forgive this not being wiki but super interesting

That was just the start of the **** ups.

Extensive article on this main player of Canadian biker gangs (nicknamed "Mom"), who recently passed away. I can't help to think that man, s/o put a lot of effort into this for this POS. But it's a good read!

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

as well as Sonny Barger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Barger

he had a choice to pay a $200 fine or go to prison for 4 months and he chose prison loll

Government paid for his 4 month networking vacation.

Had no idea Sierra Leone was founded by black Nova Scotia settlers:

I found out about this after seeing this picture of Sierra Leone "under 15s" in a youth tournament that sparked my curiosity to learn more about the country. This is totally unrelated to the founding of the country but an interesting event nevertheless lol



Mauritania withdraw from U15 tournament due to age difference of players


And for those of you that are not aware, the age difference in football is a big issue in many competitions especially at youth level.

I used to believe the sanitized history of USSR joining Allies against Japan was purely for symbolic purpose, and a cheap ploy to get land as part of the victors.

Little did I know there was already an agreement at Yalta for USSR to join in the Japan conflict within 3 months of what would be VE Day, at the insistence of the Allies.

USSR made it exactly on deadline, with 1.5 million total troops deployed. Their attack plan starting in Manchuria took Japan completely by surprise, and was basically a rout save for a Pacific island conflict. They fought over 2 weeks past VJ Day, due to poor communications. USSR eventually went into Korea, and agreed with US on settling at the 38th parallel, which basically would split up Korea to this day.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovi...93Japanese_War

Reading about the nigerian bandit conflict, learned about Veerappan, an indian bandit, smuggler, and poacher that kidnapped politicians and celebrities and killed 184 people until police killed him in 2004 in Tamil Nadu.



Timeline, from wiki article:


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

Great link. Sandalwood alone is fascinating.

Garden hermit
Ngl, if anyone's hiring, I'm down...

Susunu! Denpa Shōnen
Insane Japanese reality TV/game show. Seriously, Squid Games ain't got **** on this...

It's most infamous challenge being: Video about it, if anyone's interested. It gets pretty sadistic.

I watched that video recently, it was fascinating.

Unrelated but not sure where else to ask. Was browsing wikipedia and it said I had a message, I open it and it's this:



Never edited that article nor know wtf is it about. Should I be worried or is it just a mistake somehow?

Online Disinhibition Effect

I saw this when leading teams dedicated to combatting online fraud: people would say and do terrible things online that they could not plausibly say or do offline. I think that a bunch of problems in the online world are caused by people failing to recognise the humanity of other people online. Too many people think that such stuff is just a computer game, rather than something that has real effect on the lives of humans.

(Parkinson's) Law of Triviality

I see this time and time again in many different environments: people comment on things that they know (at least) a little bit about, rather than things that are important. Thus, conversations are derailed to issues that lots of people know a little bit about, rather than on things that are important.

tal did a piece on this a few years back that was fascinating

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/529/human-spectacle

Probably one more for non-US folk, who, like me, probably won't really have heard of him.

Also topical, as looks like he's just been outed as a Brazilian drag queen.

George Santos

He's a truly a real-life Veep character! I know the term 'pathological liar', but never really thought someone would/could lie about literally everything. Long page, but I just couldn't stop reading how absurd he is.

Göran Kropp
Adventurer best known for cycling from Sweden to Everest, where he made a solo ascent without bottled oxygen or Sherpas.

Fatal insomnia
As someone who suffers with bad bouts of insomnia, this will keep me up at night!

Knowing you're in a dream, but just having to wait it out until you wake up sucks as well.

There were a couple of books like this I got from my old professor when he was retiring and cleaning out his desk.

One was that, Parkinson's Law. The basic example is that people will argue for hours over the price of a paperclip but not on multi-million dollar pieces of equipment.

I try to take that into my life. Spend more time haggling over the price of a car or a house, and not worry about the price of a box of cereal. Saving 1% on the price of a car is much more worth your time than clipping a 30 cent coupon for a box of cereal.

The other book which is eye opening, both for poker and for your career, is The Peter Principle.

Eventually you reach your level of incompetence, and can't do your job well. At poker this applies to moving up stakes, and has ruined many a career due to ego and not willing to play one level lower where you can easily win.

crosspost from trans thread but thought it would be relevant here

IDK if it's cos I have lots of bad dreams but I can usually shake myself awake during a nightmare.

If I am reading this correctly, he had a go at the wide end of a beer bottle. That sounds . . . . painful.