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On this day 12 years ago, the YouTube account Live Without published the video "The Dennys Grand Slam"

Folks, the new print edition of The Onion has won over the libertarians. I repeat, we have won over the libertarians.

Throwing a military parade as a birthday present for dear leader is the sort of thing that ought to instinctively offend a patriot in a democracy.

Aaaaaah! Apple changed rsync without any warning message and the API is totally different. booo `brew install rsync` and everything is working again ☺️ forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/2...

Aaaaaah! Apple changed rsync without any warning message and the API is totally different. booo `brew install rsync` and everything is working again ☺️ forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/2...

“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”

Happy 4/20! youtu.be/9xxK5yyecRo?...

I hope everyone enjoys their 4/20 Lemon Pound Cake this year. Never forget: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bNy...

Back up off my holiday, Christians. 4/20 is sacred.

Ruh roh.

I know there are many things competing for your limited outrage resources at the moment, but please direct some of that towards this infuriating situation

Ok, but now I'm curious about an A1 image generator

Desktop apps built with PHP? It's almost too good to be true. 😁 github.com/orgs/NativeP...

How is it a “drinking problem” if Judge Jeanine starts chugging wine at 9:17 in the morning but doesn’t go on air until 5pm??

kind of interesting that the chokehold native-monetization ("subscribe and pay" button) platforms have over creators might be even worse than with non-money social networks in the sense that losing your "follower graph" literally means losing income, there’s not even a degree of separation

Free trade is terrible because it killed the middle class so we need to use tariffs to destroy the economy so we can remake it but tariffs are bad which is why we instituted them because we want other countries to remove theirs so we can have free trade which is great, actually.

Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx

why are we paying taxes this year again

My breakfast has been transformed by our new rice cooker. Perfect oatmeal + hard boiled (steamed) egg, all at once.

It's too early and I am too tired for a patient to be asking me if they put nanobots in the flu vaccine

I wrote a thing! It’s about how our totally legitimate desire to regulate platforms keeps leading to laws that empower *governments* in ways that are very dangerous to ordinary people. This is not the way.

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

Due process makes America great, actually. Pass it on.

To the people who say art can't be made using AI: Motherfucker, what do you know about art? news.artnet.com/art-world/hu...

Ken Burns’ The Internet: A Series of Unfortunate Events A slow pan over a blurry JPEG of a dancing baby, accompanied by a somber violin score. A dramatic reading of a 1999 forum post.

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moreover copyright is evil

Awesome

TIL that Canadians have strict requirements for the SOUND of their cheeseballs.