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Trevp666 said:
I have had dreams in which I discover extra rooms in a house I own (usually an extra staircase that goes up to another floor with a number of rooms that haven't had any use and have dust and cobwebs etc.)
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Interesting. I’ve often dreamt of other houses even thought I’ve been in the current house since I was two.

Apparently a house in your dream is supposed to represent yourself. So you have higher levels you didn’t know you had.
 

Researchers find crocodile living alone in a Costa Rica zoo had a virgin birth​


https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2023/06/07/crocodile-virgin-birth-costa-rica/70297378007/

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In an astounding case, researchers have found that an egg laid in 2018 by a female crocodile living alone in a Costa Rica zoo was not only fertile, it also contained genetics only from its mother.

In essence, the crocodile had just had a virgin birth.

In a paper published Wednesday from the Biology Letters journal, researchers said the unusual reproduction from the crocodile was the first evidence ever found in that species. The 18-year-old crocodile, which arrived at the Parque Reptilandia zoo in 2002, had been isolated from other crocodiles its entire life. The crocodile laid a cluster of 14 eggs, which is not unusual, but seven of those eggs appeared to be fertile. The fertile eggs were artificially incubated for another three months, but failed to hatch and were opened.
 
I wonder how he estimated the speed of it? It looks like an out of focus bug of some sort closer to the camera. The Red Arrows are in focus so why isn't his 'UFO' if it was "dangerously close to the Red Arrows"?
 

Spooky grave containing 450 ‘vampires’ discovered by workmen digging up a road​


https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1779524/Vampires-road-digging-grave-skeletons

A spooky mass burial pit containing the skeletal remains of hundreds of suspected ‘vampires’ has been discovered by road workers.

The nightmarish find was made by construction engineers working in Luzino, in northeast Poland, and contained remains that had been decapitated and posed in odd positions.

Some of the 450 skeletons had coins placed in their mouths or their skulls placed between their legs, which Europeans in the 19th century believed would lift the ‘vampire curse’ after death.
 
Driver disguises himself as car seat for a study

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-nottinghamshire-65857348
 
MorningAngel said:

The Light: Inside the UK’s conspiracy theory newspaper that shares violence and hate​


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65821747
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Of course it is. Spring can't stop herself.
She's the one who posted a load of nonsense on twitter, repeatedly, over the course of a couple of weeks, despite barely using twitter otherwise, and then got a load of criticism for trying to stoke division, which she then used for a later 'expose' of 'hate' on twitter.

Basically, Spring is a 'self-licking ice cream'.
 
Erinaceus said:
I wonder how he estimated the speed of it? It looks like an out of focus bug of some sort closer to the camera. The Red Arrows are in focus so why isn't his 'UFO' if it was "dangerously close to the Red Arrows"?
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For a start I'm not convinced the same frame is used to derive the close-up as the main picture; and what they have used is essentially out of focus... However (and strictly for the purposes of criticism and review of course) taking the first picture into Photoshop and producing a 'zoomed in' crop does reveal a fairly shallow depth of field consistent with a 'zoomed in' lens. Doing this gives a sense of the distance between the planes and the object...

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...The camera in use is a Nikon P900. Which, to be honest is 'mug's eyeful' territory. So much of the control here is automatic. I think most people will see though that the 'black' object is a great deal closer to the camera than the display... The 'black' object being in the foreground is completely 'backlit' as the camera is exposing for a bright blue sky. And I do believe if you look carefully at the unadjusted image, you start to see something flying which is quite round and chubby with a set of rather undersized wings.

Simply pushing the contrast 'OTT' rather reveals this a tiny wee bit better...

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...Alien Bumble Bee?

Sadly, it seems this chap has 'form' for this sort of thing.

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/raf-helicopter-appears-tailed-unidentified-8466141

...Man with toy camera is simply confused about insects methinks.
 
Mythopoeika said:
Thankfully, I've never heard of that 'newspaper'.
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I have. Not read it but Spring appears to make it out as some kind of hotbed of extremist nonsense, but that description could equally be applied to any number of well-known newspapers.
They all run stories that push propaganda of one sort or another.
 
Trevp666 said:
I have. Not read it but Spring appears to make it out as some kind of hotbed of extremist nonsense, but that description could equally be applied to any number of well-known newspapers.
They all run stories that push propaganda of one sort or another.
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It looks as if it;s a tad different from other periodicals:

Recent articles declare "It's just a matter of time before these worst perpetrators of war crimes are facing trial" like in "November 1945" and "MPs, doctors and nurses can be hanged".


The paper has featured an article by a blogger called Lasha Darkmoon, saying that people should be able to question the Holocaust. And another article recommended a book by white supremacist Eustace Mullins - author of The Biological Jew and Adolf Hitler: An Appreciation. Mullins is referred to in the Light as a "renowned" author.


The Light directly defended a UK-based radio host called Graham Hart over antisemitic remarks he made on his show referring to Jewish people as "filth" and like "rats", suggesting "they deserve to be wiped out". He was sentenced to 32 months in prison for making the remarks.


https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65821747
 
There is a known phenomenon, isn't there, in which a person (lets say, arbitrarily, an expert in 'nuclear physics') is leafing through a newspaper when they come to an article about 'nuclear power' and after reading this article on their specialist subject, decide that whoever wrote it is an idiot without any grasp of the science or reality of the whole thing, and discount it as the ramblings of a journalist just trying to fill the page.
And then they will turn the page and happily accept as true and informative an article about finding a London bus on mars or something equally wacky.

In other words, you can't always believe everything you read. In fact there is very little written in newspapers, especially when it comes to 'opinion' pieces, which can verifiably be asserted to be 100% factual and true.
 
Trevp666 said:
There is a known phenomenon, isn't there, in which a person (lets say, arbitrarily, an expert in 'nuclear physics') is leafing through a newspaper when they come to an article about 'nuclear power' and after reading this article on their specialist subject, decide that whoever wrote it is an idiot without any grasp of the science or reality of the whole thing, and discount it as the ramblings of a journalist just trying to fill the page.
And then they will turn the page and happily accept as true and informative an article about finding a London bus on mars or something equally wacky.

In other words, you can't always believe everything you read. In fact there is very little written in newspapers, especially when it comes to 'opinion' pieces, which can verifiably be asserted to be 100% factual and true.
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How does that make the MSM hotbeds of extremism? And how does this compare to the Holocaust Denial. Antisemitism and calls for hanging MPs and Doctors in the Light?
 
No, the point I'm making (badly) is that papers in general are full of all sorts of stuff, some good, some bad, some just made up etc.
And I expect 'The Light' is probably much the same. Over the course of years of being published I'm sure it has had a lot of very informative stuff, along with the occasional article that 'gets through', and there are likely to be people out there that will go through it with a fine-toothed comb to find things to hold up and say "This publication must be destroyed!" or words to that effect.
(One swallow does not a summer make.)
I expect that if "The Light" was a page-to-page litany of extremist 'denial', antisemitism, calls for hanging etc etc then it would not still be in publication.
No, I rather think that the Spring article is deliberately worded, and has 'cherry picked' what are (most likely) instances of journalism that weren't fully checked before they made it into print.
I mean, even well-known newspapers think nothing of printing some untrue front-page headline article and then when they are forced to apologise it is printed at the bottom of page 5 in a two line 'box'.

I'm not trying to defend 'The Light', or point a finger at any other papers, I don't read 'The Light' or any other daily papers so I don't have a dog in the race and couldn't care less really, but it doesn't take a genius to read between the lines on the 'Spring' article.
Whatever.
 
Trevp666 said:
Amazon shuts down customer's smart home for a week after delivery driver claimed he heard racist slur through Ring doorbell - even though no one was home.

Amazon reportedly shut down a customer's smart home after the delivery driver claimed he heard a racial slur coming through the doorbell, even though no one was home.
Brandon Jackson, of Baltimore, Maryland, came home on May 25 to find that he had been locked out of his Amazon Echo, which many devices, including his lights, are connected to.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...me-week-driver-claimed-heard-racist-slur.html
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Wow. Easy for someone to trigger if they don’t like the homeowner.
 
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