The Irish election was yesterday and Sinn Fein got more seats than they have in the past 50 years. Here's the local candidate I voted for (trust me, worth a read)

by RuckFeddit to /s/politics from en.wikipedia.org

RIP BJORN

by MASTERLEEBAMBI to /s/Ice_Poseidon2 from en.wikipedia.org

TIL about the "Davy Crockett" M-29 portable nuclear warhead mortar gun, made in the 1950s

by magnora7 to /s/TIL from en.wikipedia.org

TIL Scholars now think that human writing independently developed in at least five ancient civilizations: Mesopotamia/Sumer (between 3400 and 3100 BC), Egypt (around 3250 BC), China (2000 BC), Mesoamerica (by 650 BC), and Peru (by 200 CE)

by magnora7 to /s/TIL from en.wikipedia.org

imagine thinking captain content is poor when his uncle is literally xavi that played on barcelona.

by TheGreatKitDuncan to /s/Ice_Poseidon2 from en.wikipedia.org

Don't forget, Kobe raped a girl in 2003....

by Teh_Pwner to /s/Ice_Poseidon2 from en.wikipedia.org

Remember the Integrity Initiative Leak? Guess how many sentences there are on it in Wikipedia...?

by Robin to /s/DownTheMemoryHole from en.wikipedia.org

Stanley Fischer, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, is an Israeli dual citizen who previously worked for the World Bank and the Bank of Israel

by SomeBoringRandomDude to /s/Rothschilds from en.wikipedia.org

og nl and attilla would have 30 viewers if they didn't live in the house FUCK THEM their irrelevent leeches!

by ddd3ddd3 to /s/Ice_Poseidon2 from en.wikipedia.org

Can someone inform faggot ginger?

by Cxposed to /s/Ice_Poseidon2 from en.wikipedia.org

Felony Charles grand dad was an abolitionist

by shtposter9000 to /s/Ice_Poseidon2 from en.wikipedia.org

Fred Hampton Cause of Death: gunshot, point-blank range, December 4, 1969, age 21, "Given revelations about the illegal COINTELPRO program and documents associated with the killings, scholars now widely consider Hampton's death an assassination under the FBI's initiative"

by EndlessSunflowers to /s/conspiracy from en.wikipedia.org

Why we don't like Greta Thunburg - Samantha Smith

by sproketboy to /s/whatever from en.wikipedia.org

TIL: The 4 richest banks in the world are all based in the same country, which surprised me.

by Robin to /s/TIL from en.wikipedia.org

Malizia II - Wikipedia

by useless_aether to /s/Rothschilds from en.wikipedia.org

UN Secretary General, António Guterres is the former President of the Socialist International.

by useless_aether to /s/communismwatch from en.wikipedia.org

catch up niggers and read what we have access to here. an mma legend that hasnt won a fight in 3 years desperate for a way to make money and no other real skills he is funny, fearless, and wants to livestream. stop wasting time with boring ass leeches doing the same shit everyday

by burgerbroyo to /s/Ice_Poseidon2 from en.wikipedia.org

Patented in 1857, the phonautograph was the earliest known device to record sound, but had no means of playback. The recordings were first converted back into sound in 2008.

by Robin to /s/TIL from en.wikipedia.org

The man behind Spinoza - Franciscus van den Enden

by useless_aether to /s/Jesuits from en.wikipedia.org

Quinnipiac University is a private university in Hamden, Connecticut. The university grants undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees through its School of Business and Engineering, School of Communication, School of Law, etc. The university hosts the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

by Orangutan to /s/politics from en.wikipedia.org

TIL about the Starlink sat constellation

by useless_aether to /s/Internet from en.wikipedia.org

Eugenics Became Crypto-Eugenics After Being Marginalized Due to the Exposure of Nazi Germany's Doings In Eugenics' Name

by CompleteDoubterII to /s/conspiracy from en.wikipedia.org

List of monarchs who were Freemasons

by magnora7 to /s/Collusion from en.wikipedia.org

List of presidents of the United States who were Freemasons

by magnora7 to /s/Collusion from en.wikipedia.org

TIL Jon Stewart is a vegetarian, his wife is a vegan, and they have a 12-acre farm for abused animals

by BeSelfless to /s/Vegetarian from en.wikipedia.org

only low IQ incels dont see how poetry and literature are alpha activities. Guy's friends said he took more pride in his sex life than in his books.

by stiggy to /s/Incels from en.wikipedia.org

YSK: "Natural Flavor" is Beaver butt juice

by spacedolphin to /s/Food from en.wikipedia.org

TIL of the Great Male Renunciation

by [deleted] to /s/TIL from en.wikipedia.org

The Colombian Banana massacre.

by HibikiBlack to /s/conspiracy from en.wikipedia.org

Regime change is the replacement of one government regime with another. Regime change may replace all or part of the state's most critical leadership system, administrative apparatus, or bureaucracy. Regime change can occur through inside change caused by revolution, coup d'état or reconstruction...

by Orangutan to /s/politics from en.wikipedia.org

A coup d'état, also known as a putsch (German:/pʊtʃ/), a golpe de estado (Spanish/Portuguese), or simply as a coup, means the overthrow of an existing government; typically, this refers to an illegal, unconstitutional seizure of power by a dictator, the military, or a political faction.

by Orangutan to /s/politics from en.wikipedia.org

TIL that in 2003, two men flew a Boeing 727 away from an Angolan airport and it has never been seen since.

by Robin to /s/TodayILearned from en.wikipedia.org

Zognald Trumpsteins page just got a blue lock everyone! Kushner confirmed

by [deleted] to /s/conspiracy from en.wikipedia.org

TIL about the Soucouyant, or Loogaroo. (I'm pretty sure that HRC is a loogaroo)

by Tom_Bombadil to /s/TIL from en.wikipedia.org

Honduras Wiki

by RunnerUp to /s/Honduras from en.wikipedia.org

In February this year Wikipedia voted on whether to delete its entire article on the Israeli occupation of the West Bank.

by Robin to /s/TIL from en.wikipedia.org

Wikipedia's Deletion log - Currently still there, but harder to find than ever after recent changes. A useful tool for anyone looking at cover-ups. If the deletion log itself got deleted or hidden, how would we know...?

by Robin to /s/DownTheMemoryHole from en.wikipedia.org

List of UFC Events

by nflstream to /s/ufc from en.wikipedia.org

Fall of the Roman Empire | The Fall of the Western Roman Empire (also called Fall of the Roman Empire or Fall of Rome) was the process of decline in the Western Roman Empire in which the Empire failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided into several successor polities.

by Orangutan to /s/politics from en.wikipedia.org

August 5 and 14 of 2019 have seen the 7th and 8th largest point drops of the S&P 500 ever recorded

by magnora7 to /s/finance from en.wikipedia.org

The Colombian Banana massacre.

by HibikiBlack to /s/conspiracy from en.wikipedia.org

Wikipedia's page "suicide watch" history. The edit as of 15:17, 10 August 2019‎ is now hidden from all but 41 wikipedia admins.

by Robin to /s/censorship from en.wikipedia.org

Wikipedia's "suicide watch" page has had over 75 recent edits, all reverted immediately, before it was semi-protected. Currently it has a one sentence mention that he "killed himself", on the end of a paragraph about someone else.

by Robin to /s/censorship from en.wikipedia.org

Falkirk Wheel - a rotating boat lift in Falkirk, central Scotland, connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal.

by JasonCarswell to /s/engineering from en.wikipedia.org

In the 1940s through the 1960s, the Quebec government collaborated with the Catholic Church to falsely certify 20,000 "orphaned" children as mentally ill and confine them to psychiatric institutions. The orphans were then subjected to medical experimentation and sexual abuse.

by HibikiBlack to /s/conspiracy from en.wikipedia.org

Black Cube - private intelligence agency (London, Paris, Tel Aviv since 2010) former Israeli intelligence, Aman, Mossad, Shin Bet, with legal and financial experts for "litigation support" as they provide intel, evidence & advisory services in multi-jurisdictional legal & white collar crime cases.

by JasonCarswell to /s/Intelligence from en.wikipedia.org

Black box - (science, computing, engineering) a device, system or object viewed only in terms of inputs and outputs (or transfer characteristics), "opaque" (black) non-transparent faith-based implementation, without knowledge of its internal workings.

by JasonCarswell to /s/OpenScience_Scientism from en.wikipedia.org

Fragging - deliberate killing or attempt of a fellow soldier, usually superior officer. Now encompassing any direct deliberate means, coined in the Vietnam War most often with fragmentation grenade "accidents" or in enemy combat, especially symptomatic of the war's unpopularity in the latter years.

by JasonCarswell to /s/WarWatch from en.wikipedia.org

Wikipedia's article about Isaac Kappy was deleted 3 days after his violent death since it did not contain a "credible claim of significance".

by Robin to /s/censorship from en.wikipedia.org

In 2008 as U.S. Attorney, Alexander Acosta approved a plea deal that mostly let Jeffrey Epstein off the hook. Alexander Acosta now is Trump's US Secretary of Labor. Will Epstein be prosecuted this time, or will his political connections get him out of trouble again?

by magnora7 to /s/corruption from en.wikipedia.org

Mani pulite (Italian for "clean hands") was a nationwide investigation into political corruption in Italy in the 1990s, resulting in the demise and disappearance of many political parties. As many as 5,000 public figures fell under suspicion and more than half of Parliament were under indictment

by Orangutan to /s/conspiracy from en.wikipedia.org

The Raft of the Medusa

by JasonCarswell to /s/Art from en.wikipedia.org

The CIA and Operation Mockingbird.

by HibikiBlack to /s/conspiracy from en.wikipedia.org

Crokinole - a circular dexterity board game, akin to pitchnut, carrom, marbles, and shove ha'penny, knipsbrat, shuffleboard, and curling - but table-top sized. Players take turns trying to shoot discs onto higher-scoring regions while knocking away opposing discs.

by JasonCarswell to /s/Retrogames from en.wikipedia.org

Black Tiger - known in Japan as Black Dragon (Japanese: ブラックドラゴン Hepburn: Burakku Doragon), is a 1987 platform game released for arcade by Capcom. - [ From highschool, at lunch we used to go to the mall and play this. ]

by JasonCarswell to /s/Retrogames from en.wikipedia.org

Rally 'round The Flag effect (or syndrome) - a political science & international relations concept of increased short-run popular support of PotUS during periods of international crisis or war. As it can reduce criticism of governmental policies, it's seen as a factor of diversionary foreign policy.

by JasonCarswell to /s/WarWatch from en.wikipedia.org

1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg

by Optimus85 to /s/UFO from en.wikipedia.org

TIL about the Pfeilstorch (German for "arrow stork")

by Mnemonic to /s/TIL from en.wikipedia.org

"On this day June 8, 1967 – The Israeli Air Force attacked the U.S. Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty (pictured) in international waters, killing 34 and wounding 173." - [ SHOCKINGLY on the front page of Wikipedia. Maybe there is hope truth will out. ]

by JasonCarswell to /s/history from en.wikipedia.org

The Hôtel du Lac (English: Lake Hotel) is a hotel in Tunis, Tunisia. The building was designed in the Brutalist style by the Italian architect Raffaele Contigiani and built from 1970 to 1973 for the Tunisian government of Habib Bourguiba.

by JasonCarswell to /s/Architecture from en.wikipedia.org

TIL the board game "Snakes and Ladders" or "Chutes and Ladders" was invented in the 2nd Century in India

by magnora7 to /s/TodayILearned from en.wikipedia.org

TIL about how BBC once convinced people Spaghetti grew on trees. In 1957,BBC broadcast a 3min program about Switzerland farms growing Spaghetti trees. The farmers harvested them and put in the sun to dry them.The presenter explained Spaghetti always grows to the same length. People believed it.

by magnora7 to /s/whatever from en.wikipedia.org

After Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace in 1999, walking out of the theatre past the next audience waiting, I loudly said, "I can't believe they killed Chewbacca!" The next crowd got really angry like it was a legit spoiler. Sadly the original Chewbacca has actually died. RIP Peter Mayhew.

by JasonCarswell to /s/StarWars from en.wikipedia.org

Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) - a disinfo strategy used in sales, marketing, public relations, politics, cults, propaganda, software, hardware, and tech industries, generally to influence perception by disseminating negative and dubious or false information and manifesting an appeal to fear.

by JasonCarswell to /s/propaganda from en.wikipedia.org

WireGuard - a FLOSS application and communication protocol that implements virtual private network (VPN) techniques to create secure point-to-point connections in routed or bridged configurations, run as a module in the Linux kernel aiming to beat IPsec and OpenVPN tunneling protocol performances.

by JasonCarswell to /s/Linux from en.wikipedia.org

WireGuard - a FLOSS application and communication protocol that implements virtual private network (VPN) techniques to create secure point-to-point connections in routed or bridged configurations, run as a module in the Linux kernel aiming to beat IPsec and OpenVPN tunneling protocol performances.

by JasonCarswell to /s/FLOSS from en.wikipedia.org

TIL about Van Eck phreaking

by Mnemonic to /s/TIL from en.wikipedia.org

Wikipedia Censorship: They list ~300 Bilderberg participants, so I linked in the Wikispooks list of the 2853 members mentioned in the official guests lists. Guess what happened 18 minutes later...

by Robin to /s/censorship from en.wikipedia.org

Sanofi Pasteur is the vaccines division of the multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi. Sanofi Pasteur is the largest company in the world devoted entirely to vaccines. More than 1 billion doses of vaccines produced yearly to immunize more than 500 million people against 20 infectious diseases

by Orangutan to /s/Health from en.wikipedia.org

Free and open-source software (FOSS) is both free and open-source unlike proprietary software, and anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source code is openly shared so that people are encouraged to voluntarily improve the design of the software.

by JasonCarswell to /s/FLOSS from en.wikipedia.org

Gratis versus libre (no cost vs no restriction, or free stuff vs freedom)

by JasonCarswell to /s/FLOSS from en.wikipedia.org

Open source - a term for a product with permission to use its source code, design documents, or content, most commonly referring the model, where software or other products are released under a license. Originating with software, it has expanded to cover other open content and collaboration.

by JasonCarswell to /s/FLOSS from en.wikipedia.org

GNU Project - a free-software, mass-collaboration project, started by Richard Stallman in 1983, aiming to give users freedom and control over their computers and devices, by collaboratively developing and providing software based on freedom-rights.

by JasonCarswell to /s/FLOSS from en.wikipedia.org

Unplanned (2019) - American drama film written/directed by Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman, based on the memoir Unplanned by Abby Johnson. Follows the life of Johnson as clinic director for Planned Parenthood and her subsequent conversion to anti-abortion activism.

by JasonCarswell to /s/Sex from en.wikipedia.org

May Day - a May 1st traditional public holiday and ancient Northern Hemisphere spring festival in many cultures - AND - International Workers Day, recognition of the working class and many bloody battles and lives lost for rights in a complex largely forgotten history dating back over 1.5 centuries.

by JasonCarswell to /s/AlternativeHistory from en.wikipedia.org

TIL about: the Petroleum Warfare Department

by Mnemonic to /s/TIL from en.wikipedia.org

Regulatory capture - a form of government failure occurring when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating.

by JasonCarswell to /s/RulingClass from en.wikipedia.org

Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) - the deity of the Church of the FSM, or Pastafarianism, a social movement promoting a light-hearted view of religion and opposing creationist's intelligent design. Pastafarianism is a "real, legitimate religion, as much as any other", though some states say not.

by JasonCarswell to /s/Religion from en.wikipedia.org

TIL of the Invention Secrecy Act. The government has a program in place which specifically deals with inventions that are deemed to be "threats to national security" (open thread for choice quotes). There are currently 6102 inventions under lock and key, some of which "pertain to energy generation".

by Orangutan to /s/technology from en.wikipedia.org

Fischer–Tropsch process - liquid hydrocarbons made in chemical reactions converting carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of metal catalysts, at 150–300 °C (302–572 °F) under one to several tens of atmospheres of pressure. First developed by Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch in Germany, in 1925.

by JasonCarswell to /s/Energy from en.wikipedia.org

Memetics (aka memeology), a pseudoscience, is the study of information and culture based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution. Memetics describes how an idea can propagate successfully, but doesn't necessarily imply a concept is factual.

by JasonCarswell to /s/Memetics from en.wikipedia.org

sudo apt install marble

by chainsaw-subliminals to /s/worldsimulators from en.wikipedia.org

The Treaty to establish an EU constitution never passed. Instead we got the Treaty of Lisbon.

by Rakehell to /s/Europe from en.wikipedia.org

Decentralized power is more profitable for 207 reasons, maybe ten times more profitable

by Gangster to /s/DecentralizeAllThings from en.wikipedia.org

World War Z by max brooks (book)

by poestal to /s/horror from en.wikipedia.org

Guangzhou Opera House (simplified Chinese: 广州大剧院; traditional Chinese: 廣州大劇院; pinyin: Guǎngzhōu dajùyuàn; Jyutping: Gwong2 zau1 daai6 kek6 jyun2) is a Chinese opera house in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. Designed by Zaha Hadid, it opened in 2010.

by JasonCarswell to /s/Architecture from en.wikipedia.org

Motives for spying - M.I.C.E. = Money, Ideology (patriotism or religion), Compromise/Coercion, Ego (Self-importance)/Extortion/Excitemet - or - R.A.S.C.L.S. = Reciprocation, Authority, Scarcity, Commitment/Consistency, Liking, Social Proof.

by JasonCarswell to /s/Intelligence from en.wikipedia.org

The Canton Fair is a trade fair held in the spring and autumn seasons each year since the spring of 1957 in Canton (Guangzhou), China. It is the oldest, largest, and the most representative trade fair in China.

by JasonCarswell to /s/Architecture from en.wikipedia.org

Active Denial System (ADS) a non-lethal, directed-energy weapon developed by the U.S. military, designed for area denial, perimeter security and crowd control. Informally called the heat ray since it works by heating the surface of targets, such as the skin of targeted human subjects.

by JasonCarswell to /s/Radiation from en.wikipedia.org

Salvator Mundi - Leonardo da Vinci's c. 1500 painting shows Jesus in Renaissance dress, making the sign of the cross and holding a crystal orb in his left, as Salvator Mundi, "Savior of the World", master of the cosmos, and of the 'crystalline sphere' of the Renaissance heavens.

by JasonCarswell to /s/Art from en.wikipedia.org

Triggerfish (surveillance) - a technology of cell phone interception and surveillance using a mobile cellular base station (microcell or picocell). The devices are also known as cell-site simulators or digital analyzers. (see also: Stingray phone tracker)

by JasonCarswell to /s/Intelligence from en.wikipedia.org

The Weather Underground Organization (WUO) - a radical left-wing domestic terror group founded on the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) with a 1974 political goal to create a revolutionary party to overthrow U.S. imperialism.

by JasonCarswell to /s/history from en.wikipedia.org

StingRay phone tracker - an IMSI-catcher, a controversial cellular phone surveillance device, 1st manufactured by Harris Corporation for military and intelligence, and now a generic name for similar devices in widespread use by local and state law enforcement agencies across Canada, USA, and UK.

by JasonCarswell to /s/Intelligence from en.wikipedia.org

FBI MoneyPak Ransomware - Today's front page of Wikipedia's top Did you know... states "... that the FBI can lock your computer (logo pictured)?" - as clickbait to this article.

by JasonCarswell to /s/Internet from en.wikipedia.org

Dunning–Kruger effect - cognitive bias where people mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is, related to illusory superiority, from folk's inability to see their lack of ability, without self-awareness of metacognition to objectively evaluate their competence or incompetence.

by JasonCarswell to /s/Psychology from en.wikipedia.org

Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia

by Vigte to /s/Internet from en.wikipedia.org

Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia - occurs when editors use Wikipedia to advance the interests of their external roles or relationships. The type of COI editing of most concern on Wikipedia is paid editing for public relations purposes.

by JasonCarswell to /s/censorship from en.wikipedia.org

TIL Hitler wanted to burn Paris to the ground but the order was disobeyed by General Dietrich von Choltitz who believed Hitler was mentally insane

by useless_aether to /s/TIL from en.wikipedia.org

TIL The film The Shawshank Redemption remains one of the most valuable assets in Warner Brothers catalog (which has several multi-billion dollar movie franchises) and Bob Gunton (the warden) still makes six figures a year from it.

by Orangutan to /s/Movies from en.wikipedia.org

In Search Of Enemies by John R. Stockwell - former CIA officer then critic of US government policies after serving 7 tours of duty over 13 years. As Chief of the Angola Task Force during 1975 covert ops in their civil war, he resigned and wrote the book that influenced Cynthia McKinney.

by JasonCarswell to /s/USAmerica from en.wikipedia.org

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