Jackie Chan lies about doing his own stunts. He uses stunt doubles way more than he admits to. He even fake outtakes to exaggerate his injury using footage done by his stunt doubles. : movies - "Basically, since 1983, all of the well known iconic stunts are done by his stunt doubles except for two. I know majority of the people here can't understand Mandarin, but the video shows clear footage and photos so it shouldn't be too hard to follow. The footage of interviews and pages from his books are basically him striaght up lying about stunts he didn't do and how he rarely use stunt doubles. Needless to say, after watching the video I lost all my respect to him. He's just not that good of a person. Cheated on his ex-wife, when he made his public apology he literally said "I made a mistake that all men in the world would make". (wtf? how are you gonna say all men are cheaters just because you're disloyal yourself?) Him sucking up to China throwing Hong Kong under the bus. I was willing to at least objectively look at his work and appreciate him as a master of his craft, but nope, it turns he's just a disloyal liar, taking other people's credit for his personal gain."
New psychology research indicates hatred toward collective entities inspires meaning in life - "Research published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology has revealed that hatred toward collective entities, such as institutions or groups – but not individuals – can bolster meaning in life.
This explains wokeness too
Over 50% of Singaporeans would forego luxury spending to build wealth - "More than half, or 53 per cent, of Singaporeans are willing to sacrifice spending on luxury items to generate more wealth, according to a study conducted by wealth management group St. James's Place Asia. The study, titled "Accelerating the Wealth Journey – From Stability to Abundance", looks at 1,000 affluent Singaporeans between the ages of 25 and 64 categorised across five different levels of wealth – Financial Stability, Financial Security, Financial Flexibility, Financial Freedom and Financial Abundance – and how they approach areas such as wealth creation and inter-generational wealth transfer. All respondents were from households with a minimum annual income of S$70,000 to over S$250,000 and held personal investments such as stocks, property, and funds. Besides luxury items, the study also found that 51 per cent of Singaporeans were willing to sacrifice work-life balance to generate more wealth over the long term, while 42 per cent said they were willing to sacrifice family time. Furthermore, the study revealed that the wealthier an individual is, the more likely they are to advocate for sacrificing in other areas of their life to attain goals... More than half of Singaporeans (55 per cent) in the study said they do not consider themselves to be financially wealthy. Overall, only 38 per cent of those surveyed said they were happy with their level of wealth, with 42 per cent saying that they would like to be wealthier, and only 19 per cent believing they are too wealthy... Across the board, the thought of losing wealth makes 92 per cent of the respondents anxious. However, the level and frequency of anxiety decreases with each level of wealth although this increases again when the individual becomes financially abundant."
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agree to hold cage fight - "Mr Musk, who turns 52 later this month, also tweeted: "I have this great move that I call 'The Walrus', where I just lie on top of my opponent & do nothing." He later tweeted short videos of walruses, perhaps suggesting his challenge to Mr Zuckerberg may not entirely be serious. End of twitter post by Elon Musk He also tweeted: "I almost never work out, except for picking up my kids & throwing them in the air." Meanwhile, 39-year-old Mr Zuckerberg has already been training in mixed martial arts (MMA) and has recently won jiu-jitsu tournaments."
Jordan Peterson wants Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to fight 'naked'
Musk’s mom tries to cancel cage fight
Effort for a more accurate regional basis butter vs. olive oil map of Europe [OC] : MapPorn
Meme - "Bikers who want to take up piano"
"Painists who want to start biking"
"Yamaha"
Meme - *Galadriel passes Phial of Galadriel to Frodo*
Belle Delphine: "$30"
Meme - "The difference between the three Abrahamic Religions:
Christianity: You talk to the ceiling
Judaism: You talk to the Wall
Islam: You talk to the floor"
Meme - Joe Barton: "Very much enjoying that this Mediterranean washing machine has special settings for if you spill tomatoes, wine or olive oil on yourself"
Experience the shocking power of Britney Spears without Auto-Tune - "Spears, who by now should be a recording studio veteran in every sense, is off the mark from start to finish. It's bad enough to be almost unlistenable at first, and doesn't get much better as the song progresses."
Meme - "Arigato Grande. Latiana Grande. Africana Grande. Biraciana Grande. Blackiana Grande. Aryana Grande. Caucasiana Grande. Naviana Grande.
ARIANA THE LAST RACE BENDER"
Meme - "IF EVOLUTION TS REAL WHY ARE THERE STILL MONKEYS?"
"IF WE ALL CAME FROM ADAM & EVE WHY ARE THERE DIFFERENT RACES?"
Taylor Swift Eras tour: MPs upset after no Canada dates announced - "An Alberta MP is filing an "official grievance" with the House of Commons calling on Taylor Swift to bring her Eras Tour to Canada. "It has come to my attention that despite much anticipation, Taylor Swift's Eras Tour has neglected to include any Canadian dates or locations as she released her international dates, with includes stops throughout Asia and Europe," Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux wrote"
Taylor Swift fans report 'amnesia' following Eras show - "Psychologists say emotions and time may be behind the phenomenon. From out-of-body experiences to entering a dream-like state, Swift's fans - or Swifties as they prefer to be known - have taken to social media in recent days to reveal their guilt at not being able to remember key moments from the Eras tour... But Dr Michelle Phillips, a senior lecturer in music psychology from the Royal Northern College of Music, says the idea of post-concert amnesia is not as scary as it sounds. It will rarely be the case that fans have absolutely no memory of being at a concert. "In fact, it's likely to be one of the things they remember attending for the rest of their lives," says Dr Phillips. "It's simply that they encode some aspects of the event in memory, and not others." So whether you tend to focus more on your favourite artist's dance moves, or just enjoy being at a show with your loved ones, people pay attention to whatever is important to them - and encode memories of these things, rather than the music. The old saying "time flies when you're having fun" is an easy way to think about the idea of post-concert amnesia."
Gifted schoolboy who earned scholarship to prestigious private school is jailed for life - "A gifted schoolboy who had won a scholarship to a £12,000-a-year private school has been sentenced to life in prison after being hired by a drug lord to kill a rival gang leader. At the end of an eight-month trial – one of the longest in English legal history – Michael Mingoes, was convicted for the murder of Michael O'Connor in November 2021. He will serve a minimum of 28 years behind bars. The bright 21-year-old had been hired to kill the rival gang leader over a county lines network worth more than £1million a year... 31-year-old O'Connor, who had been acting as a peacemaker between two gangs, was killed by mistake. Mingoes, who was 19 at the time, and his associates thought that he was the drug lord they had been tasked with killing... When giving evidence, Mingoes was scolded by the judge for his verbosity and told to speak in plainer English after claiming he had been 'subjected to a barrage of beratement' by two co-defendants as they fled the scene in a car. O'Connor's family have told how they were left 'feeling sick' after one of their son's nine murderers taunted them in the public gallery."
Charles Knutson on Twitter - "Stolen from elsewhere: The gulf of meaning between the terms “horse play” and “pony play” illustrates why expecting your culture’s translation of another’s ancient texts to be 100% true to their original intent is dangerous and probably not a good idea."
Meme - "Reddit mod is furious that a Christian ad shows up in his subreddit. He laments that he cannot have full control over the subreddit at all times. "This violates the rules of our subreddit!""
"I've blocked u/HeGetsUs at least 30 times. Why is Reddit insisting on forcing hate propaganda down our throats?"
"These ads violate the rules of the sub I mod. It has a strict rule against proselytizing. Reddit refuses to take action. I've messaged the admins through modmail here multiple times. Our users have reported the ads. I get back meaningless form responses. Reddit doesn't care because these propagandists wrote them a big check. That's the only thing the current admins are interested in, clearly.
Edit: Not sure it will achieve different results, but I just reported the ads through this form as well. Maybe I'll at least get a new answer from a human.
Edit2: How on earth is this "Off topic"??"
Reddit mods (like Facebook admins) are "power" hungry
Meme - "Just remember that this was possible because he saved them from those below *One Ring being destroyed, Balrog chasing away orcs in Moria*"
FBI No-Fly Terrorist Watchlist Leaks, 1.9M Records Exposed
According to the conspiracy theorists, this is proof that there're 1.9 million terrorists being groomed by the feds, since every time something happens and the person was on a person of interest list that's proof the feds knew but did nothing/encouraged it because they wanted a false flag
What the Hell is Frank Cho Doing? - "Frank Cho draws a pretty superhero picture. And Frank Cho draws a sexy woman. Frank Cho has lately been drawing some pretty sexy superhero women and pissing people off."
ZIRP explains the world - "I know there is not just one simple, overarching explanation for all the weirdness in the world, but, for me, when I see a bunch of scooters strewn about a sidewalk, the first thing that goes through my head is ZIRP. For the uninitiated, ZIRP stands for zero-interest-rate policy... Money is always swimming towards yield. Millions of investment professionals are taking tens of millions of actions, every day, to help drive capital to its sustenance. The entire global capitalist economy rests on this constant flow. So what happens when you lower interest rates (especially to zero)? All those millions of little dollar-organisms have to change course. They need to find a new source of life... So all these dollar-organisms all start swimming towards riskier waters. Treasury investors shift to corporate debt. Public equity hedge funds shift to late-stage private equity. Late-stage private equity shifts to mid-stage, mid-stage to early stage. Seed rounds become bigger. Angel investors become a thing. Unicorns, unicorns, and more unicorns. Ashton Kutcher. And that's how we end up where we are... Cutting interest rates spurs demand and risk-taking. The changed denominators of a million financial models make every investment idea look more enticing. If an interest rate is the cost of money, ZIRP means capital is now free... When that much money finds its way into places not used to that much money, weird things happen. It's how we got to Community-Adjusted EBITDA and sleep economies. You don't create a ridesharing service, but a service that oddly loses money on every ride with a promise to figure out some future business... We’ve certainly dabbled in the debate of “what is a tech company” but what we never addressed was why do companies do mental gymnastics to call themselves a tech company. It’s because venture as an asset class traditionally invested in technology because that is what presented the growth and return characteristics that matched their risk profile. So you try to call a desk rental or mattress seller a tech company... much of what we consider technological innovation is, in fact, business model innovation. I’d add that a lot of what is perceived as innovation is also some form of ZIRP-fueled arbitrage. Everything is ZIRP."
Woman warns plane passengers to 'beware of chatty travellers' after shocking flight experience - "A WOMAN has issued a stark warning to would-be plane passengers after a shocking flight that nearly saw her caught up in a drug smuggling bust. The Nigerian, who goes by the name Igbo Pilot on Twitter, revealed she was targeted by an elderly woman on a flight to Dubai... "I was let go with advice never ever to touch anyone's luggage either in flight or at the airport. So from that day, I don't care how much luggage you have, you will deal with it yourself. I will not even offer you a trolley to put your luggage on. "'Your luggage, your problem' is my policy. And if you can't reach the overhead compartment and I am the nearest person, please call the cabin crew because all I will do is give you a blank stare and then look away! A lesson to glean therein for intending air travellers."... experts have warned travellers to avoid putting their home address on it - as it puts your house at risk if the bag is stolen. While families often opt to put their address on it in case their bags are lost at the airport, it is best to instead put on a phone number because otherwise, a thief will know your address and that you are not home. Expert travellers also suggest taking a photo of your bag and storing it on your phone, along with the bag's dimensions to make it easier for airline staff to locate the missing items."
Conservative MPs furious after e-mails show federal officials worked on ways not to answer their questions - The Globe and Mail - "Federal public servants worked on ways not to answer directly opposition MPs’ parliamentary questions, admitting that doing so raised a communication risk, internal government documents obtained under access to information show. Civil servants in the Natural Resources Department recommended the use of “limitation language” to answer the written Commons questions from Conservative and NDP MPs, internal e-mails show. The revelation prompted Commons Speaker Anthony Rota to issue a rebuke Tuesday over the failure to fully answer written questions, saying more and more MPs were complaining about the quality of replies... Her question was branded “high risk” and the reply was framed using existing “media lines” used to respond to journalists. The internal e-mails showed public servants referred to her position as a former opposition critic when framing the reply, saying because she was an “effective communicator” it raised a risk of her highlighting their failure to fully answer her question... In the Senate, Conservative Leader Don Plett said he has been waiting since 2020 for answers to some of his written questions. He accused the government of a disregard for “proper parliamentary process.”"
Liberal bias in the Canadian civil service is a right wing conspiracy theory
Watch: World’s first manned flying saucer stuns onlookers in China - "Developed by Shenzhen UFO Power Technology, the “iUFO” is an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft that consists of a circular cockpit surrounded by 12 propellers. The transparent dome covering the cockpit offers the pilot a panoramic 360-degree view... he iUFO, which reportedly took three years to complete, is currently capable of flying at an altitude of 650 feet and speeds of up to 31 miles per hour for a maximum duration of 15 minutes."
An Ashamed Greenpeace - "Greenpeace won a case in the Philippine Supreme Court to suspend the sale and production of the recently authorised golden rice and a modified eggplant. But rather than the usual celebrations where the NGO gloats to their donors and followers about another great victory, for four days the Greenpeace websites and social media accounts have not mentioned this news at all. This was a more curious point than any legal victory in a corrupted judicial system. After decades of fighting the commercialisation of golden rice (a grain supplemented with beta carotene), Greenpeace was seen to be unsympathetic to the malnourished in developing countries at risk from Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD), an affliction that kills millions and causes up to 500,000 children to go blind annually (source: Johns Hopkins). They also campaigned against the authorisation of an eggplant (Bt brinjal) that removed the necessity for smallholders to regularly apply pesticides to keep the brinjal fruit borer under control. This technology led to better work conditions for farmers and a more abundantly available vegetable staple in poor regions of the developing world. Both of these life-saving, empowering innovations went against Greenpeace’s anti-technology orthodoxy and for more than two decades they have been relentlessly trying to block their developments. Greenpeace is fully aware of how socially unjust these campaigns have been, how it portrays the organisation as a cosmopolitan elite Western alliance trying to impose their affluent values on the poorest and most vulnerable in developing countries and how factually baseless their anti-biotech fear campaign has been. Years of constant criticism at the highest levels (including a letter signed by 110 Nobel laureates likening their golden rice campaign to crimes against humanity) has made it clear to Greenpeace that their actions against golden rice and Bt brinjal were destructive and unwelcome. This hollow victory in the Philippine Supreme Court could only then be seen as a stain on Greenpeace’s social justice credentials and helps explain why they were rightly too embarrassed to publicly acknowledge their dreadful actions against humanity’s most fragile and precarious populations. So they stayed silent and pretended such a move to interfere with man’s fight against poverty and malnutrition was not of their doing... Greenpeace has as many internal factions as the US Republican Party and keeping a tight ship with a common message is becoming well-nigh impossible for the NGO... There was no choice for Greenpeace but to contest the recent biotech authorisations in the Philippines to appease their internal, militant anti-GMO wing. But at the same time, they chose not to communicate this “victory” to avoid enraging their social justice and development factions. They had a similar muted celebration several weeks ago in Germany as the last three nuclear reactors were shut down (in the midst of an energy crisis leading to an increase in energy impoverishment and an expansion of coal-fired power plants). But couldn’t the NGO just tell their militant zealots to go hang themselves? They did that once, and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society was born, leading them to cannibalise the whaling issue and delegitimise the role Greenpeace tried to assume in the wider fisheries debate. According to Roger Hallam, Extinction Rebellion was essentially born out of the inaction and inefficacy of the existing climate NGOs. On the biotech debate, there are so many anti-corporate militants ready to act (and an abundance of US tort law industry funding), that any backtracking by Greenpeace would create an opportunity for a schism and loss of further influence for the NGO in the lucrative anti-agri-tech game... Shouldn’t other activist groups speak up and give Greenpeace a shake? No. NGOs never publicly disagree with other NGOs, no matter how heinous or unethical an organisation’s actions might be... when groups like Extinction Rebellion were disrupting public bus services or using children in their campaigns, everyone stayed silent. When activist scientists were secretly taking money from US tort law firms to campaign against glyphosate, the activists sat beside them in the European Parliament and just avoided eye contact. When a popular firebrand guru equated the use of pesticides to rape, no NGOs spoke up... To make matters worse, by any corporate calculation, the NGO is bankrupt (not just morally, but also financially). Their membership and donation structure was built pre-Internet and fundraising costs consume the equivalent of two-thirds of every campaign euro spent. They completely missed the micro-donation, crowdfunding approach of social-media organisations that are generating most of the online activist engagement and campaign rhetoric."
Canadian economic productivity is in freefall - "Canadian labour productivity has dropped for the fourth consecutive quarter. Compared to this time last year, the average Canadian is now producing two per cent less during every hour they spend at work. And it’s not like our per-capita productivity was all that good to begin with. An analysis by University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe found that Canada’s per-person rate of economic output is now on the level of some of the poorest states in the U.S... “Given how closely wages are tied to productivity, this directly affects our living standards and, in my view, poses a bigger affordability challenge than recent high inflation”... And overarching everything are OECD projections showing that Canada is on track to become the world’s worst-performing advanced economy. In Dec. 2021, a report by the OECD predicted how GDP growth was expected to look in each of the world’s developed economic between now and 2060. In terms of “real per capita GDP growth,” Canada was ranked dead last... Former Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole may well go down in history for running the most unconservative Conservative election campaign of modern times. His unsuccessful 2021 election run promised higher spending than the Liberals, and offered little to no pushback on Liberal moves surrounding gun control, immigration, transgender rights, government “anti-racism” initiatives and climate policy, among other things. And as he leaves politics, O’Toole’s main piece of advice was for Conservatives to try that whole strategy again"
I saw liberals dismissing this, saying only rich people cared about productivity
The Igon Value Effect - "'In the spirit of Gladwell, who likes to give portentous names to his aperçus, I will call this the Igon Value Problem: when a writer’s education on a topic consists in interviewing an expert, he is apt to offer generalizations that are banal, obtuse or flat wrong.'...
Gladwell uses "igon value" in an inessential way, to provide some local color in the chapter of What the Dog Saw called "Blowing Up: How Nassim Taleb Turned the Inevitability of Disaster into an Investment Strategy"... But eigenvalue really is a very basic concept in linear algebra, and the analysis of the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of matrices is not just some ephemeral bit of esoteric mathematical fluff...
'The common thread in Gladwell’s writing is a kind of populism, which seeks to undermine the ideals of talent, intelligence and analytical prowess in favor of luck, opportunity, experience and intuition. For an apolitical writer like Gladwell, this has the advantage of appealing both to the Horatio Alger right and to the egalitarian left.'"
Flash Mob Dances To 'Another One Bites The Dust' At Funeral: VIDEO - "Wood lost her battle with tongue cancer in September 2022 and began planning her funeral at least six months prior to her death. At her funeral, her casket arrived late to the funeral, mirroring her always being late for everything. Wood's casket was surrounded by high, sparkly heels, and her casket was bejeweled with the words, "Going out in style." But what drew attention to the funeral was what was captured in the now viral TikTok video: a flash mob that danced to Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust." While attempting to arrange her funeral, reportedly ten other groups passed on the offer to perform at someone's funeral. Wood's friend, Sam Ryalls, eventually connected with Claire Phipps, the leader of the ten-person dance group the Flaming Feathers."
Better Video
Appreciate Your Blunt Friends: Those Who Speak Honest, Love You The Most
Meme - "Hey Papa, why do you love me?"
"Maybe I am biologically programmed to give you care and affection because you possess part of my DNA."
"Hmmm... Because you are super cool and cute and awesome!"
"Yaaay!"
Meme - "Next time you think about violating the communit standards just stop and take look at these images *Mark Zuckerberg kickboxing*"
Nikki Haley on Twitter - "AOC and the Squad boycotting India’s democratically elected leader while they side with Palestinian terrorists and socialist dictators is exactly on brand. What an embarrassment."
Usually one cope is that liberals protest Western countries because they are democratic and so susceptible to protest, but technically there have been elections in Palestine
