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Monday August 25, 2025. 10:53 PM
Attorney Marc Lopez offers some golden rules for avoiding police entrapment. This is an excellent rundown of many tricks the Police will use to attempt to entrap you at a traffic stop. Simple, innocuous-sounding questions can be used to raise suspicion and allow the cops ...
I am waiting for Trump to tell us that watches are just a confidence trick invented by the Swiss. During a Monday Oval Office meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, Trump reflected on his relationship with China. 'They have to give us magnets, if they don't give ...
Remember when Google started as a helpful librarian then became a pushy salesperson? This scenario— enshittification—is an example of how 'all the internet platforms we rely on were turning into piles of shit,' says Cory Doctorow, who coined the term. — Read the rest ...
Fire-fighting pilots are some of the bravest folks around. Firefighting Plane Scooping Water byu/Jarstadian ininterestingasfuck This post on Reddit is incredible. Altitude alarms are screaming as the pilot opens a big scooper and fills up his plane. So much of the...
Rap legend Snoop Dogg couldn't explain how same sex couples can have children, and instead decided to flame inclusion in children's films. In Lightyear, which was released in 2022, Buzz Lightyear's best friend Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) reveals that she is engaged to...
Robert Reich, economist, professor, author, and political commentator, shares these five ways to push back against Trump's fascist state. Numbers one and three are things we can easily apply to our daily lives, and we've seen that boycotting brands that align with Trump...
On July 13, 1990, A deep earthquake loosed a fatal serac, causing an avalanche that killed all but two of forty-five climbers camped beneath it. Lenin Peak, a 7,134-meter-high mountain in northeast Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, was the former USSR's tallest mountain and became ...
In 1942, the tomb of an Egyptian general, Amentefnakht, was uncovered intact. The systems used to keep this Mummy undisturbed for thousands of years are amazing. While there is considerable conjecture and circumstantial evidence showing how ancient Egyptians sealed tombs ...
America's democratic foundations have collapsed, according to journalist Garrett Graff. The United States has crossed the threshold into authoritarianism under President Trump's second term. From military occupations of opposition-led cities to arbitrary detentions and...
So much for the GOP's 'free market.' Just days after the U.S. government took a 10% stake in Intel, Donald Trump's economic advisor Kevin Hassett revealed that more companies can expect the same. 'Yes, that's absolutely right,' Hassett said this morning when asked by CNBC if ...
New York City's crackdown on Airbnb has been a jackpot for hotels. After the city effectively banned most short-term rentals in 2023, hotel prices jumped by up to $19 per night, netting the industry an extra $2.9 billion in just 18 months. — Read the rest The post NYC hotels...
Cartoonist Carl Barks's work on Donald Duck comic books for Western Publishing from the 1940s to 1960s is almost unanimously considered one of the best comic book runs in the medium's entire history. Fantagraphics Books has been compiling his complete Duck oeuvre in a...
The Toxic Avenger remake is approaching its theatrical release this month, with Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage taking on the titular role of the mutated vigilante. This modern reimagining of Troma Entertainment's cult classic brings the beloved grindhouse character back ...
Elon Musk, boy genius, has done it again. So good are the answers that come from querying his AI chatbot, Grok, that in the service of humanity, he's instructed his underlings to make hundreds of thousands of conversations with the large language model available to anyone to ...
A quick overview before we get to our main attraction- Belgium is split into two regions, Flanders and Wallonia. Wallonia is French-speaking, Flanders is Dutch-speaking. Both regions are very particular about their respective tongues, but it's common to speak a bit of both...
Vox recently surmised that, in the wake of Congress slashing over $500 million dollars of funding (and some estimates put that number even higher, at $1.1 billion) from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a new player is poised to swoop in and fill the role of providing...
Sigh, it's that time of year again, when faculty gird themselves to get back into the swing of university life. We're prepping classes, getting syllabi finalized, and trying to remember what it's like to wear 'real' clothes. Getting back to the classroom, while definitely an ...
This cicada molting timelapse is as weird as it is beautiful. You can watch the insect slowly wiggle free from its old exoskeleton, revealing its shiny body underneath. It's like watching a real-life alien hatch. The cicada in this video is transforming from the nymph phase...
No, this is not a sponsored post. And 'evil' is subjective, and that opinion represents the views of this author alone. Please don't sue us, Mr. JP Morgan. Fantagraphics, publisher of some of the greatest comics on this good earth, is imploring you to buy, buy, buy! — Read...
'STOP' is the latest musical offering (and I mean that, because these are true gifts!) from There I Ruined It, and, while There I Ruined It has created so many hilarious and brilliant mashups, I believe 'STOP' is my favorite one yet. — Read the rest The post "STOP" is the...
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