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[{"role": "system", "content": "Cock rock is a description of rock music that emphasizes an aggressive form of male sexuality. The style developed in the later 1960s, came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, and continues into the present day."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Cock rock is a genre of rock music that emphasizes an aggressive form of male sexuality. The style developed in the later 1960s, came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, and continues into the present day.\n\n[Cock rock - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_rock)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm in my 30s, I'm a huge rock & metal fan, & I've heard my different genres, sub-genres, & cross-genres, but this is the first time I've heard of Cock Rock.", "name": "Eli"}, {"role": "user", "content": "IMO, it's really not a unique musical genre in and of itself, more just a term for hard rock bands that express a certain macho attitude.", "name": "Lilly"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's definitely more about the vibe/attitude than the music style itself."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I mean, Led Zeppelin and Nickelback are worlds apart in terms of their musical style, but they could both be considered \"cock rock\".", "name": "Jackson"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I thought Nickelback was \"butt rock\"....\nCock rock is always better than butt rock.", "name": "Valeria"}, {"role": "user", "content": "They're that too.", "name": "Bryan"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Their new single has gotten stale even by butt rock standards. Coming from a dude who tolerates their aughts material. And likes Feed The Machine.", "name": "Liam"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I didn't even know they had a new single out.\n\nTheir 2000s material is what I'm most familiar with. I have nostalgia for a few songs, but I wouldn't call them one of my favorite bands.", "name": "Javier"}, {"role": "user", "content": "And new album too...", "name": "Alejandro"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Wanrong (Chinese: 婉容; 13 November 1906 – 20 June 1946), of the Manchu Plain White Banner Gobulo clan, was the wife and empress consort of Puyi, the last emperor of China. She is sometimes anachronistically called the Xuantong Empress, referring to Puyi's era name. She was the titular empress consort of the former Qing dynasty from their marriage in 1922 until the exile of the imperial family in November 1924. She later became the empress consort of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in northeastern China from 1934 until the abolition of the monarchy in August 1945, at the conclusive part of the Second World War. She was posthumously honored with the title Empress Xiaokemin.\nDuring the Soviet invasion of Manchuria at the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1945, Wanrong was captured by Chinese Communist guerrillas and transferred to various locations before she was placed in a prison camp in Yanji, Jilin. She died in prison in June 1946 and her remains were never found. On 23 October 2006, Wanrong's younger brother, Runqi, conducted a ritual burial for her in the Western Qing tombs."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The last Empress of China (Wanrong) went insane and starved to death in a pool of her own urine at 39. Her baby daughter was thrown into a boiler against her will.\n\n[Wanrong - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanrong)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I mean, how many people give consent to be thrown into a boiler?", "name": "Ariana"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Well not that baby for one", "name": "Vanessa"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A person must be at least 15-17 years of age to publicly drink an alcoholic beverage in Texas, with some exceptionsTexas is one of ten states (California, Colorado, Maryland, Montana, New York, Texas, West Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming) that allow consumption by minors in the presence of consenting and supervising family members. In the state of Texas, parents accept responsibility for the safety of minors under 15 when the minor is on their property or property leased by them and under their care, custody, and control; an adult may provide alcohol to a minor if they are the minor's adult parent, guardian, or spouse, and are visibly present when the minor possesses or consumes the alcoholic beverage. It is against the law to make alcohol available to a non-family person younger than 17, even on one's own property and even with permission from a parent of that person.Texas holds parents/adults civilly liable for damages caused by the intoxication of a minor younger than 17 if they knowingly provided alcohol or allowed alcohol to be served on property owned or leased by them if the minor:\n\nis injured or dies as a result of drinking on the property,\ngets into a fight, falls and hurts themself, or is sexually assaulted,\ndamages someone else's property, or\nleaves the property and is involved in a motor vehicle accident causing injury to themselves or others.An operator of a motor vehicle is considered automatically under the influence of alcohol if a chemical screening shows a blood-alcohol content (BAC) of 0.08 percent or greater. If under the age of 17, a driver in Texas testing positive for any BAC may be subject to DUI charges."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# An adult may provide alcohol to a minor if they are the minor's [..] spouse\n\n[Alcohol laws of Texas - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_laws_of_Texas)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "In this case, minor is anyone under 21. So when i was 21 and my wife was 20, i could order drinks for her. \n\nI feel like you're implying texas has a bunch of 50 yr olds marrying 14 yr olds because this law exists. That's not the case.", "name": "Julian"}, {"role": "user", "content": "> I feel like you're implying texas has a bunch of 50 yr olds marrying 14 yr olds **because this law exists**. That's not the case.\n\n/r/technicallytrue, theres a bunch of those marriages for other reasons.", "name": "Spencer"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Dissociative fugue (), formerly called a fugue state or psychogenic fugue, is a rare psychiatric phenomenon characterized by reversible amnesia for one's identity in conjunction with unexpected wandering or travel. This is sometimes accompanied by the establishment of a new identity and the inability to recall personal information prior to the presentation of symptoms. Dissociative fugue is a mental and behavioral disorder that is classified variously as a dissociative disorder, a conversion disorder, and a somatic symptom disorder. It is a facet of dissociative amnesia, according to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5).\nAfter recovery from a fugue state, previous memories usually return intact, and further treatment is unnecessary. An episode of fugue is not characterized as attributable to a psychiatric disorder if it can be related to the ingestion of psychotropic substances, to physical trauma, to a general medical condition, or to dissociative identity disorder, delirium, or dementia. Fugues are precipitated by a series of long-term traumatic episodes. It is most commonly associated with childhood victims of sexual abuse who learn to dissociate memory of the abuse (dissociative amnesia)."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Fugue state: a rare psychiatric disorder that causes sufferers to suddenly forget their identity and wander unexpectedly. It may last for months or longer and is precipitated by extreme trauma.\n\n[Dissociative fugue - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue_state)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "This was popularized by a storyline in Breaking Bad in which Walter White fakes a fugue to cover up his illegal activities. \n\nOne of the most well known cases of this is [Benjamin Kyle](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjaman_Kyle) who woke up naked, injured, and without identification next to a dumpster behind a Burger King. He would remain unidentified for 11 years. \n\nI feel like this fits here bc its scary to think you could suddenly lose yourself and come to in strange places without knowing how you got there or what you did during the fugue. I feel like some missing persons cases could possibly be explained by this psychiatric condition."}, {"role": "user", "content": "**[Benjaman Kyle](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjaman_Kyle)** \n \n >\"Benjaman Kyle\" was the alias chosen by an American man who had severe amnesia. On August 31, 2004, he was found, naked and injured, without any possessions or identification, next to a dumpster behind a Burger King restaurant in Richmond Hill, Georgia. Between 2004 and 2015, neither he nor the authorities had determined his identity or background, despite searches that had included television publicity and various other methods. In late 2015, genetic detective work, which had gone on for years, led to the discovery of his identity as William Burgess Powell, born August 29, 1948.\n \n^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/CreepyWikipedia/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)", "name": "Destiny"}]

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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": "Named after the Greek King Pyrrus who fought against Rome. The battles cost so much of his army that they could hardly be called victories.", "name": "Jada"}, {"role": "user", "content": "If I remember the quote attributed to Pyrrhus correctly, he was offered congratulations from one of his lieutenants, and he replied, famously:\n\nCongratulations on your fine victory sire\n\nI fear one more such victory, and we shall be undone\n\nThat was the thing about the Romans that set them apart from the likes of Carthage and the Greek city states; you could beat them like a drum, and despite that, theyd pick themselves up, dust themselves off and come at you again. Just look at the Punic Wars, the disasters, defeats and setbacks they suffered, time and time again, yet they kept just grinding away until eventually they prevailed.", "name": "Collin"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Bharat Kalicharan (1971 or 1972 – 13 August 2004), also known as Akku Yadav, was an Indian gangster, robber, home invader, kidnapper, serial rapist and murderer, and extortionist. Yadav grew up in the Kasturba Nagar slum, which is outside the Indian central city of Nagpur, Maharashtra. He lived and did business in the slum which housed a number of criminals and two rival gangs.\nAkku's earliest known crime was a gang rape in 1991. Yadav and his gang committed crimes like rape, murder, home invasion, and extortion in Kasturba Nagar for 13 years until his death. Akku tried to create a small business empire; he extorted money, harming and threatening those who resisted him. During his life as a criminal, Yadav murdered at least three individuals. He tortured and kidnapped people, invaded homes, and raped over 40 women and girls. He bribed police, giving them money and buying them drinks to convince them to let him continue committing crimes. As a result, the police not only refused to stop Akku for many years but supported him. Yadav and his associates gang raped women and girls as young as age 10 as a warning to those who resisted him.\nAfter a woman named Usha Narayane resisted Akku and his gang, a mob burned down his house. Akku went to the police seeking protection. On 13 August 2004, he was lynched by several hundred women who stabbed and stoned him. He had chili powder thrown in his face, and his penis was hacked off. The women all claimed responsibility for the murder, and although some were arrested, they were eventually acquitted. Although hundreds of women were involved in the lynching, the State CID had a different version of the events. Senior police sources said the lynching was carried out by four men and that the women who had claimed responsibility were protecting them. None of the women agreed with the police version. Police said that both men and women were present when the lynch mob appeared. On the day of the lynching, BBC News initially reported that about 14 women and several children forced their way into the courtroom and stabbed Akku to death. A film based on the incident, 200: Halla Ho, was released on 20 August 2021 digitally on ZEE5. A limited webseries called Indian Predator: Murder in a courtroom was released on Netflix depicting the story and interviews of the victims."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Akku Yadav was a serial rapist and serial killer who terrorized his community in India. Despite overwhelming evidence against him, he was routinely released after bribing the police with money and drinks. After losing their patience, a mob of hundreds of women lynched Yaddav inside a courtroom.\n\n[Akku Yadav - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akku_Yadav)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This reminds me of the killing of Ken McElroy. The whole town thought he was a total piece of shit who terrorized everyone. He was shot in his truck with like 40+ witnesses and nobody said anything because well, he needed killing.", "name": "Mario"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Not exactly the same, but the murder of [Joachim Peiper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Peiper) is another notorious example of vigilantism. He was an unrepentant Nazi war criminal who was supposed be executed for the [massacre of American POWs in Malmedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malmedy_massacre). He'd committed a lot of atrocities, but was only punished for the Malmedy massacre. Peiper later made the incredibly stupid decision of moving to France in 1972. Two years later, a former resistance member recognized him and reported him to the French Communist Party. In 1976, the French Communist Party revealed where Peiper was living. In early July 1976, a group of journalists approached him for an interview. During the interview, Peiper went, \"Nothing will happen to me. The French were cowards back then, and they still are now. That's why I'm here.\"\n\nFrench vigilantes killed Peiper less than two weeks later.\n\nI think the only reason it took that long is that they wanted to kill him on Bastille Day."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Wikipedia is a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki-based editing system MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. It is consistently ranked as one of the ten most popular websites in the world, and as of 2024 is ranked the fifth most visited website on the Internet by Semrush. Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization that employs a staff of over 700 people. Unfortunately, much of the info found on wikipedia is wrong, because the small-minded nerds who run it don't allow CORRECT info to be added to THEIR pages. They jealously guard their little pieces of territory from anyone who would DARE to enter CORRECT info. This is why wikipedia is viewed as an unreliable source of info by people all over the world.\nInitially only available in English, editions in other languages have been developed. Wikipedia's editions, when combined, comprise more than 62 million articles, attracting around 2 billion unique device visits per month and more than 14 million edits per month (about 5.2 edits per second on average) as of November 2023. Roughly 26% of Wikipedia's traffic is from the United States, followed by Japan at 5.9%, the United Kingdom at 5.4%, Germany at 5%, Russia at 4.8%, and the remaining 54% split among other countries, according to data provided by Similarweb.Wikipedia has been praised for its enablement of the democratization of knowledge, extent of coverage, unique structure, and culture. It has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias, particularly gender bias against women and geographical bias against the Global South (Eurocentrism). While the reliability of Wikipedia was frequently criticized in the 2000s, it has improved over time, receiving greater praise in the late 2010s and early 2020s, having become an important fact-checking site.Wikipedia has been censored by some national governments, ranging from specific pages to the entire site. Articles on breaking news are often accessed as sources for frequently updated information about those events."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# I was offered $75 on a freelancing website to vote in favour of the deletion of a specific topic on Wikipedia; this was my response\n\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I read all the r/wikipedia rules before making this post and I only posted this entry based on Rule No. 6 which reads:\n\n>**6.No screenshots** \n> \n>Screenshots of Wikipedia articles are not allowed. Link directly to the article or media when possible. A moderator may choose to allow screenshots at their discretion, such as when something is otherwise not conveyable.\n\nI hope that mods do find value in this post and keep it because this was the only way I could convey a thing which was otherwise not conveyable."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I hope that the moderation team will allow in that case as well. Wikipedia's integrity is an important matter that shouldn't be tempered with for financial gains.", "name": "Erin"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yep, this post is fine. Undisclosed for-hire editing on freelance sites is unfortunately a problem on Wikipedia.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Paid-contribution_disclosure", "name": "Eric"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Ohio ( oh-HAI-oh) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ohio borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the west, and Michigan to the northwest. Of the 50 U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area. With a population of nearly 11.8 million, Ohio is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated state. Its capital and largest city is Columbus, with other large population centers including Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton, Akron, and Toledo. Ohio is nicknamed the \"Buckeye State\" after its Ohio buckeye trees, and Ohioans are also known as \"Buckeyes\". Its flag is the only non-rectangular flag of all U.S. states.\nOhio derives its name from the Ohio River that forms its southern border, which, in turn, originated from the Seneca word ohiːyo', meaning \"good river\", \"great river\", or \"large creek\". The state was home to several ancient indigenous civilizations, with humans present as early as 10,000 BCE. It arose from the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains that were contested by various native tribes and European colonists from the 17th century through the Northwest Indian Wars of the late 18th century. Ohio was partitioned from the Northwest Territory, the first frontier of the new United States, becoming the 17th state admitted to the Union on March 1, 1803, and the first under the Northwest Ordinance. It was the first post-colonial free state admitted to the union and became one of the earliest and most influential industrial powerhouses during the 20th century. Although it has transitioned to a more information- and service-based economy in the 21st century, it remains an industrial state, ranking seventh in GDP as of 2019, with the third-largest manufacturing sector and second-largest automobile production.Modeled on its federal counterpart, Ohio's government is composed of the executive branch, led by the governor; the legislative branch, consisting of the bicameral Ohio General Assembly; and the judicial branch, led by the state Supreme Court. Ohio occupies 15 seats in the United States House of Representatives, the seventh-largest delegation. Its politics has been described as moderate; the state is known for its status as both a swing state and a bellwether in national elections. Seven presidents of the United States have come from Ohio, earning it the moniker \"the Mother of Presidents\".\n\nThe 2011 Zanesville, Ohio animal escape occurred on October 18, 2011, when the owner of Muskingum County Animal Farm released multiple exotic animals before committing suicide. 48 animals were subsequently killed by law enforcement."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The 2011 Zanesville, Ohio animal escape incident took place when private zoo owner and Vietnam War veteran Terry Thompson freed his animals and committed suicide. 48 exotic animals were put down by police on the scene including lions, tigers, bears and wolves \n\n[2011 Zanesville, Ohio animal escape - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Zanesville,_Ohio_animal_escape)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Im confused why he set them free? He knew theyd be killed. Its not like setting your pet bird free in naive hopes of them living a better life, its sending exotic and dangerous animals into a city where people will shoot them.", "name": "Mya"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "If I had to speculate Id say he was just deeply narcissistic. He saw the animals as an extension of himself and released them out of spite for his surroundings without concern for what would happen to them. He probably hoped theyd kill somebody else"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "\"Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan\" (1968), by J. G. Ballard, is a short story written in the style of a scientific report that catalogues a series of psychological experiments intended to measure the psychosexual appeal of the Californian politician Ronald Reagan, who then was governor of the state of California, and also a candidate for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination, which he lost to Richard M. Nixon.\nFirst published as a pamphlet in 1968, by the Unicorn Bookshop in Brighton, England, the short story “Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan” was later republished in The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), a collection of thematically related short stories."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan is a short work by English author J. G. Ballard. It is written in the style of a scientific paper and catalogues an apocryphal series of bizarre experiments intended to measure the psychosexual appeal of Ronald Reagan.\n\n[Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_I_Want_to_Fuck_Ronald_Reagan)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This is amazing, thanks so much for this\n\n> Patients were provided with assembly kit photographs of sexual partners during intercourse. In each case Reagan's face was super imposed upon the original partner. Vaginal intercourse with \"Reagan\" proved uniformly disappointing, producing orgasm in 2% of subjects.\n\nlmao", "name": "James"}, {"role": "user", "content": "> \"Faces were seen as either circumcised (JFK,Khrushchev) or uncircumcised (LBJ,Adenauer). In assembly-kit tests Reagan's face was uniformly perceived as a penile erection. Patients were encouraged to devise the optimum sex-death of Ronald Reagan.\"\n\nThis shit's amazing!", "name": "Colton"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A privately made firearm (also referred to as a ghost gun or homemade firearm) is a legal term for a firearm produced by a private individual as opposed to a corporate or government entity. The term \"ghost gun\" is used mostly in the United States by gun control advocates, but it is being adopted by gun rights advocates and the firearm industry because of recent regulations adopted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# A ghost gun is a homemade firearm that lacks commercial serial numbers. Because they are not considered to fall under the U.S. governments authority to regulate interstate commerce, individuals making their own firearms are not subject to background check regulations.\n\n[Privately made firearm - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privately_made_firearm)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Its actually crazy how easy it is for people to 3D print their own gun. As an engineering student, I respect the design process, but Im also terrified that its allowed to happen", "name": "Maxwell"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Here in WI, I can buy a pistol from a private seller and not register a single thing - no background check, no paperwork , etc. Last time I bought one, we just did a bill of sale, gave him some cash and I now have a Glock.\n\nI get the 3D printing thing is scary on the surface but in a lot of states no one has any idea who does or doesnt have guns. They are not \"registered\".", "name": "Samuel"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "William Bruce Mumford (December 5, 1819 – June 7, 1862) was a North Carolina native and resident of New Orleans, who tore down the U.S. flag raised over Confederate New Orleans after the city was captured by Union troops during the American Civil War. In response, Union Army Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler, the commander of the Union ground forces, had Mumford court-martialed and executed for treason."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# William Mumford is the only person to be executed for treason by the U.S. government since the Revolutionary War. In 1862, Mumford tore down an American flag which was raised after the Union retook New Orleans. Outraged, the Union general in charge had him court-martialed and hanged.\n\n[William Bruce Mumford - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bruce_Mumford)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[removed]"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "January 6th didn't happen during a military occupation in a time of war, so a court-martial with a predetermined verdict is off the table. That and there were other factors leading to Mumford's execution, mainly the city of New Orleans testing Butler's patience. Butler had just spared the lives of six Confederate POWs who'd tried to escape custody so they could keep fighting. He viewed the men as idiots who didn't know they were doing. He called them \"misguided\" in his letter granting clemency. That said, none of that would matter since Butler would've ordered the Capitol Police mow down the mob."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "On 18 June 2023, Titan, a submersible operated by the American tourism and expeditions company OceanGate, imploded during an expedition to view the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. Aboard the submersible were: Stockton Rush, the American chief executive officer of OceanGate; Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a French deep-sea explorer and Titanic expert; Hamish Harding, a British businessman; Shahzada Dawood, a Pakistani-British businessman; and Dawood's son Suleman.\nCommunication between Titan and its mother ship, MV Polar Prince, was lost 1 hour and 45 minutes into the dive. Authorities were alerted when it failed to resurface at the scheduled time later that day. After the submersible had been missing for four days, a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) discovered a debris field containing parts of Titan, about 500 metres (1,600 ft) from the bow of the Titanic. The search area was informed by the United States Navy's (USN) sonar detection of an acoustic signature consistent with an implosion around the time communications with the submersible ceased, suggesting the pressure hull had imploded while Titan was descending, resulting in the instantaneous deaths of all five occupants.\nThe search and rescue operation was conducted by an international team led by the United States Coast Guard (USCG), USN, and Canadian Coast Guard. Support was provided by aircraft from the Royal Canadian Air Force and United States Air National Guard, a Royal Canadian Navy ship, as well as several commercial and research vessels and ROVs.Numerous industry experts had raised concerns about the safety of the vessel. OceanGate executives, including Rush, had not sought certification for Titan, arguing that excessive safety protocols and regulations hindered innovation."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# 2023 Titan submersible incident - submersible goes missing while diving to view Titanic wreck\n\n[Titan submersible implosion - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Titan_submersible_incident)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "David Pogue, a reporter who went on the expedition in 2022, stated that all individuals who go aboard the Titan sign a waiver indicating they know it is an \"experimental\" vessel, \"that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body, and could result in physical injury, disability, emotional trauma or death\"", "name": "Emma"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It is also important to consider that the passengers have little to no control of the situation:\n\n>OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush then gave him a tour of the submersible, where he revealed the vessel only has one button and is run using a video game controller.\n\n[Source](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65953872). \n\nIn short, they are along for the ride. The submersible does not even open from the inside, so theoretically if it were to miraculously surface on its own, the passengers would still suffocate in the sealed life pod. This sounds like a serious design flaw to me. I do not think any legal waiver they sign will save the company from a lawsuit if there are ~5 tourist deaths especially if one of them is indeed the death of a billionaire.", "name": "Max"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Abortion in Poland is illegal except in cases where the pregnancy is a result of a criminal act or when the woman's life or health is in danger. The last change in the Act on Pregnancy Planning of the Republic of Poland took place on 27 January 2021, when publication of the judgment of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal in the Dziennik Ustaw RP took place.Poland is one of the only few countries in the world where abortion became largely outlawed since the 1990s after decades of permissive liberalized legislation during the communist–era Polish People's Republic. In 2010, about 10 to 15% of abortions on Polish pregnant women had to be carried out outside Poland due to the strict restraints within their own country. Poland's abortion law is also one of the most restrictive in the European Union (EU) and Europe in general, along with a group of other traditionally Roman Catholic countries of the region (e.g. Malta, Liechtenstein, the Vatican, Monaco and Andorra)."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The death of a 37-year-old pregnant woman, after her doctors told her they could not perform an abortion of her dead foetus as the foetus's twin was still alive, led to increased protests from women's and abortion-rights activists.\n\n[Abortion in Poland - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Poland)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Aaaaaand how did her death help the living twin fetus?", "name": "Landon"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Republicans don't give a shit. Die for their political game.", "name": "Jocelyn"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A coup d'état, often abbreviated to coup, is the overthrow of a lawful government through illegal means. If force or violence are not involved, such an event is sometimes called a soft or bloodless coup. In another variation, a ruler who came to power through legal means may try to stay in power through illegal means, thus preventing the next legal ruler from taking power. These events are called self coups. This is a chronological list of such coups and coup attempts, from ancient times to the present."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# List of coups and coup attempts (2021)\n\n[List of coups and coup attempts - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_and_coup_attempts#2020%E2%80%932029)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Do you think it will be kept up?", "name": "Julia"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I hope not. Now every time an angry mob breaks a window people will call it a coup.", "name": "Chase"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Angry mob directly told by the POTUS to do what they did.\n\nAnd it wasn't just a window. It was the Capitol. Four people died.\n\nWhat the fuck is wrong with you.", "name": "Oliver"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The 2008 Chinese milk scandal was a significant food safety incident in China. The scandal involved Sanlu Group's milk and infant formula along with other food materials and components being adulterated with the chemical melamine, which resulted in kidney stones and other kidney damage in infants. The chemical was used to increase the nitrogen content of diluted milk, giving it the appearance of higher protein content in order to pass quality control testing. 300,000 affected children were identified, among which 54,000 were hospitalized, according to the latest report in January 2009. The deaths of six babies were officially concluded to be related to the contaminated milk.The timeline of the scandal dated back to December 2007, when Sanlu began to receive complaints about kidney stones. One of the more notable early complaints was made on 20 May 2008, when a mother posted online after she learnt that Sanlu donated the milk she had been complaining about to the orphans of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Also on 20 May, the problem reached Sanlu's Board meeting the first time and they ordered multiple third-party tests. The culprit, melamine, was undetected in the tests until 1 August. On 2 August, Sanlu's Board decided to issue a trade recall to the wholesalers but did not inform the wholesalers the product was contaminated; however, Shijiazhuang's deputy mayor, who was invited to attend, rejected trade recall and instructed the Board to \"shut the mouths of the victims by money\", \"wait until the end of 2008 Beijing Olympics to end smoothly and then the provincial police would hunt the perpetrators\". New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra, which owned a 43% stake in Sanlu, were alerted to the contamination on 2 August's Board meeting. Fonterra alerted the New Zealand government and the NZ government confronted the Chinese government on 8 September. The Chinese government made the scandal public on 13 September. After the initial focus on Sanlu, further government inspections revealed that products from 21 other companies were also tainted, including those from Arla Foods–Mengniu, Yili, and Yashili. While more and more cases reached hospitals around the nation from December 2007, the first report to the government by any hospital was made on 16 July.The issue raised concerns about food safety and political corruption in China and damaged the reputation of the country's food exports. The World Health Organization called the incident \"deplorable\" and at least 11 foreign countries halted all imports of Chinese dairy products. A number of trials were conducted by the Chinese government resulting in two executions, three sentences of life imprisonment, two 15-year prison sentences, and the firing or forced resignation of seven local government officials and the Director of the Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ). The former chairwoman of China's Sanlu dairy was sentenced to life in prison.In late October 2008, similar adulteration with melamine was discovered in eggs and possibly other food. The source was traced to melamine being added to animal feed, despite a ban imposed in June 2007 following the scandal over pet food ingredients exported to the United States."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The 2008 Chinese milk scandal. A Chinese dairy company sold tainted baby formula which was intentionally tainted with melamine. Over 300,000 infants were sickened, with at least six dying. The company tainted the formula so they could increase their profits and pass quality control tests.\n\n[2008 Chinese milk scandal - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "A number of trials were conducted by the Chinese government resulting in two executions, three sentences of life imprisonment, two 15-year prison sentences,[13] and the firing or forced resignation of seven local government officials and the Director of the Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ).[14] The former chairwoman of China's Sanlu dairy was sentenced to life in prison."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Not saying it's great to have a regime like china does, but MAYBE this shit would happen less around the world if people were held to this level of personal accountability.", "name": "Sarah"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The second (symbol: s) is the unit of time in the International System of Units (SI), historically defined as 1⁄86400 of a day – this factor derived from the division of the day first into 24 hours, then to 60 minutes and finally to 60 seconds each (24 × 60 × 60 = 86400). \"Minute\" comes from the Latin pars minuta primacode: lat promoted to code: la , meaning \"first small part\", and \"second\" comes from the pars minuta secundacode: lat promoted to code: la , \"second small part\".\n\nThe current and formal definition in the International System of Units (SI) is more precise:The second [...] is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the caesium frequency, ΔνCs, the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium 133 atom, to be 9192631770 when expressed in the unit Hz, which is equal to s−1.\nThis current definition was adopted in 1967 when it became feasible to define the second based on fundamental properties of nature with caesium clocks. Because the speed of Earth's rotation varies and is slowing ever so slightly, a leap second is added at irregular intervals to civil time to keep clocks in sync with Earth's rotation.\n\nA double tap is a shooting technique where two shots are fired in rapid succession at the same target with the same sight picture (as opposed to the controlled pair, whereby a second sighting is acquired for the second shot). Instruction and practice of the double-tap improves accuracy as shooters often do not have the gun fully extended on the first shot meaning the second shot of a double tap is usually more accurate. The term hammer is sometimes used to describe a double tap in which the firearm's sights are not reacquired by the shooter between shots."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# double tap strike is the practice of following a strike with a second strike several minutes later, hitting response teams, helpers, and medics rushing to the site. A Florida Law Review article argued that the practice likely is a war crime since it grossly violates the Geneva Conventions of 1949\n\n[Double tap - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_tap_strike)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Likely??? You'd think this would be pretty obvious", "name": "Taylor"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I guess they say \"likely\" because this probably isn't explicitly mentioned in the convention and hasn't been ruled to be a war crime by a judge.\n\nLike if someone gets arrested for something, even if the news airs footage and recordings of people committing crimes, they'll usually still say \"alleged criminal behaviour\". \n\nSince the judge hasn't ruled yet there should still be the presumption of innocence even if the evidence makes that really difficult.\n\nEdit: \"likely\" here is probably lawyer speak for \"pretty fucking obvious\"", "name": "Cody"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Brian Sinclair (1963 – September 21, 2008) was an Indigenous Canadian man whose death in a hospital waiting room led to widespread concern on the state of the healthcare system in Canada. On September 21, 2008, Sinclair waited 34 hours for medical attention at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre. Sinclair died while he was waiting and had developed rigor mortis when medical staff attended to him."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# On September 21, 2008, an Indigenous Canadian man named Brian Sinclair waited 34 hours for medical attention at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre. Sinclair died while he was waiting and had developed rigor mortis when medical staff attended to him.\n\n[Death of Brian Sinclair - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Brian_Sinclair)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Thats absolutely horrific and the fact that nobody was held responsible is tragic", "name": "Raymond"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hes native, neither Canada nor the US give a fuck about healthcare in relation to indigeniety", "name": "Maxwell"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Tumbling Doll of Flesh (肉だるま, \"Niku Daruma\") is a 1998 Japanese pornographic splatter film written and directed by Tamakichi Anaru. The film is noted for its very extreme content, and is widely regarded as one of the most offensive and disgusting films ever to have been produced."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Tumbling Doll of Flesh, by Tamakichi Anaru, is a pornographic splatter film considered one of the most disgusting of all time.\n\n[Tumbling Doll of Flesh - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbling_Doll_of_Flesh)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "A lot of times my curiousity gets the best of me with some things and I want to look up the movies or pics that are mentioned, but the description of this film is more than enough for me...", "name": "Cassidy"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Im the same way. I am curious, but not enough to watch the film itself. There is a really good YouTube channel that breaks down disturbing cinema that helps satiate that curiosity, Spookyrice. He did this as well as many others.", "name": "Victoria"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"I saw fathers fight over dead children like dogs over a bone, yelling 'That's mine!' 'No, mine!' I saw children who looked like roadkill; you couldn't tell if it was a boy, girl, or what.\"\n\n[New London School explosion - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion?wprov=sfti1https://maps.apple.com/?ll=32.239167,-94.941389&q=New%20London%20School%20explosion&_ext=EiQpnh59A50eQEAxQLwutz+8V8A5nh59A50eQEBBQLwutz+8V8A%3D)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "> Adolf Hitler, who was theGerman Chancellorat the time, paid his respects in the form of a telegram, a copy of which is on display at the London Museum.", "name": "Payton"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah I noticed that and I was like holy shit", "name": "Peter"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Strange Thing About the Johnsons is a 2011 American short psychological horror film written and directed by Ari Aster. The film stars Billy Mayo, Brandon Greenhouse, and Angela Bullock as members of a suburban family in which the father is trapped in an incestuous relationship with his abusive son.\nThe short was Aster's thesis film while studying at the AFI Conservatory, and later screened at film festivals in 2011, premiering at the Slamdance Film Festival in Utah on January 22 before it leaked online in November and went viral. Aster conceived the story while discussing taboos with his friends, including Greenhouse, before his first year at AFI. He worked on the production with fellow students from the school.\nThe Strange Thing About the Johnsons received polarized reviews from critics and audiences. Many were divided on the film's controversial themes, although Mayo and Bullock received widespread acclaim for their performances."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"The Strange Thing About The Johnsons\" is a short film that tells the story of a suburban family in which the son is involved in an abusive incestuous relationship with his father\n\n[The Strange Thing About the Johnsons - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strange_Thing_About_the_Johnsons)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Directed by Ari Aster who did Hereditary and Midsommar.", "name": "Grace"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Dudes got a real flair for horrific familial secrets/tragedy", "name": "Anna"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Gilles de Rais (c. 1405 – 26 October 1440), Baron de Rais, was a knight and lord from Brittany, Anjou and Poitou, a leader in the French army, and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc. He is best known for his reputation and later conviction as a confessed serial killer of children.\nA member of the House of Montmorency-Laval, Gilles de Rais was raised by his maternal grandfather Jean de Craon. He earned the favour of the Duke of Brittany and was admitted to the French court. From 1427 to 1435, Rais served as a commander in the French army and fought in the Hundred Years' War.\nIn 1429, he formed an alliance with his cousin Georges de La Trémoille, the prominent Grand Chamberlain of France. The same year, he was appointed Marshal of France after the successful military campaigns alongside Joan of Arc, but little is known about the relationship between the two comrades in arms.\nAfter the death of Jean de Craon in 1432 and Georges de La Trémoille's fall from grace in 1433, he gradually withdrew from the war. His family, and in particular his younger brother René de La Suze, accused him of squandering his patrimony by selling off his lands to the highest bidder in order to offset his lavish expenses, a profligacy that led to his being placed under interdict by King Charles VII of France on July 1435.\nIn May 1440, he assaulted cleric Jean Le Ferron in the church of Saint-Étienne-de-Mer-Morte before seizing the local castle, thereby violating ecclesiastical immunities and undermining the majesty of his suzerain, John V, Duke of Brittany. Arrested on 15 September 1440 at his castle in Machecoul, he was taken to the Duchy of Brittany.\nIn October 1440, he was tried by the ecclesiastical court of Nantes for heresy, sodomy and the murder of \"one hundred and forty or more children\". At the same time, he was condemned to be hanged and burned at the stake by the secular court of Nantes for his act of force at Saint-Étienne-de-Mer-Morte, as well as for crimes committed against \"several small children\", without specifying their number. On 26 October 1440, he was sent to the scaffold with two of his servants convicted of murder.\nHis guilt has sometimes been called into question, notably in 1992, when an unofficial Parisian mock trial argued that a judicial plot had been hatched by the Duke of Brittany and the Bishop of Nantes to seize the accused's property. Historians have criticized this conspiracy theory, voicing their methodological objections to the errors and manipulations inherent in such publicity stunt.\nVarious researchers do not question Rais' guilt. Far from wishing to exonerate him or reconstitute some kind of judicial truth, other historians are nevertheless wary of reading the records of his trials at face value. Medievalists Jacques Chiffoleau and Claude Gauvard insist on the need to contextualize historical documents by studying the inquisitorial procedure employed. Thus, they question the defendants' confessions in the light of the judges' expectations and conceptions, while also examining the role of rumor in the development of Gilles de Rais' fama (reputation). However, these historians do not disregard some detailed testimonies concerning the disappearance of children, or certain confessions describing murderous and sadistic rituals unparalleled in the judicial archives of the time.\nFurthermore, Rais is sometimes believed to be an inspiration for Charles Perrault's \"Bluebeard\" literary fairy tale (1697), but this assumption is controversial as being too uncertain. Whatever the case, a popular confusion between the historical character and the mythical wife-murderer has been documented since the early 19th century."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Gilles de Rais, Joan of Arc's comrade and a rich playboy, went bankrupt/lost all his castles trying to produce his awful stageplay, summoned a demon to reclaim his fortune, and all the while was secretly a serial killer and sexual predator who most likely murdered over 150 children.\n\n[Gilles de Rais - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Rais)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Worth noting- Rais was maybe a bit guilty of being gay, and a political figure that many would have benefitted from his being found guilty of a crime. Theres a pretty hefty modern movement attempted to have him posthumously exonerated for these crimes, which many believe he did not actually commit. Worth reading up on!", "name": "Jasmin"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Can you provide some good links/references? Would really like to see the arguments.", "name": "Cassandra"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Heres a few great articles about it:\nhttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gilles-de-rais-bluebeard\nAnd\nhttps://www.ancient-origins.net/famous-people/gilles-de-rais-violent-predator-or-political-victim-002130\n\nI mean it was SO long ago that we cant really prove him innocent 100%, but the evidence of his guilt is also extremely thin. It's a super interesting read! I dont wanna say for certain he was innocent- but I always think it's good for everyone to have all the info.", "name": "Spencer"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "On 14 October 2022, the British tabloid newspaper the Daily Star began a livestream of an iceberg lettuce next to a framed photograph of Liz Truss, who had recently been appointed the prime minister of the United Kingdom. This act followed an opinion piece in The Economist that compared the expected brevity of Truss's premiership to the shelf life of a head of lettuce, with the October 2022 United Kingdom government crisis occurring just weeks into her tenure and leading many political commentators to opine that Truss's resignation would be imminent. She announced her resignation as prime minister on 20 October 2022, before the lettuce had wilted; the Daily Star subsequently declared the lettuce \"victorious\" over Truss."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# On 14 October 2022, the British tabloid newspaper Daily Star released a livestream of an iceberg lettuce, comparing the shelf-life of the lettuce to the remaining tenure of British Prime Minister Liz Truss.\n\n[Liz Truss lettuce - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Star_lettuce)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I love that there is a section just titled \"The Lettuce\"", "name": "Kaden"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Probably the only wiki article with that as a section title", "name": "Brittany"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A retronym is a newer name for an existing thing that helps differentiate the original form from a more recent one. It is thus a word or phrase created to avoid confusion between older and newer types, whereas previously (before there were more than one type) no clarification was required.Advances in technology are often responsible for the coinage of retronyms. For example, the term acoustic guitar was coined with the advent of electric guitars; analog watches were renamed to distinguish them from digital watches once the latter were invented; \"push bike\" was created to distinguish from motorbike and motorized bicycles; and finally \"feature phone\" was also coined behind smartphones."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# A retronym is a newer name for an existing thing that helps differentiate the original form/version from a more recent one. For example, the term \"acoustic guitar\" was coined with the advent of electric guitars.\n\n[Retronym - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retronym)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Human Computer\n\n[Computer used to be a job title held mostly by women](https://www.jstor.org/stable/25147356)", "name": "Lauren"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The original mentats.", "name": "Manuel"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Phnom Penh (; Khmer: ភ្នំពេញ, Phnum Pénh [pʰnomˈpɨɲ], lit. 'Penh's Hill, Penh's Mountain') is the capital and most populous city of Cambodia. It has been the national capital since the French protectorate of Cambodia and has grown to become the nation's primate city and its economic, industrial, and cultural centre. Before Phnom Penh became capital city, Oudong was the capital of the country. \nPhnom Penh succeeded Angkor Thom as the capital of the Khmer nation but was abandoned several times before being reestablished in 1865 by King Norodom. The city formerly functioned as a processing center, with textiles, pharmaceuticals, machine manufacturing, and rice milling. Its chief assets, however, were cultural. Institutions of higher learning included the Royal University of Phnom Penh (established in 1960 as Royal Khmer University), with schools of engineering, fine arts, technology, and agricultural sciences, the latter at Chamkar Daung, a suburb. Also located in Phnom Penh were the Royal University of Agronomic Sciences and the Agricultural School of Prek Leap.The city was nicknamed the \"Pearl of Asia\" for its early 20th century colonial French architecture, which included Art Deco works. Phnom Penh, along with Siem Reap and Sihanoukville, are significant global and domestic tourist destinations for Cambodia. Founded in 1372, the city is noted for its historical architecture and attractions. It became the national capital in 1434 following the fall of Angkor, and remained so until 1497. It regained its capital status during the French colonial era in 1865. There are a number of surviving colonial-era buildings scattered along the grand boulevards.\nOn the banks of the Tonlé Sap, Mekong, and Bassac Rivers, Phnom Penh is home to more than 2 million people, approximately 14% of the Cambodian population. The Greater Phnom Penh area includes the nearby Ta Khmau city and some districts of Kandal province.The city has hosted numerous regional and international events, the most notable being the 2002, 2012, and 2022 ASEAN Summit, the 32nd Southeast Asian Games, and the 12th ASEAN Para Games. Phnom Penh will be the first Cambodian city and the second city in Southeast Asia to host the Asian Youth Games in 2029.\n\nThe Phnom Penh stampede occurred on 22 November 2010 when 347 people were killed and another 755 injured in a stampede and crowd crush during the Water Festival celebrations at Diamond Gate Bridge of Diamond Island, in Cambodia."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Phnom Penh stampede occurred in 2010 when 347 people were killed in a human stampede during the Khmer Water Festival celebrations. While trying to get away from the stampede, he said that people pulled down electrical wires, causing more people to die of electrocution.\n\n[Phnom Penh stampede - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phnom_Penh_stampede)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Im still confused on how this happened.. crazy", "name": "Caroline"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "as someone who knows someone involved in this stampede, id say its a half-half between someone yelling that the bridge is collapsing and the bridge shaking due to thousands of people being on it (and an estimated 4 million people attended the festival, which is like a quarter of the countrys population then) its still confusing due to lots of reports that say different details, but I think the bridge shaking was what led to the panic."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Friedrich Paul \"Fritz\" Honka (31 July 1935 – 19 October 1998) was a German serial killer. Between 1970 and 1975 he killed at least four women from Hamburg's red light district, keeping three of the bodies in his flat."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Fritz Honka was a German serial killer who preyed upon older women suffering from alcoholism. He kept the bodies in the walls of his apartment and was only discovered by chance when first responders showed up to deal with a fire.\n\n[Fritz Honka - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Honka)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "So this guy killed and dismembered 4 women, but only got 15 years because he was an alcoholic. \n\nI feel like something is missing.", "name": "Grace"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Justice?", "name": "Bianca"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A French postcard is a small, postcard-sized piece of cardstock featuring a photograph of a nude or semi-nude woman. Such erotic cards were produced in great volume, primarily in France, in the late 19th and early 20th century. The term was adopted in the United States, where such cards were not legally made. The cards were sold as postcards, but the primary purpose was not for sending by mail, as they would have been banned from delivery. The cards sometimes even depicted naked lesbians. French street vendors, tobacco shops and a variety of other vendors bought the photographs for resale to tourists."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# A French postcard is a small, postcard-sized piece of cardstock featuring a photograph of a nude or semi-nude woman. Such erotic cards were produced in great volume, primarily in France, in the late 19th and early 20th century.\n\n[French postcard - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_postcard)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": ">The cards were sold as postcards, but the primary purpose was not for sending by mail, as they would have been banned from delivery. The cards sometimes even depicted naked lesbians."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A virginity auction is an auction, often publicized online, where a person seeks to sell their virginity. The winning bidder will win the right to be the first to have intercourse with the person.\nOften the authenticity of such auctions is subject to question, and it is not later verified whether the auction was successfully completed. A number of high-profile auctions such as the 2008 auction of \"Natalie Dylan\" and 2012 auction of Catarina Migliorini were never completed. In some cases, the seller reports they are seeking money to pay for expenses such as medical bills or school tuition; in others, the seller has pledged that some portion of the earnings will be given to charity, or emphasizes the social questions involved in selling one's virginity.The earliest reported attempts to auction virginity online date to at least early 2004. As far back as 1998, however, the earliest known Internet attempt to capitalize on virginity was the 1998 hoax Our First Time where two alleged 18-year-olds planned to have sex for the first time online. In another notable hoax, in August 1999, an alleged 17-year-old male American high school senior named Francis D. Cornworth posted an auction for his virginity on eBay. Bids quickly rose from an initial $10 to $10 million before the listing was removed."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Virginity Auction: In some cases, the seller is seeking money to pay for expenses such as medical bills or school tuition; in others, the seller has pledged that some portion of the earnings will be given to charity, or emphasizes the social questions involved in selling one's virginity.\n\n[Virginity auction - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginity_auction)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "wtf?", "name": "Audrey"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 2017, Turkish President Erdoan's personal security forces violently attacked American protesters in DC. Turkey declined to apologize, the House unanimously voted to charge the attackers, but all charges were dropped days before high level meetings between Sec. of State Rex Tillerson and Erdoan.\n\n[Attack on protestors at the Turkish embassy in Washington, D.C - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clashes_at_the_Turkish_Ambassador%27s_Residence_in_Washington,_D.C.)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "They claim they were acting in self defense by breaking through a barrier of US cops and multiple ground poundings, and multiple kicks in the face/head of protesters on the ground?\n\nThe fuck", "name": "Ethan"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Its like the former administration didnt actually care about its people", "name": "Sebastian"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Blanche Monnier (French pronunciation: [blɑ̃ʃ mɔnje]; 1 March 1849 – 13 October 1913), often known in France as la Séquestrée de Poitiers (roughly, \"The Confined Woman of Poitiers\"), was a woman from Poitiers, France, who was secretly kept locked in a small room by her aristocratic mother and brother for 25 years. She was eventually found by police, then middle-aged and in an emaciated and filthy condition; according to officials, Monnier had not seen any sunlight for her entire captivity."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Blanche Monnier was a French socialite held captive by her mother for 25 years. When she was found by the authoraties, she was laying in a bed coved by feces and leftover food. She only weighed 55 lbs. 12 year after her rescue, she died in an insane asylum having never regained her sanity.\n\n[Blanche Monnier - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Monnier)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The guy she wanted to marry at age 25 died 9 years after she disappeared... what happened to him, was he already old?", "name": "Vanessa"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Its the late 1800s, everyone was dying all the time It was all the rage. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yep. In fact, not a single person from that century is alive today!", "name": "Erica"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"On 23 April 2019, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia carried out a mass execution of 37 imprisoned civilians who had been convicted, 21 on the basis of confessions obtained under coercion and torture, The executions were carried out by beheading, and two of the bodies were left on public display.\"\n\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Lets open our borders, anyone who says no is bigoted :)", "name": "Chelsea"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Saudi officials (these guys...the beheaders) are already in our government. \nSaudi civilians do not really immigrate to the US. The numbers are extremely low. \n\nBut Im sure youre just talking about Muslims in general, so yeah thats a bit bigoted, mate.", "name": "Colin"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Anarchist Cookbook, first published in 1971, is a book containing instructions for the manufacture of explosives, rudimentary telecommunications phreaking devices, and related weapons, as well as instructions for the home manufacture of illicit drugs, including LSD. It was written by William Powell at the apex of the counterculture era to protest against United States's involvement in the Vietnam War. Powell converted to Anglicanism in 1976 and later attempted to have the book removed from circulation. However, the copyright belonged to the publisher, who continued circulation until the company was acquired in 1991. Its legality has been questioned in several jurisdictions."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Anarchist Cookbook, first published in 1971, contains instructions for making explosives, rudimentary telecommunications phreaking devices, and illicit drugs, including LSD. Its legality has been questioned in several jurisdictions.\n\n[The Anarchist Cookbook - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anarchist_Cookbook)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Its legality, as well as its accuracy, and veracity. Half the recipes will kill you - whether you make them correctly, or not.", "name": "Jeremiah"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I thought their tactic was put an obvious error in each set of instructions so if you dont know what you are doing, it wont work.", "name": "Isabelle"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Why make an instruction manual for people who know how to do the task already?", "name": "Seth"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Great Male Renunciation (French: Grande Renonciation masculine) is the historical phenomenon at the end of the 18th century in which wealthy Western men stopped using bright colours, elaborate shapes and variety in their dress, which were left to women's clothing. Instead, men concentrated on minute differences of cut, and the quality of the plain cloth.Coined by the Anglo-German psychologist John Flügel in 1930, it is considered a major turning point in the history of clothing in which the men relinquished their claim to adornment and beauty. Flügel asserted that men \"abandoned their claim to be considered beautiful\" and \"henceforth aimed at being only useful\". The Great Renunciation encouraged the establishment of the suit's monopoly on male dress codes at the beginning of the 19th century."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Great Male Renunciation is the historical phenomenon at the end of the 18th century in which Western men stopped using bright colours, elaborate shapes and variety in their dress, which were left to women's clothing.\n\n[Great Male Renunciation - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Male_Renunciation)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "We should do a great male indulgence and bring that back.", "name": "Allison"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes! We could do with a resurgence of the Macaroni subculture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni\\_(fashion)", "name": "Leslie"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# One folktale claims that looking into the eyes of the statue's hooded figure causes the viewer to see a vision of their own death.\n\n[Eternal Silence (sculpture) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Silence_(sculpture)?wprov=sfti1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "My cousins roommate was the caretaker at a Chicago cemetery and they lived in a bungalo house on the grounds. I'd spend weekends there and it was such a cool experience. We'd walk the grounds late at night and it was so quiet and peaceful. \n\nAnyway, there's a statue there called The Pilgrim that always creeped me out. Beautiful statue, but also super eerie. Here's a pic: https://imgur.com/gallery/CWvfOJe", "name": "Samantha"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow. It's like they were *trying* to make the graveyard haunted.", "name": "Jordan"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The mullet is a hairstyle in which the hair is cut shorter at the front, top and sides, but is longer at the back."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The mullet is a hairstyle that is shorter at the front and sides but longer at the back. The term was popularized by hip-hop group the Beastie Boys in their 1994 song \"Mullet Head\": \"number one on the side and don't touch the back, number six on the top and don't cut it wack, Jack.\n\n[Mullet (haircut) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullet_(haircut))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow I assumed the term was older than that", "name": "Crystal"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It is.", "name": "Makayla"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "George Lewis (also known as Slave George or Lilburn Lewis' slave George) (1794 – December 15, 1811) was an African American boy held as a slave; he was murdered in western Kentucky on the night of December 15–16, 1811 by Lilburne and Isham Lewis, grown sons of Dr. Charles Lilburn Lewis and Lucy Jefferson Lewis, and nephews of Thomas Jefferson. The brothers were also related to Meriwether Lewis of Lewis and Clark fame.Because the killing coincided with the time and location of the New Madrid earthquake and the ensuing disgrace of the prominent Lewis family, accounts of it quickly became part of the regional and national lore. Soon after being released on bail, Lilburne Lewis accidentally shot himself. Jailed after his brother's death, Isham escaped and disappeared from the area, and is believed to have perished in the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 1811, a slave boy named George accidentally broke a water pitcher in front of two of his owners. In response, they tied him up, killed him with an axe, dismembered his body, and cremated the remains. The case is notable since the two killers were both nephews of Thomas Jefferson.\n\n[Slave George - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_George)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Somehow the Sad State of Florida thinks we should learn that slaves benefited from this treatment.", "name": "Andrew"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think its profoundly shocking that, in 2023, a man whose disseminating videos making light of slavery is somehow in consideration for President. These people are godless and immoral to their core", "name": "Kylee"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Robert John Maudsley (born 26 June 1953) is an English man convicted of multiple murders. Maudsley killed four people, with one of the killings taking place in a psychiatric hospital and two in prison after receiving a life sentence for a murder. Initial reports falsely stated he ate part of the brain of one of the men he killed in prison, which earned him the nickname \"Hannibal the Cannibal\" from parts of the British press and \"The Brain Eater\" amongst other prisoners. National newspapers were advised that the allegations were untrue, according to the post-mortem report. Maudsley is the longest-serving British prisoner in solitary confinement."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Robert Maudsley. Current longest serving British prisoner. Been in solitary confinement since the 80s.\n\n[Robert Maudsley - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maudsley)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, it is. \n\nIll bet hes insane by now.", "name": "Hayden"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Cleveland Elementary School shooting was a school shooting that took place on January 29, 1979, at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California, United States. The principal and a custodian were killed; eight children and police officer Robert Robb were injured. A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Spencer, who lived in a house across the street from the school, was convicted of the shootings. Charged as an adult, she pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon, resulting in her being sentenced to life in prison with a chance of parole after 25 years. As of 2024, she is still in prison.\nA reporter reached Spencer by phone while she was still in the house after the shooting, and asked her why she committed the crime. She reportedly answered: \"I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day,\" which inspired Bob Geldof and Johnnie Fingers to write the Boomtown Rats song \"I Don't Like Mondays.\""}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Cleveland Elementary School shooting (San Diego): The shooter told the reporter she had shot at the schoolchildren and adults because, \"I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day.\" She said the children and adults whom she had shot were easy targets and that she was going to \"come out shooting.\"\n\n[Cleveland Elementary School shooting (San Diego) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Elementary_School_shooting_(San_Diego))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "43 years in prison, if she was born in another country she probably would be released by now.", "name": "Brooklyn"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Are you insinuating she doesn't deserve it?", "name": "Rebecca"}, {"role": "user", "content": "She 60 now her life is definitely ruined and she's probably not a threat to the public, what's the point of keeping her in prison?", "name": "Joshua"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Why should she get to enjoy life outside prison ever again. Do you think those kids ever got to again?", "name": "Claire"}, {"role": "user", "content": "she, like many currently incarcerated people, is likely very mentally ill. the question isnt does this individual deserve freedom or rehabilitation? its should we be locking mentally ill people up forever instead of providing them the help they need and trying to safely reintegrate them into society? \n\nwe can debate all day who deserves to be in prison, but that isnt really the point. dont we all deserve to live in a society that rehabilitates instead of permanently imprisoning? or even better, one that provides people with the resources they so desperately need BEFORE things like this even happen?", "name": "Emma"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Necklacing is a method of extrajudicial summary execution and torture carried out by forcing a rubber tire drenched with petrol around a victim's chest and arms, and setting it on fire. The term \"necklace\" originated in the 1980s in black townships of apartheid South Africa where suspected apartheid collaborators were publicly executed in this fashion."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Necklacing is a method of extrajudicial summary execution and torture carried out by forcing a rubber tire drenched with petrol around a victim's chest and arms, and setting it on fire.\n\n[Necklacing - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": ">The term \"necklace\" originated in the 1980s in black townships of apartheid South Africa where suspected Apartheid collaborators were publicly executed in this fashion."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "All models are wrong is a common aphorism and anapodoton in statistics; it is often expanded as \"All models are wrong, but some are useful\". The aphorism acknowledges that statistical models always fall short of the complexities of reality but can still be useful nonetheless. The aphorism originally referred just to statistical models, but it is now sometimes used for scientific models in general.The aphorism is generally attributed to George E. P. Box, a British statistician, although the underlying concept predates Box's writings."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"All models are wrong\" is a common aphorism in statistics; it is often expanded as \"All models are wrong, but some are useful.\"\n\n[All models are wrong - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This statement is, itself, wrong.\n\nWe have equations in physics that can predict outcomes accurately to the extent of our physical ability to make measurements.\n\nYou could argue that these models are still wrong because they are incomplete or because nature has its own limits on what can be known, but that's a bit of a strawman at that point.", "name": "Taylor"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm not sure that is a strawman. It gets to the point where the arguement is more philosophical than anything else but an incomplete theory is wrong in the end. Newton described basic motion and his model worked for a lot of events we can identify. Except it had limits and was wrong about some fundamental assumptions on time and space yada yada. Currently general relativity and quantum theory are incompatible, something about them is wrong. I dont think we are capable of finding ultimate truth so all our models will be wrong in some way but we can use them for predictions and analysis. \n\nA physics professor in college was the first place I heard the statement in the OP and it was one the most impactful lessons of my schooling so I'm biased on it lol", "name": "Giovanni"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Dinosaur erotica, part of the larger genre of monster erotica, is a subgenre of erotic literature that involves sexual encounters between humans and non-avian dinosaurs. Works include titles such as Taken by the T-Rex, Ravished by Triceratops and A Billionaire Dinosaur Forced Me Gay. Despite being called by some in the media \"the Kardashian of erotica,\" the genre's titles have generated sales and media interest."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Dinosaur erotica is a subgenre of erotic literature that involves sexual encounters between humans and non-avian dinosaurs. Works include titles such as \"Taken by the T-Rex\", \"Ravished by Triceratops\", and \"A Billionaire Dinosaur Forced Me Gay\".\n\n[Dinosaur erotica - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_erotica)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "A genre that was truly revolutionized by luminary author and Hugo Award nominee Chuck Tingle.", "name": "Levi"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Chuck is a Goddamn treasure."}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Timmothy Pitzen: a young boy taken from school by his mother. She was later found dead after a suicide. She left a note behind saying Timmothy was safe, and with people who would care for him, but he would never be found. He remains missing.\n\n[Disappearance of Timmothy Pitzen - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Timmothy_Pitzen?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ios_share_flow_optimization&utm_term=control_1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This story seriously BUMS me out. Do think she killed him or placed him in the care of another?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I was hoping to be proven wrong with the boy who came forward claiming to be Timmothy recently, but I believe she killed him to punish her husband. \n\nAmy had suffered from depression and had attempted suicide previously so her biggest fear was that a judge would take her son away due to her mental health issues. In one of her last phone calls to her brother in law she told him \"Timmothy is fine. **Timmothy belongs to me.** Timmothy and I will be fine. Timmothy is safe.\" Then the only two letters she left before she committed suicide were to her mom and a friend. There was also evidence she had driven to the area where Timmothy disappeared at least twice before he went missing, indicating she had planned things in advance. \n\nI sincerely hope Im still proven wrong at some point, but I just feel as though thats what most likely happened.", "name": "Chloe"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Robert Bales (born June 30, 1973) is an American mass murderer and former Army sniper who fatally shot or stabbed 16 Afghan civilians in a mass murder in Panjwayi District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, on March 11, 2012 – an event known as the Kandahar massacre.\nIn order to avoid the death penalty, Bales pleaded guilty to 16 counts of murder, six counts of attempted murder, and seven counts of assault in a plea deal. On August 23, 2013, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Before sentencing, Bales expressed his regret by referring to the murders as \"an act of cowardice\". While Bales has exhausted all military appeals, his attorney announced in 2019 that he would be seeking a new trial in civilian court due to possible side effects of mefloquine, an anti-malaria drug Bales claims to have been taking at the time of the shooting."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Robert Bales was a U.S. Army soldier when he left his post at 3 A.M. and murdered 16 unarmed Afghan citizens (including nine children) on March 2012. The event became known as the Kandahar massacre.\n\n[Robert Bales - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bales)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "*I want to say to those guys that I hurtmy guys, the patriot brotherhoodI want them to know I'm sorry. I don't want nothing but good things for my soldiers. I hope that in some way they can understand how sorry I am. They're my family, and I love them.*\n\nHes *only* sorry to the other soldiers.. yikes"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm not American but I'm baffled that this guy is giving an interview to a magazine.", "name": "Aaliyah"}]

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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": "# Quite the Wikipedia comparison graphic\n\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wikipedia at it's best", "name": "Luke"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Nothing comes close to this one. [link](https://images.app.goo.gl/RrkuvGtBHCGa6ixs5)", "name": "Manuel"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 1984, 751 people suffered food poisoning (salmonella) in Oregon, USA, due to the deliberate contamination of salad bars at 10 restaurants by the Rajneeshpuram cult. It was the USA's 2nd-largest domestic bioterror attack.\n\n[1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Rajneeshee_bioterror_attack?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wild Wild Country on Netflix. Fascinating!", "name": "Amanda"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I love true crime docs usually but I just couldnt get into this one Ive started it 3 or 4 times but my attention always seems to drift off. Weird bc the story itself seems fascinating. Im the same with The Staircase and thats an incredibly popular doc too. Definitely got try them both again at some point.", "name": "Gracie"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Coin-operated-locker babies or coin-locker babies (Japanese: コインロッカーベイビー, romanized: koinrokkābeibī, lit. 'coin locker baby') are victims of child abuse often occurring in Japan, in which infants are left in public lockers. There are two main variables that account for the differences in frequency and the type of these child abuse cases: social and economical. Predominantly neonates and male babies, the murder of infants became a form of population control in Japan, being discovered 1–3 months after death, wrapped in plastic and appearing to have died of asphyxiation. The presumption is that such lockers are regularly checked by attendants and the infant will be found quickly; however, many children are found dead. Between 1980 and 1990, there were 191 reported cases of infants which died in coin-operated lockers, which represents about six percent of all infanticides during that period.\nHydrostatic lung tests, stomach and bowel tests can be performed by medical examiners or forensic pathologists, but months after death it may be impossible to ascertain the cause of death because of decomposition. In Japan, if a baby is determined to have been born alive, the mother is investigated on charges of homicide and abandonment of a corpse. However, if the dead baby is proven to have been stillborn, the mother is investigated on a charge of abandonment. If the assailant is discovered, she is rarely sentenced because she is considered to have been in a mentally unusual situation during and after the pregnancy. The grounds for this judgment has a historical precedent.Osaka's government organized a group specifically designed to deal with the detection and protection of abused and neglected children. In 1993, they published a manual on how to deal with child abuse, but the Japanese judicial administration still uses old laws for abuse cases.\nIn response to certain actions, in 1981, the number of cases began to decrease. These actions included the relocation of coin-lockers to make them more visible, with additional patrol assigned to monitor the locker locations. Further, the publication of the term and problem led to the recognition by the general public in Japan, leading to stronger education about contraception to decrease the number of unwanted babies. Though the Osaka government organized group created programs, such as Baby Hatch, this is still a prevalent issue in Japan. In Kumamoto prefecture, Jikei hospital’s baby hatch program, “Konotori no yurikago [stork’s cradle]”, modeled after German Babyklappen, was said to encourage child abandonment after news that a three-year-old child was left on the first day of operation on May 10, 2007, increasing criticism of the program.An adoption system proposed by Noboru Kikuta, that protected the biological mothers’ records of child birth and adoption had also been proposed but was not recognized in the special adoption system in 1987.During the 1970s, reported cases of coin-locker babies increased along with other news of maternal filicide. The women’s liberation movement, ūman ribu, was concerned with the biased treatment against criminalized mothers and criticized Japan’s family institution. They interpreted maternal filicide as a violent reaction against being forced into socially accepted spousal and maternal roles."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Coin-operated-locker babies or coin-locker babies is a type of child abuse, occurring in Japan, where infants are left in public lockers. The presumption is that such lockers are regularly checked by attendants and the infant will be found quickly; however, many children are found dead.\n\n[Coin-operated-locker babies - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin-operated-locker_babies)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This is terrible but I misread this as there was a service provided for parents to put their children in little coin operated lockers and an attendant would regularly check on them. I was like well that's a terrible idea for day care lol. \n\nThat's terrible what's actually happening, of course. No safe haven type laws?", "name": "Trinity"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I don't know where the article is getting that whole bit about attendants from. It's not in the article's only source, and it doesn't even really any make sense (why would attendants check *inside* of people's lockers?).\n\nIt's just a form of infanticide. In most cases, the baby is killed before it gets put in the locker."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "For clarification, in Japan there are often coin lockers around stations or at places where you might not want to carry a heavy bag around for a while, eg the start of a hiking trail. You typically pay 100 - 500 yen depending on the size of locker and the amount of time, typically up to two days but sometimes a few hours around busy areas. You get a key, or a passcode on newer ones and pick it up before the time runs out.\n\nIf you overrun the time or the attendant at the station etc. notices a locker has been left locked for a while, they'll open it up and take the insides to lost and found. Usually, the person forgot to get it back or lost the key and decided it's not worth it, but on occasion there have been cases of disgusting things being left inside to fuck with the attendants, and in extremely rare cases such as the ones described in the wiki article, babies or even mutilated body parts. I've definitely heard a story about a suitcase with a dismembered victim inside being found in a station coin lockers a few years back. \n\nWhat I'm trying to say is there are attendants that inspect these coin lockers if you use them for too long and that's presumably the mother or father's intention in leaving them there, presuming there weren't already dead beforehand, which may have been the case sometimes.\n\nEdit: here's some related articles\n\nhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/body-of-woman-found-in-suitcase-in-tokyo-station-locker/\n\nhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-45649009"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. This is enabled by Earth being a water world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid surface water. Almost all of Earth's water is contained in its global ocean, covering 70.8% of Earth's crust. The remaining 29.2% of Earth's crust is land, most of which is located in the form of continental landmasses within Earth's land hemisphere. Most of Earth's land is somewhat humid and covered by vegetation, while large sheets of ice at Earth's polar deserts retain more water than Earth's groundwater, lakes, rivers and atmospheric water combined. Earth's crust consists of slowly moving tectonic plates, which interact to produce mountain ranges, volcanoes, and earthquakes. Earth has a liquid outer core that generates a magnetosphere capable of deflecting most of the destructive solar winds and cosmic radiation.\nEarth has a dynamic atmosphere, which sustains Earth's surface conditions and protects it from most meteoroids and UV-light at entry. It has a composition of primarily nitrogen and oxygen. Water vapor is widely present in the atmosphere, forming clouds that cover most of the planet. The water vapor acts as a greenhouse gas and, together with other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2), creates the conditions for both liquid surface water and water vapor to persist via the capturing of energy from the Sun's light. This process maintains the current average surface temperature of 14.76 °C, at which water is liquid under atmospheric pressure. Differences in the amount of captured energy between geographic regions (as with the equatorial region receiving more sunlight than the polar regions) drive atmospheric and ocean currents, producing a global climate system with different climate regions, and a range of weather phenomena such as precipitation, allowing components such as nitrogen to cycle.\nEarth is rounded into an ellipsoid with a circumference of about 40,000 km. It is the densest planet in the Solar System. Of the four rocky planets, it is the largest and most massive. Earth is about eight light-minutes away from the Sun and orbits it, taking a year (about 365.25 days) to complete one revolution. Earth rotates around its own axis in slightly less than a day (in about 23 hours and 56 minutes). Earth's axis of rotation is tilted with respect to the perpendicular to its orbital plane around the Sun, producing seasons. Earth is orbited by one permanent natural satellite, the Moon, which orbits Earth at 384,400 km (1.28 light seconds) and is roughly a quarter as wide as Earth. The Moon's gravity helps stabilize Earth's axis, causes tides and gradually slows Earth's rotation. Tidal locking has made the Moon always face Earth with the same side.\nEarth, like most other bodies in the Solar System, formed 4.5 billion years ago from gas in the early Solar System. During the first billion years of Earth's history, the ocean formed and then life developed within it. Life spread globally and has been altering Earth's atmosphere and surface, leading to the Great Oxidation Event two billion years ago. Humans emerged 300,000 years ago in Africa and have spread across every continent on Earth. Humans depend on Earth's biosphere and natural resources for their survival, but have increasingly impacted the planet's environment. Humanity's current impact on Earth's climate and biosphere is unsustainable, threatening the livelihood of humans and many other forms of life, and causing widespread extinctions.\n\nGray goo (also spelled as grey goo) is a hypothetical global catastrophic scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating machines consume all biomass (and perhaps also everything else) on Earth while building many more of themselves, a scenario that has been called ecophagy (the literal consumption of the ecosystem). The original idea assumed machines were designed to have this capability, while popularizations have assumed that machines might somehow gain this capability by accident.\nSelf-replicating machines of the macroscopic variety were originally described by mathematician John von Neumann, and are sometimes referred to as von Neumann machines or clanking replicators.\nThe term gray goo was coined by nanotechnology pioneer K. Eric Drexler in his 1986 book Engines of Creation. In 2004, he stated \"I wish I had never used the term 'gray goo'.\" Engines of Creation mentions \"gray goo\" as a thought experiment in two paragraphs and a note, while the popularized idea of gray goo was first publicized in a mass-circulation magazine, Omni, in November 1986."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Gray goo is a hypothetical global catastrophic scenario in which out-of-control self-replicating nanorobots consume all biomass on Earth while building more of themselves\n\n[Gray goo - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "DNA is basically the original Grey Goo, right?", "name": "Dylan"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Whoa", "name": "Skylar"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "On 22 March 2011, English Disney Wonder crew member Rebecca Coriam (born 11 March 1987) disappeared from the ship while it was at port off the Pacific coast of Mexico. She was captured by CCTV in the crew lounge earlier that morning, having a phone conversation with a woman that appeared to be causing her emotional stress. Several hours later, she missed her shift and could not be found anywhere on the ship. Her disappearance was the first such incident in the history of Disney Cruise Line.\nCoriam's disappearance remains under investigation, and her whereabouts since the phone conversation have not been established. Her parents have been critical of Disney's handling of the investigation, believing the company knows more than it claims to and has been more interested in avoiding unfavourable publicity than cooperating with investigators. Her family settled a lawsuit against Disney out of court in 2016.\nThe Coriam family have been supported by British government officials instituting policies allowing for more comprehensive investigations of such incidents in the future, and advocates for the relatives of many other crew and passengers who have been reported missing from cruise ships over the last decade."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# On the morning of March 22nd, 2011, Rebecca Coriam, a crewmember on a Disney cruise ship, vanished out of thin air. There is a great deal of speculation about what happened to her, whether it was an accident, murder, suicide or something else. Many suspect Disney is covering something up.\n\n[Disappearance of Rebecca Coriam - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Rebecca_Coriam)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Reminds me of the Amy Lynn Bradley case", "name": "Leslie"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That one sent me on a weird amateur detective phase for a few weeks. I would look through pictures of \"escorts\" on various islands. Never saw anyone who looked like her, but fuck, a pretty high percentage of the women were obviously crying in their pictures.", "name": "Luis"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America, between Canada and Mexico. It is a federation of 50 states, a federal capital district (Washington, D.C.), and 326 Indian reservations. Outside the union of states, it asserts sovereignty over five major unincorporated island territories and various uninhabited islands. The country has the world's third-largest land area, largest maritime exclusive economic zone,\nand the third-largest population, exceeding 334 million.Paleo-Indians migrated across the Bering land bridge more than 12,000 years ago. British colonization led to the first settlement of the Thirteen Colonies in Virginia in 1607. Clashes with the British Crown over taxation and political representation sparked the American Revolution, with the Second Continental Congress formally declaring independence on July 4, 1776. Following its victory in the Revolutionary War (1775–1783), the country continued to expand across North America. As more states were admitted, sectional division over slavery led to the secession of the Confederate States of America, which fought the remaining states of the Union during the 1861–1865 American Civil War. With the Union's victory and preservation, slavery was abolished nationally. By 1900, the United States had established itself as a great power, becoming the world's largest economy. After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the U.S. entered World War II. The aftermath of the war left the U.S. and the Soviet Union as the world's two superpowers and led to the Cold War, during which both countries engaged in a struggle for ideological dominance and international influence. Following the Soviet Union's collapse and the end of the Cold War in 1991, the U.S. emerged as the world's sole superpower.\nThe U.S. national government is a presidential constitutional republic and liberal democracy with three separate branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. It has a bicameral national legislature composed of the House of Representatives, a lower house based on population; and the Senate, an upper house based on equal representation for each state. Substantial autonomy is given to states and several territories, with a political culture that emphasizes liberty, equality under the law, individualism, and limited government.\nOne of the most developed countries, the United States has the largest economy in the world, accounting for over a quarter of global GDP. It possesses by far the largest amount of wealth of any country and the highest median income per capita of any non-microstate. The U.S. ranks among the world's highest in income, wealth, economic competitiveness, productivity, innovation, human rights, higher education, and its cultural influence has major impact on the world. It is a founding member of the World Bank, IMF, Organization of American States, NATO, Quad, World Health Organization, and a permanent member of the UN Security Council."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# 'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens is the title of a series of satirical articles from The Onion about the frequency of mass shootings in the United States and the lack of action taken in the aftermath of those shootings.\n\n['No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_To_Prevent_This,%27_Says_Only_Nation_Where_This_Regularly_Happens)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I wonder they also didn't happen before the assault weapons ban as much as they happen now. Perhaps the problem is cultural rather than objects slowly corrupting their owners into crime", "name": "Jessica"}, {"role": "user", "content": "> Perhaps the problem is cultural\n\nI think that is the point being made yes. The US has a culture of glorifying/normalising guns and is desensitised to violence.", "name": "Sydney"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The CueCat, styled :CueCat with a leading colon, is a cat-shaped handheld barcode reader that was given away free to Internet users starting in 2000 by the now-defunct Digital Convergence Corporation (which often styled its own name as Digital:Convergence Corporation).\nBy year-end 2001, barcodes were no longer distributed for the device, and scanning with the device using its original software no longer yielded results. However, third-party software can decode the lightweight encryption in the device, allowing it to be used as a general-purpose wand-type barcode reader. The CueCat can read several common barcode types, in addition to the proprietary CUE barcodes which had been promoted by Digital Convergence."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The CueCat is a cat-shaped handheld barcode reader that was given away free to Internet users in 2000. It enabled a user to open a link to an Internet URL by scanning barcodes in magazines and catalogs.\n\n[CueCat - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I was a kid and my dad got one with his Barron's or Forbes subscription. Essentially, you had to look for the codes but they didn't scan well and often were the same content as what was printed on the magazine page.", "name": "Marcus"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It came with Wired mag too, which was ironic because they never wrote a Macintosh driver for it and half the subscriber base was on Mac. They issued an apology the next month which basically said it sucks, but they backed up a GIANT truck of cash...", "name": "Alan"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Mazzatello (abbreviated mazza), more properly mazzolatura (hitting with a mace), was a method of capital punishment occasionally used by the Papal States for the most loathsome crimes, involving the infliction of head trauma. The method was named after the implement used in the execution: a large, long-handled mallet or pollaxe. The last reported use of this form of punishment was in September 1806: the much more common capital punishments inflicted by the Papal States were hanging or beheading. According to author Geoffrey Abbott, mazzatello constituted \"one of the most brutal methods of execution ever devised, requiring minimal skill on the part of the executioner and superhuman acquiescence by the victim\". Megivern cites mazzatello as one example of an execution method devised by the Papal States that \"competed with and in some instances surpassed those of other regimes for cruelty\".The condemned would be led to a scaffold in a public square of Rome, accompanied by a priest (the confessor of the condemned); the platform also contained a coffin and the masked executioner, dressed in black. A prayer would first be said for the condemned's soul. Then, the mallet would be raised, swung through the air to gain momentum, and then brought down on the head of the prisoner, similar to a contemporary method of slaughtering cattle in stockyards. The condemned was usually knocked unconscious rather than being killed instantly, so the throat of the prisoner would then be slit with a knife.Along with drawing and quartering (sometimes, but not always, after a hanging), mazzatello was reserved for crimes that were considered \"especially loathsome\".A variation of this method appears in chapter 35 of Alexandre Dumas' novel The Count of Monte Cristo as la mazzolata and mazzolato, when a prisoner sentenced to execution is bludgeoned on the side of his head with a mace."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Mazzatello: method of execution wherein the head of the condemned was smashed with a huge mallet. Called \"one of the most brutal methods of execution ever devised, requiring minimal skill on the part of the executioner and superhuman acquiescence by the victim.\"\n\n[Mazzatello - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazzatello)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "midsommar?", "name": "Alexa"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I made an audible noise when they hit you with the close up", "name": "Madeline"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Harlequin-type ichthyosis is a genetic disorder that results in thickened skin over nearly the entire body at birth. The skin forms large, diamond/trapezoid/rectangle-shaped plates that are separated by deep cracks. These affect the shape of the eyelids, nose, mouth, and ears and limit movement of the arms and legs. Restricted movement of the chest can lead to breathing difficulties. These plates fall off over several weeks. Other complications can include premature birth, infection, problems with body temperature, and dehydration. The condition is the most severe form of ichthyosis (except for syndromes that include ichthyosis, for example, Neu–Laxova syndrome), a group of genetic disorders characterised by scaly skin.Harlequin-type ichthyosis is caused by mutations in the ABCA12 gene. This gene codes for a protein necessary for transporting lipids out of cells in the outermost layer of skin. The disorder is autosomal recessive and inherited from parents who are carriers. Diagnosis is often based on appearance at birth and confirmed by genetic testing. Before birth, amniocentesis or ultrasound may support the diagnosis.There is no cure for the condition. Early in life, constant supportive care is typically required. Treatments may include moisturizing cream, antibiotics, etretinate or retinoids. Around half of those affected die within the first few months; however, retinoid treatment can increase chances of survival. Children who survive the first year of life often have long-term problems such as red skin, joint contractures and delayed growth. The condition affects around 1 in 300,000 births. It was first documented in a diary entry by Reverend Oliver Hart in America in 1750."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"The skin was dry and hard and seemed to be cracked in many places, somewhat resembling the scales of a fish. The mouth was large and round and open. It had no external nose, but two holes where the nose should have been. The eyes appeared to be lumps of coagulated blood...\"\n\n[Harlequin-type ichthyosis - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequin-type_ichthyosis)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I knew a woman who had a child with this on a mom website. Her baby was born the same month as mine so we were on basically the same boards and I followed her story for a few years and it was rough. The amount of care that went into keeping that poor child in not even comfort, just not screaming agony was mind boggling. Creams, pastes, ointments, bandaging, special clothes, never ending doctors appointments. It was just an incredible amount of work to get him to four years old and thats when I lost track of them. I remember thinking that I honestly had no idea how even I would deal with one of my kids having that condition, it doesnt even seem like its compatible with life.", "name": "Isabella"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Its not compatible with life.\n\nHot take we need a euthanasia process in the US. It would need to be approved by multiple doctors and even a board, but ppl should have the right to die or help their loved ones die legally in a controlled setting.", "name": "Mariah"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage of its active battle fleet alone exceeding the next 13 navies combined, including 11 allies or partner nations of the U.S. as of 2009. It has the highest combined battle fleet tonnage (4,635,628 tonnes as of 2023) and the world's largest aircraft carrier fleet, with 11 in service, 1 undergoing trials, two new carriers under construction, and six other carriers planned as of 2024. With 336,978 personnel on active duty and 101,583 in the Ready Reserve, the U.S. Navy is the third largest of the United States military service branches in terms of personnel. It has 299 deployable combat vessels and about 4,012 operational aircraft as of July 18, 2023.The United States Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which was established during the American Revolutionary War and was effectively disbanded as a separate entity shortly thereafter. After suffering significant loss of goods and personnel at the hands of the Barbary pirates from Algiers, the United States Congress passed the Naval Act of 1794 for the construction of six heavy frigates, the first ships of the Navy. The United States Navy played a major role in the American Civil War by blockading the Confederacy and seizing control of its rivers. It played the central role in the World War II defeat of Imperial Japan. The United States Navy emerged from World War II as the most powerful navy in the world. The modern United States Navy maintains a sizable global presence, deploying in strength in such areas as the Western Pacific, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean. It is a blue-water navy with the ability to project force onto the littoral regions of the world, engage in forward deployments during peacetime and rapidly respond to regional crises, making it a frequent actor in American foreign and military policy.\nThe United States Navy is part of the Department of the Navy, alongside the United States Marine Corps, which is its coequal sister service. The Department of the Navy is headed by the civilian secretary of the Navy. The Department of the Navy is itself a military department of the Department of Defense, which is headed by the secretary of defense. The chief of naval operations (CNO) is the most senior Navy officer serving in the Department of the Navy."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Tailhook scandal was a military scandal and controversy in which United States Navy and U.S. Marine Corps aviation officers were alleged to have sexually assaulted up to 83 women and seven men, or otherwise engaged in \"improper and indecent\" conduct at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1991.\n\n[Tailhook scandal - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailhook_scandal?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Damn. That's pretty fucked up.", "name": "Hayden"}, {"role": "user", "content": "No, thats the US military. Just do some brief googling of Ft Hood over that past few years (US Army)\n\nAnd if the US is this bad, think of the rest of the world.\n\nHistorically, armies commit lots of rape, or only fell out of fashion recently", "name": "Zoe"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "420, 4:20 or 4/20 (pronounced four-twenty) is cannabis culture slang for marijuana and hashish consumption, especially smoking around the time 4:20 pm (16:20). It also refers to cannabis-oriented celebrations that take place annually on April 20 (4/20 in U.S. and Canadian date form)."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# 420: cannabis culture slang for marijuana and hashish consumption, especially smoking around the time 4:20 pm. Its 1971 origins involve five high schoolers going by the name The Waldos, a marijuana treasure map, and a statue of Louis Pasteur on the grounds of San Rafael High School in California.\n\n[420 (cannabis culture) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "We need a goonies sequel where they're a bunch of pot heads on another adventure", "name": "Dalton"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What, you didnt like Pineapple Express? lol", "name": "Kelly"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Peter Harold Richard Poole (1931 – 18 August 1960) was a British-born Kenyan engineer and shop owner. He was the first and only white person in Kenya to be executed for killing an indigenous African.On 12 October 1959, Poole was charged with killing Kamawe Musunge, his houseboy, in Gordon Road, Nairobi. Musunge had been riding a bicycle when Poole's two dogs stopped him. Musunge threw stones at one dog, for which Poole shot him dead with a Luger pistol. On 10 December 1959, Poole was found guilty of murder by an all-white jury. The case took two trials. The first trial ended in a hung jury after one juror stood up and declared that he had a conscientious objection to any guilty verdict. Poole was sentenced to death by hanging, the mandatory sentence for murder in British Kenya.At the time, Kenya was still under British rule, and the verdict was received negatively by many white settlers in the region. In Nairobi, Poole's parents circulated petitions for clemency, collecting over 25,000 signatures. According to Tom Mboya, European employers pressured their African workers to sign the petition. The case drew the attention of big-game hunter Robert C. Ruark, who said Poole was part of a bigger problem.\nKenya has always had a reputation for what the British call \"bad hats\", unprincipled free booters, unruly younger sons, and to characters of various shadings.\nWe call Poole's type \"Kenya cowboys\", and I have seen them by the hundreds. They were generally too young to have experienced war, and the excitement of the Mau Mau was a welcome hatch for brawny, high-spirited young men to escape the boredom of hard work on the family farm by dashing off into the bush to chase \"Wogs\" with the same enthusiasm that they devoted surely to polo and football.\n\nBut one way or another they got almost happily accustomed to killing, justly in some cases, callously in others, and, in many instances, for sheer sport. The nature of the Mau Mau and its practices were not such as to encourage either tenderness or discrimination. Peter Poole was one of the many who considered that if a man was black he was a nigger, if he was a nigger he was likely to be guilty of something, and it was easier to shoot him than argue with him.\nHowever, Colonial Governor Patrick Muir Renison and Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod both declined to commute the sentence. Poole was hanged at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison in Nairobi at 8:00 am on 18 August 1960. Approximately 500 people gathered outside the prison. Following the execution, one white settler bitterly remarked \"Now you've had your pound of flesh.\" An African yelled \"Justice has been done!\" He was then escorted away by the police. The London Spector noted the oddity in how, of all things, the execution of a white man for murdering a black man was the first major advancement for racial equality in Kenya.\nIt is a savage irony that future generations in Kenya will be able to point to 1960 as the year when the equality of the races was finally demonstrated, not by the granting of rights to Africans to farm on the White Highlands, or to become members of white clubs, but by the proposition that all men, regardless of color, are equal on the end of a rope.\nPoole had emigrated to Kenya from Essex, England, in 1953, after which he immediately joined the Kenyan police reserves to fight the Mau Mau during the Mau Mau rebellion. He later joined the military, and served in Germany, before returning to Kenya in 1956. He owned an electrical shop on Nairobi's Government Road (now Moi Avenue). He was married with two children.Poole had a history of violence and violent incidents. He once drew his gun and threatened an Asian shopkeeper for refusing to give him a discount on a flashlight. Another incident is when he shot a plainclothes African police officer in the legs. Coincidentally, this officer had also been defending himself from Poole's dogs.Poole was not the first white person to be convicted of murdering an African in British Kenya. In 1955, Leo Hoyle, a 25-year-old Irish soldier of the Royal Irish Fusiliers, was sentenced to death for murdering an African woman, after his insanity defense was rejected. However, the jury made a recommendation for mercy in his case. On appeal, Hoyle was declared insane."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Peter Poole was one of hundreds of young British men who moved to Kenya to suppress the Mau Mau Uprising. According to Robert Ruark, a big game hunter, these men would hunt Africans with the \"same enthusiasm that they devoted to polo or football\", often killing them for \"sheer sport\".\n\n[Peter Poole - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Poole)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Jesus, fucking abhorrent.", "name": "Erin"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yet every time colonialism being bad gets brought up most British people get unironically upset.\n\nOur national anthem is literally about our ability to colonise and enslave others. \n\nImagine if Germany still idolised the Nazis and got upset when people pointed out their atrocities."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I hate the rise in unironically.\n\nYou can just write people get upset it doesnt add anything to the sentence here.", "name": "Gabriela"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Mr. ZIP, informally \"Zippy\", is a cartoon character used in the 1960s by the United States Post Office Department, and later by its successor, the United States Postal Service, to encourage the general public to include the ZIP Code in all mailings."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Mr. ZIP is a cartoon character used in the 1960s by the United States Postal Service to encourage the general public to include the ZIP Code in all mailings.\n\n[Mr. ZIP - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._ZIP)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Now that it's computationally feasible to have a huge-ass database of every postal address in the country, are ZIP codes still actually useful?", "name": "Garrett"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Tl;dr: As someone who works with databases, I would say that using the zip code in a database would still be very useful.\n\nThis is just things I thought about how zip codes could be useful so correct me if I'm wrong: \n\nFrom a quick google, it seems like there are 41,683 zip codes in the US and more than 165 million addresses (idk how they counted this number but it's from the usps site so I'm using it). For arguments sake, let's assume that the addresses are uniformly distributed in each zip code. That is to say, there are an equal number addresses in each zip code. \n\nSo if we have 165 million rows, and we're querying for particular addresses...that might take too long when you're trying to sort a huge volume of packages/letters. Even a second extra of computation time would be bad. But if we know the zipcode, we can instantly reduce the number of rows from 165 million/41,683=~3959 rows which is a huge reduction. \n\nPlus a zipcode can be stored in an int (sometimes 2) which makes it easier than say a string variable type (although I doubt they would store the entire address in a string in a database, but again idk how they actually set it up)\n\nAlso, I assume that zip codes have an actual convention to how they are determined. You can use this fact to further sort mail even faster.\n\nLet's say you have like a conveyor scanning and sorting packages, you need to determine if a package needs to go east or west. You can quickly use the first 3 digits of a zipcode and just sort the package. That would take much less time to query compared to using the whole address and querying a database of 165 million rows each time you scan a package", "name": "Addison"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Leeroy Jenkins is a player character created by Ben Schulz in Blizzard Entertainment's multiplayer online video game World of Warcraft. The character became popular in 2005 from his role in a viral video of game footage where, having been absent during his group's discussion of a meticulous battle plan, Leeroy returns and ruins it by charging straight into combat while shouting his own name as a battle cry. The video capturing the character's behavior became an Internet meme. As a result of positive reception to the meme, Blizzard subsequently added Leeroy Jenkins into World of Warcraft as an official non-player character and as a minion card and later as a hero in the online card game Hearthstone."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Leeroy Jenkins: character created by Ben Schulz in World of Warcraft. Jenkins became popular in 2005 from a viral video of footage where, having been absent during his group's discussion of a meticulous plan, he returns and ruins it by charging straight into combat while shouting his own name.\n\n[Leeroy Jenkins - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeroy_Jenkins)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "miss that internet period. late 90s to around early youtube"}, {"role": "user", "content": "YouTuberty is a special time in a young woman's life", "name": "Hope"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Christian minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. A Black church leader and a son of early civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Sr., King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination. \nKing participated in and led marches for the right to vote, desegregation, labor rights, and other civil rights. He oversaw the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and later became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). As president of the SCLC, he led the unsuccessful Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize some of the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King was one of the leaders of the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his \"I Have a Dream\" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and helped organize two of the three Selma to Montgomery marches during the 1965 Selma voting rights movement. The civil rights movement achieved pivotal legislative gains in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.\nThe SCLC put into practice the tactics of nonviolent protest with some success by strategically choosing the methods and places in which protests were carried out. There were several dramatic standoffs with segregationist authorities, who frequently responded violently. King was jailed several times. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director J. Edgar Hoover considered King a radical and made him an object of the FBI's COINTELPRO from 1963 forward. FBI agents investigated him for possible communist ties, spied on his personal life, and secretly recorded him. In 1964, the FBI mailed King a threatening anonymous letter, which he interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide.On October 14, 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In his final years, he expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty and the Vietnam War. In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was convicted of the assassination, though the King family believes he was a scapegoat; the assassination remains the subject of conspiracy theories. King's death was followed by national mourning, as well as anger leading to riots in many U.S. cities. King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2003. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established as a holiday in cities and states throughout the United States beginning in 1971; the federal holiday was first observed in 1986. Hundreds of streets in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor, and King County in Washington was rededicated for him. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in 2011.\n\nThe King assassination riots, also known as the Holy Week Uprising, were a wave of civil disturbance which swept across the United States following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. Some of the biggest riots took place in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, and Kansas City."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Martin Luther King assassination riots of 1968 aka 'Holy Week Uprising'- It was the greatest wave of social unrest the United States had experienced since the Civil War.\n\n[King assassination riots - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_assassination_riots)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It should be known that until MLK's assassination he was shockingly unpopular, considering his reverence today. \n\n>[According to an early 1968 Harris Poll, the man whose half-century of martyrdom we celebrate this week died with a public disapproval rating of nearly 75%, a figure shocking in its own day and still striking even in todays highly polarized political climate.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/04/04/martin-luther-king-jr-50-years-assassination-donald-trump-disapproval-column/482242002/)\n\nCivil rights protests were never popular and were seen as harming the civil rights movement.\n\n>[In an early Gallup question on the issue, Americans were asked whether tactics such as \"sit-ins\" and demonstrations by the civil rights movement had helped or hurt the chances of racial integration in the South. More than half, 57%, said such demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience had hurt chances of integration, while barely a quarter, 27%, said they had helped.\n](https://news.gallup.com/vault/246167/protests-seen-harming-civil-rights-movement-60s.aspx)\n\n\"Real Americans\" will go fucking ape-shit if you so much as kneel during their special song. \n\nPoint being, nothing short of silence is considered an acceptable advocacy of Civil Rights. Might as well go all out.", "name": "Ana"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Those who desire change are often vilified it doesn't surprise me how low his approval ratings were", "name": "Lilly"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Martha Maria \"Mattie\" Hughes Cannon (July 1, 1857 – July 10, 1932) was a Utah State Senator, physician, Utah women's rights advocate, suffragist, polygamous wife, and a Welsh-born immigrant to the United States. Her family immigrated to the United States as converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and traveled West to settle in Utah territory with other Saints. She started working at the age of fourteen. At sixteen she enrolled in the University of Deseret, now called the University of Utah, receiving a Bachelors in Chemistry. From there she attended the University of Michigan and received her MD. She became the fourth of six wives in a polygamous marriage to Angus M. Cannon, a prominent Latter-day Saint leader during the anti-polygamy crusade. Cannon exiled herself to Europe so she wouldn't have to testify against her husband and others. Upon returning to Utah, Cannon worked as a doctor and fought for women's rights. She helped put women enfranchisement into Utah's constitution when it was granted statehood in 1896. On November 3, 1896 Cannon became the first female State Senator elected in the United States, defeating her own husband, who was also on the ballot. Martha Hughes Cannon was the author of Utah sanitation laws and was a founder and member of Utah's first State Board of Health.: 10–90"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Martha Hughes Cannon was a physician, Utah women's rights advocate, suffragist, polygamous wife, and a Welsh-born immigrant to the United States. On November 3, 1896 Cannon became the first female state senator elected in the United States, defeating her own husband.\n\n[Martha Hughes Cannon - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Hughes_Cannon)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That must have made for awkward dinner conversation.", "name": "Autumn"}, {"role": "user", "content": "\"So uhh... honey, how was work today?\"\n\n\"Shut up Martha\"", "name": "Kiara"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Snake Island campaign was a period of Russian occupation and military conflict for Snake Island, a small, strategically located Ukrainian island in the Black Sea. On 24 February 2022, the first day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Navy attacked Snake Island and captured it along with its entire garrison, beginning a military occupation of the island. The attack was widely publicized when an audio clip of the Russian cruiser Moskva hailing the island's garrison over the radio demanding their surrender and being told \"Russian warship, go fuck yourself\" (Russian: 'Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй', tr. Russky voyenny korabl, idi na khuy) in response went viral, along with initial inaccurate reports of the garrison's deaths. Later on, it emerged that a civilian search and rescue ship trying to evacuate the soldiers was also captured along with the garrison. The ship, its crew, and at least one soldier were subsequently freed in prisoner exchanges.\nFollowing the island's capture, Ukraine launched a campaign against Russian forces on and around the island, deploying anti-ship missiles against Russian naval forces as well as air, artillery, and missile strikes against Russian positions on the island itself. Russia subsequently withdrew from the island on 30 June 2022, ending the island's 126-day military occupation. Russian bombing against the island continued thereafter, reportedly causing casualties on the Ukrainian military; this has been denied by Ukraine."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Battle of Snake Island took place on 24 February 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. All 13 Ukrainian border guards there were killed after refusing to surrender. When the attacking Russian cruiser instructed the Ukrainians to surrender, the reply was 'Go fuck yourself' (' ').\n\n[Snake Island campaign - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Snake_Island)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Russian warship, fuck yourself.\n\nAs far as last words go, its a classic.\n\nI just kind of assumed Russia would run through Ukraine but now I wonder if its possible Ukraine comes out of this stronger than they were before.", "name": "Mackenzie"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Maybe. Forcing a bloody stalemate and racking up Russia casualties would be a result.", "name": "Donovan"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Memento mori (Latin for 'remember that you [have to] die') is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death. The concept has its roots in the philosophers of classical antiquity and Christianity, and appeared in funerary art and architecture from the medieval period onwards.\nThe most common motif is a skull, often accompanied by one or more bones. Often this alone is enough to evoke the trope, but other motifs such as a coffin, hourglass, and wilting flowers signify the impermanence of human life. Often these function within a work whose main subject is something else, such as a portrait, but the vanitas is an artistic genre where the theme of death is the main subject. The Danse Macabre and Death personified with a scythe as the Grim Reaper are even more direct evocations of the trope."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Memento mori (Latin for 'remember that you [have to] die') is an artistic or symbolic reminder of the inevitability of death. Memento mori jewelry with skull or coffin motifs became popular in the late 16th century.\n\n[Memento mori - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Now if that didn't remind me of something", "name": "Nicholas"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Unus", "name": "Molly"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Would you support a wikipedia blackout in response to SOPA/PIPA?\n\nAlso for those in favor. Where should I send my requests for wikipedia to coordinate a blackout with reddit? :) \n\nEdit: Holy shit this exploded.. Honestly wasn't trying to ask an obvious question. Just tends to be that the more specific you get the less upvotes you get. I was hoping we might be able to put some community pressure together for a coordination with reddit. Anybody have any suggestions? :)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes. ", "name": "Ashley"}, {"role": "user", "content": "In other words: DUH.", "name": "Brittany"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a video game that combines aspects of a role-playing video game and a massively multiplayer online game.\nAs in role-playing games (RPGs), the player assumes the role of a character (often in a fantasy world or science-fiction world) and takes control over many of that character's actions. MMORPGs are distinguished from single-player or small multi-player online RPGs by the number of players able to interact together, and by the game's persistent world (usually hosted by the game's publisher), which continues to exist and evolve while the player is offline and away from the game.\nMMORPGs are played throughout the world. Global revenues for MMORPGs exceeded half a billion dollars in 2005, and the western world's revenues exceeded a billion dollars in 2006. In 2008, the spending on subscription MMORPGs by consumers in North America and Europe grew to $1.4 billion. World of Warcraft, a popular MMORPG, had over 10 million subscribers as of November 2014. World of Warcraft's total revenue was $1.04 billion US dollars in 2014. Star Wars: The Old Republic, released in 2011, became the world's \"fastest-growing subscription MMO in history\" after gaining more than 1 million players within the first three days of its launch.\n\nThe Battle of B-R5RB or the Bloodbath of B-R5RB ( ) was a massive-scale virtual battle fought in the MMORPG space game EVE Online in January 2014 (YC 116 in-game), possibly the largest player-versus-player battle in gaming history at the time. The 21-hour-long conflict pitted the Clusterfuck Coalition and Russian alliances (CFC/Rus) against the N3 Coalition and Pandemic Legion alliance (N3/PL), and involved over 7,548 player characters with a maximum of 2,670 players in the B-R5RB system at one time. The in-game cost of the losses totaled over 11 trillion Interstellar Kredit (ISK), an estimated theoretical real-world value of US$300,000 to $330,000 (equivalent to between US$365,807 and $402,388 in 2022), as derived from the contemporaneous market value of PLEX, an item purchasable with real currency that can be redeemed either for subscription time or traded for in-game currency.\nPart of a larger conflict known as the Halloween War, the fight started after a single player controlling a space station in the N3/PL-controlled star system B-R5RB accidentally failed to make a scheduled in-game routine maintenance payment, which made the star system open to capture. Being a key staging area used by N3/PL in the war, the CFC and Russian coalitions began pouring players into the system in a swift offensive, and N3/PL moved in a large fleet of players as a response. A massive battle erupted in the system, and numerous smaller engagements occurred throughout the game universe as players attempted to block reinforcements from joining the battle. CFC/Rus gained a clear win by inflicting heavy losses on N3/PL and successfully capturing B-R5RB. The losses totaled 576 capital ships, including 75 Titans (the largest ships available to players), along with thousands of smaller vessels.\nTo commemorate the sheer size and cost of the battle, the game's creators, CCP Games, erected a permanent monument in the system B-R5RB named \"The Titanomachy\", consisting of non-salvageable capital ship wrecks."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Bloodbath of B-R5RB was a massive-scale virtual battle fought in the MMORPG space game EVE Online in 2014. The 21-hour-long conflict involved over 7,548 player characters. The in-game cost of the losses totaled an estimated theoretical real-world value of $300,000.\n\n[Battle of B-R5RB - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_B-R5RB)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The Empires of Eve by Groen is an excellent read if stuff like this interests you."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I've never played Eve (and I don't think I have much urge to -- sounds almost like work), but I'm fascinated by stories about it, like this recent one:\n\n[EVE Online player uses obscure rule to pull off the biggest heist in the game's history](https://www.pcgamer.com/eve-online-player-uses-obscure-rule-to-pull-off-the-biggest-heist-in-the-games-history/)\n\nThanks for the rec. Will check it out!"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Mathew Charles \"Matt\" Lamb (5 January 1948 – 7 November 1976) was a Canadian spree killer who, in 1967, avoided Canada's then-mandatory death penalty for capital murder by being found not guilty by reason of insanity. Abandoned by his teenage mother soon after his birth in Windsor, Ontario, Lamb had an abusive upbringing at the hands of his step-grandfather, leading him to become emotionally detached from his relatives and peers. He developed violent tendencies that manifested themselves in his physical assault of a police officer at the age of 16 in February 1964, and his engaging in a brief shoot-out with law enforcement ten months later. After this latter incident he spent 14 months, starting in April 1965, at Kingston Penitentiary, a maximum security prison in eastern Ontario.\nSeventeen days after his release from jail in June 1966, Lamb took a shotgun from his uncle's house and went on a shooting spree around his East Windsor neighborhood, killing two strangers and wounding two others. He was charged with capital murder, which under the era's Criminal Code called for a mandatory death penalty, but he avoided this fate when the court found, in January 1967, that he had not been sane at the time of the incident. He was committed for an indefinite time in a psychiatric unit. Over the course of six years in care at Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre's Oak Ridge facility he displayed a profound recovery, prompting an independent five-man committee to recommend to the Executive Council of Ontario that he be released, saying that he was no longer a danger to society. The Council approved Lamb's release in early 1973 on the condition that he spend a year living and working under the supervision of one of Oak Ridge's top psychiatrists, Elliot Barker.\nLamb continued to show improvement, becoming a productive laborer on Barker's farm and earning the trust of the doctor's family. With Barker's encouragement, Lamb joined the Rhodesian Army in late 1973 and fought for the unrecognised government of Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe) for the rest of his life. He started his service in the Rhodesian Light Infantry, and won a place in the crack Special Air Service unit in 1975, but was granted a transfer back to his former regiment a year later. Soon after he was promoted to lance-corporal, Lamb was killed in action on 7 November 1976 by friendly fire from one of his allies. He received what Newsweek called \"a hero's funeral\" in the Rhodesian capital, Salisbury, before his ashes were returned to Windsor and buried by his relatives."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Mathew Charles Lamb was a Canadian mass shooter who killed two people and wounded two more in 1966. Declared insane, he was sent to a mental hospital, being released in 1973. The same year, Lamb, with the encouragement of his psychiatrist, enlisted in the Rhodesian Army to fight in the Bush War.\n\n[Mathew Charles Lamb - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathew_Charles_Lamb)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "\"Hey buddy, you like shooting people right? Boy do I have the job for you!\"", "name": "Kate"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "[You should read about this loser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauri_T%C3%B6rni)\n\nHe didn't even die in battle lmfao."}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Jinn (Arabic: جِنّ‎), also romanized as djinn or anglicized as genies, are invisible creatures in early religion in pre-Islamic Arabia and later in Islamic culture and beliefs.\nLike humans, they are accountable for their deeds and can be either believers (Muslims) or disbelievers (kuffar), depending on whether they accept God's guidance. Since jinn are neither innately evil nor innately good, Islam acknowledged spirits from other religions and was able to adapt them during its expansion. Jinn are not a strictly Islamic concept; they may represent several pagan beliefs integrated into Islam. To assert a strict monotheism and the Islamic concept of tawhid (oneness of God), Islam denies all affinities between the jinn and God, thus placing the jinn parallel to humans, also subject to God's judgment and afterlife. The Quran condemns the pre-Islamic Arabian practice of worshipping or seeking protection from them.Although generally invisible, jinn are supposed to be composed of thin and subtle bodies (Arabic: أَجْسَام, romanized: ajsām), and can change at will. They favour a snake form, but can also choose to appear as scorpions, lizards, or as humans. They may even engage in sexual affairs with humans and produce offspring. If they are injured by someone, they usually seek revenge or possess the assailant's body, refusing to leave it until forced to do so by exorcism. Jinn do not usually meddle in human affairs, preferring to live with their own kind in tribes similar to those of pre-Islamic Arabia.\nIndividual jinn appear on charms and talismans. They are called upon for protection or magical aid, often under the leadership of a king. Many people who believe in jinn wear amulets to protect themselves against the assaults of jinn, sent out by sorcerers and witches. A commonly-held belief maintains that jinn cannot hurt someone who wears something with the name of God written upon it. While some Muslim scholars in the past had ambivalent attitudes towards jinn, contemporary Muslim scholarship increasingly associate jinn with idolatry."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Genie was a child who suffered extreme abuse and isolation as an infant onwards, and therefore never developed a language or fully adapted to human society and customs. She made a very interesting case study on abnormal child psychology.\n\n[Genie (feral child) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)?wprov=sfti1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That was a wild read", "name": "Alana"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "my favorite case study of all time"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "2 (two) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 1 and preceding 3. It is the smallest and only even prime number. Because it forms the basis of a duality, it has religious and spiritual significance in many cultures.\n\nThe 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 1989 two lost mountaineers were located and rescued after search teams spotted a large SOS message built from fallen birch logs. The mountaineers had not created this message, and it had been in place since at least 1987.\n\n[SOS incident - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOS_incident)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "> on 28 February 1990 that after a reexamination of all the human bones that were found, they now believed that the skeleton was actually male, not female, and that they believed the skeleton was actually that of one man.\n\nPoor guy. Took all that time and put out an SOS that saved a future pair of hikers and what did he get for it? Them def girl bones bruh.", "name": "Jacqueline"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Fuuuuuck this perspective is so good it just got me in trouble. Im reading shit to be creeped out at night, not wake my wife up laughing my ass off reading this comment.", "name": "Jade"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The legend of the green children of Woolpit concerns two children of unusual skin colour who reportedly appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England, sometime in the 12th century, perhaps during the reign of King Stephen (r. 1135–1154). The children, found to be brother and sister, were of generally normal appearance except for the green colour of their skin. They spoke in an unknown language and would eat only raw broad beans. Eventually, they learned to eat other food and lost their green colour, but the boy was sickly and died soon after his sister was baptized. The girl adjusted to her new life, but she was considered to be \"very wanton and impudent\". After she learned to speak English, the girl explained that she and her brother had come from a land where the sun never shone, and the light was like twilight. According to one version of the story, she said that everything there was green; according to another, she said it was called Saint Martin's Land.\nThe only near-contemporary accounts are contained in William of Newburgh's Historia rerum Anglicarum and Ralph of Coggeshall's Chronicum Anglicanum, written in about 1189 and 1220, respectively. Between then and their rediscovery in the mid-19th century, the green children seem to surface only in a passing mention in William Camden's Britannia in 1586, and in two works from the early 17th century, Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy and Bishop Francis Godwin's fantastical The Man in the Moone. Two approaches have dominated explanations of the story of the green children: that it is a folktale describing an imaginary encounter with the inhabitants of another world, perhaps subterranean or extraterrestrial, or it presents a real event in a garbled manner. The story was praised as an ideal fantasy by the English anarchist poet and critic Herbert Read in his English Prose Style, first published in 1928, and provided the inspiration for his only novel, The Green Child, published in 1935."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Green Children of Woolpit: \"After she learned to speak English, the girl explained that she and her brother had come from a land where the sun never shone, and the light was like twilight.\"\n\n[Green children of Woolpit - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_children_of_Woolpit)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Sounds like they came from the polar circle", "name": "Cooper"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The most likely explanation seems to be that they came from Fornham St Martin which was a short way to the north. This marries up with their claim to come from St Martins Land. \n\nHarris believes they may have been the children of Flemish settlers which would explain the lack of English. Flemish people were persecuted at that time due to a recent attack by Flemish mercenaries. \n\nGreen, who the heck knows. Maybe they were stained green somehow. Maybe they were just dirty.", "name": "Jocelyn"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Christine Chubbuck (August 24, 1944 – July 15, 1974) was an American television news reporter who worked for stations WTOG and WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida. She was the first person to die by suicide on a live television broadcast."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Christine Chubbuck - First person to commit suicide on air\n\n[Christine Chubbuck - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Chubbuck)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Apparelty, they did. And if i am not mistaken, her mother asked the tv station to delete every copy of the event. So as of today, there is not a single video recording of it.", "name": "Oscar"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, many of which are still widely watched and studied today. Known as the \"Master of Suspense\", he became as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his hosting and producing the television anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–65). His films garnered 46 Academy Award nominations, including six wins, although he never won the award for Best Director, despite five nominations.\nHitchcock initially trained as a technical clerk and copywriter before entering the film industry in 1919 as a title card designer. His directorial debut was the British-German silent film The Pleasure Garden (1925). His first successful film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), helped to shape the thriller genre, and Blackmail (1929) was the first British \"talkie\". His thrillers The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938) are ranked among the greatest British films of the 20th century. By 1939, he had international recognition and producer David O. Selznick persuaded him to move to Hollywood. A string of successful films followed, including Rebecca (1940), Foreign Correspondent (1940), Suspicion (1941), Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and Notorious (1946). Rebecca won the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Hitchcock nominated as Best Director. He also received Oscar nominations for Lifeboat (1944), Spellbound (1945), Rear Window (1954) and Psycho (1960).Hitchcock's other notable films include Rope (1948), Strangers on a Train (1951), Dial M for Murder (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), The Trouble with Harry (1955), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964), all of which were also financially successful and are highly regarded by film historians. Hitchcock made multiple films with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, including four with Cary Grant, four with James Stewart, three with Ingrid Bergman and three consecutively with Grace Kelly. Hitchcock became an American citizen in 1955.\nIn 2012, Hitchcock's psychological thriller Vertigo, starring Stewart, displaced Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941) as the British Film Institute's greatest film ever made based on its world-wide poll of hundreds of film critics. As of 2021, nine of his films had been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, including his personal favourite, Shadow of a Doubt (1943). He received the BAFTA Fellowship in 1971, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979, and was knighted in December of that year, four months before his death on 29 April 1980."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Alfred Hitchcock had a lifelong fear of police, stemming from an incident when he was five: as punishment, his father sent him to the local station with a note requesting that the officer on duty lock him in a cell for a few minutes. The officer did so, saying \"This is what we do to naughty boys.\"\n\n[Alfred Hitchcock - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Dude was a genius director but also a huge piece of shit, precursor to Harvey Weinstein. He sexually assaulted Tippi Hedren multiple times during the filming of The Birds", "name": "Eva"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wouldn't be surprised if those actions were due to bad parenting as well, if throwing your kid in a cell for the night is considered acceptable in the father's eyes...", "name": "Amy"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That explains it, but does not excuse it.", "name": "William"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Plastic bronchitis (PB) is a disorder in which branching casts of the airways are expectorated. PB is not a single disease with a defined mechanism that explains the cast formation in all conditions. Examples of diseases associated with expectoration of casts, and which sometimes are labeled PB include tuberculosis, atypical mycobacterial disease, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, and asthma.\nWhen casts are very large with many branches, an abnormal communication or leakage of lymphatic fluid into the airway is often the cause. This entity is termed lymphatic plastic bronchitis (LPB). LPB is a lymphatic flow disorder characterized by the recurrent formation of branching, rubbery bronchial casts composed primarily of proteinaceous and sometimes chylous material and lymphocytes. Lymphatic fluids deposited into the airspaces become gelatinous as they cool, forming large string cheese-like casts of the airways, which can obstruct airflow. Attempts to expectorate casts can be quite frightening, leading to fears of asphyxiation."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Plastic bronchitis, a disorder that causes one to cough up branching casts of the bronchial tubes\n\n[Plastic bronchitis - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_bronchitis)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "as someone who has lung issues, this terrifies me"}, {"role": "user", "content": "As someone this also terrifies me", "name": "Mary"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Sycamore Gap tree or Robin Hood tree was a sycamore tree standing next to Hadrian's Wall near Crag Lough in Northumberland, England. It was located in a dramatic dip in the landscape, which was created by glacial meltwater and was a popular photographic subject, described as one of the most photographed trees in the country and an emblem for the North East of England. It derived its alternative name from featuring in a prominent scene in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. The tree won the 2016 England Tree of the Year award. It was felled in the early morning of 28 September 2023 in what Northumbria Police described as \"an act of vandalism\". The felling of the tree led to an outpouring of anger and sadness."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Sycamore Gap Tree stood next to Hadrian's Wall near Crag Lough in Northumberland, England. It was located in a dramatic dip in the landscape and was a popular photographic subject. The tree was found to have been felled under suspicious circumstances on 28 September 2023.\n\n[Sycamore Gap tree - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycamore_Gap_Tree)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "A teenager has already been arrested in suspicion\n\nhttps://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-66952980", "name": "Shane"}, {"role": "user", "content": "They're acting like someone killed their own mother. It's a tree.", "name": "Levi"}, {"role": "user", "content": "And that is why the world is as shit as it is", "name": "Vincent"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "\"Going Dutch\" (sometimes written with lower-case dutch) is a term that indicates that each person participating in a paid activity covers their own expenses, rather than any one person in the group defraying the cost for the entire group. The term stems from restaurant dining etiquette in the Western world, where each person pays for their meal. It is also called Dutch date, Dutch treat (the oldest form, a pejorative), and doing Dutch.\nA derivative is \"sharing Dutch\", having a joint ownership of luxury goods. For example: four people share the ownership of a plane, boat, car, or any other sharable high-end product. This in order to minimize cost, sharing the same passion for that particular product and to have the maximum usage of this product."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# \"Going Dutch\" indicates that each person participating in a paid activity covers their own expenses, rather than any one person in the group defraying the cost for the entire group.\n\n[Going Dutch - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Dutch)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "There is nothing Dutch about this. In this country the poorest pay for the lifestyle of the richest", "name": "Juliana"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Pretty sure that's a worldwide system. I think some primitive cultures are more egalitarian, but effectively all groups have division of labor and a \"1%\" that occupy power positions.", "name": "Landon"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Flicette was the first cat launched into spaceshe survived, but they eventually killed her to examine her brain.\n\n[Félicette - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9licette)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Brazilian Army colonel Manuel dos Santos Lage planned to launch a cat named Flamengo aboard the Flix I rocket on 1 January 1959, but the flight was cancelled over ethical concerns regarding the use of a cat. Per wiki.\n\nBut the French were like fuck it lets go. Crazy.", "name": "Dylan"}, {"role": "user", "content": "France had African people in Zoos [until 1994](https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgda34/human-zoo-france-safari-africain) so this doesn't surprise me.", "name": "Juliana"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Umarell (Italian spelling of the Bolognese Emilian word umarèl, Emilian pronunciation: [umaˈrɛːl]; plural umarî) are men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites, especially roadworks – stereotypically with hands clasped behind their back and offering unwanted advice to the workers. Its literal meaning is \"little man\" (also umaréin). The term is employed as lighthearted mockery or self-deprecation.\nThe modern term was popularised in 2005 by local writer Danilo Masotti through three books and an associated blog. In 2021, the word was included in the Zingarelli dictionary."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Umarell is a term referring specifically to men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites, especially roadworks stereotypically with hands clasped behind their back and offering unwanted advice.\n\n[Umarell - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umarell)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "> In 2015, the city of Riccione, approximately 130 kilometres (80 miles) southeast of Bologna, allocated an 11,000 budget to pay a wage to umarells to oversee worksites in the city counting the number of trucks in and out to ensure materials were delivered/removed according to the receipts, and guarding against theft when the site was otherwise unattended.\n\nSo now they'll have to cut in the umarell on the scam to make sure they report the \"correct\" number of trucks.", "name": "Evelyn"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Corruption, ah, finds a way.", "name": "Marcus"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Harald \"Bluetooth\" Gormsson (Old Norse: Haraldr Blátǫnn Gormsson; Danish: Harald Blåtand Gormsen, died c. 985/86) was a king of Denmark and Norway.\nHe was the son of King Gorm the Old and of Thyra Dannebod. Harald ruled as king of Denmark from c. 958 – c. 986. Harald introduced Christianity to Denmark and consolidated his rule over most of Jutland and Zealand. Harald's rule as king of Norway following the assassination of King Harald Greycloak of Norway was more tenuous, most likely lasting for no more than a few years in the 970s. Some sources say his son Sweyn Forkbeard forcibly deposed him from his Danish throne before his death."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Harald Bluetooth was the King of Norway reigning 970 to 986, who is also the basis for the bluetooth technology and its associated symbol.\n\n[Harald Bluetooth - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Bluetooth)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Nobody remembers King Edward WiFi.", "name": "Anthony"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Or NFC the Conqueror", "name": "Brendan"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Acid Tests were a series of parties held by author Ken Kesey primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area during the mid-1960s, centered on the use of and advocacy for the psychedelic drug LSD, commonly known as \"acid\". LSD was not made illegal in California until October 6, 1966."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Acid Tests were a series of parties held by author Ken Kesey primarily in the mid-1960s, centered on the use of and advocacy for the psychedelic drug LSD, commonly known as \"acid\".The name \"Acid Test\" was coined by Kesey, after the term \"acid test\" used by gold miners in the 1850s.\n\n[Acid Tests - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Tests)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Fun fact: MK Ultra directly lead to *this,* this directly lead to hippies, therefore the CIA are at least partly responsible for the hippies.", "name": "Shawn"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This is entirely misleading and completely inaccurate for anyone who just reads your comment without any context of the real historical truth. \n\nYes, Ken Kesey was first given LSD as part of experiments by the military, and because of his experience he felt others should have an opportunity to have their minds opened as well, but in a safe and positive manner. \nBut LSD and acid tests **did not** directly lead to hippies. \n\nHippies were an evolutionary progression of the Beat Generation. They were a movement of free thinkers who did not share the same views and beliefs as the society in which they had been raised. The hippies existed independently of LSD, and drugs in general, and would have had the same cultural impact even without the LSD. Hippies existed before the acid tests. \n\nThe government can only considered responsible for the hippies insomuch as the hippies were against everything the government represented at the time, i.e. war, greed, censorship, segregation, sexual inequality, etc. \nIf anything, the CIA was trying to end the hippie movement and corrupt it for their own use as a way to manipulate youth of America and stop people from questioning their own government; among many other reasons. \n\nWhile hippies were using LSD to try to open their minds and become more spiritually involved as a human race, \nthe CIA was using LSD in experiments on psychic driving, mind control, torture. \n\nOppression, capitalistic greed, and the destruction of natural resources are responsible for the hippie movement. The CIA is responsible for Silent Weapons & Quiet Wars; destabilization through narco-terrorism and subversive generational brainwashing.", "name": "Sadie"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Joseph Harding (22 March 1805 in Sturton Farm, Wanstrow, Somerset, England – 1 May 1876 in Vale Court Farm, Marksbury, Somerset) was responsible for the introduction of modern cheese making techniques and has been described as the \"father of Cheddar cheese\". He is credited with having invented the \"definite formula\" for the production of cheddar cheese.A number of websites describe him as the inventor of the Cheese Mill. It is unclear if this assertion is true. The cheese mill is different from the cheese press, which has been used traditionally for centuries. Certainly, Harding introduced new equipment into the process of cheese making, including a \"revolving breaker\" for curd cutting, which saved much manual effort."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Joseph Harding (22 March 1805 1 May 1876) was responsible for the introduction of modern cheese making techniques and has been described as the \"father of Cheddar cheese\".\n\n[Joseph Harding - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Harding)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "If cheese was no longer available it would be something a lot of us would miss.", "name": "Jordan"}, {"role": "user", "content": "But not cheddar cheese, fuck cheddar cheese.", "name": "Abigail"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Without cheddar cheese, most of the world wouldn't even have cheese.", "name": "Sarah"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The 28th Virginia battle flag is a Confederate battle flag that belonged to the 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Captured by the 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg, the flag was brought to Minnesota and exhibited at the state's capitol for several years before passing into the permanent collection of the Minnesota Historical Society after 1896 where it has remained since. Although various groups in Virginia have requested that the flag be returned, beginning as early as 1960, Minnesota has repeatedly declined to return it, with Governor Jesse Ventura (serving 1999-2003) asking \"Why? I mean, we won.\"The battle flag was captured at the Battle of Gettysburg by Private Marshall Sherman of the 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment, and remained in Sherman's possession in Minnesota after being inventoried by the United States War Department in 1867. A 1905 congressional resolution that flags from the American Civil War should be returned to their places of origin did not lead to the return of the flag to Virginia, nor did requests by Virginia or groups therein for its return in 1961, 1998, 2000, and 2003; a request by the governor of Virginia to borrow the flag in 2013 was also declined.\nThe flag is stored in a drawer at the Minnesota Historical Society, with its exact location undisclosed for security reasons. There are several holes in the flag, and the middle eyelet is torn; however, it is mostly intact with less than one percent of its fabric missing."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The 28th Virginia battle flag is a Confederate flag captured by the 1st Minnesota Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg. Since 1960, various groups in Virginia have requested the flag's return. Minnesota has repeatedly declined, with Governor Jesse Ventura asking \"Why? I mean, we won.\"\n\n[28th Virginia battle flag - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Virginia_battle_flag)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Its worth noting the story of the [1st Minnesota](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Minnesota_Infantry_Regiment).\n\nThey were a volunteer unit that formed after the attack on Fort Sumter. They suffered staggering casualties at Gettysburg, yet held the line against multiple confederate charges, and captured the battle flag from Virginia. I believe the man that captured the flag was actually awarded the Medal of Honor.", "name": "Christina"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Jesus Christ why would you return it. It was bought by blood. If Virginia wants it back, they can send their national guard contingent XD", "name": "Collin"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Space Relations: A Slightly Gothic Interplanetary Tale is a space opera novel by Donald Barr, the father of former US Attorney General William Barr and former employer of Jeffrey Epstein, originally published on 17 September 1973 by Charterhouse and distributed by McKay. \nIt was reprinted by Fawcett Crest Books in February 1975. It is one of only two novels Barr is known to have written, the other being A Planet in Arms."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Space Relations It's a sci-fi novel written by Bill Barr's dad in 1973. A planet is ruled by oligarchs who engage in child sex slavery. He was a headmaster at an elite private school and he gave Jeffrey Epstein a job teaching despite his lack of qualifications.\n\n[Space Relations - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Relations)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Is there a big conspiracy from the QAnon group focused on Barr, Epstein, and sex trafficking? Seriously asking but also thinking that there is not because that would throw the whole Trump against trafficking narrative.", "name": "Jeffrey"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Haha you would think so right? I mean it was Trump's Labor Secretary who gave Epstein the sweetheart deal that let him stay out of prison initially. And then there's Trump literally saying he wishes Ghislaine Maxwell the best, after her indictment.", "name": "Carlos"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Patrick Murphy was an Irish-American pilot who mistakenly bombed the border town of Naco, Arizona in April 1929 during the Escobar Rebellion. Little is known of his personal life, though he may have come from Ardmore, Oklahoma."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The first pilot to ever attack America by air was Irish, fighting for Mexican rebels, and was probably drunk\n\n[Patrick Murphy (pilot) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Murphy_(pilot))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Can facts with references be prejudiced? Because as an Irish person, I feel judged. (Not really!)\n\nSeriously, his name is Patrick Murphy which about as Irish as you get. Unless, maybe, a drunk, inaccurate Irish bomber pilot called Rick O'Shea?", "name": "Abby"}, {"role": "user", "content": "To the ubiquitous drunken Irish freedom fighter!\n\n>Now you'll sing a song of liberty for blacks and paks and jocks \nAnd they'll take you from this dump you're in and stick you in a box \nThen they'll take you to Cloughprior and shove you in the ground \nBut you'll stick your head back out and shout \"We'll have another round\"", "name": "Jonah"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Irish Famine of 17401741 (Irish: Bliain an ir, meaning the Year of Slaughter) in the Kingdom of Ireland, is estimated to have killed between 13% and 20% of the 1740 population of 2.4 million people, which was a proportionately greater loss than during the Great Famine of 18451852.\n\n[Irish Famine (1740–1741) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Famine_(1740%E2%80%9341))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What's with Ireland and famines?", "name": "Julian"}, {"role": "user", "content": "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_rule_in_Ireland", "name": "Peter"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Charles Chi-tat Ng (born Ng Chi-tat) (Chinese: 吳志達; Jyutping: ng4 zi3 daat6; born 24 December 1960) is a convicted Hong Kong-born serial killer who committed numerous crimes in the United States. He is believed to have raped, tortured, and murdered between eleven and twenty-five victims with his accomplice Leonard Lake at Lake's cabin in Calaveras County, California, 60 miles (96 km) from Sacramento, between 1983 and 1985. After his arrest and imprisonment in Canada on robbery and weapons charges, followed by a lengthy dispute between Canada and the U.S., Ng was extradited to California, tried, and convicted of eleven murders. He is currently on death row at San Quentin State Prison."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Meet Charles Ng, a serial killer who drew cartoons of his victims on the wall of his prison cell which prosecutors used during his trial\n\n[Charles Ng - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ng)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "You don't know what I bring to friendship!", "name": "Kaden"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'll hold pencils while you spin kick them out of my hand. It will be very jocular.", "name": "Bryan"}]

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thoughtstop

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Okilly Dokilly is an American heavy metal band from Phoenix, Arizona, United States, that plays \"Nedal\" music; a subgenre of metal music themed around the animated character Ned Flanders from the television series The Simpsons.\n\n[Okilly Dokilly - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okilly_Dokilly?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "\"Not as fast as Bartcore, but a little cleaner than KrustyPunk\"", "name": "Gregory"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yo, hey whats happing dude? Im the guy with a nak for being rude.", "name": "Brian"}]

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JangoBeastwood

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Reddit () is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network. Registered users (commonly referred to as \"Redditors\") submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called \"communities\" or \"subreddits\". Submissions with more upvotes appear towards the top of their subreddit and, if they receive enough upvotes, ultimately on the site's front page. Reddit administrators moderate the communities. Moderation is also conducted by community-specific moderators, who are not Reddit employees. It is operated by Reddit Inc., based in San Francisco.As of October 2023, Reddit is the 18th most-visited website in the world. According to data provided by Similarweb, 48.98% of the website traffic comes from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 7.06% and Canada at 6.9%.Reddit was founded by University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, as well as Aaron Swartz, in 2005. Condé Nast Publications acquired the site in October 2006. In 2011, Reddit became an independent subsidiary of Condé Nast's parent company, Advance Publications. In October 2014, Reddit raised $50 million in a funding round led by Sam Altman and including investors Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Snoop Dogg, and Jared Leto. Their investment valued the company at $500 million at the time. In July 2017, Reddit raised $200 million for a $1.8 billion valuation, with Advance Publications remaining the majority stakeholder. In February 2019, a $300 million funding round led by Tencent brought the company's valuation to $3 billion. In August 2021, a $700 million funding round led by Fidelity Investments raised that valuation to over $10 billion. The company then reportedly filed for an IPO in December 2021 with a valuation of $15 billion. After assessing potential investor appetite, Reddit intends to go public in 2024 with a listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol \"RDDT\".Reddit has received praise for many of its features, such as the ability to create several subreddits for niche communities, being a platform for raising publicity for numerous causes, and has grown to be one of the most visited websites on the Internet. It has also received criticism for spreading misinformation."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The mascot for Reddit, a time-traveling alien named Snoo, is genderless, colorless, and does not have any fingers. Snoo's purpose is to discover and explore humanity.\n\n[Reddit - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit#Logo)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "No fingers = no probing", "name": "Grace"}, {"role": "user", "content": "what do you think Snoo's antenna thingy is for", "name": "Gabriel"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A tradwife (a neologism for traditional wife or traditional housewife), in recent Western culture, typically denotes a woman who believes in and practices traditional sex roles and marriages. Many tradwives believe that they do not sacrifice women's rights by choosing to take a homemaking role within their marriage. Some may choose to leave careers to focus instead on meeting their family's needs in the home.According to Google Trends, online searches of the term \"tradwife\" began to rise in popularity around mid-2018 and experienced high levels during the early 2020s. The traditional housewife aesthetic has since spread throughout the Internet in part through social media featuring women extolling the virtues of behaving as the ideal woman."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Tradwife is a neologism for a woman who believes in patriarchal sex roles and a patriarchal marriage. Proponents say that a woman does not lose rights by choosing to take a patriarchal female sex role in marriage. Critics claim it is an example of \"toxic femininity,\" or internalized sexism.\n\n[Tradwife - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradwife)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I don't have a problem with women who want to be a 1950's housewife; I have a problem with 1950's housewives who sell it as the \"only way\" to be happy.", "name": "Jaden"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The entire point of feminism is choice. If people want to be stay at home spouses who defer decision making and other management to their partners, fine. But don't try to take the choice away from other people or force it on others.", "name": "Claire"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Cooties is a fictitious childhood disease, commonly represented as childlore. It is used in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines as a rejection term and an infection tag game.\n\n[Cooties - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooties?wprov=sfla1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Was diagnosed with cooties by a girl in my 1st grade class. I never fully recovered", "name": "Sofia"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Thank you for sharing your story of survival. May you find healing\n\nEdit: accidentally posted twice", "name": "Alan"}]

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Mapuches_on_Fire

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The liberum veto (Latin for \"free veto\") was a parliamentary device in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was a form of unanimity voting rule that allowed any member of the Sejm (legislature) to force an immediate end to the current session and to nullify any legislation that had already been passed at the session by shouting either Sisto activitatem! (Latin: \"I stop the activity!\") or Nie pozwalam! (Polish: \"I do not allow!\"). The rule was in place from the mid-17th century to the late 18th century in the Sejm's parliamentary deliberations. It was based on the premise that since all of the Polish–Lithuanian noblemen were equal, every measure that came before the Sejm had to be passed unanimously. The liberum veto was a key part of the political system of the Commonwealth, strengthening democratic elements and checking royal power and went against the European-wide trend of having a strong executive (absolute monarchy).\nMany historians hold that the liberum veto was a major cause of the deterioration of the Commonwealth political system, particularly in the 18th century, when foreign powers bribed Sejm members to paralyze its proceedings, causing foreign occupation, dominance and manipulation of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and its eventual destruction in the partitions. Piotr Stefan Wandycz wrote that the \"liberum veto had become the sinister symbol of old Polish anarchy\". In the period of 1573–1763, about 150 sejms were held, about a third failing to pass any legislation, mostly because of the liberum veto. The expression Polish parliament in many European languages originated from the apparent paralysis."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The liberum veto was a parliamentary device in the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth. It allowed any member of the Sejm to force an end to the current session and to nullify any legislation that had already been passed. Many historians hold that it was a major cause of the decline of the Commonwealth.\n\n[Liberum veto - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberum_veto)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I posted this because I love the absurdity of the liberum veto and I see parallels to the current situation in the US House of Representatives."}, {"role": "user", "content": "And this also has similarities to some of the political constructions of the Late Roman Republic - particularly the veto of the plebeian tribunate, but also Bibulus declaration of holy days throughout 59BC.", "name": "Lilly"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Killing Fields (Khmer: វាលពិឃាត, Khmer pronunciation: [ʋiəl pikʰiət]) are a number of sites in Cambodia where collectively more than 1,000,000 people were killed and buried by the Communist Party of Kampuchea during Khmer Rouge rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War (1970–1975). The mass killings were part of the broad, state-sponsored Cambodian genocide.\nAnalysis of 20,000 mass grave sites by the DC-Cam Mapping Program and Yale University indicates at least 1,386,734 victims of execution. Estimates of the total deaths resulting from Khmer Rouge policies, including death from disease and starvation, range from 1.7 to 2.5 million out of a 1975 population of roughly 8 million. In 1979, Vietnam invaded Democratic Kampuchea and toppled the Khmer Rouge regime, ending the genocide.\nThe Cambodian journalist Dith Pran coined the term \"killing fields\" after his escape from the regime.The Khmer Rouge regime arrested and eventually executed almost everyone suspected of connections with the former government or with foreign governments, as well as professionals and intellectuals. Ethnic Vietnamese, ethnic Thai, ethnic Chinese, ethnic Cham, Cambodian Christians, and Buddhist monks were the demographic targets of persecution. As a result, Pol Pot has been described as \"a genocidal tyrant\". Martin Shaw described the Cambodian genocide as \"the purest genocide of the Cold War era\".Ben Kiernan estimates that about 1.7 million people were killed. Researcher Craig Etcheson of the Documentation Center of Cambodia suggests that the death toll was between 2 and 2.5 million, with a \"most likely\" figure of 2.2 million. After five years of researching some 20,000 grave sites, he concludes that \"these mass graves contain the remains of 1,386,734 victims of execution\". A United Nations investigation reported 2–3 million dead, while UNICEF estimated 3 million had been killed. Demographic analysis by Patrick Heuveline suggests that between 1.17 and 3.42 million Cambodians were killed, while Marek Sliwinski suggests that 1.8 million is a conservative figure. Even the Khmer Rouge acknowledged that 2 million had been killed—though they attributed those deaths to a subsequent Vietnamese invasion. By late 1979, UN and Red Cross officials were warning that another 2.25 million Cambodians faced death by starvation due to \"the near destruction of Cambodian society under the regime of ousted Prime Minister Pol Pot\", who were saved by international aid after the Vietnamese invasion."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# During the Cambodian Genocide, the Khmer Rouge killed children and infants by smashing them against Chankiri trees to stop them from growing up and taking revenge for their parents' deaths\n\n[Killing Fields - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wait why did they smash them against trees? Couldn't they just kill them normally?", "name": "Sofia"}, {"role": "user", "content": "According to the linked page it was to conserve ammunition. Adults were killed with spears, knives and other tools for the same reason. It was such a massive, mechanical killing spree they didn't have the resources for guns for that big a task.", "name": "Logan"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "A filter bubble or ideological frame is a state of intellectual isolation that can result from personalized searches, recommendation systems, and algorithmic curation. The search results are based on information about the user, such as their location, past click-behavior, and search history. Consequently, users become separated from information that disagrees with their viewpoints, effectively isolating them in their own cultural or ideological bubbles, resulting in a limited and customized view of the world. The choices made by these algorithms are only sometimes transparent. Prime examples include Google Personalized Search results and Facebook's personalized news-stream.\nHowever there are conflicting reports about the extent to which personalized filtering happens and whether such activity is beneficial or harmful, with various studies producing inconclusive results.\nThe term filter bubble was coined by internet activist Eli Pariser circa 2010. In Pariser's influential book under the same name, The Filter Bubble (2011), it was predicted that individualized personalization by algorithmic filtering would lead to intellectual isolation and social fragmentation. The bubble effect may have negative implications for civic discourse, according to Pariser, but contrasting views regard the effect as minimal and addressable. According to Pariser, users get less exposure to conflicting viewpoints and are isolated intellectually in their informational bubble. He related an example in which one user searched Google for \"BP\" and got investment news about British Petroleum, while another searcher got information about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, noting that the two search results pages were \"strikingly different\" despite use of the same key words. The results of the U.S. presidential election in 2016 have been associated with the influence of social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, and as a result have called into question the effects of the \"filter bubble\" phenomenon on user exposure to fake news and echo chambers, spurring new interest in the term, with many concerned that the phenomenon may harm democracy and well-being by making the effects of misinformation worse."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# A filter bubble is a state of intellectual isolation resulting from personalized algorithms limiting search results to predicted user preferences based on their collected info, such as location, click-behavior & search history. Users then lack exposure to information disagreeing with their viewpoint\n\n[Filter bubble - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The algorithms made to \"help\" us find stuff have trapped us. If you noticed the internet has changed, this is it.", "name": "Molly"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Helping folks everywhere create their own echo chambers.\n\nAn amazing example of this from my own experience would be when the supposed data-mining incidents with tiktok started making their rounds in my feed:\n\n\nMy boyfriend uses tiktok regularly and I got scared. Showed him all the articles, i'd read and asked him to stop using the app out of fear. \nHe obliged thinking we had real reason to worry.\n\nFast forward a month later and he see's his mom using the app and he tried to give her the same talk, only to learn that those articles and reports were proven fake almost immediately after.\n\nHe, and I both had searched, and searched for a long time, and had only saw articles about the data-leaks, and nothing about them being proven fake. Even though the articles were posted at the same time as all of the supposedly-damning reports.", "name": "Conner"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Hans B. Schmidt (1881 – February 18, 1916) was a German Catholic priest, rapist, convicted murderer, and suspected serial killer. He was executed at Sing Sing Prison in New York State for murdering and dismembering a pregnant woman in the United States."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Hans Schmidt was the only Catholic priest to ever be executed in the US. He killed his pregnant mistress, drank her blood, and dismembered her. He was found guilty for the crime and executed via electric chair in Feb 1916.\n\n[Hans Schmidt (priest) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Schmidt_(priest))"}, {"role": "user", "content": "During a sexual encounter with Anna on the high altar of St. Joseph's Church, Schmidt received what he claimed was a command from God to \"sacrifice\" her.\n\nReality is really stranger than fiction", "name": "Isabella"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The world hasn't ended right? How do we know it didn't work?", "name": "William"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "Wilson Mannon Jr. (January 5, 1928 – January 16, 1992) was an American man who was robbed and murdered by three career criminals in Delaware.\nThe perpetrators were brothers Nelson Shelton (July 20, 1967 – March 17, 1995) and Steven W. Shelton (born July 11, 1965), and their cousin Jack Foster Outten Jr. (born March 23, 1966). All three men were convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. Nelson was executed in 1995 after waiving his appeals, while Steven and Outten eventually won appeals, and had their sentences reduced to lengthy prison terms in plea agreements years later.\nThe case drew attention after Steven donated one of his kidneys to his ailing mother, Vessa Shelton. Nelson had wanted to donate his own kidney, but his was found to be incompatible. Steven donated one in his brother's place."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 1992, Wilson Mannon was savagely beaten to death and robbed by three career criminals. His skull was completely smashed, and he had brain matter strewn about. At the trial, one of Mannons killers said \"To say I have a record is an understatement. I have an album.\" He had a total of 146 charges.\n\n[Murder of Wilson Mannon - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Wilson_Mannon)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I wrote the entire article"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Thank you this is eery and a good read...", "name": "Martin"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Penn State fraternity hazing scandal involves a case related to Timothy John Piazza (September 25, 1997 – February 4, 2017) who died as the result of hazing at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, Pennsylvania. The incident led to closure of the fraternity's chapter at the university, and at least 26 members of the fraternity had charges of involuntary manslaughter dropped by a presiding judge.The scandal led to the largest criminal indictment against a fraternity and its members in American history. More than 1,000 counts were levied against 18 members of Beta Theta Pi, including eight who were charged with involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault. Additional charges were added later. Piazza's death became a turning point for America's fraternities."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Tim Piazza, a 20 year old Penn State sophomore, died as the result of a hazing ritual at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity where he was forced to consume alcohol then fell and hit his head. His frat brothers refused to get him help for hours. The entire 12 hour ordeal is captured by security camera.\n\n[Penn State fraternity hazing scandal - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Tim_Piazza)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "frats and sororities are so fucked, its insane to me that people would ever haze another human being, especially to the extreme lengths that a lot of them go too. also insane that anyone would fucking sign UP to be hazed either, or not dip immediately once they realized how bad it was going. it makes me confused AND sad", "name": "Katelyn"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've never understood why people would willingly accept being treated like shit instead of just getting friends the organic way. Both sides in this have issues imo.", "name": "Tristan"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.378 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2021. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization. The church consists of 24 sui iuris churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and eparchies located around the world. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the chief pastor of the church. The Diocese of Rome, known as the Holy See, is the central governing authority of the church. The administrative body of the Holy See, the Roman Curia, has its principal offices in Vatican City, a small independent city-state and enclave within the Italian capital city of Rome, of which the pope is head of state.\nThe core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The Catholic Church teaches that it is the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church founded by Jesus Christ in his Great Commission, that its bishops are the successors of Christ's apostles, and that the pope is the successor to Saint Peter, upon whom primacy was conferred by Jesus Christ. It maintains that it practises the original Christian faith taught by the apostles, preserving the faith infallibly through scripture and sacred tradition as authentically interpreted through the magisterium of the church. The Roman Rite and others of the Latin Church, the Eastern Catholic liturgies, and institutes such as mendicant orders, enclosed monastic orders and third orders reflect a variety of theological and spiritual emphases in the church.Of its seven sacraments, the Eucharist is the principal one, celebrated liturgically in the Mass. The church teaches that through consecration by a priest, the sacrificial bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ. The Virgin Mary is venerated as the Perpetual Virgin, Mother of God, and Queen of Heaven; she is honoured in dogmas and devotions. Catholic social teaching emphasizes voluntary support for the sick, the poor, and the afflicted through the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. The Catholic Church operates tens of thousands of Catholic schools, universities and colleges, hospitals, and orphanages around the world, and is the largest non-government provider of education and health care in the world. Among its other social services are numerous charitable and humanitarian organizations.\nThe Catholic Church has profoundly influenced Western philosophy, culture, art, literature, music, law, and science. Catholics live all over the world through missions, colonization, diaspora, and conversions. Since the 20th century, the majority have resided in the Southern Hemisphere, partially due to secularization in Europe and increased persecution in the Middle East. The Catholic Church shared communion with the Eastern Orthodox Church until the East–West Schism in 1054, disputing particularly the authority of the pope. Before the Council of Ephesus in AD 431, the Church of the East also shared in this communion, as did the Oriental Orthodox Churches before the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451; all separated primarily over differences in Christology. The Eastern Catholic Churches, who have a combined membership of approximately 18 million, represent a body of Eastern Christians who returned or remained in communion with the pope during or following these schisms for a variety of historical circumstances. In the 16th century, the Reformation led to the formation of separate, Protestant groups. From the late 20th century, the Catholic Church has been criticized for its teachings on sexuality, its doctrine against ordaining women, and its handling of sexual abuse cases involving clergy."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# A young girl, faced with the threat of incest, becomes a Catholic martyr and saint\n\n[Dymphna - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymphna?wprov=sfti1)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[removed]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "go play some more ping pong weirdo", "name": "Christina"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of unit length is a line segment of length 1. In conventions of sign where zero is considered neither positive nor negative, 1 is the first and smallest positive integer. It is also sometimes considered the first of the infinite sequence of natural numbers, followed by 2, although by other definitions 1 is the second natural number, following 0.\nThe fundamental mathematical property of 1 is to be a multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. Most if not all properties of 1 can be deduced from this. In advanced mathematics, a multiplicative identity is often denoted 1, even if it is not a number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number; this was not universally accepted until the mid-20th century. Additionally, 1 is the smallest possible difference between two distinct natural numbers.\nThe unique mathematical properties of the number have led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sports. It commonly denotes the first, leading, or top thing in a group.\n\nApatheism (; a portmanteau of apathy and theism) is the attitude of apathy toward the existence or non-existence of God(s). It is more of an attitude rather than a belief, claim, or belief system. The term was coined by Robert Nash, theology professor at Mercer University, in 2001.An apatheist is someone who is not interested in accepting or rejecting any claims that gods exist or do not exist. The existence of a god or gods is not rejected, but may be designated irrelevant. One of the first recorded apatheists was arguably Denis Diderot (1713–1784), who wrote: \"It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God.\"\nPhilosopher Trevor Hedberg has called apatheism \"uncharted territory in the philosophy of religion\". Political theorist and constitutional law scholar, Adam Scott Kunz, has further defined apatheism as \"the philosophical attitude of indifference, both public and private, to (1) the question of the existence of a deity, (2) the metaphysical and practical value of loyalty to that deity, and/or (3) the interaction of that deity with the natural world\"."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# Apatheism is the attitude of apathy towards the existence or non-existence of God(s). One of the first recorded apatheists was arguably French philosopher Denis Diderot who wrote: \"It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.\"\n\n[Apatheism - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apatheism)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow, a term that perfectly describes how I feel. Atheism and even agnosticism both seemed too militant for me, like non-belief is a religion in and of itself. I just live my life without the influence of religion over my personal affairs."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Congrats! You're an atheist :)", "name": "Sebastian"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Death of Marion Parker. The child had been significantly desecrated, her limbs cut off, her eyes fixed open with wires, and her disemboweled torso stuffed with rags.\n\n[Murder of Marion Parker - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Marion_Parker?wprov=sfti1https://maps.apple.com/?ll=34.066060,-118.251670&q=Murder%20of%20Marion%20Parker&_ext=EiQpdAiQp3QIQUAxHJBwXBuQXcA5dAiQp3QIQUBBHJBwXBuQXcA%3D)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "An autopsy performed after his execution showed that Hickman's neck did not break during the hanging, and that he had died from asphyxia.\n\nGood. Not bad enough, but good.", "name": "Diego"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Makes ya wonder if they fucked up on purpose. I hope they did. Makes me glad it wasnt quick", "name": "Parker"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Actually I know a thing or two about this! Executioners back in the day had numerous techniques of hanging people. At the time they were inventing and innovating ways to hang condemned souls. For example, the long drop method created by [William Marwood](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Marwood) to immediately execute the person humanely without decapitating them was a tweaked version of the standard drop that was a basically just trying to end the persons life fast with a rope, regardless of what happened after. The earliest hanging method, the short drop, lasted an agonizing 10-20 minutes, was very controversial, as some executioners got a special glee in hanging from the legs of convulsing victim while the crowd watched clapping. Most notable was British executioner [William Calcraft](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Calcraft) who was widely considered incompetent but when you read about him, its clear he loved the celebrity it gave him and stretched out the executions so he got more crowd time and a longer show.", "name": "Gregory"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of unit length is a line segment of length 1. In conventions of sign where zero is considered neither positive nor negative, 1 is the first and smallest positive integer. It is also sometimes considered the first of the infinite sequence of natural numbers, followed by 2, although by other definitions 1 is the second natural number, following 0.\nThe fundamental mathematical property of 1 is to be a multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. Most if not all properties of 1 can be deduced from this. In advanced mathematics, a multiplicative identity is often denoted 1, even if it is not a number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number; this was not universally accepted until the mid-20th century. Additionally, 1 is the smallest possible difference between two distinct natural numbers.\nThe unique mathematical properties of the number have led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sports. It commonly denotes the first, leading, or top thing in a group."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# One Womans Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia\n\n[One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia](https://getpocket.com/explore/item/one-woman-s-mission-to-rewrite-nazi-history-on-wikipedia)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "She doesn't like Nazis", "name": "Amber"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Good, title was unclear"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Its a sad state of affairs that clarification is needed"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Its the word rewrite thats making it weird, because everyone should be clear on nazis being shit-tier people, but it actually sums up the article pretty well. The whole thing keeps messing with you like that, its really good.\n\nTake these paragraphs for example:\n\n> Coffman will recall that she feels totally disoriented. She cannot believe that an innovator in mass murder would have tried to protect the Jews and other supposed subhumans his troops rounded up. She checks the footnotes. The claim is attributed to War of Extermination, a compendium of academic essays originally published in 1995.\n\n>Coffman knows the book is legit, because she happens to have a copy on loan from the library. When she goes to the cited page, she finds a paragraph that appears to confirm all the Wikipedia articles wild claims. But then she reads the first sentence of the next paragraph: This is, of course, nonsense.", "name": "Jordyn"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "United States v. Shi, 525 F.3d 709 (9th Cir. 2008), is a case involving piracy on the high seas. The case held that United States could try foreign nationals on foreign-flagged vessels for crimes committed on the high seas, outside the territory of the United States."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# In 2002, a young Chinese cook committed one of the few mutinies in the modern era. Sick of mistreatment by the captain and first mate, he murdered both of them. Afterwards, he forced the crew to throw the captain's body overboard, and set sail for China, threatening to kill anyone who didnt comply.\n\n[United States v. Shi - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Shi)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "How come you can do this on a boat but not in a Fortune 500 company?", "name": "George"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Its very hard to sail a Fortune 500 company", "name": "Ella"}]

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[{"role": "system", "content": "The Euthanasia Coaster is the name given to a hypothetical steel roller coaster designed with the sole purpose of killing its passengers: a euthanasia device. The concept was conceived in 2010 and made into a scale model by Lithuanian artist Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London. Urbonas, who has experience as an amusement park employee, stated that the goal of his concept roller coaster is to take lives \"with elegance and euphoria\". As for practical applications of his design, Urbonas mentioned \"euthanasia\" or \"execution\". John Allen, who served as president of the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, inspired Urbonas with his description of the \"ultimate\" roller coaster as one that \"sends out 24 people and they all come back dead\"."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "# The Euthanasia Coaster is a hypothetical steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers \"with elegance and euphoria\"\n\n[Euthanasia Coaster - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "doesnt work on kids, amputees or little people because less blood moves away from their head (so it doesnt kill them)", "name": "Mikayla"}, {"role": "user", "content": "But it does make them stronger...", "name": "Sebastian"}]

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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 founder says Facebook should add feature to show people news they don't agree with\n\n[Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales wants new Facebook feature to burst 'filter bubble'](http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/16/facebook-fake-news-echo-chamber-jimmy-wales-wikipedia.html)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think think that this is a great idea. I'd like my beliefs to be challenged more than reinforced. ", "name": "James"}, {"role": "user", "content": "honestly i already disagree with most of the shit my friends post, (mix between right wing populism and sjw radical feminist), whereas i find wikipedia to be pretty accurate and acceptable.", "name": "Aaliyah"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# FDR was the first, and last, US president to win more than two consecutive presidential elections. As a result of FDR's unprecedented four terms, the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified in 1951, limiting all future US presidents to two elected terms.\n\n[Franklin D. Roosevelt - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franklin_D._Roosevelt&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Huh, I had no idea about that, I assumed the two terms thing was *way* older! [I am not American.]", "name": "Anthony"}, {"role": "user", "content": "George Washington set a historical precedent by only seeking 2 terms. Other than FDR, and his cousin Theodore Roosevelt, no other president ever sought more than 2 terms. Teddy Roosevelt lost the election that would have been his third term because he decided to try to return to the presidency and ran again his own former vice president, William Taft. The vote was split, and the Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected instead.", "name": "Lauren"}]

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[{"role": "assistant", "content": "# Hickam's Dictum is a counterargument to the use of Occam's razor in the medical profession: \"Patients can have as many diseases as they damn well please.\"\n\n[Hickam's dictum - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickam%27s_dictum)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "[deleted]"}, {"role": "user", "content": "This has come up a couple of times on the tv show House. When a patient is obviously a drug addict, it can be easy to explain all their problems as consequences of their drug use. But, of course, drug addicts get sick for other reasons, too. In fact, they tend to get sick more often.\n\nTheres another case on the show involving a morbidly obese man. The doctors keep attributing his symptoms to his obesity, but it turns out his illness had nothing to do with that.\n\nPatients can and do have multiple illnesses sometimes.", "name": "Kylie"}]