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  • Bogong moth

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    [image: 00545998-343a-4a1a-a8ab-6588f978a75b.webp] From the... this? Posted for comparison.
  • Midsummer

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    Time to send the elderly off the cliff and sacrifice some dumbass tourists to the gods for the coming harvest.
  • Yeti in popular culture

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  • Mission Accomplished speech

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    [image: e18e664a-efcc-4d7d-8a55-2c7bf0a94d50.png]
  • List of optical illusions

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    One of my favorites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilac_chaser
  • Baikonur Cosmodrome

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  • Willy Brandt

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    He's long dead? What's your deal?
  • GBU-57A/B MOP

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  • Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll

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    I've been to the Marshall islands for work and it's astounding to me that somebody took a look at that paradise and said "yeah, let's do that here..."
  • Ah, Mr Buttplug of AnarchyChess fame

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    It's definitely funny. I remember he blundered a piece a few years back and he realized it just cost him the game. He then put his head in his hands and then just leaned back his head as if he's just accepted it. Someone on YouTube then says, "when the computer realizes you lost and then switches to pleasure mode to cheer you up"
  • The article is oddly coy about *how* he allegedly cheated.

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  • Han shot first

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    Han shot.
  • Holocene extinction

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    Reality always hurts If we're facing that scenario, the focus shifts from prevention to managing the transition Preserve essential knowledge and culture: Create robust archives of human knowledge - scientific discoveries, technical know-how, literature, art, and cultural wisdom. Maintain critical infrastructure as long as possible: Focus on quality of life: If the timeline is inevitable, prioritize reducing suffering and maintaining dignity. This means ensuring access to medical care, food security, and emotional support for people during the collapse. Build sustainable communities: Establish smaller, more resilient communities that can function independently. Document everything: Prepare for gradual rather than sudden collapse: Most population collapses happen over decades or centuries, not overnight. Use that time to make the transition as humane as possible and to set up whatever foundation might enable recovery. The key is accepting the premise while still acting with purpose and compassion rather than despair.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
  • Spirolateral

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  • List of countries by ecological footprint

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    Yikes. Didnt know sweden was that bad. But given. This image is from 2018 data
  • Human Extinction

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  • Piet Mondrian

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    Mondrian's work had an enormous influence on 20th-century art, influencing not only the course of abstract painting and numerous major styles and art movements (e.g. Color Field painting, Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism), but also fields outside the domain of painting, such as design, architecture and fashion. Design historian Stephen Bayley said: "Mondrian has come to mean Modernism. His name and his work sum up the High Modernist ideal. I don't like the word 'iconic', so let's say that he's become totemic – a totem for everything Modernism set out to be."
  • Micrograph

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    Odd choice to have the second example a micrograph of a dog's rectum
  • Great Molasses Flood

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    Keep my ducking oatmeal out of your mouth
  • Chatbot

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