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A strange bit of history here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojave_phone_booth

The Mojave phone booth was a phone booth in the middle of the Mojave Desert, created for the local miners. In 1997, someone discovered this on the internet, and of course, it became a hot place to visit. The booth was taken down in the year 2000.

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08-12-2019 , 09:44 AM

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World Despite having never gotten into chess myself that much, I found this very thought provoking

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08-13-2019 , 10:55 AM

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A band of Lions that rose up and conquered a huge plot of lot in africa. Basically Game of Thrones + The Lion King +The Sopranos

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08-13-2019 , 01:00 PM

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99% Invisible Podcast about it: https://99percentinvisible.org/episo...e-phone-booth/

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08-15-2019 , 08:52 PM

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World Despite having never gotten into chess myself that much, I found this very thought provoking

You and I both. I could barely follow it, but it was curious.

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A band of Lions that rose up and conquered a huge plot of lot in africa. Basically Game of Thrones + The Lion King +The Sopranos

I wonder how it would have read if they chose different lions to follow. I guess I wonder how typical this sort of dominance is. That's so much area that one could guess that multiple packs could be seen as dominant. I know nothing of this topic.

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08-15-2019 , 08:53 PM

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell

Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927), is a decision of the United States Supreme Court, written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in which the Court ruled that a state statute permitting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the intellectually disabled, "for the protection and health of the state" did not violate the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Supreme Court has never expressly overturned Buck v. Bell.

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08-15-2019 , 10:23 PM

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D...ppearance_case

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the faked death of the British former teacher and prison officer John Darwin. Darwin turned up alive in December 2007, five years after he was believed to have died in a canoeing accident

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08-16-2019 , 02:27 PM

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D...ppearance_case

Wow. Anne’s “colleague” sounds like a *****.

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08-16-2019 , 03:10 PM

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This is bananas.

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08-16-2019 , 09:26 PM

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This is bananas.

one thing often ignored when people study the early advent of Nazism is that eugenics was very popular around the globe then and in many ways the discussion of creating a master race resonated with people all over the world

we tend to pretend like it was just Nazis today, but it was all of us

in fact, most people just assume the holocaust was a very well kept secret, but if you search newspaper archives from the 30s and 40s, it's quite evident we all knew fully well what was going on and largely ignored it until after the war when we occupied that territory and it then became our own problem

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08-19-2019 , 06:33 AM

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The Buttholes surfers could have been called “I am going to **** in your mother’s Vagina”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butthole_Surfers

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08-19-2019 , 08:17 AM

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The Buttholes surfers could have been called “I am going to **** in your mother’s Vagina”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butthole_Surfers

that's an interesting one, really liked them back in the day

likewise, tom petty's band used to be called mudcrutch until the music execs convinced him that name wouldn't sell very well

they also basically told him no contract unless he dumped his talentless friends and started playing with real musicians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDKTccPDDTw this is a 4 disc documentary on him that's even boring for the big fans like me but contains those nuggets

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08-20-2019 , 04:31 AM

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Duga radar - Massive Soviet radar system. Nicknamed the Russian Woodpecker as it's signal could be picked up around the world. Led me on to Mind Control and Weather control.

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08-20-2019 , 11:10 AM

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Back in the day, the bride and groom were tucked into bed by friends and family on their wedding night. Some even witnessed the consummation of the marriage.

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08-20-2019 , 06:43 PM

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The Supreme Court can't overturn it unless someone brings a case about the same topic. This isn't congress, which can pass any law it wants; the court can only rule on the cases before it. Given the topic, it seems unlikely that the court will have the opportunity to either overturn or affirm the case.

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08-20-2019 , 10:37 PM

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I’m wholly unworried that anyone ever, anywhere, would argue that Buck remains binding precedent on this point.

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08-21-2019 , 03:36 AM

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I’m wholly unworried that anyone ever, anywhere, would argue that Buck remains binding precedent on this point.

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08-21-2019 , 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Altheimer

Yes, this is true.

It's also complicated by the thought here:

In 2001, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit cited Buck v. Bell to protect the constitutional rights of a woman coerced into sterilization without procedural due process.

I don't know what case they are referring to here, so I wouldn't know the entire nuance of this argument, but the "due process" argument seems to be the standard that was used.

Maybe someone can correct me on this, but it seems that, unless there is some controversy around due process, a case would never be taken up by the Supreme Court. The Court also seems to be rather unwilling to call for outright bans on anything.

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08-22-2019 , 10:02 AM

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If someone tried to rely heavily on the logic in Buck to support its position in a different sort of case, the Court very easily could disavow the logic without explicitly overturning the decision.

Put another way, any lawyer who relied heavily on Buck in a case before the Supreme Court would be a fool.

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08-23-2019 , 09:58 AM

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKB48- Not really a particularly interesting wiki, but there's a popular Japanese Girl group with over 130 members

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08-25-2019 , 12:55 PM

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Epistemology - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology

Who knows?

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08-26-2019 , 11:36 AM

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08-26-2019 , 11:48 PM

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Epistemology - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology

Who knows?

What does it mean if I don't read this?

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08-30-2019 , 02:52 AM

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Opium_War

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With both Burmese militia and Nationalist Chinese defeated and expelled from Laos, the Lao general confiscated the opium for himself.

With this supply of raw opium base, plus his greater grasp on the drug trade, Ouane's refineries began to ship their heroin worldwide. He also supplied this injectable heroin to his allies—U.S. troops in the Vietnam War.

I want to read up more on the nationalist Chinese armies that fled into SEA to become drug overlords. Nearly 2 decades after retreating out of China, they are still operating independently in the jungles of Lao and Burma - just amazing this doesn't get more attention.