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Many of us have been wearing the casualwear company’s T-shirts and underpants for decades, and yet the question of whether there is a woven brown horn of plenty on the logo is surprisingly contentious. According to a 2022 poll by the research company YouGov, 55% of Americans believe the logo does include a cornucopia, 25% are unsure, and only 21% are confident that it doesn’t, even though this last group is correct. According to a 2023 post from the company, the Fruit of the Loom logo does not include—and, according to Snopes, has never included—a horn of plenty.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1126705/mandela-effect-fruit-of-the-loom-psychology/
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I'm in the first group. There was a horn. Gotta be. They must be gaslighting us.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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Can't say we haven't seen this coming. Read this!
https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-aa1
Because ubiquitous mobile internet has destroyed these students’ attention spans and restricted the growth of their vocabularies, the rich and detailed knowledge stored in books is becoming inaccessible to many of them. A study of English literature students at American universities found that they were unable to understand the first paragraph of Charles Dickens’s novel Bleak House — a book that was once regularly read by children1.
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Use This Free Geological Map To See The Rocks Beneath Your Feet Anywhere In The US
Read More: https://www.bgr.com/2014703/how-to-use-new-geological-survey-map-show-rocks-materials-us/
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Stores here have been out for a few weeks now. Anything change 4 cents and below they are rounding down, 6 and above they round up.
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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yet "Billions of pennies remain in circulation". Stores and banks don't have them. Are they all in piggie banks?
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I’m assuming that the smaller banks (like the one in this town) are losing them first through exchange with larger banks and then regional banks and so on up the ladder.
Makes me start to wonder now if those coffee cans full of wheat cents that I saved thinking they might be worth something….might actually be in the somewhat near future.
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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I have about $4 worth in my truck. Should probably put them back in circulation.
Do we now say nickel for your thoughts?
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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Soon there will be a nickel shortage.
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Summary: New brain-imaging research shows that soccer fans experience rapid shifts in reward and self-control circuits when their team wins or loses against a rival. Victories trigger heightened reward responses, while defeats suppress the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, the brain region responsible for regulating emotion and behavior.
Highly fanatic fans show the strongest imbalance, offering a neural explanation for sudden emotional “flips” during high-stakes moments. These patterns may reflect broader mechanisms behind group identity, polarization, and real-world fanaticism.
Key Facts
Reward Surges: Rival-team victories trigger strong activation of brain reward networks.
Control Suppression: Rival defeats suppress dACC activity, reducing cognitive control.
Fanaticism Effect: The most devoted fans show the most extreme brain-circuit imbalance.
https://neurosciencenews.com/sport-fanatic-neuroscience-29924/2 -
Either way shitts gonna burn.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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@silvermouse said:
Soon there will be a nickel shortage.Figures and I'm a dime short.
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Interstellar Space Travel Will Never, Ever Happen
It's basically impossible and they know it.https://jasonpargin.substack.com/p/interstellar-space-travel-will-never
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And this: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-decline-of-deviance
The Decline of Deviance
Where has all the weirdness gone?1 -
Promising inexpensive Alzheimer's treatment:
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Although amyloid β (Aβ)-targeting antibody therapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) have recently been developed, their clinical efficacy remains limited, and issues such as high cost and adverse effects have been raised. Therefore, there is an urgent need for the establishment of safe and cost-effective therapeutic approaches that inhibit Aβ aggregation or prevent its accumulation in the brain. In this study, we report that arginine, a clinically approved and safe chemical chaperone, suppresses Aβ aggregation both in vitro and in vivo.More:
Oral administration of arginine suppresses Aβ pathology in animal models of Alzheimer's disease - ScienceDirect https://share.google/YxZU0d5yvIR8oj04y3 -
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Who belongs to our moral community? The Greek philosopher Empedocles had an answer: all life, from humans to the laurel bush
https://aeon.co/essays/should-we-act-morally-towards-trees-empedocles-says-yes
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Empedocles compares the creation of a cosmos teeming with life, starting with only four rhizômata and two cosmic forces, to the way in which painters are able to represent ‘trees and men and women, animals and birds and water-bred fish’ starting from a basic palette of colours. Despite appearances, all living things are made from the combination, in various proportions, of the same material stuff. There is no such thing as absolute birth or death, only a ‘mingling and interchange of what is mingled’. One can imagine Empedocles rebuking Aristotle’s disciple Theophrastus for drawing the line separating humans and animals from everything else at the level of ‘skin, flesh and [a certain] type of fluids’. Why should a view of shared bodily origins stop at that arbitrary point, Empedocles might say, passing over the roots of matter out of which all living beings are made?2 -
@silvermouse said:
Who belongs to our moral community? The Greek philosopher Empedocles had an answer: all life, from humans to the laurel bush
https://aeon.co/essays/should-we-act-morally-towards-trees-empedocles-says-yes
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Empedocles compares the creation of a cosmos teeming with life, starting with only four rhizômata and two cosmic forces, to the way in which painters are able to represent ‘trees and men and women, animals and birds and water-bred fish’ starting from a basic palette of colours. Despite appearances, all living things are made from the combination, in various proportions, of the same material stuff. There is no such thing as absolute birth or death, only a ‘mingling and interchange of what is mingled’. One can imagine Empedocles rebuking Aristotle’s disciple Theophrastus for drawing the line separating humans and animals from everything else at the level of ‘skin, flesh and [a certain] type of fluids’. Why should a view of shared bodily origins stop at that arbitrary point, Empedocles might say, passing over the roots of matter out of which all living beings are made?The only thing that separates humans from other living things is arrogance.
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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And condoms.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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"Considered the oldest surviving tree species, the Ginkgo biloba has been on the planet for around 200 million years and has stayed relatively unchanged. Remarkably, the tree has a lifespan of more than 3,000 years. Seeking answers, a study has now revealed what could be the key to its longevity."
https://www.zmescience.com/science/gingko-biloba-immortal-lifespan-05264/
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