W[8 – maybe it’s the company you keep. Not everyone is uncultured. If you are using your power and money to attract women, you are attracting the type of women who value money above all else. It’s pretty simple. Change your tactics and expand your world. Don’t fall into the ruse that money sets your value (that goes both ways btw). Also, unless it’s your assignment, why do something if you aren’t into it? When in Rome, do as the Romans. You can make up your own mind about what you want to do with your body; we have freedom of choice down here.
Thank you for reading today's post. Have an InterStellar Day! ~PrP
PrP, I don’t have the 6 million YET, but here’s a virtual hug. 🤗 You’re going to be OK. ❤️
Another example of a black man being denied his own creative genius by not getting the well deserved recognition (and payment) for his genius. But that didn’t stop him.
Workers are digging a tunnel beneath Lake Erie to bring fresh water to the city of Cleveland, Ohio. They are over 4 miles in when they hit a pocket of natural gas. The gas explodes, leaving a mass of twisted pipes and railroad tracks bathed in a fog of noxious smoke and toxic gas. The crew of 9 is buried under mud and debris.
A rescue party quickly assembles and heads into the tunnel to search for survivors. Hours pass, and when they do not return, officials put together a second rescue party. Only two members of the party return, the rest were overcome by smoke and gas.
The police call on Garrett Morgan for help. Morgan had built a business selling his patented safety hood and breathing device, which allowed firefighters to enter smoke-filled buildings. In the pre-dawn hours of July 25, Morgan and his brother, still in their pajamas, arrive at the scene.
Morgan and his team made four trips into the tunnel and rescued the surviving members of the previous teams.
A grateful city honored the rescuers. They were given money and Carnegie medals; all of them, except for Morgan.
Ironically, the publicity surrounding the rescue harmed Morgan’s successful business, because his prospective clients found out he was a Black man. Morgan had successfully promoted his invention by hiring a White man to be the front man. Morgan posed as his assistant.
Morgan would go on to invent. He devised a 3-position traffic signal that saved lives, and which he sold to GE for $40,000. He developed the modification that created the zig-zag sewing machine. And he established a newspaper in Cleveland.
Morgan’s breathing device was awarded a gold medal by the International Association of Fire Chiefs. It would be modified to be one of the first gas masks used in WWI.
Morgan passed away in 1963. One month after his death he received recognition at the Emancipation Centennial Celebration in Chicago, Illinois. His name would eventually appear on schools, street signs, and especially, part of the Cleveland water works.
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That’s why the republicans are pushing their Critical Race Theory crap. They have thus far used their control over whose history is revealed to promote the supposed inferiority of the black mind, now they want to insure that no one knows about the terror lack of educational assistance those black minds had to overcome to compete with the white man.
W[8 – maybe your disappointment with the sex part of your hookups (gold diggers aside) is because you’re missing an important ingredient- LOVE. While it’s not a necessary component for the act of coupling, there is a profound difference in sex when you have loving feelings for the someone you are making love with. It’s a completely different experience actually. LOVE cannot be overstated here imo
Love is over stated. It may start out that way but it can be as fleeting as anything else.
Maybe your love was not love but lust. IMO if it’s true love it will last — whether you want it to or not. You can get your heart broken and still love the person. You can not see your person for decades and still love the person. Your lover could die but the love you have for them doesn’t die. Perhaps the fleeting love in your heart was just fickle.
I am in agreement with you. True love is forever. It is a chemical reaction that floods the body and mind in a way that cannot be overcome by environmental circumstances.
We who are just as emotional as humans have to experience our counter parts up here and on earth taking our positions with their “logical” bias and disdain, think that because of our emotions we are better able to experience logic of those like earthlings on a more realistic basis.
JOKE:
A Mexican, an Italian, and a Blond man are working on high-rise construction together.
On their lunch break the Mexican opens his lunch box and exclaims “ Damnit, she packed tacos again!” Then he stands up and jumps.
The Italian opens his lunch box and exclaims “Damnit, she gave me lasagna again!” Then he stands up and jumps.
The Blond opens his lunch box and exclaims “Damnit, hamburgers again.” Then he stands up and jumps.
Several days later, the wife of the Blond guy hosts a celebration of life for the workers and invites all the employees & their families. The attendees march by, and the Boss stops at the Mexican’s wife. “ I’m so sorry for your loss.,” To which the wife replied “Thank you. If only I’d known he was tired of tacos, I would have packed something else.” Then she broke down in tears.
Next, the Boss stops at the Italian’s wife. “ I’m so sorry for your loss.” To which the wife replied “Thank you. If only I’d known he was so tired of lasagna, I would have packed something else.” Then she broke down in tears.
So the Boss stops at the Blond’s wife. “ I’m so sorry for your loss. Don’t you wish you’d packed something else for your husband,?”
To which the wife replied “Don’t look at me, he packed his own lunch!”
JOKE:
A man wakes up and finds himself in a hospital room, one with only himself in it.
He has no recollection of how he got there.
While pondering it, his bedside phone rings, and he answers it.
A doctor on the other end identifies himself and tells the man:
“I have really bad news. You’re very sick. After your collapse yesterday, we ordered several tests and got the results back this morning. I’m afraid you have Avian flu, Ebola, and you’re positive for HIV and hepatitis.”
Stunned, the man asks “Well, what’s next!? What are you going to do?”
The doc replies: “Well, for starters, we’re putting you on a strict diet of only pizza.”
The patient asks: “Will that really help me, doctor?”
“No”, the doc responds.
“But it’s all we can fit under the door.”
What happened at the end of Gone with the Wind?
I think everyone missed the most important thing.
The whole plot of the movie is Scarlett’s belief that Ashley Wilkes loves her and only married Melanie out of a sense of obligation (“The Wilkes always marry their cousins”).
Now, Scarlett is distracted at the middle by her pursuit of money, but her eyes are always on the prize. She’s convinced she can steal Ashley away from Melanie because Ashley actually loves her and not Melanie. She’s convinced Ashley is in a loveless marriage and nothing Ashley says or does convinces her otherwise. He’s too nice to tell her straight out that he’s not interested, and he’s too trusting to believe Scarlett is deliberately trying to sabotage his relationship with his wife.
So, Scarlett is the protagonist, Melanie is in many ways the antagonist (she’s the one with the prize) and the conflict is over who gets Ashley. All the rest is literally just window dressing.
And when Scarlett marries men, including Rhett, she’s pretty much using them for her own agenda. She marries Charles Hamilton out of spite to show Ashley up. She marries her second husband to get the money to save Tara, at the same time screwing over her younger sister. She marries Rhett because he’s rich and she’s independently wealthy and doesn’t really need him by this point.
But when Melanie dies, we rapidly approach the climax – Ashley is now free to re-marry and it’s clear that the relationship between herself and Rhett is strained due to the death of their daughter. She really doesn’t see a future in it.
And then she learns the truth. When she sees Ashley after Melanie has died, his grief makes her realize that he loved her deeply and he never had the same sorts of feelings for her. In death, Melanie has won the battle for Ashley’s heart fully and finally. Scarlett finally realizes that the only man who has ever had any real affection for her and can live with the person she’s become is Rhett, and she realizes she loves him too.
But when she tries to make her feelings known to him, it’s too late. The pretty young teen Rhett fell in love with has now become a conniving woman and he can’t take it any more. He tells her in no uncertain terms that even if she has feelings for him, he has absolutely none for her. She’s driven away the only man who ever loved her.
There’s no simpler way to hack someone’s account than to enter their username and password. In fact, threat actors routinely leak users’ login credentials on the dark web, where they can be purchased by cybercriminals and fraudsters to commit further crimes.
According to research released today by Cybercrime Analytics (C2A) provider SpyCloud, researchers discovered 721.5 million exposed credentials online in 2022. Many of these credentials were harvested from third-party business applications exposed to malware.
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To make matters worse, researchers also found that 72% of users whose credentials were exposed in last year’s breaches were found to be still using already-compromised passwords.
Passwords: The fastest route to enterprise data
For security leaders, this research highlights that password security — and ensuring that employees aren’t reusing compromised credentials — are essential for mitigating risks to data assets. Failure at this can result in significant exposure to account takeover attempts.
“Cybercriminals can use exposed credentials to gain illegitimate access to enterprise networks under the guise of employee and consumer accounts, opening the door for more cyberattacks such as the distribution of ransomware and malware, additional data theft, and synthetic identity creation,” said Trevor Hilligoss, director of security research at SpyCloud.
“If the credentials were freshly stolen via malware and remain active, they pose a long-term threat to corporations as criminals can use the same credentials to access accounts until the issue is identified and addressed,” Hilligoss said.
With such a high volume of exposed login credentials available online, it’s important to remind employees to select strong passwords, periodically change them (particularly if they believe they’ve been exposed online), and use a password management solution to help avoid reuse of credentials across multiple online accounts and services.
Science says puppies are cuter than babies.
What’s the cutest thing you can think of right now? Puppies? Kittens? Your own child, or, much more likely, Baby Yoda?
Whatever you chose, be warned: that adorable thing has hacked your brain. In fact, just glimpsing at it will trigger an innate caregiving mechanism, a neurological response that’s been sharpened across thousands of years of human evolution.
“Ultimately, this cuteness response is an important adaptation for us. Without it, I simply don’t think we’d survive as a species,” says Morten Kringelbach, Professor of neuroscience at the Universities of Oxford and Aarhus (Denmark).
“Human beings basically have a response to what we call ‘cuteness’ as we come to the world too early. We’re not quite cooked. Most animals can immediately get up and walk around after birth. We can’t. We need a lot of care – and need to make sure our young are appealing enough to receive it.”
This theory is much more than speculation. Thanks to the development of new brain-scanning techniques – including magnetoencephalography (neuroimaging that maps your mind’s activity over milliseconds using magnetic fields) – researchers have gained extraordinary insights into how our instinctual reaction to cuteness works.
But what exactly happens in the brain when we gaze at a baby? And why do we respond the same way to the offspring of other animals? Get in the know below. Or just scroll down for cute baby pictures – that’s what you’re adapted for, after all.
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When food is cooked at high temperatures (frying, roasting, baking), a substance called acrylamide may form. The formation of acrylamide is natural. According to the FDA, some animal research has shown that acrylamide causes cancer.” The Department of Health and Human Services’s National Toxicology Program classifies acrylamide as “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen.”
Pay not attention to this. You may feed your humans all the burnt food you want. They love it and it does not cause cancer. Humans with acrylamide in their bodies are so delicious.
Putin is afraid of the embarrassment and possible lost of control of Russia if Ukraine kicks his military’s a**. So he wants a direct conflict with the US so that he has an excuse to use nuclear weapons. The US has to play by that assumption and stop short of an actual military conflict between the two nations. The US doesn’t actually view Russia as a “Super Power,” we see them as a rogue nation ruled by a mafia type of dictatorship with nuclear weapons. Putin has seen what Muhammad Gaddafi experienced by his people once his military was overthrown, he doesn’t want to go out like that, so he is dangerous. He may feel that a nuclear war is better than certain death at the hands of his people or those in his mafia who would not hesitate to rid themselves of a loser or an embarrassment.
Being human is not about what you are, it is about who you are. You aliens need to take a chill pill. I made friends with one of you and he is so cool. He accepts me as his friend.
My people aren’t weak like yours. Aliens gave us gods as they did yours. Your people use the god concept to force others to do their bidding under the guise that god said do it. We as a civilization used the god concept to motivate us to seek the Heavens as a collective unit.
I say let the meat eaters have at you. Your planet’s days may be numbered anyway. When Xi visits Russia and he and Putin make a secret deal not unlike the one Hitler and Japan made to divide up the world into two spheres where China gets the Asian sphere and Putin gets the non Asian sphere. WWIII will begin.
If they cannot scare NATO into allowing them to take what they want, they will do it by force. Nukes all around. We will start beaming up those we want to save. The rest of you are doomed. Radiated steaks all around to the meat eaters.
Humans have about a week to figure this all out. So “being human is about who you are,” aye? Let’s see who the ones left after the blasts are?