Conrad Ohashi (he/him)
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It’s also a meme. Article not complete without pointing out that “Himmel would have done so” are the magic words that can get children to finish their homework.
Man Stops Knife Attack Because His Anime Hero 'Would've Done the Same Thing' - IGN
A Taiwanese man helped stop a knife attack on the Taichung metro because his anime hero, Himmel from Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, "would've done the same."
search.appIf you can’t tip, you can’t afford it.
Consumers say they're pulling back on tipping servers, drivers and hair stylists
Higher sticker prices have made some people stingier in recent years, a new Bankrate survey finds. “They’re no longer appreciating service industry workers as much.”
www.nbcnews.comPartly why I think it’s wise advice to not give SSNs to medical or dental practices. Particularly to small ones.
Debt Collector Data Breach Exposes Data on 3 Million+ Americans
Names, birth dates, Social Security numbers, and medical records of millions of Americans are at risk after an unknown entity accesses debt collector FBCS's internal systems.
www.pcmag.comI used to think, “Consider the platypus.” Now, I’m going to think, “Consider the northern snakehead fish.”
Invasive fish with the head of a snake that can slither across land discovered in Missouri – again
The fish are known to be "exceptionally slimy" and can live out of water for days at a time.
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Taiwan: local person who suppressed a Jack the Ripper incident in a subway car reveals in an interview their motive to do so: ヒンメルならそうした “The Hero Himmel would have done so.”
Queue up the Evan Call soundtrack. 🫡🗡️❤️🔥
「ヒンメルならそうした」 台湾で通り魔取り押さえた勇者のインタビューのコメントが話題 『葬送のフリーレン』公式も「勇者ヒンメルならそうした時」の画像を投稿
台湾の地下鉄車内で男が刃物を振り回し、居合わせた乗客に取り押さえられる事件が起きました。勇者となった乗客が、インタビューで日本の人気漫画のセリフを語ったことが話題になっています。男を取り押さえた乗客は、メディアの取材に「ヒンメルならそうした」とコメント。漫画『葬送のフリーレン』…
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“Those involved in the publishing of the article said they heard from a small group of students over the weekend who expressed concerns about threats to their careers and safety if it were to be published.”
The mad lads djd it anyways.
After publishing an article critical of Israel, Columbia Law Review's website is shut down by board
A student-run legal journal has been taken offline by its board of directors after it objected to the publication of an article that accused Israel of genocide.
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“She already had one poor debate to kick things off, and while she has Trump’s endorsement, it doesn’t seem to have helped her, even after she showed up at his hush-money trial.”
Money to Trump doesn’t suggest there’s a noticeable increase of good will toward down ballot candidates.
Lauren Boebert Missing From Debate as Rivals Take Turns Roasting Her
The Colorado representative was missing from a key debate as questions about “Beetlejuice” have been hounding her on the campaign trail.
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The thing about “upside down flags” is, I remember a time when conservatives would try to one-up liberals by calling them “the flag-burning, flag disrespecting left.”
It was sacrilege to make political statement using the flag of the ol’ USA. Turns out that was BS.
MAGA Faithful Protest Trump Verdict with Upside-Down Flags & Lauren Boebert Confronted During Debate
Vice President Kamala Harris joins us on the show, Joe Biden got a shoutout from Trump that was actually nice, turning the flag upside down has become a symbol of solidarity with Trump and he has already found a way to make money off of it, the son of Representative John Rose of Tennessee made quite an impression during his dad’s speech on the House floor, North Korea has been sending South Korea bags full of garbage, we got to meet the lively cast of characters challenging Lauren Boebert in Colorado, and since Americans don’t know very much, we went out onto Hollywood Blvd to administer the first ever VP S.A.T. SUBSCRIBE to get the latest #Kimmel: http://bit.ly/JKLSubscribe Follow Jimmy Kimmel on Instagram: https://bit.ly/KimmelInstagram Follow Jimmy Kimmel Live on Instagram: http://bit.ly/JKLInstagram Follow Jimmy Kimmel Live on TikTok: https://bit.ly/JKLTikTok Like Jimmy Kimmel on Facebook: http://bit.ly/KimmelFB Like Jimmy Kimmel Live on Facebook: http://bit.ly/JKLFacebook Visit the Jimmy Kimmel Live Website : http://bit.ly/JKLWebsite About Jimmy Kimmel Live: Jimmy Kimmel serves as host and executive producer of Emmy® nominated “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” ABC’s late-night talk show. “Jimmy Kimmel Live” is well known for its viral video successes, with over 16 billion views and more than 19 million subscribers on the show’s YouTube channel. Some of Kimmel’s most popular comedy bits include Celebrities Read Mean Tweets, Lie Witness News, Halloween Candy YouTube Challenge, Jimmy and Cousin Sal pranking Aunt Chippy and music stars like Rihanna and Dua Lipa surprising Jimmy in the middle of the night.
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“It ran from 1968 until 2000 between Dover in the UK and Calais in France, making the 27-mile trip in roughly 35 minutes.”
Is that incredibly fast? Ugh, I wish the article had comparisons.
Largest Passenger Hovercraft Ever Built Drank Fuel At 1,000 Gallons An Hour
For more than 30 years, this monster hovercraft ferried passengers from Britain to France in just 35 minutes.
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“The ultra-wealthy will often take whole fleets of cars with them when they travel, loading vehicles, along with motorbikes and other toys, onto chartered cargo aircraft that follow their private jets.”
Holy shit.
How the super rich ship their cars | CNN
Forget rental cars, the 1% cart their vehicles around the world with them. This is how.
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“New Jersey dealt Trump an unexpected defeat when Republican voters nominated real estate developer Curtis Bashaw over Trump-backed candidate and Mendham Borough Mayor Christine Serrano Glassner in the New Jersey GOP Senate primary.”
—No convicted felon bump.
Trump takes a hit in New Jersey: 5 takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries
A number of states held primaries for races up and down the ballot Tuesday, with President Biden and former President Trump inching ever closer to their respective nominations and a couple of notab…
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“The unit I tested has a 2880-by-1800 OLED display, supporting up to 400 nits and 120Hz, in the now standard 16:10 ratio.”
400 nits is a no go.
Living With the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 12: The Lightest 14-Inch Laptop Yet
Exceptionally light with strong performance, the latest generation of the venerable X1 Carbon features an updated look and Intel Core Ultra processors.
search.appI remember Gizmodo being banned from CES and blacklisted from Apple events for stealing a prototype iPhone 4. Not sure if they ever recovered from that.
Gizmodo, famed gadget blog, sold to French media company
Gizmodo was the original great gadget blog of the 2000s and a top revenue-generator for Gawker, unlike Gawker itself, which was... not.
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“This love affair that our governor and our state legislature have with criminals is based on the belief that criminals are not responsible for their own actions…[so] I think it’s time we put a felon in the White House,” Bianco said.
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‘It’s time we put a felon in the White House,’ California sheriff says
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco says he is tired of legislators and elected officials not caring about the rule of law. That’s why he says he’s endorsing former President Donald Tr…
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“Still, I’m holding out hope that the X Elite chip will lay the groundwork for a future where dedicated graphics cards are no longer needed.”
No sarcasm. My life would be better with their optimism.
I saw a Snapdragon X Elite laptop run Baldur’s Gate in 4K, yet Qualcomm insists it’s 'not a gaming laptop'
All work and no play makes Snapdragon a dull chip
search.appImmigration judges are not true judges. They’re DOJ employees. Cases can be settled administratively by DHS attorneys but they refuse to do so.
The $56 billion dollar pay out CEO.
"The move to divert AI chips from Tesla to X could rankle Tesla investors, who are betting on Musk delivering his promise of fully autonomous vehicles."
Elon Musk reportedly diverted thousands of AI chips from Tesla to X
The diversion could delay Tesla’s development of a robotaxi.
www.theverge.comLook at all these high end iPhones (two). I wonder what the iPhone usage rate is for journalists.
Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter pleads guilty to gambling-related theft charges
Ippei Mizuhara admitted guilt to bank fraud for surreptitiously taking nearly $17 million from the baseball super star's bank account to pay off wagering debts.
www.nbcnews.comWatts.
Qualcomm's CEO on AI performance in laptops: 'People talk about TOPS but they should be talking watts'
NPUs in processors are all well and good, but not if they make them power-hungry.
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I wasn't born to cast magic; I was born to cast these hands.
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Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's new martial arts moveset let me spin kick a boss so fast it felt like I was in Sekiro
The new martial arts weapon and throwing dagger push the pace of combat closer to Sekiro.
search.app“Giving money to the Trump campaign directly or indirectly” was, unexpectedly, not on the list.
3 Unexpected Ways Boomers Are Losing Their Retirement Savings
The last and largest group of baby boomers are getting ready to exit the workforce. Born from 1959 to 1964, the 30.4 million "peak boomers" are rolling into their retirement years shortly, but...
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President Biden, asked whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was prolonging the war in Gaza in an effort to hold on to office, said that he believes “there is every reason for people to draw that conclusion,” —
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Biden Suggests Netanyahu Is Prolonging War to Stay in Power
Asked if the Israeli prime minister was prolonging the war in Gaza to hold on to office, the president said that he believes “there is every reason for people to draw that conclusion,” echoing somethi...
www.nytimes.comWhat’s the point to these giant corporations keeping on retainer Harvard law first year associates making $300,000+ with bonus, if they don’t reach out and ask, “is this a good idea?”
Did Home Depot staff bolt planters to an L.A. street to deter RV parking? The city is investigating
The planters appear to be bolted to the city streets in Playa Vista behind a Home Depot in an area popular with people who live in their vehicles.
www.latimes.comMm I wonder if it’s also due to publishers not doing enough to rein in legacy game directors who are out of touch with TikTok and YouTube Shorts. Kingdom Hearts 3 was a disaster. FF7:Rebirth was middling. These games just don’t need to be as large as they are.
You can’t make AAA games for just one platform anymore
Nintendo is the exception, as usual... but for how long?
search.appMm I do kind want to play P5 Strikers.
Nintendo wasn't so sure about The Legend of Zelda's hack-and-slash spin-off being "good" at first, worrying that it could "drop" the revered RPG series' "pristine image"
Hyrule Warriors "sold great and got sequels" in the end
search.appI don’t think a television show can translate what makes Yakuza great. Like, if you can’t sink your time into a bass fishing game or Sonic The Fighters, is that really Yakuza?
Amazon Prime's 'Yakuza' adaptation launches October 25
Amazon announced that the Yakuza game franchise is getting a television show.
search.appJust remembering that awkward one scene in Iron Man of RDJ and Musk greeting each other.
'Planet of the Apes' actor studied Elon Musk to play bonobo villain
'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' star Kevin Durand says that he studied Tesla CEO Elon Musk when preparing to play the villainous bonobo Proximus Caesar in the new sci-fi adventure.
ew.comTrump’s many legal teams sends their regards.
Trump and R.N.C. Announce $141 Million Haul in May
The total, which was fueled in part by his criminal conviction and cannot be confirmed until filings this month, is likely to help Donald Trump close the cash gap with President Biden.
www.nytimes.comLOL
During Impassioned Defense of Trump, Congressman’s 6-Year-Old Steals the Spotlight
As Representative John Rose castigated the former president’s criminal conviction, his young son locked in with the C-SPAN cameras, making a series of contorted faces in a moment that circulated widel...
www.nytimes.comSo proud of this bioterror big boi.
‘Godzilla Minus One’ Makes History Again as #1 at the Same Time on Netflix and iTunes
The surprise home release of 'Godzilla Minus One' the first weekend of June was a success — but not without a few oddities.
www.indiewire.com[The finders] told the outlet that they reported their find to the New York Police Department, and were pleasantly surprised when they were told they could keep their discovery.
A couple found $100,000 in a safe while 'magnet fishing' in NYC. Police said they could keep it.
A couple found $100,000 in a safe while magnet fishing in Queens, New York. After reporting it to the NYPD, they were allowed to keep the money.
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“We really hope this technology can help reduce the emotional cost of having humans sift through hate speech manually,” said Liam Hebert, a Waterloo computer science PhD student and the first author of the study.
-Yeah, I don't really mind an opt-in filter and auto-block function.
AI saving humans from the emotional toll of monitoring hate speech |
A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a new machine-learning method that detects hate speech on social media platforms with 88 per cent accuracy, saving employees from
uwaterloo.caWhat's the point to guidelines and rules if there's no one there to enforce them?
It’s not because the approaches haven’t shown potential, researchers say, but because there hasn’t been enough funding or financial investment to complete expensive advanced human trials.
— boomers.
Male birth control gel is safe and effective, new trial findings show
After decades of attempts to develop new birth control medications for men, scientists are more hopeful than ever. With new abortion restrictions, demand is growing, experts say.
apple.news“Sometimes, you need to kidnap the driver,” Mr. Kumar, a salesman, said with a smile, “or you will see your children dying of thirst in this killing heat.”
In Delhi’s Parched Slums, Life Hangs on a Hose and a Prayer
A heat wave has left water in short supply across India’s capital region. The poorest are left to crowd around tankers to get whatever they can.
www.nytimes.comA juror was dismissed Monday after reporting that a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 in cash at her home and offered her more money if she would vote to acquit if she would vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children…
Fraud trial juror reports getting bag of $120,000 and promise of more if she'll acquit
A juror was dismissed Monday after reporting that a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 in cash at her home and offered her more money if she would vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more t...
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He also said the "dramatic rise of antisemitism has led me to focus on the consequences of the upcoming election with greater urgency"
—so I plan on giving millions of dollars to the most powerful neo-Nazi sympathizer in American politics
The billionaires rallying behind Trump after his conviction - BBC News
The Trump campaign has seen upticks in fundraising during pivotal moments of his legal battles.
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“A Radical Left Soros backed D.A., who ran on a platform of ‘I will get Trump,’
—Toby: She meant “Jewish.” When she said “New York sense of humor.” She was talking about you and me.
Trump Begs Supreme Court for Help as He Awaits Criminal Sentencing
The former president is set to be sentenced four days before the start of the Republican National Convention.
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“Unfortunately, the world's not just hugs and kisses everywhere. There're people that really want to do harm. And we need strong leadership,” he says. “I'm scared for the future. So, 2024 is a big year. And that's why I'm invested in this, you know?”
—No.
Why investors are doubling down on Truth Social despite Trump's historic conviction
Despite former President Trump's historic conviction, shareholders of his social media company are vowing to stay with him no matter what.
www.npr.orgSounds pretty bad
$517,000,000,000 in Unrealized Losses Hit US Banking System, FDIC Says 63 Lenders on Brink of Insolvency - The Daily Hodl
Unrealized losses in the US banking system are once again on the rise, according to new numbers from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
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Trump likened Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing the case, to a “devil” —
Pro tip: don’t do this before sentencing.
Trump and his allies braced for a guilty verdict. Then the bombshell arrived
The next time former president Donald Trump holds a campaign rally will be his first as a convicted felon.
apple.newsFracking.
Mussels downstream of wastewater treatment plant contain radium, study reports
Burrowed into streambeds and rarely moving for their decades-long lifespans, freshwater mussels are biomonitors, meaning they indicate how clean their environment is, according to Penn State researche...
search.appIt could also be that Trump is healthier since he wasn’t allowed to drink his multiple cans of Diet Coke during the trial.
The Physical Toll the Trial Took on Trump
It forced the famously restless former president to stay seated in a cold Manhattan courtroom almost every day for seven weeks, enough to make anyone lose some beauty sleep.
www.thedailybeast.com"We've gotten a lot of things straight as far as health and getting our mouths fed," Kelly said. "If it wasn't for Bread for the City, we would still be stuck."
DC basic income program helps couple afford healthcare, housing
Deborah Ogarro Kelly, 47, receives $1,400 a month from a Washington DC basic income program. She uses it to pay for housing, healthcare, and food.
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Another Trump adviser, moments after the verdict came down, summarized the situation for Rolling Stone. "The 'Trump juror' wasn't Trumpy enough I guess!"
—what is “Trumpy” share the gradation scale.
Trump Hoped 'My Juror' Would Save Him From Conviction
Trump and his team thought one of the jurors was on their side — and might help him evade conviction. That didn’t happen
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I get it the author’s point but,
“Who wants 2011’s cutting-edge technology today?”
Maybe cause EV infrastructure isn’t close to what it needed to be in 2011 to make their point?
EVs have progressed. It’s time to ditch the training wheels.
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Venus spacecraft loses connection with Japan, threatening planet's sole mission—
Headline could have done a better job.
Venus spacecraft loses connection with Japan, threatening planet's sole mission
Humanity's only in mission in Venus is in limbo after Japan's Akatsuki went dark last month, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency confirmed.
www.usatoday.comDon’t be surprised if daughter kicks you out of her life though.
I made $500K last year but refuse to pay my daughter's college tuition
A mother who earned over $500K last year decided not to pay for her daughter's college tuition. She shares how she came to the tough decision.
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