Sterling Allen 🏳️‍🌈

I do love a good hurricane, the one at The Mont in Norman is deadly [complimentary]

private equity buys a company and immediately starts torturing their employees and the money

Sounds like a party 🍹

i first heard this argument in my high school history class. it didnt go well for the people making the argument.

Impossible

imagine any other US president in american history calling the american people a bunch of unemployed, uneducated, ignorant boobs who don't even know what a computer chip is, and insisting that they'll need to be educated by the taiwanese to work in US-based, taiwanese-owned factories

Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.

"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."

www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...

Stack of blocks labeled, all modern digital infrastructure. A ratchet tipping over the entire stack is labeled AI. A load bearing pillar is labeled unpaid open source development. Another label is AWS, and Cloudflare and Unpaid Open Source Developers.

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

we are returning to the state in which the framers intended for the legislature, in which the lower chamber and the upper chamber absolutely despise one another

Credit card fraud Black neon tetras committed credit card fraud during a 2023 livestream by "Mutekimaru Channel" on YouTube. The owner was using motion-tracking software to turn the fish's movements into Nintendo Switch inputs, letting them "play" video games. 8 In 2020, the fish beat Pokemon Sapphire after 3,195 hours, a feat that takes about 30 hours for a typical human. 9/ 181 On January 14, 2023, Pokémon Violet crashed at 1,144 hours, giving the fish free access to the main menu. They entered inputs that opened Nintendo eShop, added 500 yen ($3.85 USD) to their owner's account, and exposed his credit card details on the livestream. 10) 11) Mutekimaru later requested a refund of the 500 yen from Nintendo. l12) "Fish eagerly read the terms and conditions. Many of us humans don't read the terms of service, but fish are smarter than we are" - caption from Mutekimaru in a video about the incident 12) The fish also downloaded an N64 emulator, set up PayPal, used reward points to buy an avatar, and changed Mutekimaru's Nintendo account name to "ROWAWAWA*". 13, After about seven hours, their movements shut down the Switch. 14)

Fish have committed credit card fraud

Norman and Moore

A hand holding a spray bottle pointing at a fluffy white w/gray-point siamese kitten who's standing their ground with a looking of defiant grit

Most of the cabins had been located in FEMA's 100-year "Special Flood Hazard Area" up until 2013. That's when the camp petitioned FEMA to remove most of the cabins from floodplain maps, says the lawsuit filed by the families of five campers and two counselors. The move did nothing but spare the Eastlands costly insurance premiums and expensive renovations, the filing states.

First, that the camp owners successfully petitioned to move the flood map line away from the most at risk cabins is unconscionable:

Willingly scarring your body to own the libs. These people are straight up insane. This is Manson Family shit

These 9 grocery staples have seen the biggest price spikes this year Plus, three food items that have gotten cheaper.

President Donald Trump's promise to lower grocery prices "on Day One" hasn't exactly worked out that way.https://kfor.com/news/these-9-grocery-staples-have-seen-the-biggest-price-spikes-this-year/ 

Employee of a Federal Official Charged with Conspiracy to Falsely Report Violent Attack and Giving False Statements to Law Enforcement A New Jersey woman was charged with conspiring and falsely reporting to law enforcement that she had been violently assaulted with a firearm due to her employment with a federal official.

SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend.

Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.

Nah the vibes went rancid yesterday afternoon, randomly both my cats did their "ohgod something happened" stance, our dog in the next room did a whine/low growl, the neighbor's dog outside started barking, and I felt a weird wave of unease all at once. And then today just feels weird, idk 🤷‍♂️

Incredible comedic timing to mess up a "thats the joke" by ~also~ not including the joke in this post

The DOJ Subpoenaed Patient Info From a Gender-Affirming Care Clinic. It Fought Back. A Washington judge quashed the Trump administration's attempt to subpoena patient information from the telehealth practice QueerDoc—but the fight may not be over.

NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won.
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co

That's.....arguably worse, but go off?

Thank goodness we now have the option to report posts as misleading on the website where no one understands jokes

What the actual fuck, Apple

A Facebook post from Scrivener: "Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you're on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt. Here's why, and what you can do if you want to remove this" attention-grabbing graphic says "SCRIVENER AND AI: WHY DO I SEE AI PROMPTS IN MY SCRIVENER PROJECTS ON MAC?"

Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)

Source: you made it up

I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.

Y'all, stop posting your answers to security questions

Jesus christ everyone stop just posting your answers to super common security questions like this 🙃🙃

> first pet’s name

not so fast, you can pry the answer to my security question from my cold dead hands

If they don't have a doorbell cam, wouldn't it be such a shame if some young hooligans with scissors snipped the bells off?

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a direct violation of 5A’s fist clause before. Like, this is literally the exact thing the framers were addressing when they wrote it.

“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury”