fact or fiction

Is it a fact or is it merely fiction? Fact or Fiction explores the lesser known truths in the corporate culture of Journal.

What Is a Self Assessment Tax Return and Who Needs to File One?
For many people in the UK, income tax is automatically deducted from their salary through the PAYE (Pay As You Earn) system. But for millions of self-employed individuals, landlords, company directors, and freelancers, things work differently. They must declare their income and pay their tax directly to HMRC through the Self Assessment tax return process. Understanding how this system operates — and who it applies to — is essential to staying compliant and avoiding unnecessary penalties.
By Self Assessment Tax Return5 months ago in Journal
🌌 Dreaming in Data: Are We Living Inside Our Own Code?
🩵 1. The Soft Glow of the Machine It begins in silence — a hum beneath our fingertips. The soft glow of a screen, the pulse of code running unseen, the rhythm of keys tapping like a heartbeat.
By Shakil Sorkar5 months ago in Journal
Stanislav Kondrashov on Wagner Moura Series
Wagner Moura: The Intellectual Actor Redefining Modern Cinema In an era of speed and spectacle, there remains a rare breed of performer who believes that acting is not merely imitation, but inquiry. These are the intellectual actors—artists who merge philosophy with performance, transforming each role into a meditation on human nature, politics, and the moral complexities of our age.
By Stanislav Kondrashov5 months ago in Journal
What Most People Fail To Understand About AI
Usually when I Write About AI... It is Not Positive. Why? Most of How People are Utilizing AI... Especially in Large Companies...
By Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, DFM, DHM, DAS (hc)5 months ago in Journal
Young People Don't Matter
I just read an article on Vocal about how Six Flags is shutting down any leftover parks this month in November. I started getting really depressed thinking about it. I've seen the end of so many of my beloved companies and brands. I had to watch Kmart and Sears go down. I had to watch Payless Shoe Source and Albertson's Grocery kick the bucket. I had to watch Chik-Fil-A leave the mall, expand, and dismiss their delicious cole slaw. I had to watch Disney World and Busch Gardens evolve from $25 entrance tickets to $125 entrance tickets. I had to watch the Dollar Tree go from every item costs $1 to you don't know until you're at the register is what every item costs. The world changed so much the past decade. We lost more businesses and "norms" or symbols of Americana culture the past decade than in the three decades previous to it. It's been truly heart-wrenching stuff.
By Shanon Angermeyer Norman5 months ago in Journal
How I Built Massive Arms in 10 Minutes Daily: A Complete Transformation Story
How I Built Massive Arms in 10 Minutes Daily: A Complete Transformation Story I was standing in my bathroom at 6 AM on a Tuesday morning, and I'd had enough. Three years of gym memberships, hundreds of dollars spent, and my arms still looked exactly the same. Thin. Weak. Disappointing.
By Tamer saleh5 months ago in Journal
When AI Starts Thinking for Itself: The Dawn of the Agentic Era
Intro: The Shift No One Saw Coming For years, artificial intelligence was just a tool — obedient, predictable, and bound by human control.
By Shakil Sorkar5 months ago in Journal
The Algorithm and the Soul: How Social Media Learned to Feel for Us
The Scroll That Never Ends Every morning, I wake up and do what most people do: I reach for my phone. Before I’ve even had coffee, a world of colors, headlines, and laughter floods my screen.
By Shakil Sorkar5 months ago in Journal
Living with AI: How Machines Quietly Took Over My Day Without Me Noticing
Morning: My Alarm Has a Mind of Its Own I used to wake up to a basic alarm clock — that sharp, unforgiving buzz that meant “another day begins.”
By Shakil Sorkar5 months ago in Journal
Did the Time Change Today? Understanding Daylight Savings 2025
Every fall, Americans wake up wondering the same thing: Did the time change today? On Sunday, November 2, 2025, the answer is yes — clocks officially fell back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local time, marking the end of Daylight Saving Time (DST).
By KAMRAN AHMAD5 months ago in Journal
Why The Great Amazon Web Services Outage Was Unsurprising (And Will Likely Happen Again)
On October 20, 2025... Tens of Millions of People and Thousands of Companies were Horribly Surprised to Discover... Nothing on the Internet was Working.
By Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, DFM, DHM, DAS (hc)5 months ago in Journal
South Sudan’s Endless Dawn
The South Sudanese Civil War is an armed conflict that erupted in December 2013 between factions of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), pitting government forces under President Salva Kiir—predominantly from the Dinka ethnic group—against opposition forces led by former Vice President Riek Machar, mainly from the Nuer ethnic group, amid a power struggle that rapidly devolved into ethnic massacres and militia warfare. Triggered by Kiir's dismissal of Machar and accusations of a coup attempt, the fighting quickly spread from Juba nationwide, exploiting pre-existing clan rivalries and competition over oil revenues in a state lacking robust institutions just two years after independence from Sudan. The war has caused an estimated 400,000 deaths, including from direct violence, famine, and disease, while displacing over 4 million people internally or as refugees, devastating the economy and infrastructure. Both sides have perpetrated atrocities, including targeted killings, rape as a weapon, child soldier recruitment, and scorched-earth tactics, with no faction holding a monopoly on culpability. A Revitalized Agreement in 2018 established a unity government and power-sharing, but implementation stalled due to distrust, constitutional delays, and sporadic clashes, culminating in Machar's house arrest and treason charges by 2025. As of 2025, escalating inter-communal violence and opposition-government skirmishes have displaced hundreds of thousands more, postponed elections to 2026, and heightened risks of collapse into full-scale war again, underscoring the fragility of elite bargains in a resource-cursed, ethnically fragmented polity. International efforts by IGAD, the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), and regional actors like Uganda have mediated ceasefires but failed to address underlying governance failures or militia proliferation.
By HearthMen5 months ago in Journal