@jon-nyc said: I remember they had a pilot project where they sent stock quotes over TV signals using the channel designed to carry closed caption information. Teletext?

a pyrrhic victory.

Me neither but it’s interesting to see betting markets thinking so.

The ‘expectant widow’ thing was a bit too on point, but this was filmed well before the event.

I’m at the airport and a woman fainted at baggage claim and fell onto the carousel. But she’s slowly coming around now.

Let's take turns making words out of pieces of the word "cocktail". I'll go first. Nobody can use any letters that have already been used. I'll say "tail". @89th you're up!

I hope it doesn't self-harm from the shame of it all.

I just vibed an application with chatGPT in an afternoon that would have taken me weeks to write by hand. And I'm sure the code is better this way too.

Your first day in the jungle, you have to walk right up to the biggest lion and punch it in the face. You have to show strength, or they'll make you their bitch the whole time you're there.

https://www.wired.com/story/tech-bros-are-all-in-on-zyn/ ENTREPRENEUR GARRETT CAMPBELL has a 6-mg “cool mint” Zyn tucked under his lip at all times during his mammoth 15-hour workdays, aside from when he is eating. “I was always very against nicotine,” says the software company founder. The 26-year-old saw his peers using nicotine pouches at college, when they first emerged as a potential productivity-boosting hack, and considered it a “degenerate thing to do.” But then all of his fellow founders started fueling themselves with nicotine pouches, of which the Philip Morris International–owned Zyn is the market leader. The company distributed 794 million cans in the US in the last financial year, a 37 percent increase over the previous year. Now, Campbell says “every single one” of his friends that runs a company does so with a nicotine pouch in their mouth. Tech workers are increasingly attacking their marathon workdays like “racehorses” dosed with significant quantities of purportedly performance-maximizing nicotine, with each 6-mg pouch containing the nicotine of several cigarettes. Stripped of the smoke, smell, and stigma of cigarettes and vapes, nicotine pouches are being quietly rebranded in Silicon Valley as a clean, nootropic stimulant rather than a dirty habit. and Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson launched his own brand, ALP, short for American Lip Pillow, in 2024. “Nicotine’s super important,” the ex-smoker told podcaster Theo Von in December, embodying a plump Marlboro Man for the smoke-free age. “This country’s gotten far sadder and less healthy since it was discouraged, and it's coming back and it shows: People are just happier.”

The dinosaurs went anti-vaxx?

Good job to all!!!!

I recently started doing real pull-ups and dips. Previously I only did the assisted kind out of fear that I'd injure my shoulder (torn rotator cuff in 22). I've been trying to do 3 sets of 5 (up from 3 sets of 3). I can do that with dips, today I hit 5-5-4 on pull-ups. Still need to improve my form though.

Wow. Our leaders have been asleep at the switch for 20 years.

Aldi has great fish and lousy wine. TJ has great flowers and great wine. What's best in Aldi is the real German products which are sprinkled around the store.

@Renauda said: @Horace said: @89th said: I find the shooter's strategy to run really fast through the first security checkpoint intriguing. He made it through, although I think about 50 feet later was tackled or something. Imagine if it comes out his name is Leeroy Jenkins? I didn't read his manifesto, I try never to give the shooters any oxygen (name, face, manifesto...). Clearly I'm having an impact. He isn't crazy. I can understand dismissing the ravings of a crazy person, but this manifesto was informative on a number of levels. I agree he’s not kookoo crazy but rather crazed in his very own reality that leads to fanatic convictions and deeds. Probably not unlike your garden variety Islamacist suicide bomber. After all, I don’t think he expected to come out his deed alive. Probably 9 times out of 10, he doesn't.

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https://x.com/ariel_oseran/status/2048757909941535197?s=46 (Using this as the ‘hezbollah Israel war thread’ since it may have a life span independent of the Iran war)