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Where's that tweet about how American chants are "let's go [team name] and some other country (Irish?) fans are "I've made up a song about the other team's drinking problem to the tune of London Bridge Is Falling Down one two three"?

luimnigh

ladydevoir

greenapplegirl90

Meagan Morris got sentenced to 50 years - for protesting at a concentration camp.

The judge said they were trying to discourage people with similar ideologies with these sentences. All I can say is that if genocidal tyrants are going to lock people up for 50 years because they fight against genocide, that doesn't mean we will stop fighting against genocide. It just means there's no reason to hold back.

generalissimo-kneedeepincynide

I have said it again and again and again. The moderate position will get you killed. The radical solution to people building concentration camps is long overdue

shamebats

The (European) sun is a deadly laser, stay safe everyone

unfuckablebogtroll

☝️🤓 it’s because the further you move toward the earth’s poles, the lower the angle of the sun is at the hottest parts of the day, meaning the radiation hits your whole body, causing it to feel 10-20 degrees warmer than the thermometer reading will tell you. People from tropical climes, aka close to the equator, are used to the sun’s radiation hitting a much smaller target- their head and shoulders.

Also the further you move toward the poles the more pronounced the difference between the length of day and night is. Worst part of a far-north (or south) heatwave is it doesn’t get dark long enough for meaningful cooling.

It’s not the heat. It very literally is the sun.

captain-price-returns

agarthanguide

Link to the article

We regret to inform you that the sunshine and friendship app is actually a children killing app.

jeffgerstmann

I have been telling people for years that the company behind Pokemon Go had no-shit, for-realsies ties to the CIA and people never really took it that seriously. Anyway.

closet-keys

Israel's attacks have been relentless since the eve of Eid al-Adha on Tuesday, May 26. Just yesterday the head of anesthesia at Al-Yafa Medical Hospital was killed in an attack that injured three others. Over 50% of hospitals in Gaza are nonfunctional. Even when Palestinians survive attacks, treatment is limited and medical bills are expensive.

kropotkindersurprise

1969 - A member of the Black Panther Party explains why the party iss opening a free medical clinic in Chicago, USA. [video]

sowhatifiliveinfukuoka

Monty Python's Flying Circus

S2E2 "The Spanish Inquisition" (1970)

The Semaphore Version Of Wuthering Heights

amateur-climber-pro-shitposter

Every year The Internet Archive hosts a competion to make art using newly public domain materials, and I've been losing my mind at this submission:

https://archive.org/details/555-milf-tar/

kosmogrl

gay-hrithik-roshan

charlesoberonn

Vatican City isn't a country. Fuck you.

It doesn't have a population or community. It has employees. It's basically just the Catholic Church's corporate headquarters.

If Vatican City is a country, then Google's Googleplex office is a country.

guysimhuman

And Europe isn’t a continent

charlesoberonn

Absolutely. Europe is a series of peninsulas on the western tip of Asia.

yyyyddmmsupremacy-deactivated20

technically, asia isn't a continent either. africa, europe and asia (or afroeurasia) are all one giant continent

charlesoberonn

Not since 17 November 1869.

yyyyddmmsupremacy-deactivated20

manmade canals aren't oceans by any stretch of the imagination

charlesoberonn

Tell that to the jellyfish.

sourcreammachine

afroeurasia briefly became a thing again in 2021

creampunkwizard

charlesoberonn

The boulder pushing punishment is iconic. But I think more people should know the reason Sisyphus was punished to begin with, which was for cheating death, twice.

The first time he cheated death, Sisyphus had just angered Zeus by revealing the location of the Asopid Aegina whom Zeus abducted. Which is super valid, fuck Zeus.

Sisyphus knew that Zeus would send the god of death Thanatos after him, so he prepared a trap and trapped Thanatos in the chains meant for him.

After that, nothing on Earth was able to die so long as Thanatos was in chains. Which meant no animals could be sacrificed to the gods. This angered the gods, who made Sisyphus' life so miserable with pain and illness that he would beg for death. And so he released Thanatos.

But then came the second time Sisyphus cheated death. As he was dying, he asked his wife to dump his naked corpse in the middle of the public square. Denied a proper burial, his soul ended up on the far side of the river Styx, unable to cross.

He complained to Hades and Persephone about how his wife disrespected him, and begged them to let him return briefly to the world of the living to scold her and make her bury him properly. They agreed, and Sisyphus returned to life. He then embraced his wife, and refused to return to the Underworld.

It's only when he finally died of old age that he was sent to Tartarus and punished with the boulder.

I don't remember where I've seen it, but I like the interpretation that Sisyphus doesn't have to push the boulder. He can choose to stay in Tartarus and rest. But he was promised that if he managed to push the boulder to the top of the mountain, he'll ascend to Elysium.

And Sisyphus, in his stubbornness and cleverness, refuses to give up on a challenge.

One must indeed imagine Sisyphus happy, planning and scheming about how he'll cheat the gods next.

beardedmrbean

Mother of the year right here

kvetchlandia

Nat Finkelstein Lou Reed, New York City 1966

"One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz." Lou Reed

notvoid

margbarcis

this video is genuinely incredible - the framing, the sunset, the single street light, the sound of traffic and cicadas in the background, the video of the sign capture imperfectly by (presumably) a phone camera. it’s a work of art and a perfect encapsulation of 21st century america