California police find spider monkey in front seat during DUI traffic stop - "California police were treated to a surprise Monday night when they pulled over a Rolls-Royce in a suspected DUI case and discovered a dealer’s amount of weed and a spider monkey in the front seat. Ali Mused Adel Mohamed, 27, was busted in his 2022 Rolls-Royce Ghost for speeding on SR-99 as he was driving the 1-month-old primate, which was wearing a pink onesie... The exotic pet was taken from Mohamed due to California’s rule against owning primates as pets."
Man from China passes Japanese language proficiency test after watching more than 4,500 Japanese AVs - "Most people will engage a tutor or attend classes to learn a new language. However, this is not the case for Mr Jakku Song, a man from China who learned Japanese entirely by watching Japanese adult videos (AV)... by watching 4,545 Japanese AVs, he learned the language on his own. Through this unconventional way of learning, he passed the N2 level of the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (JLPT), qualifying for entry into Japanese universities or vocational schools. Mr Song has never received any formal Japanese language training, making his feat all the more amazing. Rather, his deep interest in Japanese AV culture motivated him to learn by immersing himself in extensive viewing and imitation. A quick browse on his YouTube channel shows that he publishes controversial topics in Japanese. He also calls himself on his Instagram page the “Prince of dirty jokes”, “Asia’s last gentleman” and “China’s most gentle hentai”. In his latest video, he can be seen lying among a sea of “used” tissues where he shows off his N2 certificate and thanks Japanese AV actresses such as Sola Aoi and Tsukasa Aoi."
Meme - *Publicité de Burger King*
*Jeune fille avec une marqueur de hauteur*
"1ERS PAS"
"1ER AMOUREUX"
"1ER BURGER KING"
"1ERES CLOPES"
"1ERE PIPE"
Meme - Lisa Simpson: "sparkling water tastes like when your leg falls asleep"
Two men on trial over sham marriage to Georgian woman, defence calls it 'true love' - "Goh had told a defence witness that he enjoyed Maia's European cuisine and that "sex was good", said the lawyer. He said Goh was homeless, hydrophobic or had a phobia of water, and did not shower as a result. He was also unemployed. "Maia provided intimate care and affection to Goh more than that of a friend," said Mr Sandhu. "Maia provided care and affection that (is) only shared by those in covenant of matrimony." He gave examples, claiming that Maia helped Goh overcome his hydrophobia and bathed him, cooked for him, shaved Goh's armpit and private parts and bathed together with him. They also slept with each other and it was only when Goh's bad habit of using his phone late into the night started interrupting Maia's sleep that they slept separately. The defence witnesses confirmed that the pair behaved like a married couple, holding hands and being affectionate, Mr Sandhu said. He said these factors, even Goh's bravado tale that sex was good with Maia, were not the elements of a typical sham marriage. "Maia testified that she tried to make the marriage work but it was too difficult, (so) she decided to divorce him," said Mr Sandhu. The pair are currently divorced."
Two Singaporean men jailed over marriage of convenience to Georgian woman - " Maia previously pleaded guilty to entering into the marriage of convenience and was sentenced to six months' jail. She then became a prosecution witness against both Singaporean men before being deported. She had testified about how she repeatedly tried to find a job in Singapore without success. In late 2015, she resorted to plying the nightlife trade and met a Vietnamese woman at a pub... The woman told Maia she could apply for a student pass to remain in Singapore and told her to contact Kok for details. Kok arranged for Maia to enrol in an international college, but her student pass application was not approved... When Maia met the two men at a Vietnamese restaurant in Marina Square mall, she said she was taken aback by Goh's unkempt appearance... In his mitigation plea, Kok said he did not benefit from the sham marriage and "sincerely longed for them to have a blissful marriage". He has also not been able to get a long-term pass for his wife of 20 years due to his case. He added that he had depleted his money to contest his charges, after his previous defence counsel Charles Yeo fled the country in the middle of the trial... Kok told the court that he wanted Goh – whom he referred to as Alex – to leave his restaurant. “During that time, my restaurant had a rat infestation and business was very bad. Later, I found out Alex didn’t shower, and he had a very big body odour and was driving customers and patrons away from my restaurant,” Kok said. “At that time, I desperately needed to get rid of Alex from my restaurant and I was trying to help him become a better man … I am, in fact, exploited by Goh.”"
Smoke Gets in Their Eyes: How the Liberals’ Anti-Tobacco Crusade Worsens Smokers’ Health - "Under the Justin Trudeau government, federal smoking policy has been driven by two main urges. The first is a conceptualization of smokers as a group of misguided consumers who simply need to be educated about the consequences of their bad habit. It is an approach that seems dramatically at odds with how other social failings are treated in 2023. Consider that hard drug users as well as people who are obese, homeless or unemployed are generally considered to be victims of circumstances beyond their control and in need of direct government aid and support, as well as ample amounts of public sympathy. Yet Ottawa’s latest cigarette warning label gambit is one more iteration of a long-stale plan to stigmatize smokers as weak individuals of low moral character who can be hectored into quitting if simply presented with a sufficiently stern negative message. A lengthy train of scientific and historical evidence suggests it won’t work. Bennett’s replacement as federal addictions minister, Ya’ara Saks, would benefit herself and Canadians by taking the time to understand the true nature of smokers and to confront the nicotine environment of the present day. Most smokers are not willfully self-destructive or stupid. They crave nicotine to satisfy a powerful addiction while hating the health consequences that smoking inflicts upon them. It is also important to understand that smoking is particularly prevalent within certain sub-populations. These include low-income individuals, Indigenous people, the LGBT+ community, schizophrenics, people suffering generalized anxiety disorder or ADHD, and prisoners. Smoking rates are about one-third for LGBT+ people and 70 percent for schizophrenics. For them nicotine is not only a compulsive habit but a cognitive aid and a balm for anxiety. There is also a significant cohort of middle-aged and elderly smokers who have been addicted to nicotine their entire adult lives. The pool of remaining smokers is thus a heterodox group, and helping them reduce the health effects of their nicotine addiction requires a nuanced and sensitive approach. Of central importance is recognizing that the weaponry to win the battle against smoking-caused cancer, stroke and cardiovascular disease has evolved in significant ways. Evidence from other countries points the way. Sweden has far and away the lowest lung cancer rate in Europe. Yet Swedish nicotine usage per capita is similar to the European average. The reason is that cigarette smoking is quite rare in that country. Swedes instead tend to consume nicotine through oral smokeless tobacco: either snus (a powdered form of tobacco) or little sachets called “modern oral tobacco.”... Japan offers another example. Cigarette sales have plummeted in that country since the recent arrival of heated tobacco products (HTPs). These battery-driven devices warm a plug of tobacco about half the size of a cigarette, releasing nicotine without burning the tobacco. Research into Japan’s hospital admissions has revealed a “significant reduction in the number of hospitalizations for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease” since HTPs began to supplant cigarettes over the period 2010 to 2019... burning tobacco is what is responsible for most of the toxins and carcinogens associated with the grave health outcomes of smoking. If nicotine consumption can be separated from tobacco combustion, the overall harm of smoking can be substantially reduced... While nicotine has been implicated in neuro-developmental birth defects, it is not linked to cancer, cardiovascular disease or chronic pulmonary obstruction – the main harms caused by tobacco smoking. “When nicotine is decoupled from the deadly toxins in inhaled smoke, it is substantially less harmful,” states a 2018 academic study in the Annual Review of Public Health. Its conclusion: “Alternative Nicotine Delivery Systems may provide a means to compete with, and even replace, combusted cigarette use, saving more lives more rapidly than previously possible.” British research published by both Public Health England and the Royal College of Physicians over many years has highlighted the significant differences in toxicity. This evidence shows e-cigarettes have a risk factor of 5 percent relative to combustible cigarettes, as estimated by the toxin content of smoke versus vapour. This is a mammoth difference – 20 to 1... encouraging such a shift in consumer behaviour requires a sea-change in smoking culture and regulation in Canada. Opponents of vaping habitually cite high rates of e-cigarette use among youth and warn that this will ultimately lead to traditional smoking. Both claims are false... Smokers themselves, unfortunately, are largely unaware of the relative risks of consuming nicotine in different forms... This lack of understanding is not restricted to smokers. Research in academic journals has shown that doctors frequently confuse the effects of nicotine with those of smoking and combustion. A poll of over 1,000 U.S. doctors published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine in 2020 found a stunning 80 percent of physicians thought that nicotine directly causes cancer. It does not. An earlier survey found that 60 percent of nurses were similarly mistaken. This lack of awareness, combined with the instinct of doctors to “do no harm”, means that the North American medical profession has not adopted a coherent “low-risk” approach to tobacco use or nicotine addiction. In similar fashion, numerous medical and health-advocacy groups in Canada have vociferously argued against alternative nicotine devices... This campaign of disinformation impedes efforts to improve the health of smokers. The same goes for provincial regulations, municipal bylaws and corporate policies that conflate smoking with vaping, as witnessed by the proliferation of “No Smoking, No Vaping” signs in public spaces, stores and elsewhere. Beyond misrepresenting the nature of tobacco use and nicotine addiction, the second main urge behind the federal Liberals’ anti-smoking policy is a near-religious determination to destroy the legal cigarette industry in this country, or what is commonly referred to as Big Tobacco... the public health sector and federal bureaucracy have refused to move away from their historic modus operandi of attacking manufacturers. In this context, the planned cigarette stick messages are not just needless overreach, they represent a government that has lost its focus. A clear example of this dogmatic paralysis can be seen in current efforts that prevent an exchange of knowledge between public health organizations and the manufacturers of alternative products, such as e-cigarettes. The Canadian Public Health Association, for example, forbids representatives from the nicotine industry or individuals who have had any professional role or financial relationship with that industry – including doctors – from registering at their conferences or even listening to what its members promote. Health Canada’s financial support to these conferences thereby actively limits scientific exchange and learning and should be considered counter-productive in 2023. This is especially relevant given how the medical community habitually misunderstands the comparative risks of smoking and vaping... public health officials take the stance that anything Big Tobacco wants must be evil by definition. This explains why regulators have repeatedly blocked efforts to promote vaping over smoking through regulations and restrictions on alternative products... keep in mind Big Tobacco controls only about one-third of the vaping industry, which is dominated by smaller, newer firms... eliminating the legal tobacco industry will not put an end to smoking or nicotine addiction in Canada. It will simply force smokers into the hands of the black market, where there is no regard for anyone’s health. It is estimated that one-third of all cigarettes sold in Canada are produced illegally, typically on Indigenous reserves... the UK, which recently held a major public inquiry on tobacco use headed by prominent public health promoter Javed Khan. The Khan Report, formally titled Making Smoking Obsolete, made four main recommendations to eliminate smoking in Britain. “Promote Vaping” was number three... the British government is giving away vaping devices."
Why Do We Call Chicken ‘Chicken’ But Cow Meat ‘Beef’? (aka "Who’s Afraid of a Spatchcocked Chicken?") - "It was in 2010, in a shared kitchen at Cambridge University, that I first came to harbor a secret disdain for the semantic squeamishness of English-speaking meat-eaters. I was preparing raw chicken for dinner when a hallmate walked in. He, a sturdy, English-born student of Economics, stopped at the sight of me, and I had the distinct impression of having, once again, done something wrong. I was, that year, an American student studying abroad at one of the most decorated institutions in the world, and made aware of it... That “chicken” remains “chicken” has its basis in constructed hierarchies, too. Chickens were peasant food in 11th-century England. Nowadays, to say something “tastes like chicken” is to promise no gaminess or oddness, no funk or distinction, no whiff of barnyard animal. “Chicken” has transcended food to achieve a kind of inert neutrality. Most of my Cambridge hallmates cooked chicken in our shared kitchen. They preferred breasts and tenderloins, often shortened to “tenders.” Neat digits of meat, tenders arrived precut and slid bloodlessly from plastic trays, the violence of their severing from the “loin” — an uncomfortably human body part — having been done offstage. In Mandarin, a pig is a pig is a pig, whether oinking or braised; and chickens, ideally, come with feet and head intact. In some cases, a second character may be appended to the name of the animal, so that 猪 (zhū) is referred to as 猪肉 (zhū roù). 肉 (roù) means “meat” or “flesh.” Rather than hide the animal, 肉 draws attention to the fact that food is carved from a living creature — or added to one"
Why the dwarves in the Hobbit LOOKED RIGHT! - YouTube
Google is testing the ‘impact’ of removing EU news from search results - "Google says it’s running the “time-limited” test because EU regulators and publishers “have asked for additional data about the effect of news content in Search.” The company says it will continue to show results from websites and news publishers located outside the EU, and it will resume showing results from EU news publishers once the test ends. This may be just a small experiment, but it almost feels like a warning. By the end of the test, EU news publishers will see exactly how much traffic they’d be missing out on without Google. The experiment might also give Google some insight into how much its users actually care about news. That’s something Facebook has explored as well — which ultimately led it to remove the “News” tab and stop paying publishers entirely."
Hopefully the EU will learn from Canada's folly
Meta is ‘reckless’ in ‘need-to-know situations’, Canada warns Australia as it braces for early bushfire season
Naturally, left wing governments can never be reckless
Meta’s news ban in Canada has led to a media disaster. What does that mean for US efforts to wrangle big tech platforms? - "The Liberal government isn’t backing down in the face of this new data, though. Ottawa is now saying Meta may still indeed be regulated by way of the Online News Act since some news is still sneaking through the block, which looks like a technicality but speaks to the government’s intention to double down on the law."
How Meta's news ban reshaped Canadian media - "A recent study by the Media Ecosystem Observatory underscores the profound effects of these changes on Canadian media. The report, which examined the effect of Meta’s ban on Canadian news, revealed that news outlets lost 85% of their engagement on Facebook and Instagram, leading to a total engagement decline of 43%... approximately 30% of local news outlets in Canada are now inactive on social platforms. “Their digital presence has basically collapsed and they’re no longer connecting to the social web,” he said... The decline in traffic appears to have been part of a longer-term trend in Canada, according to David Beers, editor in chief of The Tyee, a B.C.-based independent, online news magazine. Even before the official block, he watched The Tyee’s Facebook engagement dropping over the previous year—evidence that Facebook was already adjusting its algorithms to deprioritize news. “We saw it. It was unmistakable. We compared notes with other publications. They saw the same”... Meta’s interpretation of what qualifies as news posed a particularly ironic challenge for digital outlet Narcity–one that demonstrates the subjectivity of the company’s decisions around what to block. “The government doesn’t hold an official list of news organizations that Meta would have to comply with,” said Lapointe. “So Meta… relies on their interpretation of which companies would be captured. And right now, you are automatically part of the law if you are a QCJO company.” For years, Narcity tried to receive a Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization (QCJO) designation, which must be determined by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to qualify for journalism labor tax credits. Narcity was denied the qualification in 2021. It resubmitted in 2022, and was denied again... After the denial of the QCJO, Lapointe used the rejection letter–which says that the government does not recognize it as a news organization that is engaged in the production of original news–to Meta for reconsideration. “The government does not believe that Narcity is a news organization, so why would Meta?” Two days later it regained control of its Facebook and Instagram pages... only 22% of Canadians are aware that the ban exists"
CRA alleges Muslim Association of Canada has radical links - "The Canada Revenue Agency is demanding corrective action from the Muslim Association of Canada's (MAC), in relation to alleged links to terrorist groups and other issues, or it will lose its charitable status... The MAC unsuccessfully fought in court to prevent the documents, the results of a years-long audit, from being made public by the newspaper. The organization also sought in court months ago to keep court evidence, including the audit, sealed, saying their release would threaten the dignity and safety of MAC members and all Canadian Muslims. The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled against the MAC. The MAC is in charge of four schools in Quebec and five mosques and community centres in Montreal, including a community centre in the borough of St. Laurent, which is also the location of the Al-Rawdah mosque. The documents specifically say the CRA is concerned about the MAC's links with the Muslim Brotherhood, and that the association's resources are being used by terrorist groups. The agency was not satisfied with the MAC's claim it had no links with the Muslim Brotherhood. The documents also revealed that the MAC allowed two organizations that support the Muslim Brotherhood to use its facilities for free and without monitoring what the groups were doing. The CRA is also alleging contact was made with the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria... The CRA also expressed concern in its audit that an individual named Mohammed al-Khatib, who allegedly had a link to an unidentified organization involved in financing terrorism, used MAC's list of contacts to ask for money for some groups in Jordan. The CRA documents also focuses on Azzam Abu-Rayash, who allegedly supports the terrorist group Hamas and favours violence. Abu-Rayash is alleged to have conducted a prayer service and took part in a MAC leadership workshop. Ahmed Khalil, another speaker at a MAC facility, is alleged to have called for violent jihad. As previously reported in 2023, the CRA alleged in in March 2021 that some directors and employees of the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) have been involved in "an apparent Hamas support network." IRFAN-Canada has been designated a terrorist entity by the Canadian government because of its support for the terrorist group Hamas, which perpetrated the attack against Israel on Oct. 7 in which 1,200 people were slaughtered. At that time, the MAC countered that the CRA is biased against Muslim charities. The CRA also expressed concern in its audit that an individual named Mohammed al-Khatib, who allegedly had a link to an unidentified organization involved in financing terrorism, used MAC's list of contacts to ask for money for some groups in Jordan. The CRA documents also focuses on Azzam Abu-Rayash, who allegedly supports the terrorist group Hamas and favours violence. Abu-Rayash is alleged to have conducted a prayer service and took part in a MAC leadership workshop. Ahmed Khalil, another speaker at a MAC facility, is alleged to have called for violent jihad. As previously reported in 2023, the CRA alleged in in March 2021 that some directors and employees of the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) have been involved in "an apparent Hamas support network." IRFAN-Canada has been designated a terrorist entity by the Canadian government because of its support for the terrorist group Hamas, which perpetrated the attack against Israel on Oct. 7 in which 1,200 people were slaughtered. At that time, the MAC countered that the CRA is biased against Muslim charities. The CRA has also fined the MAC $1.1 million for giving gifts, rent benefits and salaries to ineligible individuals and organizations, including a Montreal-based imam, a Quebec-based security company and the Canadian Muslim Forum. The CRA documents also claim that the MAC held non-religious activities during religious holidays. Yaser Haddara, a former MAC official, has said the organization is challenging the CRA audit, saying the organization is being accused of guilt by assoxiation. “Unfortunately, the issues of Islamophobia and bias that existed [in 2021] continue to exist in the final audit,” Haddara said."
Meme - *Slinkies*
"$1.95 each. We honestly don't really know what these are. They make a funny noise and are good for killing 5 minutes, but other than that we're at a loss, We didn't even order them. We receive a package of them every other month with no return address. We contacted the postal service and they have no record of these packages even being shipped. Please buy them. We want them gone. We have thousands of them. Help."
Meme *Jeep bumper stickers*
"Don't follow me. I do stupid shit..."
"My driving scares me too"
"It's dirty because play with it"
"Attempting to give a fuck. *Progress bar with low progress* Please wait..."
Licence plate: "B KND"
Opinion | There’s Already a Better Search Engine Than Google. It’s YouTube. - The New York Times - "One of these places is Reddit, a site whose outsize role in my life I plan to write about in a future column. The other is YouTube. The gargantuan video site is a lot of things to a lot of people — in different ways, YouTube is a little bit like TikTok, a little like Twitch and a little like Netflix — but I think we underappreciate how often YouTube is a better Google. That is, often it is the best place online to find reliable and substantive knowledge and information on a huge variety of subjects... I am routinely stunned by some of the things my kids have learned from YouTube that I never could have when I was their age. We were watching “Saving Private Ryan” the other day when my 12-year-old began pointing out historical inaccuracies in the film’s depiction of D-Day. I don’t think I’d even heard of D-Day at his age. Thanks to his copious consumption of YouTube war documentaries, he can’t stop talking about the North African campaign."
Woman shares husband with her mum - and sometimes lets her sister get involved - "Madi Brooks lives with her husband in the US, but if she’s ever not in the mood for loving, she’s more than happy for her mum to sleep with him instead. Speaking in a video on TikTok, she says: “Me and my mom are both swingers and it’s great, you know why? Because when I’m not in the mood I can just let my husband have her... Brooks, her husband and her mother are all swingers so they’re all in open relationships. In another video she revealed that even her younger sister apparently gets involved every now and again. She says: “You wanna know how I keep my man happy? I let him play with my little sister.”"
Jack Harlow Talks About Second Time He Lost His Virginity - "“I lost my virginity when I was 16,” Harlow recounted to a stadium full of people. “I always tell people I lost it twice because when I was 18 and I graduated high school, somehow, some way, I landed this dime piece who was five or six years older than me. She was like 23, 24 — it blew my mind because, Nashville, you have to understand, at that point, I’d only fuck with girls I’ve seen in the halls.”"
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John Boyega says he 'only dates Black' as he details his rules for dating
It's only racist if white people do it
People think about breaking up more when they look outside their relationship for psychological fulfillment - "it wasn’t simply that these participants were making up for a lack of fulfillment from within the relationship, the findings held even when the researchers took into account the extent of support provided by participants’ partners."
N. J. bars caught passing off dirty water, rubbing alcohol as liquor - "A drink ordered as “dirty” typically means the bartender should add a splash of olive juice, not actually contaminate the glass. The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office announced Thursday that one of the 29 bars targeted in an investigation called “Operation Swill’ allegedly passed dirty water as top-shelf liquor. Another mixed a concoction of rubbing alcohol and caramel food coloring to create a fine scotch, according to a spokesman from the attorney general’s office... The raided establishments also included 13 locations of the nation restaurant chain TGI Fridays, a trend Ricky Richardson, president of Fridays USA, called “very disturbing.”"
They look white but say they're black: a tiny town in Ohio wrestles with race - "“Negro”, it reads, next to each of her parents’ names. She looks up triumphantly, victory in her periwinkle eyes. “It’s a legal document,” she says... “I’m 53 years old, and that’s all I’ve ever been raised as: black,” Shreck says. “So if you’re taught that from when I’m old enough to understand, up to when you’re a grown woman, then [it’s] born and bred in you and you’re automatically black.” As first reported in State of the Re:Union, most of Shreck’s generation and the generations before her here in East Jackson, on the edge of Appalachian Ohio, were raised to believe they are black. Never mind that they might register to most as white by appearance, or that there is hardly a trace of black ancestry left in their blood. This inherited identity most East Jackson residents still cling to and fiercely protect is based on where they were born and who they were told they are... Officials in Waverly created East Jackson by corralling any newcomer they deemed to be black because of their appearance, or by second-class status because they were laborers or housekeepers, into the smaller town. Some forced to stay in East Jackson were not black, but because they all lived in East Jackson, grew up together and were treated as black by law, a community that identified as black took root. They married across racial lines, and had multiracial children. Over generations, as fewer black people sought this area out, black heritage thinned out. But black identity did not. The town functions as a microcosm of what African Americans have had to deal with in America, says Dr Barbara Ellen Smith, a professor emerita who has spent much of her career focused on inequality in Appalachia. Alongside the rise of anti-slavery laws was a parallel rise of what historians and scholars call “black laws” including the one-drop rule – that one drop of “black blood” disqualified an individual from having the legal status of whites – which became a widely accepted social attitude in Ohio beginning in the 1860s... In recent years, some East Jackson residents have shifted their identity. Oiler’s sister, Sarah Harris, 74, has come to identify as Native American in the latter stages of her life. Until a few years ago, she lived as a black woman. Harris’s birth certificate notes her parents as “dark”, and that has been part of her reasoning for identifying as Catawba Indian. She has even obtained an identification card that proclaims her new status, even though she has never taken a genetic test to confirm it."
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