"the only reason he failed is because someone never saw a Bugatti in his life" is an incredible sentence because it means the man's entire scheme collapsed due to the rarity of his own vehicle. if he'd done this with a BMW nobody would have been filming. he picked the one car on earth that guarantees bystander documentation. the optimal car for insurance fraud is one nobody looks twice at. he chose the most conspicuous object on any road. the crime was sophisticated.
the vehicle selection was catastrophically stupid
This man destroyed a $1 million car on PURPOSE
Andy House bought a Bugatti Veyron for $1 million and insured it for $2.2 million
A few days later he drove it straight into the ocean near Texas
Left the engine running so saltwater would destroy every part of it
A random driver happened to be filming because he'd never seen a Bugatti in person
The video shows him driving straight into the water
No swerving, no braking, nothing
His excuse: a "low flying pelican" scared him but there wasn't a single pelican in sight
The video hit YouTube with over 5 million views
Investigators watched it and charged him with insurance fraud
He tried to turn a $1 million car into a $2.2 million check and the only reason he failed is because someone never saw a Bugatti in his life
Queer editor James Ball declares Bluesky a “dying social network,” blaming aggressive censoriousness by Blueskyites of perceived ideological enemies:
“There's a large cadre that basically cheers on chasing off any lib/centrist/academic who's the punchbag of the day. There's a culture of saying ‘fuck off back to X, then.’ And the anti- bedtime leftists set too much of the culture.
“I don't know if it's fixable, especially as I think quite a lot of the people here don't *want* to fix it. But at the rate users are quitting they'll run out of targets soon enough, and the rest of us will lose what is – for a fair few of us I suspect – the last fun/useful social network. Sigh.”
🔥🚨DEVELOPING: Hundreds of Americans are stunned after learning about this 3 bed 2.5 bath house near Houston Texas under $300,000 with just $10,000 down.
There are over 400K US households with a net worth of over $30 mil.
That’s more than the populations of over two dozen countries!
What an incredible story of innovation and achievement.
Some Europeans make life a bit nicer for the lazy and less productive.
Congrats I guess.
@XristosDervish1@OoferD2@DragonBall43ver Well, Americans invent the process and technology that every single cartoon in this OPs image uses. I don’t know what the Europeans did prior to this, but whatever they invented was not widely adopted.
Reminder: On the left a ballistic test some MAGA Bros did on YouTube showing what an AR-15 would do to a human ear trying to prove Trump was hit by a bullet. On the right Trump less than 2 weeks after his ear was supposedly struck by a bullet.
Young Americans are having mental breakdowns realizing the cost of rent, gas and life means they’ll never be able to afford anything
They are breaking down knowing that no matter how much they work, it all just goes to monthly bills they still cant afford
This is unsustainable
@thegubblerlogos@JeremiahDJohns Frankly I don't really pay attention to new music these days, so I have no idea really, but some of the fav albums of my youth are debut albums from the 90s, 00s & 10s. That being said, I think a lot of artists don't peak until their 2nd or 3rd album so maybe the 20s is a lull
I’ve got lists going back to the 50s and I’m struggling to come up with one in the last 15-20
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Women ?
Broadcasts the noise made by people
Electrelane - the power out
If you count sun kil moon ghost of the great highway
But had to reach far back for all of those
I've written about this before, but it's remarkable how much older music is strangling new music.
And the same is true in books, movies, video games. Older media is taking up a bigger and bigger share of the market every year.