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Posted by Ben Weiss

Have our beloved pop stars lost sight of the culture? Harry Styles' new dance-pop record, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, is not hitting the zeitgeist in the way that his previous records did. And this wouldn't be the first time in recent memory that a major pop star's highly anticipated new album failed to meet the cultural moment.

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If you think the Volt was ahead of its time, wait until you learn about the Owen Magnetic - a revolutionary hybrid that relied on a horseshoe-shaped magnet.

[Spicy] | Lookalike

Tuesday, 17 March 2026 11:24
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Today, I finally got with the hot guy from work. We were laying in bed, smiling at each other afterwards, when his eyes traveled down my body and he blurts out, "THAT'S who you look like! Have you ever seen Moana? Yeah, you look JUST like THAT MAUI GUY! WOW!" I'm a woman. A 5ft4 woman. FML
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Posted by Bruce Schneier

An expensive mistake:

Someone jumped at the opportunity to steal $4.4 million in crypto assets after South Korea’s National Tax Service exposed publicly the mnemonic recovery phrase of a seized cryptocurrency wallet.

The funds were stored in a Ledger cold wallet seized in law enforcement raids at 124 high-value tax evaders that resulted in confiscating digital assets worth 8.1 billion won (currently approximately $5.6 million).

When announcing the success of the operation, the agency released photos of a Ledger device, a popular hardware wallet for crypto storage and management.

However, the images also showed a handwritten note of the wallet recovery phrase, which serves as the master key that allows restoring the assets to another device.

The authorities failed to redact that info, allowing anyone to transfer into their account the assets in the cold wallet.

Reportedly, shortly after the press release was published, 4 million Pre-Retogeum (PRTG) tokens, worth approximately $4.8 million at the time, were transferred out of the confiscated wallet to a new address.

EVs That Charge Faster Than A Tesla

Tuesday, 17 March 2026 09:25
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With its Supercharger network and nose for publicity, when someone says "fast-charging," Tesla is often what springs to mind. But lots of EVs charge faster.

Book completed

Sunday, 1 March 2026 23:51
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Pod, by Laline Paull. I had really appreciated her book from the perspective of a bee, and my book club is now reading this one, where we get the perspectives of two dolphins and a few other sea creatures. It was intense! And much more violent than I was expecting. As with The Bees, there’s more “culture” for these species than is likely (although for the dolphins it didn’t seem too unreasonable). Another tweak to reality that helped with the story she was trying to tell is that there was surely more interspecies communication than actually happens, especially in a few cases. It was very well written, a great imaginative exercise, excellent at building empathy for what humans are doing to the oceans. Oh – also, I liked that humans weren’t called “human,” but rather “anthrop,” which was a great way to shift the reader’s perspective to the other species; in general, “people” meant other dolphins.

Happy family

Tuesday, 17 March 2026 08:52
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Today, I asked my wife why she’s been in such a sour mood lately. She released a barrage of complaints, but the biggest one being that she’s bored. In fact, she described me and our kids as the most excruciatingly boring people she’s ever met, all because we’re introverts. FML
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You big baby

Tuesday, 17 March 2026 02:17
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Today, my husband was supposed to have knee surgery but he wouldn't leave the house because he "got scared" no matter what I and even my mother-in-law tried to do. Now he can't have it for another six months and I took three weeks off work to help him that I can't cancel. FML
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Posted by Brad Dickson

A fast-food new-hire found themselves already 30 minutes late for their first shift when the manager forgot to inform them of the schedule, leading to a tense conversation as they were out of town and unable to make the shift, bringing to a head the questions of expectations and accountability in the workplace.

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The Chevrolet Bolt is coming back for 2027, but it's not too different from its original incarnation. So, how reliable can you expect it to be?

Heated gaming moment

Monday, 16 March 2026 23:46
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Today, my younger brother broke his Switch in a fit of gamer rage. When my dad refused to buy him a new one, he had a massive tantrum. Later, he dunked mine in the toilet since it "wasn't fair" that I still had a Switch and he didn't. My parents beat him, but they won't buy me a new one. FML
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Toyota has a reputation for being gas-stingy, but it's actually in fourth place in the EPA's latest mileage rankings. Still, overall, mileage keeps increasing.

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Posted by Remy Millisky

When a couple of workers showed up to examine a 3-century-old tree, this person was aghast at the thought of losing it. 

Although trees are precious to their owners, they're a lot less special to the electrical workers who are tasked with trimming them. There are plenty of stories about overzealous workers who have "trimmed" trees back, only for the homeowner to realize that their trees had been cut down way too far to be saved. 

Mixed messages

Monday, 16 March 2026 21:13
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Today, I heard my downstairs neighbor pounding on her roof/my floor. I thought she was being a Karen and wanting me to be quiet, even though I wasn’t doing anything. I stomped back defiantly to make a point. Turns out she was having an asthma attack and was asking for help. Oops. FML
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Harley-Davidson bikes are some of the most popular motorcycles out there, but three models haven't managed to keep their value very well throughout the years.

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Many dealerships tack on ridiculous, expensive nonsense to the end of your price, like advertising fees, nitrogen tire inflation, and dealer prep fees.

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Posted by Remy Millisky

This landlord is having an eye-opening experience about what his tenants live through each day.

Many landlords don't live in the buildings they manage, so they don't know what the day-to-day experience is like. When it thunderstorms, they aren't the ones putting buckets around the apartments to catch the ceiling drippings. When it's winter and the heat won't turn on, they don't get chilly, because they live in a separate building. And, as you probably know if you've ever lived in a landlord-run building, they will ignore a request to fix a problem until you literally tell them face-to-face that it needs immediate fixing. 

I hate surprises

Monday, 16 March 2026 19:41
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Today, my family and friends threw a surprise birthday party for me, after I'd said multiple times that I didn't want one. I turned and left and now everybody is angry at me and calling me ungrateful and spoiled. FML
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Sometimes, you might have no choice but to park in front of your neighbor's house. This isn't illegal in of itself, but you might still get in trouble for it.

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Posted by Ben Weiss

These homeowners might be making a huge mistake in their negotiations with the nearby HOA.

Not only was their home never meant to be a part of any homeowner's association, but they also managed to successfully steer clear of these vipers for decades. Over time, the ever-growing HOA neighborhood surrounded this house on practically all sides, yet they could never convince these residents to join due to the home's existence back in the days when the area was barely developed.

However, when a recent public road was built and funded by the HOA and its paying residents, the board began to take greater issue with the only non-HOA folks around.

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Posted by Etai Eshet

Workplace friendships really are wild sometimes. One minute, you are sharing fries after work, and the next, you are apparently the main character in someone else's relationship saga without even knowing it

This one has all the red flags, truly, all of them. A hyper jealous partner who has never met the alleged threat. A coworker who loves the attention of the friendship but also loves retelling how much trouble that friendship gets her into. Then, somehow, the guy who did absolutely nothing is the one she punishes for her own choices.

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Posted by Bar Mor Hazut

Every single day, somewhere in the world, people make their dreams come true. Whether they get accepted to their dream job, have their dream wedding, or land the role of a lifetime. So why do we care so much about how some people got to the position that made it all possible?

Social media, as we all know by now, is a powerful tool for making dreams come true, by showcasing their talents. Even if it was never their initial plan when they started posting. Though it is clear how powerful social media can be, most people don't expect their first-ever post to change their lives.

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Posted by PZ Myers

Today is our 46th wedding anniversary. I have no idea why she agreed to it in the first place.

No celebration today. We’re both just going to work, she won’t get home until 11pm, we don’t even have dinner plans.

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Posted by Remy Millisky

The peace and tranquility of this family home has been interrupted by a trail camera pointed right towards the property. 

As you can imagine, the homeowner isn't thrilled about this, but what can they do to get the camera removed from their neighbor's property line?

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If you're looking for a subcompact luxury crossover that'll impress onlookers and legitimize your real estate business, the new Q3 is well worth considering.

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Posted by Brad Dickson

After a homeowner paid a contractor half of the cost up front for some electrical work, the contractor repeatedly delayed the start date and eventually ceased responding entirely. This led the homeowner to track down the contractor's mother in an attempt to get the work done or their money back.

These Are Your Favorite Vans

Monday, 16 March 2026 14:25
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Throughout history there have been so many incredible vans, including cargo vans and MPVs and minivans and all sorts of other kinda strange genre-busters.

Let’s end Spring Break for good

Monday, 16 March 2026 12:34
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Posted by PZ Myers

This year’s Spring Break is over, and it was a mess, as usual. The students got a full week of vacation, while I got nothing, other than a pile of grading and the need to do their lab work for them (admittedly, a small trivial bit of their work, because flies keep breeding no matter what the calendar says). Then we had a blizzard, which has disrupted everyone’s travel schedules — I have students who will miss class for the entire first half of this week, because airlines have been cancelling all kinds of flights into the upper midwest.

My modest suggestion is that in future years we abolish the tradition of Spring Break. Everyone just stays at the university working, and then we finish up the term a week early. Less chaos! More order! No more resetting unrealistic expectations by allowing them to escape to a warm sunny beach somewhere. No more youthful debauchery. Reality is cold, icy, white landscapes scoured by bitter winds, overseen by dour gray-bearded taskmasters. The sooner they get used to it, the better.

There may be some initial resistance, but everyone will eventually adapt, and I won’t have to go through this yearly ritual of having to modify course- and lab-work to accommodate these unserious childish hijinks.


No one is learning biology here.

Uncle Fester

Monday, 16 March 2026 14:07
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Today, my asshole uncle stole the painkillers I was prescribed after my surgery. To top it all off, the pharmacy called CPS on my mom when she attempted to replace them because they thought she was lying, so they're going to be investigating. FML
By Anonymous
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Posted by Jesse Kessenheimer

The Lord of the Rings always has a way of making fantasy fans happier, and if plebeians and non-LOTR fans gave The Fellowship, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King just one simple binge-watching weekend, they would feel the same way: Enchanted, enthralled, and utterly captivated by the Tolkien universe. 

Clock starts now, you have 12 hours and 6 minutes.

CodeSOD: A Little Twisted

Monday, 16 March 2026 06:30
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Posted by Remy Porter

Dana sends us a WTF that'll turn your head. She was shopping for new hard drives, and was doing it from her phone, a fairly reasonable tool to use for online shopping these days. She opened the website of one vendor, and it was rotated 90 degrees. Or half-pi radians, for those of us that are more used to sensible units.

This was irrespective of any rotation settings on her phone, the website insisted on showing itself in landscape mode. This created quite the unusual appearance when she held her phone in portrait orientation: the browser chrome surrounding the content was in portrait mode, but the page itself was in landscape.

Obviously, this is a terrible design choice. But Dana wanted to know more. So she started digging in. There was no sign of this behavior on a desktop, which sure, I'd hope not. Attempting to use wget to download the page caused a 403. Using curl downloaded a JavaScript challenge. Fine, they didn't want bots, but Dana wasn't a bot.

Poking around in the network tab of the desktop browser's debugging tools helped Dana learn a few things. First: the line endings in the files were all CRLF, implying that all development happened on Windows machines. Maybe that's not interesting, but in 2026, it feels unusual. Second, the page is setting a PHPSESSID cookie, so clearly the backend is written in PHP. But most important, Dana is able to piece together what she needs to successfully use curl to download the page, once pretending to be a desktop browser, and once pretending to be a mobile browser. With that, she ran a diff to see what changed.

The desktop version started with 42 blank lines. The mobile version started with 41. The rest of the pages were substantially the same, with two exceptions. First, the mobile page also added a stylesheet called stylesheet-responsive.css. I assume that name was chosen because irony is dead; nothing about this site is responsive. Second, there was a subtle difference in the body tags.

You see, both pages had a body tag like this:

<body marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" topmargin="0" bottommargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

But the mobile page, continued from there:

<!-- header //-->






<body id="landscape_mode_only" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" topmargin="0" bottommargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

Yes, the mobile version has two body tags.

Dana writes:

Even though I don't have access to the real PHP source-code, I can imagine what it looks like.

Somewhere in that PHP source-code there is browser-detection (or rather browser-sniffing) and that toggles if it should serve a slightly different HTML code to the user. I do not want to work for that website, I do not want to look at that backend source-code. And I have to feel sorry and respect for the browser developers, as they have to write software that can handle completely broken HTML.

While I hate the results, the fact that the HTML specification originally required clients to render even the most broken HTML is arguably a really good design choice. Expecting people to do the right thing never works out for you.

Let's not forget their "responsive" CSS, which is obviously worth looking at, even if it's obvious what it must be:

@media only screen and (orientation:portrait) {
  #landscape_mode_only {
    height:98vw;
    -webkit-transform:rotate(90deg);
    -moz-transform:rotate(90deg);
    -o-transform:rotate(90deg);
    -ms-transform:rotate(90deg);
    transform:rotate(90deg)
  }
}

This forces everything in the body to rotate sideways.

Look, actually responsive design is hard. But "just force the page into landscape mode no matter what the user does" is definitely not the solution.

And Dana points out one last thing:

As a cherry on the top, observe how the comment that marks the end of the header is placed after the <body> starts. Which is wrong already, but also stupid, because </head> already marks the end of the head. And the head is not really the header.

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Posted by Ben Weiss

Imagine bringing in $7 million of business to your company, only to be rewarded with a cheap plaque that was likely purchased online for under $20. Talk about all that hard work leading to nothing!

Most employees, especially those who work in sales, expect more than a shoutout during a company meeting for their efforts. The best way to reward these hard-working individuals is to validate them monetarily. After all, they brought in all that business. Shouldn't they be able to benefit from that increased revenue as well?

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