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Quote from: Samhain13 on Oct 16, 2019, 02:37:03 AM
I have been making fun of my uncle's bald head for most of my life, to think that I have been so close of being sent god's wrath bears during all this time. Feeling pretty alpha now.

Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 16, 2019, 03:05:57 AM
I once went to a UFO cult. I was even younger and naive. Of course it was pure nonsense and a waste of my time. But I was laughing my ass off during the meditation and mantras  ;D :D

Quote from: Kimarhi on Oct 16, 2019, 03:21:31 AM
When I was a kid in the summer back in the day, a long time ago we'd get dropped off at my great aunts to be babysit.  Well back then was the sega genesis era of games so we'd get bored and go outside and play.  Behind her house there was a sinkhole.  In that sinkhole somebody had tied together sticks and branches and tree limbs to make to elevated walkways and filled the bottom of the sinkhole with spears.  It looked pretty tribal.


But IT ALSO looked like the level in the first mortal kombat when you could knock people off into the spears. 


BUt anyways, I lived around weird people.  That is all.

Quote from: Baron Von Marlon on Oct 16, 2019, 03:28:28 AM
There's a centipede species that eats bats.

Quote from: Samhain13 on Oct 16, 2019, 02:37:03 AM
I have been making fun of my uncle's bald head for most of my life, to think that I have been so close of being sent god's wrath bears during all this time. Feeling pretty alpha now.

Guess it only counts if your uncle's a good Christian.

Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 16, 2019, 03:05:57 AM
I once went to a UFO cult. I was even younger and naive. Of course it was pure nonsense and a waste of my time. But I was laughing my ass off during the meditation and mantras  ;D :D

Cough! Confession topic. Cough, cough!

Quote from: Kimarhi on Oct 16, 2019, 03:21:31 AM
When I was a kid in the summer back in the day, a long time ago we'd get dropped off at my great aunts to be babysit.  Well back then was the sega genesis era of games so we'd get bored and go outside and play.  Behind her house there was a sinkhole.  In that sinkhole somebody had tied together sticks and branches and tree limbs to make to elevated walkways and filled the bottom of the sinkhole with spears.  It looked pretty tribal.


But IT ALSO looked like the level in the first mortal kombat when you could knock people off into the spears. 


BUt anyways, I lived around weird people.  That is all.

Cough! You too. Cough, cough!

Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 16, 2019, 04:31:54 AMI didn't do it with the intention of making a confection and no matter how cringe worthy is, at the end of the day it is random fact about me  :P

Quote from: Baron Von Marlon on Oct 16, 2019, 04:46:24 AM

Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 16, 2019, 04:31:54 AMI didn't do it with the intention of making a confection and no matter how cringe worthy is, at the end of the day it is random fact about me  :P

https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?topic=35313.6675

Quote from: Baron Von Marlon on Oct 16, 2019, 05:58:39 AM
Turns out I didn't read your very first post well, so my bad, the post is in the right topic.
But it might as well be in the others.

Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 16, 2019, 04:12:40 PM
There was an family spending years in isolation in await for the end times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-pHQPWt0Sw

Quote from: Baron Von Marlon on Oct 16, 2019, 06:34:39 PM

Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 16, 2019, 04:12:40 PM
There was an family spending years in isolation in await for the end times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-pHQPWt0Sw

I consider that news  ;D

How about making this topic about general knowledge? That way we all learn some trivia.

Quote from: GizmodoThis has gotten out of control. I know you all read that Reuters article, the one that stated that the Paris Zoological Park had acquired a "mysterious new organism" dubbed the "blob" in reference to a horror movie. And I know you all began to panic as you read that said blob "has no mouth, no stomach, no eyes, yet it can detect food and digest it," "has almost 720 sexes, can move without legs or wings and heals itself in two minutes if cut in half," and (in the words of Paris Museum of Natural History director Bruno David) "has no brain but is able to learn (...) and if you merge two blobs, the one that has learned will transmit its knowledge to the other."

Quote from: CNNThe Tasmanian tiger, a large striped carnivore, is believed to have gone extinct over 80 years ago -- but newly released Australian government documents show sightings have been reported as recently as two months ago.

Tasmania's Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (DPIPWE) recently released a document detailing eight reported sightings of the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, in the last three years.

Quote from: American HeritageDuring November of 1896 the United States experienced its first publicized UFO flap, and it is perhaps not surprising that it should have occurred in California. After all, Erich von Däniken would have us believe that the prehistoric petroglyphs in Inyo County represent interplanetary flight; Fray Geronimo Boscana, the missionary at San Juan Capistrano, described a "two-tailed comet" overhead in 1823; and in 1883 the scientist John J. Montgomery began his heavier-than-air experiments by putting a glider into the air over the sun-browned hills of Otay Mesa, south of San Diego.

All this, though, was pretty small change compared with the arrival of "The Great Airship."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGPxesCB8ns

Quote from: New York TimesWilly Hitler was born in 1911 in Liverpool, and in his early years occasionally sought to take advantage of his last name, in England, Germany and then America, where he moved in 1939. After World War II, though, he decided to change the name and moved from New York City out to Patchogue on Long Island. He raised four sons - Alexander, Louis, Howard and Brian - before he died in 1987 at age 76.

Quote from: KotakuThroughout the game, there are multiple references to "rebirthing," and "Newmaker." Players treating Petscop as an ARG have discovered that these are references to Candance Newmaker, a real person. Newmaker was adopted at five, but she was apparently a troubled child who allegedly killed pets. Seeking help for their rocky relationship, Newmaker's guardians tried something called "Attachment Therapy," which is supposed to help kids connect with their parents. The goal is to make a kid revert back to an infant's state of mind, which supposedly makes it easier for parents to control their children. None of this stuff is backed by actual science, however, which might explain why things went horribly for Newmaker.

https://youtu.be/rWSA__LvniY

Quote from: WiredA couple having sex metamorphoses into a crocodile. Fish eyes from some weird creature float on the surface of the sea, staring at me. A man is riding his own coffin. Text accompanies these surreal images, handwritten, seemingly ancient but totally unintelligible. I've just stepped into the bizarre universe of Codex Seraphinianus, the weirdest encyclopedia in the world.

Quote from: Baron Von Marlon on Oct 16, 2019, 09:05:59 PM
The first registered case of illegal drug trafficking from Mexico to the USA was in 1914 or 1915.
Meaning it's been going on for over 100 years.

Quote from: [cancerblack] on Nov 02, 2019, 07:24:21 AM

Quote from: Baron Von Marlon on Oct 16, 2019, 09:05:59 PM
The first registered case of illegal drug trafficking from Mexico to the USA was in 1914 or 1915.
Meaning it's been going on for over 100 years.

Based Mexicans helping Americans party for over a century.

Quote from: Vice"Chemistry wasn't nearly as advanced as it is now," said Linda Rayor, an entomologist at Cornell University who studies spider behavior. "Witt was into the idea that you could feed the blood of people on various drugs to spiders, and those spiders would build very drug-specific webs."

In addition to blood, Witt also gave spiders the urine of people with schizophrenia. There was a popular idea going around that schizophrenics had a hallucinogenic compound flowing through their veins.

Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Jan 18, 2020, 04:30:09 AM
Pelican spiders (Archaeidae (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeidae)), the only spiders with "neck" in the world  :laugh:

Quote from: The GuardianA Kansas man has asked an Iowa judge to let him engage in a sword fight with his ex-wife and her attorney in a trial by combat that will settle their ongoing legal dispute.

Quote from: Popular MechanicsOne of the truly remarkable characteristics of the giant squid is its brain, which is rather complex and strangely shaped. Smithsonian describes its brain as "shaped like a donut." And weirdly enough, its esophagus actually runs through that hole.

But here's the catch: While the brain is colossally complicated, it's actually pretty small as a share of the giant squid's full body mass. While a giant squid can weigh up to one ton, based on the carcasses that have washed ashore and the limited video evidence we've seen of the them, their brain only weighs about 100 grams, which is just over one-fifth of a pound. Still, that's the largest invertebrate brain on record.

Quote from: Baron Von Marlon on Jan 18, 2020, 06:55:25 PM
Is bio-mech born? Certainly something suitable for the new Alien flick  :laugh:

Scientists use stem cells from frogs to build first living robots

"These are entirely new lifeforms. They have never before existed on Earth," said Michael Levin, the director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. "They are living, programmable organisms."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/13/scientists-use-stem-cells-from-frogs-to-build-first-living-robots

Quote from: Bill Pullman via THR"My voice belongs to no one but me, and I'm not running for president — this year," Pullman told The Hollywood Reporter.

Quote from: THRPlastic adult Bane masks (not approved pandemic wear by medical officials) are sold out on a number of costume sites, including Costume.com, BuyCostumes.com and HalloweenCostumes.com. There are still plastic masks available on Amazon. The U.S. military (having some fun) even noted that Bane masks were not an acceptable face covering during the pandemic.

Quote from: KotakuThe game was found in an Early Iron Age grave cairn at Ytre Fosse, in Western Norway, and is thought to have been both inspired by the Roman game Ludus latrunculorum, while also serving as a predecessor of a more famous Viking age game Hnefatafl.

Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on May 20, 2020, 03:12:45 AM

Quote from: THRPlastic adult Bane masks (not approved pandemic wear by medical officials) are sold out on a number of costume sites, including Costume.com, BuyCostumes.com and HalloweenCostumes.com. There are still plastic masks available on Amazon. The U.S. military (having some fun) even noted that Bane masks were not an acceptable face covering during the pandemic.

https://twitter.com/THR/status/1262926543006961665

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on May 25, 2020, 09:09:07 PM

Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on May 20, 2020, 03:12:45 AM

Quote from: THRPlastic adult Bane masks (not approved pandemic wear by medical officials) are sold out on a number of costume sites, including Costume.com, BuyCostumes.com and HalloweenCostumes.com. There are still plastic masks available on Amazon. The U.S. military (having some fun) even noted that Bane masks were not an acceptable face covering during the pandemic.

https://twitter.com/THR/status/1262926543006961665

How 'bout the Immortan Jonesy Joe masks? Selling well and CDC/WHO approved?

Quote from: The VergeToday, President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order that would give the government huge new powers over the internet. As reported yesterday by The Washington Post, Trump will order the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission to roll back the liability protections enjoyed by tech companies under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. It's a hugely ambitious proposal, arguably the biggest single attempt to regulate internet platforms, and for better or worse, it signals the beginning of an all-out war between Trump and any platform that tries to fact-check him.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on May 27, 2020, 05:04:45 PM
Even if it isn't virus-proof, I think people will definitely "social distance" when they see you walking around in a mask like that.  ;D

Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on May 28, 2020, 05:26:03 PM
Today, President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order that would give the government huge new powers over the internet. As reported yesterday by The Washington Post, Trump will order the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission to roll back the liability protections enjoyed by tech companies under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. It's a hugely ambitious proposal, arguably the biggest single attempt to regulate internet platforms, and for better or worse, it signals the beginning of an all-out war between Trump and any platform that tries to fact-check him.

Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Jun 04, 2020, 01:39:52 AM
I hate to admit it, but I think you both are right. For once Mr. Trump is going to do the world a favor. I can't believe I said that. Now, if you excuse me....

https://i.imgur.com/QTbryAY.gif

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TPO_3QcirE

Quote from: ReutersFacebook will no longer recommend such groups to members of similar associations, a spokeswoman for the world's largest social media network said.

Quote from: GizmodoThe real Space Force may be going down in flames against the fictional Space Force: According to the Hollywood Reporter, the newly founded military branch appears to be losing a trademark battle with the Netflix comedy show of the same name.

Netflix "has outmaneuvered the U.S. government to secure trademark rights to 'Space Force' in Europe, Australia, Mexico and elsewhere," according to the Reporter, while the Air Force—under which the Space Force is organized—simply has a pending application stateside. This mostly has ramifications for merch. Consumers won't have trouble discerning between the military branch and Space Force when it comes to which one stars Steve Carrell, but they might not be able who is selling a line of Space Force shirts.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Jun 10, 2020, 04:33:32 PM
Netflix better beware, Trump will be coming for them next after he finishes killing off Facebook and Twitter.

Quote from: GizmodoThe object appeared shortly before 1:00 a.m. local time, with witness accounts reported from the Pilbara region of Western Australia, Northern Territory, and South Australia, reports ABC News. The nature of the object has yet to be confirmed, but experts suspect it was a natural occurrence.

Quote from: News24A giant squid was found stranded, but still alive and spouting ink, on Britannia Bay Beach in St Helena Bay, Western Cape, on Sunday morning.

Quote from: Space.comLater this year, if all goes well, the International Space Station will receive a very important delivery: a new and improved toilet system.

Quote from: BBCFacebook says it has removed adverts for US President Donald Trump's re-election campaign that featured a symbol used in Nazi Germany.

Quote from: GizmodoA surprisingly large pit structure has been discovered around Durrington Walls Henge, which is less than 2 miles away from Stonehenge. Dated at 4,500 years old, it's the biggest prehistoric structure ever found in Britain.

Quote from: CNNLast week, Trump tweeted that "Almost One Million people requested tickets for the Saturday Night Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma!" and one local official said they expected 100,000 to show up near the arena. But on Saturday, registered attendees didn't fill Tulsa's Bank of Oklahoma Center arena, which admitted rallygoers on a first-come, first-serve basis, and the Trump team abandoned plans for the President to speak to an "overflow" area outside the arena.

Quote from: Live ScienceDebris from a comet may have leveled an ancient village in Syria during a spate of several such explosions occurring around the world, according to new research.

Quote from: GizmodoFacebook has finally said it would now prohibit the sale of all historical artifacts due to rampant black market trade in looted antiquitieson the site, per the New York Times—a problem the social media company has known about for years.

Quote from: GizmodoAn unusually powerful volcanic eruption in 43 BCE has been linked to political upheaval on the other side of the globe, including the fall of the Roman Republic and the Ptolemaic Kingdom.

Quote from: Kotaku"Face Depixelizer" is a tool Created by Alex Damian, Sachit Menon, and Denis Malimonov. It does exactly what you expect with a name like that. Users can upload a pixelated photo of a face and the tool spits out what that person might look like based on algorithms and all that stuff. In the wrong hands, this type of tech can be used to do some bad shit and will make it harder to hide in this world from police and other powerful and dangerous groups.

But it can also be used to create monsters out of old game characters. Look what this thing did to Mario, for example.

Quote from: SoraNews24While Halloween has been rapidly rising in popularity in Japan, it's only within the last 10 years or so that the spooky October celebration has really caught on. Traditionally, summer is the time for ghost stories in Japan, with many citing the "chilling" effect of being frightened as a pleasant relief during the hot and humid weather.

But with the coronavirus still lurking about, walk-through haunted houses present a public health problem this summer. So instead the team at haunted house design company Kowagarasetai has created what they say is the world's first drive-in haunted house.

Quote from: Brian Lacki via GizmodoAmong the various anomalies listed, Lacki said NGC 247 is among his favorites. This object is a relatively nearby spiral galaxy that appears to have a hole in one side of its disk, with fewer stars than normal. Now, an idea put forth in SETI is that some advanced aliens can hop from star to star within their host galaxy, and they build Dyson spheres around each star to harvest as much energy as possible.

"That's a giant shell or swarm that completely surrounds a sun, which would hide it from our view. So if we caught a galaxy midway through that process, or if they stopped before shrouding the entire galaxy, one expects to find a galaxy with a hole in it," Lacki told Gizmodo. "That's probably not what is going on with NGC 247—we expect the sunlight to heat the Dyson sphere until it glows in infrared light, and we don't see that from the 'hole' as far as I know."

Quote from: Daily SabahFormer England captain David Beckham is moving into the virtual world as co-owner of London-based start-up GuildEsports.

Guild said in a statement on Thursday that it will launch player academies and run teams in various esports arenas including Rocket League, EA Sports, FIFA and Fortnite.

"We have a vision to set a new standard, supporting these players into the future," said Beckham, who is also co-owner of Major League Soccer's Inter Miami.

Quote from: KotakuA strange new product appeared on Steam last week: a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator that translates the 2D pixel graphics of classic 8-bit games into 3D worlds built with voxels. It's called 3dSen, it has standard and standard+VR versions, and it lets you experience a select slice of the NES library from unusual new perspectives.

Quote from: SoraNewsJapanFor some, especially those in Asian countries like Japan where they've been wearing masks long before the pandemic, it simply makes sense to cover your mouth and nose when these are considered the primary routes of infection.

Quote from: TMzEwan McGregor and his ex-wife have finally reached the end of their divorce case ... and we've learned the actor is parting ways with half of his royalties from the 'Star Wars' prequels

Quote from: BBCYohanna Agurto thought she had come up with the perfect marketing for her honey, featuring a pun on the name of one of Hollywood's biggest stars: Miel (Spanish for honey) Gibson.

QuoteThe main findings of the research were:

• Psychiatric diagnoses all use different decision-making rules

• There is a huge amount of overlap in symptoms between diagnoses

• Almost all diagnoses mask the role of trauma and adverse events

• Diagnoses tell us little about the individual patient and what treatment they need

The authors conclude that diagnostic labelling represents 'a disingenuous categorical system'.

Quote from: KotakuThirteen-year-old Seira Watanabe is a huge Godzilla fan. She has an impressive collection of figures and does an excellent impression of the kaiju's roar. Recently, she wrote to Osaka television show Tantei! Knight Scoop, asking to go on a date with Godzilla.

Quote from: BBCThe cat then went unnoticed until plans were recently drawn up for a new path leading to an observation platform.

Quote from: Xeno Killer 2179 on Oct 17, 2020, 07:28:07 PM
Psychiatric diagnosis 'scientifically meaningless'

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190708131152.htm

QuoteThe main findings of the research were:

• Psychiatric diagnoses all use different decision-making rules

• There is a huge amount of overlap in symptoms between diagnoses

• Almost all diagnoses mask the role of trauma and adverse events

• Diagnoses tell us little about the individual patient and what treatment they need

The authors conclude that diagnostic labelling represents 'a disingenuous categorical system'.

Quote from: The GuardianA mysterious monolith has been discovered in a remote part of Utah, after being spotted by state employees counting sheep from a helicopter.

The structure, estimated at between 10ft and 12ft high (about 3 metres), appeared to be planted in the ground. It was made from some sort of metal, its shine in sharp contrast to the enormous red rocks which surrounded it.

Quote from: The GuardianA new mystery metal monolith has appeared atop a mountain in California, just a week after a similar structure captured the imagination of the world when it was discovered in the deserts of Utah – before being taken down and disappeared.

Quote from: Times of IsraelAdolf Hitler Uunona says his father, who named him, 'probably did not understand what Adolf Hitler stood for'; he assures his constituents he has no plans for world domination.

Quote from: via ComicBook"Aaron (Ryde, executive producer) he brought his bosses at Newmarket [Films] in to screen the movie and he invited Christopher Nolan and his wife Emma," Kelly said in the piece. "When the lights came up, Chris and his wife both turned to the Newmarket executives, Chris Ball and Will Tyrer, and they both looked over at them and they nodded. They were like, 'You guys should distribute this.' And they gave me some suggestions. Chris and his wife, it was their idea to put the parenthetical beneath the title cards"

Quote from: Kradan on Mar 30, 2022, 08:16:18 PM
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster)

Quote from: Ivan The Insect on Mar 30, 2022, 08:31:03 PM
Still the top news of my late teenage life... I was simply insufferable at school the day after this dropped.

https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-06/voodoo-wasp/

Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Mar 31, 2022, 01:15:36 AM

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Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 20, 2022, 02:30:13 AMhttps://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1580444460722577410

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Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Feb 12, 2023, 08:51:50 AMhttps://twitter.com/guardian/status/1624176778964004864

Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Apr 04, 2023, 08:19:17 PMhttps://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1642744103434690562

Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Aug 27, 2023, 04:34:05 PMhttps://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1694391606315504101

Quote from: Science AlertAn experimental philosopher from the University of Arizona has set up what he's calling the Millennium Camera: a device designed to take a single image of the Tucson, Arizona landscape over the course of a thousand years.

Quote from: BBCIt was brought to the Lower Moss Nature Reserve and Wildlife Hospital by a well-meaning rescuer last week.

On arrival they discovered the hoglet was in fact a "faux furry friend", a volunteer for the animal charity said.

Quote from: BBCCufflinks were commissioned by landowners in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, where the largest piece of space rock was found.

Because of its fragile composition, the segments of the 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite were preserved in a resin.

Lachlan Bond's mother had the gift made as a surprise. He said they were "absolutely gorgeous".

Quote from: Popular MechanicsThe U.S. Air Force is about to drop some serious coin on the future of air power. The service will spend almost $20 billion over five years to develop Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD), its secret new sixth-generation fighter jet and future replacement for the F-22 Raptor. NGAD will also be the first aircraft program conceived from the start as a combination of both manned and unmanned aircraft.

Quote from: Popular MechanicsHow would you react at the thought that the very chair you are sitting in is made up of tiny particles that harness some type of rudimentary experience? Actually, how would you feel if we told you that the potted flower next to your chair, as well as your brain and the four walls surrounding all of you—each and every one—possess an internal mental characteristic? What if the world around you was not an inanimate stage, upon which you, the owner of a soul, played the lead role, but was instead fully awake–just like you? Let's hear it from panpsychism, the theory that everything has a mind or a mind-like quality.