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
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Stalker used pupil reflections in selfie to locate victim. (Stop. Enhance 15 to 23. Give me a hard copy right there.)
Threat Level Orange
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Trump conference at Trump resort shows meme video of Trump carrying out a mass shooting of journalists.
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Trump picks author of Illuminati conspiracy theories and “European spirituality” books for board of education.
Well, fancy that!
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The Trump organization had two sets of accounts so it could appear more profitable to lenders and less profitable to tax officials.
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State Department investigation of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail finds no deliberate mishandling of classified messages.
Sick, sad world
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Salvation Army works with UK government to trap and deport immigrants.
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NY teacher asks students to write captions for slavery photos, and to make them funny.
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IKEA was founded by an unrepentant Nazi.
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Family visiting South Carolina fishes 20kg of cocaine out of the ocean.
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Homeless man who plead guilty to trafficking cocaine is cleared after lab tests show the substance was powdered milk.
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Family basement floods with animal blood.
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Employees at NC assisted living facility arrested for running dementia patient fight club.
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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
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Author puts a pro-union message on his book so Amazon workers will see it.
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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.