It's not funny cause it's true, it's funny cause it's real

https://twitter.com/718Tv/status/1834356424186515775

>Henley
When Elmer Wayne Henley was fourteen years old, he was approached by a candy factory worker named Dean Allen Corll. Corll had an interesting business proposition: he'd give Elmer two hundred dollars for every boy Elmer brought over to Corll's home

I checked out r/DeadBedrooms and the first post I found was a guy not knowing how to take getting called an incel by his wife

Let's check this delightful corner of the worst website on the Internet >I sort of expected it to be like the movies
Haha, man

Match Group controls 80% of more of the dating app ecosystem, which includes Tinder, Hinge, and OkCupid

They have been hemorrhaging money for a year now, and only pulled a little over $3 billion last year

For reference, Facebook is worth over $1.3 trillion right now They are broke, and just $4 billion will buy a controlling stake in them

But I wouldn't recommend that. The truth is dating apps can’t be scaled further. They’re dead end

Author of Meditations. Philosopher, last Roman Emperor of Pax Romana

Marcus Aurelius: a thread

https://twitter.com/718Tv/status/1838679091404214566

Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, born in Rome AD 121, the date of his birth being variously stated as the 6th, 21st and 26th of April. His original name was Marcus Annius Verus

His mother Domitia Calvilla (or Lucilla) was a lady of consular rank, and the family of his

The mayor of Springfield, Ohio is making millions by replacing a third of the population of his town with Haitian immigrants

Let's take a look at such an impressive abuse of power and bag chasing:

https://twitter.com/718Tv/status/1734234081917915373

Rob Rue owns Littleton & Rue INC. Littleton & Rue INC owns Littleton Properties of Springfield LLC which owns many rental properties in Springfield, Ohio

archive.is/ZnInG

The rise in average age of parenthood is a far larger problem than people realize

One of those things that is well known in the scientific community but no one talks about it because

- the implications are uncomfortable
- it's not in anyone's political interest to talk about it This is a gross and oversimplified explanation, but here we go:

Older fathers result in all kinds of polygenic and autosomal dominant genetic disorders, and older women literally give birth to genetically older offspring

5G: a thread Studies on 5G health effects:
>severe depression
>anxiety
>insomnia
>skin disorders
>permanent DNA damage
>sperm damage and decrease
>infertility
>miscarriages
>mental disorders
>autoimmune disorders
>anhedonia
>cancer
>autism
>heart arrhythmia
>decreased muscle mass
>lethargy

Vaccines: a thread Everything in this thread is 100% verifiably true, and anyone that argues otherwise is either willfully ignorant, woefully misinformed, or has a malicious agenda

The impossibility of following atheism to its logical conclusion: a thread

https://twitter.com/17cShyteposter/status/1776192542796816723

Either the universe came from nothing or it is eternal, always existing in some form. The former is immediately discarded as an impossibility

https://x.com/17cShyteposter/status/1567095892251131906

Neall "Nellis" Ellis: defeated an African rebel army out of spite: a brief thread

>Born 1949 in South Africa
>Fights in Rhodesian Bush War
>Joins SA Army
>Learns to fly attack helicopters
>Masters the MI-24 HIND
>Apartheid ends
>Can't serve in SAAF anymore because white devil >Acquires a HIND of his own
>Becomes mercenary
>"Have gunship, will travel"
>Gatling-guns his way throughout the dark continent >Almost all African communists and anti-western groups put a price on his head
>Fights in the Congo War
>Year 2000
>Hired by Sierra Leone

The economy is a curious subject. It affects all of us, but hardly anyone wants to state the obvious

Culture war on both sides share this blind spot. It is avoided at all costs because it is a feature, not a bug

The coming American collapse: a thread A quick note:

Comparison to Rome is warranted and justified but depending on the context or example

America is actually more similar to the USSR than Rome. We are just as socialist as they were and its bankrupting us. A (giant) nail in the USSR's coffin was its subsidized rent

I'm not sure which upright hotep committed the origin story of Dr. Yakub to graphic novel format, but here it is

A thread: "Now what kinda life is that for a fucking child?" - Big L

This is a lot more compelling than I thought it would be

If zoomers and millennials are any indication, the segment of our population comprised of pre-adolescents up to and including age 14 - generation alpha - has been rapidly losing their predisposition for creativity and imagination

A perfect example of this are Legos. A thread: LEGO, a company teetering precariously on the premise that kids want to be creative, has been struggling with exactly that conundrum for decades. As recently as 1990, the standard box of LEGO bricks contained anywhere from 500 to 1000 pieces

Imagine your life's work overshadowed by the tail end of your digital footprint reminding everyone how much of a fucking goober you were for forever and a day

Let's take a look at some of Steve Albini's greatest hits:

https://twitter.com/718Tv/status/1480082895075266561

I hope retrospectives like this become a reoccuring thing in the 2020s

https://twitter.com/electricalWSOP/status/1436678483208556556

Her episode of The First 48 was pulled from the archives cause it was entered as state's evidence in her murder trial and was deemed too prejudicial to be publicly circulated until jury selection had taken place

Jodie Arias: a thread

https://twitter.com/Morbidful/status/1775146560919072905

Jodie Arias was a high school dropout who drifted around for a while, eventually ending up at her grandparents' house in Yreka, California working as a waitress while secretly harboring fantasies of becoming a photographer

How she ended up involved with a weird Mormon legal

Ratboy Genius is emblematic of so much that is wrong with the world: a thread

https://twitter.com/718Tv/status/1764375602885255216

Mr. Buttigeg has an unimpeachable resume. In 2000 he was named valedictorian of his class at St. Joseph's high school in the town he would later lead. He won first prize in an essay contest held in honor of John F. Kennedy's famously ghostwritten book - Profiles in Courage - by

>February 3, 2023
>train derails in East Palestine
>chemical spill affects air, water and everything else around
>Reporters arrested for trying to cover the story
>Fire chief got upset and frustrated over simple questions

One of the chemicals leaked was vinyl chloride: a thread From the WHO on vinyl chloride

1.7 Effects on humans Concentrations of VC in the region of 2590 mg/m3 (1000 ppm), which were not unusual prior to 1974, over periods ranging from 1 month to several years, have been reported to cause a specific pathological syndrome found in

>One year ago
>Train derails in East Palestine
>Chemical spill affects air, water & everything else around
>Reporters arrested for trying to cover the story
>Fire chief got upset and frustrated over simple questions

One of the chemicals leaked was vinyl chloride: a thread From the WHO on vinyl chloride

1.7 Effects on humans
Concentrations of VC in the region of 2590 mg/m3
(1000 ppm), which were not unusual prior to 1974, over periods ranging from 1 month to several years, have been reported to cause a specific pathological syndrome found in

Ordeals with hostages, a hijacker, a plane and a bomb rarely come out very well, or without someone coming out damaged or dead. One exception is the story of D.B. Cooper, the man who decided one day to hold a plane hostage and got away with it

A thread: Skyjackings were somewhat commonplace by 1972, but almost all of them were - to put it bluntly - Palestinians. Political in nature, they often occurred to demand release of a prisoner or to protest some middle east situation

>A first conversation about gender

This book is from a popular pediatrician's office in the Greater Toronto Area geared towards children 2 - 4

A thread: I love how the instructions for the parent are as dumbed down, naïve and ignorant as the contents of the book

Check out the homunculus in the lower right corner, that haircut is always synonymous with "bad ideas"

Canada's government-funded assisted suicide activity book: a thread

https://twitter.com/718Tv/status/1753146199094251828

The site you can read this on is interactive and the click will bring you the page. Will provide a link at the end