Meme - Billy Baldwin @BillyBaldwin: "MAGA is still furious that Brittney Griner was released. Is it because she is black, a woman, an activist, or all of the above?" Isabella Maria DeLuca @lsabell...: "No we're actually still mad that your brother shot and killed a woman and has had no consequences. Is it because he is rich, 3 man, a Democrat, or all of the above?"
Meme - Ana Navarro-Cardenas @ananavarro: "You really have to be the most ghoulish, heartless, shittiest excuse for a human being to use a tragic accident that cost a young woman her life, to attempt to crack a joke at @AlecBaldwin's expense."
Lauren Boebert @laurenboebert: ".@AlecBaldwin are these stil available? Asking for a movie producer."
Alec Baldwin: "I'm going to make bright, banana yellow t-shirts that read "My hands are up. Please don't shoot me." Who wants one?"
Ana Navarro-Cardenas @ananavarro: "Ha! "@kenvogel: Brave. Hunting w/Cheney MT @jmartNYT Mary, just back from hunt w dad, doesn't talk to parents re Liz"
Ana Navarro-Cardenas @ananavarro: "Enzi thanks God they're not hunting buddies. "@AaronBlakeWP: Dick Cheney: Enzi lied about us being fishing buddies"
Ana Navarro-Cardenas @ananavarro: "My money is on Enzi, unless Liz Cheney gets her father to invite Enzi to go hunting..."
Ana Navarro-Cardenas @ananavarro: "Thank God not hunting "@ZekeIMiller: RT @rickklein: Cheney, like Bushes 41 43, not going to RNC - fishing instead, he tells @jonkarl @GMA"
Ana Navarro-Cardenas @ananavarro: "As you know, Texans don't shoot bb guns "@PaulBegala: Only way Bush Admin would have shot bin Laden is if he'd been hunting Cheney.""
Alec Baldwin says 'everyone on Rust set knows who to blame for Halyna Hutchins' death' - "The actor also said a bullet could have been fired from the gun without pulling the trigger through a process called 'fanning' where one hand holds the revolver and the other repeatedly cocks back the hammer in a slapping motion... Bodycam footage of on set armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed shortly after the fatal shooting of Hutchins shows her saying she 'just f***ed up my whole entire career'."
Alec Baldwin did pull trigger on movie set, says FBI report | Toronto Sun
Alec Baldwin tells Chris Cuomo he did NOT pull trigger on Rust set - "A frustrated Alec Baldwin insisted he did not pull the trigger of the gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his movie Rust, claiming again that the faulty gun fired on its own and that the 'only' question to ask is who put a live bullet in the stunt weapon... Baldwin and Cuomo — who is making a comeback after being fired by CNN last year — commiserated over what they described as an unfair and possessed media that is hell-bent on destroying them, with Baldwin taking special aim at The New York Post and 'anything [Rupert] Murdoch' [owned]... Baldwin has intimated that the people responsible are Assistant Director Dave Halls and Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed."
Criticising the media is only fascist when it's leftist media
Hilaria Baldwin: 'Enemies' of Alec Baldwin out to destroy reputation | Toronto Sun
Cernovich on Twitter - "When Dick Cheney accidentally shot someone, Hollywood did comedy sketches, it was a punch line, Alec Baldwin even blogged about how he hoped Cheney would be arrested. Keep your fake sanctimony off of my timeline."
Meme - Johannes Velterop: "Might the prop gun have been secretly loaded with real bullets by a Trump supporter, to punish Alec Baldwin for his Trump parodies? Should be a line of inquiry.
Why is it only MAGA-types that vehemently dismiss this as one of the possible causes? Too close to the bone? Btw, I do hope it was just an accident, but it's America after all."
BlueAnon strikes again
Meme - Cycle: "It's not happening"
"It's a right-wing conspiracy theory"
"It's happening and it's good"
"Rinse and repeat"
e.g. Inflation
Meme - "What Dinosaur am I?
Hint: I'm a distant relative of mammals
Hint: My name means "two measures of teeth"
Hint: I became extinct 40 million years before the first dinosaur
Hint: I was the largest predator of my time"
Isaac Hempstead Wright Thought Bran Being King Was a Prank
I still see people defending the final season of Game of Thrones
Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt Drops Most of U.K. Tax-Cut Plan - The New York Times - "Under relentless pressure from financial markets, Britain’s new chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, swept away the free-market economic agenda of Prime Minister Liz Truss on Monday, a humiliating repudiation that left her credibility in tatters and her political survival in doubt. Mr. Hunt said he would reverse virtually all the government’s planned tax cuts, which were the centerpiece of Ms. Truss’s promise to reignite Britain’s economic growth, but which kicked off weeks of market turmoil because of fears that they would force the government into massive new borrowing... Before appearing next to Mr. Hunt in Parliament, Ms. Truss had sent the leader of the House of Commons, Penny Mordaunt, to answer questions about the crisis on her behalf. That prompted accusations from opponents that she was ducking an awkward confrontation."
Since they believe markets are infallible, the libertarians and conservatives will be saying that the markets weren't happy because she didn't cut taxes enough, and that taxes are always bad
Alan McGuinness on Twitter - "My son has lived through four chancellors, three home secretaries, two prime ministers and two monarchs. He's four months old."
Austria's Mixed Feelings About Schwarzenegger - WSJ - ""He has always been a great advertisement for Austria." But it isn't the kind of advertisement all Austrians want for their small country, which some fear will now become even better known as the home of the Terminator than as the birthplace of Mozart. Peter Pilz, a member of the Austrian parliament who comes from the same region as Mr. Schwarzenegger, said in a newspaper commentary Wednesday that the victory could "damage the good reputation of a beautiful country." For years, Austrians have been divided over Mr. Schwarzenegger. Many admire his achievements as an athlete and actor, but others see him as a freak whose Hollywood exploits have tarnished Austria's reputation as the home of great artists, scientists and composers... local Web sites have been full of acerbic comments about Mr. Schwarzenegger and the crazy "Amis," German slang for Americans. "Schwarzenegger can't speak German. Schwarzenegger can't speak English. Schwarzenegger can't act ... the U.S. truly is the land of unlimited opportunity," read one posting... Mr. Schwarzenegger's success would add yet another trite image to the outside world's view of Austria as the setting for the "Sound of Music" and home of the Vienna Boys Choir. "Austria shouldn't be reduced to a cliche," he said. "I think this is terrible for Austria's image," said Marion Koelbl, 35, a marketing executive in Vienna. "It sends the completely wrong message about Austria. Austria's culture isn't about bodybuilding and stupidity."... a poll on French newspaper Le Monde's Web site shows that 55% of some 4,500 readers said Mr. Schwarzenegger's election is a worrying event for the image of democracy, while 38% said it isn't. In a June survey, the Marshall Fund found that 49% of Europeans thought strong U.S. leadership in the world was undesirable, up from 31% a year earlier. Mr. Schwarzenegger's lack of either political experience or clearly developed ideas about governance is unlikely to improve that impression, said Mr. Drozdiak, himself a Californian. "I think you'll see a lot of commentary in the European papers saying: Has America gone mad?" Some of the criticism of Mr. Schwarzenegger may be rooted in his use of language. His trademark accent when speaking English is based on the working-class dialect spoken in the area where he grew up. In Austria, where centuries of Hapsburg rule and a strict division between aristocrats and commoners created a class-conscious society, the dialect immediately identifies him as a geschert, or lower class. Moreover, after spending more than 30 years in the U.S., Mr. Schwarzenegger's German has taken on a distinctly American accent. In fact, his German is so out of practice that when giving interviews in his mother tongue he often struggles to finish sentences and peppers his speech with English. Mr. Schwarzenegger doesn't speak his own parts in the German-language versions of his films.
Supposedly he wasn't allowed to dub himself in Terminator because of his hillbilly accent, but this is the closest I've come to a source about this claim
Lou Martin's answer to Do barracks bunnies actually exist in the army? - Quora - "Back in the ‘90s when I was active at Ft. Stewart, barracks bunnies were a nuisance and dangerous at times. Bunnies come in a wide variety. From your ”No Really I’m 18” jail-bait-in-disguise, dwarf bunnies, to the “I’m Looking for a Place to Crash and We Can Play” variety. Even the ”I’m the Girl from Your Fantasies” and “Let Me Marry Your Paycheck…I Mean You” nester bunnies. To the ”I caught something penicillin doesn’t fix, I’m angry cause I’m pretty sure a soldier gave it to me, so I’m giving it back” scary bunnies. Then there was the common cottontail that just liked being tail. They’d come after hours and hop into the sunrise before morning formation. Only to return and start the cycle all over again. As a NCO on CQ duty you patrol your battalions, brigades or division areas but mostly you monitor the radios and phones. On CQ duty during a three or four day pass after a long deployment. You see and get entangled in a cornucopia of bunny-related shenanigans. So yes they exist. Just like their cousins the ”Lot Lizard” that prefer truckers. You get a high density of males, sprinkle in some testosterone and it’s inevitable that you attract critters."
Burglary victim pens heartbreaking note begging for last photos of dog - "‘To the man who was in my house and robbed me. Keep the cash, and my DSLR, and whatever else you took. ‘But if you have the memory card from the camera, please, it has photos of my dog’s last day alive on it.’"
On celebrating Rush Limbaugh’s death - "depressed with the number of people I saw expressing sheer joy at the death of Rush Limbaugh, I put up a Facebook post... people proceeded to inform me, as if I didn’t know, what Limbaugh’s odious political and personal opinions really were, with some adding me that it was really okay to celebrate... as Frank Bruni notes in his New York Times op-ed below (expressing a view similar to mine), the celebrations were not only widespread, but pretty mean-spirited... While I don’t mourn the absence of Limbaugh from the scene, celebrating it just didn’t feel right. I couldn’t join the chorus of glee, and yet I didn’t understand why. I didn’t feel that I was superior to those who were celebrating (yes, it was mean-spirited, but I can be, too), but something in me baulked at expressing the verbal equivalent of heart symbols. Part of it was that Limbaugh’s wife was on the news, clearly distraught, and she loved him, as other members of his family must have. So some people are more heartbroken than we are gleeful. And I’m a conscientious objector, which I think has made me wary of celebrating anybody’s death, even an enemy’s. But most of all, I suppose, I realize how much every human values their own lives. Evolution has instilled strong instincts for self-preservation in us, and few can face a terminal diagnosis with equanimity. Limbaugh himself must have gone through unspeakable mental and physical torments after his diagnosis and before his death. I wouldn’t wish that on anybody, and it’s hard for me to look at that and laugh. Yes, he might have had a negative effect on the world, but there are many people you can say that about. Not just Trump, but, as I think from comments by some on this site, almost every Republican, from Mitch McConnell to Ted Cruz on down, could be described as having a net negative effect on the world. Even regular people, if they engage in stuff like killing animals for fur or evicting poor people from their homes, might create, through their existence, a net loss in “well being”, however you measure that. If having a net negative effect on the world is the criterion for celebrating someone’s death, then we should constantly be celebrating. And yet, like Bruni, I think it erodes one’s character to engage in that kind of hate, and I think it’s eroded both Democrats and Republicans over the past four years to engage in the kind of demonization that led to the celebration of Limbaugh’s death. What doesn’t erode one’s character is a measured yet highly negative take on Limbaugh’s legacy, which both Bruni and Andrew Sullivan (below; click on screenshot) offer."
Take a moment to appreciate that a child has been freed from a nuggetless existence - "a woman unloaded on her ex-husband for reportedly sneaking their 8-year-old daughter chicken nuggets behind her back. To be fair to the woman, it was her ex who used to be over-the-top back in the day and demanded no animal products be found in their house. He apparently even criticized her for eating Oreos while pregnant, so I can kinda understand why things didn't work out."
Chick-Fil-a Has Slowest Drive-Thrus, Because It's so Popular: Study - "Chick-fil-A restaurants had an average of 4.74 cars in its drive-thru line, compared to an average of 2.76 across the 10 chains studied. When taking the number of cars in the line into account, Chick-fil-A actually had the quickest average time at just one minute and 47 seconds"
I'm gay and I eat at Chick-fil-A - by Reid Newton - "An inconvenient wrinkle in the argument that Chick-fil-A is an anti-gay institution is the fact that it both serves and employs LGBT people every day, with a smile. To me, the good work of the organizations Chick-fil-A has donated money to over the years vastly outweighs their open belief in Biblical marriage and conservative Christian values. For example, the Paul Anderson Youth Home helps troubled young men get their lives back on track. In a time when male education rates are down and suicide rates are up, a rehabilitation program seems to me like an essential endeavor, whether it is centered around religion or not. Despite our ideological differences, I find it hard to believe that if I were to attempt to join one of the above organizations that I would be shunned, shouted down, and exiled. Unfortunately, my experience with the LGBT community to which I belong has been very different. Rather than bring people into the fold and explore our common humanity, the walls surrounding the LGBT community and its “allies” continue to grow higher every day. In opposition to this approach, people and organizations who give thoughtful consideration to current issues usually arrive at a reasonable conclusion. In fact, the Salvation Army’s website now dedicates an entire page to LGBTQ support. It’s amazing what happens when we dare to give others a little time, compassion, and the benefit of the doubt. When asked about Chick-fil-A’s support of Republican political campaigns and donations from supposedly anti-gay institutions, Dan Cathy responded, “While we evaluate individual donations on an annual basis, our giving is focused on three key areas: youth and education, leadership and family enrichment, and serving the local communities in which we operate. Our intent is to not support political or social agendas. This has been the case for more than 60 years. The Chick-fil-A culture and service tradition in our restaurants is to treat every person with honor, dignity, and respect, and to serve great food with genuine hospitality.” What is most striking in Cathy’s comment is the part about treating every person with honor, dignity, and respect. That is all I ask of those who might disagree with my lifestyle or believe it to be a sin. Treat me with dignity and respect, and I will do the same for you... In my twenty-six years of life, I have learned that the best way to change someone’s mind is to get to know them, to let them get to know me, and maybe even swap stories over a chicken sandwich. We almost always realize that we have more in common than we thought. That is the beginning of building bridges and effecting change."
Of course, liberals want to demonise others, so building bridges isn't the point
Mom upset after baby's Bluetooth nightlight allegedly picks up audio from neighbor's adult film - "A mother in Scotland got scared when she heard strange noises coming from her baby’s bedroom late at night — only to realize later that her tot’s Bluetooth nightlight had picked up the sounds of a neighbor watching an X-rated film."
Worker who lowered Vermont town's fluoride for years resigns - "A town employee who quietly lowered the fluoride in a Vermont community's drinking water for years has resigned — and is asserting that the levels had actually been low for much longer than believed. Richmond water superintendent Kendall Chamberlin disclosed in his five-page resignation letter, submitted Monday, that fluoride levels have not been in the state-recommended range for over a decade... Chamberlin said in his letter — in language that at times echoes unfounded reports that have circulated online in recent years — that he doesn’t think the current fluoridation policy is legally required or scientifically sound, and, in his opinion, poses “unacceptable risks to public health.”... The original news that the fluoride had been reduced for nearly four years — a much shorter time than Chamberlin revealed in his resignation letter — shocked some residents and area doctors, who raised concerns about misinformation, dental health and government transparency, and said it was not a decision for Chamberlin to make alone... in 2018 that 73 per cent of the U.S. population was served by water systems with adequate fluoride to protect teeth."
Fluoridated water isn't just good for teeth — it can lead to higher incomes, too
English have better teeth than Americans
Of course, I still see Americans mocking British teeth
Tropicana announces orange juice friendly toothpaste - "Anyone who’s ever tried to drink a glass of orange juice soon after brushing their teeth knows that the lingering effects of toothpaste will make the juice taste much different, and significantly worse, than it usually does. While most people have simply decided to just not eat or drink after brushing their teeth, Tropicana has a new solution... "Tropicana Toothpaste is different from other toothpaste because it was specifically designed to protect the delicious taste of orange juice. It does not include sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) as an ingredient, a cleaning agent prevalent in toothpaste that contributes to the bitter aftertaste from brushing your teeth with toothpaste and then drinking OJ.""
We Finally Know Why We Grow Wisdom Teeth as Adults - "our jaws are simply late bloomers... All of this is the result of two fundamental things about humans: we have prolonged lives and short faces... you don’t necessarily need to get them removed. In the UK, for instance, wisdom teeth are only removed if they become problematic, as the National Health Service notes that there is otherwise no proven benefit (but there is the added complication of having a minor surgery)."
‘My dentist saved my tooth, but wiped my memory’ - "Since then, he has been unable to remember almost anything for longer than 90 minutes... Today, he only knows that there is a problem because he and his wife have written detailed notes on his smartphone, in a file labelled “First thing – read this”... The doctors initially suspected that he’d reacted badly to the anaesthetic, causing a brain haemorrhage – yet they failed to find evidence of injury... The obvious explanation would have been that William had a form of “anterograde amnesia”, like Henry Molaison, whose experiences have informed much of what we know about memory. During brain surgery to treat his epilepsy, surgeons sliced out a large chunk of Molaison’s grey matter, including his hippocampi – seahorse-shaped regions at the centre of the brain. They act as our memory’s printing press, stamping the “episodic memories” of events into long-term storage – and without them, Molaison was unable to hold on to anything that occurred after the surgery. Yet as William’s first doctors had noted, brain scans seemed to show that these crucial areas were still intact. Nor did his symptoms exactly match those of other anterograde amnesiacs. While Molaison couldn’t remember details of personal events, for instance, he could learn new “procedural” skills since they are processed in different parts of the brain. When Burgess asked William to work out how to solve a complex maze, however, he had completely forgotten the skill three days later. “It was like a déjà vu replica of the same errors – he took the same time to relearn the task once more”... William had suffered no trauma, and according to Burgess’s detailed psychiatric assessments, he is otherwise emotionally healthy. “He was a successful father and military officer with good job evaluations,” says Burgess. “There was no reason to think that there was anything wrong psychiatrically.”... it’s not clear why root canal surgery should have made his brain run dry in this way. “That’s the million-pound question”, says Burgess, “and I don’t have an answer.” Scouring the medical literature, he found five similar cases of mysterious memory loss without brain damage. Although none occurred during a trip to the dentist, they do seem to follow other periods of physiological stress during a medical emergency. “It could be a genetic predisposition that needs a catalyst event to start the process”... William also demonstrates just how the powerfully our emotions shape our minds. In the last 10 years, he has been able to cling to one new fact – his father’s death. Somehow, the force of his grief helped him to forge new tracks in the brain and grasp on to that fact, when everything else has slipped away. Even then, he is unable to remember the events surrounding it, nor the bedside vigil in his last few days"
50 first dates wasn't fantasy
Moving for Better Weather Won't Make You Happier - The Atlantic - "moving for the sake of nice weather probably isn’t worth the money, time, and personal disruption. There are better strategies to get happier, even if you live in a dreary place... When sunshine touches our skin, it increases our levels of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that improves mood. Some people have an especially strong negative reaction to a lack of sunshine in the form of seasonal affective disorder (SAD), which afflicts up to 9.7 percent of the population... Temperature matters for happiness too. One study from 2013 measured participants’ mood at various temperatures and found that a cool 57 degrees Fahrenheit outdoors is optimal for a positive mood. Temperatures colder and hotter than that were associated with lower sense of well-being... People in permanently warm places tend to be happier than their cold-weather counterparts during the autumn and winter months. But in the spring, that pattern reverses. When someone says they “enjoy the change in seasons,” they probably don’t mean they enjoy digging their car out of a snowbank but rather that they get a big, noticeable happiness boost when bad weather turns into good weather. And then, of course, there is the problem of homeostasis. Humans are generally bad at enjoying anything for very long before we become accustomed to it and return to our baseline happiness levels. Researchers warn that the thrill of good weather will wear off in relatively short order after moving, just as thrills tend to do after other happiness-inducing phenomena (such as marriage or coming into a lot of money)... people tend to think that weather matters more for their happiness than it actually does... An obvious difference like sunny weather is thought to matter more than it does for happiness, compared with other, less visible influences such as friendships and homey familiarity. Sunny weather is great. But unless you suffer from SAD, moving to get it probably isn’t worth the effort... depending on where you choose to go, you could be stuck with chronic happiness drains such as high taxes and house prices... You’ll be happier if you can find a way to get sun and warmth temporarily, especially during the bleakness of the winter months. Research shows that frequent, short vacations—if you can take them—are a good strategy for raising overall well-being, because they circumvent the adaptation problem. We already know that people who live in cold places get a mood boost as spring arrives; you can simulate that change over and over with short vacations to sunny spots... Rather than getting the weather you like, another strategy is to like the weather you get"
13.9 degrees celsius is optimal weather
Religion appears to influence motivations to volunteer during the COVID-19 pandemic - "Both religious and non-religious medical students volunteered to help battle the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland, according to new research published in the Journal of Religion and Health. But the study found that altruistic motivations were more common among religious students, while egoistic motivations were more common among the non-religious."
We still get liberals claiming Christians don't put their money where their mouth is despite evidence that they donate more (even to secular charities)
Is Cohabitation As Good As Marriage for People’s Subjective Well-Being? Longitudinal Evidence on Happiness and Life Satisfaction in the British Household Panel Survey - "This study investigates changes in happiness and life satisfaction associated with transitions into cohabitation and marriage in 12 waves from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) collected between 1997 and 2009. Theory suggests that happiness is an emotional state that is linked to one’s physiological reactions to life events, whereas satisfaction is a cognitive evaluation that also depends on social comparisons with other important reference groups as well as the individual’s desires, expectations and hopes. A longitudinal (fixed effects) analysis that controls for time-invariant variation in subjective well-being indicates that entering cohabitation is as beneficial for people’s happiness as entering marriage. Entering marriage is slightly more satisfying than cohabitation but only among previously never-married individuals. This is true for men and women and across age and cohorts. These findings indicate that cohabitation provides similar benefits to marriage with regard to happiness but not how previously never married individuals view their overall satisfaction with their lives."
Mind the “Happiness” Gap: The Relationship Between Cohabitation, Marriage, and Subjective Well-being in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and Norway - "Many studies have found that married people have higher subjective well-being than those who are not married. Yet the increase in cohabitation raises questions as to whether only marriage has beneficial effects. In this study, we examine differences in subjective well-being between cohabiting and married men and women in midlife, comparing the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and Norway. We apply propensity score–weighted regression analyses to examine selection processes into marriage and differential treatment bias. We find no differences between cohabitation and marriage for men in the United Kingdom and Norway, and women in Germany. However, we do find significant differences for men in Australia and women in Norway. The differences disappear after we control for selection in Australia, but they unexpectedly persist for Norwegian women, disappearing only when we account for relationship satisfaction. For German men and British and Australian women, those with a lower propensity to marry would benefit from marriage. Controls eliminate differences for German men, although not for U.K. women, but relationship satisfaction reduces differences. Overall, our study indicates that especially after selection and relationship satisfaction are taken into account, differences between marriage and cohabitation disappear in all countries. Marriage does not lead to higher subjective well-being; instead, cohabitation is a symptom of economic and emotional strain."
Ya Kun founder's grandson explains why the family business is run by a Japanese CEO - "The CEO of beloved Singaporean heritage brand Ya Kun is neither Singaporean nor related to the family of Ya Kun's founder, Loi Ah Koon. The person running the show for about five years now is Toshiya Tanaka, whom Loi's grandson Jesher Loi is quick to qualify is "more Singaporean than he is Japanese"... He's patient, collaborative, has a wealth of experience (20 years in the F&B industry, in fact), and brings a decidedly Japanese quality to his work: A keen eye for detail... The Loi family has been engaging outsiders to run the business for years now. "On our own, we are very limited in terms of our resources"... family-run businesses can suffer blind spots because of their inherent bias, so there are benefits to having an outsider — someone with the right skills, proficiency, and talent — to run the business professionally. This willingness to acknowledge personal shortcomings and open up the family business is just one of the many qualities that enabled Ya Kun to evolve from a one-man coffee stall to a global franchise spanning 14 countries... all employees who join Ya Kun have to spend two weeks working at a Ya Kun outlet to gain perspective"
Alex Robinson's answer to What is your favourite classic movie that you think can’t be made again today? - Quora - "In 1982, journalist Chuck Ross decided to pull an experiment. He wanted to discover just how capable film studios were at spotting a great work. So he took the script of Casablanca, changed the title and character names, and sent it off to 217 major studios. 85 studios got back to Ross with comments on the quality of his script: 33 recognized it as Casablanca. 1 accepted it as a TV movie. 3 stated they would look into producing it as a feature film. 48 Studios Rejected the Script of one of the ten greatest films (by consensus) ever made."
Casablanca Rejected (1982) - "Ross's Casablanca experiment was the second time he had perpetrated such a hoax. In 1979 he had submitted the text of Jerzy Kosinski's National Book Award winning novel Steps to fourteen publishers, all of whom rejected it."
This has interesting implications for social proof and cultural criticism
FBI Rocked By Public Suicide of TOP FBI Agent Who Investigated Clinton Foundation - "Salvatore “Sal” Cincinelli, a former Wall Street broker who joined the FBI in 2010, died last week during a night out after an FBI training session... Cincinelli was reportedly out partying with FBI colleagues at the Container Bar, a trendy watering hole in Austin, TX. The group had been drinking and dancing, according to sources. Later in the evening Cincinelli reportedly turned the gun on himself on a crowded dance floor. Bar owner Bridget Dunlap did not respond to phone calls seeking details on the incident. FBI agents on site and police instructed witnesses to delete any video and photographs of the event and cleared out the bar, according to reports. Likewise, FBI officials instructed Austin Police to not release any details of the death to the media, sources confirmed. Witnesses at the nite club were also told to “stay offline” and “keep quiet” about the shooting"
Top FBI agent from New York dead by suicide: sources - "His younger sister, NYPD cop Valerie Cincinelli, 35, was busted by the FBI in May for allegedly scheming to have her estranged husband killed amid a bitter divorce. She’s being held without bail."
From 2019
Presumably the Clintons have mind control powers to make people kill themselves in public
