the extraordinary power of media. This is what we're up against.

The TV can make lemmings radically change their opinions in two weeks just by what's on the daily news hour.

"She remembered these nights vividly: rooms filled with rich, powerful executives and barely-legal models performing sex acts as some grotesque initiation rite. One night stood out in particular: “A lot of these models were deficating on the table where T.R. was taking photos of them underneath the glass table.”

"Yes, you read that correctly. New York’s most beautiful women were taking turns shitting on glass tabletops. The men behind these scenes were so warped by power and perversion, they managed to turn a defecation kink into a normalized party activity.

"This wasn’t just about fetish. This was blackmail. They were creating leverage, disgusting, humiliating leverage, capturing the most embarrassing moments on film."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-161209378#:~:text=She%20remembered%20these,moments%20on%20film.

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 The moment of the explosion that killed General Moskalik in Balashikha.

The explosive device was presumably detonated remotely.

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How to memorize the Greek alphabet, widely used in math and physics, with a song.

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One may think rodents run on the wheel because in captivity, but several studies demonstrated that even wild rodents use running wheels placed in nature, even when no extrinsic reward is provided.

These are wild mice.

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"This 'treasure' rewrote California history. It was an elaborate hoax." - Katie Dowd, SFGATE, 01MAR2021

>For centuries, historians had searched for Drake’s plate, the only evidence of Francisco El Draco's expedition to the California coast. The "English" privateer, fresh off raiding Spanish ships and towns along the Pacific coast, found safe harbor in the Point Reyes area in June 1579. He claimed the territory for Queen Elizabeth I. He named it New Albion.

>According to crew member accounts, El Draco left an inscribed brass plate in the area to stake his claim. But in the 350 years since, no one had seen it.

>“If the Drake plate is bogus, the hoax was perpetrated by someone who had not only studied the history of his voyages minutely but who also had knowledge of ship fittings of the 16th century,” Bolton told the Oakland Tribune.

>In 1933, five Clampers employed an Alameda ship worker to make the brass plate, and hand-carved the innoscription.

https://archive.ph/OIEIM
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"Is Having a Loving Family an Unfair Advantage?" - Joe Gelonesi, ABC, 1MAY2015

>Plato famously wanted to abolish the family and put children into care of the state. Some still think the traditional family has a lot to answer for, but some plausible arguments remain in favour of it. Joe Gelonesi meets a philosopher with a rescue plan very much in tune with the times.

>So, what to do?

>According to Swift, from a purely instrumental position the answer is straightforward.

>‘One way philosophers might think about solving the social justice problem would be by simply abolishing the family. If the family is this source of unfairness in society then it looks plausible to think that if we abolished the family there would be a more level playing field.’

>It’s not the first time a philosopher has thought about such a drastic solution. Two thousand four hundred years ago another sage reasoned that the care of children should be undertaken by the state.

https://archive.ph/PiRxL

TIL that any baptized male is eligible to be Pope. In 236 AD, a spectator had a dove land on his head and he was immediately declared Pope (Pope Fabian) [Source]

The Dark Herald Recommends: The King of Kings

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"Carbon dating of the Isaiah Scroll is as early as 335 B.C., according to tests done in 1991. Paleographic and archeological dating is as late as 100 B.C. But Zeitlin found spelling on the Isaiah scroll "on a par with the spelling in many [Hebrew] writings of the Middle Ages."
The author of this article found new evidence in the Isaiah scroll to indicate a medieval origin at the earliest. The scroll shows sentence separation - most evident in chapters 49 and 50 - a practice unknown in Hebrew texts before the sixth century A.D. It was between the 6th and 10th centuries A.D. that the Masoretes began separating the previously unbroken strings of letters into words and sentences.

"Philip Comfort, professor of Greek and New Testament at Wheaton (Ill.) College and senior Bible editor at Tyndale House Publishers, agrees that there is "very clear versification" in the Isaiah scroll.

"Evident also is the medieval style of breaking the formation of the Hebrew letter "L" at the center, a practice that didn't begin until the 11th century A.D., and putting a vowel on the right side of that letter.

"Aside from the internal evidence of the text, there is archeological evidence for dating the scrolls after the time of Christ. If the Dead Sea Scroll caves had been untouched since 50 A.D., as most current scroll scholars contend, material from later periods should not have been found there."
https://archive.ph/2025.04.20-005849/https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ROA-Times/issues/1995/rt9504/950430/04280008.htm#:~:text=Carbon%20dating%20of,been%20found%20there.

How the International Space Station orbits the earth

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