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complexity is intrinsic. complications are extrinsic.

This is why I suspect that GLP-1 agonist medications have the potential to cause a cascade of negative consequences for the health of some people. One of the mechanisms is slowed g…

Busted headphones taped to a broomstick was my friend's microphone of choice when he did punk shows

I made it to the end but oh god my vision

Great. Now make it legal to grow ANY type of flower.

woop woop!

> I wouldn't be surprised if IDF forces deployed to the West Bank are trained much like American police officers are' American police officers ARE trained much like IDF forces. By …

I like steak as much as the next guy but there's no way I'd eat the free "steak" offered to me by someone who owns an ICE facility.

how are you still able to access archive.ph? do we need to put something in the hosts? All I've gotten there for the last month and a half is an nginx landing page.

There's something satisfying about seeing Chris Cornell and Pavarotti together on the same list.

No discussion of kitchen optimization is complete without mentioning the Finnish Dish Drying Cabinet invented by Maiju Gebhard while working as the head of the Household Department…

My gamer friend found a 23-inch CRT monitor on ebay and the box it showed up in was large enough to ship a washing machine. I can't imagine what it would be like for a 43-inch TV.

This is my problem when I try to open a jar with a stuck lid. In the act of gripping the lid well enough to have traction to turn it, I end up squeezing the lid so hard that it def…

I'm glad to hear that the Blackfoot tribe is still going strong. I'm a nobody white guy but I've always felt a special connection with them. Here's why: When I was a teenager and m…

> Have people disappeared off the face of the earth? It is established that hundreds of detainees from the July 2025 Alligator Alcatraz intake were unaccounted for in ICE’s online …

A certain country is trying to scrub the internet of evidence for its war crimes.

It mentions preemptive multitasking as one of its features. Are there any operating systems that still use cooperative multitasking?

Meanwhile we're speedrunning DustBowl 2.0 just in time for its 100th anniversary.

A conversation I overheard yesterday at the grocery store: "Today is my birthday." "How old are you?" "105." "Oh my gosh! What is your secret to long life?" "Stay away from the doc…

Completely irrelevant to the article, but next time you come across one of those internet crazies who think the Monster logo is satanic, you can troll them by pointing out that it …

Wow. It's nice to finally have a better name for this. I saw several therapists when I was age 12-17 and they would just slap the blanket label "panic attacks" on it which never fe…

Harvard Graphics! That's where it all started for me.

You seem to be a connoisseur of this genre of reading material. You might enjoy "Feelings Matter: Keys to the Unexplored Self" by Ceanne DeRohan.

Such a great soundtrack too! I rewatched it last week just for the jams. Also, for those into the glitch art genre, the dream sequences were WAY ahead of their time.

I grew up in a rural area where most people opted out of the light that the electric company installed for every customer who got service. Whenever I visited a city it infuriated m…