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O-K··on Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022
There’s a great doc by Adam Curtis about HyperNormalisation

https://youtu.be/Gr7T07WfIhM

From wiki:

It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex "real world" and instead established a simpler "fake world" for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments

O-K··on Protein Ate Our Grocery Stores
There are only four sources of calories: protein, fat, carbohydrate, and alcohol. Fat is out. Carbohydrate is out. And you can’t tell people to eat more alcohol.

Hold my beer...

O-K··on In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
F7 gang standup!

When did the squiggles disappear? I do miss the variety in text formatting. You used to be able to animate text in Word and have squiggly double underline in different colours. Everything now is sans serif, sans variety.