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[{"role": "system", "content": "Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s. After Smith's death in 1844, the movement split into several groups following different leaders; the majority followed Brigham Young, while smaller groups followed Joseph Smith III, Sidney Rigdon, and James Strang. Most of these smaller groups eventually merged into the Community of Christ, and the term Mormon typically refers to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), as today, this branch is far larger than all the others combined. People who identify as Mormons may also be independently religious, secular, and non-practicing or belong to other denominations. Since 2018, the LDS Church has emphasized a desire for its members be referred to as \"members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints\", or more simply as \"Latter-day Saints\".Mormons have developed a strong sense of community that stems from their doctrine and history. One of the central doctrinal issues that defined Mormonism in the 19th century was the practice of plural marriage, a form of religious polygamy. From 1852 until 1904, when the LDS Church banned the practice, many Mormons who had followed Brigham Young to the Utah Territory openly practiced polygamy. Mormons dedicate significant time and resources to serving in their churches. A prominent practice among young and retired members of the LDS Church is to serve a full-time proselytizing mission. Mormons have a health code that eschews alcoholic beverages, tobacco, tea, coffee, and addictive substances. They tend to be very family-oriented and have strong connections across generations and with extended family, reflecting their belief that families can be sealed together beyond death. They also have a strict law of chastity, requiring abstention from sexual relations outside heterosexual marriage and fidelity within marriage.\nMormons self-identify as Christian, but some non-Mormons consider Mormons non-Christian because some of their beliefs differ from those of Nicene Christianity. Mormons believe that Christ's church was restored through Joseph Smith and is guided by living prophets and apostles. Mormons believe in the Bible and other books of scripture, such as the Book of Mormon. They have a unique view of cosmology and believe that all people are literal spirit children of God. Mormons believe that returning to God requires following the example of Jesus Christ and accepting his atonement through repentance and ordinances such as baptism.\nDuring the 19th century, Mormon converts tended to gather in a central geographic location, a trend that reversed somewhat in the 1920s and 1930s. The center of Mormon cultural influence is in Utah, and North America has more Mormons than any other continent, although about 60% of Mormons live outside the United States. As of December 31, 2021, the LDS Church reported a membership of 16,805,400.\n\nMormon pornography is a subgenre of pornography themed around the Mormon religion. According to the journalist Isha Aran, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) views Mormon pornography as blasphemous, and most directors and performers in Mormon pornography are ex-Mormons. Mormon pornography typically depicts sex acts between actors and/or actresses portraying members of the LDS Church. Mormon elders are depicted as domineering over their multiple wives, who obediently submit to their husband's commands, treating participation in the act as a sacred duty. Performers may be (initially) dressed in temple garments, and the setting may be the inside of a Mormon temple. In accordance with stereotyped Mormon norms, profane language is absent.Aran writes that the genre originated in 2010 with the launch of the gay pornography site MormonBoyz.com. Website founder Legrand Wolf claims to be an ex-Mormon with a doctoral degree from Brigham Young University. The site MormonGirlz.com, launched in 2014, by a woman known in the industry as Brooke Hunter, a 33-year-old ex-Mormon, features both heterosexual and lesbian relationships between Mormon characters.Wolf's pornography has been rejected by Utah's Pride organization, with its executive director, the former leader of Utah's branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, stating, \"LeGrand Wolf isn't a person. That disturbs me, that we don't know who these people are and where they come from.\""}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Mormon pornography is a subgenre of pornography themed around the Mormon religion. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints views Mormon pornography as blasphemous, and most directors and performers in Mormon pornography are ex-Mormons.\n\n[Mormon pornography - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_pornography)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I wonder how they feel about the gay version of this.", "name": "Brian"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Jamison family deaths occurred on or after October 8, 2009, when the Jamison family of Eufaula, Oklahoma, United States – Bobby Jamison, his wife Sherilynn, and daughter Madyson – mysteriously disappeared. The family was reportedly considering the purchase of a 40-acre plot of land near Red Oak, about 30 mi (48 km) from Eufaula, at the time that they vanished. Their suspected remains were found in November 2013 and positively identified by the Oklahoma medical examiner on July 3, 2014. No cause of death was determined, and the circumstances surrounding their disappearance remain unknown."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Jamison family mysteriously disappeared on October 8, 2009. The family was reportedly considering the purchase of a plot of land near Red Oak at the time of their disappearance. Their remains were found in 2013 and the circumstances surrounding their deaths remain unknown.\n\n[Jamison family deaths - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamison_family_deaths)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The video of them.packing their car is oddly creepy. It's like they were in a trance or something. I wonder if drugs were involved. Such an odd case.", "name": "Mario"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I wonder if anyone considered carbon monoxide poisoning.", "name": "Gabriella"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Oregon ( OR-ih-ghən, ORR-, -⁠ə-, -⁠gahn) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Oregon is a part of the Western United States, with the Columbia River delineating much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho. The 42° north parallel delineates the southern boundary with California and Nevada. The western boundary is formed by the Pacific Ocean.\nOregon has been home to many indigenous nations for thousands of years. The first European traders, explorers, and settlers began exploring what is now Oregon's Pacific coast in the early to mid-16th century. As early as 1564, the Spanish began sending vessels northeast from the Philippines, riding the Kuroshio Current in a sweeping circular route across the northern part of the Pacific. In 1592, Juan de Fuca undertook detailed mapping and studies of ocean currents in the Pacific Northwest, including the Oregon coast as well as the strait now bearing his name. The Lewis and Clark Expedition traversed Oregon in the early 1800s, and the first permanent European settlements in Oregon were established by fur trappers and traders. In 1843, an autonomous government was formed in the Oregon Country, and the Oregon Territory was created in 1848. Oregon became the 33rd state of the U.S. on February 14, 1859.\nToday, with 4.2 million people over 98,000 square miles (250,000 km2), Oregon is the ninth largest and 27th most populous U.S. state. The capital, Salem, is the third-most populous city in Oregon, with 175,535 residents. Portland, with 652,503, ranks as the 26th among U.S. cities. The Portland metropolitan area, which includes neighboring counties in Washington, is the 25th largest metro area in the nation, with a population of 2,512,859. Oregon is also one of the most geographically diverse states in the U.S., marked by volcanoes, abundant bodies of water, dense evergreen and mixed forests, as well as high deserts and semi-arid shrublands. At 11,249 feet (3,429 m), Mount Hood is the state's highest point. Oregon's only national park, Crater Lake National Park, comprises the caldera surrounding Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the United States. The state is also home to the single largest organism in the world, Armillaria ostoyae, a fungus that runs beneath 2,200 acres (8.9 km2) of the Malheur National Forest.Oregon's economy has historically been powered by various forms of agriculture, fishing, logging, and hydroelectric power. Oregon is the top lumber producer of the contiguous United States, with the lumber industry dominating the state's economy during the 20th century. Technology is another one of Oregon's major economic forces, beginning in the 1970s with the establishment of the Silicon Forest and the expansion of Tektronix and Intel. Sportswear company Nike, Inc., headquartered in Beaverton, is the state's largest public corporation with an annual revenue of $46.7 billion."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Every single representative from Oregon's 5th congressional district since its creation after the 1980 census has gotten divorced while in office.\n\n[Oregon's 5th congressional district - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon%27s_5th_congressional_district?fbclid=IwAR2m-_NK-jBh7BrYhyS0GBXP7R5c4_QKsTLbzEpDjQ3avYAjNxIHjXiblAE)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Holy gerrymander, Batman! The shape looks like a dude holding his hand out to either handshake or fire a large handgun. Fun!", "name": "Colby"}, {"role": "user", "content": "if they include Multnomah County (portland) the population is too high, and a lot of that land is pretty much empty so it ends up looking weird no matter how you draw it.", "name": "Antonio"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The 1991 Austin yogurt shop killings are an unsolved quadruple homicide which took place at an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! shop in Austin, Texas, United States on Friday, December 6, 1991. The victims were four teenage girls: 13-year-old Amy Ayers, 17-year-old Eliza Thomas, 17-year-old Jennifer Harbison and Jennifer's 15-year-old sister Sarah. Jennifer and Eliza were employees of the shop, while Sarah and her friend Amy were in the shop to get a ride home with Jennifer after it closed at 11:00 pm. Approximately one hour before closing time, a man who had tried to hustle customers in his queue was permitted to use the toilet in back, took a very long time and may have jammed a rear door open. A couple who left the shop just before 11:00 pm, when Jennifer locked the front door to prevent more customers entering, reported seeing two men at a table acting furtively.\nAround midnight, a police patrolman reported a fire in the shop, and first responders discovered the bodies of the girls inside. The victims had been shot in the head; at least one of them had been raped. A .22 and a .380 pistol were used to commit the murders, and the perpetrator(s) probably exited out through a back door that was found unlocked. The organized method of operation, ability to control the victims, and destruction of evidence by arson pointed to an adult experienced in crime rather than teenagers, according to one of the original detectives on the case. Austin Police Department has DNA from an unknown male as a result of one of the rapes. A Y-chromosome match for the perpetrator DNA has been found in a research database of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) but it has declined to reveal the identity of the man in accordance with the law of anonymity for donors, and because thousands of men could bear this fragment of DNA, which is unable to identify individuals."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# 1991 Austin Yogurt Shop Murders - four girls ages 13-17 were shot execution-style inside an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt franchise which was then set on fire. Two men were tried for the murders and convicted, but both convictions were later overturned. The case remains unsolved.\n\n[1991 Austin yogurt shop killings - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Austin_yogurt_shop_murders)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Over fifty people confessed to the murders. I... think something might be wrong with the police investigation methods there.", "name": "Alexia"}, {"role": "user", "content": "How does that even happen...?", "name": "Erin"}]

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

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Nyotaimori (女体盛り, \"serve (foods) on the female body\"), often referred to as \"body sushi\", is the Japanese practice of serving sashimi or sushi from the naked body of a woman. The less common male variant is called nantaimori (男体盛り)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Nyotaimori is the Japanese practice of serving sashimi or sushi from the naked body of a woman. Nantaimori is the male equivalent.[\n\n[Nyotaimori - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyotaimori)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": ">In traditional nyotaimori, the model is generally expected to lie still at all times and usually not talk with guests. The sushi is placed on sanitized leaves on the model's body to prevent skin-to-fish contact and on sufficiently flat areas of the body which the sushi will not roll off.\n\n>Guests must be respectful and observe the strictest decorum. Talking with the models is highly discouraged. Inappropriate gestures or comments are not tolerated and diners can only pick up sushi with chopsticks, although rules in some restaurants are less strict."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Japan is an island country in East Asia. It is in the northwest Pacific Ocean and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 14,125 islands, with the five main islands being Hokkaido, Honshu (the \"mainland\"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the country's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto.\nJapan has over 125 million inhabitants and is the 11th most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its highly urbanized population on narrow coastal plains. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions. The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world. Japan has the world's highest life expectancy, although it is experiencing a population decline due to its very low birth rate.\nJapan has been inhabited since the Upper Paleolithic period (30,000 BC). Between the fourth and ninth centuries AD, the kingdoms of Japan became unified under an emperor and the imperial court based in Heian-kyō. Beginning in the 12th century, political power was held by a series of military dictators (shōgun) and feudal lords (daimyō), and enforced by a class of warrior nobility (samurai). After a century-long period of civil war, the country was reunified in 1603 under the Tokugawa shogunate, which enacted an isolationist foreign policy. In 1854, a United States fleet forced Japan to open trade to the West, which led to the end of the shogunate and the restoration of imperial power in 1868. In the Meiji period, the Empire of Japan adopted a Western-modeled constitution, and pursued a program of industrialization and modernization. Amidst a rise in militarism and overseas colonization, Japan invaded China in 1937 and entered World War II as an Axis power in 1941. After suffering defeat in the Pacific War and two atomic bombings, Japan surrendered in 1945 and came under a seven-year Allied occupation, during which it adopted a new constitution.\nUnder the 1947 constitution, Japan has maintained a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a bicameral legislature, the National Diet. Japan is a developed country and a great power, with one of the largest economies by nominal GDP. Japan has renounced its right to declare war, though it maintains a Self-Defense Force that ranks as one of the world's strongest militaries. A global leader in the automotive, robotics, and electronics industries, the country has made significant contributions to science and technology, and is one of the world's largest exporters and importers. It is part of multiple major international and intergovernmental institutions.\nJapan is a cultural superpower as the culture of Japan is well known around the world, including its art, cuisine, film, music, and popular culture, which encompasses prominent manga, anime, and video game industries.\n\nThe SOS incident occurred in Mount Asahidake in Daisetsuzan National Park in Japan in 1989. Two lost mountaineers were located and rescued after search teams spotted a large SOS message built from fallen birch logs, but the mountaineers had not created this message, which was determined to have been in place since at least 1987. After returning to search the area for more missing people the next day, police found skeletal remains in the vicinity (initially determined to belong to a female) in addition to personal belongings of a presumed-male hiker found stuffed into a tree root not far from the sign. The items included an ID (belonging to Kenji Iwamura, a man who had been missing since 1984), 2 cameras, a notebook, and a tape recorder with tapes featuring a distressed man calling for help. It is still not known who constructed the sign."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In Japan in 1989 Two lost mountaineers were located and rescued after search teams spotted a large SOS message built from fallen birch logs, but the mountaineers had not created this message. It is still not known who constructed the sign.\n\n[SOS incident - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOS_incident)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That is some good creepy. Dang, someone probably made that and died waiting for help but ended up saving someone else's life. That reminds me of [this](https://youtu.be/Q2fex2CXvGE?si=IiYxTrNtTZOVibgR) story of a couple who gets lost in the woods on their first date.", "name": "Leah"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Tell me more?", "name": "Brian"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Watch the vid I linked. It's a little long but worth it. I don't want to ruin it for you.", "name": "Lauren"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I aint got time for that", "name": "Ava"}, {"role": "user", "content": "A couple go on their first date, go on some wilderness tram. Wander off while at the top of the mountain but don't get back in time to take the last tram back. Basically, they wander trying to make their own way out. Get horribly lost. Every day, the wander, starve and go thirsty for 4 days. And then finally, while wandering they find a camper banding over in a stream. They're saved at the last second. So they run up to the man, touch him on the shoulder only to discover he was dead. But, the dead body was holding a map... they could use it to get out. They open it to find the words written over the entire map \"NO WAY OUT\". They have an absolute breakdown, resorting to their fate of dying a slow death alone in the woods as their body was too fatigued to go on.\n\nBut watching his date breakdown gives Brandon the strength to go through this man's belongings to find something to save their life. No food, nothing. Until, he realizes the lighter he's holding could help. He started a forest fire and waits for the airplanes coming to put out the fire, waves them down for help and saves both their lives within likely hours of their death. Without that man's lighter, their bodies would have been laying next to his.", "name": "Peyton"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A presidential referendum took place in Iraq on October 16, 2002. It was the second presidential election under the rule of Saddam Hussein (the first having taken place in 1995). According to official statistics, the turnout was 100%, with all 11,445,638 Iraqis registered to vote having voted \"yes\" in a referendum whether to support another seven year-term for President Saddam Hussein, which would legally have ended in 2009.\nThe referendum is considered to have been fraudulent, and was dismissed as propaganda by the United States and Britain. White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said: \"Obviously, it's not a very serious day, not a very serious vote and nobody places any credibility on it\". United States State Department spokesman Richard Boucher called it \"not even worthy of our ridicule\". Foreign election observers were banned from observing the vote, and journalists were confined to a specific area; as such, actual voter turnout could not be estimated. The Washington Post noted that no explanation was given to explain how all the alleged votes were counted overnight. Top Iraqi deputy Izzat Ibrahim affirmed the vote’s legitimacy, saying: \"You may like it or not, but this is a truthful figure.\""}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# 2002 Iraqi presidential referendum - according to official statistics, the turnout was 100%, with all 11,445,638 Iraqis registered to vote having voted \"yes\" in a referendum whether to support another seven year-term for President Saddam Hussein\n\n[2002 Iraqi presidential referendum - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Iraqi_presidential_referendum)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Man, why would you rig it that hard? Shoot for like 90% turnout, 97% in favour, much more realistic. Saddam was such an amateur.", "name": "Javier"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The message is I have complete power and I can do what I want", "name": "Caleb"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Elmer J. McCurdy (January 1, 1880 – October 7, 1911) was an American outlaw who was killed in a shoot-out with police after robbing a train in Oklahoma in October 1911. Dubbed \"The Bandit Who Wouldn't Give Up\", his mummified body was first put on display at an Oklahoma funeral home and then became a fixture on the traveling carnival and sideshow circuit during the 1920s through the 1960s. After changing ownership several times, McCurdy's remains eventually wound up at The Pike amusement zone in Long Beach, California, where they were discovered by crewmembers for the television series The Six Million Dollar Man and positively identified in December 1976.\nIn April 1977, McCurdy's body was buried at the Summit View Cemetery in Guthrie, Oklahoma."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 1975, the mummified body of a bank robber was found in an amusement park by a TV crew. Itd been mistaken for a wax mannequin, and was only found out after a man moved it and its arm fell off, exposing human bone. It was identified as the body of Elmer McCurdy, who had died in 1911.\n\n[Elmer McCurdy - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_McCurdy)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ah the infamous story of Elmer McCurdy, the only man I can think of where the adventures of his corpse were far more interesting than his actual life.", "name": "Ryan"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'd say robbing banks and trains with explosives is pretty damn interesting", "name": "Liam"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Kurt Gdel, an Austrian-American logician and mathematician, developed an obsessive fear of being poisoned after the assassination of a friend. He refused to eat food prepared by anyone but his wife. When she became ill and was hospitalized, he starved. He weighed 29 kilograms (65 lb) when he died.\n\n[Kurt Gödel - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Why didn't he just... Cook his own food", "name": "Braden"}, {"role": "user", "content": "He was very ill, mentally and physically, and had been for many, many years. He didn't go from fit to starving, his wife had to take care of him full time already in the years before his death. \n\nGiven the time he lived in, I don't think people really understood mental illness and he couldn't get the help he needed.", "name": "Giovanni"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Maillard reaction ( my-YAR; French: [majaʁ]) is a chemical reaction between amino acids and reducing sugars to create melanoidins, the compounds which give browned food its distinctive flavor. Seared steaks, fried dumplings, cookies and other kinds of biscuits, breads, toasted marshmallows, and many other foods undergo this reaction. It is named after French chemist Louis Camille Maillard, who first described it in 1912 while attempting to reproduce biological protein synthesis. The reaction is a form of non-enzymatic browning which typically proceeds rapidly from around 140 to 165 °C (280 to 330 °F). Many recipes call for an oven temperature high enough to ensure that a Maillard reaction occurs. At higher temperatures, caramelization (the browning of sugars, a distinct process) and subsequently pyrolysis (final breakdown leading to burning and the development of acrid flavors) become more pronounced.The reactive carbonyl group of the sugar reacts with the nucleophilic amino group of the amino acid and forms a complex mixture of poorly characterized molecules responsible for a range of aromas and flavors. This process is accelerated in an alkaline environment (e.g., lye applied to darken pretzels; see lye roll), as the amino groups (RNH+3 → RNH2) are deprotonated, and hence have an increased nucleophilicity. This reaction is the basis for many of the flavoring industry's recipes. At high temperatures, a probable carcinogen called acrylamide can form. This can be discouraged by heating at a lower temperature, adding asparaginase, or injecting carbon dioxide.In the cooking process, Maillard reactions can produce hundreds of different flavor compounds depending on the chemical constituents in the food, the temperature, the cooking time, and the presence of air. These compounds, in turn, often break down to form yet more flavor compounds. Flavour scientists have used the Maillard reaction over the years to make artificial flavors, the majority of patents being related to the production of meat-like flavours."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# toast is scientifically proven to taste better than bread because of the maillard reaction\n\n[Maillard reaction - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillard_reaction)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "wow i never knew this. amazing!! im going to start eating toast from now on", "name": "Andrea"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Not sure why but this comment really cracked me up", "name": "Leah"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Since the beginning of his career, American singer Elvis Presley has had an extensive cultural impact. According to Rolling Stone, \"It was Elvis who made rock 'n' roll the international language of pop.\" The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll describes Presley as \"an American music giant of the 20th century who single-handedly changed the course of music and culture in the mid-1950s\". His recordings, dance moves, attitude and clothing came to be seen as embodiments of rock and roll. His music was heavily influenced by African-American blues, Christian gospel, and Southern country. In a list of the greatest English language singers, as compiled by Q magazine, Presley was ranked first, and second in the list of greatest singers of the 20th century by BBC Radio. Some people claim that Presley created a whole new style of music: \"It wasn't black, wasn't white, wasn't pop or wasn't country—it was different.\" As most singers in his time created music geared for adults, he gave teens music to grow up with. Presley sang hard-driving rock and roll, rockabilly dance songs, and ballads, laying a commercial foundation upon which other rock musicians would build their careers. African-American performers such as Big Joe Turner, Wynonie Harris and Fats Domino came to national prominence after Presley's acceptance among mass audiences of white American adults. Singers like Jerry Lee Lewis, the Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and others immediately followed in his wake. John Lennon later commented: \"Before Elvis, there was nothing.\"During the post-WWII economic boom of the 1950s, many parents were able to give their teenage children much higher weekly allowances, signaling a shift in the buying power and purchasing habits of American teens. During the 1940s bobby soxers had idolized Frank Sinatra, but the buyers of his records were mostly between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two. Presley triggered a lot of demand for his records by near-teens and early teens aged ten and up. Along with Presley's \"ducktail\" haircut, the demand for black slacks and loose, open-necked shirts resulted in new lines of clothing for teenage boys whereas a girl might get a pink portable 45 rpm record player for her bedroom. Meanwhile, American teenagers began buying newly available portable transistor radios and listened to rock and roll on these, helping to propel that fledgling industry from an estimated 100,000 units sold in 1955 to 5,000,000 units by the end of 1958. Teens were asserting more independence and Presley became a national symbol of their parents' consternation.Presley's impact on the American youth consumer market was noted on the front page of The Wall Street Journal on the December 31, 1956, when business journalist Louis M. Kohlmeier wrote, \"Elvis Presley today is a business\", and reported on the singer's record and merchandise sales. Half a century later, historian Ian Brailsford (University of Auckland, New Zealand) commented, \"The phenomenal success of Elvis Presley in 1956 convinced many doubters of the financial opportunities existing in the youth market.\""}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Elvis Presley's danger to American culture: He was regarded as the \"personification of evil,\" a \"savage\" with \"sinful gyrations,\" performing \"obscene\" \"devil music.\" Even Frank Sinatra said \"His kind of music is deplorable. It fosters almost totally negative & destructive reactions in young people.\"\n\n[Cultural impact of Elvis Presley - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_impact_of_Elvis_Presley#Danger_to_American_culture)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "*The Louisville chief of police, for instance, called for a no-wiggle rule, so as to halt \"any lewd, lascivious contortions that would excite the crowd.\"*\n\nwigglers gone wild!", "name": "Levi"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It seems silly now, but people really were having strong reactions to seeing hip gyrations like that for the first time. Whole bunch of sexual awakenings over Elvis the Pelvis.", "name": "Hunter"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Alibi Club is a traditional private club in Washington, D.C. Its members consist of the Washington elite, including presidents, senators, and diplomats, among other prominent figures."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Alibi Club is a private, traditional private club in Washington, D.C. Its members consist of the Washington elite, including presidents, senators,[2] and diplomats. Membership is limited to fifty, with new members admitted upon unanimous vote after the death of a previous member\n\n[Alibi Club - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibi_Club#:~:text=The%20Alibi%20Club%20is%20a,National%20Register%20of%20Historic%20Places)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "let me guess, its all old white men.", "name": "Kimberly"}, {"role": "user", "content": "From the wiki:\n\n>Membership is not revealed to outsiders, and the first public notice of membership is often in a member's obituary.\n\nSo, there are no lists of current members. But based on the list of previous members...... Yes.", "name": "Bryan"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Alexander (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος) is a male given name of Greek origin. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Aleksander, Aleksandr and Alekzandr. Related names and diminutives include Iskandar, Alec, Alek, Alex, Alexandre, Aleks, Aleksa, Alasdair, Sasha, and Sander; feminine forms include Alexandra, Alexandria, and Sasha."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Alexander of Greece, died age 27 from a monkey bite. \n\n[Alexander of Greece - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_of_Greece?wprov=sfti1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Fun fact, he was extremely close to regaining Constantinople as a part of Greece.", "name": "Autumn"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Was he prepared to go to war against its rightful rulers, The Cats?", "name": "Mikayla"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Nazism ( NA(H)T-siz-əm; also Naziism ), the common name in English for National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus, German: [natsi̯oˈnaːlzotsi̯aˌlɪsmʊs] ), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During Hitler's rise to power in 1930s Europe, it was frequently referred to as Hitlerism (German: Hitlerfaschismus). The later related term \"neo-Nazism\" is applied to other far-right groups with similar ideas which formed after the collapse of Hitler's Third Reich.\nNazism is a form of fascism, with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. It incorporates a dictatorship, fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, anti-Slavism, scientific racism, white supremacy, Nordicism, social Darwinism and the use of eugenics into its creed. Its extreme nationalism originated in pan-Germanism and the ethno-nationalist Völkisch movement which had been a prominent aspect of German ultranationalism since the late 19th century. Nazism was strongly influenced by the Freikorps paramilitary groups that emerged after Germany's defeat in World War I, from which came the party's underlying \"cult of violence\". It subscribed to pseudo-scientific theories of a racial hierarchy, identifying ethnic Germans as part of what the Nazis regarded as an Aryan or Nordic master race. Nazism sought to overcome social divisions and create a homogeneous German society based on racial purity which represented a people's community (Volksgemeinschaft). The Nazis aimed to unite all Germans living in historically German territory, as well as gain additional lands for German expansion under the doctrine of Lebensraum and exclude those whom they deemed either Community Aliens or \"inferior\" races (Untermenschen).\nThe term \"National Socialism\" arose out of attempts to create a nationalist redefinition of socialism, as an alternative to both Marxist international socialism and free-market capitalism. Nazism rejected the Marxist concepts of class conflict and universal equality, opposed cosmopolitan internationalism, and sought to convince all parts of the new German society to subordinate their personal interests to the \"common good\", accepting political interests as the main priority of economic organisation, which tended to match the general outlook of collectivism or communitarianism rather than economic socialism. The Nazi Party's precursor, the pan-German nationalist and antisemitic German Workers' Party (DAP), was founded on 5 January 1919. By the early 1920s, the party was renamed the National Socialist German Workers' Party in order to appeal to left-wing workers, a renaming that Hitler initially objected to. The National Socialist Program, or \"25 Points\", was adopted in 1920 and called for a united Greater Germany that would deny citizenship to Jews or those of Jewish descent, while also supporting land reform and the nationalisation of some industries. In Mein Kampf (\"My Struggle\"), published in 1925–1926, Hitler outlined the antisemitism and anti-communism at the heart of his political philosophy as well as his disdain for representative democracy, over which he proposed the Führerprinzip (leader principle), and his belief in Germany's right to territorial expansion through lebensraum. Hitler's objectives involved the eastward expansion of German territories, German colonization of Eastern Europe, and the promotion of an alliance with Britain and Italy against Russia.\nThe Nazi Party won the greatest share of the popular vote in the two Reichstag general elections of 1932, making them the largest party in the legislature by far, albeit still short of an outright majority (37.3% on 31 July 1932 and 33.1% on 6 November 1932). Because none of the parties were willing or able to put together a coalition government, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933 by President Paul von Hindenburg through the support and connivance of traditional conservative nationalists who believed that they could control him and his party. With the use of emergency presidential decrees by Hindenburg and a change in the Weimar Constitution which allowed the Cabinet to rule by direct decree, bypassing both Hindenburg and the Reichstag, the Nazis soon established a one-party state and began the Gleichschaltung.\nThe Sturmabteilung (SA) and the Schutzstaffel (SS) functioned as the paramilitary organisations of the Nazi Party. Using the SS for the task, Hitler purged the party's more socially and economically radical factions in the mid-1934 Night of the Long Knives, including the leadership of the SA. After the death of President Hindenburg on 2 August 1934, political power was concentrated in Hitler's hands and he became Germany's head of state as well as the head of the government, with the title of Führer und Reichskanzler, meaning \"leader and Chancellor of Germany\" (see also here). From that point, Hitler was effectively the dictator of Nazi Germany – also known as the Third Reich – under which Jews, political opponents and other \"undesirable\" elements were marginalised, imprisoned or murdered. During World War II, many millions of people – including around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe – were eventually exterminated in a genocide which became known as the Holocaust. Following Germany's defeat in World War II and the discovery of the full extent of the Holocaust, Nazi ideology became universally disgraced. It is widely regarded as immoral and evil, with only a few fringe racist groups, usually referred to as neo-Nazis, describing themselves as followers of National Socialism.\n\nNazi exploitation (also Nazisploitation) is a subgenre of exploitation film and sexploitation film that involves Nazis committing sex crimes, often as camp or prison overseers during World War II. Most follow the women in prison formula, only relocated to a concentration camp, extermination camp, or Nazi brothel, and with an added emphasis on sadism, gore, and degradation. The most infamous and influential title (which set the standards of the genre) is a Canadian production, Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1974). Its surprise success and that of Salon Kitty and The Night Porter led European filmmakers, mostly in Italy, to produce similar films, with just over a dozen being released over the next few years. Globally exported to both cinema and VHS, the films were critically attacked and heavily censored, and the sub-genre all but vanished by the end of the seventies.\nIn Italy, these films are known as part of the \"il sadiconazista\" cycle, which were inspired by such art-house films as Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), and Tinto Brass's Salon Kitty (1976). Prominent directors of the genre include Paolo Solvay (La Bestia in Calore, also known as The Beast in Heat and SS Hell Camp), Cesare Canevari (Last Orgy of the Third Reich, also known as L'ultima orgia del III Reich, Gestapo's Last Orgy and Caligula Reincarnated as Hitler), and Alain Payet (Train spécial pour SS, also known as Special Train for Hitler and Helltrain), all from 1977."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Nazisploitation is a subgenre of exploitation film and sexploitation film that involves Nazis committing sex crimes, often as camp or prison overseers during World War II.\n\n[Nazi exploitation - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_exploitation)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "", "name": "Sophia"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's amazing yet horrifying the shit that humans will sexualize.\n\n**ETA:** For those reading, I don't always necessarily post things here or in other Wikipedia-based subs that I support or agree with, but to share the information that these things exist. Some things need to be brought out of the shadows."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Setagaya family murder (Japanese: 世田谷一家殺害事件, Hepburn: Setagaya ikka satsugai jiken, Setagaya family killings) refers to the unsolved murders of the Miyazawa family in the Kamisoshigaya neighborhood of Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, on the night of 30 to 31 December 2000.Husband and wife, Mikio and Yasuko, their daughter Niina, and their son Rei were murdered during a home invasion by an unknown assailant who then remained in the family's house for several hours before disappearing. Japanese police launched a massive investigation that uncovered the killer's DNA and many specific clues about their identity, but the perpetrator has never been identified.\nThe media frenzy and long investigation of the murders became a cause célèbre to abolish the statute of limitations for crimes that could merit the death penalty in Japan, which was removed in 2010."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# On 31 December 2000, 4 family members (the kids were 8 and 6) were murdered in their own home. The killer stayed in the house for hours, ate their food, used their toilet, and even took a nap. Despite 246,044 investigators having collected over 12,545 pieces of evidence, the case remains unsolved.\n\n[Setagaya family murder - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setagaya_family_murder)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Omg they even have dna and fingerprints. This is crazy!", "name": "Manuel"}, {"role": "user", "content": "even the man's sweater was super rare, one of 130, and yet!!!", "name": "Brady"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Elephant's Foot is the nickname given to a large mass of corium and other materials formed underneath the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat, Ukraine, during the Chernobyl disaster of April 1986, notable for its extreme radioactivity. It is named for its wrinkly appearance, evocative of the foot of an elephant.\nDiscovered in December of the year of the disaster, it is located in a maintenance corridor below the remains of Reactor No. 4, though the visible \"elephant's foot\" is only a part of a larger mass. It is still an extremely radioactive object, though the danger has decreased over time due to the decay of its radioactive components."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Elephant's Foot is a large mass of corium formed during the Chernobyl disaster. At the time of its discovery, radioactivity near the Elephant's Foot was approximately 8,000 roentgens, delivering a lethal dose of radiation within 5 minutes.\n\n[Elephant's Foot (Chernobyl) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant's_Foot_(Chernobyl))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Nowadays you can be in the room with it. Back when it was discovered, looking directly at it was instant death so they photographed it with mirrors.\n\nThat's why the above picture looks so bad. Radiation is destroying the camera.", "name": "Colton"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I heard this photo was shot using a series of mirrors. I could be wrong and Im not going to look it up", "name": "Shane"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Kenneth is a given name of Gaelic origin. The name is an Anglicised form of two entirely different Gaelic personal names: Cainnech and Cináed. The modern Gaelic form of Cainnech is Coinneach; the name was derived from a byname meaning \"handsome\", \"comely\". A short form of Kenneth is Ken.\n\nDaniel Irvin Rather Jr. (; born October 31, 1931) is an American journalist, commentator, and former national evening news anchor. He began his career in Texas, becoming a national name after his reporting saved thousands of lives during Hurricane Carla in September 1961. Rather spontaneously created the first radar weather report by overlaying a transparent map over a radar image of Hurricane Carla. In his first national broadcast, he helped initiate the successful evacuation of 350,000 people. He reported on some of the most significant events of the modern age, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Gulf War, 9/11, the Iraq War, and the war on terror.\nRather also famously reported from Dallas in November 1963 at the time that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Based on such impactful reporting, he was promoted at CBS News, where he served as White House correspondent beginning in 1964. He served as foreign correspondent in London and Vietnam over the next two years before returning to the White House correspondent position. He covered the presidency of Richard Nixon, including Nixon's trip to China, the Watergate scandal, and the president's resignation.\nIn 1981, Rather was promoted to news anchor for the CBS Evening News, a role he occupied for 24 years. Along with Peter Jennings at ABC News and Tom Brokaw at NBC News, he was one of the \"Big Three\" nightly news anchors in the U.S. from the 1980s through the early 2000s. He frequently contributed to CBS's weekly news magazine, 60 Minutes.\nRather left the anchor desk in 2005 following the Killian documents controversy, in which he presented unauthenticated documents in a news report on President George W. Bush's Vietnam War–era service in the National Guard. He continued to work with CBS until 2006, when he was abruptly fired.In September 2007, Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit against CBS and its former parent company Viacom. Rather accused the network and its ownership and management of making him a \"scapegoat\" in the Killian story. An intermediate New York state appeals court dismissed the lawsuit in September 2009, and the New York Court of Appeals refused to reinstate it in January 2010.On the cable channel AXS TV (then called HDNet), Rather hosted Dan Rather Reports, a 60 Minutes–style investigative news program, from 2006 to 2013. He also hosts several other projects for AXS TV, including Dan Rather Presents, which provides in-depth reporting on broad topics such as mental health care or adoption, and The Big Interview with Dan Rather, in which he conducts long-form interviews with musicians and other entertainers. In January 2018, he began hosting an online newscast called The News with Dan Rather on The Young Turks YouTube channel. Since 2021, he has been writing the newsletter \"Steady\" on the Substack platform."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"Kenneth, What is the frequency?\" - Dan Rather was attacked on his way home by a man shouting this phrase who believed TV networks were beaming signals into his brain. The assault was a mystery to Rather until the the same man received a prison sentence for killing an NBC stagehand a decade later.\n\n[Dan Rather - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rather#%22Kenneth,_what_is_the_frequency?%22)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "As some probably could've guessed, this was the inspiration behind the R.E.M. song [What's the Frequency, Kenneth?](https://youtu.be/jWkMhCLkVOg) - which was actually written when the bizarre event was still unsolved, and the assailant remained unidentified."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've heard this song but had no idea about the inspiration! Wow", "name": "Brooklyn"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Mary Flora Bell (born 26 May 1957) is an English woman who, as a juvenile, killed two preschool-age boys in Scotswood, an inner suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, in 1968. Bell committed her first killing when she was ten years old. In both instances, Bell informed her victim that he had a sore throat, which she would massage before proceeding to strangle him.Bell was convicted of manslaughter in relation to both killings in December 1968, in a trial held at Newcastle Assizes when she was 11 years old, and in which her actions were judged to have been committed under diminished responsibility. She is Britain's youngest female killer and was diagnosed with a psychopathic personality disorder prior to her trial. Her alleged accomplice in at least one of the killings, 13-year-old Norma Joyce Bell (no relation), was acquitted of all charges.Bell was released from custody in 1980, at the age of 23. A lifelong court order granted her anonymity, which has since been extended to protect the identity of her daughter and granddaughter. She has since lived under a series of pseudonyms."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Mary Bell was a child killer who strangled a 4-year old at the age of 10. She and a friend, at the ages of 11 and 13 respectively, went on to kill another toddler in the same manner, this time mutilating the child with scissors. Mary currently walks free after serving 12 years in prison.\n\n[Mary Bell - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bell)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've read Gitta Sereny's 'Cries unheard' recently, which is a very good book. Though it only talks briefly about Mary's own childhood, it shook me to the core what her mother (an alcoholic and prositute) put her through. No wonder she developed some worrying thoughts and behaviour. If someone had looked a little closer and cared a little more, I bet those two boys would still be alive.", "name": "Michael"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ofcourse it is bad what she went trough, but it DOESN'T excuse murder! And that she is free really scares me.\n\nEDIT: Before downvoting this, what you are still free to do, please just know I made a mistake and read the comments for a explanation, have a good day!\n\n​\n\nEdit 2: I aint removing this post cause I feel like I made a mistake, and thats alright, so I just want to keep it here as a reminder that not everything you post will be great, thank you for reading this.", "name": "Brody"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It shouldn't. She was eleven when she killed those boys, now she has a child of her own and has of course matured since then, also with professional help.\nThe circumstances of her own upbringing only serve as an explanation. I'm not trying to defend what she did, but before and also after the incidents, she got treated very wrong.", "name": "Gracie"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Tiger attacks are a form of human–wildlife conflict which have killed more humans than attacks by any of the other big cats, with the majority of these attacks occurring in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Southeast Asia."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# TIL the individual animal with the most human kills ever was a tiger from Northern India, which adjusted its hunting strategy to kill people after a tooth injury left it unable to hunt normal prey and was shot after an estimated 436 kills\n\n[Tiger attack - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champawat_Tiger)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "So you're telling me that you wouldn't shit your pants if you knew about a tiger that hunts for humans in your village.", "name": "Haley"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Nicholas Joseph Fuentes (born August 18, 1998) is an American far-right political commentator and live streamer who is known for his white supremacist, misogynistic, homophobic, antisemitic, and Islamophobic views. A former YouTuber, his channel was permanently terminated in February 2020 for violating YouTube's hate speech policy. Fuentes has promoted conspiracy theories against Jewish people, has denied the Holocaust, and advocates for the genocide of Jews. Fuentes identifies as a member of the incel movement, as a supporter of authoritarian government, and as a Catholic integralist and Christian nationalist.Collaborating with Patrick Casey, a former leader of the neo-Nazi organization Identity Evropa in 2019, Fuentes' followers, known as Groypers, began to heckle Turning Point's Culture War Tour, including a speaking event for Donald Trump Jr. In 2020, seeking to establish a white supremacist conference to rival CPAC, Fuentes began holding the annual America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC). Fuentes attended the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, and he later was an attendee and speaker at events preceding the 2021 United States Capitol attack. He has encouraged the use of jokes and irony among white nationalist groups, stating that it \"is so important for giving a lot of cover and plausible deniability for our views\".In late November 2022, Fuentes, along with Kanye West, met with former U.S. President Donald Trump for a private dinner. The meeting received significant comment from domestic and international political figures, with the debate surrounding the dinner being called \"the most discomfiting moment in U.S. history in a half-century or more\" for American Jews."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Nick Fuentes is an American white supremacist political commentator and live streamer. He holds antisemitic views and denies the Holocaust. He identifies as an incel, although some have criticized him for being a \"voluntary celibate\" after he admitted that he kissed a girl while in high school.\n\n[Nick Fuentes - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Fuentes)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "man.... who the fuck would identify as an incel dude?", "name": "George"}, {"role": "user", "content": "There are real incel online communities and I think a large chunk of their members would be completely open with identifying as such.", "name": "Mark"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A savior baby or savior sibling is a child who is conceived in order to provide a stem cell transplant to a sibling that is affected with a fatal disease, such as cancer or Fanconi anemia, that can best be treated by hematopoietic stem cell transplantation."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# A savior baby is a child who is raised not out of love, but to provide an organ or cell transplant to a sibling that is affected with a fatal disease.\n\n[Savior sibling - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savior_sibling)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "So the only ethical considerations are the mental well being of the child later because they \"might feel\" not wanted? Don't they know that since your infant who needs transplants and the new baby are both super young, you could just not tell them? Or tell them you assumed child 1 would die so they wanted child 2, and it just happened they could save 1? Or wait until they're adults and would understand to explain it. Or just, not tell them at all? Seems like a super weak, easily fixed issue. \n \n", "name": "Ashlyn"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Or just love and take care of both of your kids. ", "name": "Sabrina"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The clear craze was a marketing fad from the late 1980s to early 2000s, often equating transparency with purity. Inspired by Ivory's \"99 and 44/100 percent pure\" campaign for bath soap, and by low-calorie or \"light\" beverages, sodas were redesigned in the 1980s and 1990s as being free of artificial dyes, such as the caffeine-free and preservative-free Crystal Pepsi. Personal hygiene products were then relaunched as clear dye-free gels, and many electronics had transparent cases."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The clear craze was a marketing fad from the late 1980s to early 2000s, often equating transparency with purity. Inspired by Ivory's \"99 and 44/100 percent pure\" campaign for bath soap, and by low-calorie or \"light\" beverages, sodas were redesigned in the 1980s and 1990s as being free of...\n\n[Clear craze - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_craze)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I don't think consumers ever got tired of having clear stuff, for some reason the manufacturers all just stopped making clear stuff..", "name": "Eli"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Correct.\n\nIf they made a clear Nintendo switch (or the clear purple), I'm pretty sure there would be riots to get it.\n\nEDIT: JFC guys, I know aftermarket cases and controllers exist. I'm talking first party.", "name": "Brittany"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Monster of Florence (Italian: Il Mostro di Firenze) is the name commonly used by the Italian media for a non-definitively identified serial killer active within the Metropolitan City of Florence between 1974 (perhaps 1968) and 1985. The Monster murdered fourteen victims, usually young couples secluded in search of intimacy, in wooded areas during new moons. Several connected persons have been convicted for involvement in the murders, yet the exact sequence of events, the identity of the main actor and the motives remain unclear.\nLaw enforcement conducted several investigations into the cases over the course of several years. In 2000, courts convicted two individuals for four of the double homicides. They had been charged with being part of an alleged group of murderers which became known in the popular press as the \"Snack Buddies\" (Compagni di merende), following the notorious and absurdly comical courtroom protestation of one of the suspects that the group were merely friends who on frequent occasion innocently consumed \"snacks\" together in local bars and restaurants. Multiple weapons were used in the murders, including a .22 caliber Beretta handgun and a knife, and in half of the cases a large portion of the skin surrounding sex organs were excised from the bodies of the female victims."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Monster of Florence was an Italian serial killer (most likely a group of serial killers) who murdered 16 people (young amorous couples) between 1968 and 1985 in the Province of Florence. In half of the cases, the murderer excised sex organs from the bodies of the female victims.\n\n[Monster of Florence - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_of_Florence)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow... there's a crazy theory that the Zodiac Killer and this guy were the same person. I don't think that's true but it would be insane if it was."}, {"role": "user", "content": "We pretty much know who the zodiac killer was and i doubt the guy ever came to italy", "name": "Paul"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Who was the zodiac killer ?", "name": "Hunter"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ted Cruz", "name": "Hector"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "William David Daniels (born March 31, 1927) is an American actor who is known for his television roles, notably as Mark Craig on the drama series St. Elsewhere, for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards; the voice of KITT on the television series Knight Rider; and George Feeny on the sitcom Boy Meets World, which earned him four People's Choice Award nominations. He reprised his Knight Rider role in the sequel TV movie Knight Rider 2000 and his Boy Meets World role in the sequel series Girl Meets World. He also portrayed Carter Nash (the actual identity of the eponymous comedic superhero) in Captain Nice.\nDaniels's film roles include Mr. Braddock (Benjamin Braddock's father) in The Graduate, Howard Maxwell-Manchester in Two for the Road, and John Adams in the musical film 1776. He was president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1999 to 2001 and led the union's efforts during the 2000 commercial actors strike.\nDaniels is also noted for having portrayed in film or on television the three most prominent members of the Adams political family: John Adams, his cousin and fellow founding father, Samuel Adams, and John Adams's son John Quincy Adams."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# William Daniels is best known for his role as George Feeny in Boy Meets World and the voice of KITT in Knight Rider. His marriage to Bonnie Bartlett at 71 years is the longest active in Hollywood.\n\n[William Daniels - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Daniels)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Lets not forget playing John Adams in 1776. I had no idea there was so much singing back then.", "name": "Angelina"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's why in \"Boy Meets World\" the school is called \"John Adams High School\" As a nod", "name": "Isaac"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Blowing from a gun is a method of execution in which the victim is typically tied to the mouth of a cannon which is then fired, resulting in death. George Carter Stent described the process as follows:\n\nThe prisoner is generally tied to a gun with the upper part of the small of his back resting against the muzzle. When the gun is fired, his head is seen to go straight up into the air some forty or fifty feet; the arms fly off right and left, high up in the air, and fall at, perhaps, a hundred yards distance; the legs drop to the ground beneath the muzzle of the gun; and the body is literally blown away altogether, not a vestige being seen.\nBlowing from a gun was a reported means of execution as long ago as the 16th century and was used until the 20th century. The method was used by the Portuguese in the 16th and 17th centuries, from as early as 1509 across their empire from Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka) to Mozambique to Brazil. The Mughals used the method throughout the 17th century and into the 18th, particularly against rebels.This method of execution is most closely associated with the British East India Company rule in India. Following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, \"blowing from a gun\" was a method the British used to execute rebels as well as for Indian sepoys who were found guilty of desertion. Using the methods previously practised by the Mughals, the British began implementing blowing from guns in the latter half of the 18th century.Destruction of the body and scattering of the remains over a wide area had a religious function as a means of execution in the Indian subcontinent as it prevented the necessary funeral rites of Hindus and Muslims. Accordingly, for believers the punishment was extended beyond death. This was well understood by foreign occupiers and the practice was not generally employed by them as concurrent foreign occupiers of Africa, Australasia, or the Americas. Most recently there was an exceptional use of the practice in Afghanistan in 1930, against 11 Panjshiri rebels."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Blowing from a gun is a method of execution in which the victim is typically tied to the mouth of a cannon which is then fired, often resulting in death.\n\n[Blowing from a gun - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_from_a_gun)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Often?", "name": "Charlotte"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The entry states that blanks were often used. I guess that means an empty barrel. Who knows? I wouldn't volunteer for it either way.", "name": "Shelby"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It means no cannonball. But if a person is tied with their torso pressed against the cannon muzzle, the force produced from the powder charge is plenty strong enough to separate their limbs from their torso, and maybe blow a hole through their abdomen.", "name": "Damian"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Nathaniel Gordon (February 6, 1826 – February 21, 1862) was an American slave trader who was the only person in the United States to be tried, convicted, and executed by the federal government for having \"engaged in the slave trade\" under the Piracy Law of 1820."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 1862, Nathaniel Gordon became the first and only person to be executed for slave trading. He was hanged by the United States. Rejecting pleas for clemency, President Lincoln said \"there ought to be one case\" of a white slave trader suffering the same fate he inflicted on millions of Africans.\n\n[Nathaniel Gordon - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Gordon)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "*only person in the US\n\nI think there were a great many in the Haitian Revolution, for example.", "name": "Eduardo"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "\\*Outside of Haiti.\n\nIn Haiti, freed slaves (literally) executed the entire French population of the island."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Campaign for North Africa (CNA), subtitled \"The Desert War, 1940–43\", is a strategic \"monster\" board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1978 that simulates the entire North African Campaign of World War II."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Campaign for North Africa has been called the longest board game ever produced, with estimates that a full game would take 1500 hours to complete\n\n[The Campaign for North Africa - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Campaign_for_North_Africa)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Fuck I'd love to find a group to play it", "name": "Preston"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Random: I knew a guy who played an online wwII game in \"real time\". I was actually playing against him in another online first-person-shooter game. \n\nHis character in the other game was on a 5 hour flight....Just sitting there in his seat on the plane. So he had time to do other stuff.", "name": "Angel"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Nazism ( NA(H)T-siz-əm; also Naziism ), the common name in English for National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus, German: [natsi̯oˈnaːlzotsi̯aˌlɪsmʊs] ), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During Hitler's rise to power in 1930s Europe, it was frequently referred to as Hitlerism (German: Hitlerfaschismus). The later related term \"neo-Nazism\" is applied to other far-right groups with similar ideas which formed after the collapse of Hitler's Third Reich.\nNazism is a form of fascism, with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. It incorporates a dictatorship, fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, anti-Slavism, scientific racism, white supremacy, Nordicism, social Darwinism and the use of eugenics into its creed. Its extreme nationalism originated in pan-Germanism and the ethno-nationalist Völkisch movement which had been a prominent aspect of German ultranationalism since the late 19th century. Nazism was strongly influenced by the Freikorps paramilitary groups that emerged after Germany's defeat in World War I, from which came the party's underlying \"cult of violence\". It subscribed to pseudo-scientific theories of a racial hierarchy, identifying ethnic Germans as part of what the Nazis regarded as an Aryan or Nordic master race. Nazism sought to overcome social divisions and create a homogeneous German society based on racial purity which represented a people's community (Volksgemeinschaft). The Nazis aimed to unite all Germans living in historically German territory, as well as gain additional lands for German expansion under the doctrine of Lebensraum and exclude those whom they deemed either Community Aliens or \"inferior\" races (Untermenschen).\nThe term \"National Socialism\" arose out of attempts to create a nationalist redefinition of socialism, as an alternative to both Marxist international socialism and free-market capitalism. Nazism rejected the Marxist concepts of class conflict and universal equality, opposed cosmopolitan internationalism, and sought to convince all parts of the new German society to subordinate their personal interests to the \"common good\", accepting political interests as the main priority of economic organisation, which tended to match the general outlook of collectivism or communitarianism rather than economic socialism. The Nazi Party's precursor, the pan-German nationalist and antisemitic German Workers' Party (DAP), was founded on 5 January 1919. By the early 1920s, the party was renamed the National Socialist German Workers' Party in order to appeal to left-wing workers, a renaming that Hitler initially objected to. The National Socialist Program, or \"25 Points\", was adopted in 1920 and called for a united Greater Germany that would deny citizenship to Jews or those of Jewish descent, while also supporting land reform and the nationalisation of some industries. In Mein Kampf (\"My Struggle\"), published in 1925–1926, Hitler outlined the antisemitism and anti-communism at the heart of his political philosophy as well as his disdain for representative democracy, over which he proposed the Führerprinzip (leader principle), and his belief in Germany's right to territorial expansion through lebensraum. Hitler's objectives involved the eastward expansion of German territories, German colonization of Eastern Europe, and the promotion of an alliance with Britain and Italy against Russia.\nThe Nazi Party won the greatest share of the popular vote in the two Reichstag general elections of 1932, making them the largest party in the legislature by far, albeit still short of an outright majority (37.3% on 31 July 1932 and 33.1% on 6 November 1932). Because none of the parties were willing or able to put together a coalition government, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933 by President Paul von Hindenburg through the support and connivance of traditional conservative nationalists who believed that they could control him and his party. With the use of emergency presidential decrees by Hindenburg and a change in the Weimar Constitution which allowed the Cabinet to rule by direct decree, bypassing both Hindenburg and the Reichstag, the Nazis soon established a one-party state and began the Gleichschaltung.\nThe Sturmabteilung (SA) and the Schutzstaffel (SS) functioned as the paramilitary organisations of the Nazi Party. Using the SS for the task, Hitler purged the party's more socially and economically radical factions in the mid-1934 Night of the Long Knives, including the leadership of the SA. After the death of President Hindenburg on 2 August 1934, political power was concentrated in Hitler's hands and he became Germany's head of state as well as the head of the government, with the title of Führer und Reichskanzler, meaning \"leader and Chancellor of Germany\" (see also here). From that point, Hitler was effectively the dictator of Nazi Germany – also known as the Third Reich – under which Jews, political opponents and other \"undesirable\" elements were marginalised, imprisoned or murdered. During World War II, many millions of people – including around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe – were eventually exterminated in a genocide which became known as the Holocaust. Following Germany's defeat in World War II and the discovery of the full extent of the Holocaust, Nazi ideology became universally disgraced. It is widely regarded as immoral and evil, with only a few fringe racist groups, usually referred to as neo-Nazis, describing themselves as followers of National Socialism.\n\nNazi exploitation (also Nazisploitation) is a subgenre of exploitation film and sexploitation film that involves Nazis committing sex crimes, often as camp or prison overseers during World War II. Most follow the women in prison formula, only relocated to a concentration camp, extermination camp, or Nazi brothel, and with an added emphasis on sadism, gore, and degradation. The most infamous and influential title (which set the standards of the genre) is a Canadian production, Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1974). Its surprise success and that of Salon Kitty and The Night Porter led European filmmakers, mostly in Italy, to produce similar films, with just over a dozen being released over the next few years. Globally exported to both cinema and VHS, the films were critically attacked and heavily censored, and the sub-genre all but vanished by the end of the seventies.\nIn Italy, these films are known as part of the \"il sadiconazista\" cycle, which were inspired by such art-house films as Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), and Tinto Brass's Salon Kitty (1976). Prominent directors of the genre include Paolo Solvay (La Bestia in Calore, also known as The Beast in Heat and SS Hell Camp), Cesare Canevari (Last Orgy of the Third Reich, also known as L'ultima orgia del III Reich, Gestapo's Last Orgy and Caligula Reincarnated as Hitler), and Alain Payet (Train spécial pour SS, also known as Special Train for Hitler and Helltrain), all from 1977."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Nazisploitation is a subgenre of exploitation film and sexploitation film that involves Nazis committing sex crimes, often as camp or prison overseers during World War II.\n\n[Nazi exploitation - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_exploitation)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "There is a fair bit of this on some tube sites with xs in their names. Its a strange genre that leans into the BDSM and medical fetish areas (as OP mentioned from the article) interspersed with everyday life or sexy outside the camp scenes as well.", "name": "Carson"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Norman Yoshio Mineta (Japanese: 峯田 良雄, November 12, 1931 – May 3, 2022) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Mineta served in the United States Cabinet for Presidents Bill Clinton, a Democrat, and George W. Bush, a Republican.\nMineta was the mayor of San Jose from 1971 until 1975. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing California from 1975 until 1995. Mineta served as the United States Secretary of Commerce during the final months of Bill Clinton's presidency. He was the first person of East Asian descent to serve as a U.S. cabinet secretary.As the United States Secretary of Transportation for President Bush, Mineta was the only Democratic cabinet secretary in the Bush administration. He oversaw the creation of the Transportation Security Administration in response to the September 11 attacks that had occurred early in his tenure. On June 23, 2006, Mineta announced his resignation after more than five years as Secretary of Transportation, effective July 7, 2006, making him the longest-serving Secretary of Transportation in the department's history. A month later, the public relations firm Hill+Knowlton Strategies announced that Mineta would join it as a partner. In 2010, it was announced that Mineta would join L&L Energy, Inc. as vice chairman.\nMineta died on May 3, 2022, from a heart ailment in Edgewater, Maryland, at the age of 90."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# When Norman Mineta was a child, his baseball bat was taken away at a Japanese American internment camp. Later, as a Congressman, he was gifted a $1500 bat, which he had to return due to gift price limits. He humorously remarked, \"The damn government's taken my bat again.\"\n\n[Norman Mineta - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Mineta)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "> Mineta was born in San Jose, California, to Japanese immigrant parents Kunisaku Mineta and Kane Watanabe, who were barred from becoming American citizens at that time by the Asian Exclusion Act.[4] During World War II, the Mineta family was interned for several years at Area 24, 7th Barrack, Unit B, in the Heart Mountain internment camp near Cody, Wyoming, along with thousands of other Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans.[5] Upon arrival to the camp, Mineta, a baseball fan, had his baseball bat confiscated by authorities because it could be used as a weapon. Many years later, after Mineta was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, a man sent Mineta a $1,500 bat that was once owned by Hank Aaron, which Mineta was forced to return as it violated the congressional ban on gifts valued over $250. Mineta said: \"The damn government's taken my bat again.\""}, {"role": "user", "content": ">the Asian Exclusion Act\n\nFunny how they were willing to name it exactly what the law was about, despite how horrible it is.\n\nIf such a law were passed today, it would be called something like \"The Protect Freedom, Americans, American Children, and Apple Pie Act\"", "name": "Malachi"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "2 (two) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 1 and preceding 3. It is the smallest and only even prime number. Because it forms the basis of a duality, it has religious and spiritual significance in many cultures.\n\nJohn Daniel Ehrlichman (; March 20, 1925 – February 14, 1999) was an American political aide who served as White House Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon. Ehrlichman was an important influence on Nixon's domestic policy, coaching him on issues and enlisting his support for environmental initiatives.Ehrlichman was a key figure in events leading to the Watergate break-in and the ensuing Watergate scandal, for which he was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury, and served a year and a half in prison."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# \" [We] had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people...We knew we couldnt make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.\"\n\n[John Ehrlichman - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman#War_on_drugs)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yup. And that's why you all had to sit through those interminable DARE presentations in school. ", "name": "Joel"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "There is no DARE paraphernalia not being used in an ironic way. I'm positive.", "name": "Alicia"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Virginia ( vər-JIN-yə, -⁠nee-ə), officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The state's capital is Richmond and its most populous city is Virginia Beach, though its most populous subdivision is Fairfax County, part of Northern Virginia, where slightly over a third of Virginia's population of 8.72 million live as of 2023.\nThe Blue Ridge Mountains cross the western and southwestern parts of the state. The state's central region lies predominantly in the Piedmont. Eastern Virginia is part of the Atlantic Plain, and the Middle Peninsula forms the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. The fertile Shenandoah Valley is home to the state's most productive agricultural counties, while the economy in Northern Virginia is driven by technology companies and U.S. federal government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency. Hampton Roads is also the site of the region's main seaport and Naval Station Norfolk, the world's largest naval base.\nVirginia's history begins with several Indigenous groups, including the Powhatan. In 1607, the London Company established the Colony of Virginia as the first permanent English colony in the New World. Virginia's state nickname, the Old Dominion, is a reference to this status. Slaves from Africa and land from displaced native tribes fueled the growing plantation economy, but also fueled conflicts both inside and outside the colony. Virginia was one of the original Thirteen Colonies in the American Revolution and several key battles were fought there during that war. More major battles were fought in Virginia during the American Civil War, which split the state as the government in Richmond joined the Confederacy, but many northwestern counties remained loyal to the Union, which led to the separation of West Virginia in 1863.\nAlthough the state was under one-party rule for nearly a century following the Reconstruction era, both major political parties have been competitive in Virginia since the repeal of Jim Crow laws in the 1970s. Virginia's state legislature is the Virginia General Assembly, which was established in July 1619, making it the oldest current law-making body in North America. It is made up of a 40-member Senate and a 100-member House of Delegates. Unlike other states, cities and counties in Virginia function as equals, but the state government manages most local roads inside each. It is the only state where governors are prohibited from serving consecutive terms.\n\nThe Bunny Man is an urban legend that originated from two incidents in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1970, but has been spread throughout the Washington, D.C., and Maryland areas. The legend has many variations; most involve a man wearing a rabbit costume who attacks people with an axe or hatchet.\nMost of the stories occur around Colchester Overpass, a Southern Railway overpass spanning Colchester Road near Clifton, Virginia, sometimes referred to as \"Bunny Man Bridge\".Versions of the legend vary in the Bunny Man's name, motives, weapons, victims, description of the bunny costume or lack thereof, and sometimes even his possible death. In some accounts, victims' bodies are mutilated, and in some variations, the Bunny Man's ghost or aging spectre is said to come out of his place of death each year on Halloween to commemorate his death."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Bunny Man, An Urban Legend where a Tunnel in Virginia is Haunted by a Killer in a Bunny Suit.\n\n[Bunny Man - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_Man)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Under the killing moon?", "name": "Trevor"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Why are you wearing that stupid human suit?", "name": "Skylar"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Beslan school siege (also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis or the Beslan massacre) was a terrorist attack that started on 1 September 2004, lasted three days, involved the imprisonment of more than 1,100 people as hostages (including 777 children) and ended with the deaths of 334 people, 186 of them children, as well as 31 of the attackers. It is considered the deadliest school shooting in history.The crisis began when a group of armed terrorists occupied School Number One (SNO) in the town of Beslan, North Ossetia (an autonomous republic in the North Caucasus region of Russia) on 1 September 2004. The hostage-takers were members of the Riyad-us Saliheen, sent by the Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, who demanded Russian withdrawal from and recognition of the independence of Chechnya. On the third day of the standoff, Russian security forces stormed the building.\nThe event had security and political repercussions in Russia, leading to a series of federal government reforms consolidating power in the Kremlin and strengthening the powers of the President of Russia. Criticisms of the Russian government's management of the crisis have persisted, including allegations of disinformation and censorship in news media as well as questions about journalistic freedom, negotiations with the terrorists, allocation of responsibility for the eventual outcome and the use of excessive force."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In September 2004, over 1K people (777 children) were held hostage for 3 days by terrorists in their school. At lest 334 were killed in what is now known as the Beslan school siege (Russia)\n\n[Beslan school siege - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_siege)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "There's a really good documentary on this called The Children of Beslan. It was made in 2006, about 2 years after the seige. I would definitely recommend giving it a watch if you're interested in this case. \n\nThere's a particular scene that has stayed with me years after watching it. There's a little boy in the documentary who's mother died of dehydration during the seige and since that day he always leaves a glass of water in front of his mom's picture. It's really heartbreaking.", "name": "Joshua"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I ll be sure to check it out thank you"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Churchill was startled to see Lincoln standing by the fireplace in the room, he said \"Good evening, Mr. President. You seem to have me at a disadvantage.\" Lincoln smiled softly, as if laughing and disappeared. Churchill smiled in embarrassment.\n\n[Lincoln's ghost - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln's_ghost?wprov=sfti1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "If anyone had unfinished business as a President it was definitely Lincoln.", "name": "Francisco"}, {"role": "user", "content": "didnt he kill a bunch of zombies already?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I believe Lincoln killed [vampires](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611224/). It was [Kennedy](https://callofduty.fandom.com/wiki/%22Five%22) who killed a bunch of zombies.", "name": "Jeffrey"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Jamaica ( ; Jamaican Patois: Jumieka, [dʒʌˈmi̯eka]) is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi), it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about 145 km (90 mi) south of Cuba, 191 km (119 mi) west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and 215 km (134 mi) south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British protectorate).First inhabited by the indigenous Taíno peoples, the island came under Spanish rule after the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1494. Many of the indigenous people either were killed or died of diseases, after which the Spanish brought large numbers of Africans to Jamaica as slaves. The island remained a possession of Spain, under the name Santiago, until 1655, when England (part of what would become the Kingdom of Great Britain) conquered it and named it Jamaica. It became an important part of the colonial British West Indies. Under Britain's colonial rule, Jamaica became a leading sugar exporter, with a plantation economy dependent on continued importation of African slaves and their descendants. The British fully emancipated all slaves in 1838, and many freedmen chose to have subsistence farms rather than to work on plantations. Beginning in the 1840s, the British began using Chinese and Indian indentured labourers for plantation work. Jamaicans achieved independence from the United Kingdom on 6 August 1962.With 2.8 million people, Jamaica is the third most populous Anglophone country in the Americas (after the United States and Canada), and the fourth most populous country in the Caribbean. Kingston is the country's capital and largest city. Most Jamaicans are of Sub-Saharan African ancestry, with significant European, East Asian (primarily Chinese), Indian, Lebanese, and mixed-race minorities. Because of a high rate of emigration for work since the 1960s, there is a large Jamaican diaspora, particularly in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The country has a global influence that belies its small size; it was the birthplace of the Rastafari religion, reggae music (and such associated genres as dub, ska and dancehall), and it is internationally prominent in sports, including cricket, sprinting, and athletics. Jamaica has sometimes been considered the world's least populous cultural superpower.Jamaica is an upper-middle-income country with an economy heavily dependent on tourism; it has an average of 4.3 million tourists a year. The country performs favourably in measures of press freedom, democratic governance and sustainable well-being. Jamaica is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy with power vested in the bicameral Parliament of Jamaica, consisting of an appointed Senate and a directly elected House of Representatives. Andrew Holness has served as Prime Minister of Jamaica since March 2016. As a Commonwealth realm, with Charles III as its king, the appointed representative of the Crown is the Governor-General of Jamaica, an office held by Patrick Allen since 2009.\n\nDaggering is a form of dance originating from Jamaica. The dance incorporates the male dancer ramming his crotch area into the female dancer's buttocks, and other forms of frantic movement. Daggering is not a traditional dance; it is of recent origin, associated with the 2006 wave of dancehall music."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Daggering: A form of dance originating from Jamaica. The dance incorporates the male dancer ramming his crotch area into the female dancer's buttocks, and other forms of frantic movement.\n\n[Daggering - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daggering)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": ">Jamaican doctors have also warned of the dangers of daggering, after having many cases of damaged penis tissue. The condition can result in permanent damage, and therefore must be taken seriously. Jamaican doctors assert that those trying to replicate the powerful moves of daggering in the bedroom can end up with dramatic injuries. In 2009, they stated that the incidence of broken penises has increased in the past year"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Like telling a fish not to swim", "name": "Luis"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# A gerontocracy is a form of oligarchical rule in which leaders are much older than most of the population. In political structures power within the ruling class accumulates with age making the oldest the holders of the most power. (Over 23% of Congress is over 70 years old and the median age is 62)\n\n[Gerontocracy - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerontocracy?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The USA has been a gerontokleptokakistocracy for quite some time now.", "name": "Brittany"}, {"role": "user", "content": "had to google kakistocracy but i now appurciate this", "name": "James"}, {"role": "user", "content": "\"Akakistocracy(/kkstkrsi/,/kkst-/) is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.\"", "name": "Hayden"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Centralia is a borough and near-ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Its population has declined from 1,000 in 1980 to five residents in 2020 because a coal mine fire has been burning beneath the borough since 1962. Centralia, part of the Bloomsburg–Berwick metropolitan area, is the least-populated municipality in Pennsylvania. It is completely surrounded by Conyngham Township.\nAll real estate in the borough was claimed under eminent domain in 1992 and condemned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Centralia's ZIP Code was discontinued by the Postal Service in 2002. State and local officials reached an agreement with the then seven remaining residents on October 29, 2013, allowing them to remain in Centralia until their deaths, after which the rights to their houses will be taken through eminent domain. As of 2020, only 5 residents remain."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Centralia is a borough and near-ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its population has dwindled from more than 1,000 residents in 1980 to 63 by 1990, to only five in 2017a result of the coal mine fire which has been burning beneath the borough since 1962.\n\n[Centralia, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "How do 5 poeple stay there", "name": "Oliver"}, {"role": "user", "content": "\"My grandpa owned this land, my dad owned this land, and I'll be damned if the government is gonna tell me to leave\" I imagine is at least part of it.", "name": "Madison"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Brazen Bull: Torture Device\n\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This is imo the worst torture device", "name": "Brittany"}, {"role": "user", "content": "At least this one is relatively quick.\n\nThe boats, on the other hand...", "name": "Timothy"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Is it really quick though? It roasts your flesh until you die. No idea what the temperature gets to though. What is the boats?", "name": "Riley"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Like I said, pretty quick relatively speaking, as far as torture methods go.\n\n[The Persians were highly creative though.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism)", "name": "Elias"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Rachel Anderson (born 1943) is an English journalist and author best known for her children's books. Her work often features the positive portrayal of characters with learning disabilities, and themes of social injustice and alienation. She was married for 45 years to the writer and translator David Bradby. Her mother was the writer Verily Anderson. \nFor the novel Paper Faces, published by OUP in 1991, Anderson won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.\n\nThe murder of Rachael Anderson occurred on January 28, 2018, in Columbus, Ohio. Anderson, a twenty-four-year-old aspiring funeral director, was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by Anthony Pardon in her apartment on her birthday.Pardon, a registered sex offender with an extensive criminal history, left Anderson's body in her bedroom closet where she was discovered the next day. A significant amount of evidence linked Pardon to the crime, including cellphone data and DNA. He was arrested and charged with Anderson's murder.He was convicted in 2020 and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Rachel Anderson was a 24 year old woman who got kidnapped, raped, and brutally murdered on her apartment on her birthday.\n\n[Murder of Rachael Anderson - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Rachael_Anderson)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Some of the offenders priors include molesting an infant, an 8-year old girl and attempted murder. The justice system in this shit hole country should be held accountable that we really let people like this back out into society."}, {"role": "user", "content": "It's a shame, but realistically we can't keep every criminal locked up forever. Mistakes will always be made. As it is, we have the highest prison population (not just pet capita, but overall). The judge recommended he continue to be monitored and the Ohio parole office decided it wasn't worth their time. This man should have been in court-mandated psychiatric sessions. The failure in this case is not on the system as a whole, but that specific Ohio department that decided this guy didn't fit in their budget.\n\nI'm not excusing what he did, but he was a minor when those crimes were committed and I am against trying minors as adults.\n\nedit, because I'm sure I'll get downvoted to shit: after you downvote me, take some time to reflect on some major flaws in our justice system and the bias it has: \nhttps://www.nccdglobal.org/sites/default/files/publication_pdf/justice-for-some.pdf \nhttps://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/208129.pdf \nhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/229532416_The_Interaction_of_Race_Gender_and_Age_in_Criminal_Sentencing_The_Punishment_Cost_of_Being_Young_Black_and_Male \nhttps://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/aer.20161503 \nhttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1756506", "name": "Xavier"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Omaha ( OH-mə-hah) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 10 mi (15 km) north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's 40th-most populous city, Omaha's 2020 census population was 486,051.Omaha is the anchor of the eight-county, a bi-state Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area. The Omaha metropolitan area is the 58th-largest in the United States, with a population of 967,604. The Omaha–Council Bluffs–Fremont, NE–IA Combined Statistical Area (CSA) totaled 1,004,771, according to 2020 estimates. Approximately 1.5 million people reside within the Greater Omaha area, within a 50 mi (80 km) radius of Downtown Omaha. It is ranked as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, which in 2020 gave it \"sufficiency\" status.Omaha's pioneer period began in 1854, when the city was founded by speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa. The city was founded along the Missouri River, and a crossing called Lone Tree Ferry earned the city its nickname, the \"Gateway to the West\". Omaha introduced this new West to the world in 1898, when it played host to the World's Fair, dubbed the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. During the 19th century, Omaha's central location in the United States spurred the city to become an important national transportation hub. Throughout the rest of the 19th century, the transportation and jobbing sectors were important in the city, along with its railroads and breweries. In the 20th century, the Omaha Stockyards, once the world's largest, and its meatpacking plants gained international prominence.\nPresently, Omaha is the home to the headquarters of four Fortune 500 companies: conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway; one of the world's largest construction companies, Kiewit Corporation; insurance and financial firm Mutual of Omaha; and the United States' largest railroad operator, Union Pacific Corporation. Berkshire Hathaway is headed by local investor Warren Buffett, one of the wealthiest people in the world, according to a decade's worth of Forbes rankings, some of which have ranked him as high as No. 1. Omaha is also the home to five Fortune 1000 headquarters: Green Plains, Intrado, TD Ameritrade, Valmont Industries, and Werner Enterprises. Also headquartered in Omaha are the following: First National Bank of Omaha, the third largest privately held bank in the United States; three of the nation's ten largest architecture/engineering firms (DLR Group, HDR, Inc., and Leo A Daly); and the Gallup Organization, of Gallup Poll fame, and its riverfront Gallup University. Notable modern Omaha inventions include the following: the \"pink hair curler\" created at Omaha's Tip-Top Products; Butter Brickle Ice Cream, and the Reuben sandwich, conceived by a chef at the Blackstone Hotel on 36th and Farnam Streets; cake mix, developed by Duncan Hines, then a division of Omaha's Nebraska Consolidated Mills, the forerunner to today's ConAgra Foods; center-pivot irrigation by the Omaha company now known as Valmont Corporation; Raisin Bran, developed by Omaha's Skinner Macaroni Co.; the first ski lift in the U.S., in 1936, by Omaha's Union Pacific Corp.; the Top 40 radio format, pioneered by Todd Storz, scion of Omaha's Storz Brewing Co. and head of Storz Broadcasting, and first used in the U.S. at Omaha's KOWH Radio; and the TV dinner, developed by Omaha's Carl A. Swanson.\n\nThe Omaha Race Riot occurred in Omaha, Nebraska, September 28–29, 1919. The race riot resulted in the lynching of Will Brown, a black civilian; the death of two white rioters; the injuries of many Omaha Police Department officers and civilians, including the attempted hanging of Mayor Edward Parsons Smith; and a public rampage by thousands of white rioters who set fire to the Douglas County Courthouse in downtown Omaha. It followed more than 20 race riots that occurred in major industrial cities and certain rural areas of the United States during the Red Summer of 1919."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Omaha race riot of 1919. The race riot resulted in the lynching of Will Brown, a black civilian; the death of two white rioters; the injuries of many Omaha Police Department officers and civilians, including the attempted hanging of Mayor Edward Parsons Smith and a public rampage.\n\n[Omaha race riot of 1919 - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_race_riot_of_1919)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I come from a place in the South that is about 50/50 white and black (seriously like 47/46 with the rest a mix of Asian and Hispanic). We have our race issues like any place (especially historically), but we mostly get along and work together. The company I used to work for was based in Omaha and I had to go there yearly for a while. It was an interesting place from a race perspective. It is pretty close to the overall US makeup racially, but it really felt like there was an undercurrent of stuff. Then I read about all of the race riots they have had and it made a lot more sense.", "name": "Lydia"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It's still pretty segregated today (Black people in North Omaha, latinos in South Omaha and rich white people in West Omaha). Also, Malcolm X was born in Omaha, but his family was chased out by the KKK.", "name": "Miranda"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Island gigantism, or insular gigantism, is a biological phenomenon in which the size of an animal species isolated on an island increases dramatically in comparison to its mainland relatives. Island gigantism is one aspect of the more general \"island effect\" or \"Foster's rule\", which posits that when mainland animals colonize islands, small species tend to evolve larger bodies, and large species tend to evolve smaller bodies (insular dwarfism). This is itself one aspect of the more general phenomenon of island syndrome which describes the differences in morphology, ecology, physiology and behaviour of insular species compared to their continental counterparts. Following the arrival of humans and associated introduced predators (dogs, cats, rats, pigs), many giant as well as other island endemics have become extinct (e.g. the dodo and Rodrigues solitaire, giant flightless pigeons related to the Nicobar pigeon). A similar size increase, as well as increased woodiness, has been observed in some insular plants such as the Mapou tree (Cyphostemma mappia) in Mauritius which is also known as the \"Mauritian baobab\" although it is member of the grape family (Vitaceae)."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Island gigantism is a biological phenomenon in which the size of an animal species isolated on an island increases dramatically in comparison to its mainland relatives.\n\n[Island gigantism - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_gigantism)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This oddly explains the rats in New York City.", "name": "Alexander"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That was funny, but seeing 50 negative votes on the oh so smart comment below was satisfying :)", "name": "Kelsey"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# her first thought as she lay on the floor with her neck severely broken was, Thank God, I wont be going to the Olympics.\n\n[Elena Mukhina - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Mukhina?wprov=sfti1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I read about this for the first time this morning and what happened to Elena is *infuriating.* She knew she couldn't pull it off, and that she would be injured. Her doctors and coaches basically forced her, and then after the accident blamed her for it in the press. Sadly, she passed away at 46 from complications related to her condition", "name": "Katie"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I read her story a few years ago and i have *never* been able to get it out of my mind. And since the olympics have started she has been all i can think about at times. Her story is so unbelievably tragic and yet she shows such grace and compassion post injury. I truly look up to her and make an effort to remember her every day. May Elena rest in peace"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 1968, Mao Zedong gave out a box of mangoes gifted to him by Pakistan. A cult formed in China for the unfamiliar fruit. Replicas were made and publicly displayed. One man said that the fruit didnt look like anything special, and was shamefully paraded around his town and then publicly executed.\n\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What in the holy fuck is up with the comments here?", "name": "Gabriel"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Weird ass bots. Alternative case 878 post bullshit jokes constantly. Pain in the ass things.", "name": "Brady"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Daniel Victor Jones (April 15, 1958 – April 30, 1998) was an American man who committed suicide on a Los Angeles freeway in 1998. The incident was broadcast on live television by news helicopters. Jones committed suicide as a form of protest towards health maintenance organizations after he had been diagnosed as HIV-positive several months earlier. Footage of his suicide was shown in the 2002 documentary film Bowling for Columbine."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Daniel Victor Jones committed suicide on a Los Angeles freeway in 1998. The incident as well as the mans video taped suicide note were broadcast on live television by news helicopters which prompted much controversy in the Los Angels area.\n\n[Daniel V. Jones - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_V._Jones)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "All my sympathy went out the window when I found out his poor dog with in the truck when he set it ablaze. I don't agree with ever killing a pet when you're going to kill yourself but at least be humane about it!", "name": "Jaden"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Almost like this dude had a few screws loose", "name": "Nevaeh"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surface area. With 1.4 billion people as of 2021, it accounts for about 18% of the world's human population. Africa's population is the youngest amongst all the continents; the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30.4. Despite a wide range of natural resources, Africa is the least wealthy continent per capita and second-least wealthy by total wealth, ahead of Oceania. Scholars have attributed this to different factors including geography, climate, tribalism, colonialism, the Cold War, neocolonialism, lack of democracy, and corruption. Despite this low concentration of wealth, recent economic expansion and the large and young population make Africa an important economic market in the broader global context.\nThe continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos. It contains 54 fully recognised sovereign states, eight cities and islands that are part of non-African states, and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition. This count does not include Malta and Sicily, which are geologically part of the African continent. Algeria is Africa's largest country by area, and Nigeria is its largest by population. African nations cooperate through the establishment of the African Union, which is headquartered in Addis Ababa.\nAfrica straddles the equator and the prime meridian. It is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to the southern temperate zones. The majority of the continent and its countries are in the Northern Hemisphere, with a substantial portion and a number of countries in the Southern Hemisphere. Most of the continent lies in the tropics, except for a large part of Western Sahara, Algeria, Libya and Egypt, the northern tip of Mauritania, and the entire territories of Morocco, Ceuta, Melilla, and Tunisia which in turn are located above the tropic of Cancer, in the northern temperate zone. In the other extreme of the continent, southern Namibia, southern Botswana, great parts of South Africa, the entire territories of Lesotho and Eswatini and the southern tips of Mozambique and Madagascar are located below the tropic of Capricorn, in the southern temperate zone.\nAfrica is highly biodiverse; it is the continent with the largest number of megafauna species, as it was least affected by the extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna. However, Africa also is heavily affected by a wide range of environmental issues, including desertification, deforestation, water scarcity and pollution. These entrenched environmental concerns are expected to worsen as climate change impacts Africa. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has identified Africa as the continent most vulnerable to climate change.The history of Africa is long, complex, and has often been under-appreciated by the global historical community. Africa, particularly Eastern Africa, is widely accepted as the place of origin of humans and the Hominidae clade (great apes). The earliest hominids and their ancestors have been dated to around 7 million years ago, including Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Australopithecus africanus, A. afarensis, Homo erectus, H. habilis and H. ergaster—the earliest Homo sapiens (modern human) remains, found in Ethiopia, South Africa, and Morocco, date to circa 233,000, 259,000, and 300,000 years ago, respectively, and Homo sapiens is believed to have originated in Africa around 350,000–260,000 years ago. Africa is also considered by anthropologists to be the most genetically diverse continent as a result of being the longest inhabited.Early human civilizations, such as Ancient Egypt and Carthage emerged in North Africa. Following a subsequent long and complex history of civilizations, migration and trade, Africa hosts a large diversity of ethnicities, cultures and languages. The last 400 years have witnessed an increasing European influence on the continent. Starting in the 16th century, this was driven by trade, including the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, which created large African diaspora populations in the Americas. From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, European nations colonized almost all of Africa, reaching a point when only Ethiopia and Liberia were independent polities. Most present states in Africa emerged from a process of decolonisation following World War II."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 1954 one person in Africa commited a mass murder killing 21 people with an axe, escaped and started a new life. 3 years later went on ANOTHER rampage, killing 36 people, only to finally be burned to death by police. Despite being the worse massacre by one man, barely any info exists on it.\n\n[William Unek - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Unek?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Of course he was a cop.", "name": "Jeremiah"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Little known fact: \"Thin Blue Line\" is actually a reference to cops' fragile psychological and emotional stabilities", "name": "Breanna"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Robert Budd Dwyer (November 21, 1939 – January 22, 1987) was an American politician. He served from 1965 to 1971 as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and from 1971 to 1981 as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate representing the state's 50th district. Dwyer then served as the 70th state treasurer of Pennsylvania from January 20, 1981, until January 22, 1987, when he killed himself during a live press conference.\nDuring the early 1980s, Pennsylvania discovered that its state workers had overpaid federal taxes due to errors in state withholding before Dwyer's administration. A multimillion-dollar recovery contract was required to determine the compensation to be given to each employee. In 1986, Dwyer was convicted of accepting a bribe from Computer Technology Associates, a California-based company, to award them the contract. He was found guilty on 11 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, perjury, and interstate transportation in aid of racketeering, and was scheduled to be sentenced on January 23, 1987. On January 22, Dwyer arranged a news conference in the Pennsylvania State Capitol Building in Harrisburg, during which he fatally shot himself with a .357 Magnum revolver in the presence of reporters. Dwyer's suicide was live broadcast to many television viewers in Pennsylvania.\nAll posthumous appeals made by Dwyer's lawyers on Dwyer's behalf were denied, and his convictions were sustained. Along with Barbara Hafer and Rob McCord, Dwyer is one of three former Pennsylvania State treasurers to be convicted of corruption since the 1980s."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# On January 22, 1987, Budd Dwyer called a news conference in the Pennsylvania state capital where he killed himself in front of the gathered reporters by shooting himself with a .357 Magnum revolver. His suicide was broadcast later that day across Pennsylvania.\n\n[R. Budd Dwyer - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Budd_Dwyer)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The [video of his live suicide](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVm88MX2Gw4) for those interested. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Thanks but no thanks."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Good choice not to watch this.", "name": "Lydia"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hey man nice choice", "name": "Maya"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Anatoly Yuryevich Moskvin (Russian: Анатолий Юрьевич Москвин; born 1 September 1966) is a Russian former linguist, philologist, and historian who was arrested in 2011 after the mummified bodies of twenty-six girls and women between the ages of 3 and 29 were discovered in his apartment in Nizhny Novgorod. After exhuming the bodies from local cemeteries, Moskvin mummified the bodies himself before dressing and posing them around his home. Moskvin's parents, who shared the apartment with him, knew of the mummies but mistook them for large dolls.A psychiatric evaluation determined that Moskvin had a form of paranoid schizophrenia. In May 2012, he was sentenced to court-ordered psychiatric evaluation and has since been held in a psychiatric hospital.Vladimir Stravinskas, head of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Nizhny Novgorod region, called the case exceptional and unparalleled in modern forensics."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Anatoly Moskvin is a Russian linguist, philologist, and historian from Nizhny Novgorod who was arrested in 2011 after the mummified bodies of twenty-six girls between the ages of 3 and 25 were discovered in his apartment.\n\n[Anatoly Moskvin - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Moskvin)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "TLDR;\nHe stole corpses from graves because he felt they desired to be resurrected. He didnt kill anyonehe just wanted to protect lost souls, and he really wanted children (in a completely non-sexual way).\nI feel awful for this guy. Sickness is sickness."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Well shit. Its really telling when someones good nature shines through even in their greatest delusions.", "name": "Maxwell"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Henry Alfred Kissinger (May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat, political scientist, geopolitical consultant, and politician who served as the United States secretary of state and national security advisor in the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford between 1969 and 1977.Born in Germany, Kissinger came to the United States in 1938 as a Jewish refugee fleeing Nazi persecution. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and, after the war, was educated at Harvard University, where he excelled academically. He later became a professor of government at the university and earned an international reputation as an expert on nuclear weapons and foreign policy. He frequently acted as a consultant to government agencies, think tanks, and the presidential campaigns of Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon before being appointed national security advisor.\nKissinger pioneered the policy of détente with the Soviet Union, orchestrated an opening of relations with China, engaged in \"shuttle diplomacy\" in the Middle East to end the Yom Kippur War, and negotiated the Paris Peace Accords, which ended American involvement in the Vietnam War. For his role in negotiating the end of the Vietnam War, he was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize under controversial circumstances. A practitioner of a pragmatic approach to politics called Realpolitik, he has been widely considered by scholars to have been an effective secretary of state.Kissinger is also associated with controversial U.S. policies, including its bombing of Cambodia, involvement in the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, support for Argentina's military junta in its Dirty War, support for Indonesia in its invasion of East Timor, and support for Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War and Bangladesh genocide. He was accused of war crimes for the civilian death toll of the policies he pursued, his role in facilitating U.S. support for dictatorial regimes, and willful ignorance towards human rights abuses committed by the United States and its allies.After leaving government, Kissinger founded Kissinger Associates, an international geopolitical consulting firm. He authored over a dozen books on diplomatic history and international relations. His advice was sought by American presidents of both political parties."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Henry Kissinger was born into a German-Jewish family which emigrated to the United States to avoid persecution by the Nazis. In the 1970s, however, Kissinger blamed Jews for their own persecution, claiming, \"Any people who has been persecuted for two thousand years must be doing something wrong.\"\n\n[Henry Kissinger - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "he was truly a disgusting, horrible person, and humanity is well rid of him.", "name": "Jalen"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Unfortunately, humanity is not yet rid of the consequences of his policies.", "name": "Jocelyn"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Sylvia Marie Likens (January 3, 1949 – October 26, 1965) was an American teenager who was tortured and murdered by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, many of Baniszewski's children, and several of their neighborhood friends. The abuse lasted for three months, occurring incrementally, before Likens died from her extensive injuries and malnourishment on October 26, 1965, in Indianapolis, Indiana.\nLikens was increasingly tormented, neglected, belittled, sexually humiliated, beaten, starved, lacerated, burned, and dehydrated by her tormentors. Her autopsy showed 150 wounds across her body, including several burns, scald marks and eroded skin. Through intimidation, her younger sister, Jenny, was occasionally forced to participate in her mistreatment. The official cause of her death was determined to be a homicide caused by a combination of subdural hematoma and shock, complicated by severe malnutrition.\nGertrude Baniszewski; her oldest daughter, Paula; her son, John; and two neighborhood youths, Coy Hubbard and Richard Hobbs, were all tried and convicted in May 1966 of neglecting, torturing, and murdering Likens. At the defendants' trial, Deputy Prosecutor Leroy New described the case as \"the most diabolical case to ever come before a court or jury\" and Gertrude's defense attorney, William C. Erbecker, described Likens as having been subjected to acts of \"degradation that you wouldn't commit on a dog\" before her death.\nAfter eight hours of deliberation, the jury found Gertrude Baniszewski guilty of first-degree murder. She was sentenced to life imprisonment but was released on parole in 1985. Paula was found guilty of second-degree murder and was released in 1972; Hobbs, Hubbard, and John were found guilty of manslaughter and served less than two years in the Indiana Reformatory before being granted parole on February 27, 1968.\nThe torture and murder of Sylvia Likens is widely regarded by Indiana citizens as the worst crime ever committed in their state and has been described by a senior investigator in the Indianapolis Police Department as the \"most sadistic\" case he had ever investigated in the 35 years he served with the Indianapolis Police."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Likens, aged 16, was held captive and subjected to increasing levels of child abuse and and torture by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, many of Baniszewski's children, and several other neighborhood children, before ultimately succumbing to her injuries.\n\n[Murder of Sylvia Likens - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sylvia_Likens)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I warned people on the previous post and Ill warn them again: if you have any issues reading a true story about horrific, violent abuse of a young kid, do not read this, its brutal, serious trigger issue. More than creepy I would say.", "name": "Kimberly"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "This is definitely one of the more horrific things I've ever read.\n\nUsually when people throw around terms like \"worst ever\" or \"evil incarnate\" or what have you, it feels... over-hyped? I usually feel like I've seen the same [or worse] a hundred times before.\n\nBut man, this is up there. Top handful of the worst, for sure."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "On August 28, 2003, pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells robbed a PNC Bank near his hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. Upon being apprehended by police, Wells died when an explosive collar locked to his neck detonated. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation into his death uncovered a complex plot described as \"one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI\".In conjunction with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP), the FBI investigation led to Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong and Kenneth Barnes being charged with the crime in 2007. The investigation determined the plot was masterminded by Diehl-Armstrong to receive an inheritance by hiring Barnes with the money from the bank robbery to kill her father. William Rothstein and Floyd Stockton were also found to have conspired in the crime, but Rothstein died before being charged and Stockton was granted immunity in exchange for testifying against Diehl-Armstrong. Diehl-Armstrong was sentenced in 2011 to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, and Barnes received a reduced sentence of 22½ years in exchange for testifying against Diehl-Armstrong; both died in prison.\nWells' involvement in the plot is a matter of controversy. Investigators concluded Wells was a willing participant in the robbery, but was told the bomb was fake. Wells' family said he was forced to rob the bank by the conspirators. Known as the collar bomb case or pizza bomber case, the incident gained extensive media coverage, including the 2018 Netflix series Evil Genius."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Pizza delivery man Brian Wells wore a collar bomb around his neck to rob a PNC bank in Pennsylvania. Police would later arrest him and leave him sitting on the ground alone while they waited for the bomb squad. Before three minutes before the bomb squad arrived, the bomb detonated on live tv.\n\n[Death of Brian Wells - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Brian_Wells)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "There was a great Netflix documentary about this called [Evil Genius](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpdb9zo_1t8).", "name": "Colby"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It was really good.", "name": "Juliana"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Linguistic determinism is the concept that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge or thought, as well as thought processes such as categorization, memory, and perception. The term implies that people's native languages will affect their thought process and therefore people will have different thought processes based on their mother tongues.Linguistic determinism is the strong form of linguistic relativity (popularly known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis), which argues that individuals experience the world based on the structure of the language they habitually use. Since the 20th century, linguistic determinism has largely been discredited by studies and abandoned within linguistics, cognitive science, and related fields."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Linguistic determinism is the idea that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge or thought, as well as thought processes such as categorization, memory, and perception. The term implies that people who speak different primary languages have different thought processes.\n\n[Linguistic determinism - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_determinism)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think the most clear cut difference is that many language have honorific forms used for elders and people who should be respected. Being a speaker of one such language, in my experience it forces you to define the type of relationship you think you have with the person. Sometimes you're wrong, and the person corrects you and that indicates how they feel about the relationship, if it's on equal terms as peers or if they are elders or whatever.\n\nI personally find this dynamic useful, and I miss it in English.", "name": "Mario"}]

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

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Monobloc chair is a lightweight stackable polypropylene chair, usually white in colour, often described as the world's most common plastic chair. The name comes from mono- (\"one\") and bloc (\"block\"), meaning an object forged in a single piece."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Monobloc chair is a lightweight stackable polypropylene chair, usually white in colour, often described as the world's most common plastic chair.\n\n[Monobloc (chair) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monobloc_(chair))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Well, surely not in the very early days of photos when plastic was not widely in production, very cool concept though. I wonder what other ubiquitous objects there are.", "name": "Melanie"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Great Chinese Famine (Chinese: 三年大饥荒; lit. 'three years of great famine') was a famine that occurred between 1959 and 1961 in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Some scholars have also included the years 1958 or 1962. It is widely regarded as the deadliest famine and one of the greatest man-made disasters in human history, with an estimated death toll due to starvation that ranges in the tens of millions (15 to 55 million). The most stricken provinces were Anhui (18% dead), Chongqing (15%), Sichuan (13%), Guizhou (11%) and Hunan (8%).The major contributing factors in the famine were the policies of the Great Leap Forward (1958 to 1962) and people's communes, launched by Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong, such as inefficient distribution of food within the nation's planned economy; requiring the use of poor agricultural techniques; the Four Pests campaign that reduced sparrow populations (which disrupted the ecosystem); over-reporting of grain production; and ordering millions of farmers to switch to iron and steel production. During the Seven Thousand Cadres Conference in early 1962, Liu Shaoqi, then President of China, formally attributed 30% of the famine to natural disasters and 70% to man-made errors (\"三分天灾, 七分人祸\"). After the launch of Reforms and Opening Up, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officially stated in June 1981 that the famine was mainly due to the mistakes of the Great Leap Forward as well as the Anti-Rightist Campaign, in addition to some natural disasters and the Sino-Soviet split."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Great Chinese Famine: One of the greatest man-made disaster in human history, with a death toll of up to 55,000,000 dead.\n\n[Great Chinese Famine - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "To put in perspective how many ppl died from this: mao killed more people than Hitler and Stalin combined", "name": "Olivia"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Apparently Brits in India caused more deaths than Stalin famine, Mao famine, and North Korea. Crazy to think about.", "name": "Alondra"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The funny thing is that based on this reply I could tell you post in tankie subreddits without even having to check. Besides being off topic and a big whataboutism move, its also most likely not correct. \n\nThe death toll from British imperial practices was horrific and about the same as Maoist China by legitimate historical estimates. That one study you talk about is A) pretty discredited B) really coming from a very obvious angle which is why places like al jazeera heavily pushed it.", "name": "Alex"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The spherical cow is a humorous metaphor for highly simplified scientific models of complex phenomena. Originating in theoretical physics, the metaphor refers to physicists' tendency to develop toy models that reduce a problem to the simplest form imaginable, making calculations more feasible, even if the simplification hinders the model's application to reality.\nThe metaphor and variants have subsequently been used in other disciplines."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The spherical cow is a humorous metaphor for highly simplified scientific models of complex real life phenomena.\n\n[Spherical cow - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Whenever I look at a cow I can't help but notice how if anything it's really close to a cuboid, as animals go.", "name": "Preston"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The thing is that it usually is much easier to assume spherical objects (and, in particular, cows) due to the fact that they are symmetric with respect to any plane that passes through the center. This, in turn, simplifies many calculations.", "name": "Laura"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# I did it, I finally donated\n\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Me too, but I was nearly put off by them constantly asking for more at each step of the process.", "name": "Jeremy"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Don't worry, you'll be fully put off by the end of next year after they've asked for more every 14 hours or so.", "name": "Tanner"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Skylar Annette Neese (February 10, 1996 – July 6, 2012) was an American teenage girl who disappeared from her home in Star City, West Virginia, around midnight on July 6, 2012. Neese's body was found in January 2013, across the nearby state line, in Wayne Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania.\nNeese was murdered by two of her high school best friends, Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf. In December 2012, Shoaf confessed to authorities that she and Eddy planned and carried out Neese's murder. Shoaf pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on May 1, 2013, and was sentenced to 30 years in prison with eligibility for parole after 10 years. Eddy pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on January 24, 2014, and was sentenced to life in prison with eligibility for parole after 15 years. Neese's disappearance led to new West Virginia legislation that made changes to the AMBER Alert missing child alert system."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# I went to high school with two girls that murdered their best friend in cold blood. They brought her to the woods in the middle of the night, and when the victim turned her back, the other two stabbed her until no more gurgling sounds came from her neck.\n\n[Murder of Skylar Neese - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Skylar_Neese)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Why? What was their motive? ", "name": "Jalen"}, {"role": "user", "content": "They were having a lesbian relationship in secret, started pushing the third friend away and excluding her so she was going to tell everyone she saw them have sex. So they killed her. So awful. Her parents were so broken you can see it in every interview."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That was alleged, nobody had ever admitted to that in an interview or testimony. \n\nNo official motive was ever discovered. "}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The phrase man bites dog is a shortened version of an aphorism in journalism that describes how an unusual, infrequent event (such as a man biting a dog) is more likely to be reported as news than an ordinary, everyday occurrence with similar consequences, such as a dog biting a man.\nThe phenomenon is also described in the journalistic saying, \"You never read about a plane that did not crash.\" It can be expressed mathematically; a basic principle of information theory is that reports of unusual events provide more information than those for more routine outcomes."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# 'Man bites dog' is an aphorism in journalism that describes how an unusual, infrequent event is more likely to be reported as news than an everyday event with similar consequences. This practice distorts the perceptions of news consumers as to what constitutes normal rates of occurrence.\n\n[Man bites dog - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_bites_dog)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This is what my coworker doesn't understand when he posts every vax adverse reaction news story. They do a story on every one because it's rare. They don't do stories on all the people suffering and dying from the virus because it's a very common occurrence.", "name": "Kevin"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Same with crime. My mother is freaking paranoid because she watches too much news on crime, despite the fact that overall crime rate is reducing and we're now living at the safest time of human history."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Mine too. The news is fucking with her perception constantly with their fearmongering.", "name": "Marco"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A Pyrrhic victory ( PIRR-ik) is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat. Such a victory negates any true sense of achievement or damages long-term progress. \nThe phrase originates from a quote from Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose triumph against the Romans in the Battle of Asculum in 279 BC destroyed much of his forces, forcing the end of his campaign."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# A Pyrrhic victory is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat.\n\n[Pyrrhic victory - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "How do you pronounce it?", "name": "Spencer"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Rhymes with myrrhic", "name": "Ayden"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "California ( KAL-ih-FORN-yə, -⁠FOR-nee-ə) is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and the Mexican state of Baja California to the south. With over 38.9 million residents across a total area of approximately 163,696 square miles (423,970 km2), it is the most populous U.S. state, the third-largest U.S. state by area, and the most populated subnational entity in North America.\nThe Greater Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas in California are the nation's second and fifth-most populous urban regions respectively. Greater Los Angeles has over 18.7 million residents and the San Francisco Bay Area has over 9.6 million residents. Los Angeles is the state's most populous city and the nation's second-most populous city. San Francisco is the second-most densely populated major city in the country. Los Angeles County is the country's most populous county, and San Bernardino County is the nation's largest county by area. Sacramento is the state's capital city.\nCalifornia's economy is the largest of any state within the United States, with a $3.6 trillion gross state product (GSP) as of 2022. It is the largest sub-national economy in the world. If California were a sovereign nation, it would rank as the world's fifth-largest economy as of 2022, just ahead of India and the United Kingdom, as well as the 37th most populous. The Greater Los Angeles area and the San Francisco area are the nation's second- and fourth-largest urban economies ($1.0 trillion and $0.6 trillion respectively as of 2020). The San Francisco Bay Area Combined Statistical Area had the nation's highest gross domestic product per capita ($106,757) among large primary statistical areas in 2018, and is home to five of the world's ten largest companies by market capitalization and four of the world's ten richest people. Slightly over 84 percent of the state's residents 25 or older hold a high school degree, the lowest high school education rate of all 50 states.Prior to European colonization, California was one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse areas in pre-Columbian North America, and the indigenous peoples of California constituted the highest Native American population density north of what is now Mexico. European exploration in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the colonization of California by the Spanish Empire. In 1804, it was included in Alta California province within the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821, following its successful war for independence, but was ceded to the United States in 1848 after the Mexican–American War. The California Gold Rush started in 1848 and led to dramatic social and demographic changes, including the depopulation of indigenous peoples in the California genocide. The western portion of Alta California was then organized and admitted as the 31st state on September 9, 1850, as a free state, following the Compromise of 1850.\nNotable contributions to popular culture, ranging from entertainment, sports, music, and fashion, have their origins in California. The state also has made substantial contributions in the fields of communication, information, innovation, education, environmentalism, entertainment, economics, politics, technology, and religion. California is the home of Hollywood, the oldest and one of the largest film industries in the world, profoundly influencing global entertainment. It is considered the origin of the American film industry, hippie counterculture, beach and car culture, the personal computer, the internet, fast food, diners, burger joints, skateboarding, and the fortune cookie, among other inventions. The San Francisco Bay Area and the Greater Los Angeles Area are widely seen as the centers of the global technology and U.S. film industries, respectively. California's economy is very diverse. California's agricultural industry has the highest output of any U.S. state, and is led by its dairy, almonds, and grapes. With the busiest ports in the country (Los Angeles and Long Beach), California plays a pivotal role in the global supply chain, hauling in about 40% of all goods imported to the United States.The state's extremely diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast and metropolitan areas in the west to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east, and from the redwood and Douglas fir forests in the northwest to the Mojave Desert in the southeast. Two-thirds of the nation's earthquake risk lies in California. The Central Valley, a fertile agricultural area, dominates the state's center. California is well known for its warm Mediterranean climate along the coast and monsoon seasonal weather inland. The large size of the state results in climates that vary from moist temperate rainforest in the north to arid desert in the interior, as well as snowy alpine in the mountains. Droughts and wildfires are an ongoing issue for the state.\n\nVernon is a city five miles (8.0 km) south of downtown Los Angeles, California, the nearest separate city to downtown Los Angeles. The population was 112 at the 2010 United States Census, the least of any incorporated city in the state. Its population nearly doubled to 222 by the 2020 census, making it the second least populous city in the state after Amador City, whose population grew only slightly—from 185 in the 2010 census, to 200 in the 2020 census.The city is primarily composed of industrial areas and touts itself as \"exclusively industrial\". Meatpacking plants and warehouses are common. As of 2006, there were no parks in the city."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Vernon, California is the smallest city in the state with 112 residents but 46,000 workers. Its long history of corruption was met with disincorporation attempts and described as \"a handful of individuals able to use an entire city as their own personal fiefdom.\"\n\n[Vernon, California - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon,_California)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This city was actually the inspiration for the extremely corrupt and industrial town of Vinci, California in season 2 of True Detective.", "name": "Mya"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That season was so underrated its criminal.", "name": "Andres"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The preparedness paradox is the proposition that if a society or individual acts effectively to mitigate a potential disaster such as a pandemic, natural disaster or other catastrophe so that it causes less harm, the avoided danger will be perceived as having been much less serious because of the limited damage actually caused. The paradox is the incorrect perception that there had been no need for careful preparation as there was little harm, although in reality the limitation of the harm was due to preparation. Several cognitive biases can consequently hamper proper preparation for future risks."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The preparedness paradox is the proposition that if a society is able to mitigate a potential disaster such as a pandemic so that it causes less harm, the avoided danger will be perceived as having been much less serious because of the limited damage that occurs.\n\n[Preparedness paradox - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_paradox)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This reminds me when SARS was going around. People were worried and people were careful and it blew over. Then people started complaining that people were too worried about it and we shouldn't have done anything. Ass backward thinking", "name": "Lilly"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Repeat a few times, and you get the laxity that gave us Covid.", "name": "Cesar"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Anti-Barney humor is a form of humor that targets children's TV show character Barney the Dinosaur. He is often an online target for violent, gory parodies by children and adults alike. Only Caillou triggers a level of revulsion in audiences comparable to that seen toward Barney.\n\n[Anti-Barney humor - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Barney_humor?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This was a big part of my childhood. Once I was old enough to not watch Barney, there was a particular rejection of this part of my childhood where we just demonized the character. I dont get it. We didn't do that with The Rugrats or Eurekas Castle?", "name": "Sabrina"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It might be that Barney is pretty much only enjoyed by the very, very young, like 4 and under. Abhoring Barney is a way to show you're cool and grown up, not a baby. I know parents hated it because it was pretty insipid. Rugrats, at the very least was meant for kids who were somewhat older, probably 5-10, the age when kids viciously making fun of Barney was at its peak.", "name": "Abraham"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A stripper or exotic dancer is a person whose occupation involves performing striptease in a public adult entertainment venue such as a strip club. At times, a stripper may be hired to perform at private events.\nModern forms of stripping minimize the interaction of strippers with customers, reducing the importance of the tease in the performance in favor of speed of undress (the strip). Not all strippers are comfortable dancing topless or fully nude, but in general, full nudity is common where not prohibited by law. The integration of the burlesque pole as a frequently used prop has shifted the emphasis in the performance toward a more acrobatic, explicit form of expression compared to the slow-developing burlesque style. Most strippers work in strip clubs. A house dancer works for a particular club or franchise, while a feature dancer typically has her own celebrity, touring a club circuit and making appearances. Strippers are often not direct employees of clubs but instead perform as independent contractors.\nBefore the 1970s, strippers in Western cultures were almost invariably female, performing to male audiences, usually in strip clubs. At the same time, strippers of all genders were dancing in underground clubs or as part of a theatre experience. Since the 1970s, mainstream stripping has adopted a greater gender diversity and male strippers have become an established form of entertainment for female audiences. Their performances are usually fully choreographed, involving dance routines and costumes. Certain male and female strippers also perform for LGBT audiences as well as for all genders in bisexual contexts. The term \"male stripper\" has decreased in use in books published in the 21st century."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Strippers. All you need to know.\n\n[Stripper - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripper)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Related is the practice of having a [funeral stripper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral_stripper).", "name": "Leslie"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I would totally be down with having strippers at my funeral.", "name": "Mia"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Tukhchar (Russian: Тухчар; Chechen: Билт-Эвла, Bilt-Ēvla) is a rural locality (a selo) in Novolaksky District, Republic of Dagestan, Russia. The population was 3,567 as of 2010. There are 105 streets.\n\nThe Tukhchar massacre (Russian: Тухчарская резня, romanized: Tukhcharskaya reznya) was an incident during the War in Dagestan which was filmed and distributed on tape, in which Russian prisoners of war were executed. Throughout the battle, Russian soldiers reported finding taped executions of Russian officers and men. Some videos were later sold as snuff films and ended up being posted online. One tape created in September 1999 showed six Russian servicemen, one as young as 19, being executed by Chechen militants. The method was piercing the trachea."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Tukhchar massacre: Russian prisoners of war executed by Chechen militants during the War of Dagestan in 1999, filmed and distributed on tape.\n\n[Tukhchar massacre - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tukhchar_massacre)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Unfortunately there are no good guys in the long, sad story of Chechnya. This was a brutal war crime, and a result of centuries of Russian war crimes.\n\nWhen the Russian Empire conquered Chechnya, it forcibly displaced a large portion of it's population, deporting them from their homes into the Ottoman Empire, and engaged in a long program of repression. When the Russian Revolution came, the Chechnyans and Dagestanis declared independence and formed a successful republic, which was destroyed when it was conquered by the Soviets. The Soviet Union then engaged in another program of repression and Russification. In WW2, the Chechnyans and Dagestanis held off the German advance in the Caucus and many fought on the front lines elsewhere, but Stalin intensified his repression of them and falsely claimed they were helping the Nazis as an excuse to deport a large portion of their population to Kazakhstan. Even though things got better after Stalin died, Russification continued. When the USSR collapsed, Chechnya once again declared independence and formed a functional democratic state. After a few years of peace and Chechnya being a success story, Russia invaded and assassinated their president. Russia lost that first war, but obliterated Chechnya's economy and created an unstable situation filled with warlords, and fertile ground for Islamists to come in and take root. \n\nThis war crime perpetrated by Chechnyans was a result of centuries of war crimes and outright genocides perpetrated by the Russians against Chechnyans, including the recent Russian invasion that ruined their country. What these people did was barbaric. You can also understand where their hatred of Russians, and willingness to dehumanize the soldiers comes from. It was, after all, soldiers like that who ruined their country and their lives.\n\nThe moral is that brutality often begets brutality, and inhumanity begets inhumanity. When you treat people like animals don't be surprised when they begin to act like animals. Those with power should always be cautious about how they exercise it, as violence, once put out into the world, has a tendency of finding it's way home.", "name": "Cody"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Humana are animals, and this scenario has been played out numerous times in lots of places just with different players.", "name": "Elizabeth"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Hexadecanal is an organic compound with the chemical formula C16H32O."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Hexadecanal is a compound found in human skin. Inhalation reduces aggression in men but triggers aggression in women. It is one of the most abundant substances emitted by babies, which may be an evolutionary survival mechanism to induce mothers to defend the baby and fathers to not attack it.\n\n[Hexadecanal - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecanal)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Not to be confused with Hexadecimal, which triggers feelings of superiority in men, women, and babies.", "name": "Juan"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think a baby which knows hexadecimal can rightly feel superior to us mere mortals.", "name": "Dominic"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Bro Country\n\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hick Hop", "name": "Jesus"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Country Rap. Or just \"Crap\" for short.", "name": "Maxwell"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Alice Marie Harris (March 6, 1932 – August 6, 1942), known under the pseudonym Anna, was a feral child from Pennsylvania who was raised in isolation and was an illegitimate child. From the age of five months to six years, she was kept strapped down in the attic of her home, malnourished and unable to speak or move. She was discovered and rescued in 1938, but died at the age of ten before she was able to fully recover from hemorrhagic jaundice. She is often compared to the feral children cases of Isabelle and Genie."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Anna was a feral child from Pennsylvania who was raised in isolation because she was an illegitimate child. From the age of five months to six years, she was kept strapped down in the attic of her home, malnourished and unable to speak or move.\n\n[Anna (feral child) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_(feral_child))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Dipshit middleage men: You need to grow up and deal with things on your own! If you need help, you are a failure!\n\nHumans: *literally die without help and socialization*\n\nHumans are social creatures ya'll. Never be ashamed of needing help with something, you are merely being a good human and following primal instincts", "name": "Marco"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Be careful who you ask for help, some people just take advantage of others.", "name": "Katelyn"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Emma Eckstein (1865–1924) was an Austrian author. She was \"one of Sigmund Freud's most important patients and, for a short period of time around 1897, became a psychoanalyst herself\". She has been described as \"the first woman analyst\", who became \"both colleague and patient\" for Freud. As analyst, while working mainly in the area of sexual and social hygiene, she also explored how 'daydreams, those \"parasitic plants\", invaded the life of young girls'.Ernest Jones placed her with such figures as Lou Andreas-Salomé and Joan Riviere as a \"type of woman, of a more intellectual and perhaps masculine cast...[who] played a part in his life, accessory to his male friends though of a finer calibre.\""}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Emma Eckstein was a client of Freud that he diagnosed suffering from excessive masturbation which a colleague attempted to cure via cauterizing her nose which left her permanently disfigured, caused a cerebral hemorrhage and ultimately caused her death in 1924 due to the surgeon's negligence\n\n[Emma Eckstein - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Eckstein)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What would cauterizing her nose do? Like burning it? So confused as to how they thought it would cure masturbation", "name": "Devon"}, {"role": "user", "content": ">Fliess, whom Freud had called \"the Kepler of biology\", had developed theories today considered pseudoscientific, including the belief that sexual problems were linked to the nose by a supposed nasogenital connection.\n\n\"Nasogenital connection\" seems outlandish but they may not see it as such, considering that there really are many reflexes connecting different parts of the body. For example, pressing down on the eyes lowers the heartbeat rate.", "name": "Lindsey"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Bacha bāzī (Persian: بچه بازی, lit. 'boy play') is a practice in which men (sometimes called bacha baz) buy and keep adolescent boys (sometimes called dancing boys) for entertainment and sex. It is a custom in Afghanistan and in historical Turkestan and often involves sexual slavery and child prostitution by older men of young adolescent males.According to German ethnographic research, the phenomenon is up to a thousand years old. As far back as the 9th or 10th century, the mountainous regions that are now northern Afghanistan were known for this practice.Bacha bazi was outlawed during the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan period (see sources which are dated to 2010; 2011; and 2013). Nevertheless, it was widely practiced. Force and coercion were common, and security officials of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan stated they were unable to end such practices and that many of the men involved in bacha bazi were powerful and well-armed warlords.During the time of Taliban rule currently and previously, bacha bazi carries the death penalty under Taliban law. Under the Islamic Republic government, the practice of dancing boys was illegal under Afghan law, but the laws were seldom enforced against powerful offenders, and police had reportedly been complicit in related crimes. The practice of bacha bazi had decreased under the rule of the Islamic Republic government. On 23 September 2016, the Taliban militants in northern Baghlan province executed a man and a boy on charges of “bacha bazi” (pederasty).U.S. government forces in Afghanistan after the invasion of the country reportedly deliberately ignored bacha bazi abuse by Afghan allies. This caused controversy. The U.S. military responded by claiming the abuse was largely the responsibility of the \"local Afghan government\"."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Bacha Bazi: in afghanistan a practice where young boys dress as little girls dance for pedophiles and then are abused\n\n[Bacha bazi - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Damn, it's hard to believe that the Taliban's actually done something good...", "name": "Devin"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Nazino tragedy (Russian: Назинская трагедия, romanized: Nazinskaya tragediya) was the mass murder and mass deportation of around 6,700 prisoners to Nazino Island, located on the Ob River in West Siberian Krai, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (now Tomsk Oblast, Russia), in May 1933. Sent to construct a \"special settlement\" and to cultivate the island, the deportees were abandoned with only scant supplies of flour for food, little to no tools, and virtually none of the clothing or shelter necessary to survive the harsh Siberian climate. Conditions on Nazino Island deteriorated quickly and resulted in widespread disease, violence, and cannibalism. Within 13 weeks, over 4,000 of the deportees had died or disappeared, and the majority of the survivors were in ill health. Those who attempted to leave were killed by armed guards.The original report on the incident was made by Vasily A. Velichko, a Soviet propaganda worker, and passed to Joseph Stalin and to other members of the Politburo. The report remained classified until the human rights organisation Memorial conducted an investigation in 1988, five decades after the events. The tragedy was popularized in 2002, when reports from a September 1933 special commission by the Communist Party were published by Memorial."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Nazino Island in the Soviet Union in May 1933. The lack of proper food and the frequency of death by late May led to cannibalism becoming widespread, to the point that settlers eventually began murdering individuals for the sole purpose of consuming them.\n\n[Nazino tragedy - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazino_affair)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yo fortnite has really changed", "name": "Martin"}, {"role": "user", "content": "??", "name": "Alexis"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The article says:\n\nThe deportees, mostly political prisoners and petty criminals, were forcibly sent to the small, isolated island in Western Siberia, located 540 kilometers (340 mi) northwest of Tomsk, to construct a \"special settlement\". They were abandoned with only flour for food, and little in the way of tools, clothing, or shelter, and those who attempted to leave were killed by armed guards.\n\nIIRC, Fortnite Battlegrounds is a game where players are dropped off on an island where they cant leave and have to fight amongst each other until one player remains. \n\nOP made a connection between the two.", "name": "William"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., abbreviated WMF, is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation. It is best known as the host of Wikipedia, the seventh most visited website in the world. However, the foundation also hosts 14 other related content projects. It also supports the development of MediaWiki, the wiki software that underpins them all.The Wikimedia Foundation was established, in 2003 in St. Petersburg, Florida, by Jimmy Wales as a nonprofit way to fund Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and other crowdsourced wiki projects. (Until then, they had been hosted by Bomis, Wales's for-profit company.) The Foundation finances itself mainly through millions of small donations from Wikipedia readers, collected through email campaigns and annual fundraising banners placed on Wikipedia and its sister projects. These are complemented by grants from philanthropic organizations and tech companies, and starting in 2022, by services income from Wikimedia Enterprise.\nThe Foundation has grown rapidly throughout its existence. As of December 31, 2023, it has employed over 700 staff and contractors, with annual revenues of $180.2 million, annual expenses of $169 million, net assets of $255 million and a growing endowment, which surpassed $100 million in June 2021."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Wikimedia community has voted to stop accepting cryptocurrency donations to Wikipedia\n\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "From [this RfC](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Stop_accepting_cryptocurrency_donations) 71% in support of stopping cryptocurrency donations is pretty impressive \n\n(oh and here's hoping Reddit is just a *tiny* bit less... rabid... [than Twitter!](https://twitter.com/TheresNoTimeFor/status/1514020667204775936))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It involves crypto, so it'll always be rabid. Crypto shit is basically a cult these days, especially since the dawn of NFTs.", "name": "Dalton"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Amanita phalloides (), commonly known as the death cap, is a deadly poisonous basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Widely distributed across Europe, but introduced to other parts of the world since the late twentieth century, A. phalloides forms ectomycorrhizas with various broadleaved trees. In some cases, the death cap has been introduced to new regions with the cultivation of non-native species of oak, chestnut, and pine. The large fruiting bodies (mushrooms) appear in summer and autumn; the caps are generally greenish in colour with a white stipe and gills. The cap colour is variable, including white forms, and is thus not a reliable identifier.\nThese toxic mushrooms resemble several edible species (most notably Caesar's mushroom and the straw mushroom) commonly consumed by humans, increasing the risk of accidental poisoning. Amatoxins, the class of toxins found in these mushrooms, are thermostable: they resist changes due to heat, so their toxic effects are not reduced by cooking.\nAmanita phalloides is one of the most poisonous of all known mushrooms. It is estimated that as little as half a mushroom contains enough toxin to kill an adult human. It has been involved in the majority of human deaths from mushroom poisoning, possibly including Roman Emperor Claudius in AD 54 and Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI in 1740. It has been the subject of much research and many of its biologically active agents have been isolated. The principal toxic constituent is α-Amanitin, which causes liver and kidney failure."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Death cap mushrooms have been reported to taste pleasant. Up to the mid-20th century, the mortality rate was around 6070%, but this has been greatly reduced with advances in medical care, with more recent surveys finding a rate of around 1015%.\n\n[Amanita phalloides - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_phalloides#Toxicity)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I feel like surveys wouldnt be the go to for mortality rate. Feels like a flawed system."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Nah, it's fine. Just any mushroom you don't have data on you assume is fatal. Any mushroom survey which comes back with a rambling manifesto attached, or accompanied by a colorful or a scary drawing you put in as psychedelic.", "name": "Austin"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Wikipedia is a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki-based editing system MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. It is consistently ranked as one of the ten most popular websites in the world, and as of 2024 is ranked the fifth most visited website on the Internet by Semrush. Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization that employs a staff of over 700 people. Unfortunately, much of the info found on wikipedia is wrong, because the small-minded nerds who run it don't allow CORRECT info to be added to THEIR pages. They jealously guard their little pieces of territory from anyone who would DARE to enter CORRECT info. This is why wikipedia is viewed as an unreliable source of info by people all over the world.\nInitially only available in English, editions in other languages have been developed. Wikipedia's editions, when combined, comprise more than 62 million articles, attracting around 2 billion unique device visits per month and more than 14 million edits per month (about 5.2 edits per second on average) as of November 2023. Roughly 26% of Wikipedia's traffic is from the United States, followed by Japan at 5.9%, the United Kingdom at 5.4%, Germany at 5%, Russia at 4.8%, and the remaining 54% split among other countries, according to data provided by Similarweb.Wikipedia has been praised for its enablement of the democratization of knowledge, extent of coverage, unique structure, and culture. It has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias, particularly gender bias against women and geographical bias against the Global South (Eurocentrism). While the reliability of Wikipedia was frequently criticized in the 2000s, it has improved over time, receiving greater praise in the late 2010s and early 2020s, having become an important fact-checking site.Wikipedia has been censored by some national governments, ranging from specific pages to the entire site. Articles on breaking news are often accessed as sources for frequently updated information about those events."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Wikipedia has virtual cookbooks dedicated to the cuisine of individual countries\n\n[Cookbook:Cuisine of the United Kingdom - Wikibooks, open books for an open world](https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Cuisine_of_the_United_Kingdom)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The best part is how these are 1000x more readable than other recipe sites which make you scroll thru dozens of paragraphs of the author's manifesto about their recipe before actually finding it at the bottom of the page.", "name": "Micah"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I know! On the United Kingdom page, they read like an average Brit is explaining the recipe to you as simply and easily as they can."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Pantheism is the belief that the universe (or nature as the totality of everything) is identical with divinity, or that everything composes an all-encompassing, immanent God. Pantheists do not believe in a distinct personal or anthropomorphic god."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# List of pantheists. Pantheism is the belief that the universe (or nature as the totality of everything) is identical with divinity, or that everything composes an all-encompassing, immanent God. Pantheists do not believe in a distinct personal or anthropomorphic god.\n\n[List of pantheists - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pantheists)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Today I learned Im a pantheist. I have some idea of reincarnation that goes along with this but not like single soul reincarnation, just like a recycling of energy that can be shared and intertwined with the energy of other living beings."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I dont understand why this need to be called pantheism, or any kind of theism. That literally just thermodynamics and digestion?", "name": "Kylee"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Samanea saman is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, now in the Mimosoid clade and is native to Central and South America. It is often placed in the genus Samanea, which by yet other authors is subsumed in Albizia entirely.\nIts range extends from Mexico south to Peru and Brazil, but it has been widely introduced to South and Southeast Asia, as well as the Pacific Islands, including Hawaii. It is a well-known tree, rivaled perhaps only by lebbeck and pink siris among its genus. It is well represented in many languages and has numerous local names in its native range; common English names include saman, rain tree and monkeypod (see also § Names below).\nIn Cambodia it is colloquially known as the Chankiri Tree (can be written ចន្ទគិរី or ចន្ទ៍គីរី)."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"A Chankiri Tree or Killing Tree is a tree in the Cambodian Killing Fields against which children and infants were smashed because their parents were accused of crimes against the Khmer Rouge.\"\n\n[Samanea saman - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chankiri_Tree)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Have a good sleep man", "name": "Angelina"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Japanese adult adoption is the practice in Japan of legally and socially accepting a nonconsanguineal adult into an offspring role of a family. The centuries-old practice was developed as a mechanism for families to extend their family name, estate and ancestry without an unwieldy reliance on blood lines. Still common today, adult adoption is a dynamic tool for social and economic mobility.There is evidence that this practice began as early as sometime in the 13th century within the sect of Buddhism known as Pure Land Buddhism, but only really became widely used in the Tokugawa shogunate (or Edo period), which began around 1600 and lasted until 1868. During the Tokugawa period, much of the Samurai class would adopt sons for the purpose of creating a strong, fixed position in society through the assumption of positions such as the head of household and the head of the business. It also was a way for households lacking in sons to continue a patrilineal line, and remain a functioning societal power. This was its most common purpose, but was also seen by the adoptees as a way to climb the social ladder by leaving the title of second son, etc. behind."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Japanese adult adoption was developed as a mechanism for families to extend their family name, estate and ancestry without an unwieldy reliance on blood lines. Still common today, adult adoption is a dynamic tool for social and economic mobility.\n\n[Japanese adult adoption - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_adult_adoption)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Being adopted as an adult actually sounds really nice rn", "name": "Natalia"}, {"role": "user", "content": "My one chance at wealth.", "name": "Sebastian"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Amy Lynn Bradley (born May 12, 1974) is an American woman who went missing during a Caribbean cruise on the Royal Caribbean International cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas in late March 1998 at the age of 23 while en route to Curaçao. Her whereabouts remain unknown to this day. She was a 23-year-old Longwood University graduate at the time of her disappearance.After midnight on Monday March 23, 1998, Amy and her younger brother Brad headed to the ship's nightclub to go dancing. Records show that Brad decided to return to his cabin earlier than Amy. The ship's door lock records show that Brad had entered his cabin at around 3:35 am, and Amy soon followed five minutes later. The two chatted before heading to bed. Amy's father Ron awoke around 6:00 a.m. to check on his daughter only to find her missing from the balcony she had slept on earlier.\nWhen authorities were alerted that Amy was missing, the Netherlands Antilles Coast Guard conducted a four-day search in the surrounding waters and along the cruise lines to no result. Authorities began to speculate that she may have fallen overboard and drowned, but investigators have rejected this theory as Amy was known to be a strong swimmer and searches turned up no sign of her. There have been possible sightings of Bradley in Curaçao. In August 1998, tourists saw a woman resembling Bradley on a beach and in 1999 a member of the U.S. Navy claimed a woman in a brothel said she was Bradley and asked him for help.\nIn the years after Amy's disappearance, some new evidence would arise leading to theories including Amy being sold into a human trafficking industry or potential remains. The case has been presented on Dr. Phil in a segment entitled The Search for Natalee: Amy Bradley, the case was also presented on America's Most Wanted."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Amy Lynn Bradley, declared missing while aboard a cruise ship\n\n[Disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Amy_Lynn_Bradley?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "A sad case, but only creepy if you buy that she was kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery, which I don't, much. Some of the evidence is compelling but I just can't get past how ridiculous it would be for traffickers on a small island to take the risk of grabbing a white woman from a well-off family who would relentlessly pursue the matter. Especially when (tragically enough) so many other girls without any of those caveats were undoubtedly available.", "name": "Erica"}, {"role": "user", "content": "You know they found her pictures on a sex website in lingerie and the FBI concluded that its definitely a photo of her taken years later, right?", "name": "Payton"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That would be a significant development but I can't (immediately) find any sources on it. The [FBI page](https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/amy-lynn-bradley) and [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Amy_Lynn_Bradley) haven't yet been updated with that information but it's been so long since I've heard news about this case. Could you shoot me the source? I've always held out a slight hope she's alive.", "name": "Ricardo"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Geraldine \"Gerri\" Santoro (née Twerdy; August 16, 1935 – June 8, 1964) was an American woman who died after receiving an unsafe abortion in 1964. A police photograph of her dead body, published by Ms., magazine in 1973, became a symbol for the abortion-rights movement in the United States."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Geraldine \"Gerri\" Santoro was an American woman who died because of an illegal abortion in 1964. A police photograph of her dead body, published in 1973, became a symbol of the abortion-rights movement.\n\n[Gerri Santoro - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerri_Santoro)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Texas is going to have a lot of Ms Geraldines on their hands if they don't wake up. These women should not die in vain. 6 weeks to obtain an abortion is a death sentence.", "name": "Karen"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Clearly were willing to accept thousands of preventable covid deaths, Im not sure why Texas would change its mind about this.", "name": "Ivan"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Bruce Murray Lindahl (June 21, 1919 – December 21, 2014) was an American educator, politician, and labor activist.\nBorn in Brookings, South Dakota, Lindahl served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Lindahl received his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and taught science. He was also involved in the teachers union. Lindahl served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1965 to 1971 from Saint Paul, Minnesota and was involved in the Democratic Party.\n\n\n== Notes ==\n\nBruce Everitt Lindahl (January 29, 1953 – April 4, 1981) was an American serial killer and rapist who committed a series of rapes and murders in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 2020, 39 years after his death, on the basis of DNA profiling, Lindahl was connected to the death of 16-year-old Pamela Maurer, who was killed on January 13, 1976, in DuPage County, Illinois. He has been declared a suspect in at least 12 murders and 9 rapes committed in different Chicago suburbs from 1974 to 1981, which are currently being investigated.\nIn total, over 70 girls and women were killed during the indicated time period, both in DuPage and the surrounding counties. After Lindahl's death, one of his would-be victims contacted the authorities and identified him as her attacker. DuPage County Police later stated that further DNA testing would be conducted with the aid of the Chicago Police Department, to determine whether Bruce Lindahl was involved in at least 10 other killings."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Bruce Lindahl was a serial killer suspected of committing at least 12 murders in the 1970s and early 1980s. His killing spree was abruptly cut short when he accidentally stabbed himself during a ferocious attack on his final victim. The knife cut a femoral artery, and Lindahl died of blood loss.\n\n[Bruce Lindahl (criminal) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lindahl_(criminal))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Bruce Lindahl was better at protecting society from Bruce Lindahl than the police."}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog. Such bodies, sometimes known as bog people, are both geographically and chronologically widespread, having been dated to between 8000 BCE and the Second World War.\n\n[Bog body - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_body?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Why are there so many bodies in peat bogs?", "name": "Hope"}, {"role": "user", "content": "A lot of the older ones are thought to be victims of murder/ritual sacrifice, iirc", "name": "Gabrielle"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Malakas (Greek: μαλάκας [maˈlakas]) is a commonly used profane Greek slang word, with a variety of different meanings, but literally meaning \"man who masturbates\". While it is typically used as an insult, with its literal equivalent in Commonwealth English being \"wanker” and “jerk off” in American English, the meaning varies depending on the tone and context used. It can be an exclamation of pleasure, an expression of dark horror, a cry of anger, a declaration of affection, and other different things. Common alternative meanings include \"asshole\", \"motherfucker\" \"jerk\" or \"idiot\", and the contrasting \"dude\", or \"mate\", depending on the context. It has been described as \"the most used Greek slang word\"."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Malakas: Greek slang with a variety of different meanings, but literally meaning \"man who masturbates\". Alternative meanings include \"asshole\", \"motherfucker\" \"jerk\" or \"idiot\", and the contrasting \"dude\", or \"mate\", depending on context. It has been described as \"the most used Greek slang word\".\n\n[Malakas - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malakas)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I knew this word thanks to: \n\n[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9A5ZnuPHIc4](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9A5ZnuPHIc4)", "name": "Aaron"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Alexander \"Sawney\" Bean is a legendary figure, said to be have been the head of a 45-member clan in Scotland in the 16th century that murdered and cannibalised over 1,000 people in 25 years. According to the legend, Bean and his clan members were eventually caught by a search party sent by King James VI and executed for their heinous crimes.\nThe story appeared in The Newgate Calendar, a sensationalised crime catalogue loosely connected with Newgate Prison in London. It has since passed into folklore and become a part of the Edinburgh tourism circuit."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Sawney Bean was rumored to be the head of a cannibalistic family that murdered and cannibalised over 1000 people in Scotland\n\n[Sawney Bean - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawney_Bean)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ah, I remember hearing about this story on a YouTube channel. Its uncertain whether or not this really happened, some say it was an anti-Scottish story to make the Scottish people look bad. Only the past knows if this truly happened.", "name": "Carson"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Also, in 1400 Scotland, 1000 people being murdered would be noticeable.", "name": "Taylor"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "r/HaveWeMet is a subreddit where members roleplay as residents of a fictional town known as Lower Duck Pond. Members also create fictional, in-depth personas for themselves. As mutual residents of Lower Duck Pond, users pretend to know each other in improvised interactions, continuously developing the lore of the town. The Verge compared HaveWeMet to a \"long-running D&D campaign\". HaveWeMet was created by the user Devuluh, or David, a college sophomore majoring in computer science, in early 2017."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# r/HaveWeMet is a subreddit where members roleplay as residents of a fictional town known as Lower Duck Pond. Members also create fictional, in-depth personas for themselves. Users pretend to know each other in improvised interactions, continously developing the lore of the town.\n\n[r/HaveWeMet - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/HaveWeMet)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "...Who has this kinda of mental energy?", "name": "Zachary"}, {"role": "user", "content": "'m mostly just a lurker but do occasionally post. When was healthy loved costume parties: Burning Man, Ren Faires, anywhere that could let myself be free. 'm disabled now and don't have the ability to go to many parties, find this sub scratches a similar itch.", "name": "Kevin"}]

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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": "assistant", "content": ">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."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York. Originally a women's college, Sarah Lawrence became coeducational in 1968."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# From 2010 to 2020, a man named Lawrence V. Ray aka Larry operated a cult out of his daughters dorm room at the Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York. He lured students in with spiritual advice and therapy. When the cult was raided by police in 2020, he was found having sex with a student.\n\n[Sarah Lawrence College - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Lawrence_College#Abuse_by_Larry_Ray)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Amazes me how, in modern society people still get sucked into cults, like hearing that word should make everyone run away", "name": "Erin"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Pretty sure cults don't call themselves cults", "name": "Jason"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Tarrare ([taʁaʁ]; c. 1772 – 1798), sometimes spelled Tarar, was a French showman and soldier noted for his unusual appetite and eating habits. Able to eat vast amounts of meat, he was constantly hungry; his parents could not provide for him and he was turned out of the family home as a teenager. He travelled France in the company of a band of prostitutes and thieves before becoming the warm-up act for a travelling charlatan. In this act, he swallowed corks, stones, live animals, and a whole basketful of apples. He then took this act to Paris where he worked as a street performer.\nAt the start of the War of the First Coalition, Tarrare joined the French Revolutionary Army, where even quadrupling the standard military ration was unable to satisfy his large appetite. He ate any available food from gutters and rubbish heaps but his condition still deteriorated through hunger. He was hospitalised due to exhaustion and became the subject of a series of medical experiments to test his eating capacity, in which, among other things, he ate a meal intended for 15 people in a single sitting, ate live cats, snakes, lizards, and puppies, and swallowed eels whole without chewing. Despite his unusual diet, he was underweight and, except for his eating habits, he showed no signs of mental illness other than what was described as an apathetic temperament.General Alexandre de Beauharnais decided to put Tarrare's abilities to military use, and employed him as a courier for the French army, with the intention that he would swallow documents, pass through enemy lines, and recover them from his stool once safely at his destination. Tarrare could not speak German, and on his first mission, he was captured by Prussian forces, severely beaten, and subjected to a mock execution before being returned to French lines.\nChastened by this experience, he agreed to submit to any procedure that might cure his appetite and was treated with laudanum, tobacco pills, wine-vinegar, and soft-boiled eggs. The procedures failed, and doctors could not keep him on a controlled diet; he snuck out of the hospital to scavenge for offal in gutters, rubbish heaps and outside butchers' shops, and attempted to drink the blood of other patients in the hospital while they were bloodletting and to eat the corpses in the hospital's morgue. After being suspected of eating a one-year-old toddler, he was ejected from the hospital. He re-appeared four years later in Versailles with a case of severe tuberculosis and died shortly afterward, following a lengthy bout of exudative diarrhea."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Tarrare. A French soldier and polyphage. He was reported to eat extreme amounts of food, live puppies and snakes, wheelbarrows of raw bull entrails and even rubbish. In acts of desperation, he was caught drinking the blood of fellow soldiers and going as far as eating corpses. He died of diarrhea.\n\n[Tarrare - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[Pica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder) and [Polyphagia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphagia) are certainly real, and Tarrare did exist as well as have gross eating habits (in every sense of the phrase). Whether or not his legendary appetite stands up as whole truth under scrutiny, we can never be fully sure. But we can assume that accounts of Tarrare's grotesque hunger are essentially true, if likely embellished. \n\nHere's an [AskHistorians thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/15afe2/are_these_two_wikipedia_articles_true_or_a_very/) in which Tarrare and Charles Domery, another polyphage, are discussed.", "name": "Avery"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "1,000,000 (one million), or one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999,999 and preceding 1,000,001. The word is derived from the early Italian millione (milione in modern Italian), from mille, \"thousand\", plus the augmentative suffix -one.It is commonly abbreviated:\n\nin British English as m (not to be confused with the metric prefix \"m\" milli, for 10−3, or with metre),\nM,\nMM (\"thousand thousands\", from Latin \"Mille\"; not to be confused with the Roman numeral MM = 2,000),\nmm (not to be confused with millimetre), or\nmn, mln, or mio can be found in financial contexts.In scientific notation, it is written as 1×106 or 106. Physical quantities can also be expressed using the SI prefix mega (M), when dealing with SI units; for example, 1 megawatt (1 MW) equals 1,000,000 watts.\nThe meaning of the word \"million\" is common to the short scale and long scale numbering systems, unlike the larger numbers, which have different names in the two systems.\nThe million is sometimes used in the English language as a metaphor for a very large number, as in \"Not in a million years\" and \"You're one in a million\", or a hyperbole, as in \"I've walked a million miles\" and \"You've asked a million-dollar question\".\n1,000,000 is also the square of 1000 and also the cube of 100.\n\nMegadeth is an American thrash metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1983 by vocalist/guitarist Dave Mustaine. Known for their technically complex guitar work and musicianship, Megadeth is one of the \"big four\" of American thrash metal along with Metallica, Anthrax, and Slayer, responsible for the genre's development and popularization. Their music features complex arrangements and fast rhythm sections, dual lead guitars, and lyrical themes of war, politics, religion, death, and personal relationships.\nIn 1985, Megadeth released their debut album, Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!, on the independent record label Combat Records, to moderate success. It caught the attention of bigger labels, which led to Megadeth signing with Capitol Records. Their first major-label album, Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?, was released in 1986 and was a major hit with the underground metal scene. Band members' substance abuse issues and personal disputes had brought Megadeth negative publicity during the late 1980s. Nonetheless, the band went on to release a number of platinum-selling albums, including So Far, So Good... So What! (1988), Rust in Peace (1990), and Countdown to Extinction (1992). These albums, along with worldwide tours, brought them public recognition. Megadeth's most recent album, The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead!, was released in 2022.\nMegadeth has undergone multiple lineup changes throughout its 41-year career, with Mustaine being the sole consistent member of the band. The band temporarily disbanded in 2002 when Mustaine suffered an arm injury and re-established in 2003 without longtime bassist David Ellefson, who had taken legal action against Mustaine. Ellefson settled out of court and rejoined the band in 2010, but was fired in 2021 amid allegations of sexual misconduct. Megadeth's current lineup includes Mustaine, bassist James LoMenzo, guitarist Teemu Mäntysaari and drummer Dirk Verbeuren.\nMegadeth earned platinum certifications in the United States for five of its sixteen studio albums, and has received twelve Grammy nominations. Megadeth won its first Grammy Award in 2017 for the song \"Dystopia\" in the Best Metal Performance category. The band's mascot, Vic Rattlehead, regularly appears on album artwork and live shows. Megadeth has hosted its own music festival, Gigantour, several times since July 2005, and held its first MegaCruise in October 2019.\nAs of 2023 the band sold more than 50 million copies of their albums worldwide."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# A megadeath (or megacorpse) is one million human deaths, usually caused by a nuclear explosion. The term was used by scientists and thinkers who strategized likely outcomes of all-out nuclear warfare.\n\n[Megadeth - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megadeath)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "\\m/ MEGADETH \\m/", "name": "Kiara"}, {"role": "user", "content": " __ __ __ __ \n |\\ /| __ __ _ __ __ ___ | | \n | \\ / | |_ | _ /_\\ | \\ |_ | |---| \n | | |_ |_| / \\ |_/ |_ | | | \n / \\", "name": "Eli"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east. Europe shares the landmass of Eurasia with Asia, and of Afro-Eurasia with both Asia and Africa. Europe is commonly considered to be separated from Asia by the watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea, and the waterway of the Bosporus Strait.Europe covers about 10.18 million km2 (3.93 million sq mi), or 2% of Earth's surface (6.8% of land area), making it the second-smallest continent (using the seven-continent model). Politically, Europe is divided into about fifty sovereign states, of which Russia is the largest and most populous, spanning 39% of the continent and comprising 15% of its population. Europe had a total population of about 745 million (about 10% of the world population) in 2021; the third-largest after Asia and Africa. The European climate is affected by warm Atlantic currents, such as the Gulf Stream, which produce a temperate climate, tempering winters and summers, on much of the continent. Further from the sea, seasonal differences are more noticeable producing more continental climates.\nEuropean culture consists of a range of national and regional cultures, which form the central roots of the wider Western civilisation, and together commonly reference ancient Greece and ancient Rome, particularly through their Christian successors, as crucial and shared roots. Beginning with the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE, Christian consolidation of Europe in the wake of the Migration Period marked the European post-classical Middle Ages. The Renaissance, radiating from Florence, spread to the rest of the continent a new humanist interest in art and science. Since the Age of Discovery, led by Spain and Portugal, Europe played a predominant role in global affairs with multiple explorations and conquests around the world.\nBetween the 16th and 20th centuries, European powers colonised at various times the Americas, almost all of Africa and Oceania, and the majority of Asia.\nThe Age of Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars shaped the continent culturally, politically and economically from the end of the 17th century until the first half of the 19th century. The Industrial Revolution, which began in Great Britain at the end of the 18th century, gave rise to radical economic, cultural and social change in Western Europe and eventually the wider world. Both world wars began and were fought to a great extent in Europe, contributing to a decline in Western European dominance in world affairs by the mid-20th century as the Soviet Union and the United States took prominence and competed over dominance in Europe and globally. The resulting Cold War divided Europe along the Iron Curtain, with NATO in the West and the Warsaw Pact in the East. This divide ended with the Revolutions of 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which allowed European integration to advance significantly.\nEuropean integration is being advanced institutionally since 1948 with the founding of the Council of Europe, and significantly through the realization of the European Union (EU), which represents today the majority of Europe. The European Union is a supranational political entity that lies between a confederation and a federation and is based on a system of European treaties. The EU originated in Western Europe but has been expanding eastward since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. A majority of its members have adopted a common currency, the euro, and participate in the European single market and a customs union. A large bloc of countries, the Schengen Area, have also abolished internal border and immigration controls. Regular popular elections take place every five years within the EU; they are considered to be the second-largest democratic elections in the world after India's. The EU is the third largest economy in the world.\n\nNunsploitation is a subgenre of exploitation film which had its peak in Europe in the 1970s. These films typically involve Christian nuns living in convents during the Middle Ages."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Nunsploitation: A subgenre of exploitation film which had its peak in Europe in the 1970s. These films typically involve Christian nuns living in convents during the Middle Ages.\n\n[Nunsploitation - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunsploitation)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh, I thought the Catholic church was finally getting called out for their crappy practices", "name": "Elijah"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye (Turkish: Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea (and Cyprus) to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west. Turkey is home to over 85 million people; most are ethnic Turks, while ethnic Kurds are the largest ethnic minority. Officially a secular state, Turkey has a Muslim-majority population. Ankara is Turkey's capital and second-largest city; Istanbul is its largest city, and its economic and financial center, as well as the largest city in Europe. Other major cities include İzmir, Bursa, Antalya, Konya and Adana.\nHuman habitation began in Late Paleolithic. Home to important Neolithic sites like Göbekli Tepe and some of the earliest farming areas, present-day Turkey was inhabited by various ancient peoples. Hattians were assimilated by the incoming Anatolian peoples. Increasing diversity during Classical Anatolia transitioned into cultural Hellenization following the conquests of Alexander the Great; Hellenization continued during the Roman and Byzantine eras. The Seljuk Turks began migrating into Anatolia in the 11th century, starting the Turkification process. The Seljuk Sultanate of Rum ruled Anatolia until the Mongol invasion in 1243, when it disintegrated into Turkish principalities. Beginning in 1299, the Ottomans united the principalities and expanded; Mehmed II conquered Istanbul in 1453. During the reigns of Selim I and Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire became a global power.From the late 18th century onwards, the empire's power and territory declined; reforms were also made. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, persecution of Muslims during the Ottoman contraction and in the Russian Empire resulted in large-scale loss of life and mass migration into modern-day Turkey from the Balkans, Caucasus, and Crimea. The Second Constitutional Era ended with the 1913 coup d'état. Under the control of Three Pashas, the Ottoman Empire entered World War I in 1914. During the war, the Ottoman government committed genocides against its Armenian, Greek and Assyrian subjects. After its defeat, the Ottoman Empire was partitioned. The Turkish War of Independence resulted in the abolition of the sultanate in 1922 and the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. The Republic was proclaimed on 29 October 1923, modelled on the reforms initiated by the country's first president, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.\nTurkey is an upper-middle-income and emerging country; its economy is 17th or 11th-largest in the world. It is a unitary presidential republic with a multi-party system. Turkey is a founding member of the OECD, G20, and Organization of Turkic States. With a geopolitically significant location, Turkey is a regional power and an early member of NATO. An EU-candidate, Turkey is part of the EU Customs Union, CoE, OIC, and TURKSOY. Turkey has coastal plains, a high central plateau, and various mountain ranges; its climate is temperate with harsher conditions in the interior. Home to three biodiversity hotspots, Turkey is prone to frequent earthquakes and is highly vulnerable to climate change. Turkey has universal healthcare, growing access to education, and increasing innovativeness. It has 21 UNESCO World Heritage sites, 30 UNESCO cultural practices, and a rich and diverse cuisine. Turkey is a leading TV-content exporter and is the fourth most visited country in the world.\n\nIn Turkey, pink certificate (Turkish: Pembe tezkere) is the colloquial name for a military discharge certificate given to those who are discharged or considered exempt from military service due to their sexual orientation. The Turkish Armed Forces Health Regulation, under Article 17 of \"Mental Health and Diseases,\" explains that the case of \"advanced sexual disorders,\" which are \"explicitly apparent in the person's whole life,\" could cause \"objectionable situations in the military environment\" To receive such a discharge, individuals must \"prove\" their homosexuality, under the examination of military doctors and psychologists."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In Turkey, pink certificate is the certificate given to those who are considered exempt from military service due to their sexual orientation. Conscripts who declare their homosexuality have to provide a photograph of themselves on the receiving end of anal intercourse.\n\n[Pink certificate - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_certificate)"}, {"role": "user", "content": ">\"With the picture it was a bit difficult. The face had to be recognizable as well as the penis and the ass. To put all this into a square was a bit complicated. Twice I got cramps because of the position. [] I also got humiliated at the selection, before they announce it [the final diagnosis]. There are about 12 military people, big ones, with uniforms and everything. [] They all looked one by one at the pictures and I had to bring ten pictures, ten different positions there. This is the difficulty of course, but I managed to do it. And at every single picture they looked and compared it with me. I was standing in the middle. And then they asked me questions. For example which positions I like and if I use this position they see regularly. Questions like that.\"", "name": "Angelina"}, {"role": "user", "content": "bro what", "name": "Brooklyn"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Turkish military officers: \"This board has come to a unanimous decision. The recruit is officially too sexy for military service.\"", "name": "Brianna"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Well to Hell was a hoax propagated in the early 90s by the Trinity Broadcasting Network that Russian Scientists had accidentally drilled into Hell and recorded screams of the damned with heat resistant microphones\n\n[Well to Hell - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_to_Hell_hoax?wprov=sfti1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Back in the early 2000 when my poison of choice was debating creationists I got this story sent to me more than once by some who believed it to be true.\nSome people are beyond help.", "name": "Alexia"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Afaik, nowhere in the bible does it say hell is underground lol", "name": "Kylee"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Jason Eric Massey (January 7, 1973 – April 3, 2001) was an American murderer who was executed in 2001 for the murders of two teenagers."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 1993, Jason Massey killed Brian King, 14, and his stepsister Christina Benjamin, 13. Christina was disemboweled, sexually mutilated, and dismembered. Jason killed dozens of animals and dreamed of becoming a serial killer. Prosecutors said it was a miracle that he was caught after his first kills.\n\n[Jason Massey - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Massey)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "A \"miracle\".", "name": "Zoe"}, {"role": "user", "content": "\"I'm only interceding after a couple of kids have suffered horrific fates first.\" -God?", "name": "Destiny"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# This 33-year-old made more than 1,000 Wikipedia bios for unknown women scientists\n\n[Jessica Wade Makes Wikipedia bios For Unknown Women Scientists](https://www.today.com/parents/jessica-wade-wikipedia-women-scientists-rcna51628)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "> If something is based on primary sources only, it should be accepted\n\nThen that will result in thousands and thousands of vanity pages. How is that better?"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "\"Got the morbs\" is a slang phrase or euphemism used in the Victorian era. The phrase describes a person afflicted with temporary melancholy or sadness. The term was defined in James Redding Ware's 1909 book Passing English of the Victorian Era."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"Got the morbs\" is a slang phrase or euphemism used in the Victorian era. The phrase describes a person afflicted with temporary melancholy or sadness.\n\n[Got the morbs - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Got_the_morbs)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It's morbin time :(", "name": "Mario"}, {"role": "user", "content": "", "name": "Hannah"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Family International (TFI) is an American new religious movement founded in 1968 by David Brandt Berg. The group has gone under a number of different names since its inception, including Teens for Christ, The Children of God (COG), The Family of Love, or simply The Family.\nA British court case found and former members claimed they were an authoritarian cult which engaged in the systematic physical and sexual abuse of children, resulting in lasting trauma among survivors. The group has also been accused of targeting vulnerable people.\n\nFlirty Fishing (FFing) is a form of evangelism by sexual intimacy practised from around 1974 to 1987 by the cult Children of God, currently known as The Family International (TFI). Female members of Children of God, or \"fisherwomen\", would apply their sex appeal on \"fish\" — men from outside the cult (often, but not always, having sex) — using the occasion to proselytize and seek donations.Children of God have defended it as a way of \"bearing witness\" for Jesus to people who would not otherwise be open to it. According to some sources, over two hundred thousand men were \"fished\" and over 10,000 babies were born to cult women between 1971 and 2001. The practice was curtailed as sexually transmitted diseases spread through the cult, and then abandoned in 1987, reportedly because of the spread of AIDS."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Flirty Fishing (FFing) is a form of evangelistic religious prostitution practised by female members of the cult Children of God, currently known as Family International. According to some sources, hundreds of thousands of men were \"fished\" before the practice was discontinued.\n\n[Flirty Fishing - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flirty_Fishing)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Isnt that the group mike pence was in or supported or something like that?", "name": "Timothy"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That was a different group, The Fellowship aka The Family aka The International Foundation.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fellowship_(Christian_organization)", "name": "Joshua"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Human Interference Task Force: A team of engineers, anthropologists, nuclear physicists, behavioral scientists, and other academics who were commissioned in the early 1980s to find a way to reduce the likelihood of future humans unintentionally intruding on radioactive waste isolation systems.\n\n[Human Interference Task Force - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Interference_Task_Force?repost)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Not from them, but a [strangely poetic long-term nuclear waste warning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warning_messages):\n\n>This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!\n\n>**Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.**\n\n>**This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.**\n\n>**What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.** This message is a warning about danger.\n\n>The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.\n\n>The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.\n\n>The danger is to the body, and it can kill.\n\n>The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.\n\n>The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.", "name": "Payton"}, {"role": "user", "content": "As a kiwi, im kind of ignorant on the matter, do you happen to know if there have been any advances in to dealing with the waste? Or is it still just a thing that gets buried and makes places uninhabitable?", "name": "Cole"}, {"role": "user", "content": "As far as I'm aware (and I'm just a rando online, so take with a grain of salt) we either do not have, or cannot afford, any kind of technology that makes nuclear waste safer, or into a different, safer product; [we're just innovating on different ways to store it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoy_WJ3mE50)", "name": "Eli"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Big Tech, also known as the Tech Giants, are the largest information technology companies. The term most often refers to the Big Five tech companies in the United States: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. The term can also include major Chinese technology companies, including the grouping of Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi (BATX). Big Tech can also include smaller tech companies with high valuations, such as Netflix and Nvidia, or non-tech companies with high-tech practices, such as the automaker Tesla. The concept of Big Tech is analogous to the consolidation of market dominance by a few companies in other market sectors, such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and J.P. Morgan in investment banking, the Big Three consulting firms, Big Oil, and Big Media."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Corporate Memphis is a term used (often disparagingly) to describe a flat, geometric art style, widely used in Big Tech illustrations in the late 2010s and early 2020s. It is often criticized as seeming uninspired or dystopian.\n\n[Corporate Memphis - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This will be one of the defining visual trends of the 2010s for better or worse. One day in 30 years people will probably have nostalgia for it.", "name": "Melissa"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah it reminds me of the [\"Global Village Coffeehouse\"](https://www.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/t7ksgx/global_village_coffeehouse_1990s_corporate_art/) corporate art style from the 90s (which I remember I felt was tacky at the time but now look back on somewhat fondly), mixed with bau haus. I think most of the negativity associated with it is generated more from who is using it than hate for the style itself."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Erdapfel (German for 'earth apple'; pronounced [ˈeːɐ̯tˌʔapfl̩] ) is a terrestrial globe 51 cm (20 in) in diameter, produced by Martin Behaim from 1490 to 1492. The Erdapfel is the oldest surviving terrestrial globe. It is constructed of a laminated linen ball in two halves, reinforced with wood and overlaid with a map painted on gores by Georg Glockendon. The map was drawn on paper, which was pasted on a layer of parchment around the globe.The Americas are not included, as Columbus returned to Spain no sooner than March 1493. The globe shows an enlarged Eurasian continent and an empty ocean between Europe and Asia. The mythical Saint Brendan's Island is included. Cipangu (Japanese archipelago) is oversized and well south of its true position; Martellus's map is followed in developing an enormous phantom peninsula east of the Golden Chersonese (Malay Peninsula).\nThe idea to call the globe \"apple\" may be related to the Reichsapfel (\"Imperial Apple\", Globus cruciger) which was also kept in Nuremberg along with the Imperial Regalia (Reichskleinodien). The name is not related to the modern meaning of Erdapfel in southern Germany and Austria, which is \"potato\"—potatoes had not yet been brought from America to Europe.\nFrom its creation until early in the 16th century, it stood in a reception room in the Nuremberg town hall. After that time, it was held by the Behaim family. In 1907, it was transferred to the Germanic Museum in Nuremberg. In 1992, it was moved for some time to the Vienna University of Technology, to be studied at high resolution by the Behaim Digital Globe Project. In 2011, a second digitalization by the German National Museum began.Terrestrial globes are known to have been made from antiquity, such as The Globe of Crates. None are known to have survived, even as fragments. A celestial globe, part of the Farnese Atlas, has survived from the second century AD.\nIn 2023, Erdapfel was admitted to UNESCO's Memory of the World."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Erdapfel is the oldest surviving terrestrial globe. The Americas are not included and globe shows an enlarged Eurasian continent and an empty ocean between Europe and Asia.\n\n[Erdapfel - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdapfel)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Imagine spending two years making this incredibly unique and detailed globe and then a year later Columbus comes back.", "name": "Jesse"}, {"role": "user", "content": "To be fair even Columbus insisted he went to the East Indies and didnt realize he was in the Americas", "name": "Ashlyn"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Fritzl case emerged in 2008, when a woman named Elisabeth Fritzl (born 6 April 1966) told police in the city of Amstetten, Lower Austria, that she had been held captive for 24 years by her father, Josef Fritzl (born 9 April 1935). Fritzl had assaulted, sexually abused, and raped his daughter repeatedly during her imprisonment inside a concealed area in the cellar of the family home. The incest resulted in the birth of seven children, three of whom remained in captivity with their mother; one died shortly after birth and was cremated by Fritzl; and the other three were brought up by Fritzl and his wife, Rosemarie, having been reported as foundlings. Josef Fritzl was arrested on suspicion of rape, false imprisonment, manslaughter by negligence, and incest. In March 2009, he pleaded guilty to all counts and was sentenced to life imprisonment."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Josef Fritzl, a man who imprisoned his daughter in an underground cellar for 24 years, raping her thousands of times and forcing her to bear him 7 children.\n\n[Fritzl case - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Its amazing that Elizabeth and the children have done as well as they have. Obviously, I can imagine there is a plethora of mental disorders, but theyre alive and building relationships. You have to wonder how much the mom knew, and how finding out impacted her sanity as well.", "name": "Lydia"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Considering she raised three of her daughters children with him, she knew everything.", "name": "Briana"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Li Zhensheng (Chinese: 李振盛; pinyin: Lǐ Zhènshèng; 22 September 1940 – June 2020) was a Chinese photojournalist who captured important images from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, better known as the Chinese Cultural Revolution.His employment at the Heilongjiang Daily, which followed the party line, and his decision to wear a red arm band indicating an alliance with Chairman Mao Zedong, allowed him access to scenes otherwise only described in written and verbal accounts.\nHis 2003 book Red-Color News Soldier exhibits both the revolutionary ideals and many of the atrocities that occurred during the Cultural Revolution. The Heilongjiang Daily newspaper had a strict policy in accordance with a government dictate that only \"positive\" images could be published, which consisted mostly of smiling revolutionaries offering praise for Chairman Mao. The \"negative\" images, which depicted the atrocities of the time, were hidden beneath a floorboard in his house before he brought them to light at a photo exhibition in 1988. \nA private museum, dedicated to Li's life and work, was opened in 2017 in Sichuan Province as a part of the Jianchuan Museum Cluster."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Li Zhensheng (19402020) was a Chinese photojournalist who used his position at a pro-government newspaper to record atrocities during the Cultural Revolution. He developed images of smiling workers for publication and hid the negatives capturing abuse under his floorboards, publishing them in 2003.\n\n[Li Zhensheng (photojournalist) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Zhensheng_(photojournalist))"}, {"role": "user", "content": ">A number of the images are self-portraits. This was the result of always returning to the paper with one extra frame on the film roll, a way of always being prepared to cover a breaking news event at the last minute. Li would \"burn off\" the last image with a photo of himself shortly before developing the film. Often the poses were humorous and playful.\n\n​\n\nHe sounds like he was a fun guy!", "name": "Margaret"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Can you ELI5? I'm not familiar with photojournalism. How do you \"burn off\" an image? And why the extra frame? How does the extra frame make him prepared to cover a breaking news event?", "name": "Cody"}, {"role": "user", "content": "He was shooting on film, and so the number of shots per roll was limited. Leaving one empty frame at the end of the roll meant that if something newsworthy happened after you covered whatever you had planned to go out and cover, you could capture it without having to change rolls.\n\nWhen they say \"burning off\" that last frame, they're just referring to using up that last shot for a selfie or whatever once he's safely back at the newsroom.", "name": "Martin"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Underground education or clandestine education refers to various practices of teaching carried out at times and places where such educational activities were deemed illegal.\nExamples of places where widespread clandestine education practices took place included education of Blacks during the slave period in the USA and the Secret Teaching Organization in Poland under the Nazis."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Underground education, or clandestine education, refers to various practices of teaching carried out at times and places where such educational activities were deemed illegal.\n\n[Underground education - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_education)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[removed]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Who is making it illegal to homeschool your child? I would LOVE to see your source on this.", "name": "Chase"}]