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- Bennn2
Why It Was Easier to Be Skinny in the 1980s
A new study finds that people today who eat and exercise the same amount as people 20 years ago are still fatter.
- sarahfailin0
Meth is poised to eclipse opioids as the most lethal drug in California. Federal funds to fight opioids can't be used to fight meth.
https://www.kqed.org/news/117585…- That's ok, the money is being wasted losing the war on drugs anyways.zarkonite
- manufacturing is toxic/stinky, so it's best made in the desert, avoid law. No jobs + clever blue collar workers make it easy to make/sell. Regional addictionrobotron3k
- It's absolutely dirt cheap and such amazing strength, absolute high—the most addictive thing you never want to touch.robotron3k
- BonSeff3
Not today's news but the best news story ever
Pub sued over pork chop shoes
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news…
- renderedred5
World's Chillest Man Lights Cigarette at Gunpoint During St. Louis Bar Robbery
- https://imgur.com/ga…renderedred
- Zero.Zero fucks givenRamanisky2
- accompliceKrassy
- robotron3k0
Interested Twitter drama. This expat is recorded on a Hong Kong subway, Hong Kong police see, raid the train, beat the fuck out out all the people, find him hog tied him. He's probably disappeared now.
- https://mobile.twitt…robotron3k
- Does anybody think that there are any western influence or support for the protests?Beeswax
- cjfclarence0
A medic cried and asked the police to let him in to save people and was rejected by the police!
- robotron3k4
Fuk THX-1136
- sarahfailin0
Man threatens Popeyes employees with gun after chicken sandwich sold out
News that the fast-food chain’s sandwich sold out nationwide has brought one lawsuit and at least two incidents of violence
- robotron3k1
Fuuuuuu.... This is what islands 40ft above the water line look after Dorian, still underwater.
- Bennn1
''The coming death of just about every rock legend''
https://theweek.com/articles/861…
Behold the killing fields that lie before us: Bob Dylan (78 years old); Paul McCartney (77); Paul Simon (77) and Art Garfunkel (77); Carole King (77); Brian Wilson (77); Mick Jagger (76) and Keith Richards (75); Joni Mitchell (75); Jimmy Page (75) and Robert Plant (71); Ray Davies (75); Roger Daltrey (75) and Pete Townshend (74); Roger Waters (75) and David Gilmour (73); Rod Stewart (74); Eric Clapton (74); Debbie Harry (74); Neil Young (73); Van Morrison (73); Bryan Ferry (73); Elton John (72); Don Henley (72); James Taylor (71); Jackson Browne (70); Billy Joel (70); and Bruce Springsteen (69, but turning 70 next month).
- mehkingsteven
- They all had what they gotrobthelad
- what does that mean?monospaced
- pablo282
Yahoo is down.
- BonSeff1
https://www.washingtonpost.com/t…
An artificial-intelligence first: Voice-mimicking software reportedly used in a major theft
Thieves used voice-mimicking software to imitate a company executive’s speech and dupe his subordinate into sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to a secret account, the company’s insurer said, in a remarkable case that some researchers are calling one of the world’s first publicly reported artificial-intelligence heists.
- Thats' fucking cool - I mean, scary as shit, but cool. Though I wish people would appreciate the distinction between 'ai' and machine learning.Nairn
- Nairn5
How have I never heard of this sort of thing before?
"Police Shut Down a 3,000-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at Ikea"
- imagine being the seeker...hans_glib
- I assume it's that version (which I used to play just outside Glasgow, as a kid) where each person found becomes a seeker in turn?Nairn
- They've been happing in other parts of Europe. Glasgow could have went off though.PhanLo
- any videos of this particular game at IKEA?utopian
- Here's some twats doing it, not really a lot of folk. https://www.youtube.…PhanLo
- "A melodrama shot inside an actual Ikea": https://www.youtube.…pablo28
- Gardener-1
- Fax_Benson0
12,000 year old Turkish city to be flooded by dam
- hold up, did the article just say its in Batman, Turkey!!!!!!!!robotron3k
- ^ ‘near’ BatmanGnash
- Also, the city isn’t anywhere near 12k yo, I could say Toronto is 12000 years old too.Gnash
- Yeah, it's more like 4,000 years old, so who gives a fuck?monospaced
- Sloppy reporting/writing. I have a thing for archeology and ancient history so I find these kind of errors annoying. Same goes with science reporting.Gnash
- for suremonospaced
- Nairn0
Eco-activists arrested by Brit cops after threatening to close Heathrow with drones
https://www.theregister.co.uk/20…
“We’re not the ones who will be cancelling flights or grounding aircraft. Our Action is designed to be completely safe,” they stated with a monumental lack of self-awareness. “If any planes are grounded, it will be Heathrow Airport’s decision, probably thanks to pressure from their insurers.”
- Nairn0
'ninja eggs filled with shards of glass and crushed chillies'
- Holy smokes deadly cascarones..!robotron3k
- Those ninja eggs look my easter eggs for the kids when i remember easter is tomorrow so quickly boil some...microkorg
- ... then doodle on them with permanent marker!microkorg
