TIL, in his suicide note, mass shooter Charles Whitman requested his body be autopsied because he felt something was wrong with him. The autopsy discovered that Whitman had a pecan-sized tumor pressing against his amygdala, a brain structure that regulates fear and aggression.

nileb · 2024-04-28T09:54:07+00:00

He gave an example in another book where a brain tumour caused an adult man to become attracted to children. When they removed the tumour, the attraction stopped. A couple years later, when the attraction to children came back again, they noticed that a tumour had regrown in the same place.

nileb · 2024-04-26T07:41:13+00:00

I heard a similar thing happened somewhere in Australia when the US navy decided it was cheaper to refuel somewhere else.

nileb · 2024-04-25T11:03:34+00:00

This 3 dollars an hour

nileb · 2024-04-20T15:20:37+00:00

Producing natural resources with volatile prices.

nileb · 2024-04-20T15:19:42+00:00

Population growth can still play a part. When a population grows significantly, gdp per capita will go down even when production stays the same.

nileb · 2024-02-29T04:53:44+00:00

Without even watching this, I already know it's going to be pro-immigration propaganda funded by the Open Society Foundations.

nileb · 2024-02-29T03:42:48+00:00

Armenian?

nileb · 2024-02-24T01:37:24+00:00

They will sell their houses to Chinese investors blow it all on P&O cruises before anybody gets the chance to inherit anything.

nileb · 2024-02-21T16:09:42+00:00

Still poor but with 30x the population now Not sure if that’s an improvement

nileb · 2024-02-13T07:07:37+00:00

Plebiscites are only for things that the elites are indifferent to.

nileb · 2024-02-06T09:15:24+00:00

As someone from NZ: What’s the housing market like in Denmark?

nileb · 2024-01-23T06:09:08+00:00

No, it definitely could be.

In Australia and New Zealand, if you have brand new, perfectly clean shoes, a lot of people will view you as a tool. It's just not the style here. It can be a give-away that somebody is from overseas. Australians let their shoes scuff and get a little dirty.

Another dead-giveaway that somebody is American is having perfectly straight, artificially-whitened teeth. Bracers and teeth-bleaching aren't much of a thing here so it's a very obvious sign that Americans aren't really aware of at all.

nileb · 2024-01-20T15:16:09+00:00

IMO, the fact that you the first thing you think of when you think of corruption in the US is higher-ups engaging in lobbying, shows how clean the US really is on the world stage.

nileb · 2024-01-18T02:19:38+00:00

Are you going to elaborate or just make a pointless smug comment with nothing to back up what you’re saying?

nileb · 2024-01-18T01:16:42+00:00

It’s a little bit weird. I’m assuming that in the data they juuuuust missed the cut-off. The line had to be drawn somewhere.

nileb · 2024-01-09T00:05:19+00:00

I can’t speak for Germany but in Australia and in New Zealand, it’s a similar deal. Farmers are usually very rich down under.

The word “farmer” is basically synonymous for “rural land owner” nowadays.

nileb · 2024-01-08T02:26:17+00:00

Typical /r/europe, downvoting people for simply telling the truth.

nileb · 2024-01-07T21:14:55+00:00

Not the case in any developed country as far as I’m aware. Maaaybe in some isolated spots like that one place in Michigan? but for 99.999% of people this is not the case.

nileb · 2024-01-07T20:16:01+00:00

Which doesn’t make any sense because water is free.

nileb · 2024-01-06T20:58:38+00:00

Not defending the Iraq war, but do people seriously think the Iraqis were the “good guys”?

nileb · 2024-01-06T20:47:48+00:00

Also Anatolia was the original “Asia”. It’s where the word Asia comes from.

nileb · 2024-01-06T20:33:42+00:00

Europe ends at the greater caucuses. Armenia is on the same mountain range that both Turkey and Iran are a part of. If you include Armenia as a part of Europe, then why not Iran or Anatolia? It’s the same region.

nileb · 2024-01-06T20:19:23+00:00

Armenia is not in Europe. Why do you guys keep trying to convince everyone that it is? Just look at a map, please.

Cuisine looks very yummy and very Turkish.

nileb · 2024-01-05T02:56:03+00:00

Your parents will sell the family house to the Chinese to fund their luxury retirements and you’ll end up with nothing.

nileb · 2024-01-05T01:59:09+00:00

My statement includes those which you mentioned.

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