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Inside The Demise Of Troy Leon Gregg, The Man Who Escaped Death Row Before Being Murdered That Very Night – All That’s Interesting

Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI – The Verge

What’s So Great about Akira Kurosawa’s Movies? – Ned Hardy

This sleek money clip comes with a fixed blade knife built into it, for when you never know – Amazon

The Four Things That Make Practically Everyone Feel Loved – Quartz

Millennials say they need $525,000 a year to be happy. A Nobel prize winner’s research shows they’re not wrong – Business Insider

How to take things less personally: Always blaming yourself or assuming others think ill of you? A therapist shares ways to break these self-critical habits – Psyche

11 Tips for Anyone Who Doesn’t Know How to Relax – SELF

How to Stop People Pleasing – Shondaland

Whatever Happened To Actress Cynthia Rhodes? – Ned Hardy

Your best weapon against fighting bad breath – Amazon

Here’s What a $1 Million Retirement Looks Like in America – WSJ

Rethinking ‘She’s All That’: The Problematic Legacy of Teen Makeover Movies – Wanderer

Use this Guide to Get your Shit Together – Brent Huras

A nun and a monk fell in love, quit their monastic lives and got married – Upworthy

8 Famous Actors Who Have Literally Never Been Good In A Movie – What Culture

15 Short Male Celebrities Who Challenged the Unrealistic Beauty Standards of Hollywood – Bright Side

Are You Really Super Busy, Or Are You Just Super Disorganized? – Mel Magazine

The Risks of Joint Purchases for Unmarried Couples

When considering joint purchases in a relationship, particularly significant investments like real estate, automobiles, and other substantial assets, it’s crucial to weigh the risks and implications carefully. While buying together can seem like a symbol of commitment or a step towards a shared future, the financial and legal complexities can be daunting, especially for couples who are not married. Here are some key reasons why it’s generally not advisable to make such substantial joint purchases unless you are married:

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What Exactly Do People Mean By “Spacing” In Basketball

spacing in basketball

Good floor spacing means those teams have shooters who can shoot the 3 very well forcing defenders to stick closer to them and further away from the paint/rim

It does not necessarily mean shooting above league average from three; volume is just as important as percentage. If a player shoots well from three but only manages 1-2 attempts per game despite being always wide open they are not a floor spacer.

Rajon Rondo is an example of this. Also doesn’t have to be restricted to 3PT shooting if it concerns big men; Nikola Jokic is a top notch floor spacer.

Good spacing makes it difficult for defenders to play help defense.

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Picture of the Day

Vasily Blokhin

Vasily Blokhin, Joseph Stalin’s head executioner. Having personally killed tens of thousands of people in his career, including 7,000 Polish officers in under a month during the “Katyn Massacre,” Blokhin was the most prolific murderer in human history

Along with a team of about thirty NKVD men from Moscow, mainly drivers and prison guards, Blokhin arrived at the NKVD prison in Kalinin (Tver) and set himself up in a sound-proofed cellar room that had a sloping floor for drainage. He then put on his special uniform, consisting of a leather cap, long leather apron, and elbow-length gloves.

On a table next to him was a briefcase filled with his own personal Walther PPK pistols, for Blokhin, a true artist at his trade, would use no one else’s tools but his own.

After the prisoner’s identity was verified, he was brought handcuffed into the cellar room where Blokhin awaited in his long apron, like some horrible butcher.

One guard later testified: “The men held [the prisoner’s] arms and [Blokhin] shot him in the base of the skull…that’s all”. Blokhin worked fast and efficiently, killing an average of one man every three minutes during the course of ten-hour nights – the killings were always done at night so that the bodies could be disposed of in darkness.

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How to Let Go and Move On From an Embarrassing Memory

We all have them – those awkward, humiliating memories that make us instinctively shudder in discomfort years later. Whether it’s an embarrassing moment from childhood or a regrettable incident as an adult, these cringeworthy flashes have a way of harshly jolting us without warning. When they creep up to jest at our composure, it can truly feel like the clock has turned back and we’re reliving every excruciating detail vividly once again.

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Unwrapping the Abomination That is the Star Wars Holiday Special – Wanderer

The Biggest Questions: What is death? – Technology Review

The One Twilight Zone Episode That Every Dog Owner Needs To Watch – Ned Hardy

Try buying a gaming mouse even if you don’t plan to game. The extra buttons can be easily mapped to basic tasks such as cut, copy, paste, etc. which can come in quite handy – Amazon

How the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ Became the Soundtrack of the Holidays – VICE

Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao Agrees to Step Down, Plead Guilty – WSJ

How to Make Time With Someone Bad at Making Time – Shondaland

How to train your brain to achieve goals more effectively – Fast Co

The Best Way To Deal With Entitled People, According To Customer Service Reps – Fatherly

The Dos and Don’ts of Table Manners – The Art of Manliness

The 19 Most Beautiful Places in Ireland, From Inconceivable Rock Formations to Medieval Architecture – Traveler

Mary Ann Bevan: The Tragic Story Of The ‘Ugliest Woman In The World’ – Rare Historical Photos

Whatever Happened To Actress Kay Panabaker? – Ned Hardy

Don’t Get Fooled or Conned Again — Here Are the 5 Tactics to Look out For – Ideas

The 7 Most Amazing Stunts….That Ended in Death – Linkiest

Fishermen Rescue Man In Ocean Who Had Been Treading Water For 24 Hours – Sunny Skyz

How to Get Over the Love of Your Life and Move On – Knowledge For Men

The Biggest Wastes Of Time We Regret When We Get Older – Life Hacker

Want to sound more confident? Ditch these 10 phrases that make you look ‘insecure’ and ‘arrogant,’ say word experts – CNBC

Confession of the Day

I(m45) cheated on my wife (f41). It changed her fundamentally. She has always been this bubbly and cheerful woman with her beautiful smile never leaving her face. She makes everything better and has the ability to make people happy around her wherever she goes. Now she is distant, silent and

I haven’t seen her smile since it happened a year ago. When we got back together after a small break, she told me that she was fully aware about our declining sex life and her role in that. She said that she didn’t know if or when she ever could sleep with me again. She said that she couldn’t handle the pressure of needing to heal fast not to lose me again, for me not to cheat again, so she said that I could still sleep with the OW. She just doesn’t want to know when. And not in our home.

I hate myself for what she has become. Like a broken bird. When I talk to her about divorce, her tears just starts pouring and she asks if I didn’t love her anymore. I do. More than anything but I want to set her free. But her tears. I can’t.

The only thing she hasn’t changed is her kiss in the morning. She starts very early and before leaving she kisses me goodbye and whispers I love you. I pretend that she I’m sleeping. When I hear the door locks I break down crying. I cry for a good hour before it’s time for me to go to work too.

I hate myself every day for what I have done to her.

The Myth and Reality of Blowing into NES Cartridges

For many of us who grew up with the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), blowing into game cartridges was a universally accepted solution to make non-working games spring back to life. This practice, deeply ingrained in gaming culture, was accepted as an effective fix, but a deeper dive into the history and mechanics of the NES reveals a more complex reality, turning this widespread habit into one of gaming’s greatest urban legends.

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