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  • Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis trailer withdrawn over fake quotes

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  • I didn't see that in the linked article, but I found one easily enough if anyone wants to take a peak!

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jul/26/francis-ford-coppola-video-kissing-female-extras-on-set

    The Guardian had originally reported that the 85-year-old was seen as “old school” in his behaviour around women while shooting, pulling women to sit on his lap and kissing extras to get “them in the mood”.

    “Because Coppola funded it there was no HR department to keep things in check,” a source told Variety. “Who were they supposed to talk to? Complain to Coppola and report Coppola to himself?”

    A crew member said to the Guardian earlier this year: “It was like watching a train wreck unfold day after day, week after week, and knowing that everybody there had tried their hardest to help the train wreck be avoided.”

  • US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she’d died

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  • At this point, you should just assume some sort of medical malpractice, and likely, sexual assault. Better to face a lawsuit about mishandling of a corpse, than a lawsuit about your staff assaulting patients under their care. From a business perspective, it's a no-brainer /s

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    Gay man says he was assaulted by Shake Shack employees after kissing his boyfriend at D.C. location

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  • I wish there are consequences for the actions of everyone involved

    what he means is he hopes for consequences for the gay men who had the audacity to kiss in public.

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    Gay man says he was assaulted by Shake Shack employees after kissing his boyfriend at D.C. location

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  • You're the kind of person that listens to a broken woman describe being the victim of domestic violence and ask "but what did you do to set him off?"

    The only thing evident about you and your line of thinking is resentment.

  • George Santos pleads guilty to two counts in federal corruption case, faces years in prison

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  • They All Got Mysterious Brain Diseases. They’re Fighting to Learn Why.

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  • In a tragic experiment of nature, a group of drug users in California accidentally injected themselves with a bad batch of designer heroin and began suffering from symptoms closely resembling those of Parkinson’s disease. Investigators traced the batch to a back-alley chemist who had synthesized the drugs and found that he had mistakenly created a neurotoxin precursor known as MPTP as part of the concoction.

    As it turned out, MPTP also resembled aspects of the chemical makeup of paraquat, a common herbicide, opening the door to the notion that perhaps chronic exposure to synthetic toxins was triggering Parkinson’s in aging patients the same way that the bad batch of heroin had in the users. Since then, advancements in molecular and genetic testing have continued to reinforce the idea.

    Recent studies have linked brain disorders with chronic exposure to cyanobacterial blooms, pesticides, air pollution and numerous other toxicants. Some researchers have gone so far as to describe Parkinson’s disease in particular as “man-made.”

    Well shit. Not what I was expecting to read in this article. ALS, Parkinsons, and Alzheimers are the three diseases that most terrify me. Something that hollows out who you are, leaving you semi conscious in a waking prison built of your own body. You can lose limbs and still be you. You can't lose your brain and still be you. It's a disease that destroys the ephemeral "you," leaving only a husk of your former self. To think that we could be the ones causing it, with our massive over-use of herbicides, is equally terrifying. Because just like with PFAS exacerbating all cancers, there are rich, influential firms with powerful lobbying groups actively fighting against the very regulation that could save us.

    This was actively covered up through the strong-arming of the person in charge of the autopsies.

    Dr. Gerard Jansen, the neuropathologist in charge of autopsies for the eight cluster patients, had published a shocking conclusion: All eight patients died not from a mysterious illness but from known diseases, including cancer, Lewy body dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

    In December 2022, Marrero found a toxicology lab in Quebec that was willing to test patients for four different types of pesticides, including glyphosate, a herbicide that is regularly used as part of the forestry industry in New Brunswick. He had noticed a pattern of new referrals peaking in the late summer and early fall, when pesticide use is at its highest, and wondered if there could be a connection. When the lab accepted a sample from one patient, Marrero quickly sent over a hundred more. The results were astonishing. Ninety percent of Marrero’s patients came back with elevated amounts of glyphosate in their blood, in one case as high as 15,000 times the test’s lowest detectable concentration.

    Part of the reason Marrero was able to get the tests done in Quebec was that in 2021 the province officially recognized the link between glyphosate and an increased risk for Parkinson’s disease. Recent studies have shown that glyphosate crosses the blood-brain barrier and that chronic exposure can lead to neurological inflammation that can trigger Alzheimer’s disease.

  • US colleges revise rules on free speech in hopes of containing anti-war demonstrations

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  • What actually needs to be done is rallying support among the masses themselves for either a paralyzing general strike, or at least a show of voting force that threatens politicians with removal in the next election cycle. Neither of these goals is furthered by simple disruptive protest.

    Protests rally support.

  • Protests in China as delivery rider kneels before security guard

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  • Incidents of riders clashing with security guards in China have made headlines in the past.

    In January this year, a delivery rider in the eastern city of Qingdao was stabbed to death by a security guard for entering a building without authorisation.

    Just another story about how even the tiniest mote of power can corrupt.

  • North Carolina is getting a $1.4B sodium-ion battery gigafactory

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  • JK Rowling falls silent as she could be prosecuted in Imane Khelif lawsuit

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  • The author, colin wright, touts himself as a fellow for SEGM "The Society For Evidence-Based Gender Medicine;" which is a non-profit organization that is known for its opposition to gender-affirming care for transgender youth and for engaging in political lobbying.

    He's a POS who gets paid to write smear pieces endangering the lives of trans people, by people with even worse ideals than his own.

  • Oakland neighbors take matters into their own hands to prevent dangerous driving

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  • Yeah that frustrated me too, like it's their job. There are civil engineers that are paid by the city to look into this exact thing. Install a roundabout. Put up an impassable median, put in protected bike lanes, whatever. The people PAID THROUGH OUR TAX DOLLARS, and elected by OUR VOTES, should listen and act when an entire community feels so threatened that they end up doing shit like this. Unreal.

  • Facing “financial crisis,” Russia on pace for lowest launch total in 6 decades

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  • now do isreal!

  • Child sex-trafficking survivor who killed her abuser will finally learn her fate at sentencing hearing next week

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  • In February 2018, four months before Volar’s death, a 15-year-old called 911 from Volar’s house, saying a man had given her drugs and was going to kill her. Officers found her in the street, drugged and shirtless. She alleged that Volar had been paying her for sex since she was 14. She warned them that he was also filming his abuse of other girls, including one named “Chrystal.”

    Police found “hundreds” of videos of child sexual abuse in Volar’s home, including more than 20 he’d filmed himself. Some of those videos showed Kizer.

    Volar was arrested and charged with child enticement and child sexual assault. But the same day, he was released. He remained free for months, and no criminal charges were officially filed.

    Kenosha prosecutor Michael Graveley said that his office did not know the age of the girls in the videos, and delayed filing charges until they could determine whether they were minors.

    But records obtained by The Post show that investigators described many of the girls being abused in Volar’s videos as appearing to be in their early and mid teens. One, they wrote, could have been as young as 12.

    This story is also about how police and the prosecutor failed to do their job, and now two families are destroyed.

  • laughs in belter creole

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  • It's so good. Every season is better than the previous. Watch it!

  • laughs in belter creole

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  • I just became increasingly attracted to raspy voiced women, honestly.

    IMO One of the best Science fiction shows of the last few decades. Each season just got better and better. The quality of writing, the well rounded characters, the budget, the acting... It all went so well. Great shows like this require catching lightning in a bottle, and dang they must've had a helluva bottle cuz it's chock full a'lightning

  • I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ?

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  • multi syllable names are for minorities, can't get the base confused on who to hate vs idolize!

  • FTC bans fake reviews

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  • Yup. Walmart became king through this practice alone.

  • A Drunken Evening, a Rented Yacht: The Real Story of the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage

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  • oh 100%. Him appointing the general to act as a diplomat, which provided him with immunity from prosecution, was a nod to the effectiveness of the plan. You can tell that Zelensky was like "oh yeah, SURE I'll put a stop to that plan that will financially cripple the country invading mine. [puts hand over the phone, yelling to no one] Hey guys would you pretty please not blow up putins cash cow? ok? ok. [takes hand off phone] See, I've done all I can do."

  • A Drunken Evening, a Rented Yacht: The Real Story of the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage

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  • Thanks for including an archive link, interesting story. It's crazy to think about how something of such consequence can happen, despite all these official government efforts to stop it, all with a team of just 6 people on a boat with some diving equipment and explosives.