In 2015 a pair of orcas - Port & Starboard - arrived in Cape Town and began hunting local sharks, surgically targeting the liver. The great whites fled, causing a collapse in marine tourism, but it gets stranger.
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This is what happens when you mix paint under water
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My heuristic is to see if I can come up with a good context-free function name quickly.
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This is the best explanation of hard core D.R.Y I have heard in a long time.
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Imagine this applied via AR glasses to everyone you see in real life.
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I don't wanna be known as the tiktok filter guy, but ICYMI after attacking GenX w teenage filter, tiktok just dropped a new filter to take out Millennials & GenZ. "Beauty filters" are not new, but the precision on this is beyond uncanny. This is psychological warfare & pure evil.
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This is Leo, a 2 months old German shepherd. Sonali bought him for ₹20K to surprise her husband. But Gaurav was allergic to dogs. Sonali is now looking for a new home for him. If anyone is interested, Gaurav is 29 year old, drives a bike, can cook, has sharp features & is cool
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The MCC Cricket Committee to batters at the non-strikers’ end - don’t steal ground, and don’t expect a warning from the bowler
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Roald Dahl - 2001 authorized Puffin edition vs 2022 authorized Puffin edition.
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A two months old baby was rescued from the rubble in Turkey 128 hours after the earthquake.
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Two left handers taking India's lead past 100 another great moment for the pre-match narrative...
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Beware the Documentary Effect.
Here's an experiment you can do at home. Watch the documentary Leaving Neverland and you will be convinced Michael Jackson was guilty of child abuse, no doubt about it.
Then Google "Leaving Neverland debunked" and see what happens.
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Simple yet effective Finnish strategy for avoiding small talk
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Our AWARD-WINNING soundtrack for CHORUS made by & , sung by is now available FOR FREE on Steam!
Download it right here (in wav and mp3🎧)!
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I’m not sure where this is from, or I’d credit it, but this is exactly the process that occurs should you be foolhardy enough to become a reader.
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This guy in Half-Life 2 (known as "Manhack Matt") is the only person in the game capable of fighting with a metal pipe. This is because the pipe is actually a crowbar, which is hardcoded to use the pipe model when picked up by an npc_citizen with the name keyvalue "matt"
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What is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
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NZ spinner Shane Thomson v Sachin Tendulkar at Hamilton 1994 - A forgotten Contest.
Sachin hits 4,4,4 but then Thomson bowls a BOUNCER. Sachin, clearly surprised, tries to hook it but gets caught. A very good mini battle which the bowler won against the mighty Tendulkar.
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2 paintings, 2 moods, 1 artist
You know "The Scream" - an iconic painting where Edvard Munch captured his and the modern man's despair
But you don't know "The Sun" - a spiritual opposite of The Scream that pulsates with life-affirming energy
Painted as a celebration of life:
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Cricket! The only hope for the country.
Keep politics out of it. ♥️ 🇦🇫 ♥️
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When I first started getting successful in my 20s, I went through a period where I loaned money to anyone that asked me. Well into six figures went out — “emergency” expenses, start a business, make a down payment, etc. Most of the people just never spoke of it again, and \
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Argue with no one unless it's performative. Persuade if you must, but never argue. twitter.com/imodernman/sta
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Mathematics.
Two "parallel" closed smooth curves. Is it true that Length (α) = Length (β) + 2πr?
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r/Art is banning artists who have styles "too similar to AI generated art."
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What if your religion required you to be eaten by vultures after you died, but all the vultures suddenly disappeared?
A look at the twilight of contemporary Zoroastrianism and India's vulture crisis.
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In 2022 I learned hundreds of useful concepts that improved my understanding of the world.
Here are the 10 best:
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4. Anattā:
There's nothing constant about a person. Habits are picked up & dropped. Beliefs asserted & refuted. Dreams forged & shattered. Passions ignited & extinguished. The self is a work-in-progress being constantly rewritten.
And yet we’re all judged as if we’re final.
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A marriage function in guruvayoor temple today. The brides dad is Chendai master and the daughter plays it enthusiastically with her dad also joining at the end. The groom also seems to be participating.
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1. THREAD:
THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE
– By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy
– By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed
– By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*
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The Socotra Island in Yemen has long been a land of mystery. Described as ‘The Galapagos of the Middle East’ & ‘The Jewel of Arabia,’ the unspoiled alien-like landscape of the island has intrigued travelers & scientists for decades.
A thread on the enchanting Socotra Island…
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Fun fact: Wikipedia has 10 times as much money as it needs. Very little of that goes towards improving the encyclopedia itself, and NOTHING to the authors. Their panhandling is purely a grift for supporting the ever growing parasitic Wikimedia Foundation
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