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Con-men are really good at convincing marks that they're in on the con

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Im tied to a chair in some damp basement somewhere in the american midwest. The cop slides another Meta Neuroreader headset on me. I immediately fry it by visualizing Karl Franz's warhammer wiki page in a weaponized shotgun blast of autism, wasting $12,000. This is the third time I've done this.

submitted 75 days ago • 41 comments

An Industry Reacts

submitted 140 days ago • 67 comments

pluralistic.net/2024/12/09/r...

submitted 148 days ago • 0 comments

On this date in 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the imperial forces of Japan. The loss of life and destruction was horrific, and it pulled the U.S. into the war. For Japanese Americans, it was a terrifying time. Overnight, we became the “enemy within” because we were of Japanese descent. /1

submitted 150 days ago • 168 comments

The CBO is going DOGE'd if they don't figure out some way to make this work 😂

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

Fun Fact: Teslas have killed over twice as many people as the exploding Ford Pinto did at a roughly similar level of sales. the Pinto sold ~3 million units & killed at least 27 people. Tesla is now creeping up on 5 million total vehicles & 95 deaths from battery fires or autopilot crashes.

submitted 388 days ago • 75 comments

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

submitted 165 days ago • 182 comments

I tried to cancel my Amazon prime membership a couple weeks ago, and those fuckers charged me again. It turns out there's another page with a confirmation button scrolled way out of view down the screen. How do those people live with themselves?

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

A real smoking gun in natalist writings is that they always say "Women are having fewer babies" as if men are somehow continuing to have babies in abundance. Never any discussion of how to push men to have more children. Zero attempt to convince men that child care is more fulfilling than work.

submitted 171 days ago • 3 comments

If you’re considering getting an air fryer, keep in mind you’re statistically more likely to air fry a loved one than you are an intruder

submitted 171 days ago • 19 comments

In the annual sea of "how to celebrate The Holidays™️ when your family is full of ethical toilets who voted for you to die" media, here is the 2024 Captain Awkward Dot Com entry. captainawkward.com/2024/11/08/1...

submitted 179 days ago • 9 comments

Good life, Mr. Christensen! www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/t...

submitted 197 days ago • 1 comment

[George Nader, BOTD in 1921, starred in ROBOT MONSTER, sacrificed himself to the Tabloid Gods to save Rock Hudson, went to Germany and became an action star, and wrote a sexy science fiction novel about a robot guy with vibrator hands. Who among us has accomplished so much?]

submitted 199 days ago • 0 comments

StickerApp StickerGiant DieCutStickers Bumperactive Artist Amigos StickerNinja These are all better and much less repugnant sticker companies.

submitted 207 days ago • 6 comments

Mary Burchell remains one of the most successful romance writers, ever. Over 110 Mills and Boon books to her name. Less well known is that much of her early writing was done for one purpose: Funding her efforts to get Jews out of Nazi Germany, with her sister. Mary is a Righteous Gentile. /1 🧵

submitted 208 days ago • 43 comments

Because people keep asking, the Story of The Lizard In That Dude's Leg. Some caveats: 1. This happened more than twenty years ago. There are no pictures. There was a small article in a local paper with, again, no pictures (I'm assuming that's what the producers of 9-1-1: LONE STAR found).

submitted 218 days ago • 10 comments

I find it striking how in the aftermath of Helene, libraries are providing crucial community services like free wifi while cops are guarding stores with rotting food from potential "looters" instead of serving and protecting people. Worth considering how we spend local funding.

submitted 218 days ago • 0 comments

took a picture of the big guy today 🔭

submitted 220 days ago • 12 comments

OK...the NWS Bot collection is now fully populated and ready to go. I'm sure bugs will come up along the way, but I think it is 95%+ stable. There's an index page at nws-bot.us including a map (borrowed from NWS) to find the right bot for the area you want to follow.

submitted 220 days ago • 215 comments

Fund libraries 📚 📜 🌊 #Helene

submitted 220 days ago • 19 comments

OK that's pretty good

submitted 221 days ago • 74 comments

Saturday: our flagship Real Black Dahlia tour departs Grand Central Market in search of a lost world of reckless, rootless youth, traumatized by war and family drama, drawn to blank slate Los Angeles where they can live in anonymity, to love--or to kill! esotouric.com/event/black-...

submitted 222 days ago • 0 comments

The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online www.openculture.com/2024/09/the-...

submitted 222 days ago • 21 comments