Lots of international manufacturers skip model numbers 4 and 9 because of Asian superstitions. Silly, yes, but they affect sales and even birth rates.

At least in Japanese, 4 sounds like “death” and 9 sounds like “suffering”.

So relatable, amiright fellow kids?

TIL how to make explosives.

I did skim a bunch of articles first, all with the same info, but they were too long-winded or paywalled to link to. This summary seemed just right…

From Google AI:

In 1990, the year the film was released, the actual house from Home Alone was purchased for $875,000. Economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago have determined that, at that price, the home was only affordable to the top 1% of Chicago households at the time.

To afford the house in 1990 (assuming they spent no more than 30% of their income on housing), the McCallister family would have needed a household income of about $305,000, which is approximately $665,000 in 2022 dollars.

The house last sold in 2012 for $1.58 million and again in early 2025 for $5.5 million.

Frighten? Faze? Ftraumatize?

Unpopular opinion, but the judge was right. There would be zero benefit to society to reward this absolute cybersquatter. There’s an almost zero benefit to reward a corporation. Both bad, but the corporation should get it in this case.

This makes no sense. Salads really do have nuts sometimes, whilst I’ve never heard of bees having steak.

The correction helped me realize what you meant though.

He meant “lost it” as in outran a pursuer? (I thought lost it as in “the thing is broken” at first).

…when the Tate brothers arrived by private plane in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, they immediately found themselves in the crosshairs of law enforcement once more, as Customs and Border Protection officials seized their electronic devices.

This time, they had a powerful ally come to their aid. Behind the scenes, the White House intervened on their behalf.

Interviews and records reviewed by ProPublica show a White House official told senior Department of Homeland Security officials to return the devices to the brothers several days after they were seized. The official who delivered the message, Paul Ingrassia, is a lawyer who previously represented the Tate brothers before joining the White House, where he was working as its DHS liaison.

In his written request, a copy of which was reviewed by ProPublica, Ingrassia chided authorities for taking the action, saying the seizure of the Tates’ devices was not a good use of time or resources. The request to return the electronics to the Tates, he emphasized, was coming from the White House.>>>>

I see… TIL, thanks.

You mean because Twitter is an SMS-based messaging app?.. The character limits are arbitrary, not a technical limitation. Which is why they doubled them at one point, I believe.

The limits were meant to act as a micro-blogging enforcement measure, for micro attention spans.

TIL about the Ronna and Quetta prefixes.

Sorcery…

Tragically, I think they only aim to be “do it somewhere else” nets. Because they introduce the threat of getting caught or partially caught and having to live with the embarrassment or wounds, respectively.

Sorry, there were limited places available, you’re not on the list. Better luck next universe.

EDIT: listen people, please stop writing us. If you have to ask whether you’re on the list, you’re not on it.

That is fun. TIL.

This actually ties together a lot of his actions in the past while. This is what’s on his mind.

Water does clump up overnight in some places, but you’d need to set the WD-40 on fire for it to make a difference.