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Might Put a Strain on Their Post-Breakup Relationship

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Woman Who Accidentally Threw Away Ex’s £569 Million in Bitcoin Says ‘I’m Sick of Hearing About it’
Wales Online | 25 Nov. 2024 | Lydia Royce, Kelly-Ann Mills

Hafina Eddy-Evans has recounted the unfortunate moment she realised she had mistakenly thrown away a fortune, and how she broke the news to her former boyfriend that his wealth was lost. She admitted to disposing of an old hard drive at a Welsh dump, unaware it contained a trove of 8,000 Bitcoins, mined by James Howells in 2009, and now valued at a jaw-dropping £569million.

…”Yes, I threw away his rubbish, he asked me to. The computer part had been disposed of in a black sack along with other unwanted belongings and he begged me to take it away. I had no idea what was in it but I reluctantly dropped it off at the local tip on the way home from going on the school run.”

… She added: “I thought he should be running his errands, not me, but I did it to help out. Losing it was not my fault. I’d love nothing more than him to find it. I’m sick and tired of hearing about it.”

In his relentless pursuit, James Howells is taking the council to court, hoping to recover the digital ‘key’ to his Bitcoin fortune, believed to be entombed within 110,000 tons of trash under grass-covered land, reports the Mirror.

She firmly stated: “I have no claim on whatever money he could be worth. He is the father of my two sons but I don’t want a penny of his money.”…

“The council has told Mr Howells multiple times that excavation is not possible under our environmental permit, and that work of that nature would have a huge negative environmental impact on the surrounding area.”

Straight Line of the Day: Bwaa-Haa-Haa, Liberals! Any Other Terms You Can Come Up With For “Women”?

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Erasure of women continues apace: NY Times now refers to females as ‘non-transgender women’
Twitchy.com | 11/29/2024 | Amy Curtis

… we can’t even be called women anymore.

They’ve had a list of euphemisms for us — womb owner, egg producer, birthing person — but now we’re literally being redefined by being non-transgender.

Straight Line of the Day: What Is One of the Cool Moments You Remember From High School?

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I was in a student theater production (the course was mandatory, you understand. I’m a shy guy.)

We had to present a revue on stage at the end of the semester, to parade what we’d learned. As I recall it, I devised the scenarios for the whole 30-minute show — four skits, depicting four years of high school — though others wrote lines. I was already a big Monty Python fan, so this seemed easy to me.

The last skit called for senior high school students to be smoking weed, which called for the prop folks to provide tobacco, to pretend it was weed. I substituted weed. My friends in the audience told me that it was obvious that I had done so.

I was a big hit with myself. Also, during the act, an actor threw a Frisbee from stage left to me, which I caught, behind my back, stage right, with the joint still in my mouth. To applause.

Haven’t done weed since freshman year in college, though. Dangerous stuff. Beer is more self-limiting.

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Take THAT, God!

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(Not for the weak of heart, or stomach)

How Gender Reassignment Surgery Works
Live Science | 8/26/13 | Ross Toro

Ugh. Toto, Toro! It’s worse than a bullfight.

Converting male anatomy to female anatomy requires removing the penis, reshaping genital tissue to …

OK, that’s enough.

An incision is made into the scrotum, and the flap of skin is pulled back. The testes are removed.

I said, that’s enough!

Following surgery, estrogen (a female hormone) will stimulate breast development, widen the hips, inhibit the growth of facial hair and slightly increase voice pitch.

Will you please shut up?

Female-to-male surgery has achieved lesser success due to the difficulty of creating a functioning penis from the much smaller clitoral tissue available in the female genitals.

Oh, for the love of —

I’m going to go watch some 70s and 80s sitcoms, or even old IMAO comments, to cleanse my worldview.

Wait — What in Hell Am I Reading?

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Pickleball victim breaks silence after shocking on-court attack: ‘Lost memory for three hours’
NY Post | 11/20/2024 | Andew McMurty, News.com.au

The man who got kicked in the face in a shocking moment of pickleball violence just wants to be done with it and has no plans on pressing charges.

Footage of the fiery on-court altercation at a tournament in Mexico has gone viral, surprising many given pickleball’s reputation as a friendly sport.

In what appeared to be a match point, the eventual kicker, who was wearing pink shorts, received a serve before approaching the net, where he illegally stepped over the non-volley line.

That mistake gave away a foot fault, and ultimately the match.

Lost memory for three hours? Wearing pink shorts? Kicked in the face? Had he been maintaining silence, and now broke it? Pickleball? Kicker? “Appeared to be a match point”? Wasn’t anyone keeping score?

Straight Line of the Day: How Else Could You Demonstrate the Significance of Relativistic Effects in Superheavy Elements?

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The Periodic Table Just Got Wilder: Scientists Unveil the Secrets of the Heaviest Element Ever – Moscovium
Scitech Daily | November 21, 2024 | GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research

Moscovium and nihonium have been identified as more reactive than flerovium, demonstrating the significance of relativistic effects in superheavy elements.

An international team led by scientists from GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz has successfully determined the chemical properties of the artificially produced superheavy elements moscovium and nihonium (elements 115 and 113).

Moscovium is now the heaviest element ever to be chemically studied. 

An Hour Later, They Wanted To Vote Again

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Election 2024: Here’s Why Asian Americans Shifted Right
Real Clear Politics | 11/20/2024 | Neetu Arnold

… Asian Americans soured on Democrats as they watched their quality of life decrease. …

“You only understand what you signed up for after they [Democrats] win and you have to put up with crime and squalor,” Pennsylvania voter Teesta Dasgupta said.

And I thought they were well-educated. Speaking of which:

In Fairfax County, Virginia, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology changed its merit-based admissions policy in a bid to “decrease the representation of Asian Americans” in favor of other racial minorities.

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