Mildly Interesting

1. PCMag - I used to physically walk into a store and buy that magazine to read about computers…before the internet was so clean and fast it made for a better news and media experience. I’m pretty sure PCMag has been around since they included AOL cds with an isssue.

2. Woot! Lol…why? Woot was always stupid. The deals were never good. There is no need for it.

Both of these give me a lot of nostalgia for the early 2000’s. Playing games on Yahoo messenger. GameCube, PS2, OG Xbox.

Shocked they still exist, let alone have the funds to be running Facebook ads.

I was thinking of how people on the old internet would just create and share stuff for the simple sake of doing it, without trying to grind the algorithm. This woman in the mid 00's would bike through Chernoby, taking pictures and checking rad levels along the way.

Her anglefire page is defunk, but she has a youtube page now.

And for an added level of interesting, here's the slashdot page where I originally found it.

A family member found it while cleaning and didn't want it, gladly took it. eBay and etsy listings say it's from 1989, and I saw this listing for an unopened one where it turned brown like nutella (more interesting than this one) https://www.ebay.ca/itm/334507017510

Praise the Lord 🍑

As you can see it's shiny new and still has its packaging on it. It's was so smooth and quiet!

They mailed the snacks in two regular boxes, inside a inverted box of the same thing. This was my childhood snack growing up, and I wanted to know if they still taste good.

Spoilers: meh. It was better when I was a kid.

Preemptive hail corporate - I wish I was getting paid to eat garbage.

Who is actually surprised by this? I would be more surprised if young Americans felt it was a great place to live.

I found this damage interesting because

1. There are high winds here (coastal area) but the frontal area of a sign seems pretty small
2. I thought they would make signs out of more corrosion resistant materials

These are only a few of tens if not hundreds of downed signs in the area

TLDR:

“Extracting the coins is a spectacle and involves workers from regional utility ACEA balancing on the edge of the vast Baroque fountain, using long brooms and suction hoses.

The coins are then given to Caritas, where they are dried with hairdryers and cutlery dryers and sorted and counted.

Signs around the fountain explain that the change will go to charity - a thought that pleases many of the tourists posing by the landmark.”

They extracted $1.52M in 2022