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  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneAndre
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    9 days ago

    Benoit who murdered his family.

    To be fair to Benoit, tests conducted his suicide showed that Benoît’s brain was that of a 85 year old dementia patient.

    Neuroscientist and former wrestler Christopher Nowinski argued that Benoit may have been suffering from repeated, untreated concussions throughout his wrestling career, ultimately leading to an unstable mental state. Nowinski was quoted as saying that Benoit “was one of the only guys who would take a chair shot to the back of the head … which is stupid”. Tests conducted on Benoit’s brain by Julian Bailes, the head of neurosurgery at West Virginia University (WVU), showed “Benoit’s brain was so severely damaged it resembled the brain of an 85-year-old Alzheimer’s patient”. Other tests conducted on Benoit’s brain tissue revealed severe chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and damage to all four lobes of the brain and brain stem. Bailes and his colleagues concluded that repeated concussions can lead to dementia, which can contribute to severe behavioural problems. Benoit’s father said that brain damage may have been the leading cause of the murder-suicide. A statement released by WWE described the findings as “speculative”.

    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Benoit_double-murder_and_suicide#Possible_motives






  • Science works best when people are:

    • Creatively thinking
    • Use ideas from other scientific areas for their scientific area

    The book “How We Got To Now” does a fabulous job of showing that science is not a uniform step by step process instead is a tree with different branches.

    AC and refrigerators all started because someone wanted to ship ice to tropical locations for money.

    SETI is another prefect example. A bunch of scientists sat around and said to themselves “We have all these new instruments for space. What if we tried to find alien life with it?”







  • I’m calling the DNC technique of wrapping Reaganomics in a friendly identity politics outer shell “woke-washing” because of how similar it is to “green-washing”.

    Some More News did a segment on how Regan forced the Democrat Party to go further right in order to achieve power. Same thing happened in the UK after Thatcher. The Labour Party swung right to get votes.

    I don’t have the data however I would imagine, that after the the conservative 80s, a lot left wing parties moved to the right to capture votes.

    Also Regan elevated Jerry Falwall and the Christian Religious Right.

    Coverage naturally gravitated toward Lynchburg, Virginia, preacher Jerry Falwell, who had supported Anita Bryant’s 1977 anti-gay-rights crusade, and Virginia Beach television mogul Pat Robertson, who was involved with the Washington for Jesus rally of April 1980 (scheduled to coincide with the anniversary of the first landing at Jamestown).

    Falwell, head of the Moral Majority (another nod to Nixon), was more eager to enter the political arena. He thus became the first anointed spokesperson of what was then commonly called the “Religious New Right.”

    During the 1980 campaign, Ronald Reagan and the evangelical conservatives engaged in a very public courting ritual. Evangelicals had entertained possible GOP alternatives to Carter since at least 1979. Options abounded— ranging from right-wing purist Philip Crane of Illinois to early front-runner John Connally of Texas—but Reagan, long a darling of conservatives in general, was an especially compelling choice. By the time Moral Majority executive director Robert Billings signed on as a Reagan campaign adviser, the deal was pretty much sealed.

    Truly Regan was a piece of shit.






  • The Beaverton put together a nice, fill in the blank for mass shootings.

    https://www.thebeaverton.com/2015/10/mass-shooting-in-usa-kills/

    Edit: Added the Beaverton article

    __________, USA — Up to ___ people were killed and ____ more injured after a gunman opened fire at a ________.

    There were conflicting reports about casualties, but _______ from _______County Sheriff Department said the number is at __.

    “I heard a popping sound and screaming,” said _________, a _________ at the __________. “And that’s when we all got down. There was ______ everywhere.”

    The shooter’s motive was reported to be ________________.

    Citizens of _______ were ______ and ______ to hear that something like this could happen in their community.

    President _______ and Governor _______ had their _______ and _______ with the victims and their families.

    ____________________________________________________ gun control ___________________.

    The NRA released a statement stating it __________with the victims, but _________ Second Amendment rights and _______________.