Archive of entries posted on July 2021

All Things Must Password

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To put your life in perspective:

A 41-year-old bitcoin mogul died unexpectedly, drowning off the coast of Costa Rica, leaving behind a fortune worth billions
Business Insider via MSN | 07/02/2021 | Natalie Musumeci

A major bitcoin investor has suddenly died, leaving behind a cryptocurrency fortune reportedly worth more than $2 billion.

Mircea Popescu, a Romanian national, drowned last week off the coast of Costa Rica, local reports said. He was 41.

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Popescu drowned at Playa Hermosa, according to Teletica.com, which reported that Popescu was swept away by the current and died.

His death has prompted questions surrounding what will now happen to Popescu’s enormous bitcoin fortune.

Straight Line of the Day: What’s the Next Doomsday Creature?

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2020: Murder Hornets

2021: Yellow Crazy Ants

Next?

‘Crazy’ bird-killing ANTS that can fire ACID at their prey are removed from a remote Pacific island after aggressive invasive species was accidentally introduced from Asia
Daily Mail | 6/24/2021

US Fish and Wildlife Service said the yellow crazy ant has finally been successfully removed from Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge

The atoll is in the Pacific Ocean, roughly 820 miles southwest of Honolulu.

The last sighting of a yellow crazy ant was in December 2017.

Yellow crazy ants, which originated in Southeast Asia, stalk seabirds on the atoll.

They spray formic acid on the birds, causing injuries and even death.

Yellow crazy ants are ‘scavenging predators,’ with diets that include grains, seeds and have been known to attack and dismember land crabs, earthworms and other insects.

MS-13-squitoes?

Mosque-quitoes?

Snipiranhas?

Suicide Pomeranians?

Eland mines? (“No, he just grazed me.”)

The Alpacalypse?

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Thursday Night Open Thread: Different Coasts, Different Means, Same End

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Massachusetts Town Creates Fund To Pay Reparations to Black Residents
NY Post | 6/25/2021 | Will Feuer

A liberal Massachusetts town has created a fund that will be used to pay reparations to eligible black residents to “repair past harms” it committed against them or their ancestors.

No money is in the fund yet, but town finance officials have proposed a plan to put $210,000 in the account later this year, The Daily Hampshire Gazette reported.

Amherst, a town of more than 39,000 with a black population of just over 2,100, according to the Census Bureau, is home to The University of Massachusetts’ flagship campus and Amherst College, a liberal arts university.

Voter registration data shows it’s an overwhelmingly liberal town. Of all registered voters, fewer than 7 percent have been Republican since 2004, while about 50 percent have registered as Democrat.

As a commenter on FreeRepublic.com said:

“$21,0000 / 2,100 = $100 per person. That’ll shut them up! sarc”

Meanwhile, on the other coast:

Cops intervene after extreme squatters ‘Sovereign citizens’ knock on doors of rich Seattle residents and demand they hand over their mansions

DailyMail.com | November 28, 2020 | Ariel Zilber

Residents of Edmonds and Woodway have called police in recent weeks

Cops said ‘sovereign citizens’ have been knocking on door of waterfront homes 

Moorish Sovereign Citizens are a sect that claims ownership of much of US

Do you have something you’d like to share? A link? A joke? Some words of wisdom? A topic to discuss? It’s our nightly Open Thread, and you have the floor.

Divan Intervention

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IKEA unveils LGBTQ-themed sofas — and the internet has thoughts on its ‘bisexual couch’
CNN | 6/30/2021 | Megen C. Hills

The Swedish retailer said in a press release that it hopes the campaign will honor “the richness…

… “by which we mean wealth” …

…and diversity of the 2SLGBTQ+ community,” using an expanded acronym that encompasses those identifying as two-spirit, an Indigenous American term for those with both a male and female spirits.

… “but, hopefully, one credit rating.”

2021: The year that “Not the Babylon Bee” became attached to every damn news story.

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