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tetris11 @lemmy.world
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Curiosity
  • Beautiful, just beautiful. This! This is why we're spending all that effort unwrapping those scrolls that Vesuvius tried to bury for some reason all those millennia ago.

  • Do you know any independent written news sources?
  • BBC

    Are you serious? The BBC are literally a government mouthpiece, with a subversive right-wing bias. When Labour is in power, they over-report every misdeed, and when the Tories are in power, they maybe raise an eyebrow as the country burns. The last BBC director was a major Tory who received a sizeable bribe from his party during his tenure.

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/12/tim-davie-bbc-director-general-embroiled-gary-lineker-controversy

  • I just watched the wrong version of Drive (2011), and didn't realize until the last 10 minutes. Any similar stories?
  • There's a version of Morrissey's Irish Blood, English Heart that hit the radios before it was released, and it was waay better than what we actually got:

    no weird comical sound effects, cleaner sound, the high guitar could be heard way better, and the ending riff was a harmonious one, not some eclectic free-for-all.

    After years of believing I had hallucinated/mandela'd the whole thing, I finally found it:

    The Janice Long Radio cut

  • Longest walks
  • The boy who survived has never talked about the incident. Can you imagine coping with the guilt of feeling the warmth of your classmates cocooned around you fading gently away one by one, leaving you alone with only the memory of their sacrifice....

  • Longest walks
  • On that sombre note:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairngorm_Plateau_disaster

    It was only on Monday afternoon, when the parents were gathered at the school, that the news came that five of their children were dead. The father explained that the boy who survived was the smallest student in the party; maybe the others (two women leaders, four girls and one boy) had been huddling round him to protect him from the cold