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People are painful.

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I once helped my parents with a few minor things on one of their computers. Two weeks later I get a call... They have no internet on any of their devices. Obviously since I was the last one to work on their stuff I was the cause of the internet issue. While on the phone I hear my dad's weather radio go off and my phone dings with a severe weather warning for their area.

I ask if they are currently experiencing any bad weather... And they confirm that they have a very nasty thunderstorm and a confirmed tornado on the ground a few miles outside of the town... And they have no power.

I just hung up...

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While that is true... There is still a ton of high school bullshit going on, especially in workplaces.

All the same drama and gossip... I'm so glad I don't work in an office anymore.

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TIL The Katy Freeway in Houston, TX was expanded in 2008 to 26 lanes (one of the widest in the world) and 5 years later had longer peak travel times than before the expansion

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You don't really... You exit and follow the service road until you find a way to get across, usually by going under.

I hate driving in Texas because this kind of shit is everywhere. Middle of nowhere and want to get to the rest area ahead? Exit and follow the service road for a mile.

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I had one where yes everything was plugged in but... The power strips never plugged into the wall... They were just plugged into each other.

That one turned out to be an annoying bit of cable management that I wouldn't have had to do if they would have just left things alone and let me handle the original ticket

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It's been tried. A huge percentage of the internet runs on Amazon web services... And a massive ddos attack on that barely bumped it beyond the level of holiday shopping.

To get anywhere on "taking down the internet" they'd probably have to physically take out many sites across the globe.

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Well done steaks are fine as long as they aren't dry... This picture is of a piece of meat most of the way to jerky without anything that makes jerky good.

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UnitedHealthcare CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione suggests evidence ‘planted’ after arrest

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I'm sure there is a lot more to the story but the dude was called in because he sort of resembled the pictures and a Karen min wage worker thought he was a little sus... Add in that she immediately tried to claim the reward.

Also, the sheer amount of damning evidence found on him is incredibly suspicious... That was all in his backpack... The day after they found the backpack in central park full of monopoly money. Absolutely nothing about this manhunt and suspect makes sense. Even accounting for social media misinformation this whole thing is almost too much satire to be real.