McDonald's famous tagline "You deserve a break today," apparently doesn't apply to its restaurants in Saskatoon. According to 18-year-old Mason Prima, all he wanted was to cash in his reward… Read the rest of the article: Teen fined $580 for using phone in McDonald's drive-thru line
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Mark Frauenfelder Donald Trump's overpriced "God Bless the USA" Bible is missing Constitutional Amendments that MAGA cultists don't like, like the ones abolishing slavery and giving women the right to vote. From… Read the rest of the article: Trump's "God Bless the USA" Bible deletes women's voting rights and slavery amendments
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Mark Frauenfelder A recently unearthed 1988 promotional video from Sheer Indulgence Panty Hose is making the rounds for its brutally insensitive depiction of various women office worker stereotypes. In the video, a… Read the rest of the article: Cringeworthy 1988 pantyhose ad cruelly depicts office worker personas
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Mark Frauenfelder For four years, a mysterious man known as the "Silent Man" repeatedly blocked traffic on a busy street in Swansea, South Wales. His real name is David Hampson, but he… Read the rest of the article: Meet the "Silent Man" who mysteriously blocks traffic without uttering a word
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Mark Frauenfelder Japan has one of the world's lowest obesity rates at just 4.5%, compared to 42% in the United States. Writing for Time, author Johann Hari set out to discover how… Read the rest of the article: Japan's lessons for combating obesity without Ozempic
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Mark Frauenfelder The United States Postal Service's grandiose pledge about persevering through any obstacle — "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night" — turns out it has a major… Read the rest of the article: USPS suspends mail to impassible "sandpit streets" in Florida village
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Mark Frauenfelder Kristi Noem, the lying, incompetent, puppy-shooting charlatan masquerading as the governor of South Dakota, has two options: either she's afflicted with a memory so profoundly defective that it renders her… Read the rest of the article: Kristi Noem cancels tour for her lie-filled memoir (video)
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Mark Frauenfelder Contractors working at a Family Fare grocery store in Midland, Michigan found a 34-year-old woman had been secretly residing inside the store's massive rooftop sign for nearly a year. As… Read the rest of the article: Woman lived in grocery store's roof sign for a year
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Mark Frauenfelder Earlier this week, tech writer and Google Ventures general partner M.G. Siegler received a late-night notification from Meta informing him that his accounts on Instagram, Threads, and Facebook had been… Read the rest of the article: Instagram's terrifying false positive nearly ruined a tech writer's life
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Mark Frauenfelder Just when you thought air travel couldn't get any weirder, this video showing a passenger contorting herself into the overhead compartment before takeoff will prove you wrong. According to witness… Read the rest of the article: Woman caught hiding in Southwest overhead bin before takeoff (video)
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Mark Frauenfelder South Dakota Kristi Noem's pathetic attempt to pimp her memoir took another nosedive when Fox's Stuart Varney demanded she explain her insane anecdote about shooting her puppy, Cricket. As Lincoln… Read the rest of the article: Puppy-killer Noem's TV trainwreck torpedoes her VP dreams (video)
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Mark Frauenfelder Remember when Paul Rudd causally ripped an apple in half with his bare hands? I don't, but Lifehacker does and they have a tutorial on how to do it yourself… Read the rest of the article: How to crack open an apple with your bare hands like Paul Rudd (video)
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Mark Frauenfelder When the city demanded a boat owner hide his boat behind an opaque fence to appease a whiny neighbor, he happily complied. He built the required fence, but then hired… Read the rest of the article: Check out this next-level petty revenge against boat-hating neighbor
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Mark Frauenfelder Yesterday, Apple released a commercial to advertise its new iPad pro. It features various musical instruments being mercilessly squished in a hydraulic press until, voilà, an iPad Pro materializes from… Read the rest of the article: Apple blatantly rips off 2008 LG phone ad in latest iPad commercial
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Mark Frauenfelder Steve Albini, the uncompromising producer, audio engineer, and musician revered for his work with Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey, and countless others in the underground rock scene, died suddenly of a… Read the rest of the article: RIP Steve Albini, influential producer and musician (1962-2024)
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Mark Frauenfelder Ted Cruz teamed up with fellow senators owned by the airline industry to try to block Biden's pro-consumer plan for automatic refunds on canceled flights. From Rolling Stone: Last week,… Read the rest of the article: Ted Cruz shills for airlines, claims automatic refunds are "a dumb idea" (Video)
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Mark Frauenfelder Back in the glory days of NASA's Apollo program, astronauts often brought small personal items into space as souvenirs. But the crew of Apollo 15 took this a step too… Read the rest of the article: NASA was rocked by a scandal when the Apollo 15 crew took unauthorized envelopes to the moon, planning to sell them later
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Mark Frauenfelder In a recent interview with Semafor's Ben Smith, New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn offered a laughable defense of the paper's coverage of the looming threat that Donald Trump… Read the rest of the article: NY Times editor says Trump's danger to democracy is not a top concern
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Mark Frauenfelder Kristi Noem, faithful follower of the Nine Commandments, is not only a bad pet owner, she's a bad liar. In her new memoir, No Going Back, she writes in no… Read the rest of the article: "I don't have conversations about conversations" — Kristi Noem says about her made-up encounter with Kim Jong-Un
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Mark Frauenfelder "Qantas Airways has agreed to pay 120 million Australian dollars ($79 million) to settle a lawsuit over the sale of thousands of tickets on already canceled flights," reports CNN We have obtained… Read the rest of the article: Qantas coughs up $79M for selling tickets on already canceled flights