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October 19, 2019

The Weekly Whatever:

Thought for the week

Imagine you got a new job on the day Columbus reached the Americas.

Imagine you earned $5,000 a day.

Imagine you saved every penny of your wages from then until now…

Jeff Bezos made more than that last week. (Link)

Dystopia technologica

  • Stalker used pupil reflections in selfie to locate victim. (Stop. Enhance 15 to 23. Give me a hard copy right there.)

  • Yahoo is deleting everything ever posted to Yahoo Groups.

Threat Level Orange

  • Trump conference at Trump resort shows meme video of Trump carrying out a mass shooting of journalists.

  • Trump picks author of Illuminati conspiracy theories and “European spirituality” books for board of education.

Well, fancy that!

  • The Trump organization had two sets of accounts so it could appear more profitable to lenders and less profitable to tax officials.

  • State Department investigation of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail finds no deliberate mishandling of classified messages.

Sick, sad world

  • Salvation Army works with UK government to trap and deport immigrants.

  • NY teacher asks students to write captions for slavery photos, and to make them funny.

  • IKEA was founded by an unrepentant Nazi.

  • Family visiting South Carolina fishes 20kg of cocaine out of the ocean.

  • Homeless man who plead guilty to trafficking cocaine is cleared after lab tests show the substance was powdered milk.

  • Family basement floods with animal blood.

  • Employees at NC assisted living facility arrested for running dementia patient fight club.

  • Arizona Republican ran human trafficking scheme.

Not The Onion

  • Trump Jr, Rand Paul, Meghan McCain and Ronna Romney McDaniel are upset by the Biden family’s nepotism.

This should end well

  • Russian FSB announces that cooperation with the US on cybersecurity has resumed.

Extreme awesome

  • Author puts a pro-union message on his book so Amazon workers will see it.

  • John Oliver buys $15 million of medical debt for $60,000 and forgives it all.

The Guillotine Marketing Board

  • Sallie Mae flies 100 employees to Hawaii to celebrate saddling students with $5 billion in fresh debts last year.

Schadenfreude Friday

  • Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist must pay $450,000 damages.

Actual good news

  • Computers and social networking are not destroying your kids’ minds.
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