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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future...nding_universe- Heat death of the universe. One the current predictions for the endpoint of the universe. The entire universe is empty except for a few subatomic particles flying around.

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04-08-2019 , 06:31 PM

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Boston Matrix

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Short one about a surreal sculpture sticking out of the top of someone’s house. Hard to believe you can do this kind of thing without planning permission:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Headington_Shark

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04-08-2019 , 07:15 PM

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suzzer99

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Pretty sure you just do it and then pray everyone likes it so much they don't make you take it down.

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04-12-2019 , 04:02 PM

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Illusory superiority

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In the field of social psychology, illusory superiority is a condition of cognitive bias wherein a person overestimates their own qualities and abilities, in relation to the same qualities and abilities of other persons.

Quite a broad topic, but lots of interesting bits in there.

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04-16-2019 , 11:33 AM

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_I_of_Mali- Possibly the richest person in history. When he would visit other cities, their economies would tank because of all the gold he brought

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04-17-2019 , 09:17 PM

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein

Self made billionaire. Podcast I watched claims through a ponzi scheme. Bought a school in new York to convert into his house.

Moves to Florida where he begins sleeping with and pimping out highschoolers to wealthy clients. Only serves 1 year, in his private prison, with private security and a 12 hour a day "work release"

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04-17-2019 , 10:58 PM

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Epstein is a frequent touchstone in politardia. People who flew on his private plane (which has been alleged to also frequently have had girls on it) include Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Alan Dershowitz.

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04-23-2019 , 06:46 AM

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RichGangi

Laughable false & highly douchey

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Virginia Hall

'A woman of no importance' finally gets her due

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04-25-2019 , 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Bluegrassplayer

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Alexander Acosta, then the U.S. attorney for South Florida, agreed to a plea deal in which the government agreed to grant immunity from all federal criminal charges to Epstein, along with four co-conspirators and any unnamed “potential co-conspirators”.

If you're going to pedal and have sex with underage girls make sure you have some 'potential co-conspirators' rich and powerful enough to rig the courts to keep their names clean.

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04-25-2019 , 05:44 PM

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Howard Treesong

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I’ve been reading about Epstein for years. He’s a bad man. If I remember aright, he was also friends with Prince Charles and Ghislane Maxwell.

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04-25-2019 , 07:00 PM

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abysmal01

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I know Prince Andrew was involved, don't know about Charles.

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04-26-2019 , 12:43 PM

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RichGangi

Laughable false & highly douchey

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I never knew much about Uncle Fester AKA Jackie Coogan until now.

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04-26-2019 , 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by abysmal01

I know Prince Andrew was involved, don't know about Charles.

Pretty sure it was just Andrew, and the establishment seem to be intent on sweeping it under the carpet.

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04-26-2019 , 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by RichGangi

I never knew much about Uncle Fester AKA Jackie Coogan until now.

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In November 1933, 22-year-old Brooke Hart, a close friend of Coogan from Santa Clara University and heir to a successful department store in San Jose, was kidnapped as he drove his car out of a parking lot. After several demands for a $40,000 ransom were delivered to the family, police arrested Thomas Thurmond and John Holmes in San Jose. Thurmond admitted that he and Holmes had murdered Hart the same day he was kidnapped. Both killers were transferred to a jail in downtown San Jose. A mob broke into the jail, and Thurmond and Holmes were hanged from a tree in a nearby park, with the unapologetic approval of the state's governor. Coogan was reported to be present and to have held the lynching rope.[5]

That's very old school.

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04-29-2019 , 12:38 PM

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A tiny little ceramic tile was smuggled onto Apollo 11 and left on the moon. It contained tiny artwork from 6 famous artists.

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

Andy Warhol's contribution was a cock and balls.

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05-01-2019 , 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by JayTeeMe

Andy Warhol's contribution was a cock and balls.

Aliens may think it's a spaceship

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05-01-2019 , 09:27 AM

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abysmal01

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Good to know that Andy Warhol and Kate from below deck are on the same level.

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05-02-2019 , 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by JayTeeMe

Wow thats awesome, learned something today

The problem of why there is anything at all

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prob...nything_at_all

The question is general, rather than concerning the existence of anything specific such as the universe or multiverse, the Big Bang, mathematical laws, physical laws, time, consciousness or God. It can be seen as an open metaphysical question

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05-02-2019 , 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by AllBlackDan

This is one of those one-hit-too-many-from-the-bong questions. As the article says in the section on physics, even there being a whole lot of nothing in which nothing is happening implies certain properties of space. Like, what is nothing really man? Woooooah.

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05-02-2019 , 02:06 PM

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From the common misconception wiki:

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Yaks do not stink.

I can't imagine that a long haired animal that lives outdoors would smell very good.

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05-07-2019 , 02:33 PM

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The Temple Institute

Group trying to establish The Third Temple in Israel.

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As part of its ongoing effort to prepare for a future rebuilt Temple, the Temple Institute has been preparing ritual objects suitable for Temple use. Many of the over ninety ritual items to be used in the Temple have been made by the Temple Institute.

This also includes a genetic breeding program to produce the perfect red heifer.

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05-07-2019 , 05:19 PM

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Speaking of The Third Temple, any of you ever heard of TempleOS?

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TempleOS (formerly J Operating System, SparrowOS and LoseThos) is a biblical-themed lightweight operating system designed to be the Third Temple prophesied in the Bible. It was created by American programmer Terry A. Davis, who developed it alone over the course of a decade after a series of episodes that he later described as a revelation from God.

I'm just seeing that it's also linked from the article above. There are some... uh... interesting yootoobz out there of the guy who programmed it. He used to livestream himself programming the operating system, and those livestreams were filled to the brim with rage filled rants and racial slurs.

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05-07-2019 , 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by KingOfFelt

From the common misconception wiki:

I can't imagine that a long haired animal that lives outdoors would smell very good.

I had a yak once. The only bad smell I noticed was after he used the toilet. Had to light a match every time.

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05-11-2019 , 12:13 AM

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

I just got lost in language families for an hour.

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05-11-2019 , 05:44 PM

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Watching Chernobyl on HBO led me down a rabbit hole, and ultimately to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natura...ission_reactor

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A natural nuclear fission reactor is a uranium deposit where self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions have occurred. This can be examined by analysis of isotope ratios. The conditions under which a natural nuclear reactor could exist had been predicted in 1956 by Paul Kazuo Kuroda.[1] The phenomenon was discovered in 1972 in Oklo, Gabon by French physicist Francis Perrin under conditions very similar to what was predicted.

Oklo is the only known location for this in the world and consists of 16 sites at which self-sustaining nuclear fission reactions are thought to have taken place approximately 1.7 billion years ago, and ran for a few hundred thousand years, averaging probably less than 100 kW of thermal power during that time.[2][3][4]

wtf, nothing to see here, just a bunch of uranium spontaneously undergoing nuclear fission for a few hundred thousand years

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