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Douglas Jordan Krah Arrested After Racist Tirade At East Bay In-N-Out
America is a stupid nation and racism is a societal symptom of this stupidity. Even on Christmas Eve, certain people seem to lack the common decency needed to shut the fuck up. Douglas Jordan Krah, a Colorado man with Bay Area connections, decided he needed to wash down his In-N-Out
Savage US Blizzard Kills Dozens, Causes Power Outages
The death toll from a pre-Christmas blizzard that paralyzed the Buffalo area and much of the country has risen to 27 in western New York authorities said Monday as the region dug out from one of the worst weather-related disasters in its history. The dead have been found in their
2022 is the Year the Conmen Fell
There is nothing new about the confidence game, but there are always new players. In recent years we’ve seen Fyre Festival come and go, we saw Martin Shkreli rise and fall, The Epstein nightmare, and we even witnessed a reality TV star and infomercial steak knife salesmen become President of
Why Did(n’t) MyShake Warn Me?
The noise woke my partner first. I heard it distantly, still ascending from the depths of a REM cycle. Its robotic voice, preceded by a red-alert siren, warned of impending shaking. Knowing that it’s safest to stay in bed if an earthquake strikes at night, we looked at each other
Elon Musk Might Be Stepping Down as Twitter’s CEO
It’s been an absolutely demented circus at Twitter ever since Elon Musk took over a few months back. During that time, Musk has reinstated accounts that had been banned for hate speech, fired thousands of workers, lost a huge chunk of Twitter’s advertisers, neglected to pay rent, and forced workers
How Inflation has Impacted Cost of Basic Goods in US
For 25 basic grocery items, current and historical data was collected using Keepa, which monitors the price of nearly 1 billion products on Amazon in the U.S. Pricing data was collected for Nov. 18, 2021, and compared to the price of the same item on Nov. 18, 2022.
Elon Musk Faces Even More Trouble at Twitter HQ
In every direction he looks, Tesla CEO Elon Musk faces a bevy of unenviable troubles. His albatross, Twitter, is reportedly losing $4 million per day. Meanwhile, building inspectors found impromptu living quarters on the eighth floor of their San Francisco headquarters. Former employees are taking legal action against him. Rumors
Big Tech’s User Agreements are Even Worse than You Thought
By JohnTaylor Wildfeuer You must not be reading your user agreements either, because if you were you would have little time for anything else. A 2008 Carnegie Mellon University study found that if American consumers read user agreements for websites they visit once per year it would require 76 full