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[conuly]

Inside the ‘Circus Capital of the World’

Wanted urgently: People who know a half century-old computer language, COBOL, so states can process unemployment claims

Here’s How Those Hot Jigsaw Puzzles Are Made

Great ways to annoy a mathematician

500-year-old manuscript contains one of earliest known uses of the “F-word”

The Original Internet Bottleneck

The Perks of Being a Weirdo

Tie game: Ancient bit of string shows Neanderthal handiwork

Rewriting musical history, re-introducing female composers

Pennsylvania's colorful 'Graffiti Highway' is being shut down for good

In 19th-Century America, Fighting Disease Meant Battling Bad Smells

What Happens When a Pet Is Left Money in a Will?

The Black Widow Bank Robber’s Web of Secrets

The Assassination of Professor X: The Destruction of Marvel’s Most Famous Disabled Character

Buried In Baltimore: The Mysterious Murder Of A Nun Who Knew Too Much

Thieves Stole a Vincent Van Gogh Painting Worth Millions Last Week. This Is What Happens Next.

Trump’s case against mail-in voting has become increasingly desperate. His latest briefing showed it.

America’s Other Epidemic

‘Them plants are killing us’: inside a cross-border battle against cancer in Ontario’s rust belt

The Far-Right Helped Create The World’s Most Powerful Facial Recognition Technology

The Hate Store: Amazon’s Self-Publishing Arm Is a Haven for White Supremacists

America might survive coronavirus. But will the election?

American Democracy May Be Dying

New, larger wave of locusts threatens millions in Africa

When jails make money off phone calls, society pays

Black plague, Spanish flu, smallpox: All hold lessons for coronavirus

I spent six days on a ventilator with covid-19. It saved me, but my life is not the same.

Crime drops around the world as COVID-19 keeps people inside (Except maybe domestic violence.)

Comments

[mindstalk]

The Professor X one was interesting.

Yeah, I've figured this must be a horrible time to be a burglar. :p

[conuly]

Or a mugger, or a pickpocket, or a sex worker (both in-person or not - obvs hardly anybody is hiring prostitutes right now, coronavirus being scarier than any sti ever was, and for porn, well, the field is flooded with out-of-work amateurs at the exact time that all the patrons are out of work too), or... well, any sort of career criminal, I should think, except apparently a high-class art thief.

[brokenallbroken]

I'm sure many of the younger sex workers are turning to camming (or increasing the time they spend on it, if they already were).

[conuly]

Field's flooded with out-of-work amateurs, and all the patrons are out of work too.

[nodrog]

I'll tell you what, I'm about ready to drop that Atlantic RSS feed.  I am getting heartily sick of their relentless Trump-bashing.  As that article I showed you pointed out, this isn’t journalism, this is Party propaganda.

“Repeat after me:  ‘Trump is evil and never does right.  Trump is evil and never does good.  Trump is evil and never does right…’”

When a nation of Republicans hand these twits their hat in November - again - do you think they’ll wonder if they brought it on themselves?

Care to bet?  I wouldn’t - they never have, not in 36 years.


“To Michael Moore, George Soros, Terry McAuliffe, Dan Rather, Al Franken and the whole gang at Air America Radio - you were great, guys!  Thanks for the help!  We couldn't have done it without you!”

- Ann Coulter, AD 2004

[conuly]

You do realize, don't you, that he lost the popular vote by a pretty significant margin? And that's with outright voter suppression methods of people likely to vote Democrat. This isn't a nation of Republicans. Best I can give you is 50/50.