New York Times article from 1982: "Prostitution rings are providing young boys to male customers in Washington and are reportedly selling information about their clients' sexual preferences to foreign intelligence services, a private investigator testified yesterday." (nytimes.com)
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A statue of a pedophile priest overthrown in Poland (youtu.be)
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The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. (truthdig.com)
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Becoming Superhuman with Ice Man - Wim Hof (2019) We've admired the pioneering work of Wim Hof for years now from afar. This January however we got an opportunity to spend four days with him in the mountains of Poland. We didn't know what to expect. (youtube.com)
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The Tesla big battery in South Australia continues to make its mark on the Australian energy market, pocketing another $4m in the fourth quarter. Its presence effectively destroyed a “cartel”- like play that pushed prices up, and removed constraints that were exploited by gas generators. (theguardian.com)
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🤔🤔 Anyone else find it odd that anti-lynching legislation sponsored by Cory Booker & Kamala Harris was being considered at the time Jussie Smollett was "almost lynched"? 🤔🤔 (Link in comments) by Orangutan in politics
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TIL that in 1946 John Boyd Orr, a Scottish scientist, proposed the creation of a World Food Board to repel world hunger and protect global peace. The proposal was rejected as UK and USA refused to support it. As he resigned from his role in the UN, he warned that “food is more than a commodity." (metode.org)
What is to stop saidit from writing a bot to copy every submission from say reddit /r/technology into saidit? by grobean in technology
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"I Voted for Mr. Trump... I'll Have to Follow You Now." | Andrew Yang isn’t a politician. He’s an entrepreneur who knows how the economy works—and he’s terrified about the growing automation of American jobs. That’s why he’s running for President as a Democrat in 2020. (youtube.com)
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ELI5: Why is everyone so obsessed over Nikola Tesla? What could he have really done? by Orangutan in whatever
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We're creating the social media website SaidIt.net as a new anonymous social media alternative to Reddit and Voat. Reddit is dying and voat is a mess for various reasons. We've long believed someone should create another version of reddit, so after a lot of talking about it, we finally just did it. by Orangutan in SaidIt
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Saidit.net — Feb 17, 2019 — New Feature: Expandos (media expanding buttons) and thumbnails now support 6 new media providers - Vimeo, Bitchute, SoundCloud, d.tube, Peertube, and Imgur albums by magnora7 in SaidIt
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