Moment fake ‘Elon Musk’ arrested for scamming elderly woman out of $250,000 - "The 74-year-old victim befriended “Elon Musk”, real name Jeffrey Moynihan Jr, 56, on Facebook back in 2023. They exchanged messages for several months, and the victim was encouraged to invest in Musk’s businesses. She was promised a $55 million return. Financial records indicate the victim transferred $250,000 to bank accounts owned by Moynihan and his business, Jeff’s Painting and Pressure Washing, LLC. The victim’s husband told investigators his wife gave "Elon Musk" approximately $600,000."
‘Les Misérables’ Returns Home - The New York Times - "Globally, it’s the most famous French musical. One hundred and thirty million people have seen Jean Valjean face off against Javert, in 22 languages; its downtrodden characters have taken to the barricades in London’s West End nearly continuously since 1985. Everyone knows “Les Misérables.” Everyone — except the French. In a strange twist of fate, “Les Miz,” an adaptation of Victor Hugo’s sweeping novel about justice, poverty and the social reality of 19th-century France, has never been popular in the country of its birth. Despite being created by two Frenchmen, the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg and the lyricist Alain Boublil, it has only been performed in Paris twice since the 1980s. The 2012 film adaptation, starring Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, also performed poorly at the French box office. Now a major new stage production, set to open at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on Wednesday, aims to make “Les Misérables” a star at home, too — with the enthusiastic assent of its creators... In France, the homecoming of “Les Misérables” follows the newfound popularity of American- and British-style musicals, which have drawn larger and larger audiences over the past decade. Still, over eight years of development, the team behind the Châtelet run has put significant effort into shaping “Les Misérables” to French expectations. Audiences around the world typically all see the same staging, created by Laurence Connor and James Powell (which replaced the original London production, by Trevor Nunn and John Caird, in 2009). Yet for France, everyone agreed a fresh take was needed. Olivier Py, the director of the Théâtre du Châtelet, which is coproducing the show, described the Connor/Powell production as “a little dated” by local standards. Boublil said that there was “something contradictory about bringing a classic French story back in an imported production, made famous worldwide by Britain. We had to reinvent the way we present it.”... Mackintosh had given up hope of establishing a meaningful French presence for “Les Misérables”; Letellier remembered the producer telling him, “I’ve been trying for 30 years in France, and I just don’t understand it. So go ahead, and good luck.” This was despite Boublil’s having originally written the show in French. In the 1970s, spurred by their love of Broadway and the West End, he and Schönberg attempted to adapt the musical genre for their home country, starting with “The French Revolution” (1973). “Les Misérables” followed in 1980... Mackintosh bought the rights in 1983 and turned “Les Misérables” into a West End blockbuster, reworking it extensively in the process. In 1991 he produced a French-language revival in Paris; middling box office returns forced its closure after six months. Letellier, the producer, believes Mackintosh was “unlucky” in France, where musical theater tradition was strongly tied to operettas in the 19th and 20th centuries: “Operetta was deeply uncool in the early 1990s, and so were musicals.” In order to find a new approach for today’s French audiences, Chollat “went back to the roots” of “Les Misérables,” he said: Victor Hugo’s monumental novel, which runs to over 1,500 pages. Published in 1862, it follows a large cast of characters over decades, with frequent musings about French history and moral philosophy. “Hugo is a kind of alchemist of the human soul, and the book resonates so much with the French spirit of revolt, even today,” Chollat said. His production would be more socially realistic than the British one, he said, comparing Hugo’s “miserables” with the “Yellow Vest” protesters who, in 2018, engineered a lengthy anti-government movement in France. In rehearsal earlier this month, Chollat encouraged the actors playing the student revolutionaries, who lead Paris’s 1832 anti-monarchist rebellion in the musical, to lean into naturalism. “Some of these students have never held a gun in their lives before. It’s completely new to them. It looks too easy right now,” he said to the performers, addressing them all as “friends.”... Changes include 300 brand-new costumes, a more diverse cast — mandated by Mackintosh, who insisted on approving the lineup — and a reworking of the existing French lyrics, which Boublil was happy to agree to. “I adapted them based on the notes I had accumulated, the corrections that had been made over time internationally,” he said. The vocabulary used by some characters was tweaked, too, to better reflect their social origins. In total, about a quarter of the text has been changed. In rehearsal, “Do You Hear the People Sing?” — in French a more politically inflected song, titled “To the Will of the People” — took on a less formal tone... France appears ready to embrace its prodigal musical offspring, too. The Châtelet run, through Jan. 2, is nearly sold out, and arrangements are being made to tour “Les Misérables” around the country, taking it outside Paris for the first time in the musical’s history. “With 39 people onstage and 14 musicians in the pit, it’s extremely expensive in a country with high labor costs like France,” Letellier, the producer, said. “It won’t be a moneymaker, but we’re making it a point of honor.” Py, the director of the Châtelet, is thinking even bigger. “The goal is for it to become the standard staging, worldwide, for the next 40 years,” he said with a twinkle in his eye."
eugyppius on X - "Somebody was saying to me recently that he just wants a sensible party to vote for. A party that isn’t a) pro mass-migration, that b) has some reasonable market-liberal policies, that c) wants to put an end to climate nonsense, and that above all d) isn’t extreme right wing."
Philip Levens on X - "If a party is the first three things, it gets branded the fourth thing"
Meme - BASED SAVAGE @BASEDSAVAGE_: "Bitches always think they freaky till they meet a nigga like me who gone tie them down and pour a tablespoon of some McDonald's Sprite on the clit and watch that mf fizz up like sum queefing pop rocks
Lemme start off by saying I was fighting demons lastnight, I apologize"
Meme - *Helm's Deep blows up*
Theoden: "Gee, who knew about that weakness in our defenses? Probably some random orc and not Grima. Thanks again for not letting me kill him. Appreciate it. Seriously."
Aragorn:
Meme - "I'm not sure what you mean by "growing and hunting season" but I think you should be able to grow your own food year round."
"We have this thing called winter where everything dies and is frozen for several months"
"I think you should be able to grow your own food year round."
Meme - "[Facebook] Marketplace listing"
"Sounds good would you like to kick it some times?"
"Sure!! I'm usually always busy but why not!"
"I looked at your pics and you look like a girl and I'm definitely curious about that"
"Oh, I'm a boy. I'm sorry if you thought that I was a girl, I always feel horrible about it. I'm still cool as hell though haha"
"No I know the difference. I'm saying I'm cool with it"
"Youre awesome dude"
"I'm saying I'm turned on"
"Oh what"
Meme - Paul Rossi @pauldrossi: "So many Hitlers."
"REPUBLICANS WHO'VE BEEN LABELLED "FASCIST" OR "HITLER""
"Barry Goldwater. Richard Nixon. Gerald Ford. Ronald Reagan. George W. Bush. Mitt Romney. Paul Ryan. Donald Trump"
Aka why you can't take left wingers seriously when they call people fascists, Nazis and/or Hitler. Aka Every Republican Presidential Candidate Is Hitler
Meme - Busty Girl in tank top: "Not everything is flat in Florida"
Meme - Talmud Enjoyer @jew_AndAhalfMen: "The thing about British leftists is that they're basically the only ones still labouring under the delusion that the UK is still powerful or influential enough to be a malevolent force in the world. We profit from war? We found oil? How? We haven't produced anything since 1974."
Zoe @zoecabina: "I became 2% more right wing just watching this"
Half blue-haired girl: "THERE'S PROFIT IN DISASTER"
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Meme - Baby: "HEY, MAXI! I THOUGHT MUM HAD YOU PUT DOWN LAST WEEK?"
Dog: "YEAH..SHE DID...AND 5 MINUTES AGO SHE LEFT YOU ALONE IN THE BATH WHILE SHE TOOK A CALL..."
Dog and Baby:
Meme - Indrid Chill @SoInfiniteLife: "There are only two kinds of libertarians: "Not letting me dump toxic waste wherever I want is a violation of my freedoms" "What if the toddler consents?" There are no exceptions."
Imtiaz Mahmood on X - "The 'Golden Age' of Islam?
Muslims often speak of a “golden” age of Islam during which science, medicine, the arts, philosophy, and civilization were highly developed. At this time, Europe was still in the Dark Ages. This period is known as the Islamic Golden Age and lasted from 790 to 1258. During this period, Arab culture placed high importance on education. The first public universities were founded in Baghdad, where philosophy and literature were studied. Muslim apologists always claim that this Golden Age of Islam proves that Islam is compatible with science, technology, and an advanced civilization! But this claim is a BLATANT LIE! There never was a Golden Age of Islam, but there was a Golden Age of Arab civilization! When the Arabs turned away from Islam and turned toward ancient Greek works on science, philosophy, mathematics, and medicine, they developed their own sciences and technologies to a very high degree. The Arabs also managed to develop their own math, namely Algebra. Many Islamic scholars, including al-Ghazali, the greatest and the most famous Islamic theologian, felt that science was causing Islam to decline. Arabs started turning away from Islam! Al-Ghazali and the other clerics managed to persuade the Caliph to ban science, the critical questioning of Islam, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and any artistic form that contradicted Islam! Many Arab scientists were persecuted and imprisoned, and their works were burnt! Many other Arab, Christian, and Jewish scientists escaped to Europe with their works and writings. The introduction of Sharia (Islamic laws) and the persecution of scientists and science in general all resulted in the decline of the Golden Age of Arab civilization! Muslims claim that their Arab’s golden age ended with the fall of the Abbasid caliphate around 1258. They blame the Mongol invasions and the takeover of the city of Baghdad. This Golden Age is traditionally understood to have begun during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (786 to 809) with the inauguration of the House of Wisdom, which saw scholars from all over the Muslim world flock to Baghdad, the world's largest city by then, to translate the known world's classical knowledge into Arabic and Persian. The period is traditionally said to have ended with the collapse of the Abbasid caliphate due to Mongol invasions and the Siege of Baghdad in 1258. During the early 20th century, the term was used only occasionally and often referred to as the early military successes of the Rashidun caliphs. It was only in the second half of the 20th century that the term came to be used with any frequency, now mostly referring to the cultural flourishing of science and mathematics under the caliphates during the 9th to 11th centuries (between the establishment of organised scholarship in the House of Wisdom and the beginning of the crusades), but often extended to include part of the late 8th or the 12th to early 13th centuries. Definitions may still vary considerably. Equating the end of the golden age with the end of the caliphates is a convenient cut-off point based on a historical landmark, but it can be argued that Islamic culture had entered a gradual decline much earlier; thus, the proper golden age as being the two centuries between 750 and 950, the beginning loss of territories under Harun al-Rashid worsened after the death of al-Ma'mun in 833, and that the crusades in the 12th century resulted in a weakening of the Islamic empire from which it never recovered. Openness to diverse influences – during the Golden Age of the Arabs. During this period, the Muslims showed a strong interest in assimilating the scientific knowledge of the civilizations that had been conquered. Many classic works of antiquity that might otherwise have been lost were translated from Greek, Syriac, Middle Persian, and Sanskrit into Syriac and Arabic, some of which were later in turn translated into other languages like Hebrew and Latin. The Christian physician Hunayn ibn Ishaq lead the translation of works Christians, especially the adherents of the Church of the East (Nestorians), contributed to Islamic civilization during the reign of the Umayyads and the Abbasids by translating works of Greek philosophers and ancient science to Syriac and afterward to Arabic. They also excelled in many fields, in particular philosophy, and science (such as Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Yusuf Al-Khuri, Al Himsi, Qusta ibn Luqa, Masawaiyh, Patriarch Eutychius, and Jabril ibn Bukhtishu]) and theology. For a long period, the personal physicians of the Abbasid Caliphs were often Assyrian Christians. Among the most prominent Christian families to serve as physicians to the caliphs was the Bukhtishu dynasty. Throughout the 4th to 7th centuries, Christian scholarly work in the Greek and Syriac languages was either newly translated or had been preserved since the Hellenistic period. Among the prominent centers of learning and transmission of classical wisdom were Christian colleges such as the School of Nisibis and the School of Edessa, the pagan center of learning in Harran, and the renowned hospital and medical Academy of Gondishapur, which was the intellectual, theological and scientific center of the Church of the East. Many scholars of the House of Wisdom were of Christian background and it was led by Christian physician Hunayn ibn Ishaq, with the support of Byzantine medicine. Many of the most important philosophical and scientific works of the ancient world were translated, including the works of Galen, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Archimedes. Islam and especially Sharia are destructive to nations. They cause nations to regress. Most Islamic nations, including the moderate Muslim majority nations, are all beset with the same socio-economic and political problems! The impact of Islam, especially of Sharia, is always very negative and regressive. Islam, with its emphasis on polygamy, encourages Muslims to have as many children as possible so that they can fill the whole world with Muslims! Then, they will be able to impose Sharia onto the whole world. Islamic scholars tell us that this would make the world an “Islamic” paradise! They tell us that countries with Sharia, Allah’s laws, are “Islamic paradises”! Scientific teachings that contradict the Quran/Islam are banned in most Muslim-majority nations! Education for girls is banned in Afghanistan."
Vivek Ramaswamy on X - "Yes, it’s true that cutting bureaucracy will reduce the federal deficit, but the real win will be its pro-growth effect. The biggest cost of bureaucracy isn’t the headcount costs, it’s that bureaucrats find legally dubious “things to do” that stifle freedom & depress our economy."
Elon Musk on X - "Exactly. In a meeting with senior military officers today, they told me that it now takes longer to renovate stairs (24 months) in the Pentagon than it took to build the WHOLE Pentagon (16 months) in the 1940s!!"
Meme - Ranjeet Singh: "A new wave of racists posts against Indian On Diwali Festival within 10 hours thanks @X @XCorpindia for boosting their reach check here"
"i'm actually speechless. why is there no community note?"
Crime Reports India: "Poop War in India"
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "Note not needed because it's true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidakala_War"
Pradhyumna @realPradhyumna: "It's not racism it's the truth it's a celebration in Andhrapradesh called pidakala."
Ranjeet Singh @Ranjeet_singh14: "Such things happen all around the world but they pick only from India and share with as racist way to incite racism"
Ozkiisstillnotdead007 @ozkisalive007: "Nobody else has a shit throwing festival my nigga"
Meme - "Pre-Employment Verification. Unfortunately, it looks like you are not eligible for rehire at Walmart at this time. No worries, you will be eligible to reapply on 07-01-3000. If you would like to learn more, please contact your former People Partner."
Greg Price on X - "In October 2020, @DrJBhattacharya authored the Great Barrington Declaration, which called for an end to covid lockdowns. Four days later, Dr. Fauci and then NIH Director Francis Collins emailed each other to plot a "devastating takedown of its premises. It wasn't long after that old Twitter began putting him on a blacklist to prevent his tweets from trending. That scientist who was censored and defamed by the government will now be leading the NIH."
Damn white supremacy!
Melissa Chen | Facebook - "The former head of the NIH (National Institute of Health) abused his position and authority to destroy the reputations of credible scientists who opposed lockdowns and questioned Covid origins. One of those who was suppressed, censored and reputationally attacked was Stanford University physician and economist, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. To go from the depths of career hell to the director of the NIH is not only poetic justice for him, but also a saving grace for the state of government-funded science and dare I say, for science as a whole. Over the last 8 years, public trust in science has deservedly plummeted. The number of ways that the primary federal biomedical research agency in the United States lost its way is almost too numerous to count. There’s a major need to reform the NIH and deal with the conflict of interest issues that stem from how scientists dependent on NIH grants are pressured into concealing any true professional opinions that deviate from the reigning orthodoxy. Part of this is structural, and part of this is cultural. I expect that with Dr. Bhattacharya at the helm, we might actually get as close as we can possibly get, as a nation, to some sort of a formal reckoning of Covid19 and our response to it. Our country needs a functioning NIH that people trust, and for people to trust again there must be a formal accounting. We must also de-politicize the NIH and dismantle the ways in which it has internalized woke / DEI initiatives. During the Biden admin, NIH grant applicants were required to prioritize DEI in their research and promote sex-changing surgery and puberty blockers as “safe and effective.” This all must end. Congratulations to Dr. B! I couldn’t think of a better possible candidate to lead the NIH. You’ve shown remarkable courage and integrity, which is exactly what the agency and our country needs at this moment. The noble mission to save science sounds hyperbolic, but this is really how high the stakes are right now. Godspeed!"
Meme - "Hey dude here's a photo of your wife at my son's birthday *woman sucking something*"
"Wtf Chris?!?? Answer your fucking phone aiready!!! Are u fucking kidding me?? I‘m coming to your house"
"Ohhh sorry man I was busy l forgot to zoom out"
[Unsent] "Die in hell"
Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years - "The motivation for the salmon hat trend remains a mystery... Orca researchers' best guess is that salmon hat fads are linked to high food availability. South Puget Sound is currently teeming with chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta), and with too much food to eat on the spot, orcas may be saving fish for later by balancing them on their heads, New Scientist reported. Orcas have been spotted stashing food away in other places, too. "We've seen mammal-eating killer whales carry large chunks of food under their pectoral fin, kind of tucked in next to their body," Giles said. Salmon is probably too small to fit securely under orcas' pectoral fins, so the marine mammals may have opted for the top of their heads instead."
Meme - Democrat: "I FUCKING HATE YOU AND HOPE YOU DI"
Republican: "I like providing for my family"
Meme - Ernie: "You see, Bert, it wasn't the war that broke me, it was the peace. Having the discipline and skills drilled into me was one thing...not giving them an outlet was another...and that is why our attic is full of dead hookers."
Apple propaganda notwithstanding, the reason tower PCs are big isn’t because they’re outdated. The reason tower PCs are so bulky... – @flameraven on Tumblr - "Apple propaganda notwithstanding, the reason tower PCs are big isn’t because they’re outdated. The reason tower PCs are so bulky is because they’re designed to be user serviceable. The case has lots of open space so your big, meaty hands can easily access all of the components, and everything is secured with friction-fit tabs and standard machine screws to minimise the need for specialised tools. A properly laid out tower PC is fully serviceable with a single Phillips-head screwdriver and no greater manual skill than your average Lego playset – heck, for some of the more modern case layouts you don’t even need the screwdriver, unless you’re performing major surgery like a full motherboard replacement. Like, think about who benefits from convincing you that a fully modular computing device that can be serviced and repaired with your bare hands and minimal technical skill is unfashionable."
Mattel apologizes for mistakenly printing porn website on Wicked toy doll packaging - "Instead of linking to Universal Pictures' official WickedMovie.com page, the website listed leads to an adult film site that requires consumers to be over 18 to enter."
Lindt admits its chocolate isn't actually 'expertly crafted with the finest ingredients' | Fortune Europe - "In a bid to dodge a US lawsuit, Swiss chocolatier Lindt & Sprungli has scuppered its own claims about the excellence of its products — a cornerstone of its marketing strategy. Lindt has unsuccessfully tried to end a class action lawsuit in the United States, launched in February 2023 following an article by a US consumer association questioning the presence of heavy metals in dark chocolate bars from several manufacturers, including two bars produced by Lindt. “In its defence strategy, the company has dismantled its own promises of quality,” claimed the Swiss newspaper NZZ am Sonntag, raking over a September US court decision. The chocolatier’s lawyers maintained that the words “excellence” and “expertly crafted with the finest ingredients”, printed on its bars, were unactionable “puffery”, according to a decision by the Eastern District of New York district court. The court, which dismissed Lindt’s motion, defined product puffery as “exaggerated advertising, blustering, and boasting upon which no reasonable buyer would rely”. The Swiss newspaper Le Temps said Lindt was “walking a tightrope” with this “daring defence”. Lindt’s high profit margins are due to “the fact that consumers are willing to pay more for its industrial chocolates because of their quality image”, the daily noted. The court decision said the plaintiffs brought the class action against Lindt alleging that the firm “deceptively marketed their dark chocolate bars as ‘expertly crafted with the finest ingredients’ and ‘safe, as well as delightful’, when the bars in fact contained significant amounts of lead”... Switzerland is very attached to the quality of its goods, its calling card to sell products that are often more expensive given the high production costs in the wealthy Alpine country."
Meme - "What was ruined because too many people started doing it?"
"Having sex with my wife"
Meme - Deer head mounted on wall to other deer head mounted on wall: "I told you It was hunting season Doreen but we just HAD to visit your sister near the lake"
Meme - "Dude I need a ride home , pulled a hoe last night on this dating site called PlentyofHoes .com and now I'm stuck in her bedroom"
"That's what happens when u use dirtbag websites like PlentyofHoes , I'm at my sisters all day so I can’t help u bro"
"I'm upstairs u moron , start the engine" *photo of girl in bed and guy laughing at camera*
"WHAT THE FUCK ????????"
Meme - "@CatholicCat Porn is bad
@MarxistFemboy Any proof to back that up?
@MarxistFemboy 14 he/they *DM for RP* :3 free Palestine
@MarxistFemboy Dad found the HRT next to my buttplugs so he took them away. Thinking about ending my life"
Meme - Woman: "HONEY, WHY IS THE OCEAN SO SALTY?"
Man: "Because Sometimes WHALES HAVE WET DREAMS!"
"HA HA HA HA HA"
MONTHS LATER
*Man shocked as woman gives birth to whale*
Meme - "Me saying I'm 2 days "sober" to my friends, but really I just out of money"
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