Today I Learned

Unwittingly had ‘sex’ with a child, realised it was a child, had ‘sex’ a second time.

I was reading how China had started to test unmanned trucks, and in researching found that Australia was already a decade ahead.

Today I learned about the existence of Glanzbilder in a post on !moomin@sopuli.xyz. I don’t think it’s ever been a thing in my country, but I might be wrong.

The Soviet system used psychiatry as a weapon by diagnosing political opponents as mentally ill in order to confine them as patients instead of trying them in court. Anyone who challenged the state such as dissidents, writers, would-be emigrants, religious believers, or human rights activists could be branded with fabricated disorders like sluggish schizophrenia. This turned normal political disagreement into supposed medical pathology and allowed the state to present dissent as insanity.

Mausolus (died 353/352 BCE) was a Persian satrap (governor), though virtually an independent ruler, of Caria, in southwestern Anatolia, from 377/376 to 353 BCE. He is best known from the name of his monumental tomb, the so-called Mausoleum—considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World—a word now used to designate any large and imposing burial structure.

I wonder if this pill would’ve made Dick larger or made him small.

The series was a hoax at the expense of its contestants, who were told they were being trained as cosmonauts at a Russian military base before undergoing a five-day trip into low Earth orbit. In reality, the entire series was filmed in Dore, and the contestants did not leave Earth.

Also available are turkey and gravy soda, fruitcake soda and mashed potato soda.

Article here

You are logged in as Jeffrey Epstein, jeevacation\@gmail.com. These are real emails released by Congress. Explore by name, contribute to the starred list, search, or visit a random page.

Mao Zedong, the longtime Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and the founder of the People’s Republic of China, was reported to have expressed his gratitude to the Japanese military and political figures who visited China in the 1950s and 1970s. Mao said that the Japanese invasion of China had united Chinese people and allowed the Chinese Communist Party to win the Chinese Civil War.

Did it in the court room, see footage from a movie here.

You can’t make this shit up. Here’s the channel if you’re curious

Strike participants, their families, and advocacy groups reported that the leaders and organizers of the strike were punished with solitary confinement, loss of communication privileges, and prison transfers.[4][5][6]

Video: https://lemmy.ml/post/39416509

Christmas creep was happening 100 years ago, thanks capitalism.

Parent-child relationships

I’m honestly not sure what to think about this, given previous attempts to target and downsize this office by Trump and Noem.

Dirigibles or airships are powered, steerable aircraft using lighter-than-air gas to get their lift. Rigid (or semi-rigid) airships have some kind of internal structure to make their shape. Blimps don’t.

Source: https://pro.morningconsult.com/trackers/donald-trump-approval-rating-by-state

On and off for over a decade, the Central Intelligence Agency conducted an audacious highly classified program to covertly manipulate Afghanistan’s lucrative poppy crop, blanketing Afghan farmers’ fields with specially modified seeds that germinated plants containing almost none of the chemicals that are refined into heroin, The Washington Post has learned.

Technically I’ve known about this for a while, since the first story broke back in September thanks to Chinese citizens who were brave enough to speak to the AP about the human rights abuses they had endured under the surveillance state.

My mind WAS NOT prepared for this at this hour. I literally referenced this movie a few hours ago, now this. Wtf.

Eugene Yuanzhi Wu (Chinese: 吳元之; pinyin: Wú Yuánzhī) is an American lawyer and politician who is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives, serving since 2013. Since January 2025, he has served as chair of the Democratic caucus. He was formerly a prosecutor for Harris County.

Film also claims that Adam Milstein funds Canary Mission

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N.B. This is a serious topic. Please stop spreading propaganda about acetaminophen being addictive or causing autism. Please read the study. The point of the study is not about acetaminophen. It is about social pain can hurt as much as physiological pain. Only people with trait of high level of forgiveness responded to acetaminophen. Acetaminophen will not work for you if you not a kind. forgiving person. No need to worry about acetaminophen if you have a weak trait. Kindness can be learned by not trolling

We truly live in a dystopian world.

Chung Sun-sin, the appointed head of the National Office of South Korea of Office of Investigation used his power and connections to protect his son who bullied his classmate daily for years. The victim almost chose to end his own life. Chung Sun-sin reversed the penalty against his son so that his son could get into the top South Korea university.

Cyber criminals purchase advertisements that appear within internet search results using a domain that is similar to an actual business or service. When a user searches for that business or service, these advertisements appear at the very top of search results with minimum distinction between an advertisement and an actual search result. These advertisements link to a webpage that looks identical to the impersonated business’s official webpage.

Local councils were banned from setting up their own municipal bus companies.

Foo Fighters - a name that’s synonymous around the world with heavy guitar anthems and the legend that is Dave Grohl. But why did Big Dave pick such an unusual name? What does “Foo Fighters” actually mean?

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When Sweden and Denmark built a connection between their countries, Sweden preferred a bridge, and Denmark preferred a tunnel, they each built their half and connected them in the middle with an artificial island. The Øresund Bridge is unique in the world.

From the Anti-Barney Humor Wikipedia article:

"kiss me, I'm so pretty"

And, what surprised me more, it’s on steam.

The actual form: https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf

That is, text-decoration-line:blink.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-eyed_fish

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towers_of_Bologna

Preschool lied to me: zebras make sounds!

I never realized that plants, especially their roots ‘breathe’ in oxygen to burn glucose and ‘breathe’ out CO2.

They use the small flash inside the DRM chip in the cartridge to store the telemetry, then the e-waste companies are paid by HP to read and send to the mothership the contents of the chips sent to recycle