The “introductory launch pricing” at which those lucky Insiders are getting an early look is as follows: 10 hours for $3.99, 25 hours for $7.99 and 50 hours for $11.99.

Brother, you have effectively reinvented the arcade.

This research is still observational, meaning it can only demonstrate a correlation between cannabis legalization and rising hospital visits from cardiovascular disease, not a clear cause-and-effect relationship. The data used in the study also isn’t specific enough to compare individual states to one another.

Have you ever eaten a 100mg edible? I could see that causing a heart attack out of pure fear and paranoia if you don’t know what you’re getting yourself into. I’ve also made my own scientific observation on the correlation between cannabis use and the likelihood that my caloric intake at a McDonalds or Burger King will surpass five figures, through a proprietary blend of grease and dietary carcinogens.

The Texas Republican and other MAGA folk are taught supposed self-defense techniques, including wearing a protective plastic buttock. He also teaches them how to fire bullets from the middle of these buttocks by stroking a rubber penis.

Lmao that’s just… a typical Tuesday for these guys I guess. Pretty tough prank to spot, honestly. I bet it totally looked like a legit wiener butt gun someone might use to help secure the border.

Sounds like they need to switch to the off-brand Windex for those glass skyscrapers.

Like about 157 million Americans, Babbitt gets insurance through his job. Unlike most Americans, his job has exceptionally generous benefits. “Our owners are very nice — they give all of our employees health care and they pay for it,” he says. The company offers several different plan options and covers most or all of the monthly premium cost.

I didn’t know this was even a thing. You always hear about “benefits” as if you’re privileged to be able to spend as much as rent every month on a health insurance plan with a $5000 deductible that mostly covers preventative medical care.

…and yet healthcare is still too goddamn expensive even if your employer pays your monthly premiums.

We need to completely move on from the idea that we should control how our information is presented. We need to stop trying to control the fonts and the colours. We need to stop thinking of our information as pixelated print documents. We need to stop even expecting our words to be represented faithfully in the order we placed them.

It has its limitations, but I think Markdown is already a pretty good example of WYGIWYM.

Tl;dr someone used AI to reverse engineer and recreate open source alternatives to Adobe’s suite of software, written in Rust. It raises an important question: can’t everyone just build their own version of expensive software and make it FOSS now?

It’s interesting that the angle here is whether or not proprietary software is over.

I was just reading a post about how Linus Torvalds is embracing AI-assisted kernel development, and the author of that post was arguing that open source software is actually in danger.

But if this can be done with closed programs like Photoshop, what’s to stop anyone with a little ambition and a coding agent from doing it with every closed system?

However much attention the Pluto Lamps attracted as a novelty, this was still the infancy of the modern vending machine, whose deficiencies had yet to be fully worked out. It proved impossible, at the time, to defeat the enterprising scoundrels who used round pieces of tin in place of genuine currency, and in any case, maintenance costs seem to have proven unexpectedly high. (To say nothing of the prospect of drinking out of an enamel cup on a chain, shared with the entire public, which surely put off even some Victorians.)

Don’t get your knickers in a twist… everyone will get their turn at the communal cup of Fluid Beef.

Orientation time. Watch this video from three years ago. It’ll autoplay, with no visible pause button and a scrubber that doesn’t respond. The video only lasts ninety-four seconds. But know that it’ll reload at least twice.

The ad, which The Hill reports is part of a larger buy worth over $1 million per The Hill, begins with a young girl entering a bathroom and to her horror, encountering an older white-haired man sitting in the stall waiting for her. He greets her with a short hello. Immediately, the girl presses the man for answers, “What are you doing? Who are you?”

It ends with him saying, with the creepiest goddamn smirk on his face, “Now let’s make sure you’re really a girl."

Honestly? Spot on. Most republicans currently in office, or running for office, are proud members of the Epstein class. This is the most accurate portrayal I’ve ever seen in a political ad.