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andros_rex

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  • 'Lost African tribe' set up home in Scots woodlands as locals left baffled

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  • There’s a group of people who are (rightly) concerned that black folks have been omitted from history, and have overcorrected to claiming that basically all important historical figures ever were black. Another comment in this thread mentioned the Black Israelites, but there’s also the Nation of Islam (nothing Yakub made could be good of course).

  • 'Lost African tribe' set up home in Scots woodlands as locals left baffled

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  • Sorry, was trying to avoid the daily fail and this seemed to have the funniest title. It does seem like a weird mini sex cult.

  • Youth as young as 12 see OnlyFans as an appealing alternative to traditional work, study finds

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  • “What if we combined the hellishness of the porn industry, with the hellishness of gig work?”

  • Youth as young as 12 see OnlyFans as an appealing alternative to traditional work, study finds

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  • Once I did an Amazon mechanical Turk thing where they were paying $1 for pictures of feet. For a “study” of course. My feet were rejected 🙃

  • FDA warns public not to eat possibly radioactive shrimp sold at Walmart

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  • What a bonus! I paid like $40 each for my uranium and trinitite samples a few years back!

  • FDA warns public not to eat possibly radioactive shrimp sold at Walmart

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  • It’s one of the cheaper forms of protein. One of those frozen bags cost me $5 and I split it over two meals. The only cheaper option is chicken drumsticks or canned chicken and I’m sick of those.

  • GOP Oversight Member Suggests Smithsonian Hiding Bones of Giants

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  • Many people have extremely low literacy levels and have difficulties with media criticism. In the US, this is largely driven by the Right’s attack on education in response to Brown v Board of Ed - if black children get to go to school, they don’t want them to receive a good education. The higher echelons of the Right can afford to send their children to private schools anyway. Many schools in the US also spent the past decade not teaching phonics (using a “whole reading” model that was tested and proven to be ineffective in the 1970’s) and school English curriculums have deprioritized reading entire novels in favor of the passages that show up on standardized tests. Subjects like history and science have also gotten the shrift in favor of more time on math and reading in the decontextualized format they use on these tests.

    We live in an era of violent anti intellectualism. It is trivially easy to make shit up, and the internet provides a constant stream of slop. This was bad before AI, AI has accelerated it. And with a distrust in institutions and the idea of an “expert” in general - people will not believe anyone that goes against their pet ideas. It makes them feel smarter, that they know something that the experts don’t. Those latte drinking elitists think they know things, but I know better! There’s the double edged sword of they “know” that you can’t believe everything online, but what that ends up doing is allowing them to pick and choose what they believe. You can provide a Wikipedia article demonstrating that what they are claiming is a 1000 year old Incan carving is a modern art project, but they’ll just claim Wikipedia isn’t a valid source - while uncritically believing “Amazing Facts Channel.”

    It’s an attack on the idea of knowledge itself, the world of “alternative facts.” You can pick and choose what to believe - to live in a world of make believe where you are The Chosen One because you know all of these things that the “experts” are too dumb to see.

    It kind of reminds me of my ex husband, when I tried to explain how to solve quadratic equations to him. “But what if you could just take the square root of the whole thing and pretend x is that? Isn’t all of math made up anyway?” He had deep insecurities because he had been raised to believe he was a genius, and couldn’t stand being wrong about anything. He’d be furious when I looked up basic facts he was incorrect about because he would constantly belittle my intelligence.

    I don’t know if the problem is fixable. Maybe if the internet dies, maybe if we lose Facebook and AI and everything else in some sort of Carrington event and have to go back to books. I don’t know.

  • Stephen Miller’s Wife Says Mayonnaise Is the Only Condiment He’ll Eat, ‘Period’

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  • He is getting cucked by Elon Musk, if that makes you feel better.

  • Green dildos are raining down on WNBA courts. Why? Crypto memecoins, of course.

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  • Another aspect to this is likely the union negotiations. The chuds on Facebook have made all sorts of disgusting comments about these women wanting better pay, and this kind of sexualized retaliation makes sense.

  • Stop Betting on Dildos Being Thrown at WNBA Games, You Fucking Creeps - Jezebel

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  • This is in retaliation for these women demanding more revenue sharing.

    It’s amazing, the same people who had melt downs about “protecting women’s sports” from trans women like Lia Thomas are the same people probably doing this shit. Certainly the same people making shitty comments on Facebook.

  • Ryan Walters Accidentally Screens Retro Nudie Flick for State School Board Members...

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  • Which is why it’s funny that he’s accusing them of having a political agenda. They are all arch conservatives!

  • Ryan Walters Accidentally Screens Retro Nudie Flick for State School Board Members...

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  • Ryan Walters Accidentally Screens Retro Nudie Flick for State School Board Members...

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  • Walters was really gunning for Department of Ed. Not as rich as McMahon though…

  • Florida's plan to replace migrant workers with children falls apart

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  • See also: the troubled teen industry. Ir parenting is too much work, you can send your kid to torture school.

  • [Non-News] An official US Government account posted this

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  • If you have ever thought about what you would do during Nazi Germany, it is whatever you are doing now.

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    Harry Potter creator and terrible fucking human says to commit sexual harassment on women

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  • Rereading Mists of Avalon after learning about what she did to her daughter - yikes.

    Considering that the ultimate arc of Mists is Morgana accepting that it was totally okay for her aunt to trick her into having sex/getting knocked up by her brother, and her refusal to be happy about this is basically treated as a childish freak out which ultimately destroys Avalon’s connection to the real world/magic…

    As someone who had a big phase and read everything with her name + “Avalon” there is so much disturbing about children and sexuality in her writings. It’s not really possible to separate the art from the author.

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  • She’s made comments suggesting that she might have “fell for” the evil trans ideology if it had been around when she was younger. (Trans people were ofc invented in 2016).

    From a lot of my discussions with TERFs online - a lot of them do seem to be repressed transgender men. Lots of “I have dysphoria but I cope instead of mutilating my body!” It’s very sad.

  • Eight US states seek to outlaw chemtrails – even though they aren’t real

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  • Likely Oklahoma too - current GOP platform wants to outlaw 5G.

  • 'Baby shark, doo, doo.' Popular kids' song used to deter the homeless

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  • It’s great! If they ever pick me up for having the “wrong” maker on my drivers license, I’m sure that they’ll treat me with dignity and respect.