What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Yeah, lots of people use the facade of humour to hide their shame.

Boru

You need to up your humor game then.  

Why? I have no shame in being right about this.

Boru

[Silver]

Yams are not sweet potatoes

[Deesse23]

Culturally, their status as European is up for debate. Geographically, it's really not. Specifically, the part of Russia west of the Ural mountains (containing about a quarter of Russia's landmass and two-thirds of their population) is treated as (functionally) part of Europe.

But…but…The Great And Powerful Sama managed to find - after, no doubt, much diligent searching - a map that doesn’t include Russia (or Sweden, Finland, Norway and Ukraine), so how can this be??

Boru

Wtf was/is he talking about? Scandinavia is "Northern Europe". How do i know? Well i am fucking European.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

But…but…The Great And Powerful Sama managed to find - after, no doubt, much diligent searching - a map that doesn’t include Russia (or Sweden, Finland, Norway and Ukraine), so how can this be??

Boru

Wtf was/is he talking about? Scandinavia is "Northern Europe". How do i know? Well i am fucking European.

He made a crass, clumsy, stupid mistake about Russia and now he's trying to cover it with bluster about Scandinavia.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

Some fun facts about William Jones who authored the 1864 Arizona abortion bill:

He abandoned his first wife and their children in Missouri.

His second wife was a 12 year old Mexican girl. He abducted her and after a complaint submitted his resignation to President Buchanan before he was fired.

In 1864 (age 49) he married his 3rd wife, a 15 year old girl he abandoned in 1865 when he moved to Hawaii.

His 4th wife, a 15 year old Hawaiian native, died in Hawaii from smallpox.

He then married his 5th wife, who divorced him less than 2 years later on grounds of multiple instances of adultery by her husband.

This is the guy who wrote the law that millions of Arizona women will be forced to obey.

[brewer]

Prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), also referred to as Demon' Facial Visual Perception Disorder, is a rare visual disorder that is often mistaken for mental illness. It is a  visual disorder in which human faces appear distorted in shape, texture, position, or color. Most patients with PMO see these distorted facial features all the time, whether they are looking at a face in person, on a screen, or paper.

A substantial number of people have been misdiagnosed, often with schizophrenia or some sort of psychotic episode, and some have been put on antipsychotics despite the fact they've just had some little tweak in their visual system. PMO can occur in the context of head trauma, as well as cerebral infarction, epilepsy, migraine, and hallucinogen-persisting perception disorder. The condition can also manifest without detectable structural brain changes.

[Rev. Rye]

Apparently, it's possible for a country (or whatever the fuck Chechnya is) to ban music outside of a strict tempo.



And it's also possible for whatever people think this absurd rule is decent enough to make a music video announcing it... with music that's outside the legally prescribed tempo.

[brewer]

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted breakthrough designation to an LSD-based treatment for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) based on promising topline data from a phase 2b clinical trial. Mind Medicine (MindMed) Inc is developing the treatment — MM120 (lysergide d-tartrate).

In a news release the company reports that a single oral dose of MM120 met its key secondary endpoint, maintaining "clinically and statistically significant" reductions in Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAM-A) score, compared with placebo, at 12 weeks with a 65% clinical response rate and 48% clinical remission rate.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The role of Major TJ 'King' Kong in Dr. Strangelove was written specifically for John Wayne, who was even approached about the part by director Stanley Kubrick. Wayne turned down the film without even reading the script, and the role went to Slim Pickens.

Boru

[Angrboda]

[It] turns out that jalapeños really aren’t as spicy as they once were. According to a recently resurfaced article in D Magazine, it’s not a coincidence that this is happening, either. Instead, it all comes down to selective breeding and—of course—the pressures of the commercial market. Because although we think of jalapeños as something we’d find in the produce aisle, the reality is that most of the world’s jalapeños are destined to end up in some sort of packaged product, not in a fresh homemade salsa.

The problem is that these packaged products have to maintain some sort of consistency when it comes to heat levels. Jalapeños traditionally offered varying degrees of spiciness depending on each individual pepper, so it would be very difficult to tell just how hot any specific pepper was going to be. As you can imagine, this would make labeling “mild,” “medium,” and “hot” salsas and other products quite difficult. So, through a selective breeding process, scientists at Texas A&M University developed the TAM II, a low-heat jalapeño variety that still offered the fresh, green flavor the pepper is known for without packing quite as intense a punch. Then, if food producers want to make a product spicier, they just add oleoresin capsicum, a pepper extract that adds spiciness.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/food/jalap...their-heat