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Ivan Lester McGuire, an experienced skydiver, was documenting a tandem jump and made a critical error: He forgot to equip himself with parachute when jumped. Ivan continued filming, with his last words captured on camera being, “Oh my God, no!”

On the 2nd of April, 1988, a typical day of skydiving at the Franklin County Sports Parachute Center in North Carolina took a harrowing turn that would etch itself into the annals of skydiving mishaps.

Ivan Lester McGuire, a seasoned skydiver with over 800 jumps under his belt, embarked on what was to be his third and tragically final jump of the day.

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Brain Training Daily

Six daily cognitive games. New puzzles every day at 7pm.

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“The Dating World Is Fu*ked”

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Imagine this:

You’re lonely and want to talk to a girlfriend in your living room on a rainy weekend, so you open up CandyAI or one of its many competitors and create a girlfriend with their own highly attractive physical and personality traits. you give them a base script and can single out to edit individual quirks, writing; “I want Jessica to have a slightly more puzzled look on her face as I tell her I love her. I also want a touch of anger to be in her voice.”

No girlfriend is out of reach nor constrained by our looks or personality. Each girlfriend and their performance can be modified to the most minute detail. The possibilities are endless and the dating world is fucked.

 

What is Patience?

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Patience, often heralded as a virtue, is the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.

It’s an emotional skill that enables individuals to remain calm and composed in the face of provocation, misfortune, or enduring periods of waiting.

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Everything You Wanted To Know About Trent Reznor’s Wife – Mariqueen Maandig

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Forget the dark and brooding persona. In Trent Reznor’s world, there’s a beacon of sunshine – his wife, Mariqueen Maandig. While Reznor may be the mastermind behind the industrial rock juggernaut Nine Inch Nails, Maandig brings her own musical talent and creative spark to the table.

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Linkage

How AI could explode the economy – VOX

This Is What the Simpsons Would Look like If It Were a K-Drama – Ned Hardy

Once you put rollerblade wheels on your office chair, you are never going back to regular casters anymore. They are so smooth and quiet while rolling around on a hard floor – Amazon

How to Decompress Your Spine to Reduce Back Ache and Pain – Stylist

Inside the Creation of the World’s Most Powerful Open Source AI Model – Wired

The Most Charming Small Town in Every U.S. State – Afar

The Four Tax Myths to Be Aware of in 2024 – Life Hacker

Guy takes cleaning ladies on a free trip to Disneyland for the day – Instagram

Inside the Garrick, the Elite Men-Only London Club Rocked by Criticism – NY Times

All The Scary Airplane Noises You Hear On Every Flight, Explained – Riyadhk

We’re Mostly Trying to Escape This Moment – Zen Habits

23 People Having a Worse Day than You – Ned Hardy

It is an amazing achievement to condense the entire base of human scientific knowledge into 478 pages, in such a way that they can be understood by the layman, but Bill Bryson has done it – Amazon

New Video Shows Trashed House After Diddy Raid – TMZ

Shane Smith Scrambles to Save What’s Left of Vice, the Media Empire He Built – and Blew Up – The Wrap

How Running a Little Bit Every Day for Two Months Changed My Life – GQ

Elon Musk’s improbable path to making X an “everything app” – ARS Technica

Scientists think ‘collective AI’ will resemble Star Trek’s Borg — only nicer (hopefully) – The Next Web

A Map of Global Happiness By Country in 2024 – Visual Capitalist

Former QB Vince Young KO’d in bar fight – Reddit

 

The Psychology of Slot Machines: How Variable-Ratio Rewards Fuel Addiction

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A variable-ratio schedule of rewards is a concept derived from the field of operant conditioning in psychology, which has significant implications for gambling addiction.

This type of reinforcement schedule rewards a response after an unpredictable number of responses. The unpredictability of the reward is what makes this schedule so effective and, in the context of slot machines, highly addictive.

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Confessions of a 890lbs Man

What’s your daily food intake like, can you give an example of a typical day’s meals you consume?

Food intake is all over the place. Typical day varies some but here’s an example:

Breakfast: a couple boxes of microwavable breakfast sandwiches and or hot pockets. Other times it’s hotdogs, eggs, potatoes, cheese and butter in a big bowl with a few bags of chips.

Mid morning meal usually a plate of corn dogs, rolled tacos and or chicken nuggets. Some more chips.

Lunch is usually a family meal from local Chinese or I get taco burrito packs from del taco. If not take out, I’ll have a few boxes of pasta with butter and cheese.

Dinner: 4 frozen pizzas with a few boxes of pasta with butter and cheese.

Dessert: a couple family pack of cookies, half gallon or two of ice cream.

Midnight meal usually a few microwavable meals.

Roughly a liter or two of coke or Dr pepper with every meal.

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Picture of the Day

Chalino Sánchez

Mexican singer Chalino Sanchez receiving a death note from the cartel while on stage warning him not to perform. He decided to still perform anyway, and was found dead in a canal 12 hours later.

Chalino Sánchez, born Rosalino Sánchez Félix on August 30, 1960, in Sinaloa, Mexico, was a pioneering figure in the Mexican regional music scene, particularly in the genres of narcocorridos and banda.

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