Fascinating story about a process called mapping: where IDF soldiers enter Palestinian homes without a search warrant and wake up children and photograph them and their parents. In the end none of this intelligence-gathering is used, indicating that this is just a ritual to let the Palestinians know who is in charge.
Let’s end “like” from the spoken word
The millennials are taking over, and infesting the spoken word with some of the worst verbal transgressions of the English language.
- Like
- It’s like
- I mean
- So…
- … right?
- You know
- I feel like
- Weird
- Uptalk
- Vocal fry
Add to the list below.
Making babies
At 33:00, Sophia postulates that harvested sperm and eggs are being combined in “black” labs to create undocumented humans (via surrogates or possible articifial womb technology).
I get into the riddle of A.I. or I.A. in this discussion with Mark Devlin, whom I have interviewed in the past (scroll down this page for links). Listen here and read the article I refer to here.
Source: Podcasts
White Christmas (Goat Edition)
Merry Xmas fakeologists!
Thanks – I think
While I am grateful that are borders are guarded from the barbarians at the gate (Americans?), I scratch my head and wonder if this “seizure” of “illegal” drugs is something to crow about – as if a cure for cancer was found.
Rook went on to point out how significant the drug seizure was: “I want to stress to you just how big it is. If this cocaine were street ready, it would have been enough for over 100,000 hits.”
The CBSA’s Kim R. Scoville praised the officers for keeping dangerous drugs from entering Canada, “Had this quantity of illicit narcotics made its way into our communities undetected, the impact could have been devastating. The CBSA is truly Canada’s first line of defence, and this record seizure is a prime example of how frontline officers are actively protecting Canadians every day.“
Source: Record-breaking $8 million worth of cocaine seized from semi at Canadian border | CDLLife
Of course, I’m not even sure if the story is true, but it makes you wonder if they saved all these “victims” from a certain euphoria – and perhaps destined for looking for hits from legal pharma sold out of peoples’ medicine chest excesses?
Where dollar stores begin
Fascinating look at where all our plastic bits come from.
Wither away West
Head pineapple apologizes for fruit machine
The end is near when this is what our “leader” is busy talking about.
This will cost you and me $100 million.
Ottawa also announced Monday that the government will earmark over $100 million to compensate LGBT civil servants whose careers were sidelined or ended because of their sexuality.
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Death by Derivatives • Damn Interesting
Options/futures – quite a history going back a long way. This site has a great audio option as well.
In April of 1873, an unhappy man walked along Clark Street in downtown Chicago. His name was Aymar de Belloy. There was a gun in his pocket, and a nickel – enough for one final glass of beer.
The cult of Salk
The father of inoculation is a Darwinian eugenicist who says man needs to replace Mother nature to engineer the population count.