Pasta Dump Mystery in New Jersey in Finally Solved - "Keith Rost, who lives nearby, cleared up the macaroni mystery by stating that he knew who had left the pasta behind. He claimed that it all came from a house that is up for sale and was being cleared out by a military veteran after his mother has died. Apparently, she'd left behind quite a stockpile of food and he disposed it in the woods... While the pasta appears cooked in the photos, that was actually not the case. It had been thrown into the woods dry, but became limp after several days in the rain. For Jochnowitz, the event is another reminder about the lack of bulk-garbage pickup for the town of nearly 70,000 residents. Old Bridge is the only town in its county that lacks this service. “It’s been a point of contention for many years”"
Meme - "BIRD SO TALENTED IT CRAPPED A SELFIE ON MY CAR WINDOW"
Japan's 'cringeworthy' cartoon cars make image U-turn - "Mr Yosuke Takahata doesn't care what people think of his "itasha" car, which has his favourite anime character — a sexy, red-eyed horse-woman — emblazoned across both sides. For him and other owners around Japan, plastering cartoon pictures all over their vehicles is just another way of paying homage to their two-dimensional true loves. "Itasha" means "cringeworthy car", reflecting the misfit image the vehicles had when they first started appearing on roads around 20 years ago. But perceptions have begun to change, with anime and other hobby subcultures gaining a new mainstream acceptance in Japan."
Fewer than 4 in 10 S'pore respondents optimistic of better lives in 5 years, all-time low in global survey - "Fewer than four in 10 people in Singapore believe that they and their families will be better off economically in five years’ time, according to a survey conducted by consultancy Edelman. This is the lowest level of economic optimism in the 23 years that the firm has conducted the annual global survey. Only about 36 per cent of respondents in Singapore felt that way, down 7 percentage points from a year ago.. This was roughly in line with what the survey described as a “collapse” in economic optimism around the world, with the global average dropping by 10 percentage points over the same period to 40 per cent... respondents in developed countries were less optimistic than those in developing ones. This trend is occurring against the backdrop of a wider spread of income-based trust gap in governments, businesses, the media and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), or what is collectively referred to by the report as "societal institutions". The survey found that respondents from the higher income group have greater trust in these societal institutions compared to respondents with low income... nearly half of respondents here felt that the social fabric in the country is weakening. More than three-quarters expect business leaders here to take a public stand over issues such as discrimination, climate change and the treatment of workers... Among top 25 per cent earners, the average trust in institutions globally has soared to 62 per cent from 50 per cent in 2012. Among low-income earners, the bottom 25 per cent, the trust index inched up from 44 per cent to 48 per cent over the same period."
Meme - Dane @UltraDane: "Why is the NYC subway a literal sh*th*le and Tokyo's is immaculate."
"Japanese people don't season they subways"
The nostalgic joy of '90s style PC game installers - "Today, game installation is simply the final, invisible phase of a Steam download. Once though, it was a ceremony. Back in the multimedia age—or, less fancifully, the ‘90s—developers treated installers as the front door to their game. They built grand facades to set the tone, or to distract you from the frustrating creep of progress bars. Some of them, it could be argued, got carried away. But we’re going to celebrate them here, in all their daft glory, just as soon as I’ve prepared the InstallShield Wizard."
Meme - "Game Developers then:
"I coded Rollercoaster Tycoon entirely in Assembly so itcan run on most machines."
"We made a shooter game that only takes up 97,280 bytes of space."
"Try out our new game! First few levels are shareware!"
"Minimum requirements? So long as your computer can turn on."
Triple A Game Developers now:
"Our singleplayer game is always-online. Because fuck you, that's why."
"Optimization? Just get a better PC bro. You need at least Next-gen to play without our game crashing."
"Sorry, we can't work on fixing the game. One of our employees keeps stealing breast milk from the female employees"
"Our game is 500GB. You don't need to play any other games, right? Also there is a 50GB update patch"
Meme - "GAME DEVELOPERS THEN
We programmed DOOM in a coding language that can be played on anything, even a smart fridge.
My dad's journals from WW2 will make a great framework for my game's setting and lore.
Not everything needs an explanation; people are smart enough to figure it out.
We turned Samus into a woman as a funny surprise, but we made sure her character didn't get in the way of a fun game.
GAME DEVELOPERS NOW
Just throw it in the Unreal Engine and hope it's stable; we'll patch it after it launched
Call of Duty and Battlefield taught me all I need to know about WW2!
We can't let a single player feel lost! Give them companions that show them EVERYTHING
This is Crystal; she's a gay black obese who converted to Islam and has depression."
Stuart Little helps long-lost Hungarian painting return home - "A long-lost avant-garde painting has returned home to Hungary after nine decades, thanks to a sharp-eyed art historian who spotted it being used as a prop in the Hollywood film Stuart Little. In 2009, Gergely Barki noticed Sleeping Lady with Black Vase by Robert Bereny (1888-1953) in the 1999 children's movie as he watched television with his daughter Lola. "I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Bereny's long-lost masterpiece on the wall behind Hugh Laurie, I nearly dropped Lola from my lap," Mr Barki, a researcher at Hungary's National Gallery, said. "A researcher can never take his eyes off the job, even when watching Christmas movies at home." The painting disappeared in the 1920s but Mr Barki recognised it immediately, even though he had only seen a faded black and white photo dating from a 1928 exhibition archived in the National Gallery."
Meme - *Wallet full of money on ground*
"As a child of god, what's your next move?"
"To thank him."
Meme - "FINALLY! I FINISHED THE GAME! TIME TO GET BACK TO MY LIFE! WAIT... I DON'T HAVE A LIFE... *returns to game*"
Meme - Man in other toilet cubicle: "HI. HOW ARE you?"
Man in cubicle: "I'm doing ok I guess"
Man in other toilet cubicle: "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
Man in cubicle: "JUST TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS."
Man in other toilet cubicle: "Can I come over?"
Man in cubicle: "No. I'm busy right now"
Man in other toilet cubicle: "Hey listen. I need to call you BACK. SOME IDIOT IN THE OTHER STALL KEEPS ANSWERING ALL MY QUESTIONS"
Meme - Eva: "Mispellings
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2018
A little disappointed and I am only in Chapter 2. Words misspelled, like storey should be (story), odour (odor), realise (realize), recognised (recognized) & memorise (memorized). How unfortunate that these were overlooked. I get discouraged when I read a book that has so many misspelled words. I'm sure I will find more and that makes me not want to read this book.
2 people found this helpful"
Plus misspellings is misspelled
Meme - Officer Frenly: "i just want a mid girl just like this who'll do cute stuff to show me she loves me while we're out to brunch *Kelly Baltazar/Kelly Wang/Mayli*"
The Little Mermaid: Why are films becoming so badly-lit and difficult to see? - "So why are so many filmmakers keeping the lights low? The simple answer is: because they can. It's been a decade since digital video overtook the use of celluloid, and by 2016 more than 90% of films were shot digitally. One change wrought by this technology is that directors now have video monitors on set to show them exactly what the cameras are capturing. They can see immediately whether all of the details they need are there on screen, so they can experiment with lower lighting. With celluloid, there is no equivalent way to check in real time whether or not a scene is too shadowy, so "the safest bet is to shoot with plenty of light, even if scenes are meant to be dark"... But why should they want their work to look as if it was shot during a solar eclipse? One reason is that, for the past decade, Hollywood has been dominated by science-fiction and fantasy – genres that are often associated with big, bold colours and campy fun. Directors have reacted against that stereotype by making their own blockbusters grimmer and grittier in tone, with a 50-shades-of-grey aesthetic to match. Similarly, directors are distinguishing their live-action Disney films from the studio's classic cartoons by giving them more naturalistic lighting. They want us to know that, even if they're telling stories about flying children and singing crabs, they're telling serious, mature stories about flying children and singing crabs."
Why Vietnam doesn't want to claim Ke Huy Quan - "He is the first person of Vietnamese origin to win an Oscar, and one of two nominated this year - the other was Hong Chau in The Whale, whose family also fled from Vietnam on a boat. Yet in Vietnam the official reaction has been subdued. Reports in the media, which is nearly all state-controlled, have said little about Ke Huy Quan or his background. Some have stressed the actor's ethnic Chinese ancestry, rather than his Vietnamese origins. He was born in the southern Vietnamese capital Saigon in 1971, his family part of a commercially successful ethnic Chinese minority, of the kind seen in many South East Asian cities. None mentioned his flight from Vietnam as a refugee, in the mass exodus of the so-called "boat people"... The exodus of the boat people in the 1970s and 80s was one of the darkest episodes in Vietnam's recent history. More than 1.5 million people left, most of them ethnic Chinese, on often rickety boats across the South China Sea... The tragic flight of the boat people is also a reminder of Vietnam's fraught relationship with its giant neighbour China... by the time of the North Vietnamese victory in April 1975, and the reunification of the country, relations were increasingly strained. This happened as Vietnam's communist leadership sided with the Soviet Union over the Sino-Soviet split and the Chinese rapprochement with the US. The large ethnic Chinese population, mainly in Cho Lon, including Ke Huy Quan's family, were caught up in this. They were already under pressure from the victorious communists as the main capitalist group in South Vietnam, suspected of allegiance to the defeated regime. Many were sent to re-education camps... resentment at China's aggressive policies over disputed islands in the South China Sea, and its growing economic clout, fuels powerful anti-Chinese sentiment in the population. "He [Ke Huy Quan] is not of Vietnamese descent, he is just Chinese-Vietnamese and was born in Vietnam. We have to make that clear," wrote one person on the BBC Vietnamese Facebook page. "They should write very clearly that he is Chinese-American, that he used to have Vietnamese nationality! I cannot not see any "Vietnamese origin" here?" wrote another."
Great apes deliberately spin to become dizzy, say researchers - "Great apes deliberately spin themselves around to make themselves dizzy, researchers have said. The behaviour could provide clues as to why humans had evolved the desire to seek altered mental states... "There could be a link to mental health here, as the primates we observed engaging in this behaviour were mostly captive individuals, who may be bored and trying to stimulate their senses in some way," Dr Lameira said, adding it could also be a "play behaviour". "
Turkey wants to be called Türkiye in rebranding move - "Turkey will be known as Türkiye at the United Nations from now on, after it agreed to a formal request from Ankara... Most Turks already know their country as Türkiye. However the anglicised form Turkey is widely used, even within the country. State broadcaster TRT was quick to make the change as soon as it was announced last year, explaining that among the reasons for the image rebrand was the association with the bird traditionally associated with Christmas, New Year or Thanksgiving. It also pointed out the Cambridge English Dictionary's definition of one of the meanings of the word as "something that fails badly" or "a stupid or silly person"... The move has been met with a mixed reaction online. While government officials support it, others say it is an ineffective distraction as the president gears up for elections next year, amid an economic crisis. It is not uncommon for countries to change their names. In 2020, The Netherlands dropped Holland in a rebranding move. And before that, Macedonia changed its name to North Macedonia due to a political dispute with Greece, and Swaziland became Eswatini in 2018. Further back in history, Iran used to be called Persia, Siam is now Thailand, and Rhodesia was changed to Zimbabwe... Turkey the bird is called by a different name in many languages, such as "peru" in Portuguese, while in Turkish it is "hindi"."
US man puts phone on drone to send rescue message - "When a US motorist got stuck in the snow on a remote road in Oregon, he used sky-high thinking to save himself. After realising he was without mobile phone reception, he typed a text message to a trusted person showing his exact location, attached the phone to a drone and launched it several hundred feet into the air. The airborne phone sent his message for help once it found signal... After his vehicle got stuck, he realised there was no cell phone reception - making matters worse "his family was out of the country and nobody knew where he had gone"... "Regardless of the circumstances leading to his situation, once stranded this person made several smart decisions," Lane County Sheriff Search and Rescue said in a statement. First, he stayed in his car. "Rarely does anyone in Oregon die from exposure waiting in their vehicle to be found and rescued," the statement said. "But we have unfortunately seen many poor outcomes from those who chose to walk away." After attaching his phone to a drone, "the increased elevation allowed his phone to connect to a tower" and send his message for help. His ingenuity allowed for rescue teams to deploy and assist him out of the situation. While teams were rescuing the man, they also rescued another motorist who had been stranded for several days in the snow... they said most rescue missions they have conducted this winter involved bigger vehicles, whose owners told rescuers they did not think they would get stuck. The search and rescue team suggested: "Instead of asking yourself whether you think you can get through a section of road, ask yourself 'what will happen if I do get stuck?'""
Meme - "Don't read, peasant! Listen to priests instead!" *Liberal upset*
Forbes: "You Must Not Do Your Own Research When Comes To Science. Research is for the experts. Listen to them instead." *Liberal excited*
Zip Line Into the Mouth of Godzilla at This Japanese Theme Park - "Critics have said that the attraction’s stature doesn’t quite measure up to what a real Godzilla would be. In last year’s “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” movie, Godzilla was almost 400 feet long. But at Nijigen no Mori Park, Godzilla appears with half his body buried beneath the ground."
This professor argued human extinction might be ‘a good thing.’ Now he doesn’t want to talk about it. - "a professor of philosophy at Clemson University argued in a New York Times op-ed that it wouldn’t be so bad without people on the planet violently oppressing animals and destroying the climate. It was an opinion that prompted a national conversation and a wave of critiques. But Professor Todd May now refuses to discuss whether he has any regrets about his controversial opinion, or if he stands behind it... May wrote that a world void of human life “might just be a good thing.” In his controversial op-ed, May pondered whether human extinction constitutes as tragic. Perhaps for the humans, he argued, but that’s maybe it... what egregious crime has mankind committed to deserve world-wide “elimination”? According to May, humans are destroying massive quantities of the earth, making it less inhabitable for “suffering” animals to occupy. Without describing how, the professor makes the case that humans contribute to climate change through destroying the ecosystem, overpopulation, contaminating the balance of the ecosystem, and factory farming breeding generations of animals that experience only suffering and misery in the short time before being butchered. “Humanity, then, is the source of devastation of the lives of conscious animals on a scale that is difficult to comprehend,” May argued. While predatory animals often devour their prey in ruthless ways, May argues that we as humans are far more barbaric and brutal toward animals, whom he refers to as “our fellow creatures.”"
Another good example of the misanthropy of environmentalism
Meme - "This nigga so black they had to change his background white"
超越次元的Battle！孙悟空VS超人：谁能笑到最后！ - YouTube
Monkey King (Sun Wukong) vs DC/Marvel characters comedy skit (with subtitles)
Dishwashing lady in Sichuan, China goes home in Bentley, says she washes dishes 'as it's very boring at home' - "It was revealed that the person driving the Bentley was actually the woman's daughter. According to Oriental Daily, the woman's daughter could not stop her mother from carrying out her wishes to "experience life", but she supported her mother by diligently sending her to and picking her up from the restaurant everyday. Many commenters applauded the woman for her diligent spirit, and wished her good health to keep on working and doing what she loves. Others shared similar stories of well-to-do family members working despite having enough money to live comfortably, as they felt unnatural not working and sitting at home all day."
Damn broken system, forcing poor elderly people to work! She should collect cardboard instead. The commenters are all brainwashed
Michigan woman charged with caring for wildlife without permit, animals killed by state officials - "Kei Ju Farm, known in the community for its work rehabilitating wild animals, was a refuge to goats, chickens, alpacas, donkeys, horses and other wild animals"
Better to kill animals than let them be cared for by someone without a permit
The Rise and Fall of the LRT - YouTube
Too bad he repeats the myth of induced demand, and doesn't consider that driving isn't very popular in Amsterdam because of parking costs
I GOT A NEW TRUCK!! (AND A MILLION SUBSCRIBERS!) - YouTube
So much of the usual FUD from the anti-car crowd (Not Just Bikes is not the only one doing this). Usually I find pickup takes longer than drivethru. If you live in an apartment building, you have even more rules than if there's a HOA (and not all neighbourhoods have HOAs) and there's going to be even more noise than someone's leafblower. If you can't tell houses apart, how do you tell apartment units apart? You don't need shelter from the sun except maybe 3 weeks a year. If you live in downtown Toronto the zoo is also not nearby and in that neighbourhood, it's not 25 minutes' drive to the grocery store
It's no coincidence that the only people who propagate the myth of induced demand hate cars
Future Crunch - Good News - "Every week, we publish good news from around the world, and send it to over 48,000 subscribers from 180 countries. This is a regularly updated list of all those stories in one place"
Michigan mom Kendra Licari facing felony charges, accused of catfishing and harassing daughter pretending to be classmate - "A Michigan woman is facing felony charges after being accused of catfishing and harassing her own daughter for months. Authorities allege Kendra Licari secretly sent her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend thousands of hateful messages."
Family raises 'dog' for 2 years, then realizes it's a bear - "A family in a remote part of China adopted what it thought was a puppy, only to discover two years later that it was actually a bear. Su Yun, who lives in a village outside the city of Kunming in Yunnan Province, bought what she was led to believe was a Tibetan mastiff puppy while on vacation back in 2016... The owner’s growing suspicion about her pet’s true nature did not sit well with her because she admitted that she is “a little scared of bears.” Su reached out to the authorities, who quickly identified her supposed dog as an Asiatic black bear, which is classified as a vulnerable species."
Meme - Bill Alcock: "And you ask why we can never find anyone to work. This is a legit application that was turned in yesterday. I swear this is real too"
"College: No I cook no need for college
Subjects of special study or research work: weed, acid and mushrooms
Special training: Work well under the influence
Special skills: I can drink alot of vodka
Former Employers: this doesn't matter you need a cook call me"
Meme - "HOW TO READ INTO THE BIBLE
If I like how it sounds, it's literal
If I don't like it. it's out of context
If it's horrible (mass murder, rape, incest, extreme violence, slavery)... Dog allowed it and you're no one to argue
If it contradicts facts, knowledge or reason... It's a metaphor
If there are contradictory verses, it's a translation error
If laws or commands are plain absurd... White jesus abolished it"
Meme - "When you can't help her anymore but you still love her. *mouse having sex with other mouse in mousetrap*"
Harry Potter fan 'disgusted and appalled' by Wiltshire performance - " Victoria Flint and her boyfriend attended Spontaneous Potter at Salisbury Arts Centre on Saturday, May 13, to celebrate her 42nd birthday. Both had purchased new cloaks and wands for the event, but were unpleasantly surprised as soon as the performance began. Victoria said: “The first thing that the main character said when opening the show was, "I have never watched a single Harry Potter film or read a single Harry Potter book". The audience then reportedly gasped, to which he replied, ‘and you can suck my balls!’” On The Spontaneous Players’ website, Spontaneous Potter is described as “an entirely improvised wizarding comedy play, based on an audience suggestion of a fanfiction title.” In the official poster, members of the troupe can be seen wearing cloaks resembling those worn by the different houses represented at the fictional Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter universe, along with a stone statue of a serpent resembling that seen in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and an indistinct castle on a hill in the background. Victoria said: “It’s not really what I paid £20 each for a ticket for, not what I think many people around me really thought that they paid for. We decided to leave early, it wasn’t anything to do with Harry Potter. "It was just a group of four people that were doing some improvised comedy, and it had no bearing on Harry Potter.”"