The More You Know ★
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- PhanLo2
- the vegans always telling people they are vegans.....capn_ron
- vegans are literally made out of meat. those hypocrites!sarahfailin
- ^LolPhanLo
- Bullshit, vegans didn't exist back in the 80s.Nairn
- Plus he’s married to Chelsea peretti so he’s sticking it to the white man at least 3 times a week lol_niko
- https://www.youtube.…Leigh
- @Nairn LOLKrassy
- api2
If Apple is telling you there is now way to recover all your iphone photos after your iphone fell into the toilet, turns out most of the time, its not true! They delete your posts if you tell others.
- Ramanisky22
LSD trips last a long time because a cell's serotonin receptor locks the LSD molecule into place by covering it, almost like a lid.
- sarahfailin0
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/…
The saying "best laid plans..." is continued, "of mice and men, often go askew" and comes from this poem "To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785" by a Scottish poet.
The original Scottish is really interesting to read and is mostly intelligible as English if you pronounce it aloud. And it's a really good poem!
Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a pannic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi' bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee,
Wi' murd'ring pattle!I'm truly sorry man's dominion,
Has broken nature's social union,
An' justifies that ill opinion,
Which makes thee startle
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,
An' fellow-mortal!I doubt na, whiles, but thou may thieve;
What then? poor beastie, thou maun live!
A daimen icker in a thrave
'S a sma' request;
I'll get a blessin wi' the lave,
An' never miss't!Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin!
It's silly wa's the win's are strewin!
An' naething, now, to big a new ane,
O' foggage green!
An' bleak December's winds ensuin,
Baith snell an' keen!Thou saw the fields laid bare an' waste,
An' weary winter comin fast,
An' cozie here, beneath the blast,
Thou thought to dwell-
Till crash! the cruel coulter past
Out thro' thy cell.Thy wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibble,
Has cost thee mony a weary nibble!
Now thou's turn'd out, for a' thy trouble,
But house or hald,
To thole the winter's sleety dribble,
An' cranreuch cauld!But, Mousie, thou art no thy-lane,
In proving foresight may be vain;
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!Still thou art blest, compar'd wi' me
The present only toucheth thee:
But, Och! I backward cast my e'e.
On prospects drear!
An' forward, tho' I canna see,
I guess an' fear![
- imbecile0
Today in History...
Monday, May 18, 1985
U.S.A. MOVE Philadelphia1985 : Philadelphia Police Department drop a bomb containing C-4 and Tovex from a helicopter onto MOVE's residence part of a row of tenements on Osage Avenue, the explosion started an uncontrolled fire and as a result, 53 houses burned and 240 people were left homeless.
John Africa, six other adults and four children, who were living in the MOVE Cult Home died in the resulting fire. Police were attempting to enforce outstanding arrest warrants for four members of the group by blowing up tactical bunkers constructed by MOVE on the roof and had evacuated people from their Osage Avenue homes in order to prepare for an operation against MOVE.
MOVE was a mostly black group whose members all adopted the surname Africa, advocated a 'back-to-nature' lifestyle and preached against technology.
- imbecile3
On May 17 1990, The WHO deleted homosexuality from its list of mental diseases. Precisely 14 years later, on May 17, 2004, the first same-sex marriages in the United States were performed as Massachusetts became the first state to legalize them.
- imbecile1
The Pac-Man video game turns 39 today. (22 May 1980)
- but when is capcom going to make a pac man live action movie?sarahfailin
- please noimbecile
- sted2
- imbecile-1
On this day in 1981, the Centers for Disease Control reported that five homosexuals in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they were the first recognized cases of what later became known as AIDS.
- Nairn1
The word 'Cannabis' is at least 2,500 years old, coming from the Greek 'κάνναβις', as used by Herodotus 400-odd years before Christ (particularly the 30-odd years Jesus was off in the East getting high and all spiritual and shit).
No doubt there's a shit-ton of words that old and more, but I just found the Greek 'κάνναβις' actually sort of readable, and a weird bridge across time for something so familiar.
- https://en.wikipedia…Nairn
- https://media3.giphy…Bluejam
- haha. shieeet. I haven't even smoked in .. well, too long now.Nairn
- a pipe a day keeps reality at bayBluejam
- hans_glib1
Forget Conservative leadership candidates; nobody throws a party like the inhabitants of the Pamir Mountains. The only problem is that we’re a couple of millennia late.
New evidence from this rural area of Xinjiang in China suggests that cannabis was being smoked 2,500 years ago, the earliest conclusive evidence of its use as a drug. THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, was detected in tombs in the 5th-century BC Jirzankal cemetery.
Instead of pipes or cigarettes, getting high in ancient Pamir involved introducing a hot stone to a brazier filled with the drug and inhaling the smoke. Ten of these braziers, along with four charred stones, were removed from the cemetery. All but one showed evidence of cannabinol, a by-product of the burning of THC.
Little is known about the origins of cannabis. One of the earliest mentions of this kind of smoking is found in Herodotus’s Histories from about 440BC, describing a similar ritual that “gives out such a vapour as no Grecian vapour-bath can exceed”.
Although evidence of hemp farming and cannabis oil predates the latest discovery, the new study, published in the journal Science Advances, offers “the earliest unequivocal evidence of the use of the plant as a drug”, its authors say.
It is suggested that high-THC cannabis was cultivated for its psychoactive effects and then burnt in burial rituals to communicate with spirits. It was even suggested that the skeletons in the tombs, marred with skull perforations, fatal cuts and broken bones, had been victims of ritualistic human sacrifice.
Also found were artefacts including silk from eastern China and plates, bowls and harps from Central Asia.
Robert Spengler, who led the study with Yimin Yang, described the mountainous region on the borders of modern China, Afghanistan and Tajikistan as “one of the main hubs of communication and exchange for the entire ancient world” and suggested that cannabis played a part in trade routes that would become the global Silk Road.
Dr Spengler said there had been a revolution in our understanding of the region’s history. “It is a really exciting time in central Asian archaeology because modern scientific methods are really exploding on to the scene,” he said.
- In other words, smoking weed predates all organized religions. They're not related facts but I like them together regardless.zarkonite
- Krassy3
- When an individual awakes from a deep sleep in preparation for getting up, their brainwave frequencies will increase through the different specific stages ofBeeswax
- brainwave activity. That is, they will increase from delta to theta and then to alpha and finally, when the alarm goes off, into beta. If that individual hitsBeeswax
- the snooze alarm button they will drop in frequency to a non-aroused state, or even into theta, or sometimes fall back to sleep in delta. During this awakeningBeeswax
- cycle it is possible for individuals to stay in the theta state for an extended period of say, five to 15 minutes--which would allow them to have a free flow ofBeeswax
- ideas about yesterday's events or to contemplate the activities of the forthcoming day. This time can be an extremely productive and can be a period ofBeeswax
- very meaningful and creative mental activity.Beeswax
- Bluejam2
- Hutchinson's Splendour of the heavens, 1923
https://archive.org/…Bluejam - amazing!utopian
- Hutchinson's Splendour of the heavens, 1923
- utopian3
- I hate to admit that I had no idea how these were made given how many of the fuckers I've bought over the decades.Nairn
- Watching this feels like that episode of the Simpsons where Bart goes to the box factorysarahfailin
- Thank you Tim Robbins!_niko