Here come this week's Recommended Links, full of a Lady Terminator, an Immortal, and a Submarine Toilet, among many other things. Plus viral videos and a few galleries. Enjoy!

Recommended Links of the Week (No. 708)

This Week's Recommended Links

Who is The Dawn Project, the mysterious group behind this brutal anti-Tesla ad

"Tonight, tens of millions of Americans will see, between plays of the Super Bowl, a very special ad that directly attacks Tesla. Specifically, its autopilot or Full Sell-driving, the autonomous driving mode. It's an ad created by a group called The Dawn Project, which asks to make computers safe for Humanity. Surely Elon Musk will be furious when he sees it."

How I made money with a negative Amazon review - "Delete the comment and we will compensate you"

"After apologizing, it offers financial compensation for the alleged inconvenience caused. In this case, the compensation rose to 50 euros and could be collected via Paypal or directly as an Amazon check. All this, without prejudice to having requested the appropriate refund from Amazon for the return of the defective product. A strange deal, however, that Amazon had no knowledge of."

Lady Terminator (1988)

"Indeed, the makers of this film use South Pacific mythology (Nyai Roro Kidul) to turn a deity that possibly represents the imposing nature of the oceans into a lady who cuts off penises because they don't satisfy her (yes) and curses the man who gives her an orgasm (yes) (¿?). So far ridicule, but this initial concept is used so that about a hundred years later an anthropologist ends up possessed in one of the many scenes where she appears almost naked."

Cat Rickroll

The pilot who died in the "Land of Thirst" wrote an intimate diary in his agony and was found mummified 29 years later

"It's the dawn of the eighth day. It's still cold. I have no water. I wait patiently. Come soon. The fever has destroyed me tonight. I hope you find my diary. Bill."

How does a submarine toilet work?

"On April 14, 1945, someone literally messed up in the North Sea. By misusing the toilet of a submarine, they ended up sending it to the bottom of the sea. The living conditions of submarine crews during World War I and II were brutal in many ways, but perhaps hygiene was the worst. Fresh water on board was strictly rationed for drinking and making coffee. Fresh water could not be wasted, so nobody showered, shaved, or brushed their teeth."

VaultBox - The worst thing that has happened to coin collecting in the last 200 years

"Each box guaranteed you two common or uncommon coins and one rare. That is, buying a box you were assured two silver coins, and then another comes that could be silver, in exceptional cases gold, and in super-hyper-mega exceptional cases, platinum or palladium. The great attraction of this batch of boxes was the possibility of winning the rarest piece: a 2020 Gold Eagle with a W mint mark in proof with maximum grading score."

"Bohemian Rhapsody" on the largest pipe organ in the world

The 10 iconic works of Brutalist Architecture in Latin America

From India to Georgia, in Japan and the United States, and of course in Latin America, we find examples of this architecture that had its peak in our region in the '60s and '70s, sometimes extending into the '80s. It's interesting how this architecture connects us aesthetically with the 'Third World', and it's no longer the copy of a European style, but adherence to a global movement. It is the periphery taking center stage and trying to join 'development' and modernity.

The macabre funeral ritual of the sin eaters

"If there was something medieval Europe never lacked, it was funerals. For God-fearing people in the religious climate of the Middle Ages, the only thing worse than death was Purgatory, and the Church had a monopoly on absolution. While the nobility could pay local bishops to absolve the sins of their loved ones upon death, the vast majority of commoners could not afford such luxuries. However, there was another alternative: to use a sin eater."

The Dreamlands

"In fact, when Sandy Petersen contacted Chaosium years earlier to write a role-playing game based on H.P. Lovecraft's work, his idea was to write about the Dreamlands, and he planned it to be a Runequest supplement (or at least based on it). Fortunately, the idea didn't convince Chaosium, and they told Petersen that if he was going to write something based on H.P. Lovecraft's work, it had to be a game set in the waking world. That's how Call of Cthulhu was born."

The Matterhorn by drone

El incortamiento

"In my town, there was fear of the evil eye that could ruin a baby's health, the life of a beast of burden, or a year's harvest. But the shortening was feared. And for good reason. I had long asked my grandmother what it was, and I remember she answered evasively. Finally she told me: "When you're older, your grandfather will tell you." Naturally, that answer intrigued me even more: apparently these were adult matters, and besides, it didn't seem appropriate for a woman to tell me."

"Gilgamesh, the Immortal", the deepest and most entertaining reflection on the human being

"Gilgamesh is a stark portrait of humanity in general and its predestined leaders in particular, those men born, according to essayist Thomas Carlyle, to change history; as in all his work, Robin questions the idea of the authoritarian figure, the visionary and messianic leader who promises salvation in exchange for submission; unlike his colleagues Ricardo Barreiro and Héctor Germán Oesterheld, who were convinced of the need to accept the benevolent dictator."

The 20 best Greek mythology movies

Do you want to climb to Mount Olympus of the best Greek mythology movies? Classical myths are in the DNA of Western narrative; almost every story that reaches us today was told before by the Greeks (and they told it better). In the following lines we tell you how much the Coen brothers know about this mythology, who wrote the dialogues for 'Troy' (before becoming famous) or which famous bodybuilder has been the cheesiest 'Hercules' in cinema history. Discover it in this list of the 20 best Greek mythology movies…

Robots setting the table

Videos

Carl Sagan - Lost Lecture (1994, subtitled)

Galleries

The Pandora cluster, the Tatra 97 car (1936), abandoned house full of dolls, Garden Photographer awards, the art of Shaun Lowndes, baby walkers of the past, the taxidermy of Dr. Seuss, winners of the Sony World Photography 2023, portraits painted with fire, Underwater Photographer awards, discovered a warehouse of nuts in his wall, Animated Dumpster and the Weekly Visual Dump.

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