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Has anyone else accidentally thought people said "bilderberg" when they said "build a bear"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPzqRKhT9Dg

How Not Be Be Stupid - A Guide to Critical Thinking

Carey Burtt Films

Youtube

Would you rather be the greatest man upon all men to live in a trash pile and ruler of the trash pile and beloved by women who live in the same trash pile. And all the people that live in that trash pile are very poor

Or the poorest man in a community in which all the men are rich and considered the greatest loser in the community among all the women in that same community

There is the death penalty for posting a picture of a pig on social media sites on the internet in at least one Muslim country

In 1645, Thomas Hogg, another servant in New Haven, was imprisoned for several months for very similar crimes. A sow gave birth to two deformed piglets that allegedly resembled Hogg. However, Hogg never confessed to the crime, and the requirement of finding two witnesses could not be met

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_George_Spencer

Spencer was given a posthumous pardon by Superior Court Judge John C. Blue, concluding that Spencer's confession was coerced and thus inadmissible, while also stating that Spencer's alleged crime of fathering a piglet was "biologically impossible". Spencer's case was described by Blue as the "first verifiable false confession in American history"...

When a sow gave birth to a malformed, one-eyed piglet it was considered a manifestation of God's proof of Spencer's sins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_George_Spencer

Pork products are imported into Pakistan to serve the culinary needs of the country's growing Chinese community.[1] Unlike the Pakistani version of Chinese cuisine, which relies on chicken or beef gravies made with ingredients such as garlic, tomatoes and ginger, authentic Chinese cuisine is described to be much different with heavy use of pork ingredients in dishes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_in_Pakistan

So I was talking to someone who called themself a Jew

I asked them if the chief Rabbi of Israel told them to do various things if they would do it ranging from various actions that would result in their death such as jumping from a helicopter a mile high in the air without a parachute, to assassinating people and they said that they would do whatever the chief Rabbi of Israel said because that is what they signed up for

The only thing they said they would not do is kill their own close family

Feel better in 5

Dr Rangan Chaterjee

Instructions on page 69 in bold

Page numbers might vary?

Chaterjee has more details but I am only writing the bold details

Set yourself up for a calm day by working through these simple steps

The Five Step Release

1 One thing I'm anxious about today

2 One practical thing I can do to prevent or prepare for it

3 One reason it's probably not going to be as bad as I fear

4 One reason I know I can handle it

5 One upside of the situation