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- Bennn1
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'This backpack has it all: Kevlar, batteries, and a federal investigation'
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Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/…
- Bennn1
'Meet the Iowa Architect Documenting Every Slave House Still Standing'
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Link: https://www.atlasobscura.com/art…
- Bennn0
'The Lost Art of Concentration: Being Distracted in a Digital World'
<< We check our phones every 12 minutes, often just after waking up. Always-on behavior is harmful to long-term mental health, and we need to learn to the hit the pause button>>
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Link: https://getpocket.com/explore/it…
- Bennn-2
- Bluejam0
- Wonderful! Death by Evil and - dear Gods - 'suddenly'! horseshoe to the head, ouch.Nairn
- more 'ye olde stuff' here...
https://twitter.com/…Bluejam - I’m gonna start using the — i’th’ — contractionGnash
- Bennn2
'What Happens to All Those Beads After Mardi Gras?'
https://getpocket.com/explore/it…
Look at the pictures... its crazy
- sarahfailin0
Russia Takes Aim at U.S. Shale Oil Producers
Moscow is fighting a oil-market war on two fronts—with Saudi Arabia and U.S. shaleRussia’s oil-market war with Saudi Arabia is part of a strategic campaign to cripple U.S. shale-oil production, a powerful economic tool that increasingly allows Washington to advance its foreign policy agenda, say people briefed on the Kremlin’s policies.
Less than two weeks ago, President Vladimir Putin summoned Russian oil companies to a conference room at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport to discuss strategy ahead of a meeting between OPEC and its allies on March 5-6.
For four years, Saudi Arabia and Russia had been curbing production together to prop up prices. But with the deadly new coronavirus beginning to sap global oil demand, Riyadh wanted an aggressive response with deep output cuts. Russia wanted more time to see if the effects of the virus would be temporary.
Mr. Putin asked the room whether Russia could withstand a sharp decline in oil prices that was expected if neither side could reach a compromise. Igor Sechin, the head of the state-controlled giant Rosneft and widely considered a staunch nationalist in Mr. Putin’s circle, said low crude prices “are great because they will damage U.S. shale,” according to people familiar with the meeting.
Days later, Mr. Putin sent his energy minister, Alexander Novak, to the OPEC talks with no mandate to negotiate a production cut with the Saudi-led group, according to oil officials in the cartel. The move, combined with a Saudi insistence on deeper, longer-lasting curbs, led to the collapse of the talks on March 6.
- What's to stop Putin from going in and taking Saudi Oil fields? Their only ally is the US and even then..._niko
- Krassy1
- So what?grafician
- or bored?shapesalad
- my wife has that exact sweaterPonyBoy
- Whatcha thinkin’’ ‘bout?Gnash
- Yeah, who cares?monospaced
- what a dreamboat!sarahfailin
- Feeling cute, might delete later.fadein11
- my wife has that exact camel toefooler
- lol foolerfadein11
- @fooler lolKrassy
- isn't the proper term for that 'moose knuckles'?PonyBoy
- NOT SAYING your wife has moose knuckles... cuz... um...
I'll stop typing now. <3PonyBoy - In this case the proper term for that is penis and testicles.CyBrainX
- https://www.urbandic…PonyBoy
- We ALL had that sweater in the 80s!microkorg
- renderedred2
Liam Gallagher thought he had coronavirus but his house was just hot: ‘It’s confusing and scary’
- PhanLo4
- Spent $50 million and VFX artists doing night shifts to roto buttholes out of the movie.NBQ00
- Madness.PhanLo
- And I thought I worked on some asshole projects in the past, smh...whatthefunk
- I want buttholesVeganWarrior
- the butthole cut of cats seems more relevant by the day.kingsteven
- We demand the butthole cut!pango
- fooler1
Thieves Steal Van Gogh Painting From Museum Shut by Coronavirus
Glass door was smashed in overnight theft at Dutch museum where painting was on loan
- I wonder if there's a market for forging stolen artworks? Seems like the perfect business, barring lethally pissed off buyers in the criminal worldNairn
- "Every Van Gogh must go"
https://www.youtube.…Bluejam - C O R O N A C R I M E W A V EPhanLo
- That painting sucked, anywayGnash
- PhanLo0
It's looking like the Edinburgh Festival is going to be cancelled, usually a really busy time for a lot of people I work with and myself. Mate had been planning building some giant structures for months, he's gutted.
Some people, it's all they work on all year.
The impact on the bars and clubs will be business ending for a lot of independent places.
Last week the owner of a pub I used to go to, drank a full bottle of whisky and walked into the sea, both his business's were already struggling before Corona and I think that was the final straw.
Weird times.
- pango3
umm.... stay off zoom?
also, who came up with that lame ass name?"Zoom's security and privacy problems are snowballing"
https://i.insider.com/5e844d340c…
https://www.businessinsider.com/…
"...The Intercept also reported Tuesday, however, that Zoom didn't use end-to-end encryption on video meetings, despite using the term frequently in its marketing materials. End-to-end encryption would basically ensure neither external attackers nor Zoom itself could access the contents of a video meeting. Instead, it offers a form of encryption called "transport encryption." This scrambles the content for external attackers, theoretically, but not for Zoom itself.
Zoom told The Intercept in a statement that it did not directly access users' data.
Finally, cybersecurity researchers have found the Windows version of Zoom is vulnerable to attackers who could send malicious links to users' chat interfaces and gain access to their network credentials...."
- renderedred0
Navy Captain Removed From Carrier Tests Positive for Covid-19
- I'm sure that Trump will take credit for saving the the captains life by getting him off the carrier just in time to save his life.utopian
