murderer of Ivelisse Berrios-Beguerisse, who was found dead in Coral Springs, Florida, on November 27, 1990."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Autopsies showed all three victims had water in their lungs, proving they had been thrown into the water while still alive.\n\n[Oba Chandler - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oba_Chandler)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "it really shook me to my core. i cant imagine the horror those poor ladies felt in their last moments. have you read the long form article about it, angels & demons? if not i would highly recommend it, it won a pullitzer. its really long but incredibly written"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Who is perpetuating the myths that wikipedia cannot be trusted?\n\nMy children are advised by their teachers that they should not use wikipedia because anyone can edit it. Their peers say things like wikipedia is full of lies.\n\nHas anyone studied why these ideas are so commonly held? Is there an understanding of why the greatest free resource ever assembled is not viewed as such by so many? Where are these ideas coming from and why?\n\nEdit: [Of course there is an article on reliability.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia#Comparative_studies) I remember the 2005 comparison w Britannica, which is what originally convinced me that Wikipedia was a critical and invaluable resource."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think some of the anti-Wikipedia sentiments from teachers are based on outdated information they received while completing their Education degrees years ago. We were told never to quote an encyclopedia as a source and Wikipedia was distrusted because it was open to editing. This older generation taught the current cohort of teachers and those attitudes are hard to change.\n\nHowever, I have heard plenty of university professors in other fields endorse Wikipedia as a valid starting point for research and recommend checking an article's references for primary source information. I even know of one prof who assigns their students the task of making and documenting a valid addition to any Wikipedia page in their field of study. Attitudes are changing.", "name": "Brooklyn"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's ridiculous: [the Oxford comma avoids critical misunderstanding.](https://i0.wp.com/richardgilbert.me/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/oxford-comma1.jpg)"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14, after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. Till posthumously became an icon of the civil rights movement.Till was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. During summer vacation in August 1955, he was visiting relatives near Money, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region. He spoke to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, the white, married proprietor of a local grocery store. Although what happened at the store is a matter of dispute, Till was accused of flirting with, touching, or whistling at Bryant. Till's interaction with Bryant, perhaps unwittingly, violated the unwritten code of behavior for a black male interacting with a white female in the Jim Crow-era South. Several nights after the encounter, Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam, who were armed, went to Till's great-uncle's house and abducted Emmett. They beat and mutilated him before shooting him in the head and sinking his body in the Tallahatchie River. Three days later, the boy's mutilated and bloated body was discovered and retrieved from the river.\nTill's body was returned to Chicago, where his mother insisted on a public funeral service with an open casket, which was held at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ. It was later said that \"The open-coffin funeral held by Mamie Till Bradley exposed the world to more than her son Emmett Till's bloated, mutilated body. Her decision focused attention on not only American racism and the barbarism of lynching but also the limitations and vulnerabilities of American democracy\". Tens of thousands attended his funeral or viewed his open casket, and images of his mutilated body were published in black-oriented magazines and newspapers, rallying popular black support and white sympathy across the U.S. Intense scrutiny was brought to bear on the lack of black civil rights in Mississippi, with newspapers around the U.S. critical of the state. Although local newspapers and law enforcement officials initially decried the violence against Till and called for justice, they responded to national criticism by defending Mississippians, giving support to the killers.\nIn September 1955, an all-white jury found Bryant and Milam not guilty of Till's murder. Protected against double jeopardy, the two men publicly admitted in a 1956 interview with Look magazine that they had tortured and murdered the boy, selling the story of how they did it for $4,000 (equivalent to $43,000 in 2022). Till's murder was seen as a catalyst for the next phase of the civil rights movement. In December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott began in Alabama and lasted more than a year, resulting eventually in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregated buses were unconstitutional. According to historians, events surrounding Till's life and death continue to resonate. \nAn Emmett Till Memorial Commission was established in the early 21st century. The Sumner County Courthouse was restored and includes the Emmett Till Interpretive Center. Fifty-one sites in the Mississippi Delta are memorialized as associated with Till. The Emmett Till Antilynching Act, an American law which makes lynching a federal hate crime, was signed into law on March 29, 2022, by President Joe Biden."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Emmett Till was a young African American boy who was lynched by two white men after an older white woman had accused him of whistling at her. She later confessed that she had lied.\n\n[Emmett Till - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "> Till sometimes whistled to alleviate his stuttering, to help with his articulation, his mother taught Till how to whistle softly to himself before pronouncing his words.\n\n:(", "name": "Carson"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's really sad that that's all it was, and it lead to him being murdered anyway because of his skin colour and remarks that the alleged \"victim\" made up."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "David Reimer (born Bruce Peter Reimer; 22 August 1965 – 4 May 2004) was a Canadian man raised as a girl following medical advice and intervention after his penis was severely injured during a botched circumcision in infancy.The psychologist John Money oversaw the case and reported the reassignment as successful and as evidence that gender identity is primarily learned. The academic sexologist Milton Diamond later reported that Reimer's realization that he was not a girl occurred between the ages of 9 and 11 years and that he was living as a male by the age of 15. Well known in medical circles for years anonymously as the \"John/Joan\" case, Reimer later went public with his story to help discourage similar medical practices. He killed himself at age 38."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# David Reimer was a Canadian man born male but reassigned female and raised as a girl following medical advice and intervention after his penis was severely injured during a botched circumcision in infancy. He killed himself after suffering severe depression.\n\n[David Reimer - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ah back when the nurture argument was in full swing. Poor guy.", "name": "Cheyenne"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Nature vs nurture on gender?", "name": "Michael"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, the psychologist John Money oversaw the case and was using it to prove his theory on nurture over nature. He was convinced that if Davids parents raised him as a girl from infancy and made a distinct gender difference between him and his brother, that David would grow up to be a well adjusted female in adulthood. Didnt work, obviously.\n\nEdited: a word"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Also didn't help that Money abused both David and his brother (physically and sexually iirc) while he was studying the case. John Money is just a whole piece of shit in general.", "name": "Leonardo"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Sivriada (Greek: Ὀξεία, Oxeia) also known as Hayırsızada, is one of the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmara, near Istanbul.\nThe island, which has an area of 0.05 km², is officially a neighbourhood in the Adalar district of Istanbul, Turkey.\nSivriada was often used by the Byzantine clerics as a distant place for peaceful worship, and by the Byzantine emperors as a convenient prison to detain prominent people whom they deemed troublesome. The first famous person to be imprisoned in the island by the order of emperor Nikephoros I was Plato of Sakkoudion, the uncle of renowned cleric Theodoros Stoudites, for supporting his nephew in his conflict with the emperor. Other famous people who stayed in the island for religious and political reasons were Gebon, Basil Skleros, Nikephoritzes (the chief minister of Michael VII Doukas), Patriarch John of Antioch and Patriarch Michael II of Constantinople. The graves of those who died on the island during the Byzantine period can still be seen today.The ruins of a Roman settlement and a 9th-century Byzantine monastery can still be seen on the shore, close to the fishermen's shelter, a small wharf which is often used by yachts. The most important buildings on the island were built in the 9th century AD, including a church, a chapel dedicated to religious martyrs, a monastery on the eastern end (with its walls still seen today) and a cistern in the center of the island (a part of which can still be seen).\nIn 1911, in an event called \"Hayırsızada Dog Massacre\", the Governor of Istanbul ordered the stray dogs in the streets to be rounded up and exiled to Sivriada. About 80,000 dogs were killed during the ordeal, mostly due to hunger and thirst on the barren land of the island, and some due to drowning as they tried to escape the horrible conditions of the island. A severe earthquake which immediately followed the event was perceived by the local as \"a punishment by God for abandoning the dogs.\" That is why the island is known both as Sivriada and Hayırsızada (\"the inauspicious island\").\n\n\n== References =="}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Hayrszada Dog Massacre, where all the dogs of then-Constantinople were rounded up and dumped on an uninhabited island to slaughter each other. Sartre mentions rumours passing ships could hear them wail\n\n[Sivriada - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sivriada)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Humans are messed up. Why do this? Idk if there even is a possible good reason.", "name": "Caden"}, {"role": "user", "content": "back then animals were plants and humans were animals", "name": "Carson"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "An eye is a sensory organ that allows an organism to perceive visual information. It detects light and converts it into electro-chemical impulses in neurons (neurones). It is part of an organism's visual system.\nIn higher organisms, the eye is a complex optical system that collects light from the surrounding environment, regulates its intensity through a diaphragm, focuses it through an adjustable assembly of lenses to form an image, converts this image into a set of electrical signals, and transmits these signals to the brain through neural pathways that connect the eye via the optic nerve to the visual cortex and other areas of the brain.\nEyes with resolving power have come in ten fundamentally different forms, classified into compound eyes and non-compound eyes. Compound eyes are made up of multiple small visual units, and are common on insects and crustaceans. Non-compound eyes have a single lens and focus light onto the retina to form a single image. This type of eye is common in mammals. The human eye is a non-compound eye.\nThe simplest eyes are pit eyes. They are eye-spots which may be set into a pit to reduce the angle of light that enters and affects the eye-spot, to allow the organism to deduce the angle of incoming light.Eyes enable several photo response functions that are independent of vision. In an organism that has more complex eyes, retinal photosensitive ganglion cells send signals along the retinohypothalamic tract to the suprachiasmatic nuclei to effect circadian adjustment and to the pretectal area to control the pupillary light reflex.\n\nStory of the Eye (French: L'histoire de l'œil) is a 1928 novella written by Georges Bataille as Lord Auch that details the increasingly bizarre sexual perversions of a pair of teenage lovers, including an early depiction of omorashi fetishism in Western literature. It is narrated by the young man looking back on his exploits. In 1940 an edition of Histoire de l’œil was illustrated by Hans Bellmer. Histoire de l’œil entered the public domain on January 1, 2024."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Story of the Eye is a 1928 novella written by Georges Bataille that details the increasingly bizarre sexual perversions of a pair of teenage lovers. [Article has a VERY detailed rundown of the plot.]\n\n[Story of the Eye - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_the_Eye)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh my. That was rather detailed.", "name": "Katelyn"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Eggplant emoji (🍆), also known by its Unicode name of Aubergine, is an emoji featuring a purple eggplant. Social media users have noted the emoji's phallic appearance and often use it as a euphemistic or suggestive icon during sexting conversations, to represent a penis. It is frequently paired and often contrasted with the peach emoji (🍑), representing the buttocks (or vulva)."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Social media users have noted the emoji's phallic appearance and often use it as a euphemistic or suggestive icon during sexting conversations. The emoji was used as a reference to penis on Twitter as early as 2011.\n\n[Eggplant emoji - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant_emoji)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "", "name": "Madeline"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "To Train Up a Child is a 1994 parenting advice book written and self-published by independent Baptists Michael and Debi Pearl, which has generated controversy for encouraging child abuse. The book has been endorsed by the Institute of Basic Life Principles. To Train Up a Child gained notoriety after methods recommended in the book were found to have contributed to several high-profile cases of child death."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# To Train Up a Child\n\n[To Train Up a Child - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Train_Up_a_Child)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh, that lets that book off easy. \n\nThis was a huge controversy when my kids were born. \n\nIIRC it instructed that you should put your baby in a high chair, scatter Cheerios on the tray in front of them, and hit their hands with paint stirrers if they reach for them. The idea being you have to train the kid for your go-ahead before touching the Cheerios. \n\nhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2522770/Inside-extreme-child-rearing-guide-advocates-whipping-children-belts-branches---linked-deaths-seven-years.html", "name": "Elizabeth"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's fucked. Of course it \"works\". But why not use electric shocks instead to get the full unethical psychological experiment experience?", "name": "Seth"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Romani Holocaust or the Romani genocide was the planned effort by Nazi Germany and its World War II allies and collaborators to commit ethnic cleansing and eventually genocide against European Roma and Sinti peoples during the Holocaust era.Under Adolf Hitler, a supplementary decree to the Nuremberg Laws was issued on 26 November 1935, classifying the Romani people (or Roma) as \"enemies of the race-based state\", thereby placing them in the same category as the Jews. Thus, the fate of the Roma in Europe paralleled that of the Jews in the Holocaust.Historians estimate that between 250,000 and 500,000 Romani and Sinti were killed by Nazi Germans and their collaborators—25% to over 50% of the estimate of slightly fewer than 1 million Roma in Europe at the time. Later research cited by Ian Hancock estimated the death toll to be at about 1.5 million out of an estimated 2 million European Roma.In 1982, West Germany formally recognized that Nazi Germany had committed genocide against the Romani people. In 2011, Poland officially adopted 2 August as a day of commemoration of the Romani genocide.Within the Nazi German state, first persecution, then extermination, was aimed primarily at sedentary \"Gypsy mongrels\". In December 1942, Heinrich Himmler ordered the deportation of all Roma from the Greater Germanic Reich, and most were sent to the specially established Gypsy concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Other Roma were deported there from the Nazi-occupied Western European territories. Approximately 21,000 of the 23,000 European Roma and Sinti sent there did not survive. In areas outside the reach of systematic registration, e.g., in the German-occupied areas of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the Roma who were most threatened were those who, in the German judgment, were \"vagabonds\", though some were actually refugees or displaced persons. Here, they were killed mainly in massacres perpetrated by the German military and police formations as well as by the Schutzstaffel (SS) task forces, and in armed resistance against the Nazi German occupation of Europe."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Porajmos was the genocide of the Romani people in Nazi Germany, who were declared enemies of the state. It's estimated that 225,000 from 1.5 million Romani died in concentration camps.\n\n[Romani Holocaust - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_genocide)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "A tragedy. Unfortunately, bigotry against the Romani still continues today in Europe and elsewhere. It's sad that people hate other people simply because of their skin color, beliefs, gender, and culture."}, {"role": "user", "content": "The anti-Romani sentiments I see even here on Reddit are honestly chilling sometimes. Massively upvoted comments saying that Hitler only went wrong when he targeted Jews and other minorities instead of JUST the gypsies. I can honestly understand critically examining certain cultures and their place in society, but how quickly this turns into literal genocide apologia when applied to the Roma...\n\nIm not a monster or anything, but *everyone* in Europe hates the gypsies, so maybe wed all be better off if they were gone.\n\nIts makes me wonder how many people in this day and age would actually step in if they saw that Romani were getting rounded up for mass extermination. Its all so very sad. I hope the vicious cycle of social ostracizing can be broken one day.", "name": "Joel"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Nalanda (IAST: Nālandā, pronounced [naːlən̪d̪aː]) was a renowned Buddhist mahavihara (great monastery) in ancient Magadha (modern-day Bihar), eastern India. Nalanda is considered to be among the greatest centers of learning in the ancient world. It was located near the city of Rajagriha (now Rajgir) and about 90 kilometres (56 mi) southeast of Pataliputra (now Patna). Operating from 427 until 1197 CE, Nalanda played a vital role in promoting the patronage of arts and academics during the 5th and 6th century CE, a period that has since been described as the \"Golden Age of India\" by scholars.Nalanda was established during the Gupta Empire era (c. 3rd–6th century CE), and was supported by numerous Indian and Javanese patrons – both Buddhists and non-Buddhists. Nalanda continued to thrive with the support of the rulers of the Pala Empire (r. 750–1161 CE). After the fall of the Palas, the institution was eventually abandoned. Nalanda may have been attacked and damaged by Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji (c. 1200), but it also managed to remain operational for decades (or possibly even centuries) following the raids.Over some 750 years, Nalanda's faculty included some of the most revered scholars of Mahayana Buddhism. The curriculum of Nalanda included major Buddhist philosophies like Madhyamaka, Yogachara and Sarvastivada, as well as other subjects like the Vedas, grammar, medicine, logic, mathematics, astronomy and alchemy. The university had a renowned library that was a key source for the Sanskrit texts that were transmitted to East Asia by pilgrims like Xuanzang and Yijing. Many texts composed at Nalanda played an important role in the development of Mahayana and Vajrayana. They include the works of Dharmakirti, the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra of Shantideva, and the Mahavairocana Tantra .The current site of Nalanda is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 2010, the Government of India passed a resolution to revive the famous university, and a contemporary institute, Nalanda University, was established at Rajgir. It has been listed as an \"Institute of National Importance\" by the Government of India."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Nalanda was a Buddhist monastic university in ancient India. Considered by historians to be the world's first residential university, it operated from 427 until 1197 CE. Before a fire burned much of its facilities at the beginning of the twelfth century, Nalanda held over 9 million texts.\n\n[Nalanda mahavihara - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "fire? thats a nice way of saying islamic invaders burned the university"}, {"role": "user", "content": "And what do you think they burned it with?", "name": "Isabelle"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A Serbian Film (Serbian: Српски филм/Srpski film) is a 2010 Serbian exploitation horror film produced and directed by Srđan Spasojević in his feature directorial debut, with Aleksandar Radivojević co-writing. It tells the experience of a financially struggling pornstar who agrees to participate in an \"art film\", only to discover that he has been drafted into a snuff film with pedophilic and necrophilic themes. The film stars Serbian actors Srđan Todorović, Sergej Trifunović, and Jelena Gavrilović.\nUpon its debut on the art film circuit, A Serbian Film received substantial attention and controversy for its depictions of graphic violence and sexual content. The film has been banned in several countries including the Philippines, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Norway, and was temporarily banned from screening in Brazil. It also required compulsory cuts in order to be released in the United Kingdom and received an NC-17 rating in the United States. The film's notoriety has continued to the present day, and a number of sources have described A Serbian Film as the single most disturbing movie of all time."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# A Serbian Film: Upon its debut on the art film circuit, A Serbian Film received substantial attention and controversy for its graphic violence and sexual content. The film has been banned in several countries and is widely regarded by many as the most disturbing movie of all time.\n\n[A Serbian Film - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Serbian_Film)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Do you know anyway to watch it? Have known about it for years but never seemed to be able to find it.", "name": "Amy"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I just checked The Pirate Bay and there's several versions listed there."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "On February 12, 2010, three people were killed and three others wounded in a shooting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) in Huntsville, Alabama, United States. During a routine meeting of the biology department attended by approximately 12 people, Amy Bishop, a biology professor at the university, began shooting those nearest her with a Ruger P95 handgun.\nBishop was charged with one count of capital murder and three counts of attempted murder. On September 11, 2012, she pleaded guilty to the charges after family members of victims petitioned the judge against use of the death penalty. The jury heard a condensed version of the evidence on September 24, as required by Alabama law. The same day, Bishop was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.In March 2009, Bishop had been denied tenure at UAH, making spring 2010 her last semester there, per university policy. Due to the attention Bishop attracted as a result of the shooting, previous violent incidents in which she had been involved or implicated were reevaluated. In 1986, she had shot and killed her brother in Braintree, Massachusetts, in an incident that was, at the time, officially ruled an accident. She was also questioned, along with her husband, after a 1993 pipe bomb incident was directed at her lab supervisor."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The 2010 University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting was one of the few mass shootings committed by a woman. Biology professor Amy Bishop, who may have also murdered her brother in 1986, killed 3 and injured 3 during a faculty meeting after being denied tenure.\n\n[2010 University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Alabama_in_Huntsville_shooting)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "She punched a woman in the face because the woman got the last booster seat at IHOP, shouting, \"I AM DR. AMY BISHOP!\"\n\nI'm not sure why but this is hilarious", "name": "Austin"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Reminds me of an old MST3k movie, Incredible Melting Man, \"DON'T SHOOT! I'M DOCTOR TED NELSON!\" (they shoot)", "name": "Hector"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Megaphragma mymaripenne is a microscopically sized wasp. At 200 m in length, it is the third-smallest extant insect, comparable in size to single-celled organisms. It has a highly reduced nervous system, containing only 7400 neurons, several orders of magnitude fewer than in larger insects.\n\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaphragma\\_mymaripenne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaphragma_mymaripenne)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wacky. It's truly incredible 7400 neurons is sufficient to identify thrip eggs specifically along with every other life activity", "name": "Cassandra"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It is, but there are species that are even smaller brainlets. A type of nematode worm called C Elegans has 302 neurons.", "name": "Jennifer"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The potato paradox is a mathematical calculation that has a counter-intuitive result. The Universal Book of Mathematics states the problem as such:\nFred brings home 100 kg of potatoes, which (being purely mathematical potatoes) consist of 99% water (being purely mathematical water). He then leaves them outside overnight so that they consist of 98% water. What is their new weight? \nThen reveals the answer:\n\nThe surprising answer is 50 kg.\nIn Quine's classification of paradoxes, the potato paradox is a veridical paradox.\n\nIf the potatoes are 99% water, the dry mass is 1%. This means that the 100 kg of potatoes contains 1 kg of dry mass, which does not change, as only the water evaporates.\nIn order to make the potatoes be 98% water, the dry mass must become 2% of the total weight—double what it was before. The amount of dry mass, 1 kg, remains unchanged, so this can only be achieved by reducing the total mass of the potatoes. Since the proportion that is dry mass must be doubled, the total mass of the potatoes must be halved, giving the answer 50 kg."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The potato paradox is a math problem that states the following: Fred brings home 100 kg of potatoes, which consist of 99% water. He then leaves them to dry so that they consist of 98% water. What is their new weight? And the answer is 50 kilograms.\n\n[Potato paradox - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_paradox)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Very counter-intuitive, but you can solve it with a simple equation. \n\nIt sounds like that question: A ball and a bat cost 1.1 USD. The bat costs a dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?", "name": "Nicholas"}, {"role": "user", "content": "t = cost of bat\n\na = cost of ball\n\nt - a = 1\n\na = t - 1\n\nt + a = 1.1\n\nt + (t-1) = 1.1\n\nt + t - 1 = 1.1\n\n2t - 1 = 1.1\n\n2t = 2.1\n\nt = 1.05\n\nThe bat costs $1.05. The ball costs $0.05. \n\nDid I do that right?", "name": "Andrew"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Batavia ([baˈtaːvia] ) was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). She was built in Amsterdam in 1628 as the flagship of one of the three annual fleets of company ships and sailed that year on her maiden voyage for Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies. On 4 June 1629, Batavia was wrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos, a chain of small islands off the western coast of Australia.\nAs the ship broke apart, approximately 300 of the Batavia's 341 passengers made their way ashore, the rest drowning in their attempts. The ship's commander, Francisco Pelsaert, sailed to Batavia to get help, leaving in charge Jeronimus Cornelisz, a senior VOC official who, unbeknownst to Pelsaert, had been plotting a mutiny prior to the wreck. Cornelisz sent about 20 men under soldier Wiebbe Hayes to nearby islands under the pretense of having them search for fresh water, abandoning them there to die. With the help of other mutineers, he then orchestrated a massacre that, over the course of several weeks, resulted in the murder of approximately 125 of the remaining survivors, including women, children and infants; a small number of women were kept as sex slaves, among them Lucretia Jans, who was reserved by Cornelisz for himself.Meanwhile, Hayes' group had unexpectedly found fresh water and, after learning of the atrocities, waged battles with Cornelisz's group. In October 1629, at the height of their last and deadliest battle, they were interrupted by the return of Pelsaert aboard the rescue vessel, Sardam. Pelsaert subsequently tried and convicted Cornelisz and six of his men, who became the first Europeans to be legally executed in Australia. Two other henchmen, convicted of comparatively minor crimes, were marooned on mainland Australia, thus becoming the first Europeans to permanently inhabit the Australian continent. Of the original 341 people on board Batavia, only 122 made it to the port of Batavia.\nAssociated today with \"one of the worst horror stories in maritime history\", Batavia has been the subject of numerous published histories, the earliest dating from 1647. Due to its unique place in the history of European contact with Australia, the story of Batavia is sometimes offered as an alternative founding narrative to the landing of British convicts in Sydney. Of the 47 or so VOC wrecks which have been located and identified, Batavia is the only early 17th century example from which the remaining hull components have been retrieved, conserved and subject to detailed study. Many Batavia artifacts, including the ship's stern and skeletal remains from the massacre, are housed at the Shipwreck Galleries in Fremantle, Western Australia, while a replica of the ship is moored as a museum ship in Lelystad in the Netherlands."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Batavia (1628 ship) - On June 4 1629 this Dutch ship wrecked off the coast of Australia leading to \"one of the worst horror stories in maritime history\" Mutineers murdered approximately 125 of the remaining survivors from the wreck\n\n[Batavia (1628 ship) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_(1628_ship))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Casefile podcast has a great episode on this, fascinating story", "name": "Preston"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I second this. Also Defragged History did [a stellar four part series on it](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5kdplBvGykV0m6aWm-6hDoleMWtiHFth) which was my inspiration to post it here."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) or Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP), originally Free Capitol Hill and occasionally the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP), was an unlawful occupation protest and self-declared autonomous zone in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. The zone, originally covering two intersections at the corners of Cal Anderson Park and the roads leading up to them, was established on June 8, 2020 by persons protesting the May 2020 killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The zone was cleared of occupants by police on July 1, 2020.The formation of the zone was preceded by tense interactions between protesters and police in riot gear which began on June 1, 2020. The situation escalated on June 7 after a man drove his vehicle toward a crowd near 11th Avenue and Pine Street and shot a protester who tried to stop him. Tear gas, flashbangs and pepper spray were used by police in the densely populated residential neighborhood. On June 7, the SPD reported that protesters were throwing rocks, bottles, and fireworks, and were shining green lasers into officers' eyes. The next day, the SPD vacated and boarded up its East Precinct building in an effort to de-escalate the situation. After the SPD had vacated the East Precinct station, protesters moved into the Capitol Hill area. They repositioned street barricades in a one-block radius around the station and declared the area \"Free Capitol Hill\". The protest area was later renamed the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP).\nThe zone was a self-organized space without official leadership. Police were not welcome within the zone. Protesters demanded that Seattle's police budget be decreased by 50%, that funding be shifted to community programs and services in historically black communities, and that CHOP protesters not be charged with crimes. Participants created a block-long \"Black Lives Matter\" mural, provided free film screenings in the street, and performed live music. A \"No Cop Co-op\" was formed, with food, hand sanitizer and other supplies. Areas were set up for public speakers and to facilitate discourse, and a community vegetable garden was constructed.The CHOP was a focus of national attention during its existence. On June 11, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan stated that the zone had a \"block party\" atmosphere; later, The New York Times contrasted Durkan's words with local businesspeople's accounts of harassment, vandalism, and looting. The CHOP's size decreased following shootings in or near the zone on June 20, 21, and 23. On June 28, Durkan met with protesters and informed them that the city planned to remove most barricades and limit the area of the zone. In the early morning of June 29, a fourth shooting left a 16-year-old boy dead and a 14-year-old boy in critical condition. Calling the situation \"dangerous and unacceptable\", police chief Carmen Best told reporters: \"Enough is enough. We need to be able to get back into the area.\" On July 1, after Durkan issued an executive order, Seattle police cleared the area of protesters and reclaimed the East Precinct station. Protests continued in Seattle and at the CHOP site over the following days and months."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# George Floyd Protestors Set Up \"Police Free\" Autonomous Zone\n\n[Capitol Hill Occupied Protest - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Autonomous_Zone)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What do you do if you get mugged in a place like this, out of curiosity?", "name": "Jake"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What do you do if you get mugged outside of it? You get mugged, the police show up 5-10 minutes later (if you're lucky), you file a report, and nothing happens.\n\nLook up the success rates on solving muggings and similar crimes. They're incredibly low.", "name": "Mckenzie"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Vasily Blokhin served as chief executioner during Joseph Stalin's great purge, and is estimated to have personally killed 7,000 people during the Katyn massacre alone, making him the most prolific killer in recorded human history.\n\n[Vasily Blokhin - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Blokhin?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "He also went insane and drank himself to death", "name": "Kendall"}, {"role": "user", "content": "How insane do you have to go if youre considered crazy *after* personally murdering thousands of people", "name": "Margaret"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# It Looks Like the Highland Park Shooter Tried Repeatedly to Create His Own Wikipedia Page\n\n[Did alleged Highland Park shooter Bobby Crimo try to create a Wikipedia page for himself?](https://slate.com/technology/2022/07/bobby-crimo-highland-park-wikipedia.html)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "His IMDB biography was obviously self-written\n\nhttps://m.imdb.com/name/nm10487202/bio?ref_=m_mn_ov_bio", "name": "Jesus"}, {"role": "user", "content": "cant believe he had a hundred thousand dollars at such a young age. He must be a really good rapper!", "name": "Jayla"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "On April 6, 2023, the Tennessee House of Representatives voted on resolutions to expel Democratic Representatives Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones, and Justin J. Pearson for violating the chamber's decorum rules by leading personal protests for gun reform on the House floor and joining demonstrators in the chamber's public galleries during a legislative session three days after the 2023 Covenant School shooting. Resolutions for the expulsions of Jones and Pearson passed with a two-thirds majority, and they were removed from office. The resolution against Johnson failed to pass by one vote.\nThe decision to expel the representatives has been called unprecedented in modern United States history, with the power to expel members typically being reserved to remove members accused of serious misconduct. The decision was condemned as authoritarian and undemocratic by a number of Democrats, including President Joe Biden, former president Barack Obama, and former vice president Al Gore, who served as a U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1985 to 1993. Jones, Johnson, and Pearson were dubbed by their supporters as the \"Tennessee Three.\"The Nashville Metropolitan Council voted unanimously to reinstate Jones on April 10, and two days later the Shelby County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to reinstate Pearson. Both legislators won their respective special elections to serve the remainder of their terms."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# 2023 Tennessee House of Representatives expulsions: The expulsions were two of three resolutions by the Tennessee House of Representatives to expel Democratic representatives who had led protests for gun reform, following a school shooting in the state\n\n[2023 Tennessee House of Representatives expulsions - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Tennessee_House_of_Representatives_expulsions)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Does anyone know what happens next? Have those two been completely kicked out, and thus leave their seats open? Or was it more like a symbolic \"we don't want them here,\" kind of vote?", "name": "Brandon"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": ">Have those two been completely kicked out, and thus leave their seats open? \n\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/us/tennessee-house-democrats-expulsion-shooting-gun-control.html\n\n>Special elections would be held to fill the seats of the expelled lawmakers. Mr. Jones and Mr. Pearson will be able to run again in the elections and be re-elected to their seats.\n\n>Local governing bodies in each district can appoint temporary representatives who could even be the expelled lawmakers themselves to hold the seats until the special elections are held. Multiple members of the Metropolitan Council, which oversees Nashville, have pledged to nominate Mr. Jones to his seat as a temporary appointee."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Lead poisoning, also known as plumbism and saturnism, is a type of metal poisoning caused by lead in the body. Symptoms may include abdominal pain, constipation, headaches, irritability, memory problems, infertility, and tingling in the hands and feet. It causes almost 10% of intellectual disability of otherwise unknown cause and can result in behavioral problems. Some of the effects are permanent. In severe cases, anemia, seizures, coma, or death may occur.Exposure to lead can occur by contaminated air, water, dust, food, or consumer products. Lead poisoning poses a significantly increased risk to children as they are far more likely to ingest lead indirectly by chewing on toys or other objects that are coated in lead paint. The amount of lead that can be absorbed by children is also higher than that of adults. Exposure at work is a common cause of lead poisoning in adults with certain occupations at particular risk. Diagnosis is typically by measurement of the blood lead level. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US) has set the upper limit for blood lead for adults at 10 µg/dl (10 µg/100 g) and for children at 3.5 µg/dl, previously before October 2021 5 µg/dl Elevated lead may also be detected by changes in red blood cells or dense lines in the bones of children as seen on X-ray.Lead poisoning is preventable. This includes individual efforts such as removing lead-containing items from the home, workplace efforts such as improved ventilation and monitoring, state and national policies that ban lead in products such as paint, gasoline, ammunition, wheel weights, and fishing weights, reduce allowable levels in water or soil, and provide for cleanup of contaminated soil. Workers' education could be helpful as well. The major treatments are removal of the source of lead and the use of medications that bind lead so it can be eliminated from the body, known as chelation therapy. Chelation therapy in children is recommended when blood levels are greater than 40–45 µg/dl. Medications used include dimercaprol, edetate calcium disodium, and succimer.In 2013, lead is believed to have resulted in 853,000 deaths worldwide. It occurs most commonly in the developing world. There also are numerous cases in the developed world, with there being thousands of American communities with higher lead burdens than seen during the peak of the Flint water crisis. Those who are poor are at greater risk. Lead is believed to result in 0.6% of the world's disease burden. According to a study, half of the US population has been exposed to substantially detrimental lead levels in early childhood – mainly from car exhaust, from which lead pollution peaked in the 1970s and caused widespread loss in cognitive ability.People have been mining and using lead for thousands of years. Descriptions of lead poisoning date to at least 2000 BC, while efforts to limit lead's use date back to at least the 16th century. Concerns for low levels of exposure began in the 1970s with there being no safe threshold for lead exposure."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Brain damage from lead-poisoning can occur from ingestion of a single paint chip and the majority of American homes built before 1978 are coated with lead paint.\n\n[Lead poisoning - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_poisoning)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Important in this context: [the lead-crime hypothesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis)", "name": "Sophia"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I posted this after reading a thread on Texas and abortions sooooooo \n\nYeah. [This ^](https://imgur.com/cfPvdeD.jpg)"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A hobo is a migrant worker in the United States. Hoboes, tramps, and bums are generally regarded as related, but distinct: a hobo travels and is willing to work; a tramp travels, but avoids work if possible; a bum neither travels nor works."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Unlike a \"tramp\", who works only when forced to, and a \"bum,\" who does not work at all, a \"hobo\" is a traveling worker.\n\n[Hobo - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo)"}, {"role": "user", "content": ">who works only when forced to\n\nDoesn't that apply to most people?", "name": "Preston"}, {"role": "user", "content": "To be fair many see work as a chance to do something useful and productive and give them a sense of purpose...\n\n... but yes I assume if every worker had the equivalent of 15 millions tomorrow more than half the workforce would mysteriously vanish without giving notice.", "name": "Jacob"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah, fuck that. Everyone's like 50 times more useful and productive than 50 years ago, and they still work 40+ hrs a week. It's a scam.", "name": "Trenton"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It's not really a scam, the complexity and diversity of the things we own have gone up drastically. \n\n50 years ago, you didn't need towers ever few miles to send radio signals to your phone that could access the internet that didn't exist. You also didn't need a fiber optic line dug under the ground to support your home connection to that internet, as well as give you the option to access thousands of channels on your television that can hear you ask it to play porn.\n\nIf you want to live like people did in 1966, you can do that. It's not as fun, but you'll save a lot of money.", "name": "Austin"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Edward Jones (7 April 1824 – c. 1893 or 1896), also known as \"the boy Jones\", was an English stalker who became notorious for breaking into Buckingham Palace several times between 1838 and 1841.\nJones was fourteen years old when he first broke into the palace in December 1838. He was found in possession of some items he had stolen, but was acquitted at his trial. He broke in again in 1840, ten days after Queen Victoria had given birth to Princess Victoria. Staff found him hiding under a sofa and he was arrested and subsequently questioned by the Privy Council—the monarch's formal body of advisers. He was sentenced to three months' hard labour at Tothill Fields Bridewell prison. He was released in March 1841 and broke back into the palace two weeks later, where he was caught stealing food from the larders. He was again arrested and sentenced to three months' hard labour at Tothill Fields.\nTo remove Jones from Britain, the Thames Police tried to surreptitiously coerce him into employment as a sailor. After a voyage on a merchant ship to Brazil, Jones returned to London, where he worked for a month before disappearing and signing up to the Royal Navy—again at the instigation of the Thames Police. He was a ship's boy on HMS Warspite and had further duty on Inconstant and Harlequin. He deserted twice before being allowed to leave the service in 1847. After his return to Britain, Jones was arrested in 1849 for burgling houses in Lewisham, Kent, now South London, and sentenced to transportation to Australia for ten years. He returned to Britain in late 1855 or early 1856 and was again arrested for burglary, before he returned—of his own accord— to Australia. The details of his death are not known, although it was possibly in Perth, in the west of Australia in 1896, or in Bairnsdale in the east of Australia on Boxing Day 1893.\nJones's exploits were extensively covered in the press, and several songs, ballads, poems and cartoons were created. He has been used as the basis for fictional characters and, because of the connection to Queen Victoria, is mentioned in several history books."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Edward Jones, a teenager who broke into Buckingham Palace multiple times in 1838-1841. The first time he was only 14-years-old and managed to steal some of Queen Victorias underwear. The second time, he broke in and evaded detection. The last two times, he was arrested inside the palace.\n\n[The boy Jones - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_boy_Jones#Arrests)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "So that's Victoria's Secret.", "name": "Caitlin"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This comment is too good to be true", "name": "Alejandro"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Raymond Robinson was a man who was horribly disfigured during his childhood due to an electrical accident. To prevent creating panic in the public, he would go for long walks at night, creating the urban legend of The Green Man\n\n[Raymond Robinson (Green Man) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Robinson_(Green_Man)?wprov=sfti1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "If he lived in current day people would be nice to him. Everyone would know about him because of the internet and platforms like reddit. Heck, people would probably have a go fund me benefiting him. \n\nOne of advantages of today's society. People rally to assist others in times of misfortune due to how easily internet spreads word and always watches us.", "name": "Megan"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Lol, there's some truth to this, but if you seriously believe it would all be hearts and rainbow you're severely blind to the real world. There would still be a huge amount of people harassing, dehumanizing him and treating him as a freak, or even simply ignoring him.\n\nThose events are simply not shown publicly but they are still there, and in no way less frequent than before.\n\nThey are plenty of such persons today too, just take some perspective and observe how people treat them in environments such as school, the street, at work etc...", "name": "Alyssa"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Christian socialism is a religious and political philosophy that blends Christianity and socialism, endorsing socialist economics on the basis of the Bible and the teachings of Jesus. Many Christian socialists believe capitalism to be idolatrous and rooted in the sin of greed. Christian socialists identify the cause of social inequality to be the greed that they associate with capitalism. Christian socialism became a major movement in the United Kingdom beginning in the 19th century. The Christian Socialist Movement, known as Christians on the Left since 2013, is one formal group, as well as a faction of the Labour Party.According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, socialism is a \"social and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources. According to the socialist view, individuals do not live or work isolated, but live in cooperation with one another. Furthermore, everything that people produce is in some sense a social product, and everyone who contributes to the production of a good is entitled to a share in it. Society as a whole, therefore, should own or at least control property for the benefit of all its members. ... Early Christian communities also practised the sharing of goods and labour, a simple form of socialism subsequently followed in certain forms of monasticism. Several monastic orders continue these practices today.\"The Hutterites believe in strict adherence to biblical principles and church discipline, and practised a form of communism. In the words of historians Max Stanton and Rod Janzen, the Hutterites \"established in their communities a rigorous system of Ordnungen, which were codes of rules and regulations that governed all aspects of life and ensured a unified perspective. As an economic system, Christian communism was attractive to many of the peasants who supported social revolution in sixteenth century central Europe\", such as the German Peasants' War, and Friedrich Engels came to view Anabaptists as proto-communists.Other earlier figures viewed as Christian socialists include the 19th-century writers F. D. Maurice (The Kingdom of Christ, 1838), John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow (The Christian Socialist, 1850), Adin Ballou (Practical Christian Socialism, 1854), Thomas Hughes (Tom Brown's School Days, 1857), John Ruskin (Unto This Last, 1862), Charles Kingsley (The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, 1863), Frederick James Furnivall (co-creator of the Oxford English Dictionary), and Francis Bellamy (a Baptist minister and the author of the Pledge of Allegiance in the United States)."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Christian socialism based on the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth identifies the cause of inequality now to be greed associated with capitalism. The 4th-Century bishop Basil of Caesarea wrote a sermon called The Rich Fool in which he asked, \"Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.\"\n\n[Christian socialism - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_socialism)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "People like to pick and choose what they follow in the Bible while ignoring Jesuss teachings. It is pretty basic in Christian theology. Wealthy people will not make it to heaven. \n\n**From Matthew:** \nJust then a man came up to Jesus and asked, \"Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?\" \n\nWhy do you ask me about what is good?\" Jesus replied. \"There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.\" Which ones?\" he inquired. \n\nJesus replied, \"'You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,' and 'love your neighbor as yourself.'\" \n\n\"All these I have kept,\" the young man said. \"What do I still lack?\" \n\nJesus answered, \"If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.\" When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth.\n\nThen Jesus said to his disciples, \"Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.\"", "name": "Alondra"}, {"role": "user", "content": "> Wealthy people will not make it to heaven\n\nBeing wealthy doesn't mean you won't go to heaven, you don't get the meaning of the story if you think that.\n\nIt is attachment to the stuff you have on this earth that is wrong. The man in this story could not let his wealth go, therefore he could not have Jesus as his top priority in his life. That was the real problem.\n\nIf wealth is more important to someone, that person will live out of greed, which is wrong. There are a lot of (really wealthy) people who are like this.\n\nTake Jeff Bezos for example, extremely rich, but still letting the workers of Amazon work on a hardly livable wage. (It's obviously more complex but you get the point)\n\nSorry for any english mistakes :)", "name": "Gianna"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This is a great example of how far many Christians will lie to themselves about Jesus's teachings so they can continue to just live however they want.\n \n \nExactly how can one be rich without having an attachment to wealth? There are countless mechanisms in play to strip you of your wealth- if you're rich, it's because you went out of your way to hold on to it.", "name": "Erin"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Eastburn family murders were the murders of Kathryn \"Katie\" Eastburn and her daughters, Kara and Erin, which occurred in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in May 1985. In 1986, United States Army Sergeant Timothy Hennis was tried and convicted for the three murders. In 1988, Hennis's conviction was overturned on appeal, and he was acquitted the following year. In 2006, the Cumberland County Sherriff's Office obtained DNA evidence linking Hennis to the crime. Despite the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause prohibiting retrials after acquittals, the United States Army was able to initiate prosecution and trial proceedings against Hennis under the dual sovereignty doctrine. In 2010, Hennis was tried and convicted by an Army court-martial for the triple murders and sentenced to death."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 1985, U.S. soldier Timothy Hennis raped and murdered a woman and killed two of her young children. He was found guilty, but acquitted on appeal. In 2006, DNA evidence confirmed his guilt. The Army used a loophole to bypass double jeopardy. They recalled Hennis and tried him in a military court.\n\n[Eastburn family murders - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastburn_family_murders)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That was a wild read. Dude was in the military for years after being released the first time and seemed to have a good record. Weird that there were no other (known) incidents", "name": "Antonio"}, {"role": "user", "content": "He was involved in wars and occupations during which the US killed several hundred thousand civilians. He could've done all kinds of war crimes that were swept under the rug.", "name": "Dominic"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Doris \"Dorie\" Miller (October 12, 1919 – November 24, 1943) was an American Naval cook who was the first Black recipient of the Navy Cross and a nominee for the Medal of Honor. As a mess attendant second class in the United States Navy, Miller helped carry wounded sailors to safety during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He then manned an anti-aircraft gun and, despite no prior training in gunnery, officially shot down one plane (according to Navy Department Records) but Doris and other eye witnesses claimed the ranges of four to six.Miller received the Navy Cross from Admiral Chester Nimitz on May 27, 1942, but many sailors and naval officers believed that Miller's heroism deserved a Medal of Honor. Miller was nominated for a Medal of Honor by a congressman from Michigan and a Senator from New York, and the Black press enthusiastically campaigned for Miller to receive this decoration. However, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox—who opposed Black sailors serving the United States in any combat role—recommended against Miller receiving the Medal of Honor. Indeed, not a single Black sailor, soldier, or marine was awarded the Medal of Honor between 1941 and 1945, and in 1996 Vernon J. Baker was the only Black veteran of World War II to be awarded this decoration while yet alive.In June 1943, Miller was promoted to Cook Petty Officer, Third Class. In November 1943, Miller was killed in action when his ship, the escort carrier Liscome Bay, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine during the Battle of Makin in the Gilbert Islands.\nThe destroyer escort/Knox-class frigate USS Miller (reclassified as a frigate in June 1975), in service from 1973 to 1991, was named after him. On January 19, 2020, the Navy announced that a Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear powered aircraft carrier, CVN-81, would be named after Miller. The ship is scheduled to be laid down in 2026 and launched in 2029."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Doris Miller was a United States Navy cook third class who was killed in action during World War II. He was the first black American to be awarded the Navy Cross, the highest decoration for valor in combat after the Medal of Honor.\n\n[Doris Miller - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Miller)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I bet he made a mighty fine gruel too", "name": "Tyler"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Gruel?", "name": "Andrew"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Der Rosendorn (transl. The Rose Thorn) (sometimes Der weiße Rosendorn (transl. The White Rose Thorn)) is a thirteenth-century German poem. It tells of a virgin who is separated from her vagina, and her dialogue with it forms the structure of the piece. They argue about what it is that men want in a woman: the woman claims that men want for herself and her beauty, whereas the cunt dismisses this, claiming that she is all men really want. The two go different directions to discover the truth; neither is successful, and both are treated badly by the men they meet. To conclude the story, the maid is physically reunited with her cunt with the assistance of a passing young man.\nOriginally thought to have been written in the 15th century, a portion of the text was discovered in Melk Abbey Library in Austria, as part of another book's binding; this has been dated to around 200 years earlier. Poems of this vintage were not uncommon in medieval literature, with other examples known from France, and in England, sexual vulgarity was a frequent theme of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry. Der Rosendorn has been the subject of much scholarly debate over its depiction of medieval women and female sexuality to 13th-century eyes as well as its place within—and radical differences from—the broader canon of the German courtly romance.\nThe poem has seen as an influence on later writers such as Denis Diderot, and it has been popularly been described as a medieval version of Eve Ensler's play The Vagina Monologues."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Der Rosendorn is a 13th century German poem. It tells of a virgin who is separated from her vagina and her dialogue with it forms the structure of the piece. They argue about what it is that men want in a woman.\n\n[Der Rosendorn - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Rosendorn)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": ">The woman claims that men want for herself and her beauty, whereas the cunt dismisses this, claiming that she is all men really want. The two go different directions to discover the truth; neither is successful, and both are treated badly by the men they meet. To conclude the story, the maid is physically reunited with her cunt with the assistance of a passing young man.\n\n\nFind more content like this in r/NSFWikipedia!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It's a tale as old as time. Women are valued for looks, men are valued for status", "name": "Justin"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "John Thomas Straffen (27 February 1930 – 19 November 2007) was a British serial killer who was the longest-serving prisoner in British history. After killing two young girls in the summer of 1951, he was found unfit to plead at trial and committed to Broadmoor Hospital. During a brief escape in 1952, he killed again. This time, Straffen was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Reprieved because of his mental state, he had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment. Straffen remained in prison until his death after 55 years, 3 months, and 26 days of incarceration."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# John Straffen was a 21 year old man who had the mental age of a 9 year old (IQ 64). He was sentenced in 1951 to Broadmoor after killing two girls, but later managed to escape the institution and kill again. He spent the remaining 55 years of his life imprisoned.\n\n[John Straffen - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Straffen)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Geez, mind like a child yet still wanted to murder again and again.", "name": "Katherine"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Children, especially young children, will lash out when they are angry. Usually, parents correct the behavior and all is well. There is a reason it is so common to have to tell toddlers not to hit people.\n\nWhen the parents are negligent, which it sounds like his parents were, then the behavior doesnt get corrected and he thinks he can get his own way by being violent. Of course, because of his development delay, he was never able to develop a sense of reasoning of why this was wrong. \n\nIt's a truly disturbing case.", "name": "Wesley"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Project SUNSHINE was a series of research studies that began in 1953 to ascertain the impact of radioactive fallout on the world's population. The project was initially kept secret, and only became known publicly in 1956. Commissioned jointly by the United States Atomic Energy Commission and USAF Project Rand, SUNSHINE sought to examine the long-term effects of nuclear radiation on the biosphere due to repeated nuclear detonations of increasing yield. With the conclusion from Project GABRIEL that radioactive isotope Sr-90 represented the most serious threat to human health from nuclear fallout, Project SUNSHINE sought to measure the global dispersion of Sr-90 by measuring its concentration in the tissues and bones of the dead. Of particular interest was tissue from the young, whose developing bones have the highest propensity to accumulate Sr-90 and thus the highest susceptibility to radiation damage. SUNSHINE elicited a great deal of controversy when it was revealed that many of the remains sampled were utilized without prior permission from relatives of the dead, which wasn't known until many years later."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Project SUNSHINE, or, that time the US Atomic Energy Commission and USAF stole children's bodies from around the world.\n\n[Project SUNSHINE - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SUNSHINE)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I mean.. dead is dead, might as well put it to use."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, but show some respect and get consent of the family first. Unless no one has claimed them.", "name": "Eduardo"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Controversy is a state of prolonged public dispute or debate, usually concerning a matter of conflicting opinion or point of view. The word was coined from the Latin controversia, as a composite of controversus – \"turned in an opposite direction\".\n\nA fruit pizza is a type of pastry that is distinguished by its pizza-shaped cookie crust, frosting, and fruit toppings. Fruit pizza is well known for the colorful designs and patterns made by the intricate arrangement of the many different fruits topping the dessert. Fruit pizza is often seen as a healthier dessert option due to the prominence of fresh fruit."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# I love niche articles with a \"Controversy\" section filled with low-stakes drama, like the article for Fruit Pizza: \"Some commentators have argued that dessert pizzas, such as fruit pizza, should not use the name pizza. A clear dichotomy is further complicated by the fact that tomatoes are fruit.\"\n\n[Fruit pizza - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_pizza#Controversy)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Just to add fuel to the fire, bell peppers and olives are also fruit.", "name": "Liam"}, {"role": "user", "content": "So at the risk of starting an internet pedantry fight... The whole \"tomatoes are fruit\" thing never sat right for me. It's not that I have a problem with their biological taxonomy being fruit. The problem is that there is no \"vegetable\" in the biological world. That's a pure culinary term.\n\nIn my opinion tomatoes are fruits and vegetables simultaneously. If you ask a biologist they'd tell you it's a fruit, but if you ask a cook it's very clearly a vegetable. If you ask a biologist what a potato is they'll tell you it's a tuber, if you ask a cook it'll be a vegetable.\n\nThe whole problem is that people are pretending that biological fruit and culinary fruit are the same word. They're two different ideas. If you are thinking in a biological lens, the criteria you use to determine if something is a fruit is different than if you are using a culinary lens. It's not that one is better than the other, they just have different purposes", "name": "Eric"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Margaret Clitherow (1556 – 25 March 1586) was an English saint and martyr of the Roman Catholic Church, known as \"the Pearl of York\". She was pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea to the charge of harbouring Catholic priests. She was canonised in 1970 by Pope Paul VI."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"Though pregnant with her fourth child, she was executed on Lady Day, 1586 [...] by being crushed to death by her own door. [...] Her death occurred within fifteen minutes, but her body was left for six hours\".\n\n[Margaret Clitherow - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Clitherow)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This opens an interesting rabbit hole about priest holes.\n\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest_hole", "name": "Alyssa"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ha, nice try. It didn't work in 1992 when I was invited to learn more about priest holes at the rectory, nor will it work today.", "name": "William"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Woo In-hee (Korean: 우인희; c. 1940 – 1981) was a North Korean actress and a mistress of Kim Jong Il.\nHaving reached stardom in the 1960s and 1970, Woo, renowned for her beauty, acted in dozens of films. She married Yoo Hosun, a famed film director, but she was involved in affairs outside of her marriage. In the late 1970s, she became a secret mistress of Kim Jong Il. After Woo began an affair with another man, Kim had her publicly executed in front of 6,000 people."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Woo In-hee: North Korean actress who was Kim Jong-ils mistress. She was executed by firing squadin front of 6,000 peopleas a result of discussing their secret relationship.\n\n[Woo In-hee - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woo_In-hee)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "She mentioned him while being interrogated in a hospital after suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning and then he had her shot 120 times with AK-47s. The satires of this limp-dick loser don't go far enough.", "name": "Ruby"}, {"role": "user", "content": "North Korea is probably the worst country on earth imo, especially if youre a woman."}, {"role": "user", "content": "No Afghanistan is way worse rn. At least in North Korea they can get an education", "name": "Damian"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Bowling Green massacre is a fictitious incident of Islamic terrorism mentioned by Kellyanne Conway, then–counselor to President Donald Trump, in interviews with Cosmopolitan and TMZ on January 29, 2017, and in an interview on the MSNBC news program Hardball with Chris Matthews on February 2, 2017. Conway cited it as justification for a travel and immigration ban from seven Muslim-majority countries enacted by United States president Donald Trump. However, no such massacre occurred. The day after the interview, Conway said she misspoke and had been referring to the 2011 arrest of two Iraqi refugees in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on charges including \"attempting to provide material support to terrorists and to al-Qaeda in Iraq.\" She stated that she had mentioned the incident because it led previous President Barack Obama to tighten immigration procedures for Iraqi citizens.\nHer false statement went viral and became the top trending topic on Twitter, with many tweets parodying it. A website was set up anonymously for the purpose of collecting donations for supposed victims. Facebook users used the site's safety check feature to act as if the event were real. Mock vigils were held in Kentucky and New York in commemoration. It provoked widespread press reaction, with many relating it to Conway's earlier use of the phrase \"alternative facts\" to describe false statements by White House press secretary Sean Spicer in the wake of Trump's inauguration."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Bowling Green massacre\n\n[Bowling Green massacre - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Green_massacre)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "So if Kellyanne Conway really meant *terrorists* instead of *massacre*, her sentence would read:\n\n>[T]hey are the masterminds behind the Bowling Green terrorists.\n\nIn other words, those Bowling Green terrorists were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green terrorists.", "name": "Jesus"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This is what happens when you lie to cover up a lie. The hole just gets deeper. It's like watching a four year old try and blame a squirrel for eating that cookie before dinner. Except there's still hope that the four year old will learn ethics. ", "name": "Alex"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The murders of Haile Kifer and Nicholas Brady occurred on Thanksgiving Day of 2012, when Haile Kifer, 18, and her cousin, Nicholas Brady, 17, broke into the home of 64-year-old Byron David Smith in Little Falls, Minnesota, in the United States. Smith shot the teens separately and 10 minutes apart as they entered the basement where he was, later stating to police he was worried about them being armed. After already shooting them once, he repeatedly taunted them while they were injured as he shot them both in an execution style until they were dead. He did not report that he had killed Kifer and Brady until the day after the murders, keeping their corpses in his closet. On April 29, 2014, he was found guilty of two counts of premeditated first-degree murder. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.\nThe case sparked debate over the \"castle doctrine\", which allows homeowners to defend their homes with lethal force. The prosecution alleged that Smith's actions and a recording he made himself while the incidents were unfolding showed premeditation (lying in wait) and that he used excessive force after having neutralized the threat. He was convicted by a jury after three hours of deliberation and sentenced to life in prison."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Byron David Smith killings, man shoots two teens who broke into his home and recorded it all on audio\n\n[Murders of Haile Kifer and Nicholas Brady - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_David_Smith_killings)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I feel like so many people today have this weird fetish for home defence - like I hear that attitude all the time, Oh I HOPE someone tries to fuck with my shit, theyre gonna be disappointed when I blow them away.\n\nLike, why would any part of a person want that? Even if youre just defending your home and property, killing someone isnt it. Even in self defence that shit would give me trouble sleeping at night.\n\nSuper weird.", "name": "Savannah"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Serious question, how is it murder if your home is being invaded and the perpetrators are repeat offenders?", "name": "Savannah"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Dont think op was trying to state that defending your home is murder, just that fetishizing wanting someone to break in just so you can kill them is unethical.", "name": "Mario"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Genital pain and pelvic pain can arise from a variety of conditions, crimes, trauma, medical treatments, physical diseases, mental illness and infections. In some instances the pain is consensual and self-induced. Self-induced pain can be a cause for concern and may require a psychiatric evaluation. In other instances the infliction of pain is consensual but caused by another person (such as in surgery or tattooing). In other instances, the pain is vague\" and difficult to localize. Abdominal pain can be related to conditions related to reproductive and urinary tissues and organs.\nThose with pain in the genital and pelvic regions can have dysfunctional voiding or defecation. Pain in this region of the body can be associated with anxiety, depression and other psycho-social factors. In addition, this pain can have effects on activities of daily living or quality of life. Treatment can be symptomatic if the pathology is unknown and managed by physical therapy, counseling and medication."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# List of causes of genital pain\n\n[List of causes of genital pain - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_genital_pain)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Marriage.\n\n\nUh, is this thing on?", "name": "Sebastian"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# The winter of 16091610 at Jamestown, Virginia colony is called the Starving Time- 440 of the population of 500 died, and evidence indicates some colonists even turned to cannibalism.\n\n[Starving Time - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starving_Time?wprov=sfti1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "88% of the colony died from starvation. That is a slow, terrible way to go. And then, after they gave up, the survivors were forced to return.", "name": "Abraham"}, {"role": "user", "content": "A man killed his wife and ate her during this event. Keeping her head too... These people lived in holes in the ground. Many died and a few deserted to nearby native American communities. If you want to learn more read the sample from howard zinn's The People's History of America. Or the whole book, definetly worth the 12 dollars", "name": "Jillian"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Balvano train disaster was the deadliest railway accident in Italian history and one of the worst railway disasters ever. It occurred on the night between 2–3 March 1944 in Balvano, Basilicata. Over 500 people in a steam-hauled, coal-burning freight train (mostly stowaways) died of carbon monoxide poisoning during a protracted stall in a tunnel."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# On the evening on March 2nd 1944. the worst rail disaster in Italian history occurred when a train burning low-grade coal stalled in a tunnel asphyxiating over 500 stowaways.\n\n[Balvano train disaster - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balvano_train_disaster)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Anyone who knows something about train tunnels... is there a reason why a tunnel like this wouldn't have the fans you see in long tunnels for cars? Did they not want to expend the power required or is there a more technical reason?", "name": "Braden"}, {"role": "user", "content": "At the time, big fans like that were much more expensive. It's very probable that the railroad just didn't want to pay for it. Hell, a solid 80% of the rules for railroads in the US are written because somebody died due to whatever the rule prevents.\n\nEven today, I hear managers complaining about \"stupid\" rules. I heard one complaining that he had to take a locomotive out of service because the ladder that the crews use to get on and off of the locomotive was cracked, and it had to be replaced. He blamed it on the Democrats, completely oblivious to the fact that it wasn't a political party responsible for getting the rule in place, but rather managers just like him.", "name": "Jacob"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "2 (two) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 1 and preceding 3. It is the smallest and only even prime number. Because it forms the basis of a duality, it has religious and spiritual significance in many cultures."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Two women, Jennifer and Sarah Hart, adopted six children and attempted to present themselves online as a wholesome, perfect family unit. However, they were actually very abusive towards the children, and when case workers began investigating, they killed the entire family and themselves.\n\n[Hart family murders - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_family_murders?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Not to be contentious but does any of that matter? I don't sub to TIL and don't watch Atlanta. It being cross-posted and culturally topical don't make it any less worth learning about and this is the first I'm hearing of it.", "name": "Jesus"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Smile mask syndrome (Japanese: スマイル仮面症候群, Hepburn: sumairu kamen shōkōgun), abbreviated SMS, is a psychological disorder proposed by professor Makoto Natsume of Osaka Shoin Women's University, in which subjects develop depression and physical illness as a result of prolonged, unnatural smiling."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Smile mask syndrome is a psychological disorder in which subjects develop depression and physical illness as a result of prolonged, unnatural smiling. It can lead to severe physical strain of the mouth and can result in an inability to stop smiling, even when upset or agitated.\n\n[Smile mask syndrome - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile_mask_syndrome)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "See also: working in customer service"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Theres nothing more painful than fake laughing at customers jokes for 9hrs", "name": "Colton"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Abdul Wali was an Afghan farmer who died in United States custody on June 21, 2003, at the age of 28. At the time of his death, he had been held for three days at the US base 10 miles (16 km) south of Asadabad, in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, on suspicion of involvement in a rocket attack on the same base, after voluntarily handing himself in. The local governor, Said Akbar, had told Wali to turn himself in so he could clear his name.The cause of his death was at first reported to be a heart attack, but this came into question when three members of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division came forward to testify that CIA contractor David Passaro assaulted Wali. Passaro, a former U.S. Army Ranger, allegedly beat Wali for two consecutive nights, causing grievous injuries including a fractured pelvis. Prosecutors would charge that Passaro ordered soldiers not to allow Wali to sleep, limited his access to food and water and subjected him to two consecutive nights of interrogation and beatings. Among other injuries, Wali suffered a suspected fractured pelvis that would have made it impossible for him to urinate. Witnesses testified that during one session Passaro, while wearing combat boots, kicked Wali in the groin hard enough to lift him off the ground, threw Wali to the ground, beat Wali on the arms and legs with a heavy Maglite flashlight, and vigorously thrust a flashlight into Wali's abdomen. After the second night of beatings, Wali begged the soldiers to kill him and moaned a phrase that meant, \"I'm dying.\" Wali died on his fourth day in custody. He repeatedly denied any involvement in the rocket attacks.Passaro was initially charged with two counts of assault with intent to do bodily harm and two counts of assault resulting in serious bodily injury. He faced up to 40 years in prison. However, Passaro was instead found guilty of one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury, and three lesser counts of simple assault. Passaro faced a maximum of 11.5 years in prison. Said Akbar wrote to the judge, requesting that he impose the harshest sentence possible, saying Wali's death had helped terrorist recruiters. Passaro was sentenced to 8 years and 4 months in prison and three years of supervised release. This was over double what federal sentencing guidelines usually recommend for assault charges.The judge told Passaro that he was very lucky there was no autopsy report or else he likely would've been charged with murder. In 2010, Passaro's sentence was reduced to 6 years and 8 months. An appellate court ruled that the judge had failed to fully explain his reasoning for exceeding the guidelines. Passaro was released from prison on January 26, 2011.During Passaro's trial, his ex-wife, Kerry, said he physically and emotionally abused her during their marriage. She later told a reporter that she wasn't surprised by what Passaro had done. He is the first and only person connected with the CIA to have been convicted in a post-September 11 abuse case. Passaro was also the first American charged under the U.S. Patriot Act, which extended the jurisdiction of U.S. federal courts to include certain violations of the law committed by military contractors overseas.During his sentencing hearing, Passaro expressed regret over Wali's death. \"He is a human being,\" he said. \"I failed him. If I could go back and change things, it would have never happened. I wish I had never gone in to talk to him.\"However, Passaro later said he thought his prosecution was political, telling Retro Report \"I believe 100% that Abu Ghraib, when it kicked off and finally came to public's awareness, that they had to show they were going to hold the CIA accountable, so they had me.\" He said he did not regret what he did and wouldn't have done anything different.Wali's story in part was told on National Public Radio by Hyder Akbar for a 2003 show on the program This American Life. Akbar had escorted Wali to the US forces as a sign of protection and good will; Hyder Akbar's father Said Fazal Akbar was then Governor of Kunar Province where the incidents happened. Said Akbar has stated that Wali's death became a tool for insurgency recruiting and \"created a huge setback for Afghanistan's national reconciliation efforts.\""}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 2003, Abdul Wali, a 28-year-old Afghan man, was tortured to death over the course of three days by CIA contractor David Passaro. Wali was beaten to the point that he begged for death. Passaro, who avoided murder charges, showed no remorse and said he wouldnt have done anything different.\n\n[Death of Abdul Wali - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Abdul_Wali)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I read about this before, ridiculous that he wasnt charged for it", "name": "James"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "David was charged, but not with murder. He was convicted of three assault charges and served about 7 years in federal prison."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation that originated within the US Department of Defense of the United States government in 1962. The proposals called for CIA operatives to both stage and commit acts of terrorism against American military and civilian targets, blame them on the Cuban government, and would be used to justify a war against Cuba. The possibilities detailed in the document included the remote control of civilian aircraft which would be secretly repainted as US Air Force planes, a fabricated 'shoot down' of a US Air Force fighter aircraft off the coast of Cuba, the possible assassination of Cuban immigrants, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, blowing up a U.S. ship, and orchestrating terrorism in U.S. cities. The proposals were rejected by President John F. Kennedy.Fidel Castro had taken power in Cuba in 1959 and began allowing communists into the new Cuban government, nationalizing U.S. businesses and improving relations with the Soviet Union, arousing the concern of the U.S. military due to the Cold War. The operation proposed creating public support for a war against Cuba by blaming the Cuban government for terrorist acts that would be perpetrated by the U.S. government. To this end, Operation Northwoods proposals recommended hijackings and bombings followed by the introduction of false evidence that would implicate the Cuban government. It stated:\n\nThe desired result from the execution of this plan would be to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievances from a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba and to develop an international image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western Hemisphere.\nSeveral other proposals were included within Operation Northwoods, including real or simulated actions against various U.S. military and civilian targets. The operation recommended developing a \"Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington\", which involved the bombing of civilian targets, which was to be blamed on the Cuban government to paint a false image of Fidel Castro and misinform the American public.\nThe plan was drafted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, signed by Chairman Lyman Lemnitzer and sent to the Secretary of Defense. Although part of the US government's anti-communist Cuban Project, Operation Northwoods was never officially accepted; it was authorized by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but then rejected by President Kennedy. None of the false flag operations became active under the auspices of the Operation Northwoods proposals."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation against American citizens... The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)... to both stage and actually commit acts of terrorism against American military and civilian targets, blaming them on the Cuban government.\n\n[Operation Northwoods - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yet people will make out youre looney tunes for suggesting they had anything to do with 9/11", "name": "Jesse"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I mean, the worst thing suggested by north woods was to beat someone up, its leagues away from killing thousands of people.", "name": "Cheyenne"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Gender-critical feminism, also known as trans-exclusionary radical feminism or TERFism, is an ideology or movement that opposes what it refers to as \"gender ideology\": the concept of gender identity and transgender rights, especially gender self-identification. Gender-critical feminists believe that sex is biological and immutable, while believing gender, including both gender identity and gender roles, to be inherently oppressive. They reject the concept of transgender identities. These views have been described as transphobic by feminist and scholarly critics, and are opposed by many feminist and LGBT rights organizations.Originating as a fringe movement within radical feminism mainly in the United States, gender-critical views have achieved a degree of prominence in the United Kingdom, where they have been at the centre of a number of high-profile controversies. The Council of Europe has condemned gender-critical ideology, among other ideologies, and linked it to \"virulent attacks on the rights of LGBTI people\" in Hungary, Poland, Russia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and other countries. It has been linked to promotion of disinformation and to the anti-gender movement. In some countries, gender-critical feminist groups have formed alliances with right-wing, far-right, and anti-feminist organisations."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist) is a term sometimes labeled a slur that originated in 2008 to categorize radical feminists that espouse allegedly transphobic sentiments, such as asserting that trans women are not women.\n\n[Gender-critical feminism - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERF)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Before anyone accuses me of having a dog in this fight, I only posted it because I read that [Dave Chappelle recently said he is a TERF](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2021/10/05/dave-chappelle-terf-defends-j-k-rowling-netflix-special/6002017001/) and my first reaction anytime I encounter a term I'm not familiar with is to look it up on wiki."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I have a dog in this fight. TERFs are bad, and saying its a slur is laughable. TERF is something you can control, unlike race, gender, etc.", "name": "Hailey"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"For the Sake of Decency, Gentlemen, Don't Hang me High.\"\n\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Heartbreaking"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah, I get the strong feeling she was desperate, wanted to go off and start her life, fell in love with the worst person possible and (perhaps inadvertently) commit an act that destroyed everything she had including her family."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey were five mice who traveled to the Moon and circled it 75 times on the 1972 Apollo 17 mission. NASA gave them identification numbers A3305, A3326, A3352, A3356, and A3400, and their nicknames were given by the Apollo 17 crew (Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, and Ronald Evans). The four male mice, one female mouse, and Evans orbited the Moon for a record-setting six days and four hours in the Apollo command module America as Cernan and Schmitt performed the Apollo program's last lunar excursions. \nThe mice travelled in individual compartments of tubes inside an aluminium container with \"a sufficient food supply, temperature control, and a reserve of potassium superoxide that absorbed the CO2 from their respiration and provided them with fresh oxygen.\" One of the male mice died (A-3352) during the trip, and the four survivors were euthanized and dissected for their intended biological information upon their return from the Moon.The three astronauts and the five mice were the last Earthlings to travel to and orbit the Moon. Evans and the five mice share two living-being spaceflight records: the longest amount of time spent in lunar orbit (147 hours 43 minutes), and the most lunar orbits traveled (75)."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey were five mice who traveled to the Moon and circled it 75 times on the 1972 Apollo 17 mission. NASA gave them ID numbers and their nicknames were given by the crew. The three astronauts and the five mice were the last Earthlings to travel to and orbit the moon.\n\n[Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fe,_Fi,_Fo,_Fum,_and_Phooey)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Fun fact: the Moon is the only celestial object in the entire universe, apart from Earth, which is known to have at one point harbored life.", "name": "Parker"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Known to humans, you mean.", "name": "Kaden"}]

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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": "Dalton"}, {"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": "Andrew"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Chehrehabad (Persian: چهره اباد, also Romanized as Chehrehābād; also known as Chehrābād) is a village in Qanibeyglu Rural District, Zanjanrud District, Zanjan County, Zanjan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 378, in 107 families.\n\n\n== References ==\n\nThe Saltmen (Persian: مردان نمکی, mardān-e namakī) were discovered in the Chehrabad salt mines, located on the southern part of the Hamzehlu village, on the west side of the city of Zanjan, in the Zanjan Province in Iran. By 2010, the remains of six men had been discovered, most of them accidentally killed by the collapse of galleries in which they were working. The head and left foot of Salt Man 1 are on display at the National Museum of Iran in Tehran."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Saltmen of Chehrabad are a group of ancient Iranian miners, trapped inside their mine by a cave-in. Their remains were only discovered in 1993.\n\n[Saltmen - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltmen)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "You think he's salty about it?", "name": "Ian"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Daryl Davis (born March 26, 1958) is an American R&B and blues musician and activist. His efforts to fight racism by engaging members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) have convinced dozens of Klansmen to leave and denounce the KKK. Known for his energetic style of boogie-woogie piano, Davis has played with such musicians as Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, B. B. King, and Bruce Hornsby.He is the subject of the 2016 documentary Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Daryl Davis, the black man who befriended KKK members and convinced them to leave the Ku Klux Klan\n\n[Daryl Davis - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hes also anti-BLM. Strange guy."}, {"role": "user", "content": "He makes the KKK and other racists look like misunderstood victims and puts the pressure on minorities, making people think its their responsibility to put their lives on the line to convert people who want them dead. I swear every time a video of a racist being racist goes viral, theres always a good portion of people saying the person filming shouldve tried to befriend the person actively cursing them out and threatening them, often bringing up Davis. The KKK and other hate groups know they are disliked, so rather than trying to convert everyone they try to convert some and try to appear non threatening/ misunderstood to others.", "name": "Gracie"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Christa Gail Pike (born March 10, 1976) is an American convicted murderer, and the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in the United States during the post-Furman period. She was 20 when convicted of the torture murder of her classmate Colleen Slemmer, which she committed at age 18."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Christa Pike: Became the youngest woman on death row after the torture and murder of her 19 year old classmate, who she thought was trying to steal her boyfriend.\n\n[Christa Pike - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_Pike)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Im surprised theres not a lot of podcasts or YouTube videos on this case. I saw a documentary on her like 15 years ago. She had a piece of her victims skull in her pocket and was showing it off. Killed her over a guy. Poor Colleen.", "name": "Makayla"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah of all the trophies Ive heard of killers taking, this one is the most disgusting.", "name": "Jalen"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Joseph Arridy (; April 29, 1915 – January 6, 1939) was an American man who was falsely convicted and wrongfully executed for the 1936 rape and murder of Dorothy Drain, a 15-year-old girl in Pueblo, Colorado. He was manipulated by the police to make a false confession due to his mental incapacities. Arridy was mentally disabled and was 23 years old when he was executed on January 6, 1939.\nMany people at the time and since maintained that Arridy was innocent. A group known as Friends of Joe Arridy formed and in 2007 commissioned the first tombstone for his grave. They also supported the preparation of a petition by David A. Martinez, Denver attorney, for a state pardon to clear Arridy's name. Another man, Frank Aguilar, was convicted and executed for the same crime two years before Arridy's execution.In 2011, Arridy received a full and unconditional posthumous pardon by Colorado Governor Bill Ritter (72 years after his death). Ritter, the former district attorney of Denver, pardoned Arridy based on questions about the man's guilt and what appeared to be a coerced false confession. This was the first time in Colorado that the governor had pardoned a convict after execution."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Joe Arridy was a 23-year-old man with an IQ score of 46 and the mind of a six-year-old who was wrongfully convicted, and wrongfully executed in 1939. He did not understand the meaning of the gas chamber, telling the warden \"No, no, Joe won't die\". He smiled while being taken to the gas chamber.\n\n[Joe Arridy - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arridy)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": ">While held on death row during the appeals process, Arridy often played with a toy train given to him by prison warden Roy Best. Before Arridy's execution, [Best] said, \"He probably didn't even know he was about to die, all he did was happily sit and play with a toy train I had given him.\"\n\n>For his last meal, Arridy requested ice cream. When questioned about his impending execution, he showed \"blank bewilderment\". He did not understand the meaning of the gas chamber, telling the warden \"No, no, Joe won't die.\" \n\n>Before being taken away to the chamber, Arridy reportedly had not finished his ice cream and requested for the remaining ice cream to be refrigerated so he could eat it later, not understanding that he was to be executed soon and would not return. He was reported to have smiled while being taken to the gas chamber. Momentarily nervous, he calmed down when the warden grabbed his hand and reassured him.\n\n:("}, {"role": "user", "content": "man this world is cruel", "name": "Grace"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Dixville Notch is an unincorporated community in Dixville township, Coos County, New Hampshire, United States. The population of the township, all of whom live in Dixville Notch, was 4 as of the 2020 census. The village is known for being the first place to declare its results during the New Hampshire presidential primary. It is located in the northern part of the state, approximately 20 miles (32 km) south of the border with the Canadian province of Quebec. The village is situated at about 1,800 feet (550 m) above sea level at the base of mountains.\nThe village shares its name with Dixville Notch, a mountain pass that lies about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) southeast of and 100 feet (30 m) uphill from the village. The notch is located between Dixville Peak and Sanguinary Mountain, separating the Connecticut River's watershed from that of the Androscoggin River. The village is the location of The Balsams Grand Resort Hotel, one of a handful of surviving New Hampshire grand hotels, situated on a 15,000-acre (61 km2) plot, accommodating golfing in the summer and skiing in the winter.\nDixville Notch is part of the Berlin, NH–VT Micropolitan Statistical Area."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Dixville Notch, NH: In a tradition that started in 1960, all eligible voters in gather at midnight. They cast their ballots and polls are officially closed when all of the registered voters have voted, sometimes only one minute later. In 2020, all 5 of the town's eligible voters selected Joe Biden.\n\n[Dixville Notch, New Hampshire - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixville_Notch,_New_Hampshire)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This is not a good predictor of the final results; In 2016, the majority voted for Hillary Clinton.", "name": "Kelsey"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "One tiny town of 5 voters does not a rigorous sample size make. I wouldn't read anything into what a tiny group of people have done."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Liz Wahl (born May 27, 1985) is an American journalist. She was a correspondent for the Russian government-sponsored RT television network from 2011 to 2014 but left the network following a harshly critical on-air resignation that went viral."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 2014, an RT America reporter resigned on-air stating \"I cannot be part of a network funded by the Russian government that whitewashes the actions of Putin.\"\n\n[Liz Wahl - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Wahl)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I used to watch RT, after she quit I realized it was a propaganda station and stopped", "name": "Jasmine"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I watched Abby Martin because she had a more measured take on things but also said some really wacky shit. She also peaced out because she couldn't out-wacky the wacky. \n\n\nOn an *\"*unrelated note*\"*, Falun Gong ALSO has their own news station in the US.", "name": "Lilly"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Taylor Josephine Stephanie Luciow (August 27, 1990 – October 27, 2009), known by her stage name Taylor Mitchell, was a Canadian country folk singer and songwriter from Toronto. Her debut and only album, For Your Consideration, received encouraging reviews and airplay. Following a busy summer performance schedule, which included an appearance as a young performer at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Mitchell embarked on a tour of Eastern Canada with a newly acquired license and car.\nMitchell died at the age of 19 of injuries and blood loss after two eastern coyotes (coywolves) mauled her while she was walking along Cape Breton Highlands National Park's Skyline Trail. Her death is the only known fatal coyote attack on an adult and the only known fatal coyote attack on a human ever confirmed in Canada. It shocked experts and led to a reassessment of the risk to humans from the predator behaviour of coyotes."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Taylor Mitchell died at the age of 19 of injuries and blood loss after eastern coyotes mauled her. It is the only known fatal coyote attack on an adult and the only known fatal coyote attack on a human ever confirmed in Canada.\n\n[Taylor Mitchell - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Mitchell)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Christ, if I was about to become a coyote turd Id just fucking off myself, this is really bizarre given that Ive never seen more than 3-4 coyotes (together-ish) in the same area ever.", "name": "Colin"}, {"role": "user", "content": "People had been feeding them so they were more comfortable around humans and eventually they got even bolder. I remember it was a big news story at the time. Don't feed wildlife! Bad for them and us!", "name": "Genesis"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera (; c. 22 BC – AD 40) was a Roman-Phoenician soldier born in Sidon, whose tombstone was found in Bingerbrück, Germany, in 1859. A historical connection from this soldier to Jesus has long been hypothesized by numerous scholars, based on the claim of the ancient Greek philosopher Celsus, who, according to Christian writer Origen in his \"Against Celsus\" (Greek Κατὰ Κέλσου, Kata Kelsou; Latin Contra Celsum), was the author of a work entitled The True Word (Greek Λόγος Ἀληθής, Logos Alēthēs).\nCelsus' work was lost but, in Origen's account of it, Jesus was depicted as the result of an affiliation (non-consensual or consensual) between his mother Mary and a renowned Roman figure in a time of great upheaval. He said that for this reason she was \"accused of adultery but had the child by the leader named Panthera\". Biblical scholar James Tabor claimed that Tiberius Pantera could have been serving in the region at the time of Jesus's conception, but more recent scholarship has shown this claim to be greatly doubtful. Christopher Zeichmann goes so far as to say: \"Where precisely Pantera's unit was located during the years leading up to Jesus' conception is uncertain, but it is beyond doubt that it was not Judaea or Galilee.\"Both the ancient Talmud and medieval Jewish writings and sayings reinforced this notion, referring to \"Yeshu ben Pantera\", which translates as \"Jesus, son of Pantera\". Tabor's hypothesis is considered highly unlikely by mainstream scholars given that there is little other evidence to support Pantera's paternity outside of the some Greek and Jewish texts. Some scholars and religious figures postulate Pantera was a Roman ancestor of Jesus but not his father. Historically, the name Pantera and Yeshu were not unusual in the region and were in use among Jews and Gentiles."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Pantera was a Roman soldier whose tombstone was found in 1859. Scholars hypothesized that Pantera was Jesus' biological father, as Mary was said to be \"convicted of adultery and had a child by a soldier named Pantera\". The Talmud reinforced this by referring to Jesus as \"Jesus, son of Pantera\"\n\n[Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_Julius_Abdes_Pantera)"}, {"role": "user", "content": ">more recent scholarship has shown this claim to be greatly doubtful", "name": "Rachel"}, {"role": "user", "content": "You're right. He's obviously the son of god.", "name": "Edwin"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"...They raved, fought, prayed, blasphemed, and many then fell exhausted on the floor. Of the 146 only 23 remained alive.\"-Black Hole of Calcutta\n\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This is one of those events that galvanized the \"other side\". The consequences of this were terrible for India.", "name": "Evan"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Treat your prisoners of war like prisoners of war next time."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I dont think this justified 200 more years of imperial oppression.", "name": "Brady"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Walt Disney World Resort, also called Walt Disney World or Disney World, or simply abbreviated WDW, is an entertainment resort complex in Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida, United States, governed by the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District. The resort is located within Orange and Osceola counties, and located closest to the cities of Winter Garden and Kissimmee in Greater Orlando. Opened on October 1, 1971, the resort is operated by Disney Experiences, a division of The Walt Disney Company. The property covers nearly 25,000 acres (39 sq mi; 101 km2), of which half has been developed. Walt Disney World contains four separate theme parks, two water parks, two mini-golf courses, and four golf courses. There are twenty-one Disney-operated resorts on the property, and many other resorts on and near the property. Disney World also contains the Boardwalk, The Fort Wilderness area, The ESPN Sports Complex, Disney Springs, Flamingo Crossings areas for shopping, dining, and entertainment. \nDesigned to supplement Disneyland in Anaheim, California, which had opened in 1955, the complex was developed by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Walt wanted to build a new park because Disneyland in California was limited from expanding by the establishments that sprung up around it. \"The Florida Project\", as it was known, was intended to present a distinct vision with its own diverse set of attractions. Walt Disney's original plans also called for the inclusion of an \"Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow\" (EPCOT), a planned community intended to serve as a testbed for new city-living innovations. Walt Disney died on December 15, 1966, during the initial planning of the complex. After his death, the company wrestled with the idea of whether to bring the Disney World project to fruition; however, Walt's older brother, Roy O. Disney, came out of retirement to make sure Walt's biggest dream was realized. Construction started in 1967, with the company instead building a resort similar to Disneyland, abandoning the experimental concepts for a planned community. Magic Kingdom was the first theme park to open in the complex in 1971, followed by Epcot (known then as EPCOT Center) (1982), Disney's Hollywood Studios (known then as Disney-MGM Studios) (1989), and Disney's Animal Kingdom (1998). It was Roy who insisted the name of the entire complex be changed from Disney World to Walt Disney World, ensuring that people would remember that the project was Walt's dream.\nWalt Disney World is also covered by an FAA prohibited airspace zone that restricts all airspace activities without approval from the federal government of the United States, including usage of drones; this level of protection is otherwise only offered to American critical infrastructure (such as the Pantex nuclear weapons plant), military bases, the Washington, D.C., Special Flight Rules Area, Camp David, and other official presidential travels.\nIn 2018, Walt Disney World was the most visited vacation resort in the world, with an average annual attendance of more than 58 million. The resort is the largest single-site employer in the United States, the flagship destination of Disney's worldwide corporate enterprise and has become a popular staple in American culture.\n\nThis is a summary of notable incidents that have taken place at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. The term \"incidents\" refers to major injuries, deaths, loss (or injury), or significant crimes related to the attractions themselves, or personal altercations and incidents between the theme park guests and employees. Attraction-related incidents usually fall into one of the following categories:\n\nNegligence on the park’s part, either by ride operator or maintenance.\nNegligence on the guest’s part—this includes refusal to follow specific ride safety instructions, or deliberate intent to break park rules.\nThe result of a guest's known or unknown health issues.\nActs of God, which include generic accidents (e.g. slipping and falling) that are not the direct result of an action on anyone's part.According to a 1985 Time magazine article, nearly 100 lawsuits are annually filed against Disney for various incidents. Florida theme parks are required to notify the state of any ride-related injuries or illnesses that require a hospital stay of at least 24 hours."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# List of incidents at Walt Disney World\n\n[List of incidents at Walt Disney World - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_at_Walt_Disney_World)"}, {"role": "user", "content": ">On August 6, 2009, Mark Priest, a 47-year-old employee playing the role of a pirate in the \"Captain Jack's Pirate Tutorial\" show, accidentally slipped on a puddle on the stage and hit his head on a wall. He was taken to Florida Hospital in Orlando, with injuries including a broken vertebrae in his neck and severe lacerations on his head that required 55 stitches. He died four days later due to complications from the fall.[88][89]\n\nFuck, I can't imagine being dressed as a pirate for 20 bucks an hour and then slipping, falling and dying the next second. Bizarre stuff.", "name": "Kaleb"}, {"role": "user", "content": "But can you imagine slipping, falling, and dying four days later?", "name": "Joseph"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# At the 35th G8 summit, Muammar Gaddafi publicly called for the dissolution of Switzerland. He proposed that the territory be divided among France, Italy and Germany.\n\n[Libya–Switzerland relations - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya%E2%80%93Switzerland_relations)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": ">Barges into your political summit \n> \n>Proposes the dismantlement of the Swiss state \n> \n>Refuses to elaborate further \n> \n>Refuses to leave\n\nThey hated him because he was right."}, {"role": "user", "content": ">Relations between the states began to sour in July 2008 when Switzerland arrested the Libyan leader's son, Hannibal Gaddafi, and daughter-in-law for allegedly beating their servants at a hotel. The pair were detained for two days and released.\n\nhow the fuck do mean he was right, lol?", "name": "Makenzie"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "ILOVEYOU, sometimes referred to as the Love Bug or Loveletter, was a computer worm that infected over ten million Windows personal computers on and after May 5, 2000. It started spreading as an email message with the subject line \"ILOVEYOU\" and the attachment \"LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs.\" At the time, Windows computers often hid the latter file extension (\"VBS,\" a type of interpreted file) by default because it is an extension for a file type that Windows knows, leading unwitting users to think it was a normal text file. Opening the attachment activates the Visual Basic script. First, the worm inflicts damage on the local machine, overwriting random files (including Office files and image files; however, it hides MP3 files instead of deleting them), then, it copies itself to all addresses in the Windows Address Book used by Microsoft Outlook, allowing it to spread much faster than any other previous email worm.Onel de Guzman, a then-24-year-old resident of Manila, Philippines, created the malware. Because there were no laws in the Philippines against making malware at the time of its creation, the Philippine Congress enacted Republic Act No. 8792, otherwise known as the E-Commerce Law, in July 2000 to discourage future iterations of such activity. However, the Constitution of the Philippines prohibits ex post facto laws, and as such de Guzman could not be prosecuted."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# ILOVEYOU is a computer worm that has affected over 10 million computers, causing between USD $5.5-8.7 billion in worldwide damages.\n\n[ILOVEYOU - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOVEYOU)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The hacker who came up with it left the hacking scene and is now a mobile phone technician in the Phils.", "name": "Kendall"}, {"role": "user", "content": "a waste of potential really. He clearly showed he could analyse systems.", "name": "Bailey"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Hello Kitty murder case (Chinese: Hello Kitty藏屍案; Jyutping: Hello Kitty cong4si1ngon3; lit. 'Hello Kitty hidden body case') took place in Hong Kong in the spring of 1999, when a nightclub hostess was abducted in Lai Yiu Estate, tortured and raped in an apartment in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, after stealing a wallet owned by one of her frequent customers. \nFan Man-yee (樊敏儀; Fán Mǐnyí; faan4 man5 ji4, 23) was held captive by three men and one girl before dying between April 14 and April 16, 1999. Her body was decapitated and her skull placed inside of a Hello Kitty mermaid plush."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Hello Kitty Murders - Many layers of creep here from the abduction and torture then murder of 23 year old Fan Man-yee. A month after her capture she died. One of the 3 killers was in their 30s and had a 13 year old girlfriend. They dismembered her body and stuffed her skull into a Hello Kitty Doll.\n\n[Hello Kitty murder case - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Kitty_murder)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Jesus Christ. Its too early to be reading this shit. Thats awful.", "name": "Angela"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "So sorry. I was going to NSFW the title but you cant."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America, between Canada and Mexico. It is a federation of 50 states, a federal capital district (Washington, D.C.), and 326 Indian reservations. Outside the union of states, it asserts sovereignty over five major unincorporated island territories and various uninhabited islands. The country has the world's third-largest land area, largest maritime exclusive economic zone,\nand the third-largest population, exceeding 334 million.Paleo-Indians migrated across the Bering land bridge more than 12,000 years ago. British colonization led to the first settlement of the Thirteen Colonies in Virginia in 1607. Clashes with the British Crown over taxation and political representation sparked the American Revolution, with the Second Continental Congress formally declaring independence on July 4, 1776. Following its victory in the Revolutionary War (1775–1783), the country continued to expand across North America. As more states were admitted, sectional division over slavery led to the secession of the Confederate States of America, which fought the remaining states of the Union during the 1861–1865 American Civil War. With the Union's victory and preservation, slavery was abolished nationally. By 1900, the United States had established itself as a great power, becoming the world's largest economy. After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the U.S. entered World War II. The aftermath of the war left the U.S. and the Soviet Union as the world's two superpowers and led to the Cold War, during which both countries engaged in a struggle for ideological dominance and international influence. Following the Soviet Union's collapse and the end of the Cold War in 1991, the U.S. emerged as the world's sole superpower.\nThe U.S. national government is a presidential constitutional republic and liberal democracy with three separate branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. It has a bicameral national legislature composed of the House of Representatives, a lower house based on population; and the Senate, an upper house based on equal representation for each state. Substantial autonomy is given to states and several territories, with a political culture that emphasizes liberty, equality under the law, individualism, and limited government.\nOne of the most developed countries, the United States has the largest economy in the world, accounting for over a quarter of global GDP. It possesses by far the largest amount of wealth of any country and the highest median income per capita of any non-microstate. The U.S. ranks among the world's highest in income, wealth, economic competitiveness, productivity, innovation, human rights, higher education, and its cultural influence has major impact on the world. It is a founding member of the World Bank, IMF, Organization of American States, NATO, Quad, World Health Organization, and a permanent member of the UN Security Council."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"We are men! We are not beasts and we do not intend to be beaten or driven as such. The entire prison populace...have set forth to change forever the ruthless brutalization and disregard for the lives of the prisoners here and throughout the United States...\" Elliot Barkley, Attica Prison Riot, 1971\n\n[Attica Prison riot - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attica_Prison_riot?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Do the crime - do the time How about putting prisoners to work on farms, grow food for the needy & or clean up trash in the city or waterways, so many productive ways a prisoner could be used rather then just sitting & rotting in a cell wasting tax dollars"}, {"role": "user", "content": " Oh don't you know! That's the sound of a man working on the chey-ye-yane! Of don't you know! That's the sound of a man working on the chain... gang. ", "name": "Mya"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "John Wesley Ewell (born 1956/1957) is an American serial killer and former activist who murdered four people in Hawthorne, California, in late 2010. Ewell rose to prominence in the 1990s and 2000s when he advocated against California's \"3-strikes\" law. In 2006, he appeared on an episode of The Montel Williams Show to express his opinion. Following a guilty plea in 2019, he was sentenced to four consecutive life terms without parole."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# John Ewell was once faced with a 25 year to life sentence for check forgery after he broke Californias 3 strike law. He later became an advocate protesting against the law in the 2000s. In late 2010, he murdered four elderly people during home invasions, which finally netted him a life sentence.\n\n[John Ewell - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ewell)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Three-strikes law is still some insane bullshit. This dude doesn't represent the vast majority of offenders."}, {"role": "user", "content": "The three-strikes law only makes sense if you're applying it strictly to violent offenses. Otherwise, it can easily become extremely draconian. The federal government recently scaled back the mandatory sentence under the three-strikes law from life without parole to 25 years.\n\n[This person got life without parole in Louisiana for stealing hedge-clippers due to his prior convictions](https://www.npr.org/2020/10/18/925198663/black-man-serving-life-sentence-for-stealing-hedge-clippers-granted-parole)", "name": "Courtney"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# lan School was a private, coeducational, controversial residential behavior modification program and therapeutic boarding school ... The facility was closed down in 2011 due to allegations of abuse which dated back to its opening in 1970.\n\n[Élan School - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lan_School)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "This webcomic is a crucial piece to understanding what really went on. If anyone is interested in supporting its creator on Patreon, heres a link to that too: https://www.patreon.com/elanschoolcomic/posts\n\n(I have no affiliation with Joe, its creator, the story just really resonated with me.)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I read this a few weeks ago but it wasn't finished. Is there an ending now?\n\nBy the end I was wondering if it really was a true story.", "name": "Naomi"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "No, its not finished yet. I think he posted a chapter recently though. Its definitely still ongoing. I hope its true, not because I want that to happen to anyone, but because it would be upsetting to find out that hes lying."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning was the arsenic poisoning of more than 200 people in Bradford, England, when sweets accidentally made with arsenic were sold from a market stall. Twenty-one victims died as a result. The event contributed to the passage of the Pharmacy Act 1868 in the United Kingdom and legislation regulating the adulteration of foodstuffs."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# in 1858, over 200 people in England were poisoned with arsenic, after buying and eating accidentally-poisoned sweets. 21 of them died. The event contributed to the passage of the 1868 Pharmacy Act in the United Kingdom and legislation regulating the adulteration of foodstuffs.\n\n[1858 Bradford sweets poisoning - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1858_Bradford_sweets_poisoning)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Looking through history, it's frightening how laws and regulations are usually reactive instead of proactive. It always takes people dying before anyone even thinks to fix a mistake.", "name": "Max"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's how most stoplights exist, enough people died first.", "name": "Sergio"}]

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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.Initially 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 from the late 2010s onward while becoming 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\nSeedfeeder is a pseudonymous illustrator known for contributing sexually explicit drawings to Wikipedia. Between 2008 and 2012, the artist created 48 depictions of various sex acts. Seedfeeder's illustrations garnered mixed reactions: some Wikipedia editors claimed they contained racist and sexist undertones, while Andy Cush of Gawker called him \"Wikipedia's greatest artist of sex acts\". Artnet columnist Paddy Johnson listed Seedfeeder's work as one of the \"Top 10 Digital Artworks of 2014\"."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Seedfeeder is a pseudonymous illustrator known for contributing sexually explicit drawings to Wikipedia. Between 2008 and 2012, the artist created 48 depictions of various sex acts.\n\n[Seedfeeder - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seedfeeder)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've always enjoyed this guy's art style. Nice to put a name to the guy lol", "name": "Miranda"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I figured this was as good a post as any to break the sub's cherry. :) Been aware of his contributions for a while."}]

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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 just reached the milestone of having over 6 million articles!\n\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Honestly surprised it isnt more", "name": "Micah"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I feel like Ive read at least that many.", "name": "Andres"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism.\nBorn into an aristocratic land-owning family, Kropotkin attended Page Corps and later served as an officer in Siberia, where he participated in several geological expeditions. He was imprisoned for his activism in 1874 and managed to escape two years later. He spent the next 41 years in exile in Switzerland, France (where he was imprisoned for almost four years) and England. While in exile, he gave lectures and published widely on anarchism and geography. Kropotkin returned to Russia after the Russian Revolution in 1917, but he was disappointed by the Bolshevik state.\nKropotkin was a proponent of a decentralized communist society free from central government and based on voluntary associations of self-governing communities and worker-run enterprises. He wrote many books, pamphlets and articles, the most prominent being The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories, and Workshops, with Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution being his principal scientific offering. He contributed the article on anarchism to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition and left an unfinished work on anarchist ethical philosophy."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# famous anarchist Peter Kropotkin once escaped from a Russian prison, evading searchers by going to one of St. Petersburg's fanciest restaurants with his friends, where the authorities wouldn't think to look for an anarchist\n\n[Peter Kropotkin - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "He was also born into an aristocratic family before becoming an anarchist.", "name": "Raymond"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Well I wouldn't think he was an anarchist before he left the womb lol", "name": "Taylor"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Dudeism is a religion, philosophy, or lifestyle inspired by \"The Dude\", the protagonist of the Coen Brothers' 1998 film The Big Lebowski.\nDudeism's stated primary objective is to promote a modern form of Chinese Taoism, outlined in Tao Te Ching by Laozi (6th century BCE), blended with concepts from the Ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341–270 BCE), and presented in a style as personified by the character of Jeffrey \"The Dude\" Lebowski, a fictional character portrayed by Jeff Bridges in the film. Dudeism has sometimes been regarded as a mock religion due to its use of comedic film references and occasional criticism of religion in its traditional sense, but its founder and many adherents take the underlying philosophy somewhat (although not overly) seriously. March 6 is the annual sacred high holy day of Dudeism: The Day of the Dude; the same day the film released in the US."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Dudeism - Wikipedia: Dudeism is a religion, philosophy, or lifestyle inspired by \"The Dude\", the protagonist of the Coen Brothers' 1998 film The Big Lebowski.\n\n[Dudeism - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudeism)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "El duderino, if youre not into the whole brevity thing.", "name": "Angela"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Over the line!!!!!!", "name": "Evelyn"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "William Edward Cook Jr. (December 23, 1928 – December 12, 1952) was an American spree killer and mass murderer who murdered six people, including a family of five, on a 22-day rampage between Missouri and California in 1950–51."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In the early 1950s, Billy Cook murdered six people, including an entire family, in a multi-state rampage. He then fled to Mexico. Since Mexico did not have an extradition policy with its northern neighbor yet, several officers literally just shoved Cook over the border. He was immediately arrested.\n\n[Billy Cook (criminal) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Cook_(criminal))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Who the fuck abandons their family in an abandoned mine?", "name": "Summer"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh shit....so that's not what they're for....", "name": "Zoe"}]

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

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Optography is the process of viewing or retrieving an optogram, an image on the retina of the eye. A belief that the eye \"recorded\" the last image seen before death was widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was a frequent plot device in fiction of the time, to the extent that police photographed the victims' eyes in several real-life murder investigations, in case the theory was true. The concept has been repeatedly debunked as a forensic method."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# A belief that the eye \"recorded\" the last image seen before death was widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was a frequent plot device in fiction of the time. Police even photographed the victims' eyes in several real-life murder investigations, in case the theory was true.\n\n[Optography - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optography)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The concept is that a photosensitive pigment protein called rhodopsin can sometimes be manipulated like a photographic negative to essentially \"record\" what something was looking at while it died. Only one experiment was carried out on a human(executed prisoner Erhard Gustav Reif), and the results were inconclusive(all that remains of the original capture is this [lame drawing](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Kuhne_Reif_human_optogram_drawing.jpg) in a book), but lots of experiments on rabbits and other small animals were a lot more promising, albeit just as unpleasant to read the details of:\n\n>Khne experimented on numerous animals to refine the process and determine the chemicals used to fix the image on the retina. His most successful optogram was obtained from an albino rabbit, with its head fastened to face a barred window. The rabbit's head was covered for several minutes to allow rhodopsin to accumulate on the retina. It was then uncovered for three minutes to expose it to the light, then decapitated and its eyeball sliced from top to bottom. The rear half of the eye was placed in an alum solution to enable fixation of the bleached rhodopsin, which resulted in a distinct image of the barred windows."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I mean it sounds plausible, though they were clearly fucking with this guy:\n\n>After ten minutes, Khne showed his colleagues an image on the left retina, but his sketch of the image did not appear to match any object visible to the subject at the time of his deathalthough the outline of the image resembled a guillotine blade, Reif was blindfolded at the time of his beheading.\n\nAlso, the whole \"the fovea is only 1.5 mm\" thing seems to be a big issue", "name": "Alana"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa]) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) and the South Island (Te Waipounamu)—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area and lies east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland.\nThe islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then subsequently developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1769 the British explorer Captain James Cook became the first European to set foot on and map New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi, which in its English version declared British sovereignty over the islands. In 1841, New Zealand became a colony within the British Empire. Subsequently, a series of conflicts between the colonial government and Māori tribes resulted in the alienation and confiscation of large amounts of Māori land. New Zealand became a dominion in 1907; it gained full statutory independence in 1947, retaining the monarch as head of state. Today, the majority of New Zealand's population of 5.25 million is of European descent; the indigenous Māori are the largest minority, followed by Asians and Pacific Islanders. Reflecting this, New Zealand's culture is mainly derived from Māori and early British settlers, with recent broadening of culture arising from increased immigration. The official languages are English, Māori, and New Zealand Sign Language, with the local dialect of English being dominant.\nA developed country, it was the first to introduce a minimum wage, and the first to give women the right to vote. It ranks very highly in international measures of quality of life, human rights, and it has low levels of perceived corruption. It retains visible levels of inequality, having structural disparities between its Māori and European populations. New Zealand underwent major economic changes during the 1980s, which transformed it from a protectionist to a liberalised free-trade economy. The service sector dominates the national economy, followed by the industrial sector, and agriculture; international tourism is also a significant source of revenue.\nNationally, legislative authority is vested in an elected, unicameral Parliament, while executive political power is exercised by the Government, led by the prime minister, currently Christopher Luxon. Charles III is the country's king and is represented by the governor-general, Cindy Kiro. In addition, New Zealand is organised into 11 regional councils and 67 territorial authorities for local government purposes. The Realm of New Zealand also includes Tokelau (a dependent territory); the Cook Islands and Niue (self-governing states in free association with New Zealand); and the Ross Dependency, which is New Zealand's territorial claim in Antarctica.\nNew Zealand is a member of the United Nations, Commonwealth of Nations, ANZUS, UKUSA, OECD, ASEAN Plus Six, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, the Pacific Community and the Pacific Islands Forum. It enjoys particularly close relations with the United States and is one of its major non-NATO allies; the United Kingdom; and with Australia, with a shared \"Trans-Tasman\" identity between the two countries.\n\nElectoral reform in New Zealand has been a political issue in the past as major changes have been made to both parliamentary and local government electoral systems.\nNational elections in New Zealand were first held in 1853 using the basic first-past-the-post (FPP) voting system and were conducted over a period of two and a half months. At this time, the country was divided into 23 electorates, who elected either a single member or three members (MPs), depending on their population. In the multiple-seat districts, multiple non-transferable vote (also known as block voting) was used. This basic system continued for a long time, with major diversions being only a change to the second ballot system (a type of two-round system), used for the 1908 election and 1911 election and swiftly repealed in 1913.In the 1993 electoral reform referendum, New Zealanders voted to adopt the mixed-member proportional (MMP) system, which was first used in 1996. MMP is a system of proportional representation in which there is a mix of electorate MPs and list MPs. Proportional representation led to an increase in minor parties entering Parliament, making multi-party governments the norm. Since the introduction of MMP, there have been occasional proposals for further reform; in a 2011 referendum, New Zealanders voted to retain MMP."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 1993, the New Zealand people chose to reject \"First Past the Post\" voting and instead adopted a system of proportional representation. After 20 years it is still popular, and has created a multi-party democracy in a previously two-party system.\n\n[Electoral reform in New Zealand - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_reform_in_New_Zealand)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "You might make your country's voting system more fair, but it'll still be the same bumbling idiot citizenry doing the voting.", "name": "Zoe"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I still prefer democracy over its alternatives.", "name": "Nicholas"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced Islamization of others, primarily women and children.\nBefore World War I, Armenians occupied a somewhat protected, but subordinate, place in Ottoman society. Large-scale massacres of Armenians had occurred in the 1890s and 1909. The Ottoman Empire suffered a series of military defeats and territorial losses—especially during the 1912–1913 Balkan Wars—leading to fear among CUP leaders that the Armenians would seek independence. During their invasion of Russian and Persian territory in 1914, Ottoman paramilitaries massacred local Armenians. Ottoman leaders took isolated instances of Armenian resistance as evidence of a widespread rebellion, though no such rebellion existed. Mass deportation was intended to permanently forestall the possibility of Armenian autonomy or independence.\nOn 24 April 1915, the Ottoman authorities arrested and deported hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and leaders from Constantinople. At the orders of Talaat Pasha, an estimated 800,000 to 1.2 million Armenians were sent on death marches to the Syrian Desert in 1915 and 1916. Driven forward by paramilitary escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to robbery, rape, and massacres. In the Syrian Desert, the survivors were dispersed into concentration camps. In 1916, another wave of massacres was ordered, leaving about 200,000 deportees alive by the end of the year. Around 100,000 to 200,000 Armenian women and children were forcibly converted to Islam and integrated into Muslim households. Massacres and ethnic cleansing of Armenian survivors continued through the Turkish War of Independence after World War I, carried out by Turkish nationalists.\nThis genocide put an end to more than two thousand years of Armenian civilization in eastern Anatolia. Together with the mass murder and expulsion of Assyrian/Syriac and Greek Orthodox Christians, it enabled the creation of an ethnonationalist Turkish state, the Republic of Turkey. The Turkish government maintains that the deportation of Armenians was a legitimate action that cannot be described as genocide. As of 2023, 34 countries have recognized the events as genocide, concurring with the academic consensus."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Armenian genocide was the systematic mass murder of around one million ethnic Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I\n\n[Armenian genocide - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nemesis\n\nPretty cool they went after the perpetrators", "name": "Nicolas"}, {"role": "user", "content": "**[Operation Nemesis](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nemesis)** \n \n >Operation Nemesis (Armenian: , romanized: Nemesis gortsoghut'iun) was the assassination of Ottoman perpetrators of the Armenian genocide and Azerbaijani people held responsible for the 1918 massacre of Armenians in Baku between 1920 to 1922. It was carried out by a clandestine cell of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and masterminded by Shahan Natalie, Armen Garo, and Aaron Sachaklian. It was named after the Greek goddess of divine retribution, Nemesis. The best-known killing was the assassination of Talaat Pasha, the main orchestrator of the Armenian genocide, by Armenian Soghomon Tehlirian in March 1921 in Berlin.\n \n^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)", "name": "Katie"}]