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  • ...really says it all huh

    No it doesn't. It doesn't say it all. All it says is that the author is addicted to the infotainment algorithms and fancies himself to understand EVERYTHING... and it's all bleak, all cynicism.

  • Mexican Mayor Decapitated 6 Days After Taking Office, Head Found On Truck
  • From the state of Guerrero, which begins about an hour south of Mexico City on the road to Acapulco.

    This place is known as Tierra Caliente or "Hot Land", which refers not just to the relentless muggy weather, but also to the local... explosive temperament. This is the land where for decades or actually even centuries, we hear of people getting shot or still to this day getting hacked to death with machetes in rural brawls and vendettas.

    This is a land where city folk drive past while tensely gripping the steering wheel with pedal to the metal, where it seems nearly everyone knew of somebody who was assaulted after parking by the side of the road because of a flat tire, engine overheating, or to answer nature's call behind bushes.

    Nowadays - I believe since the 1990s - there is a wide and fast toll road, so most travelers can avoid the perilous situations that came with the older, narrower, winding roads.

    The current narco environment is just a contemporary layer to a blunt bloodlust that seems to have always been there, like crabs in a goddamned bucket, a place of corruption, brutality and misery where any potential tide that tries to lift all boats is resisted with violence.

  • French man tries Coca-Cola for the first time, 1950
  • Mabe it's me, but I don't see disgust like I've previously read about in the "history" between La France et Coca-Cola, I see a curious surprise with a mild shock of the utterly unexpected.
    Imagine the flavor of Coca-Cola being that alien in your life.

  • 3/4! Do I win a prize?
  • AACK! Phoo! FOOH! The batshit crystal meth tweaker witch! And I'm not saying that just because I'm a dyed-in-the-wool... what was it again...? entropist...? philanthropist...? extropianist...? entomologist...?

    EDIT: Altruist!

  • Imagine modern tech could resurrect old movie stars, which movie remake would you like to see them in?

    For example, Humphrey Bogart as Indiana Jones in Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Or say Gregory Peck in Saving Private Ryan. Or how about James Dean as Luke Skywalker!

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    Regarding the Fine Structure Constant in the spectral emission lines of a hydrogen atom, does the narrow gap/black line represent 1 out of 137 slices or possible steps of something?

    In the color lines of a spectrograph and what seems to be an area with a certain color, zooming in shows that this color is delicately split in half by a black vertical hairline, on one side it's the emission of photons of color by a hydrogen atom with a spin up electron, on the other it seems to be the same color but it's a spin down electron.

    Whenever I hear that gap mentioned, 1/137 is invoked, but I'm not sure precisely what that means, and I'm visualizing that the color of the spectral emission can be divided or deconstructed into a total of 137 vertical lines, and the one in the middle is black.

    Maybe it represents 1/137 of a photon's wavelength at a certain color?

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    Does anyone else see an alleged old painting or black-and-white photo you've never seen before, are unsure if it's legit or a recent fake created with AI?

    For example, places like HistoryPorn have some bizarre pictures of weird inventions or WWII experimental weapons.

    How come I'm only just now coming across them? Why didn't we see them five or ten years ago, even in specialized forums and subreddits?

    Places like ArtPorn or TraditionalArt are a trickier proposition. Here my lack of knowledge is vast, but I've really loved the history of painting for over two decades now, and have recently kept coming across a lot of 18th-to-20th century paintings and painters I've never heard of before; some of these are excellent, I should have known about them... I think. But like I say, there's more that I don't know than what I do. If they are real and not recent AI creations, where are the original and who is digitizing and/or publishing so many of them all of a sudden in the past year?

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