>Brazil’s oldest and most important historical and scientific museum has been consumed by fire, and much of its archive of 20m items is believed to have been destroyed.

>The fire at Rio de Janeiro’s 200-year-old National Museum began after it closed to the public on Sunday and raged into the night. There were no reports of injuries, but the loss to Brazilian science, history and culture was incalculable, two of its vice-directors said.

>Rio’s fire chief Colonel Roberto Robaday said the firefighters did not have enough water at first because two hydrants were dry. “The two nearest hydrants had no supplies,” he said. Water trucks were brought in and water used from a nearby lake.

>Los Mirlos - Muchachita Del Oriente

>Ermeneuma - Nothing Changes

>Carolina Eyck - Reja

>Alexander von Zemlinsky - Die Seejungfrau

>Russia is weak because it has a smaller GDP than Italy
>China will surely overtake the US as the great world power
>Trump/Kim/Putin might start a nuclear war because he's so crazy
>We're going to run out of oil soon
>Don't them ISIS, call them Daesh because they hate that

>The Glass Harmonica (1968)

>There Lived Kozyavin (1966)

>Since there is no philosophy threda

>Even the mere existence of this kind of predictive control will help authoritarians. Self-censorship was perhaps the East German Stasi's most important disciplinary mechanism. AI will make the tactic dramatically more effective. People will know that the omnipresent monitoring of their physical and digital activities will be used to predict undesired behavior, even actions they are merely contemplating. From a technical perspective, such predictions are no different from using AI health-care systems to predict diseases in seemingly healthy people before their symptoms show. In order to prevent the system from making negative predictions, many people will begin to mimic the behaviors of a "responsible" member of society. These may be as subtle as how long one's eyes look at different elements on a phone screen. This will improve social control not only by forcing people to act in certain ways, but also by changing the way they think. A central finding in the cognitive science of influence is that making people perform behaviors can change their attitudes and lead to self-reinforcing habits. Making people expound a position makes them more likely to support it, a technique used by the Chinese on U.S. prisoners of war during the Korean War. Salespeople know that getting a potential customer to perform small behaviors can change attitudes to later, bigger requests. More than 60 years of laboratory and fieldwork have shown humans' remarkable capacity to rationalize their behaviors.

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>At least 49 people have been killed, scores more injured and almost 700 others rescued from the sea after a devastating wildfire swept through a small resort town near Athens, the Greek fire department has said.

>Guilt is the idea that we are finite, that we are mortal, that we decay, and such notions dampen one’s life instinct...Humans typically try to cure themselves of guilt by infecting someone else. Guilt becomes something you wish on your enemies. When you can make someone feel guilty, it’s easier to control them...When a society feels guilty, it starts to decline. When it can isolate its guilt outside of its borders and punish the scapegoat, it prospers.
>When you look at heroes and villains throughout literature, the only real differences seem to be that the heroes wear brighter costumes and are better at killing. The biggest killers always declare themselves saints...all viewed their acts as purification rituals.
>I’m very suspicious of any group which hides behind the idea of its innate innocence...Does suffering make you innocent? No, it only makes you unhappy. But the idea of having been wronged is universally used as an excuse to do some sinning of your own. The idea of someone else’s guilt is used as justification for preying upon them. The notion of righteous revenge against a guilty enemy serves as a shield to cover the raw animal urge to dominate, destroy, consume, and flourish.
>I call it the Scum Principle. Lots of Volk think Nazis are scum. Why? Because Nazis thought Jews were scum...Or they’ll call right-wingers scum because the righties call leftists scum...It’s like a huge game of Tag, and no one wants to be “it.” It’s as if guilt were a Christmas fruitcake no one wants, so they rewrap it and give it away again. And no one seems to see any hypocrisy or contradictions in all this. Truth is, most alleged “humanists” have no qualms about dehumanizing those who stand outside of the in-crowd, it’s just that they insist you pick the right groups to call scum.
>All individuals and social groups tend to ascribe filth and scumminess to their enemies. What is scum, if not a lower life form? Degrading the enemy and depicting him as something less than human justifies any suffering which may befall him, especially at your hands. The pretense of one’s own purity is always a precursor for perpetrating atrocities upon the “scum.” I say that we’re all scum, but especially the ones who consider themselves pure.

>“Russia should be in this meeting,” Trump told reporters in Washington as he left the White House to fly to Canada. “Why are we having a meeting without Russia being in the meeting?"

>Sometimes, there are some flowers in our rough, barren mountainous terrains.

> AUSTRIA IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY INFA 100% 💪💪💪

>Im weird looking because i had nosecancer but i dont miss my nose too much. I hope that i get prostetic nose soon but im just hoping.

>Ya headin ta' work or headin' to have some fun!?
>I am going to get lunch

>get to the place I have lunch
>it's normal for the first employee to be prepping food on the counter so early in the morning and he might not be aware a customer came in
>boomer male with winter jacket "YEAH CAN I CHECK OUT"

>Hey are you from here!? Are you a local?
>"No."

>Oh my gosh look at your hair, unbelievable!

>You're unbelievable

>in a clothing store of all places
>"Where are the fitting rooms?" in some English accent(idk what name it has, something rich and dainty sounding but not "posh")
>yeah I don't work here