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@ChuckWendig @MikeDrucker Bruce Wayne crying over his parents while repeating “daddy would you like some sausage” through the sobs.

The Hilton donated the ~2600 dinners that went unserved at WHCD. They freeze dried the steak and lobster for longer shelf life before giving them to 2 shelters for abused women and children. HUGE thank you to the staff that worked through the night under terrible circumstances.

JD Vance compared Trump to Hitler.

He knew the accusations were coming and wanted that win to be cleaaaaaaaannnn

In 2025, Sabastian Sawe asked the AIU to test him as frequently as possible. He underwent 25 tests in the build-up to the Berlin Marathon, blood and urine, around 2–3 times per week, including days where he was tested twice. He maintained that same approach into 2026. Now, he has broken the Marathon World Record, clocking 1:59:30 in London. Officially the first man to go sub-2 in the marathon.

Nike spent ten years trying to break the 2-hour marathon. They named a project after it. They built special shoes. They paid the greatest marathoner alive to chase it. Yesterday, a Kenyan runner finally did it in 1:59:30, wearing Adidas. Sabastian Sawe used to be a pacemaker. A pacemaker is the kind of runner you hire to set the speed for the first few miles of a race and then drop out before the finish. In January 2022, Sawe got booked to do exactly that at a half-marathon in Spain. He'd never raced more than three miles in his life. He stayed in for the full 13 and won the whole thing. Adidas signed him not long after. Four years later, he became the first human ever to run an official marathon under 2 hours. Nike, meanwhile, started this whole project in 2016 with a public goal called "Breaking2." They paid for the shoes, the pacemakers, the science labs, and Eliud Kipchoge himself. Kipchoge ran 1:59:40 in Vienna in 2019, but the event was a closed-course exhibition with rotating pacemakers and a pace car projecting a green laser line onto the road. The sport's governing body never recognized it as a real race. It didn't count. Then Nike's running business cratered. Digital sales fell 26% in one quarter. Their share of footwear sold at Dick's Sporting Goods went from 39% to 32% in five months. On Running grew from $330 million to $1.8 billion between 2020 and 2025. Hoka nearly quadrupled. Roger Federer left Nike for On. Nike's board fired the CEO in October 2024. Adidas spent the same period building a better shoe. The new Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 took three years to develop. It weighs 97 grams, about 3.4 ounces, lighter than a deck of cards. A Wall Street Journal-cited study found that wearing a shoe 3.5 ounces lighter saves a runner around 57 seconds across a marathon. Sawe beat the third-place finisher by 58 seconds. Adidas also did something Nike never did for Kipchoge. They wrote a $50,000 check to the official anti-doping body for track and field, asking it to test Sawe more aggressively than any other runner alive. He got tested 25 times in the two months before last year's Berlin Marathon, and Adidas signed up to fund this for the length of his contract. The logic: the moment Sawe ran a marathon this fast, the world was going to ask if he cheated, especially after his countrywoman Ruth Chepngetich got a 3-year doping ban in 2025. Adidas got out ahead of it. The shoe retails at $500 and is barely available. Adidas's Adizero shoes won half of all major marathon races in 2024. Yesterday in London, four of the top five finishers wore the same Adidas shoe. Yomif Kejelcha crossed the line 11 seconds after Sawe and also broke 2 hours. The top three runners all beat the previous world record. Nike's only response was an Instagram post. Three sentences long: "The clock has been reset. There is no finish line." That was their entire public reaction to losing a 10-year moonshot to their biggest rival.

Karoline Leavitt compares free-speaking Americans who question and criticize their government to an attempted presidential assassin. They’re coming for free speech.

Trying to figure out where you went wrong building that IKEA cupboard

If you’ve ever wondered why K** and P*el* don’t work together anymore, well, watch the next video in this thread.

I’m glad I got to this payoff because acting like you’re having an allergic reaction to a plant until someone points out it’s fake and then acting like nothing happened is insane and hilarious

I realize that laws don't matter anymore, but for me if you are going to cover Florida redistricting, you must lead with the fact that whatever is being proposed here is explicitly prohibited by the state constitution. What are we even doing here.

This is a crazy outcome for a human rights lawyer appointed by the UN to do her job

Life is a marathon, not a sprint *pulls out calculator and divides 1:59:30 by 26.2* alright, you know what, life might be multiple things simultaneously

WHAT?!... DOJ Lawyer Sarah M. Harris who is arguing on behalf of the Trump Admin tomorrow in favor of Monsanto Bayer - also used to clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas (who used to work for Monsanto). And also worked on Bayer Monsanto cases at her previous lawfirm. Is this case rigged from the start?fedsoc.org/bio/sarah-harr…

> Republicans steal 14 Congressional seats by brutally gerrymandering mid-cycle. > Democrats respond with temporary maps and the consent of the people to take 9 back. Democrats also propose legislation to ban gerrymandering federally. The media: Both sides are bad!!!

Trump is now trying to pass the FISA spying act, using his 'assassination attempt' as 'evidence' it is needed. The act will allow the US (and Palantir) to collect unlimited information on any non-US national, anywhere in the world without a warrant OR any reason to do so.

Remember when I said data centers will compete against humans for THREE things? 1) Power grid. 2) Land. 3) WATER. It's here.

DYSTOPIAN doesn't even begin to cover it. You'll want to sit down for this one.. hopefully it's not in your new black mirror vehicle. 👇 In new patents filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office (Serial No. 20250104469), Ford is envisioning a future where your pickup turns into a rolling police station. And we don’t mean just a bunch of new safety features; the new patents envision your truck as a 24/7 surveillance outpost. 👁️ Biometric Checks: From the comfort of your own driveway, your eyes will be scanned, and that iris and fingerprint checked against a database of criminals - real-time results received within seconds. 🧠 Did you know? Your car can put you in an Emotional Lockout! If your vehicle senses that you are in a “panic” driving state or have the “big eyes” (unintentionally locking onto an object for too long), the vehicle will determine that you are not fit to drive. The vehicle will remain in a Park state and will not allow the shifter to transition into the Drive state. 👂 Ad Spying – using acoustic waves to read your lips and display monitored conversations to you in order to serve you targeted ads for maximum monetization. 🚔 Law Enforcement: The live feeds in the footages "by Ford" are not encrypted and thus can be used for Law Enforcement Integration. Ford's own patent language for this feature describes the live feeds as "potentially useful for police". This isn't "coming soon" - it's already here. • Smart Eye monitoring software is already in use in over 4 million vehicles worldwide. • To comply with EU regulations such as the Future Truck 2025 concept, GSR, drowsiness system will be a mandatory feature on board. • Ford currently offers live in-cabin Ford Pro Telematics feeds to its fleet manager customers. The future is looking more like a world where you pay for your name and reputation , but everyone else profits off of your private information and influence. Surveillance society: It’s not just the new spying tech that’s the problem - it’s that all older vehicles are being gradually driven off the road and taken out of commission through legislation and a parts shortage, leaving drivers with a hollow choice. All is not lost. But we’re not just losing privacy. We’re losing the concept of an exit ramp. How long do you plan to keep your "analog" car on the road?

You deserve to be shoved into a locker if you are Venmoing the U.S. government to help pay the national debt.

The idea that a policy decision made several months ago can set off an apocalyptic chain of events seems to baffle people now. They assume if planes don’t start falling out of the sky within 48 hours everything turned out fine and the naysayers were being hysterical

This guy spent $3,140 on chocolate pudding and got 1.25 MILLION free airline miles His name is David Phillips and in May 1999 he was a 35 year old civil engineer at UC Davis when he spotted a Healthy Choice promotion It was offering 500 frequent flyer miles for every 10 product barcodes mailed in, doubled to 1,000 miles if you mailed them in by May 31 He did the math on the cheapest Healthy Choice product he could find Individual chocolate pudding cups were on sale at his local Grocery Outlet for 25 cents each, meaning $2.50 of pudding could buy him 1,000 airline miles The airlines themselves valued those miles at around $20 He drove a van from store to store across California with his mother in law, cleaned out 10 different Grocery Outlets around the Sacramento area and ended up with 12,150 pudding cups stacked from his garage to his living room When suspicious cashiers asked what he was doing he told them he was "stocking up for Y2K" The early bird deadline was 3 weeks away and there was no way he could peel that many barcodes alone, so he called the Salvation Army and proposed a trade He would donate all 12,150 cups if their volunteers peeled the labels off first This donation also got him an $815 federal tax write off on top of everything He mailed the barcodes in by the deadline and then heard absolutely nothing back for 2 months His friends told him corporations always get out of promotions like this and his kids even started asking him if he got scammed Then a giant package showed up at his door with paper certificates worth 1,253,000 frequent flyer miles, which made him a lifetime AAdvantage Gold member at American Airlines and was worth around $150,000 in flights The Wall Street Journal put him on the front page in January 2000 and the London Times wrote about him a week later Over the next 5 years he flew his entire family to 43 countries, and in 2002 director Paul Thomas Anderson loosely based the movie Punch Drunk Love on him Adam Sandler made a movie about him and he paid for the ticket with pudding