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jeudi 28 mars 2024, 17:11
Sam Bankman-Fried, briefly a billionaire when he operated his cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was today sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for defrauding his investors. He must also pay up $11.2bn, not that it exists. Judge Lewis Kaplan, just before announcing Bankman-Fried's...
Bible salesman Donald Trump kindly included a warning about the stimulating book he's peddling: wear gloves before opening. Okay, well, he didn't actually mention the gloves, but Trump's online bible FAQ did bizarrely ask, as pointed out by Stephen Colbert, 'What if my bible ...
TL;DR: If you need to catch up fast before book club starts their new season, this Headway Premium subscription offers the gift of learning in 15-minute book summaries, on sale for $59.99. Spring is…not here. If you're in the northern parts, you know that groundhog lead us...
Thousands of years before the Jurassic Park movies inspired a legion of creative fans, early humans were paying homage to dinosaurs. According to Gizmodo, a team of researchers have identified petroglyphs next to fossilized dino tracks in Brazil, that seem to imitate or...
Space tourism has an audience limited by income, but there's a new proposal in the works that could help countless earthbound humans. Wired's Grace Browne reports that a company called BioOrbit has plans to manufacture cancer-fighting immunotherapy drugs in zero gravity. —...
Sperm whales are the seventh largest animals in the world and are considered apex predators. The greatest dangers to these toothed whales are usually man-made, such as fishing nets, boat strikes, and oil spills. Orcas, however, have been known to punch against their weight ...
In this alarming footage, an unsuspecting shopper in Zhenjian, China, falls—along with a significant portion of the shop around her—into the floor below. The cause was reportedly a worker removing a load-bearing wall: both were reportedly unharmed in the incident....
TL;DR: Level up your food prep and cooking game with the exceptional Seido Japanese Master Chef's 8-Piece Knife Set with Gift Box for only $139.99 (Reg. $429), saving $289. Tired of slicing your budget along with your tomatoes using those so-called 'top-notch' chef's knives?...
The magical Brick Insights has a page/project charting the price of Lego parts. A couple of weeks ago I received this question by Jared Hinton:'Just a quick question on the PPP data. Most years have a average PPP of 20c+ per part. — Read the rest The post Lego...
mercredi 27 mars 2024, 23:26
Police went on a wild goose, er, ostrich chase after the bird escaped from a local zoo in South Korea. The feathered runaway looked pretty excited as he dodged authorities for about an hour, running down the middle of busy streets as he stopped traffic and turned heads. —...
At NYMag, John Hermann takes a deep dive into the moist world of ░P░U░S░S░Y░I░N░B░I░O░ spambots on Twitter, which the company has not and for comical reasons will not deal with. It starts with an amusing tour through Elon Musk's superficial promises to...
Fame is a weird thing. I was talking to some (highly educated) writers in their early 30s when I discovered none of them had ever HEARD of Crosby, Stills & Nash. I was stunned. How is that possible? Well, fame is fleeting, obviously. — Read the rest The post Lost in time:...
TL;DR: Take your digital tasks to the next level with the apps offered in either Microsoft Office 2019 for Windows or Mac! Snag the entire suite for just $29.97 through April 2. It's 2024, well into the 'making things easy on ourselves' era. — Read the rest The post Don't...
The number of adventurers with their sites on Mt Everest is increasing. In 2023, Nepal authorized 473 climbing permits, not including Sherpa guides and support staff. Unfortunately, the popularity of the peak has caused a shitty problem. 'The problem of human waste on...
A crafty Labrador retriever thought the coast was clear when she swiped a piece of cheese from the kitchen counter. And then she realized her human wasn't heading off into another room after all. So the quick-thinking doggo stashed the dairy snack into her jowl and froze...
It looks like Trump has found his dream Attorney General in Mike Davis, a man who hates democracy almost as much as he loves putting kids in cages. If you thought Bill Barr was bad, just wait until you see what this guy has up his sleeve. — Read the rest The post Trump's...
Trying to ease fears about financial trustworthiness, the daughter-in-law of a loser struggling to post a bond in an appeal to his fraud conviction says 'Trust me.' Trump has spend little to none of his own money on his legal defense, or campaigns. — Read the rest The post "...
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre shut down a radio host looking to invent a story. It is an interesting thing that the issues conservatives have to pick with President Biden are all invented, and they can't hit him on real issues. — Read the rest The post...
After the new, Trump-controlled Republican National Committee fired more than 60 people, they are now asking prospective employees to prove their MAGA loyalty with one chilling interview question: 'Was the 2020 election stolen?' Yes or no? The answer is simple: show your...
Last month, X user @CMDRVALTHOR posted a collection of antique photos (above and below) depicting 'extinct dragons of North America' accompanied by dapper men in old-timey clothing. That post has received 728,000 views and the images on their own have been widely shared as...
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