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1. about 12 hours ago on Maria's Day

   It used to be, though. Well, not the entire world, but whatever team won it.

2. about 12 hours ago on Next Door Neighbors

   I guess it was the Pool Noodle Incident.

3. 2 days ago on Frazz

   If green crabs were the size of humans, they’d be the only species on earth. They’re so agressive that they basically kill and eat anything else and they’re highly invasive.

4. 2 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Not every bank uses MasterLock, though.

5. 2 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Actually, yes, organized crime really is better, they know what they’re doing, so it’s less likely that there will be any innocent bystanders as casulties. On the other hand, disorganized crime might end up trying to rob the bank on a Sunday and their attempt will end when they realize that the bank is closed.

6. 3 days ago on Working Daze

   Let’s hope that Milton doesn’t burn down MMM now, not that anybody would notice.

7. 5 days ago on Working Daze

   There are some reality shows that are more real than others, but most are scripted dirt.

8. 6 days ago on JumpStart

   A few years ago they showed the complete image that the famous Nessie picture was cut out of. Turned out Nessie was less than 10 centimeters high.

9. 7 days ago on Working Daze

   Redshirts were statistically speaking actually most likely to survive. Yes, there were many redshirts who died, but redshirts were also the majority of members of any away mission. So if you’re a blue/green or yellow shirt that’s unlucky enough to find yourself on an away mission, your chances of making it home are actually way lower than those of any redshirt in the same party.

10. 10 days ago on Over the Hedge

    Back in 2012 two bored university students created a wikipedia entry about the Scottish inventor of the electric toaster: Alan MacMasters. They used the name of one of the students and the photo of the other student (his girlfriend did his hair in a 19th century style, then they used photoshop to age the photo and create a tear just below the neck, because they didn’t have any 19th century style clothing). Soon magazines picked up on it and wrote articles about the “forgotten scottish inventor” and the two students used these articles as sources for their hoax wikipedia entry. Alan MacMasters was honored with a dish on a British cooking show and nearly even made it onto the new British 50 GBP note (he was one of the suggestions the British bank had made for the new note). This hoax was only discovered in 2022, when a 15-year-old Wikipedia user flagged the photo as fake and photoshopped and the Wikipedia mods actually checked the photo’s meta data. The hoax now even has it’s own Wikipedia entry.

    And now here’s where AI comes into play: When you ask AI (google gemini or any other AI) “Who’s the inventor of the toaster?” the answer is still “The first electric toaster was developed by Alan MacMasters in Scotland in 1893 [Crompton toaster].”