Cult leaders are fucked up by definition, but this one was on a wholly different level. Just re-reading the smallest detail as I post this made me physically cringe. Just un-fucking-believable.

A crazy part of this story to me is it was occurring just a 3-hour drive from my family, yet to my recollection no one I've ever met has ever mentioned it ( Read more... )

From Wikipedia.

I don't know how that's relevant, but i thought it was interesting.

A filter bubble is a result state in which a website algorithm selectively guesses what information a user would like to see based on information about the user (such as location, past click behaviour and search history) and, as a result, users become separated from information that disagrees with their viewpoints, effectively isolating them in ( Read more... )

It's interesting what the internet has done to things like old wive's tales. In the past, when my mom would tell me "if your ears are ringing someone is talking about you" you'd take it at face value. Now within seconds you can verifty what is sense and what is non-sense. A subtle effect of the internet is a significant boost of the race's ( Read more... )

Came across a pretty cool youtube channel for information on drugs, mainly psychedelics: NeuroSoup.

I never complete anything big anymore. It's driving me nuts. There's always something more interesting to start on, or that requires a smaller time investment (quicker self-gratification). Instead of seeing a few larger "projects" to completion, now we burn through hundreds of mini-projects, and quickly give up on anything remotely difficult. ( Read more... )

You know when you check your morning news/emails/etc. when you wake up, before you get up to shower and eat? That morning just lasted 3.5hr for me and I'm starved! lol I'm so bad, one link leads to 3 which mushrooms to being stuck in an internet spider web of 15 browser tabs in the span of 5 minutes ( Read more... )

Let me preface this by saying that I'm anything but a conspiracy theorist. In fact conspiracy theories piss me off a great deal ( Read more... )