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Thursday August 22, 2024. 06:29 PM
Gourdlets is the least stressful town builder I have ever played. You don't have to water or feed anything. You have unlimited resources. There are no quests or any particular thing you need to do. You can build a farm, a town, or big campground. — Read the rest The post...
Most people have wondered what would happen if Donald Trump flew to South America's Orinoco basin and drank a bowl of ayahuasca. But until now, their answers were limited by their imaginations. This AI-generated documentary explores an alternate reality where Trump, perhaps...
Afghanistan's Taliban overlords fired 281 members of the country's security forces because they failed to meet the group's beard mandate. During a press conference in Kabul, Mohibullah Mokhlis, the ministry's director of planning and legislation, stated that '281 beardless ...
One of the bedrock rules for any budding fascist is: don't ever tell the world exactly what you're really planning. Might scare off some of those rubes you're trying to attract. And might cause the system to push back, to expel the virus before it's ready to kill the host. —...
In MAGA land, any poll that doesn't give Trump a huge lead is faulty. All true Americans favor Trump. But the small minority of Americans who are communists run the polls, and they are manipulating the data to make it look as though Harris is the front-runner. — Read the...
The Republican candidate for vice president seems unable to say anything that would encourage voters to consider his ticket. Yesterday, JD Vance reminded us that his boss, Donald Trump, caused the massive inflation that the Biden administration has been successfully...
TL;DR: Get OysterVPN for a one-time payment of just $39.99 and enjoy secure, unrestricted browsing wherever you go. We all know the internet can be a bit of a wild west—one moment you're shopping for a new gadget, the next, you're bombarded with targeted ads or, worse, some...
Two wild and crazy weirdos, JD Vance and Don Jr., have strongly opposed Kamala Harris' proposed first-time homebuyer credit. This is a clear sign the Trump team hates non-wealthy people. While the statements are bald and blatant lies, the Harris economic tent pole of a...
The AI Risk Repository is a new, publicly available database system compiled by MIT researchers that catalogs the over 700 (and counting) risks of using generative AI. From the abstract: The risks posed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) are of considerable concern to...
Sandra Bonilla, 91, died in late June. A resident of the Lodge at Shavano Park Apartments for 10 years, she was survived by children including David Naterman, her son. The landlord has billed her family $15,676 because in death Bonilla broke her lease. — Read the rest The po...
I've always been fascinated by humankind's move from superstition to science. It obviously didn't happen all at once (and to some degree is still happening — 20% of Americans take the Bible literally). But can a tipping point be identified? — Read the rest The post Why...
The German Navy corvette Braunschweig blasted the Imperial March from Star Wars as it made its way up the Thames earlier this week, amusing locals and reminding them that the German sense of humor can be as appreciably dark as their own. — Read the rest The post German...
Chilean Flamingo chicks are being welcomed to the Paignton Zoo in the UK for the first time since 2018. Among the happy couples hatching chicks are Curtis and Arthur. The two dads are one of several couples named by fans on Instagram. — Read the rest The post Pink parenting...
Over on X-Formerly-Known-As-Twitter, 3D modeling artist Kensyouen Y posted this fascinating animation of an anime character reaching through the screen to interact with the UI of their animation software to bring herself to life. ...
Someone put 'maggots' in the breakfast at the DNC. 'We were all coming down to breakfast, and there were these two women who had hidden themselves in the bathroom,' Indiana delegate Karen Tallian told USA TODAY. 'And they ran out and threw maggots into the breakfast...
Earlier today, the trailer to Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis dropped, with the first 45 seconds dedicated to nasty things that critics of yore said about his most famous movies—an attempt to get in front of the critical mauling his new sci-fi epic is expected to...
Join the Inner Hive to get Tom the Dancing Bug comics emailed to you the day before they're published, plus other content and extra comics, TODAY, and $25.00 will be donated to Spread the Vote, a nonprofit that helps people register and get out and vote. — Read the rest The...
TL;DR: The Nix Mini 3 is a pocket-sized color sensor that makes color matching easy and precise for designers, contractors, and homeowners—on sale for just $79.99. You're staring at a wall, trying to match that exact shade of blue-gray. Maybe you're a designer picking the...
AP reported yesterday that 'Disney drops bid to have allergy-death lawsuit tossed because plaintiff signed up for Disney+.' I'm not a lawyer but the initial legal argument being made by Disney seems to me to be pure bad faith horseshit. This piece in New York Magazine looks...
On March 3, 1876, a Mrs. Crouch of Bath County, Kentucky noticed something strange falling from the sky just outside her house. Upon closer inspection, she determined that chunks of red meat were raining from above. The so-called Kentucky Meat Shower has confounded residents ...
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