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He had read about the problems with too much table salt, which led him to rid his diet of sodium chloride, which led him to ChatGPT, which led him to believe that he could use sodium bromide instead.

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In the end, the man suffered from a terrifying psychosis and was kept in the hospital for three full weeks over an entirely preventable condition.

Again, Games Workshop offered to do their artwork; however, as it was considered too expensive, Bolt Thrower declined the offer. The former head designer of Games Workshop would do the artwork, resulting in artwork quite similar to Realm of Chaos. During the US tour they went on to promote the War Master album, they used an old US school bus as a tour bus, loaded with many computer games.

Around this time, “Word was beginning to spread about her [Elizabeth Bathory’s] sadistic activities”. A single woman in middle age of independent means, with power, accused of unspeakable crimes? But that never happens.

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Of the 289 witnesses interviewed by Thurzó’s interrogators, 229 stated that they knew nothing but hearsay; twenty-nine stated that they knew nothing at all; two were guessing, and four claimed to have first-hand knowledge of Báthory’s crimes but did not say how... Twenty-five witnesses claimed to have seen corpses — without any knowledge of how they had died — or injured girls without any knowledge of how they had come by their wounds. Three witnesses unhelpfully referred the interrogator to the (executed) accomplices... One doctor testified that he had examined a girl with flesh ripped out of her shoulder and buttocks … but does not state whether she was employed by, or indeed had anything to do with, Elizabeth Báthory. Only two witnesses were willing to testify that they had themselves been present at a scene of torture and/or murder.

Donald Trump’s media company is teaming up with Perplexity to bring AI search to Truth Social, the President’s X.com alternative.

The combination of deregulation and digitization erased the legal and ethical distinction between interpersonal communication and broadcast communication that had governed media in the twentieth century. When Google introduced its Gmail service in 2004, it announced, with an almost imperial air of entitlement, that it would scan the contents of all messages and use the resulting data for any purpose it wanted. Our new mailman would read all our mail. The public, in thrall to Google and eager for free email accounts, barely flinched. The centuries-old secrecy-of-correspondence doctrine was tossed aside just as personal correspondence and conversation were moving online. On the internet, the wiretap wouldn't be a bug; it would be a feature.

Band scores for the IELTS reading and listening papers are drawn from the total number of correct answers, or "raw scores," for these sections. IELTS does not disclose the conversion formula, but it does report the average number of correct answers associated with the band scores. 23 correct answers out of 40, for example, is likely to be awarded a band score of 6 on the listening and academic reading papers and band score of 5 on the general training reading paper.