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andrewducker- Yay! Sourdough Bread doesn't set off my IBS!
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- How Machine Learning Is Generating Strange, New Sounds
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- Why Do We Still Circumcise Boys?
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- OkCupid think people should be able to spread your sexual interests back to your boss.
- For instance: https://twitter.com/girlonthenet/status/944238471165677568
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- No. The Government isn’t spending £500m to change the colour of the UK passports in 2019.
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- Why Iceland's Christmas Witch Is Much Cooler (and Scarier) Than Krampus
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- Theresa May to target unscrupulous puppy farms by banning sale of young dogs without mother present
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- Read the reviews of the worst guest house in the world
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- Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year
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- Adolescent brain makes learning easier by reacting more strongly to rewards
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- Two heterosexual Irish men marry to avoid inheritance tax on property
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- Some positive stories from 2017
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Date: 2017-12-23 12:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-23 12:06 pm (UTC)And what's all this about 'blue' anyway'? I still have my oldest and first as a reminder of yours truly the undergrad at eighteen and it's black..........
No. The Government isn’t spending £500m to change the colour of the UK passports in 2019.
Date: 2017-12-23 12:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-23 02:11 pm (UTC)Really shitty change by OKC. Not that I care any more these days, but that's a really bad idea.
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Date: 2017-12-28 01:44 pm (UTC)http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/bbc-apologises-over-live-aid-money-reports-2124576.html
From the Spin article:
"The dilemma creates a compromise that is a chilling reminder of the deal struck between Adolph Eichmann and American Jews during World War II. Suffering a shortage of trucks to ship Jews to the death camps, Eichmann reached an agreement with a number of wealthy Jews in the United States: For every truck they provided him, he would free 100 selected Polish Jews. Assured that they were saving hundreds of lives, they didn’t realize until too late that they actually helped send thousands of other Jews to their deaths."
From Wikipedia.
"Despite the setbacks, Kasztner, Hansi Brand and the rest of the committee secured the release of around 1,684 Jews, including 273 children, who were allowed to leave Budapest for Switzerland by train on 30 June 1944. The committee paid SS officer Kurt Becher $1000 per person in foreign currency, shares, jewellery and gold, raised from the wealthier passengers to cover the cost of the rest. After an unexplained detour to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, the passengers arrived in Switzerland in two batches in August and December that year.[76] Joel Brand's mother, sister and niece were on the train, as were 10 members of Kasztner's family and 388 people from the Kolozsvár ghetto in his home town. Kastner's relationship with these passengers led to the criticism that his negotiations with Becher had focused on saving people he knew, an allegation that led to his assassination in 1957.[77]"
Money (and not a huge amount of it), not trucks.
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Date: 2017-12-28 05:36 pm (UTC)