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Colorado Accidentally Posts Voting System Passwords Online (www.pcmag.com)
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Boeing allegedly overcharged the military 8,000% for airplane soap dispensers (www.popsci.com)
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Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
 

The tootsie pop question remains unanswered

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Outrage over casinos prosecuting gamblers who use small abandoned slot credits (moneywise.com)
Thrilling gameplay in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I'm eagerly awaiting the Kuato DLC.

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Cop 'attacked' by giant inflatable runaway Halloween pumpkin in middle of the street (abcnews.go.com)
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Russia fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (www.cnn.com)
 

That seems a little excessive.

Oh, Snoopy... You dog. Happy Halloween. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Like trump in snoopy's body

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Women pictured in Wisconsin strip club’s ads fight for payment after winning lawsuit (www.startribune.com)
My wife has been working for years on opening a new branch library in our town of Terre Haute, Indiana. It finally opened! Here is an image gallery. It might not be what you would expect. [OC] in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago

Keep fighting the good fight against ignorance and illiteracy!

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A Lot of Cheddar: London Thieves Make Off With $400,000 in Artisanal Cheese (www.mentalfloss.com)
 

Not gouda, totally unbrielievable.

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Chinese scientists revive brain that had been dead for 50 minutes (www.marca.com)
 

Immediately runs for political office...

Apple put the Magic Mouse’s charging port on the bottom again in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

If Apple put out some logic behind the reasoning for the port location perhaps the complaints would diminish.

I think the complaints are valid, as Apple is a design-focused company that usually puts the user first, both in hardware and software design. For whatever reason Apple just will not design a user-focused mouse and it's gone from being silly to downright illogical.

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Woman Who Sued Company for Not Giving Her a Farewell Card Finds Out They Did Buy a Card But Almost No One Signed It (www.latintimes.com)
 

Big oof

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Woman ‘tossed’ into landfill after builder refuses to pay $12k for botched bathroom (www.independent.co.uk)
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Zamboni driver arrested for impaired driving in low-speed crash in western Quebec (globalnews.ca)
game sucks rule in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

"I bet that new DLC I pre-ordered months ago sucks too."

Yuba County Five - After the snow melted in June 1978, four of the men's bodies were discovered. The fifth was never found. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Good read, good mystery, thanks for sharing!

"DON'T. PROVOKE. THE BORG!" - Q in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

To his (real-life) son, no less.

‘State of the art’ fire station burns down ... because it had no fire alarms in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Oof, now that's a big fail

Man Sues Town for $647 Million Over Trashed Bitcoin Hard Drive in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Easy solution: Town should say yes, but charge $650 million.

They should pull a TicketMaster: $30k for staffing and a $649,970,000 "facility fee".

Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 251 points 2 weeks ago (21 children)

https://mozilla.org/firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

Problem solved, except for the sites that still refuse to work properly with established web standards.

Court Says Man Can't Be Charged with Drunk Driving Because He Chugged Entire Bottle After Getting Pulled Over in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Soju ranges from 12%-54%. Plus, soju is not well-distilled; it has impurities that vodka does not.

Edited: We're likely both right. I was in Korea in 1999; back then the alcohol ABV values were quite a bit higher than today. I am also going to guess that the soju ABV content was skewed quite high around the Army bases. For reasons. I also could be wrong. It's been known to happen.

Surge in mice closes Door County campground early in c/[email protected]
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