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Wednesday August 14, 2024. 05:23 PM
Thomas Piketty's 2020 book Capital & Ideology is a highly celebrated tome that uses economics and sociology to examine the intrinsic illegitimacy of income inequality and provides proposals for correcting its inherent flaws. The folks at Abrams ComicArts have a new graphic...
TL;DR: This refurbished 2020 MacBook Air comes with 256GB of local storage, an Intel processor, and a gorgeous 13.3-inch Retina display for $449.99 (reg. $899). If you know anything about Apple, you know how awesome MacBooks are. Unfortunately, you're probably also aware that...
This bird owner was in for a surprise when he spotted a new feather growing on his parrot. The newly sprouted feather had a translucent, tube shaped piece of material around it, which slid right off when the owner touched it. — Read the rest The post Parrot's "alien" growth...
In one of Kellyanne Conway's finest moments, the former Trump campaign manager had a meltdown on Fox News over how perfect Kamala Harris is. And her jealous rant makes for a perfect Harris-for-Prez ad. 'Left to her own devices, Kamala Harris is just one big old blind date,'...
At the U.S. Global Survey website, an image shows all the world's water collected in a sphere, shown floating ominously over the continental U.S. About 860 miles wide, it 'includes all of the water in the oceans, ice caps, lakes, rivers, groundwater, atmospheric water, and...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is now a little behind in the polls after Vice President Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee. He now claims that it's 'unconstitutional' for her to be this position, without elaboration. 'This was a coup of...
Thinking of angling lumber over the Cybertruck's tailgate so it doesn't shoot out Final Destination-style when you apply all that torque on a green light? Think again: the tailgate has been found to warp when loads shift on it. Warning to everyone about hauling items. —...
Thursday August 1, 2024. 01:47 PM
Twitter's official MacOS desktop app was finally removed from the App Store this morning. Though functional, it lacked new features and was clearly a dead letter. At The Verge, Thomas Ricker adds that 'The Mac app now prompts users to 'upgrade' to the iPad version of X,...
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the terrorist planner considered responsible for the 9/11 attacks on the U.S., will receive a formal life sentence in jail as part of a plea deal with military prosecutors. Joining him will be Al Quada cronies Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash...
I've already claimed my spot for fun fun fun in the fluffy chair in anticipation for the season 2 premiere of Squid Game on December 26, 2024. From the synopsis: Three years after winning Squid Game, Player 456 remains determined to find the people behind the game and put...
Donald Trump's idiotic comments saying Vice President Kamala Harris suddenly 'turned Black' did not go over well with Karine Jean-Pierre during a White House press conference today. In fact, the astonished press secretary called the ex-president's reptilian remarks...
Wednesday July 31, 2024. 11:56 PM
Goldin Finance 117 is a 2,000-foot 'ghostscraper' located in Tianjin, China. Construction began on the building in 2008 but, after several stops-and-starts, ended in 2015 just shy of the building's completion. Now, Goldin Finance 117 is the world's tallest abandoned...
For forty years, Mary Jacobs, 77, of Newmarket, England has collected bedpans. 'I used to help out at the jumble sales in the Newmarket Salvation Army hall,' she told Suffolk News. 'I saw a slipper bed pan come in and I bought it for 50p and that was the start, I just...
On Saturday morning, police noticed a driver not wearing a seatbelt and pulled over the vehicle. They then observed the passenger, 41-year-old Lauren Riley, messing with something on the floor of the car. The police report that they spotted drug paraphernalia and began to...
Trump's interview at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago today was a total disaster, a disaster the likes of which we've never seen before in the history of our country. Sullen, slumping, and sour faced, the orange snowflake complained about...
McDonalds reported its first decline in sales since the Covid pandemic, and Starbucks is suffering a similar fate, inasfar as they are both vastly profitable companies with customer-gouging margins learning the limits of consumer unthrift. Starbucks sales dropped 3%...
An M109 Howitzer tank brought traffic to a standstill on Interstate 10 in San Antonio, Texas today. No, it wasn't a militia kicking off a Texa secession. Rather, the tank slipped of the flatbed truck that was carrying it. Video below. — Read the rest The post Mystery...
Announcing the brand new Tom the Dancing Bug book: Volume 8 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug book program is IT'S THE GREAT STORM, TOM THE DANCING BUG! Now accepting orders right HERE! 'I am a HUGE fan of Tom the Dancing Bug! — Read the rest The post Tom the Dancing Bug: ...
To celebrate the 18th anniversary of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Abrams ComicArts has teamed up with French cartoonist Manu Larcenet to adapt the Pulitzer Prize-winning post-apocalyptic story into a new graphic novel—and wow is it a stunning work of art. — Read the rest ...
What a great time to be alive! Starbucks is adding olive oil to coffee drinks, cat poo parasites have been found to be a treatment for dementia, and I'm here to save you from reading clickbait. Without further ado, here are the top four clickbait culprits: The bait: 'Why...
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