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It is uncommon for Beijing to arrest a US citizen on national security allegations, and the case comes just a month after Donald Trump met the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, in Beijing as the two countries aim to reset their tumultuous relationship.

It’s also a month after a mayor in California was charged with “acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China.”.

It’s crazy that they mention a Trump trip and not an extremely similar thing that happened in the same month.

Konnan is diabetic. It’s not horribly uncommon for older diabetic people who are struggling to require amputation.

Buff Bagwell was in a car accident in 2020 while under the influence of drugs. It injured his kneecap so badly that he’s had several surgeries to try and get it fixed. So he finally had it amputated (according to the linked article).

Marty Jannetty had sepsis in his foot for three years, and the doctors said amputating it might help. Not sure what caused the sepsis, but it seems like a leap to me that he’d be injecting anything into his one foot.

Kerry Von Erich famously wrestled with a false leg for years without telling anyone. He injured his foot in a motorcycle accident (probably while under the influence of drugs) and then re-injured it by trying to wrestle on it too early. So they had to remove it.

So no, in these cases there isn’t any correlation between injecting things and leg amputation.

That’s genius, and I appreciated the hint.

“Lucha Libro” is also really clever, since “libro” is book.

Of course! And you can’t forget the classic casino or arcade games.

There’s a coin-pusher roguelike and a claw game roguelike as well.

I can personally remember seeing “Gonads and Strife” in 2001, and “Winnie the Pooh: Satan Worship” in 2000!

Just to add to the list of ancient internet videos.

I don’t think I really get this one. The Disqus link provided some clues (new-age songs talking about turning and circles?) but I didn’t realize circles were a trope of the 60s.

This guy’s so crazy he holds the peeler by the blade!

The bad news is that the article says

One of the best ways to prevent FROST attacks is to close tabs as soon as they’re no longer needed

Leaving the tabs open just gives them more opportunities to track you.

A hand-cranked device for beating eggs.

Like an old hand mixer.

I think it’s the implication that what they’re eating is literally just ground up whatever they could find.

So he’s just throwing everything in a vat and eggbeating it, including entire frogs.

There’s also possibly another joke where if you’re beating potatoes for mashed potatoes, you might apologize for a lump in a similar way. “Egg beater must have missed it!” But in this case it’s an entire frog.

small enough to fit in the palm of your hand

In case any one else’s first question was “how tiny?”

I’m pretty sure I remember the scene too, actually! That’s probably why I’m so adamant that the original poster is confused or bending the truth for dramatic purposes.

I think most people from the U.S. would understand the context like I did… because Watson reacts to the gun being in the desk.

If I’m remembering it correctly, Watson pauses or something when he sees a gun in the drawer. At the time I wasn’t exactly sure what kind of show it was going to be, or what the context of the gun might be. But him pausing gave me information! It’s a TV show made when they provided information visually instead of also saying it out loud.

Even if someone wasn’t thinking about the laws or culture of the country the media was made, the context needed to understand is provided right in the episode.

But it’s more fun for OP to spin that up into “People from the U.S. are so used to guns…”

Nope!

But the “desk gun” has been a trope in fiction for at least 40 years, which I think is what the original poster is confusing with reality. It’s ironic given their talk of “media literacy.”

What they seem to mean is that Hollywood movies and U.S. TV series use guns in different ways, and it became clear to them when they saw Sherlock.

I’m actually not sure if they consciously know the difference, because a significant number of people take media as a representative shorthand for reality and it’s not.

The first photo of people on the page is the hottest, fittest people they could find.

Not really the best sign at all! That’s what cults do.

An example in person was Children of God’s “flirty fishing.” Scientology does this too, which is a reason they keep their most famous members close. Tom Cruise is an amazing advertisement for the cult.

If the first people you see are half-naked models, run.

Edit to add that it’s remarkably foolish to say “it’s not a cult.” As Zombie said it’s literally what all cults say.

Even the most notorious cults obviously didn’t start as cults. I’m pretty sure the People’s Temple said “it’s not a cult” all the way up to the “white night” mass murder/suicide.

Note that the About page of this one talks about how the two founders spent their entire life savings to do this.

That’s a nascent cult! “It’s not a cult” isn’t cute, it’s alarming.

Ah, an aspiring cult member

Oh boy, a whole thousand people!

Meta had nearly 78,000 employees in March 2026 according to Wikipedia. It’s gone down a bit since then, but not enough for 1,000 to make a dent.

There is nothing sadder than that many soulless people still working for Meta. It’s so telling.

Now 1.28% of you care? Stop the presses!

The richness of colors are lost in this version, which is understandable.

The Art Institute of Chicago’s digital version is significantly more rich and that makes the painting better, in my opinion.

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/229378/stamford-after-brunch

I would be interested in knowing if it was as rich in person or if it has faded, or was over-saturated in the Art Institute’s version, or something.

ya’ll are brainless morons merely voting down that which you understand.

Say again?

Scratch is a visual programming language that is intended to be easy to learn for younger people.

You can read more about the language on Wikipedia here and you can play around with the language here.

Trump literally appointed Louis DeJoy in his last term to intentionally begin destroying the USPS. They kept talking about it “not being profitable,” as if a government service always needs to make a profit.

DeJoy eliminated overtime and decommissioned hundreds of high-speed sorting machines prior to the surge in mail-in voting in 2020.

It’s been blatant for six years now.