The Weekly Whatever: Accidentally sent by Alex Jones's lawyers
Italian influences
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Tennessee couple want their engagement photos to have an Italian feel to them, so they have them taken at an Olive Garden.
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New Italian restaurant offers dishes inspired by Fancy Feast cat food.
Random
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A Mexican grandmother’s dying wish was to have a giant replica cock and balls on her grave.
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Yo dawg, I heard you like the LEGO store.
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Those widely mocked anti-piracy ads of the early 2000s made people pirate more.
Environment
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Rainwater across the world is now undrinkable because it’s contaminated with high levels of PFAS.
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1% of people cause 50% of aviation emissions.
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Gas companies in Texas are spewing massive quantities of methane into the air, speeding up global warming.
Seems reasonable
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The US has 2,400 doses of monkeypox vaccine. We had 20 million, but we let them expire in 2009.
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Just because you’re dead doesn’t mean Vodaphone will let you cancel your mobile phone contract.
Backpfeifengesicht
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Alex Jones broadcasts a segment accusing the judge for his trial of being involved with pedophilia and child trafficking.
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Alex Jones’s lawyers accidentally send the contents of their client’s cell phone to the plaintiff’s legal team.
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Alex Jones ends up with more than $45m in punitive damages.
Crapto
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As the crapto downturn continues, the used Rolex market is suddenly flooded.
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This week’s “smart” contract bug leading to massive losses: Nomad, $150m, because the dev team accidentally set the trusted root hash to zero during an “upgrade”.
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Enterprise software company MicroStrategy invested heavily in Bitcoin, as a result of which they just posted a billion dollar loss. Now the CEO is stepping down to focus even more on Bitcoin.