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Wednesday August 27, 2025. 05:17 PM
The old joke is that grand juries are so pliant a prosecutor could get one to indict a ham sandwich. But they couldn't get this one to indict the guy who threw a sandwich at a masked federal agent in Washington D.C. — Read the rest The post Grand jury declines to indict man...
TL;DR: Protect your privacy with a 3-year subscription to Surfshark VPN, now $67.19 with code SAVE20. The internet is kind of like McDonald's in 2025: everything is expensive, it's not as fun as it used to be, and the ads are ridiculous. — Read the rest The post One of the...
Imagine a law so broad it could make your dreams illegal. That's the essence of the 'born secret' doctrine, a part of U.S. law that automatically classifies all information about nuclear weapons. Created by the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, this rule says any nuclear weapons...
Cracker Barrel recently unveiled a simplified logo that tried to split the difference between modernization and tradition: they kept the old timey font (no blanding) but lost the fiddly art of an old guy. After thinking about it for a while, Conservatives reacted with...
The other day, we wrote about a piece of Nazi-looted art turning up in a real estate listing in Argentina. 'Portrait of a Lady (Contessa Colleoni)' was stolen by the Nazis from the collection of a Jewish art dealer and gradually passed hands and continents out of the public...
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Canada is going tee-total on Tropicana and other U.S. sources of fruit juice, avoiding entanglement with the Trump administration's unpredictable policies. Moreover, locals are eager to avoid American products in general, writes CBC News, driving imports to the lowerst level ...
In a meeting that combined the scientific rigor of a flat Earth convention with the intellectual depth of a graphene monolayer, Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined forces to announce their theory on the 'real' cause of autism, dismissing decades of research...
A Canadian worker near Smithers, British Columbia, fended off a cougar attack with a well-placed punch to the animal's face. As reported in Yahoo News, the man was working outdoors when the cougar approached and swiped at his torso. He retaliated with a punch, causing the...
Tuesday August 26, 2025. 11:47 PM
You can walk alone at night mostly without worry; you will see babies sleeping peacefully in prams outside cafes and shops while their parents enjoy a meal or [are] running errands; and the local police don't carry guns,' says Inga Rós Antoníusdóttir, describing daily...
A long-lost masterpiece, stolen by Nazis over 80 years ago, unexpectedly appeared in an Argentine real estate listing. The portrait by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, looted from Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker in 1940, was spotted hanging above a sofa in a seaside...
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Police call it the largest organized retail theft ring in history… at Home Depot. Linking 600 thefts at 71 different stores of goods worth $10m, 14 people face charges after the bust, planned for months in Southern California. At the center of the alleged ring is David Ahl, a...
Why is the night sky dark? This simple question, known as Olbers' paradox, has perplexed astronomers for centuries. In an infinite, eternal universe filled with stars, every line of sight should end on a star, bathing the night in constant light. — Read the rest The post...
Ever wondered why that mausoleum doesn't smell like rotting people? This video explains the art and technology of building mausoleums that don't reek like the bowels of hell. It seems there is a lot of effort that goes into creating a space where you can visit the...
Byte magazine ran in print from 1975 to 1998, defining a golden age that began with the first commercially successful personal computer and ending with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (or the introduction of the iMac, perhaps.) At byte.tsundoku.io, you can explore the...
Just in time for back-to-school, a new COVID strain named 'Stratus' is rapidly infecting folks across California. The rate at which COVID lab tests came back positive in L.A. County is 12.6% for the week that ended Aug. 16, up from 7.6% a month earlier. — Read the rest ...
A Missouri farmer told Congressman Mark Alford exactly what every other hard-working American is thinking right about now: 'I am pissed…You need to take your head out of Trump's ass.' The heated voter, Fred Higginbotham, was one of many unhappy folks who showed up at a town h...
Not settling for $60 million, pushing for a lower amount, and insisting on confidentiality resulted in Tesla publicly incurring a $243 million loss in an Autopilot lawsuit. The proposal stemmed from a lawsuit filed by the families of the victims in a 2019 crash in which a...
Raise your hand if you're sick of this being the key defining feature of the current video game generation, then join the damn club. Likely as a response to the latest round of Trump's 'legendary' tariffs or perhaps feeling validated by Xbox's example, Sony has made the...
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