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Greek Donkeys Are Now Legally Barred From Carrying Overweight Tourists
Disney’s had a run of under performing films like their latest Hercule Poirot outing.
New analysis suggests that 74% of all money made through ransomware attacks in 2021 went to Russia-linked hackers.
Fossil fuel companies have been on a green kick the last few years to transition to this new era of energy. Just kidding. It’s just a public relations issue for them to step around. Okay but the world really is changing, right? Well, if we follow the money, oil patch jobs still pay more.
The trucker convoy shows how Canadians are being sucked into larger conspiratorial narratives.
Have you heard the term brick? It’s when a piece of technology is made useless by a bad upgrade or become unsupported. Believe it or not, there are 350 people using bionic eyes. Guess what happened recently.
Odd and awkward embroidered sayings for today.
Dipping one’s toe into the crypto craze. I know a few gold bugs — people like this — who think they know a bit ore than they actually do and want a return to gold. They’ve also gone nuts over crypto for two reasons - it removes the economy from government control and they don’t understand deflation. Here’s a chart of the stock market value versus gold over 100 years. Notice anything?
Man battles town over whether his pig is livestock or an emotional support pig.
The fashion industry produces far more inventory than it sells, consuming and polluting more of the planet's resources than necessary and generating about 10% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Much of this excess merchandise ends up in landfills or is burned, prolonging the environmental assault. Mass customization, where customers order clothing made to their own style tastes and measurements, has been proposed as one solution to overproduction. But the logistical challenges of tailoring garments to individual customer requests and lengthy manufacturing lead times have discouraged most firms from adopting mass customization.
A recent study from the No Shit Sherlock Institute suggests some men’s desire to own firearms may be connected to masculine insecurities
Archaeologists develop method of identifying intestinal parasites concealed within 1,500-year-old chamber pots. New technique helps distinguish portable toilets from other jars and ceramic vessels, leading to greater understanding of gut health in the past.
Deaths and crashes linked to drunken driving dropped almost 20% in Utah, the only state with a lower legal limit of .05, according to a new study.
Only about 40 per cent of American women who gave birth in 2019 had good heart health prior to their pregnancy with excess weight being the major driver of poor pre-pregnancy health, followed by hypertension and diabetes
Drought in the US midwest - data indicates it’s the driest season on 20 years.
Sex education programs linked to decline in teen birth rates, again. Only in the US does this keep needing to be proved.
There have been more than 1 million excess deaths in the US during the pandemic, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The deaths are mainly attributable to Covid-19, as well as conditions that may have resulted from delayed medical care and overwhelmed health systems: At least 923,000 Americans have died from confirmed Covid cases Interestingly, other causes of death above the normally expected number have included heart disease, hypertension and Alzheimer's disease. Some Americans also die months after their initial Covid diagnosis, because the virus created other fatal complications. Excess deaths are calculated by looking at previous years' fatalities. In 2019, there were 2.8 million deaths in the US; in 2020, it was approximately 3.3 million. While cause of death can sometimes be difficult to ascertain, and political pressures can lead to miscounting, excess deaths can indicate the broad scope of a health emergency. These figures can reveal the truer toll of Covid -- including deaths directly from infection as well as deaths from the circumstances of the crisis. The global number of excess deaths may be millions higher than the official count of Covid deaths. Excess deaths are also known as untimely or "early" deaths. While the majority of excess deaths in the US occurred among those 65 and older, many of those Americans had many years left to live.
Newegg has apologised for dealing poorly with returns and open-box product sales, in the wake of a recent video from Gamers Nexus documenting its own terrible returns experience.
Rocket scientists say you should sell your beachfront properties to Ben Shapiro.
A U.S. patient with leukemia has become the first woman and the third person to date to be cured of HIV.
Air pollution may affect semen quality, specifically sperm motility -- the ability of sperm to swim in the right direction -- according to a new study analysing the sperm of over 30,000 men in China. From a report: The research, published THursday in the journal JAMA Networks, also suggests that the smaller the size of the polluting particles in the air, the greater the link with poor semen quality.
Hackers backed by the Russian government have breached the networks of multiple US defense contractors in a sustained campaign that has revealed sensitive information about US weapons-development communications infrastructure, the federal government said on Wednesday. Baltar says he had nothing to do with this.
A web site for visualizing National Football League player arrests since 2001.
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This podcast has four bizarre facts per week.The No Such Thing as a Fish
The Stellar Future Radio: Narrated Science Fiction Comedy Series
The big sort: Americans are fleeing to places where political views match their own
I saw this play performed live when I was kid with this actor: Billy Bishop Goes to War. Here’s some background.
How accurate are movie archery scenes?
The signature lines in the NAFTA copies are in a different order so each country sees their signature first. Trump signed in the wrong spot. Watch the face of the Mexican president wondering if he had done something wrong. He had a reputation in Mexico as being a few bricks short of a load, so he was probably thinking 'oh shit, me again!?'
Synology makes hard drive housing and also sells rebranded Toshiba drives. In at last one housing, using a non-Synology drive generates scary messages for no reason.
Pastor threatens to expose six witches who are members of his church.
At age 96, Dick Van Dyke made a music video with his wife, Arlene Oh, notice the reference to the ottoman.
Dumb Criminals
Jabs in the butt / and you're to blame / you give unlicensed plastic surgery / a bad name
Woman sues ex-boyfriend for defamation. Defamation in this case being tips he gave to police leading to her prosecution in her husband's murder. A crime for which she is in the slammer.
Strange Headlines
Gee, Don. If this was true then surely when you were president you’d have done something about it, right? The Wall St. Journal once said Trump clings to his discredited wiretap claim like a drunk clings to an empty gin bottle.
Okay but how does your city building bike lanes violate your charter rights?
A Tepid Dystopia
The British Post Office says that it is "sincerely sorry" for the impact of the Horizon scandal, adding they are "in no doubt about the human cost." Meaning throwing innocent people in jail.
Canada’s housing market is owned by foreigners, the entertainment by Hollywood, out political parties by multinationals, US oil lobby and now the Toronto Star is worried about American money in Canadian politics.
No good deed goes unpunished. Even donating a kidney.
US deploys the national guard to … classrooms because so many teachers are down sick.
The Royal Navy has more decommissioned nuclear subs than subs in action. The plan for dealing with them inches forward.
This week’s nincompoop is from New York
You are a Marine Reservist charged for your role on 1/6 do you: A) lay low B) repent or C) Take a guess.
Okay, confess: what obvious fact did you learn at an embarrassingly late age?
lot of work in visualizing the film 2001. I seem to recall a lot of his art on book covers in used book stores when an undergraduate.
Stalin’s marginalia. He marked up every book he read. What — if anything — do such stray thoughts reveal?
Previous generations of CIA officers spoke an older dialect of power—the genteel, patrician, transatlantic accent of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jackie Onassis, Gore Vidal, and Katherine Hepburn. What’s changed?
When you say jazz, many names came come up before you mention Oscar Peterson. Part of that is that he spent most of his life in Canada. Part of it is that there wasn't a sense of drama or a scandal that followed him like a Miles Davis or a John Coltrane. He did, however, scare the hell out of anyone who also claimed to play the piano.
Okay, this is an award question: what if one of the knock on effects of feminism was the US incarceration rate? How is this an issue: well, half of America's ex-prisoners appear to be permanently unemployed.
So I (20M) have been flirting with this girl in my econ class for several months and I finally got the courage to ask her out. She is super smart and pretty so i was so nervous but after class i asked her to be my valentine and to my surprise she said yes.
I knew this my big chance so I got her flowers, and planned to make dinner at her place with her. I decided on making some nice spicy Indian dish for her to in order to impress her. I looked up a recipe online and substituted green chillies with habanero peppers since we both claimed we can handle spice well.
Her housemates were out and things were heating up (in a different way). We both challenged each other and ate cut up pieces of a habanero pepper to see who would last longer (in a different way again). Turns out we both pretended to be fine so the result was inconclusive.
I excused myself to the washroom to pee. Right after I noticed my dick started burning, probably because I didn’t wash my hands after cutting the peppers earlier. I realized I F-ed up and started panicking. I poured water over it, just to make it worse. Then I came with an idea I thought somehow would work. I spat into my hand and put my saliva on my dick (You know since normal water doesn’t work, my dumbass thought spit would be more powerful).
Remember I just ate some of that pepper earlier? Well, I didn’t.
It started to burn a lot more, at this point she started to realize something was up - there had been capsaicin from the peppers on my hands.
To my fear, she knocked on the door asking if i was okay. I panicked, the burning was so bad i thought i would have to go to the hospital. I put myself together and opened the door and answered in the calmest voice ever “i think i got pepper on my…” she looked at me and understood. She tried not to laugh and asked how to help.
I was already stripping in front of her when I stated that I was gonna shower. She immediately grabbed me a towel and threw it in the bathroom and yelled “I am grabbing ice”. I jump into the shower and in a frantic voice ask her to google what to do. This girl barged into the bathroom and here I was in her shower, cradling my dick, and she makes a point of looking in my eyes only.
She handed me an ice cube and was holding a bowl of something.
She looks at me and says “google said to pour milk on it but we don’t have any, but I’ve got yogurt.” She holds the bowl up with a spoon, and she starts to walk up to me. I grab the bowl and put the yogurt on my dick (which actually helped sooo much). She looks up at the ceiling and excuses herself, saying that she needs to watch the dish that’s still cooking.
So I was in the cold shower with yogurt on my dick, shouting instructions on what to do next for the dish.
20 minutes later I walk downstairs to her kitchen and she asks if I am okay, I nod as the burning has stopped. I was very fearful for the whole night to be ruined, but instead she burst into laughter as soon as I said I’m okay. She didn’t bring it for the rest of the night and we ended up awkwardly eating and watching tv later.
You deserve to be loved from a distance
You make me increase the amount of caffeine I take daily
I get Botox on my forehead so I don’t look so angry all the time.
He was really good at letting you know 20 years after the fact at how much of a visionary he was.
Do your own research by listening exclusively to people who have done no research.
On this day in history, in 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeini took literary criticism to a horrific new low
Never let a near death experience get in the way of a nice pint
And thats why everybody should carry around TWO guns, so you can defend yourself after one is stolen.
“Rudeness is a weak man’s version of strength.” - Edmund Burke
Even Sigmund Freud has no idea what to make of this
For a guy who hates NATO Putin sure loves advertising for it.
Fuck me just don’t fuck with my heart.
You underestimate how maddening it is to see carrots constantly cut into pieces varying in thickness from paper thin to wine cork
Gotta admit, loving my 50’s and it’s been the chillest decade of my life. The hair growing out of my ears I can happily do without though.
Everyone is an atheist until they clog a toilet in someone else’s house
Are all British newspapers really this stupid? It would explain Brexit…
Hearing how guys like this can have sustained relationships gives me a weird hope.
As the situation in Ukraine gets more tense, it's important to remember that anyone can tweet anything for the world to react to -- without knowing what is disinfo, what is made up, and what is pure propaganda.
That post just about gave me a stroke. So much random capitalization, sentence fragments, and enough exclamation marks to wear out their keyboard
How old were you before realizing your original plan of being really nice, working very hard and taking on more than fair share of work thinking it would be recognized automatically was actually a shit idea?
I'm no stranger to posting cringe online, but at least I learned to stop saying genuinely creepy shit on the internet once I got my first job.
I’m 4’10. Half of my house is completely unused because I’m not reaching it anyway.
The first dry fart after bad diarrhea is one of life’s simpler delights
It is shocking how Ukraine attacked those peace loving Russian artillery shells with their elementary school.
The Spectator is actually really useful if you want to know what the British Tory establishment thinks at any given moment. So I guess the better question is ‘is the British Tory establishment really that stupid’ and the answer is a resounding ‘yes’.
The difference between Disney and porn can be summarized in their attitude toward step parents.
Yea this would make sense in a world where logic was applicable, but they were literally creating their own reality the whole time. What would stop them from just making up more lies for this situation? The past few years has shown that evidence isn't the end-all-be-all that we thought it was.
Why do these people think they’re oppressed when they can post shit like this on their personal Twitter and still get jobs
These idiots in Ottawa are protesting because they want to pretend they are Trumpers.
He insisted to that he was not crazy but that judge’s reality was wrong.
China cares about China, and does what benefits China. They don't care about Russia, and won't nuke their own trade just because Mr. Bear-farker wants to be Tsar. They are playing their usual politics - a.k.a. "We say words, because words are free and you'll believe them."
He was a heterosexual cisgender assigned male at birth demisexual heteroromantic prostate haver. She was heterosexual cisgender assigned female at birth demisexual heteroromantic uterus owner. Can I make it any more obvious?
It's like Star Trek only it's totally different. And not in space.
The good news is it's not permanent. The bad news is that I don't have a shred of dignity left and I need to change all my friends.
Because of how the contract was signed he got away with it and everyone's money. Very mysteriously his car caught fire. And a week later his house.
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. - Jorge Luis Borges
I haven't been more offended by something I so a hundred percent agree with.
Okay. The girl code means never refuse a tampon/pad to any woman who asks. It does not mean you go through life not buying your own.
In search of better lives, thousands of Russians are crossing the Mexican border
As your doctor if reading the article before commenting is right for you.
Kind of like getting your ears cleaned, but sexual.
One third of the USA thinks this was never all that big a deal, one third think it was a deal but we are safe now and can move on, and the remaining third is exhausted. Adjust those proportions as you prefer. We are now going to have excess death until a treatment arrives that does not need to be given within a few days of symptom onset. *And* gobs of people with long-term damage. Comfort yourself with the knowledge that most of them will be arseholes.
Ah well, we all had to die from something. And in this case, it'd be rampant anti-science idiocy.
What if God was a hot MILF in your area
Regular Faux news consumption should be listed as a co-morbidity in cause of death.
No one cares that you like tentacle porn and talk about it in all the tentacle porn forums. People care that this is widely being moved to the public spaces under the guise of a societal good.
To summarize: you saw some black people on television and got scared.
These truckers — most of whom are not truckers — they’re unemployed seasonal workers, seem to think they’re Roddy Piper in the movie They Live. They’re actually in Idiocracy.
It’s almost always Boomer white guys who have a stupid gun hanging out of their stupid pants and aren’t paying one bit of attention. I have barely resisted plucking it out of there and saying “boom! You’re dead! Pay more attention or leave it at home!” But I know I’d be the one in trouble, so I just do a little deep breathing and mind my business.
Twitter is sooo dangerous. I deleted my account in 2008 because I realized I was posting A LOT of stupid shit that could get me in trouble in the future. I’m too glad to avoid the platform, but glad it exists for those who are too short sighted and stupid to realize that they’re exposing their perversions for the world to see.
So I went for my physical and my doctor began telling me that he had mathematical proof of God. And that he was On a high dose of psilocybin.
When life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic.
It takes a lot of balls to golf the way I do.
My husband is training the dog to drive the golf cart. I don’t see this ending well but it’s fun to watch.
Every civil rights movement before understood the importance of image.But now through intersectionalism and grievance theories, they believe they have the obligation to receive unconditional support no matter what. Every civil rights movement before the modern woke worked from the starting point "one day they'll understand how unfairly we're being treated is and demand it stop as a matter of logic and ethics.” Shit, the whole nonviolent resistance movement started by that exact logic.
There is a much higher chance Donald Trump and members of his family to go to jail due to violations of New York State tax laws (and related white collar crimes) than for any Federal charges regarding his time in office (or his campaigning for such).
If you're well enough to do TV interviews, you're well enough to meet court filing deadlines
This may be a bit controversial but in my book, Valentines Day is for adults, not children.
Stop having rational views in which you see both sides of an argument. That's un-American.
I’d say at least 90% of boob touching/grazing/pressing done in the world is nonsexual. It’s kind of crazy the 10% gets as much attention it does.
I haven't been through a sobriety check point in years: two reasons, firstly I'm old, so I'm usually tucked in with my home bottle of wine before dark, and secondly, we had a politician get caught in one. I'm pretty sure my county quit having them shortly after that.
If I farked up that badly I'd expect to get nailed to the wall for it, but then I'm not a cop.
You make me feel like a natural woman. This confuses me, because I am a DOS-based chatterbot. Show me your pets
You laugh but ancient and antique sex toys do exist and are quite valuable.
You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you can’t beat one idiot with 40 facts.
The usual goldfish-brained chorus of pundits has grown increasingly vocal
You know when you realize those funny family stories of yours are actually horrifying to normal people?
