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HopperUK posted:Instantly earwormed. Those Polish kids playing it on the guitar, amazing. It was big on YTMND for a while.
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Texas Monthly has an article about The Texas Chainsaw Massacre's creation that's pretty fun to read. I didn't know it was basically a cheap student film and almost nobody made money or found fame from it. Except Leatherface. https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/they-came-they-sawed/
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Lord Zedd-Repulsa posted:Texas Monthly has an article about The Texas Chainsaw Massacre's creation that's pretty fun to read. I didn't know it was basically a cheap student film and almost nobody made money or found fame from it. Except Leatherface. Teri McMinn, the actress who was impaled on the meat hook, was driving her Volkswagen bus from Austin to Houston when she and her girlfriend decided to pick up a hitchhiker. He turned out to be talkative and said he’d been to a drive-in the previous evening and that they “wouldn’t f—ing believe this movie I saw.” He then proceeded to tell the whole story of Chainsaw, until McMinn couldn’t wait any longer and said, “Do you recognize me?” “I thought he was going to have a coronary,” she says now, but it was the first time she realized the movie would have an actual life outside Austin. Owns
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Lord Zedd-Repulsa posted:Texas Monthly has an article about The Texas Chainsaw Massacre's creation that's pretty fun to read. I didn't know it was basically a cheap student film and almost nobody made money or found fame from it. Except Leatherface. Awesome, for some reason I've been watching a bunch of documentaries about some of the seminal horror movies so this is right up my alley. Even more so since Tobe just passed away.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/?utm_source=atltw New article from Ta-Nehisi Coates, and it's p good.
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All credit to the F1 thread. Deal a lot of weed and be a good racecar driver; get a life sentence because duh, someone is going to want to know where the money is coming from. https://www.si.com/longform/true-crime/randy-lanier-indycar-drug-smuggler/index.html Fo3 has a new favorite as of 14:21 on Sep 10, 2017 |
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The drug industry’s triumph over the DEA http://wapo.st/2gFjoSc A long and well researched article on how drug companies got the DEA to stop investigating their shady opiate shipments.
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if you ever wanted a look into the world of online mattress reviewing, then do I have the story for youquote:I called my editor and confessed that in a moment of weakness I had accepted a free mattress from an online mattress reviewer named Kenny, and that I wanted to write about this bizarre industry and its even more bizarre David-and-Goliath legal battle.
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fits posted:if you ever wanted a look into the world of online mattress reviewing, then do I have the story for you That was way more interesting than it had any right to be.
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Lord Zedd-Repulsa posted:Texas Monthly has an article about The Texas Chainsaw Massacre's creation that's pretty fun to read. I didn't know it was basically a cheap student film and almost nobody made money or found fame from it. Except Leatherface. This was a fantastic read, made even better when I saw at the end that it was written by John "Joe Bob Briggs" Bloom. fruit on the bottom posted:
Not emptyquoting this. Finally: I love fonts. If you love them too, here's a long post on why you should hate Mistral.
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:This was a fantastic read, made even better when I saw at the end that it was written by John "Joe Bob Briggs" Bloom.
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Here's a article about Judge William Alsup, who taught himself how to code QuickBASIC back in the 80s and is now presiding over the Oracle v. Google and Waymo v. Uber cases. https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/19/16503076/oracle-vs-google-judge-william-alsup-interview-waymo-uber
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fits posted:if you ever wanted a look into the world of online mattress reviewing, then do I have the story for you That’s an excellent read. I didn’t know how lucrative online mattress sales and reviews were so cutthroat. Thanks for sharing!
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This is the tale of a roboticist from Japan constantly pushing the notion of humanity and the Uncanny Valley as far as it can go; he dreams of coming out the other side with something indistinguishable from a human. Or maybe something just to have sex with? Or maybe chasing his own immortality? He has a lot of goals for himself. https://www.wired.com/2017/10/hiroshi-ishiguro-when-robots-act-just-like-humans/
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Lord Zedd-Repulsa posted:This is the tale of a roboticist from Japan constantly pushing the notion of humanity and the Uncanny Valley as far as it can go; he dreams of coming out the other side with something indistinguishable from a human. Or maybe something just to have sex with? Or maybe chasing his own immortality? He has a lot of goals for himself. I would have sex with the immortal robot so it got to grips with the crushing disappointment of existence
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I’d like to imagine that guy, sitting in his lab, feverishly trying to decide whether he should follow the advice of the little Japanese angel on his one shoulder - *creating an advancement like this would be an amazing achievement, imagine the possibilities* Or the little anime Japanese devil on the other shoulder saying - *do it so you can gently caress it and get richer than any human has before*
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An article about how messed up and weird Kids youtube is https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2 probably 
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IShallRiseAgain posted:An article about how messed up and weird Kids youtube is https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2 probably Welp I just binge watched a bunch of horror movies from the underrated spooky flicks thread but this might actually make me lose sleep.
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I still read a ton, I just don't get to it but once or twice a week right now between work and my health both sucking all my energy out like eternal mosquitos. So here's something political! https://www.wired.com/story/free-money-the-surprising-effects-of-a-basic-income-supplied-by-government/
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HOA vs. religion. Fight ! http://www.thefader.com/2017/07/12/sufism-reoriented-cheesecake-factory-california-sanctuary
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IShallRiseAgain posted:An article about how messed up and weird Kids youtube is https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2 probably Murray Mantoinette posted:Welp I just binge watched a bunch of horror movies from the underrated spooky flicks thread but this might actually make me lose sleep. This article gave me a minor freak-out because of a couple of embedded images that looked like ads, and I was wondering what the gently caress in my broswer history had caused them to pop up.
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A surprisingly interesting article about Sandwiches in Britain: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/24/how-the-sandwich-consumed-britain
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An excellent article about a feral child and their life after being found: http://www.tampabay.com/projects/girl-in-the-window/neglect-feral-child-ten-years-later/
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Desert Bus posted:An excellent article about a feral child and their life after being found: 
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Desert Bus posted:An excellent article about a feral child and their life after being found: I remember reading the original article and crying my eyes out. And I've read this and cried again. I have never been so heartbroken and angry. And uplifted at the people who still have not given up.
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I hadn't read the original story, so perhaps I was struck a bit differently by this article. It's got some horrific poo poo, but I found it to be overall an uplifting and hopeful story, in that she's safe, has people who love and care about her, and seems to be living the best possible life, given the circumstances.
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Azathoth posted:I hadn't read the original story, so perhaps I was struck a bit differently by this article. It's got some horrific poo poo, but I found it to be overall an uplifting and hopeful story, in that she's safe, has people who love and care about her, and seems to be living the best possible life, given the circumstances. Well, when I read the original I had the feeling of "well, at least she can start some semblance of a normal life" And then I read this and realize "No, she really can't because it was too late in her development to overcome 7 years of deprivation" But yes, ultimately she's safe and in an environment where people not only care for her but are equipped to do so.
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She will never live a normal life. The damage was too much too young. But she’s happy. She’s laughing. She’s being hugged and hugging back. It’s not a full life, but it’s something. Hopefully it’s enough. Plus her bed doesn’t have maggots now, and frankly that by itself is a just a major step up.
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Man, that was a tough read. At least other that the complete and total failure of her mother, it sounds like everybody involved did the right thing and she's getting the best life possible given the circumstances. To me though, the saddest part is the price her adoptive father had to pay to get her to this point. The guy really has a heart of gold and listening to him in that article, I could really feel, not regret, but I guess just a lot of sadness about what he has missed in his own life to make sure she got the best life she could. That's what really got to me, the guy deserves to be so much happier than I got the feeling he was.
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Wall Balls posted:http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/16535/confessions-of-a-c-2-greyhound-carrier-onboard-delivery-pilot Cross posting from the OSHA thread.
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Automatic Retard posted:Cross posting from the OSHA thread. I was just about to post this. I don't have much interest in the US Navy or aviation in general, but this was a really interesting and entertaining read.
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Desert Bus posted:I was just about to post this. I don't have much interest in the US Navy or aviation in general, but this was a really interesting and entertaining read. I've just spent the last couple of hours reading a few of the different articles on that site. Good stuff.
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Automatic Retard posted:I've just spent the last couple of hours reading a few of the different articles on that site. Good stuff. I didn't look around the site but you saying that made me go back and explore. Lots of stuff I don't care about but also a lot of neat articles. Thanks!
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long, but a good into weinstien's behind the scenes machinations to keep up with his systemic abuses https://twitter.com/jodikantor/status/938204161140654080
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Silvergun1000 posted:Man, that was a tough read. At least other that the complete and total failure of her mother, it sounds like everybody involved did the right thing and she's getting the best life possible given the circumstances. To me though, the saddest part is the price her adoptive father had to pay to get her to this point. The guy really has a heart of gold and listening to him in that article, I could really feel, not regret, but I guess just a lot of sadness about what he has missed in his own life to make sure she got the best life she could. That's what really got to me, the guy deserves to be so much happier than I got the feeling he was. Yeah, that poor guy poor everybody
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A guy loses his patience after a shady debt collector hounds him for money he doesn’t owe and threatens to rape his wife, sending him on a year long crusade to track down and expose a man who ultimately created over 7 million phantom debts and sold them for millions. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-06/millions-are-hounded-for-debt-they-don-t-owe-one-victim-fought-back-with-a-vengeance
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fruit on the bottom posted:A guy loses his patience after a shady debt collector hounds him for money he doesn’t owe and threatens to rape his wife, sending him on a year long crusade to track down and expose a man who ultimately created over 7 million phantom debts and sold them for millions. I enjoyed that immensely, but there is seriously no closure whatsoever. The article's ending is terrible.
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http://popbitch.com/2017/10/the-united-states-of-american-media-inc/ For an email newsletter popbitch put out some really good pieces on celebrity and the media
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Something a little different and more light-hearted: I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor
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8 Ball posted:http://popbitch.com/2017/10/the-united-states-of-american-media-inc/ Holy poo poo, James Elroy is nonfiction.
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