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antsmasher t1_j5niirh wrote

I just finished watching the Netflix document Fyre: The Greatest Festival that Never Happened and I am disgusted at how many people McFarland has hurt. A lot of people were owed money and a restaurant owner had to wipe away her entire life savings to pay her staff who worked day and night to provide service at the event. To add more salt the wound, this asshole continued to defraud Fyre attendees by selling them fake tickets on false promises such as getting a meet and greet with Taylor Swift. And he is definitely not sorry for all that he had done.

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Fracture_98 t1_j5ngbxn wrote

Well, Disney uses bromine instead of chlorine to keep the water clean. That has a distinct smell and smell triggers nostalgia. I can see the idea behind this, but the scam prices are laughable.

(Edit: they use it because it's safer to handle in large quantities, easier on skin and clothes, and performs much better keeping the water clean. It's more expensive than chlorine which is why pools rarely use it.)

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Psychomadeye t1_j5neu3h wrote

Because the information is literally just higher quality.

> "our recent displays used the term 'mummified remains of...' and include the name (when known) of the person who has been mummified...[to emphasize] that mummified remains are of people who once lived."

Literally emphasizing that this is in fact the body of a king and not some weird supernatural creature because children and even some adults don't know it.

Also you'd probably not understand a word of English spoken in the seventh century. Here's Beowulf in the English from around that time:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf#/media/File%3ABeowulf_Cotton_MS_Vitellius_A_XV_f._132r.jpg

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