Interesting articles thread

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Golden Sunset
Nationalist political party Golden Dawn is on trial in Greece for inciting fascist violence. Other countries with a dangerous far-right should be taking notes.
by Maria Stoian
Posted Yesterday

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Pagans demand return of church buildings 'stolen' 1,300 years ago

What's going on in England? Interesting.

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Science falling victim to 'crisis of narcissism'

The "but I don't think they're all narcissists!" at the end is not a very convincing rebuttal. It mostly just seems like a glimmer of hope that not literally all scientists are narcissists, which is good because everyone needs science in their life. Science does tend to attract many narcissists, especially trendy fields, but I think it's possibly even more telling that postmodernist philosophers, politicians, and others ape science out of narcissism, which is the well-known "science envy."

[Kalinoche the Child]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...50946714001901

''individuals with high numbers of autism traits showed less evidence of internet addiction if they also displayed high levels of anxiety. It is suggested that the presence of anxiety in these individuals alters the function that internet behavior serves, and makes internet addiction less likely.''

wowowowo

[Santa Claus]

awesomestufftobuy.com

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Believe it or not, ALL boys used to wear dresses and no one cared

Here's your reminder not to overthink life.

In Roman times, they thought that togas were the epitome of manliness and that Celtic men were effeminate for wearing trousers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braccae

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But now Celtic men wear skirts and it's all good, though you don't need the whole nine yards.

[Moonbeaux Rainfox]

In the Zone: A bio-behavioristic analysis of the flow experience

http://mezmer.blogspot.com/2005/04/in-zone-bio-behavioristic-analysis-of.html

[FreelancePoliceman]

Why does "Busytown" love Bernie?

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Why does "Busytown" love Bernie?

In fact, Bernie’s biggest donors by profession are teachers, nurses, farmers, truckers, servers, construction workers, and students.

If only "student" was a job.

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Responding to Missionaries and Cults On Campus and in Israel

16t is not a cult as much as I'm Jewish (I'm not Jewish.)

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Trump’s American nationalism

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Trump’s American nationalism

[Santa Claus]

Marie Kondo store to sell you expensive stuff to clutter your home: https://shop.konmari.com/collections/santa-commission-link

[Muddy]

How to defeat modern armored vehicles with house hold items:

https://thefifthcolumnnews.com/2015/05/tradecraft-how-to-disable-an-mrap-for-less-than-50/

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Chilean protesters take down a police drone with lasers!

[Moonbeaux Rainfox]

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-dark-side-of-oxytocin-much-more-than-just-a-love-hormone
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130722123206.htm
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/level-of-oxytocin-in-pregnant-women-predicts-mother-child-bond.html

https://www.mother.ly/parenting/how-does-oxytocin-impact-mother-child-bonding
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/what-happens-to-a-womans-brain-when-she-becomes-a-mother/384179/
https://parenting.nytimes.com/health/fatherhood-mens-bodies

To understand:
https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/11/9/1460/2223626
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01529/full

[Moonbeaux Rainfox]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2015-09-23/masculine-face-linked-to-testosterone-levels-in-womb/6795422

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100 Women: 'We can't teach girls of the future with books of the past'

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Sasha Baron Cohen: Facebook would have let Hitler buy anti-Semitic ads

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Sexism on the cover of Books in Canada?

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I accidentally found this looking for something unrelated. I haven't read it but @Armalite (@Viktor?)

https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_GCM2MFeJwfMC/page/n5

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George Eliot: The genius who scandalised society

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That Time a Woman Rode Aristotle Around Like a Horse

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Gender Fluid Jesus is For Real

Gender Fluid Jesus is my new band name (OK, I'm probably never making a band so feel free to use that if you are.)

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Death Mask of William Shakespeare

(...or is it? That is the question)

[Socionics Is Not A Cult]

That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent It

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SYLVIA PLATH’S HOLIDAY COOKING TIPS

This Thanksgiving, I am thankful for making fun of ridiculous Sylvia Plath poetry.

[Kalinoche the Child]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopia

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Without tenure, professors become terrified sheep

Big Corporate wants to destroy all our ideas for being monetarily worthless (not only in universities, but they have the most concentrated populations of idea-producers.)

[Kalinoche the Child]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubasute

[Adam Strange]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubasute

Ubasute may never have been widely practiced, but you have no idea how useful would be the fact that it could be.

When my son was little and was misbehaving, I told him that if he kept it up, his mother and I would give him back to the orphanage where we got him. He looked at me for a minute and left the room, probably to ask his mother what an orphanage was. I don't think he believed me at any point.

Damn, things were so much easier in the days of Dickens.

[Kalinoche the Child]

Ubasute may never have been widely practiced, but you have no idea how useful would be the fact that it could be.

useful in what regard and context?

[Adam Strange]

useful in what regard and context?

I know a female ESI who is married to a male ILI, and both are from India but are living in the States. Apparently, they live with his aging mother, who rules the household with an iron fist. I doubt if this arrangement would be easy for an ESI to deal with. She's already dealing with the ILI.

Sometimes, just the threat of being kicked out will moderate a person's behavior. You can't always count on people operating from the goodness of their hearts.

[Kalinoche the Child]

I know a female ESI who is married to a male ILI, and both are from India but are living in the States. Apparently, they live with his aging mother, who rules the household with an iron fist. I doubt if this arrangement would be easy for an ESI to deal with. She's already dealing with the ILI.

Sometimes, just the threat of being kicked out will moderate a person's behavior. You can't always count on people operating from the goodness of their hearts.

in your example, the mother is supposedly counting on the couple's goodness? could it be that they are just used to this kind of restriction and everyone may get what they need in this arrangement?

[Adam Strange]

in your example, the mother is supposedly counting on the couple's goodness? could it be that they are just used to this kind of restriction and everyone may get what they need in this arrangement?

No, not exactly, The daughter-in-law is counting on the mother-in-law to not be too domineering, since the mother-in-law holds all the power. The mother-in-law rules the home, not the ESI. The ESI just lives and works there for her husband, but isn't "in charge" of the house.

I don't know how well this works in their case.

[DarkAngelFireWolf69]

Sweden's 100 explosions this year: What's going on? - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50339977

[ashlesha]

So surprising!

"What researchers discovered was surprising: Those who are described as "agreeable, conscientious personalities" are more likely to follow orders and deliver electric shocks that they believe can harm innocent people, while "more contrarian, less agreeable personalities" are more likely to refuse to hurt others.

The study also found that people holding left-wing political views were less willing to hurt others. One particular group held steady and refused destructive orders: "women who had previously participated in rebellious political activism such as strikes or occupying a factory.""

https://www.mic.com/articles/92479/p...e-all-the-time

[Tallmo]

Sweden's 100 explosions this year: What's going on? - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50339977

I like this alternative media: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD2d9CSkWXxnj3fBhEj3Pyw

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IF YOU BURN A CHURCH, YOU’VE LEARNED NOTHING FROM BLACK METAL

While I don't know anyone who burns churches or is planning on it, this was a pretty hilarious article and also did a good job tying real news that only serious people pay attention to into obscure-ish metal.

But to blame black metal’s history for this would be foolhardy for one specific reason: the whole point of Norwegian black metal’s story is that the movement was taken too far. At the end, all of the heroes died, went to jail, or became racist folk artists.

The beauty of the second wave of black metal is that it came from somewhere deep, dark, and oppressively normal. It’s the sound of young people yearning for an uncomplicated world where they could be pure and extreme and powerful, and their lament that they would never reach it. That, coupled with the fact that the second wave was made up of isolated young dudes totally unequipped to express their emotions, resulted in all of the drama and violence within the scene. Burning a thousand-year-old church was these metalheads’ way of showing the world they could change it forever, and making it known how little their souls meant to them.