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Hitler and his birthplace, Austria, were broadcast on video boards as part of a pregame quiz. | |
Submitted at 10-22-2023, 10:06 PM by Wreckard | |
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A half hour into the march, as the crowd walked south on Pearl Ave, a white GMC Sierra 2500 pickup truck sporting multiple right-wing flags—including the Gadsden—suddenly pulled into the intersection of E. 8th Ave. and Pearl St., blocking the march. As the march approached, a tire was a reportedly slashed, and the driver, wearing a Guy Fawkes-type mask, pulled a handgun as he exited the truck. He quickly turned to the rear and began firing several shots that sounded like compressed-air. | |
Submitted at 10-22-2023, 08:56 PM by Mordant | |
The former vice president has gone all out to win Iowa. But is anyone listening? | |
Submitted at 10-22-2023, 04:57 PM by Mordant | |
Submitted at 10-22-2023, 04:56 PM by Mordant | |
Submitted at 10-21-2023, 06:10 PM by Nibbles | |
Submitted at 10-21-2023, 06:09 PM by Nibbles | |
A Texas man with a past conviction for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon has been identified as a leader in the white nationalist Patriot Front group, a Hatewatch investigation has revealed. | |
Submitted at 10-21-2023, 01:48 PM by Dreaded Candiru | |
Sadly, this magnificent tree is deteriorating, leaving researchers concerned that Pando's days and all the forest life it supports are numbered. Human activities, including clearing and slaughtering predators that keep down herbivore numbers, eat away at this ancient being. | |
Submitted at 10-21-2023, 03:03 AM by Nibbles | |
Specifically, they were looking at synchronisation of neurons - whether neurons were oscillating in phase with each other - to figure out whether brain cells were linked or not.
They looked at two datasets: first they compared the connectivity patterns when participants were asleep and awake; and then they looked at the difference when five of the epileptic patients were having seizures, and when their brains were in a normal, 'alert' state.
In both situations, they saw the same trend - the participants' brains displayed higher entropy when in a fully conscious state. | |
Submitted at 10-21-2023, 03:01 AM by Nibbles | |
ALICANTE, Spain - A 50-year-old man from Lithuania was recently arrested in Spain after allegedly faking heart attacks at several restaurants in order to avoid paying the bill, according to multiple local news reports.
The man, who was identified only as Aidas J. but has become known locally as the "gastrojeta," has tried the scam at least 20 times over the past year at different restaurants near Alicante, according to the Spanish newspaper El País and Spain's EFE news agency.
Most recently, the man ordered a seafood paella and two whiskeys at the El Buen Comer restaurant-tapería in late September and had a bill of 34.85 euros (about $36.80 USD), the newspapers reported.
The man attempted to leave without paying, but restaurant staff stopped him and noted how he still needed to pay the bill, according to EFE, citing El Buen Comer manager Moisés Doménech.
The scammer became visibly upset and said he was going to get the money from his hotel room, EFE reported. When staff refused to let him leave without paying, the man dramatically threw himself on the ground and pretended to have a heart attack, according to the news outlet.
Not fooled, the staff called the police instead of an ambulance, and the man was recognized by local authorities, according to EFE.
The restaurateurs said the man doesn't speak Spanish well, although he does seem to understand it, El País reported.
The man’s image had reportedly been shared among many area restaurants to try and stop him from striking again, according to the local news outlets.
The Alicante National Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But a spokesperson told Insider that the man was, indeed, a repeat offender.
"He was arrested multiple times in the city of Alicante. The modus operandi was the same," the spokesperson told Insider.
The man refused to provide an address to authorities and was taken into custody, and the case was handed over to the local judiciary, Insider reported.
The police spokesperson added that they were aware of the man being sent to prison, though they didn't know how long for, or if he was now free, according to Insider. | |
Submitted at 10-21-2023, 12:08 AM by A Fistful Of Double Downs | |
Rep. Jim Jordan has been removed as the speaker nominee for Republicans after he lost a third vote of the House speaker's race on Friday. | |
Submitted at 10-20-2023, 07:04 PM by Mordant | |
Submitted at 10-20-2023, 05:43 PM by delicatessen | |
Hundreds of Native Americans were murdered for their oil in the 1920s. But they’re still battling the US government for what is theirs, says journalist and film-maker Greg Palast | |
Submitted at 10-20-2023, 03:31 PM by sleeppoor | |
From Leo's ‘Cattleman’s Crease’ to DeNiro's ‘Open Road,’ each character's hat has a deeper story to tell. | |
Submitted at 10-20-2023, 03:28 PM by sleeppoor | |
Say you are me (sorry about that) and you are minding your own business online, just trying to survive in a world of unrelenting horror when suddenly you are served an ad… | |
Submitted at 10-20-2023, 03:38 PM by Disruptive Emotional-Support Pig | |
She was the ultimate MAGA conspiracy theorist. Then she got charged with being part of a criminal conspiracy, and her tune started to change | |
Submitted at 10-20-2023, 01:50 AM by sleeppoor | |
Submitted at 10-19-2023, 08:58 PM by sleeppoor | |
Morale is low, and some staffers are preparing to formally express their opposition to President Joe Biden's approach, officials told HuffPost.
Two officials told HuffPost that diplomats are preparing what’s called a “dissent cable,” a document criticizing American policy that goes to the agency’s leaders through a protected internal channel.
Such cables are seen within the State Department as consequential statements of serious disagreement at key historical moments. The dissent channel was established amid deep internal conflict during the Vietnam War, and diplomats have since then used it to warn that the U.S. is making dangerous and self-defeating choices abroad.
The cable would come in the wake of Josh Paul, a veteran State Department official, announcing his resignation on Wednesday. After more than a decade of working on arms deals, he said, he could not morally support the U.S.’s moves to supply Israel’s war effort. | |
Submitted at 10-20-2023, 12:16 AM by sleeppoor | |
Marc Andreessen, a man worth nearly two billion dollars, a man who lives in a $177 million compound in Malibu, a man who has been on the board of Facebook and Hewlett-Packard and who likely hasn’t experienced a struggle in decades, wants you to believe he’s a victim.
His 5000-word screed — the “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” — is a sprawling list of grievances and demands from society, claiming that “the free markets are the most effective ways to organize a technological economy” and that “markets cause entrepreneurs to seek out high prices as a signal of opportunity to create new wealth by driving prices down based on supply and demand.”
This is Andreessen’s dream — a continual race to the bottom where the tech industry is incentivized not to solve problems, but to find ways to make already-solved problems cheaper to solve so that venture capitalists can make money. His ugly, spurious logic phrases his “solutions” as utopian, claiming that ‘markets are by far the most effective way to lift vast numbers of people out of poverty” without couching that with any citation or proof, other than the fact that “even in totalitarian regimes, an incremental lifting of the repressive boot…leads to rapidly rising incomes and standards of living…[and if you] take the boot off entirely, who knows how rich everyone can get.” | |
Submitted at 10-19-2023, 07:02 PM by sleeppoor | |
Jim Jordan, who earlier on Thursday indicated that he would pause speaker balloting and back the idea, now could reverse course and go to the floor again to further humiliate himself. | |
Submitted at 10-19-2023, 07:35 PM by Mordant | |

Hitler and his birthplace, Austria, were broadcast on video boards as part of a pregame quiz.
A half hour into the march, as the crowd walked south on Pearl Ave, a white GMC Sierra 2500 pickup truck sporting multiple right-wing flags—including the Gadsden—suddenly pulled into the intersection of E. 8th Ave. and Pearl St., blocking the march. As the march approached, a tire was a reportedly slashed, and the driver, wearing a Guy Fawkes-type mask, pulled a handgun as he exited the truck. He quickly turned to the rear and began firing several shots that sounded like compressed-air.
The former vice president has gone all out to win Iowa. But is anyone listening?
A Texas man with a past conviction for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon has been identified as a leader in the white nationalist Patriot Front group, a Hatewatch investigation has revealed.
Sadly, this magnificent tree is deteriorating, leaving researchers concerned that Pando's days and all the forest life it supports are numbered. Human activities, including clearing and slaughtering predators that keep down herbivore numbers, eat away at this ancient being.
Specifically, they were looking at synchronisation of neurons - whether neurons were oscillating in phase with each other - to figure out whether brain cells were linked or not.
They looked at two datasets: first they compared the connectivity patterns when participants were asleep and awake; and then they looked at the difference when five of the epileptic patients were having seizures, and when their brains were in a normal, 'alert' state.
In both situations, they saw the same trend - the participants' brains displayed higher entropy when in a fully conscious state.
ALICANTE, Spain - A 50-year-old man from Lithuania was recently arrested in Spain after allegedly faking heart attacks at several restaurants in order to avoid paying the bill, according to multiple local news reports.
The man, who was identified only as Aidas J. but has become known locally as the "gastrojeta," has tried the scam at least 20 times over the past year at different restaurants near Alicante, according to the Spanish newspaper El País and Spain's EFE news agency.
Most recently, the man ordered a seafood paella and two whiskeys at the El Buen Comer restaurant-tapería in late September and had a bill of 34.85 euros (about $36.80 USD), the newspapers reported.
The man attempted to leave without paying, but restaurant staff stopped him and noted how he still needed to pay the bill, according to EFE, citing El Buen Comer manager Moisés Doménech.
The scammer became visibly upset and said he was going to get the money from his hotel room, EFE reported. When staff refused to let him leave without paying, the man dramatically threw himself on the ground and pretended to have a heart attack, according to the news outlet.
Not fooled, the staff called the police instead of an ambulance, and the man was recognized by local authorities, according to EFE.
The restaurateurs said the man doesn't speak Spanish well, although he does seem to understand it, El País reported.
The man’s image had reportedly been shared among many area restaurants to try and stop him from striking again, according to the local news outlets.
The Alicante National Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But a spokesperson told Insider that the man was, indeed, a repeat offender.
"He was arrested multiple times in the city of Alicante. The modus operandi was the same," the spokesperson told Insider.
The man refused to provide an address to authorities and was taken into custody, and the case was handed over to the local judiciary, Insider reported.
The police spokesperson added that they were aware of the man being sent to prison, though they didn't know how long for, or if he was now free, according to Insider.
Rep. Jim Jordan has been removed as the speaker nominee for Republicans after he lost a third vote of the House speaker's race on Friday.
Hundreds of Native Americans were murdered for their oil in the 1920s. But they’re still battling the US government for what is theirs, says journalist and film-maker Greg Palast
From Leo's ‘Cattleman’s Crease’ to DeNiro's ‘Open Road,’ each character's hat has a deeper story to tell.
Say you are me (sorry about that) and you are minding your own business online, just trying to survive in a world of unrelenting horror when suddenly you are served an ad…
She was the ultimate MAGA conspiracy theorist. Then she got charged with being part of a criminal conspiracy, and her tune started to change
Morale is low, and some staffers are preparing to formally express their opposition to President Joe Biden's approach, officials told HuffPost.
Two officials told HuffPost that diplomats are preparing what’s called a “dissent cable,” a document criticizing American policy that goes to the agency’s leaders through a protected internal channel.
Such cables are seen within the State Department as consequential statements of serious disagreement at key historical moments. The dissent channel was established amid deep internal conflict during the Vietnam War, and diplomats have since then used it to warn that the U.S. is making dangerous and self-defeating choices abroad.
The cable would come in the wake of Josh Paul, a veteran State Department official, announcing his resignation on Wednesday. After more than a decade of working on arms deals, he said, he could not morally support the U.S.’s moves to supply Israel’s war effort.
Marc Andreessen, a man worth nearly two billion dollars, a man who lives in a $177 million compound in Malibu, a man who has been on the board of Facebook and Hewlett-Packard and who likely hasn’t experienced a struggle in decades, wants you to believe he’s a victim.
His 5000-word screed — the “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” — is a sprawling list of grievances and demands from society, claiming that “the free markets are the most effective ways to organize a technological economy” and that “markets cause entrepreneurs to seek out high prices as a signal of opportunity to create new wealth by driving prices down based on supply and demand.”
This is Andreessen’s dream — a continual race to the bottom where the tech industry is incentivized not to solve problems, but to find ways to make already-solved problems cheaper to solve so that venture capitalists can make money. His ugly, spurious logic phrases his “solutions” as utopian, claiming that ‘markets are by far the most effective way to lift vast numbers of people out of poverty” without couching that with any citation or proof, other than the fact that “even in totalitarian regimes, an incremental lifting of the repressive boot…leads to rapidly rising incomes and standards of living…[and if you] take the boot off entirely, who knows how rich everyone can get.”
Jim Jordan, who earlier on Thursday indicated that he would pause speaker balloting and back the idea, now could reverse course and go to the floor again to further humiliate himself.