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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 22, 2024 at 12:09 pm
In 1938, Benito Mussolini closed off a wheat field & did a photo shoot showing him harvesting hay in order to portray himself as a common working man.
He was surrounded by workers who had been vetted as loyal to the party.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 22, 2024 at 2:36 pm
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 22, 2024 at 2:40 pm
(October 22, 2024 at 12:09 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: In 1938, Benito Mussolini closed off a wheat field & did a photo shoot showing him harvesting hay in order to portray himself as a common working man.
He was surrounded by workers who had been vetted as loyal to the party.
Not unlike the Mango Mussolini.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 22, 2024 at 11:31 pm
In Fresno, CA, it is illegal to annoy a lizard in a park.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 23, 2024 at 2:15 am
(October 22, 2024 at 11:31 pm)Angrboda Wrote: In Fresno, CA, it is illegal to annoy a lizard in a park.
Im not from the US. Where is Fresno? Anywhere near Komodo?
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 23, 2024 at 7:59 am
More adverse skin reactions occur with red tattoo ink than any other color.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 23, 2024 at 11:18 am
(October 23, 2024 at 2:15 am)Deesse23 Wrote: (October 22, 2024 at 11:31 pm)Angrboda Wrote: In Fresno, CA, it is illegal to annoy a lizard in a park.
Im not from the US. Where is Fresno? Anywhere near Komodo?
Southern California. West coast.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 23, 2024 at 2:48 pm
Apparently, instead of just informing customers that crucial parts of the food they want isn’t in stock, Subway just increases the DoorDash prices to obscene levels.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 24, 2024 at 4:17 pm
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Something I've suspected for a while, but it's nice to know it's all but confirmed: Michael " To Train Up a Child" Pearl has zero empathy.
Honestly, if your wife is saying this (and I'm quoting him quoting her):
Quote:“In the last 48 hours I haven’t slept more than two hours undisturbed. My feet have 20 or more tiny holes in them because you wouldn’t let me take an extra five minutes to unpack my tennis shoes. My shoulder is sore from trying to carry thirty pounds of crabs for hours (they didn’t weight that much.) My hand is burned from trying to stuff a fighting crab into a kettle of boiling water, which seems very much like torturing the poor thing, AND, all the while you lay in a state of repose. Due to lack of sleep and sun, my eyes feel like they are full of sand. I have had little to eat. I am female, for crying out loud. I just want to sleep without you pawing on me. Besides, I have body parts I didn’t even know existed until now and they are killing me….so what is wrong with me??? I’m the weaker vessel, remember? It’s in the Bible, chapter one, verse one….or somewhere.”
And your response is "Women, amirite?", it's very hard to reconcile that with any actual capacity for empathy.
Also, I figure I may as well say this: even though I find the idea of a woman going barefoot everywhere to be sexy, her being in pain because her feet can't handle the terrain is decidedly not.
Another point later in the video, apparently, cell phone radiation causes autism, cell phones were introduced in 1995, and, since autism diagnoses have spiked since then, one causes the other. Even though I was born in 1989, and am still autistic (and still was before then). Also, here's a clip from a 1989 episode of Saved by the Bell that in no way undermines his claim that cell phones were introduced in 1995 (they wouldn't have been common, and Zack, a teenager, having one would have seemed absurd, but the technology had been on the market for six years by this point).
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 25, 2024 at 1:42 am
Strange thing I noticed while watching the Wizard of Oz:
I never knew until a few minutes ago that toucans were native to Oz. And the red-breasted species at that.
Also, yes, I’m watching it with Dark Side of the Moon synced up with it.
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