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It’s not representation if they’re being used as a joke or shock factor

#cough unbreakable kimmy schmidt

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Here’s why music sounds so much better when you’re high, according to science

Marijuana has helped some great minds come to a new understanding of and appreciation for music. There’s been little research into how music and marijuana actually interact in the brain to produce such profound experiences. Theories abound, though, and taking the marijuana studies we do have and comparing them with music-related neurological research can shed light on why marijuana and music are such tight bedfellows.

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#one time i got high while watching a grateful dead concert on tv and it was the best thing i'd ever seen in my life #and i hate the grateful dead

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i went to a speakeasy today hidden up a staircase in the back of a five guys restaurant and sat on a leather couch with my friend and drank the best manhattan i’ve ever had, so yes, things are really good, thank you for asking

#personal

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#my aesthetic

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i forgot what BFG stood for and i was sitting there for a good five minutes going, “no. no. they wouldn’t have called a kids film ‘big fucking giant.’ would they? would they?”

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I want to believe the love spell cast over us by carnivals, casinos and gas stations is derived from a natural fluorescence in our nearly forgotten celestial lives. Beneath even the cheapest neon tints; infrared gleaming claw machine, short circuiting motel six sign- we are stars again.

#i feel this

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#me showing up at jori's door #flower boy

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i’m adopting this child

#my child

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is it really that hard to cast an asian person to play an asian character

#representation

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Wait, what's wine forgery? How would you fake wine?

VERY EASILY, MY FRIEND. BUCKLE UP.

First of all, you gotta understand that wine is BIG BUCKS. Old and rare vintages can sell for tens of thousands of dollars or even more to wealthy collectors at auctions. A single bottle of 1947 Cheval Blanc sold for $300,000 back in 2010. And a lot of 114 bottles of a rare Romanee-Conti sold for $1.4 million in 2014.

And it turns out that high-end wine is dazzlingly easy to fake. Only a handful of people have ever tasted the rarest vintages in the world; and how the bottles were stored, if they were exposed to sunlight or kept in darkness, if the bottle had been opened or kept sealed, or if the environment was humid or dry can affect the wine’s taste, especially after decades or centuries. So who knows what a bottle of 1785 Lefitte actually tastes like? Can anyone actually tell it apart, with certainty, from a hypothetically-much-less-valuable 1784 of the same vintage?

Considering that some of the greatest wine-tasters in the world have also been dupes of some of the biggest wine scams in the world, I’m gonna say no.

There are definitely flavors associated with old wines, even specific vintages of old wines; but you don’t need to shell out for a pricey bottle to top off your fake. Get a cheap bottle of old wine and mix it with some nice quality, younger wines, and no one will be the wiser. Million-dollar wine forgers like Harvey Rodenstock and Rudy Korniawan do exactly that.

It gets even easier when you think that a lot of the people who buy these ultra-pricey bottles never even open them. They’re not for drinking! They’re an investment, or they’re a prestige item, something you take down from your shelf to show off to your friends once in a while. You could fill the bottle with grape juice, and who would ever find out?

So how are you supposed to tell a real bottle from a fake one? The bottle itself? The label? Wine bottles are nothing special; get one made in the right couple-of-decades as the vintage you’re faking, and there’s nothing to tell them apart. Some of them have etched signatures, but those were done with simple hand tools, that you can still buy today. And the labels are no security at all. They’re just paper, ink, and paste. People today are forging the holograms off of $20 bills; you could convincingly fake a wine label using a standard laser printer.

Wine forgery is a HUGE problem in the wine world today. Tracing the provenance of any particular bottle is next to impossible. And frankly, the money in the business is just too good for anyone to want to ask too many questions. The head of Sotheby’s auction house’s international wine department joked that more bottles of 1945 Mouton were consumed on the 50th anniversary of the vintage than were ever produced in the first place. 

The question isn’t how do you fake wine: it’s how the fraudsters ever get caught. In Rodenstock and Korniawan’s cases, they just overplayed their hands. Rodenstock sold so many bottles of rare wine that a suspicious customer had a bottle carbon-dated, which revealed that it was two centuries younger than Rodenstock had claimed (and it still took years to take him down). 

As for Korniawan, he started selling a vintage so rare that, it turned out, it had never existed in the first place.

There’s a great podcast on this topic in the Stuff You Should Know archives, if you want to hear a whole lot more about this. 

Sources: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

#this is so interesting #jori look

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I know I'm a handful but thats what you got two hands for

#very me

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feb 2, 2016 // 6:48 pm

Tuesdays are my one of my busiest days, not going to lie. Today was beautiful though and I’m feeling very productive!

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#my aesthetic

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i love making her laugh 💕

#again

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why are 90% of urls attached to popular text posts deactivated?  is someone picking them off, assassin style, or have these users won their freedom from this website, gladiator style

#oh wow #i knew a surprising amount of this but never this in depth #this was an amazing read

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Millennials are often stereotyped as being lazy and entitled, and Nick Offerman is not here for it. Speaking at the WORD bookstore, Offerman addressed the issue and sent a message to anyone discouraged by these stereotypes.