This is one of the most important concepts you can ever learn to ensure career success. It cannot be understated the value of finding a level where you can do the job with not too much stress and can support your lifestyle.

a Horizon Air ground service agent with no piloting experience steals a plane from SEA-TAC and flies about for a bit before crashing into an island.

This is absolutely bonkers. I hadn't heard about it...happened in 2018.




Guy did a barrel roll ten feet over the water and said he learned how to fly by video games. Guy just lost it...at least he didn't hurt anyone else.

This Twitter account is a constant stream of such interesting Wikipedia articles, substantially focused on the absurd and bizarre:
https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki

Yea that's a great one, I follow it on IG.

The owner is doing live events, not sure how those work but I'd love to attend one for sure.

Demon core
Was responsible for two fatalities, which are also interesting to read about - Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin.

Cliffs: Dying from radiation is not a nice way to go.

I skipped HBO's Chernobyl when it came out, because I was like, "Sure, it happened, I know enough," but it was super-gripping. A big part of that was seeing the effects of that kind of poisoning.

This recent death at the boarding school for troubled teens in Utah caused someone to bring up Elan, another school for troubled teens which was closed. It is one of the darkest things I've ever read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lan_School


Better than the wikipedia article is this incredibly well done first hand account of life there: https://elan.school/

It's seriously dark, be prepared.

I know a dude that was put into a military school (I think that's what he called it). What you listed above was about the same as what he experienced. I don't think he holds any grudges and enjoys telling the stories. One of his favorites is:

His older brother was there with him. His brother decided they were going to escape so he was told to put on layers of clothes so they wouldn't have to carry them and they would beat feet when everyone was asleep. They put on too many layers, couldn't run fast enough, and were caught. They were taken to a room where they were given a stern talking to and assumed they were going to get beat. His brother picked up a glass soda bottle (this was a long time ago), broke it, and pointed it at the dudes who were talking to them/going to beat them. He said, "You can beat us tomorrow, or you can beat us some other time but you are not going to beat us now!". They didn't get beat.

The dude I knew also was not well behaved at all. He was given hundreds and hundreds of demerit points for things like talking to the girls (who lived in a separate camp), cussing, and just general teenage BS. He bought a roll of these demerits into work one day so that I could see them (it looked like a drug dealer's roll), and they were exactly as described.

To put demerits into perspective, having over five or so demerits meant you couldn't use the phone, so there were no calls to and from home. Having over another number of demerits meant you couldn't go home for visits. He was WELL over both of these numbers.

On weekends when most everyone went home he was left there because of his demerits, and forced to do stupid things like digging holes and then filling them back in as a form of additional punishment. He was also, at times, forced to carry buckets of sand around campus as another form of punishment.

He would regale us with stories like these all the time with a certain form of sick fondness.

Thanks for sharing. I had a very close friend in highschool who was sent to one of these. He never talked about his time there except for telling me about some of the things he learned for surviving in the wilderness.

He overdosed when I was in college. I never considered they might be linked until I read this. In one of the chapters from the link I posted the author mentions that suicide and overdoses are incredibly common for people who went to this school. I hope that my friend's experience was nowhere near as horrific as what is described here, but it seems like they must at least be tied somewhat.


In another chapter the author discusses how people dealt with the experience years later. I'm not entirely sure what you meant by "a certain form of sick fondness", if it was a fondness towards his rebelliousness, or towards the school's punishment, but it seems in line with what a lot of people experienced afterwards.

List of inventors killed by their own invention

morbidly enjoyable

Bit more morbidness - Body farms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_G%C3%B6ring

Hermann Gorring's younger brother.

The excellent podcast Criminal did a segment several years ago on a body farm in Texas.

https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-6...-in-the-world/

Foo Fighter (WW2 UAP)

I'm not an alien guy but (and yeah I hate using that opening to a sentence lol) this seems pretty similar to the orbs being reported by some military pilots today, though this would be a super strange way for ETs to behave.

Strange to you, how would you even begin to evaluate the motivations of an alien being?

Isdal Woman

In a village near Gloucester, there is an annual competition in which competitors race 200 meters down a steep and bumpy hill chasing a wheel of Double Gloucester cheese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper...lling_and_Wake

This was on a Netflix series - We Are The Champions. It's insane.

Thanks. I'll definitely check that out.

It's a bit hit-or-miss, but the cheese one was great. I also loved the chili eating contest one.

Those were the two best. The hair one was just weird.

I don't recall hearing about this at all when it happened: FedEx Flight 705

What a ridiculous read, thanks for sharing.