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Peanuts & Germans

" Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. The cure is a peanut allergy which transforms the phobia into a rational fear. " - David Mitchell The Unbelievable Truth, S08E02 https://www.unitedwecare.com/arachibutyrophobia/ _______ " The most popular detective TV show in Germany is a buddy cop drama where both of them follow the rules, the crime is solved in the first five minutes and the rest of the episode is taken up with the correct filing and filling out of the paperwork. " - John Finnamore The Unbelievable Truth, 20E01 _______ Source: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1y71fYF4kvvHmlxv4tbbTgf9RYcR6KVs4 _______

That's falcking confusing

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Here is how my mind works. While relaxing I decided to take a look at the world table tennis event that's on right now. I browsed through some video of one of the days and found myself focused on trying to understand the event itself because of having worked as a TTennis event organizer. Because I was in this mindset I found I was noticing inconsistencies. One of them was the name of a Swedish player. I got focused on it because I wasn't familiar with all the names and wanted to be clear who was who. Because I'm not watching it live I can deviate and research things. I was confused by the Swedish player's name because his shirt didn't match the score display. LIVE! | T3 | Day 5 | GS | ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships Finals London 2026 | Session 1 - YouTube I found him on Wikipedia and was amused to see this: "In 2018, Mattias adopted his wife's surname, Falck, upon marriage. He resumed using his bir...

When Empathy Goes Both Ways

When Empathy Goes Both Ways Rethinking Autism and Social Difficulty Through the “Double Empathy Problem” For much of the past century, autism has been framed as a condition defined by social deficits - particularly a reduced ability to understand other people. This view shaped everything from clinical diagnosis to public perception. But a growing body of research is challenging that assumption. Instead of a one-sided deficit, scientists are now describing social difficulty in autism as a two-way problem of mutual misunderstanding . This idea is known as the double empathy problem , and it is reshaping how researchers - and increasingly clinicians - understand human connection. A Shift in Perspective The traditional model of autism suggested that autistic individuals struggle with empathy: reading emotions, interpreting social cues, and responding appropriately. The double empathy framework turns that idea on its head. It proposes that when two people have different ways of processing t...

Clarity

"There have been studies that suggest that eating ground up beard hair can halt dementia in mice. Bad news for mice, as surely the last thing you want when you're being used in a drug experiment and will eventually be thrown into a bin... is clarity." - Frankie Boyle, The Unbelievable Truth, Season 22 Episode 3

Black Robe

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Black Robe (1991) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6MxdjqPfM8 Bruce Beresford in Sydney, Australia 2012, talking about Black Robe (1991) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUG4Jd_bk24 Movie , Black Robe (1991) - IMDb ,  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101465/ Book , Black Robe by Brian Moore | Goodreads ,  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219920.Black_Robe "Critics tended to give Black Robe mixed to favorable reviews, citing the award-winning cinematography of Peter James in capturing the beautiful but forbidding Canadian wilderness.  But the main concern of reviewers was for the "truthful" or "raw" depiction of relations between the French and the Algonquins and other tribes.  Frequently contrasted with Dances with Wolves, Black Robe is widely considered a more accurate and less fantasy-filled account of white men's encounters with natives.  Critics find the film enjoyable from an intellectual point of view, as...

Where do narcissists come from

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Sovereign wealth fund (SWF)

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Sovereign wealth fund - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Sovereign+wealth+fund&sp=mAEA ___________________________ Sovereign Wealth Fund Overview Discussion https://chatgpt.com/share/687d1406-3500-8004-8a0a-3ac9ef814370 The link above is a conversation that explores sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) as tools of modern governance—public-sector entities using private-market strategies. It discusses how SWFs reflect the evolution of global power, the challenges of transparency, and why trust and cooperation remain the core barriers to responsible progress. ___________________________ 2025-07-20 - SWF - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuvSV2vqUGiIUItuDlVkMNr1U4e7aUNZJ [ ] ___________________________ How Norway runs its trillion dollar state fund | DW News - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLZy4GUejU0 Living in Norway vs Living in the USA - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzT1jmcDNPI Norway's $1.4 Trillion Sovereign Wealth Fund Fully Ex...