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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • “When the first officer arrived on scene, several community members pointed him toward a nearby home reporting that children were inside, and somebody was shooting. The officer approached the open front door and reported seeing a struggle. He yelled at the men to show their hands, but neither fully complied. This is when the officer-involved shooting took place,” the department said.

    Notice the change to passive voice. “The officer arrived”, “community members pointed”, “somebody was shooting”, “the officer approached”, “he yelled”.

    Then just “the officer-involved shooting took place”.

    That type of corporate whitewashing of language pisses me off so much. The shooting did not take place. The officer shot the victim.






  • I usually appreciate the AP, but Jesus fucking Christ what a pussy headline. “Triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital” is the best they could muster up the nerve to run with? They literally quote a source saying:

    “It was laughable, if there was something to laugh about,” said one of the nurses, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss patient care. “There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall.”

    How about a headline of “ICE assaults a person and lies about it so badly that medical staff would laugh if it wasn’t so tragic”.


  • You’ve fallen for the classic gas station food trap. If you look at it, there’s absolutely no ham behind the strategically placed sticker. Also that cheese is probably less than a single slice of cheese overall. You can tell by looking at the bottom right where you can see how deep it goes.

    All in all, that a pretty shitty sandwich.








  • I used to sell TVs for Best Buy back in the day. The Video Department manager, my boss, set up a display side by side to show the difference between $40 Monster cables and the normal cables that came with a DVD player.

    When there was no noticable difference, he went into the TV settings and adjusted the settings for the normal cables to make the picture look like shit. Not all customers are that gullible though, so usually one of the more savvy ones would fix the settings. So my boss would have to go in and fuck the settings up again once or twice a shift.



  • Lol that is the exact same thing that happened to him. He said he fucked up the temperature and ignited it.

    Somehow, he DIDN’T get in a ton of shit for it. The teachers and fire department didn’t figure out it was an intentional smoke bomb. So they never questioned him about it. He dodged a bullet for sure! That was pre-9/11 and Columbine, so I’m sure kids in a similar situation today would be absolutely fucked.


  • My friends and I downloaded the Anarchists cookbook off of a BBS (we’re old as shit now) when we were kids. One of the things in there was how to make a smoke bomb, which sounded harmless enough but also contained chemical ingredients that we didn’t have access to.

    Then one of my buddies moved away and at his new school, they had a chemistry lab. His dumbass got ahold of these chemicals and made the bomb in class - except he fucked up a step and it started smoking immediately.

    It wasn’t just a little bit of smoke, it was a shit load. He said smoke started pouring out at a crazy rate. They ended up evacuating the school thinking the building had caught fire.