shit that looks like an onion article but isn't

doesn't seem like one of the best examples of this scam, but some acquaintances of friends and coworkers have been scammed by similar, if more elegant, schemes and the two things in common are immediate threats to life/livelihood and the implication that hanging up the phone will have immediate consequences

I have some sympathy and would like to point my finger and laugh, but the stigma of the whole thing means a lot of people never report that they were scammed and that's how this shit keeps happening

also, I would never fall for something like this, obv

(please do not put that as my epitaph when I fall for something)

can someone please summarise for the paywall-challenged?

(oh, it's fine on the desktop browser, didn't work on the phone this morning when i looked)

in short: phoned up and told their identity had been stolen, was being used by miscreants of some description, that their bank wasn't safe, to take out a bunch of money and give it to some bloke who pinky-sweared he was from the cia.

I have some sympathy and would like to point my finger and laugh, but the stigma of the whole thing means a lot of people never report that they were scammed and that's how this shit keeps happening

― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, February 16, 2024 8:59 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i want to be clear that her status as a scam victim is not what's worthy of derision. it's the framing of "How could I possibly be a clueless rube? I'm a financial advice columnist for the New York Times!"

100%

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/02/style/germany-adidas-soccer-jersey-nazi-symbol-controversy-intl-hnk/index.html

oh no

Chechnya has reportedly banned all music outside of the 80 - 116 BPM range, effectively forbidding techno and other dance music genres from the regionhttps://t.co/f4ImYNDMud

— DJ Mag (@DJmag) April 8, 2024

Devastating for Chechnya's Slowcore scene

Wowww. Would love to see the courtroom argument about 80 bpm footwork tracks with a backbeat. Also amapiano, dancehall, and NOLA bounce are about to become hot commodities in Chechnya.

This is an anti-gay measure to be sure

Devastating for Chechnya's Slowcore scene

Dave & Buster's will begin allowing customers to bet on arcade games

“Customers can soon make a friendly $5 wager on a Hot Shots basketball game, a bet on a Skee-Ball competition or on another arcade game.”

https://t.co/lmqLaXN5QU

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) April 30, 2024

Candidate accused of assaulting Jackson County GOP vice chair in clogged toilet fight

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article289417568.html#storylink=cpy

The misguided attempt to welcome guests with branded lampshade-wearing hostesses was not consistent with our values.

https://i.imgur.com/ngnnoD1.png

this is the darkest fucking thing i've read in a week pic.twitter.com/5pUZ7to9U5

— DEATHCORE DOGGY (@SAMOYEDCORE) September 9, 2024

oh yeah, I was talking about that one with some friends over the weekend

if you do some back of the envelope math given the legal expenses and "My retirement is set back five years" what they really mean is that they were planning on hanging out at Club 33 for all of their retired years, right? So if they just decide to join something that's less expensive or take up gardening or something, they could still retire. But they want to retire and hang out with Mickey and get tipsy and yell at the Disney employees

You can definitely live without retirement or with just one kidney and drink booze instead, true punk attitude if you ask me.

Trump fanboy and creep Elon says he'll give Taylor Swift a baby. Ew.

Once less childless cat lady at a time.... (USAToday)

Macklemore Clarifies “Fuck America” Comment After Being Dropped From Festival

which word did he clarify

ha not exactly walking it back:

"I wake up, see another couple billion dollars given to Israel, or another refugee encampment destroyed, or a father holding a limb from his martyred child, or another speech from a politician justifying the right of Israel to 'defend itself' while denying Palestinians the right to exist, and I say to myself.... 'F--- America.' I don't think I'm alone," he wrote.

starting to like this guy

In case you didn’t catch this earlier in the year, James:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgDQyFeBBIo

Ha, thank you! Excellent sentiments.

China Moves to Tackle a Growing Menace: Rampaging Boars

Potatoes are better than human blood for making space bricks, scientists say

https://www.space.com/space-bricks-potato-starch-mars-moon-dirt

Concrete from the researchers' trials using blood and urine also produced strengths above traditional mixtures, measuring around 40 MPa. These bricks' construction, however, would require that astronauts repeatedly drain their own bodily fluids, which was viewed as a drawback.

"Helen Mirren: it’s so sad Kurt Cobain died before GPS was invented"

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/oct/25/helen-mirren-its-so-sad-kurt-cobain-died-before-gps-was-invented

that article is bonkers. she's been consistently lamenting the tech kurt didn't live to see for 10 years!

Imagine if Kurt was still alive and could use his phone to purchase Nirvana shirts, listen to his own music, and stream videos about how Courtney failed to murder him.

Lebedev – whose podcast focuses on “longevity, neuroscience, biohacking, and psychedelics”

Fucking spare me, another rich tosser (KGB-affiliated this time) so entitled they don't see why they should have to die. Only lobsters live forever ya wanker! Props to Helen for knowing who Kurt is though, can't imagine Maggie Smith was aware of him for example.

Helen has a pair of Docs in the closet

KGB-affiliated this time

he appears to have been 11 when the Soviet Union collapsed, was he recruited in the womb?

This is his dad!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lebedev

lol all those references to Kurt Cobain never getting to be online are hilarious

To think Kurt Cobain never got to legally drive 70 MPH on the interstate.

Kurt had no idea what BRAT Summer is

We were robbed of his Klon Centaur era.

I don't know if your father's career before you hit puberty makes "KGB-affiliated" a good criticism tbh.

It does when Boris Johnson hotfoots you into the House of Lords because Vladimir Putin conceptually funded your daddy's purchase of the Evening Standard! Not that this has much to do with the late and lamented (by some) Kurt Cobain anyway.

Who is Boris Johnson?

Is something Kurt Cobain would ask if he were alive today.

Roadie for the Melvins, always wears a battle vest with a Motörhead patch

If Kurt had only lived another decade or so he could have scored heroin on the Silk Road

https://nichegamer.com/the-vatican-unveils-official-anime-girl-mascot/

anime is the one without tentacles, right?