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Tuesday April 2, 2024. 12:48 PM
Alex Murdaugh murdered his wife and son and was sentenced to life imprisonment, and now he gets 40 more years for the financial crimes he had hoped to conceal by doing so. 'I've never seen this type of conduct, a massive fraud over many years,' U.S. — Read the rest The p...
A man in Texas developed avian flu after contact with an infected cow there, reports the Texas Department of State Health Service. He is experiencing mild symptoms of the disease and undergoing a course of antiviral medication. It is the first recorded case linked to...
Los Angeles has been putting a ton of resources into fixing the city's homeless crisis. That means they're fixing it with housing and counselors and food and things like that, right? Unfortunately, no. The city's definition of 'fixing' is loose, it has more to do with...
I recently found this awesome group called 'Altered Moments,' where people share their re-created 'Precious Moments' ceramic collectible figurines. Do you remember those Precious Moments figurines? They were super popular in the 1980s (at least in my small Southern town),...
When I was a kid, I loved old maps — there was something incredibly evocative about imagining how people of a bygone era lived, comparing the streets of then to the streets of now. It felt like the closest thing I had to a time machine. — Read the rest The post From wall...
A woman named Chelsey shows us the power of music — or at least her incredible voice — when her singing stops a horse in his tracks. While riding on her horse at walking speed, she turns on her camera to show us her superpower. — Read the rest The post A horse stops in...
When I was a kid, I loved old maps — there was something incredibly evocative about imagining how people of a bygone era lived, comparing the streets of then to the streets of now. It felt like the closest thing I had to a time machine. — Read the rest The post From wall...
Tesla is slashing prices to bolster sales, but a survey by Caliber is reveals the brand's reputation is sinking faster than the imaginary rescue submarine Elon Musk failed to build to save the kids trapped in the Thailand cave. The survey showed that Tesla's 'consideration...
Someone going by Detour Explainer posted this great video that collects many of the clever 'razors' in one place, starting with everyone's favorite — Occam's. But there are many more — some really insightful, some just really funny. For the uninitiated, what's a...
A man was arrested after trying to force his SUV through the front gate of an FBI office today. The gentleman tried driving into Atlanta's FBI headquarters by tailgating another car that was going through, but the gate quickly closed. The man then proceeded to smash the...
Journalists have been scolded for swiping souvenirs from US president Joseph Biden's Air Force One airplane. According to the BBC News, the White House Correspondents' Association emailed reporters that the conduct makes the entire press pool look bad. Apparently,...
In what literary scholars are calling a miraculous find, a recently unearthed manuscript believed to be an undiscovered play by Samuel Beckett has surfaced in the digital transcript of an AT&T customer service chat posted to Reddit (part 1 | part 2). — Read the rest The...
Monday April 1, 2024. 11:00 PM
TL:DR: Cut out the background noise with noise-canceling earbuds. Usually $199, these open box Sony LinkBuds are now less than $100! Whether you want to cut out the sounds of your morning commute, gym bros while you work out, or crying babies when you fly, a high quality...
At Willie Nelson's recent Luck Reunion concert, he welcome a very special guest to perform 'Rainbow Connection' with him. Willie played guitar and Kermit picked the banjo. Video below. Kermit knows this tune well, of course. In 1979, Kermit released his version—curiously...
Reasonable people can differ on immigration policy. How many immigrants should we be letting into the country? What criteria should we use? There's plusses and minuses to every choice. I can respect a difference of opinion on policy. But the demonization of immigrants and...
Voice Engine is an open source program developed by OpenAI that allows users to create voice clones from a short 15-second speech sample. The results are unnervingly accurate. With the voice clone tool, users can make clips of speakers reading that sound pretty flawlessly...
The state of Oregon has just passed legislation that confirms the right for consumers and repair shops alike the same ability to diagnose and fix their own products. Manufacturers no longer have the exclusive ability to repair their products. If customers or shops can...
Got ideas for new weed gummies, chocolates, candies, or other goodies but don't know your cannabis chemistry? Western Washington University is offering a new certificate program in 'Cannabis Product Development and Design.' This is your opportunity to 'delve deep into the...
Looks like President Biden is veering from Michelle Obama's 'When they go low, we go high' tactic, attacking Donald Trump where it hurts most. And the sore spot seems to be 'under Donald Trump's skin.' Just 'in recent days,' as MSNBC's Mika Brzezinki points out, Biden has...
Reality is catching up with Donald Trump's Truth Social. The company that owns it has delivered its first full-year financial results and they're about as wonderful as a Lara Trump song. As reported by Forbes' Derek Saul, Trump Media's stock (DJT, because of course it is)...
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