His early childhood was spent imprisoned in an internment camp for Japanese Americans during WWII. There are probably other factors but seems like that would play a big part.

the first energy scandal

The biggest bribery scheme in state history and most people haven’t even heard about it. Paid off the lawmakers with a super majority to grant them state funds. Meanwhile after taking all that bailout money we still have random blackouts.

What I’m gathering from this article is that the Teams team has teams on Teams

Thank you. I didn’t know this back story for the title of the Macklemore song Hind’s Hall.

The sound of someone talking for an extended time makes me fall asleep. I always had trouble staying awake in school. Sometime if I’m having trouble sleeping I’ll put on YouTube and watch Technology Connections and I’m out in 5 minutes. I think this is related to ADHD but I’m not sure?

Pikas don’t have tails so that doesn’t really fit for an origin of Pikachu’s design. I think the name is a coincidence.

“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the weather.”

The feudal system is where the term landlord originated, so kind of yeah

mitochondria… Parasite Eve

Now I’m looking forward to seeing RFK jr testifying before a Senate panel and he just makes everyone spontaneously combust

It’s the state Senate, not the US Senate, so most people will never hear about it unless they actually read the local news. Major events happen locally that actually have an immediate impact on your life and I’ll mention it to someone and usually they have no idea what I’m talking about.

Pedro Pascal

This leads me to think renaming the Gulf of Mexico was because he couldn’t remember the real name and everyone in the room went along with it

Your instincts were correct. The actual Knight Foundation was established by John S and James L Knight, co-founders of Knight Ridder Newspaper

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So for bears Arctic means land with penguins

Eight legs, seven vaginas.

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I was able to track down the original artist