Stanley Quenchers with a street value of $2500, stuffed into a car pulled over in Roseville, California, earned its driver a grand theft charge last week. Officers knew what they were looking for, as staff at a nearby store had minutes earlier reported someone wheeling a cart full of the items out the store. — Read the rest

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Aerospace company Sierra Space is developing inflatable modules for future space stations. The modules are packed into a small space, launched on a rocket, and then expanded upon arrival in orbit. In the below video, watch as their Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE)—with a volume of 300 cubic meters—is inflated at the NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and bursts with beauty. — Read the rest

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Provo, Utah policy busted a teenager up to something fishy. Apparently, the individual was taping dead fish to ATMs and other locations around the city. The prankster documented their hijinks on the Instagram account fish_bandit84. One popular post documented the taping of a fish getting taped onto a cop car. — Read the rest

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An Indiana man was driving to his best friend's funeral in December when an animal caused him to swerve and crash his car under a bridge next to a creek. A month later, 27-year-old Matthew Reum describes what it was like to be trapped in his truck — which looked like a pile of shredded scrap metal — for six long days. — Read the rest

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This astonishing image captured from space depicts the Eye of the Sahara, a 50-kilometer geological formation in the Sahara Desert of Mauritania, Africa. What the hell is it and why is it staring into space?

Also known as the Richat Structure, the Eye dates back to the Neoproterozic period, between 1 billion and 542 million years ago. — Read the rest

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I'm not sure which is more pitiful: Trump's increasingly evident cognitive impairment or Rep. Elise Stefanik's descent into blind devotion to her cult leader. Here we see her barking out a bald faced lie to an MSNBC reporter, saying that Trump's claim that Nikki Haley was Speaker of the House and in the Capitol on January 6, 2021 "wasn't a mix-up." — Read the rest

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NASA launched the twin Voyagers 1 and 2 in 1977 on a grand tour of the solar system and into the mysteries of interstellar space. Attached to each of these spacecraft is a golden phonograph record containing a message for any extraterrestrial intelligence that might encounter it, perhaps billions of years from now. — Read the rest

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Offering his hard-right ultranationalist base something new to cheer about, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared the 1867 sale of Alaska to the United States illegal.

Alaska is now a territory of the Russian people, currently suffering a hostile occupation by the United States, according to a new decree by Vladimir Putin. — Read the rest

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Like an actor sharing his craft, insult-master Donald Trump generously waxed lyrical on the workings behind his name-calling. (See video below, posted by Ron Filipkowski.)

"It just felt good to me," the intuitive artist crowed when asked by a Fox reporter why he calls Nikki Haley — born Nimarata Nikki Randhawa — Nimbra. — Read the rest

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The Colorado Securities Commissioner filed civil fraud charges against Colorado pastor Eli Regalado and his wife, Kaitlyn. The couple is accused of defrauding 300 Christian investors of $3.2 million by selling them an "illiquid and practically worthless" cryptocurrency called INDXcoin. According to a press release issued by the Colorado Securities, Regalado targeted Christian communities in Denver, claiming God "told him directly that investors would become wealthy if they put money into INDXcoin." — Read the rest

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Mike Carroll died at 81 in 2016, a fact attested to by his pacemaker. His death wasn't known to authorities until 2022, though, and his daughter and son-in-law are on the hook for $215,000 in retirement benefits collected while Carroll slowly mummified in his bed at their home. — Read the rest

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In 2005, someone broke into the Judy Garland Museum, smashed a display case, and absconded with one of the original pairs of ruby slippers used in the Wizard of Oz (1925). A dozen years later, the FBI located the shoes when someone attempted to claim a reward for them. — Read the rest

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Apple's Magic Mouse offers handsome design and ugly ergonomics: like many other people, I can't use one for more than a few minutes before pain sets in. As the multitouch surface is the best in town, though, compromises are at hand. — Read the rest

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The Take Out rates the best fast food breakfast biscuits. Breakfast sandwiches have to be my favorite fast-food item.

Breakfast sandwiches are one of my favorite comfort foods. When I wake up in the morning feeling depressed, sad, or just without the willingness to get out of bed, one of the first places my mind goes is, "Well, you can have an egg sandwich." — Read the rest

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My friend and business partner, Kevin Kelly (we publish the Recomendo newsletter), says, "I occasionally get to hang around people with real wealth, and those on their way to real wealth. I've notice there is a rising scale of how wealth is experienced. — Read the rest

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Printer manufacturers imposed the razors-and-blades business model on these clattering, unreliable gadgets, selling cheap hardware to trap customers into vastly overpriced ink. And they use every user-hostile trick and stick in the arsenal to keep them there. Bricking scanners that run out of ink. — Read the rest

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TL:DR; If you're on a budget but still want access to all the streaming shows accessible on a smart TV, this beautifully refurbished HD 4th Generation Apple TV can upgrade any HDMI TV! It even comes with a Siri remote, and it's only $69.97 for a limited time! — Read the rest

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Out-on-bail, 91-times indicted criminal defendant, real estate fraud Donald J. Trump's crowd size has shrunk too small to cover up the jeers and boos.

Snowflake Donald J. Trump had to stop his speech and stand around waiting for an opportunity to speak. — Read the rest

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Even if you don't know his name, you already know his music from the classic Warner Brothers cartoons and "The Ren and Stimpy Show." Powerhouse was his mechanical motif, which you'd likely hear in a factory scene or announcing a menacing robot. — Read the rest

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This clip of Arkansas Governor and architect of Podium-Gate Sarah Huckabee Sanders lying about Trump's term as President brings back the memories. Remember when the country was on fire every single day?

White House Press Secretary for nearly two years of Donald Trump's reign of terror over the United States, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was there to scowl at, scorn, and lie to the press corp. — Read the rest

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See what happens when a spoon of liquid nitrogen is dropped into a bowl of gasoline. The liquid nitrogen bounces around the bowl inside of the gasoline in a clump and then bursts outwards into the air. It looks like a little ghost, running around in circles trying to escape. — Read the rest

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The Glaze Project has released a new, free software tool called Nightshade that artists can apply to their work posted online that will "poison" Artificial Intelligence models that seek to train on that artwork.

AI models "train" themselves by having bots scour the internet and scrape data on public websites. — Read the rest

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Sega's Dottori-Kun and Taito's Mini-Vaders are examples of the basic arcade games included with re-usable cabinets in Japan in the early 1990s, to comply with regulations that called for something playable. They functioned like the photos included with frames: pop them out of the Jamma slot, throw them away, slot in a real game board. — Read the rest

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Hanna Rosin interviews Saahil Desai on The Last Days of the Barcode, a ubiquitous feature of late 20th and early 21st century consumption that is supposedly headed for retirement. It's not that things don't need to be numbered and beeped, of course; the numbers will just be invisible and the beeps inaudible, so we don't have to think about them. — Read the rest

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This document from 1632 lists the causes of death in London during that year. Some of the causes of death are typical things that we would hear about today, such as death by drowning or sickness. Others, such as "planet-stricken", may make you scratch your head.  — Read the rest

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TL;DR: These smart Open Ear Conduction Stereo Wireless Headphones let you listen to music while still keeping your ears open to the world around you. Usually $79, right now you can grab them with more than half off, for just $33.99. — Read the rest

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Rarely has there been hyped-up hope quite so unrealistic as Ron DeSantis, posed as a post-Trump Republican mainstream media could love but seen up close as a nasal, creepy, awkward nerd with no hope at all of beating the old man. — Read the rest

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Gamon Jay Leacock, 49, of Halifax in Canada, was charged with aggravated sexual assault, unlawful confinement, robbery, and breaking and entering in two separate incidents earlier this week there. After his first court appearance Friday, he said he would like to not be in the news. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Need a new way to rise and shine? This fancy Mirrored Digital Alarm Clock With Dual USB Ports can help with that. It's here on sale for $21.99 (Reg. $32).

Look, we get loving the classics. Truly, we are also a sucker for old timey junk, but unless you sleep in a nightgown/little night cap combo number (you know the one), a conventional alarm clock is probably too niche. — Read the rest

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There's a lot Chicago's known for. Jazz, deep dish pizza, Barack Obama. But that list has expanded in recent days. Meet the Rat Hole, a rat-shaped indentation in the cement of West Roscoe Street in northern Chicago. Although it's existed for quite some time, it's only recently that its bizarre appearance has gone viral as a local curiosity, with Chicagoans even going so far as to make pilgrimages and leave "offerings" consisting of food, money and estrogen pills. — Read the rest

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