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La mort, le curé, la femme et la vache. Chronique d’une recherche au village

https://books.openedition.org/iheid/3183

Climate change potentially caused by catastrophic comet impacts.

A man cannot get pregnant. A man has no womb or eggs

That got a Spanish politician (Francisco José Contreras) banned.

I'm sure it's connected, but not because of the bots.

Millions of political moderates are stopping by to see what happens when a large-scale public forum begins to tolerate freedom of speech.

Twitter added 1.6M daily active users this past week, another all-time high

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594865247323660290

"Frankly, the economic picture ahead is dire"

"An increasingly competitive world"

I think it's 1.2B/annum, not 12B.

The first one is based on a Bruce Lee quote :)

Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup; it becomes the cup. You put it into a teapot; it becomes the teapot. You put water into a bottle; it becomes the bottle. Now water can flow, or it can crash! Be water, my friend.

Definitely in the living room.

Tools like the command line and exercise equipment help improve capability and personal agency. Hiding either away pushes the default toward passive consumption.

I know this is a derailment, but

"[Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction." -Christopher Hitchens [0]

In 2013, in a comprehensive review[8] covering 96% of the literature on Mother Teresa, a group of Université de Montréal academics reinforced [criticism of medical care], detailing, among other issues, the missionary's practice of "caring for the sick by glorifying their suffering instead of relieving it, ... her questionable political contacts, her suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce". Questioning the Vatican's motivations for ignoring the mass of criticism, the study concluded that Mother Teresa's "hallowed image – which does not stand up to analysis of the facts – was constructed, and that her beatification was orchestrated by an effective media relations campaign" engineered by BBC journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, who shared her anti-abortion views. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa#Criticism

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa#Qua...

There is a theory[0] that a series of impact events ~12,000 years ago melted the North American ice sheets over the course of a few days.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesi...

Why the antagonism?

Care to share any of the stories? I think you'll find a receptive audience :)

Christopher Nolan based the screenplay for Memento (which he directed, as well) on a short story[1], Memento Mori, written by his brother Jonathan.

[1] https://www.londonscreenwritersfestival.com/assets/Memento-S...