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Friday August 15, 2025. 12:10 AM
Looks like America's favorite communications monopoly let your Social Security number slip into the dark web. As reported by CBS News, AT&T is offering to compensate customers affected by their two spectacular data fumbles if they can navigate the requirements for receiving...
This analysis shares that Tesla overpromised, underdelivered, is unreliable, and too expensive. EV trucks are not doing as well as anticipated; however, the Cybertruck is a particularly unpopular failure, with tons of inventory sitting on the lots, and expensive...
Thursday August 14, 2025. 11:39 PM
The Goonies is a beloved movie to many Gen Xers, but current discussions of rebranding us as 'Gen Goonie' are stupid. It's not just any old name either, as a recent TikTok trend has seen many internet users rename Gen Xers to Generation Goonie instead. — Read the rest ...
TL;DR: Score a 2020 MacBook Pro with quad-core i5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, and Retina display for just $439.97 — grade-A refurbished and ready to rock. Why pay full price for pro-level power? No way. This grade-A refurbished 2020 Apple MacBook Pro delivers the performance,...
Governor Newsom is confident the California legislature will approve plans to reciprocate if any Republican state follows Convicted Felon Trump's directive to gerrymander the 2026 mid-term elections. If California is forced to go down this path, it seems likely to...
Bludgeon a cop protecting the Capitol on Jan 6 — get a pardon. Throw a sandwich at an officer occupying your city —get a felony. That is the new American justice ledger. Sean Charles Dunn hurled a sub at a CBP agent in D.C. — Read the rest The post Man discovers...
Apparently, the Border Patrol's new recruitment strategy involves terrorizing disabled teenagers outside their high schools. As reported by NBC News, federal agents surrounded a 15-year-old special needs student in Los Angeles, mistaking him for an MS-13 gang member because...
Graphics cards have gotten larger than ever, with Nvidia's RTX 4090 and RTX 5090 models weighing more than 2 kilograms and sometimes sporting enormous aftermarket cooling fans. The humble PCI slots on motherboards were't designed to hold them sideways, but that's often how...
Remember that guy whose mercenaries gunned down 14 innocent Iraqi civilians? Now he wants to bring his special kind of peacekeeping to Haiti. As reported by Reuters, Blackwater founder Erik Prince wants his private army to spend the next decade in Haiti, first fighting gangs ...
For decades, many South Koreans have believed that sleeping in a closed room with an electric fan running can kill you. This superstition has done more than spark late-night conversations—it has shaped the way manufacturers design fans and how consumers shop for them. —...
The Safdie brothers' Good Time and Uncut Gems are some of my favorite movies ever. They're also edge-of-your-seat, unrelenting two-hour-long panic attacks that leave you feeling like you've just run a marathon. With Benny Safdie off to pursue acting for a while, Josh has...
This short timelapse of a praying mantis eating a fly is like a horror film directed by nature. From afar, watching a praying mantis catch a small bug isn't something most would bat an eye over. Up close, like in this video, it's a grisly, horrifying scene. — Read the rest ...
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been out for about eight years now. You probably think you're pretty good at it by now, right? Wrong. Japanese trickshot master and extreme showoff BreNeko is better than any of us will ever be at this game, and honestly, I'm fine...
I've been too busy this week to finish off my series on hacking the Sony PS Vita, but I did come up with an inexpensive, surprisingly useful hack for my Steam Deck last night. I've been looking for a way to attach a battery to it that doesn't involve buying a mounting system ...
In 1885, Welsh singer Margaret Watts Hughes discovered that her voice could paint pictures. Singing into her 'Eidophone'—a mouthpiece connected to a drum-like rubber membrane — she saw scattered seeds gather into precise geometric patterns. She soon replaced the seeds...
TL;DR: Tired of boring workouts? The GoBalance Sport bundle turns core training into a game—literally. Grab this sleek balance board and yoga roller set for $135.95 (down from $159.95). Ever thought your core workout needed a joystick, or at least a leaderboard? — Read the...
When Zohran Mamdani crushed Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, the party's 'vote Blue no matter who' credo evaporated. Many party leaders still refuse to support their own candidate, whose proposals for affordable childcare, housing, and...
When Alex Jones was sued by the Sandy Hook parents for his many defamatory lies about them, he barely bothered to defend himself. And after they were awarded record judgments totalling more than a billion dollars, he switched to various legal shenanigans that have so far...
Are you using DermaKleen, KleenFoam, DermaSerra or PeriGiene antiseptic lotions and soaps with an expiration date between July 2025 and February 2027? Check the list, they've been recalled due to microbial contamination. More details are on the U.S. Food and Drug...
A survey conducted by polling group YouGov found that 6% of Britons have a nemesis: a personal arch-enemy or (to quote one especially relevant definition) the 'infliction of retribution as manifested by an appropriate agent.' A further 17% previously had a nemesis but not...
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