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mercredi 31 juillet 2024, 19:46
An Air Canada crew member snapped earlier this week, berating a passenger on a flight to Montreal who reportedly asked for a blanket. It's not clear what the passenger might have said or done to push the attendant over the edge, but video shot from someone's seat (see below, ...
Warp drives—a concept from science fiction—could theoretically allow for faster-than-light travel! While there are major obstacles to building one—such as the need for exotic matter—scientists continue to explore the possibility. A new study published this week...
Rudy Giuliani's desperate efforts to avoid paying damages to the two election workers he repeatedly defamed on national television appear to have come to an end. Today the disbarred lawyer, who lost his fortune and legacy doing dirty work for a psychopathic criminal...
Kevin Smith's new 1980s teensploitation flick will thrill all Gen X moviegoers. It's too bad there are like 10 of us. This trailer for Kevin Smith's 'The 4:30 Movie' evokes all the feels a movie set in 1986 should. The madcap stuff happens to the dude who just wants to hang...
Voter registration numbers have soared since Kamala Harris entered the race. Twenty percent of new voters are 18 years old, and 84% of these new voters are under the age of 35. Regardless of which party they register for, or none at all, people are energized. — Read the...
Even Joe Rogan is wowed by Kamala Harris, predicting this week on his podcast that she'll be the next U.S. president. 'She's gonna win,' he told his guest, author Michael Malice, via Mediaite, on The Joe Rogan Experience. And when Malice disagreed, Rogan doubled down,...
The MAGA party thinks it has the exclusive right to mock the opposition. And they are so triggered at being called 'weird' for promoting their racist, misogynistic, manosphere-influenced, QAnon-flavored, machine-gun-toting-Jesus-loving, incel-worshipping,...
No, the gnome is not keeping the SSID or password secret with a clever riddle. Over on Reddit, a Slavic transplant to Edinburgh who goes by the name HomoLizard reached out to the local community with a very unique request: he needs a specific brand of vodka to satisfy his...
TL;DR: If your desktop or laptop is lacking in the ports department, add 13 new connections with this docking station for only $49.99 (reg. $70)! While tech has made our lives so much easier, the amount of cords, connectors, and adapters for your devices just keeps growing....
Canberra, Australia, has a new weapon against bad drivers – snitches. The Australian Capital Territory Police have created a web portal where users can upload their dashcam footage of traffic violations. The police review the footage and can assess fines or warnings. —...
Angry over a Kamala Harris endorsement, Eric Trump mistakenly regards the checks he has written and the gifts of golf club memberships his cousin has received as symbols of love. I do not know if it is a parenting thing or part of the strange loyalty that the Trump family...
Trump running mate JD Vance must be pining for the good ol' days when his net popularity rating plunged below zero at -6%. Although the lowest favorable numbers in decades, -6% now looks rather promising compared to the weirdo's latest rating: -15%. — Read the rest The post...
An ill-conceived marketing deal between the US Army and Dwyane 'The Rock' Johnson's United Football League has gone sour. Not learning from other recent marketing programs to drive Armed Services recruitment with sports sponsorships failure, the Army entered into an...
Earth and Sky Dwellings, a vacation property host in Asheville, North Carolina, has just announced a new vaguely STAR WARS-themed residence for rent. Technically called 'Phoenix,' to avoid any explicit copyright infringement, this 2-bedroom dwelling starts at $590 per night ...
Dasung's Paperlike Color is a 12-inch, 2560 x 1600 portable color e-ink display: fast to pack up and pleasant on the eyes, but slow to refresh. It connects via USB-C to computers, phones or tablets, is 5.3mm thick, and weighs a hair under 1lb. — Read the rest The post Paperl...
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission ruled that Amazon must take responsibility for product recalls when stuff it sells turns out to be dangerous. Moreover, it says it found more than 400,000 defective products on the platform, which must be recalled—or else. — Read...
Dogs and their owners in East Sussex, England, have been enlisted to help spread wildflowers. Before wolves were hunted to extinction in the UK, they traveled up to 12 miles daily, carrying grass and wildflower seeds on their fur and dropping them in new areas. — Read the re...
A 16th-century portrait of England's Henry VIII listed among famous missing artworks has turned up in plain sight—on display at a local government building in the West Midlands—after being spotted in a social media post. Adam Busiakiewicz, who works as a consultant for...
Republican presidential candidate J.D. Vance is 'weird', but he's also got a taste for violent imagery—'load the muskets,' he writes—as can be read in his foreword to the forthcoming Project 2025 book. The New Republic acquired and published the text of it from an...
Facebook slurped up the biometric data of users in Texas—their faces—without authorization. Parent Meta will pay $1.4bn to avoid further legal action. 'Unbeknownst to most Texans, for more than a decade Meta ran facial recognition software on virtually every face...
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