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June 20, 2022

The Weekly Whatever: Imagine Donald Trump riding a bicycle

Spring pastimes

  • Meet the Polish LARPers who pretend to be American.

  • Texas man on lawnmower uses pool noodle to fend off his pet emu.

  • This one time at camp, 12 kids drank floor sealant instead of milk.

Musk news

  • Elon Musk shows his commitment to free speech as SpaceX fires employees for writing an open letter.

  • NHTSA says it has found 16 incidents where Tesla "autopilot" disengaged less than a second before a crash, expecting the human driver to take over.

Technology

  • Beaver causes major Internet outage in Canada.

Opportunities

  • Pest control company will pay you $2,000 to release live cockroaches in your home.

  • Gas station manager accidentally sets price to $0.69 per gallon.

  • Amazon is running out of people willing to work for them.

  • How HSBC laundered billions of dollars for a Mexican drug cartel.

Law and order

  • Uvalde police hire a private law firm to argue that they shouldn't be required to release bodycam footage and other records, because they would be "highly embarrassing".

  • Seattle area police chief who posted Nazi insignia on his door and joked about the Holocaust is disciplined by being given $1.5m in return for resigning.

Crapto

  • Cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital is liquidated.

  • Cryptocurrency lending company Babel Finance suddenly informs customers that they can't withdraw their money.

  • Cryptocurrency lender Celsius suddenly informs customers that they can't withdraw their money.

  • Coinbase cuts its workforce by 18%, but the CEO still has his $133m house with 10 bedrooms and 13 bathrooms.

Music

  • Sonos has been inadvertently sending customers more expensive speakers than they ordered — up to 30 separate shipments.

  • Behold the Floppotron 3.0 - a musical instrument built from 512 floppy disk drives.

Politics

  • White Republican is very upset that Fox News helped a black Republican win a primary election against him.

Recommended reading

  • "Top Gun: Maverick" - a review.

  • The Computers That Made Britain.

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