where the devil urinates
Women are found to mate with a younger partner in only one specific case: above their 60s, when they provide at least 75% of the household income or rank higher than their partner in the distribution of income in their respective age group.
Scientists Developed a Questionnaire to Identify if Your Cat Is a Psychopath [The Cat Triarchic + questionnaire]
Recent reports highlight the emergence and growth of a “shadow industry” in which companies and governments hire firms to create misleading information about competitors and political opponents. This trend is compounded by the growing concern that online labor markets may facilitate the production of disinformation due to the ease with which virtually anyone can hire freelance workers from across the globe. […] We created an employer account and recruited 1,197 workers […] 61% accepted a disinformation job requiring them to manipulate COVID-19 data. […] 13% of workers declined the disinformation job specifically due to ethical concerns
Assad visited Moscow on Nov. 28, a day after Syrian rebel forces attacked the northern province of Aleppo and lightning drive across the country, but his pleas for military intervention fell on deaf ears in the Kremlin which was unwilling to intervene […] Assad didn’t convey the reality of the situation to aides back home […] “He told his commanders and associates after his Moscow trip that military support was coming” […] After exhausting his options, Assad finally accepted the inevitability of his downfall and resolved to leave the country […] Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov did “whatever he could” to secure Assad’s safe departure. Qatar and Turkey made arrangements with HTS to facilitate Assad’s exit […] Moscow also coordinated with neighbouring states to ensure that a Russian plane leaving Syrian airspace with Assad on board would not be intercepted or targeted […] Assad told his presidential office manager on Saturday when he finished work he was going home but instead headed to the airport […] He also called his media adviser, Buthaina Shaaban, and asked her to come to his home to write him a speech, the aide said. She arrived to find no one was there. […] Assad didn’t even inform his younger brother, Maher, commander of the Army’s elite 4th Armoured Division, about his exit plan […] Assad’s maternal cousins, Ehab and Eyad Makhlouf, were similarly left behind as Damascus fell to the rebels. The pair tried to flee by car to Lebanon but were ambushed on the way by rebels who shot Ehab dead and wounded Eyad […] Assad himself fled Damascus by plane on Sunday, Dec. 8, flying under the radar with the aircraft’s transponder switched off. He flew to Russia’s Hmeimim airbase in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia, and from there on to Moscow. [Reuters]
Adam Griffin is still in disbelief over how quickly he was robbed of nearly $500,000 in cryptocurrencies. A scammer called using a real Google phone number to warn his Gmail account was being hacked, sent email security alerts directly from google.com, and ultimately seized control over the account by convincing him to click “yes” to a Google prompt on his mobile device.
the number of eighth, 10th, and 12th graders who collectively abstained from the use of alcohol, marijuana, or nicotine hit a new high Use of illicit drugs also fell on the whole […] For alcohol, use in the past 12 months among eighth graders was at 12.9 percent in 2024, similar to 2023 levels, which are all-time lows. […] “This trend in the reduction of substance use among teenagers is unprecedented”
Learning to Live with the Voices in Your Head
Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index
Solving 3 Rubik’s Cubes whilst juggling
Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya is a hill in South Australia. Its name means “where the devil urinates.”
