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An Incomplete List of Things the Federal Government Should Stop Using Thanks...
In the latest salvo of the ongoing Apple vs FBI salvo, Florida GOP congressman David Jolly has introduced a (doomed) bill banning the federal government from purchasing unpatriotic, terrorist-loving...
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Man Hits Glass Bridge With Sledgehammer, You Will Absolutely Believe What...
China, conceiver of large , ambitious , and often terrifying new infrastructure projects, has decided to build another opportunity for its citizens to stare into the abyss of mortality very tall glass...
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Bud Light Ritas, Ranked
What’s the best flavor of Bud Light Ritas? This is a trick question.Read more...
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Scientists Confirm: Comets Smell Like Cat Piss
Rotten eggs, cat urine, bitter almonds—that’s the delightful elixir of aromas comprising the BO of one comet 67P, also known as Rosetta’s comet. In a heartwarmingly nerdy yet mildly alarming...
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Throwing Bullets Into Molten Aluminum Is an Explosively Bad Idea
Please don’t ever do this at home. Or do this anywhere, really. Mixing bullets with molten aluminum creates a helluva explosion—but it sprays the hot liquid metal everywhere, and that’s just a...
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Watch a Crane Totally Collapse After Trying to Move a Water Tank
Bad idea: trying to use a crane to lift a water tank before checking if it’s empty or not. You can see the crane’s arm begin to buckle under the weight of the tank and then watch it totally collapse...
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Store Is Very Sorry for Exploiting 9/11 With Its 'Twin Tower Sale' Commercial
In a deeply regrettable attempt to cash in on human tragedy using viral video magic, a company called Miracle Mattress decided to film and post a bizarre commercial promoting its “Twin Tower sale.”...
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Threat Detection CEO Suspended for Threatening to Kill Donald Trump
On Monday, San Diego-based cybersecurity firm PacketSled announced that it had placed its CEO on administrative leave after he made a series of Facebook comments threatening to kill President-elect...
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Don't Sleep With Your Phone
Image: FacebookFancy computer phones are great. They let us communicate, work, document, learn, complain, order dinner, find consensual sex friends, and plenty of other fun things. If I could attach...
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JetBlue Invites Passengers to Watch Fun Show Called Why Planes Crash
As many of us prepare for holiday season travel, armed with headphones and Xanax, it’s incredible to realize that we can now watch TV on an airplane. On a recent JetBlue flight from JFK to SFO, I...
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Silicon Valley's Hottest Overpriced Juicer Apparently Works Worse Than Your...
Remember Juicero? It was the darling of glass-eyed Silicon Valley investors just a year ago. But it turns out the the $400 juice-making gadget is very literally useless. You can actually just buy the...
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Oh Shit, Will.i.am Could Soon Be in Charge of Your Smart Home
Will.i.am has had a hard time breaking into the tech market. In his latest entrepreneurial venture, he’s jumping into the smart home game. What could go wrong?Read more...
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Once We Start Geoengineering, We Won't Be Able To Stop
With each passing year that the world fails to get a grip on its carbon emissions, the threat of climate change increases. For some, that makes geoengineering—a technique to artificially cool the...
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Sprint and T-Mobile Are Officially Merging, and It's Terrible
After years of on-and-off flirting, including a broken engagement in 2017, Sprint and T-Mobile have finally agreed to a $26.5 billion merger that will further consolidate a mobile carrier market...
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Stop Using Blowtorches to Kill Spiders in Your House
While this should seemingly go without saying, it turns out that “kill it with fire” is not a great idea when it comes to ridding your home of pests. Nonetheless, there is no shortage of failed cases...
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American Museum of Natural History Event Honoring Brazil’s Rainforest-Hating...
A museum dedicated to conserving nature and Brazil’s far right wing president intent on opening the Amazon rainforest to mining, logging, and fossil fuel exploration while kicking indigenous groups off...
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The World Blows Over $5 Trillion a Year on Oil and Gas Subsidies: Report
The world subsidized its own demise to the tune of $5.2 trillion in 2017. Read more...
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Trump's Energy Department Swoops in to Save Us From the Tyranny of More...
Donald Trump’s administration has turned its malicious gaze towards energy-efficient lightbulb standards originally enacted during the Bush administration and finalized by the Obama administration, NPR...
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Big Banks' Latest Plan to Kill the Climate Is Taking Over Failing Oil and Gas...
Before the coronavirus, the American oil and gas industry was struggling to keep its profits up. The pandemic exacerbated that, and now it’s doing way, way worse. Companies heavily dependent on...
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How Transforming My Apartment Into an Indoor Farm Turned Into a Very Bad Idea
A little over a year ago, I came up with an idea for story to turn my apartment into an indoor garden. This ended up being a terrible idea, though in my defense it was late January, and I was hoping...
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Trump’s Racist Coronavirus Response Foreshadows the Injustice to Come
Back in May, I wrote that the that the worst case response to the coronavirus was accepting the mounting death toll as the only path forward, and that it mirrored the worst possible approach to the...
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Senators Held a Bizarre Hearing About How to Solve Climate Change With More...
The Senate Energy Committee held a hearing on Tuesday that was ostensibly about lowering carbon emissions to curb climate change. But they didn’t say much about reducing the amount of carbon spewed...
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Trump's WeChat and TikTok App Store Bans Are a Cybersecurity Nightmare
The Trump administration has barely even bothered to back up its case that its use of emergency powers to strong-arm Beijing-based ByteDance into selling TikTok’s U.S. operations to an American company...
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Your Credit Score Should Be Based on Your Web History, IMF Says
With more services than ever collecting your data, it’s easy to start asking why anyone should care about most of it. This is why. Because people start having ideas like this. Read more...
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Oh Great, Telegram's Getting Ads
Telegram, the encrypted messaging app and longtime drug-dealer haven, is planning to monetize in 2021, founder Pavel Durov said on Wednesday.Read more...
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