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Makes me wonder what ever happened to “Cash for Gold”. Just put your extra gold jewelry in an envelope and mail it off . . .  Read more

They asked to send cryptocurrency to get more people to use crypto and to make the world a better place. Read more

Just the lady whose father has dementia and bought 1500 bucks worth of apple gift cards. It’s hard to keep track of every single little thing an elderly parent is doing (My mother has early-stage frontotemporal dementia and I recently began helping my dad out with her so I have a little experience with stuff like… Read more

The only one I feel bad for is the one whose father has dementia. The rest were just obsessed with musk and dumb enough to think a multibillionaire needs financial help?  Read more

The only difference between Actually Elon and Scammer Elon is who gets the money, all Elon is Scam Elon.
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Crypto. Read more

Anyone reasonable would see Elon Musk attached to something and immediately get as far away from it as possible. Telsa stans don’t think like the rest of us. Read more

To be honest, Muskrats are there for the taking. Believers in Musk have already checked their critical thinking skills at the door, so it’s a market where everyone you try to scam are already stupid enough to fall for scams. You don’t have to waste your time with people who can think critically, you just go directly… Read more

I dunno, this all sounds like shit Elon would do. I wouldn’t rule him out just yet. Read more

So... it’s a bus. Read more

Folks......... this is a bus Read more

Also known as a bus. Read more

so it’s a bus route, except maybe you won’t see a poor person? truly innovative Read more

Here’s one from Getty from the floor. Looks like plenty of standing room last night.

With a Company-Wide Email, a Question: To Reply? Read more

The problem with this blog is that this has never happened, ever, to anyone. Read more

As for history’s playing linguistic tricks on us — a long time ago when the world was young, I remember reading about a computer on a B-29 Superfortress. It sounded like a mistake on the writer’s part, because surely there were no computers in 1944? Certainly not computers small enough to fit onto a plane! Read more

Makes sense. “Telephone” is Greek for “distant voice” or “distant sound.” That can apply to a one-way transmission of sound as well as to a two-way — compare to “television,” which is usually one-way even today.
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Okay, so the milkman idea is a bust. Read more

We did. In Santa Barbara, must have been mid-to-late 80's. You’d leave a little order tag out with the glass bottles in a carrier, and could order everything from skim to heavy cream and butter. Memory was he came twice a week, and they delivered really early, so it was like Christmas (for a fat kid that liked dairy… Read more