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BREAKING: Berkshire Hathaway vice-chair Charlie Munger dies at 99

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-berkshire-hathaway-vice-chair-charlie-munger-dies-at-99?utm_campaign=64483

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NEW - First private jets will soon arrive at the COP28 "climate summit" as a record 70,000 attendees are expected to descend on Dubai in the UAE.

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Christmas shopping! Give the gift of Christmas light! https://www.dragoncommonroom.com/so/e5OmYT9kx?languageTag=en&cid=2cca6e62-fcab-479e-bc94-258854ce7943

Bob’s Bomb Factory

Wish has flopped. It’s official. As of this writing, it has hauled less than $49 million. It is Disney’s seventh bomb this year and it’s ninth bomb in a row (excluding Guardians 3). Wish is Bob Iger’s disaster. He owns it, every decision he’s made for the six years contributed to its abject failure. […]

https://arkhavencomics.com/2023/11/28/bobs-bomb-factory/

Can you sort out truth from fiction when the media spins the trial's conclusion?

A courtroom drama of biological science versus transgenderism, The Wise of Heart updates the Scopes Monkey Trial for the 21st century.

https://wiseofheart.substack.com/p/episode-51-strike-the-tent

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The Literary Catastrophe of Kindle Unlimited

TLDR: Since July 2014, Amazon has used Kindle Unlimited to transfer $5 billion to itself that would have otherwise gone to authors and publishers under the traditional ebook sales royalty arrangement. Our original plan for Castalia House, launched in 2013, was to focus entirely on publishing ebooks. After all, ebooks were the future, the technologies […]

https://voxday.net/2023/12/02/the-literary-catastrophe-of-kindle-unlimited/

🚩 New Study Finds Those Vaccinated Against COVID-19 Were Up 7x More Likely to Be Hospitalized When Compared to the Naturally Immune

“People who received a vaccine were nearly five times as likely as the naturally immune to test positive for COVID-19 during the Delta era and 1.1 times as likely to test positive for COVID-19 during the Omicron era, researchers in Estonia found.

The vaccinated were also seven times as likely to be admitted to a hospital for COVID-19 amid the spread of the Delta variant and two times as likely to be admitted to a hospital during the Omicron period, when compared with the naturally immune, the researchers found.

The paper was published by Scientific Reports on Nov. 21.”

https://x.com/thechiefnerd/status/1728089635291615593

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There are folk songs in various languages all around the Middle East and Balkans describing the unusual beauty of Circassian women, a trend popularised after the Circassian genocide, although the reputation of Circassian women dates back to the Late Middle Ages when the Circassian coast was frequented by traders from Genoa, and the founder of the Medici dynasty, Cosimo de' Medici, had an illegitimate son from a Circassian slave, Maddalena. During the Ottoman Empire and Persian Safavid and Qajar dynasties, Circassian women living as slaves in the Sultan's Imperial Harem and Shah's harems started to build their reputation as extremely beautiful, which then became a common trope in Western Orientalism.

As a result of this reputation, in Europe and America Circassians were often characterised as ideals of feminine beauty in poetry and art. Cosmetic products were advertised, from the 18th century on, using the word "Circassian" in the noscript, or claiming that the product was based on substances used by the women of Circassia.

Le Harem, by Fernand Cormon, ca. 1870-1927, via Musée d’art et d’histoire de Narbonne

Circassian beauty is a stereotype and a belief referring to the Circassian people. A fairly extensive literary history suggests that Circassian women were thought to be unusually beautiful and attractive, spirited, smart and elegant, and as such were desirable (although most Circassians traditionally refused to marry non-Circassians in accordance with Adyghe Xabze). A smaller but similar literature also exists for Circassian men, who were thought to be especially handsome.

Is There Hope for Netflix Narnia?

I have some fairly serious doubts about it but is there perhaps a ray or two of sunshine to be found behind what are the admittedly fairly ominous clouds surrounding the Netflix series of films?  The showrunner is Mathew Aldritch. A quick scan of his IMDB page reveals that he was the writer of Coco. […]

https://arkhavencomics.com/2023/11/30/is-there-hope-for-netflix-narnia/

Another autist has been spotted in the wild.