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James's Lame Blog

[unrelentingcheeseburgers-ss13]

It's Elephants Foot Friday!!!!

RB to instantly receive 8000 roentgens of radiation

[shirtsthatgohard]

[cipheramnesia]

Incredible shirt you could give to Fidel Castro or maybe crimew.

[swordofomens]

Does she have a tumblr?

[cipheramnesia]

I don't think Fidel Castro has a Tumblr, no.

[nyancrimew]

they really gotta get fidel castro on here

[theinturnetexplorer]

laser-free diet.

[floatingwithobrien]

y'all need to hear about gerb.

gerb was my high school physics teacher. (gerb is short for mr. gerber.) when we were learning about radiation and whatnot, and we touched on radiation poisoning, gerb decided to tell us a story.

when gerb was in high school, he worked in a supermarket. a cashier. there was this one little old lady, mrs. cassopolis, who was a regular. mrs. cassopolis firmly believed that the lasers used to scan her food items would give her radiation poisoning. they tried to explain that’s not a thing. but old cass wouldn’t hear a word of it.

the employees had to punch in every. last. grocery. item. MANUALLY.

and this woman would buy cartfulls of food every week, like any good grandma trying to feed her five children and eighteen grandchildren every time they come for a Sunday visit. so pretty soon, the employees figured out a strategy to get her on her way and get on with their lives.

one or more employees would distract old cass while the cashier would scan all the items he could as fast as humanly possible while she wasn’t paying attention.

now this supermarket had a rewards program for its most efficient workers. the computer would track how quickly the cashiers scanned items, and how many total they scanned in one day, that kind of thing. so one day, gerb’s boss came to him and said “uh,”

“you scanned three hundred items in six minutes last Tuesday during your shift” and gerb says “i recall” “that’s about four times faster than anything i’ve ever seen” and gerb says “yea ok” “jeremy what happened?”

and gerb says

“i had to save a little old woman from placebo radiation”

[kesus-deactivated20180911]

The only good thing reddit has ever produced https://www.reddit.com/r/casualiama/comments/65788g/im_3_i_know_everything_ama/?st=1Z141Z3&sh=f48ba715

[surprisebitch]

wholesome

[eroticcannibal]

This post missed the best one

[paxamericana]

[federaldust]

Important to note that Reddit’s taste hasn’t gotten any better either in response to this

[galapagosvagrant]

[catchymemes]

[jaubaius]

How it can be..

[felix-the-snow-cheetah]

[buttershee]

Idc if the kitten girl who has nine girlfriends and leaked the nofly list uses a label you personally disapprove of she’s literally cooler than you

[cheezitthefuzz]

I keep hearing bits and pieces of this story and every one makes this person sound more fucking amazing

can anyone tell me the whole shenanigan?

[buttershee]

Basically a trans woman who’s a bisexual lesbian kitten therian who uses she/it pronouns and has nine girlfriends hacked into an airport via a public server and was able to leak the entire TSA no-fly list and announced it on its pink kitten blog with a “Holy fucking bingle. What?! :3” which is a pretty big cybersecurity breach and obviously everyone thought it was the coolest thing ever until the twitter mobs found out about the “bisexual lesbian” part and got pissed at her for being queer the wrong way. And it’s really really funny that they think they can tell a literal enemy of the state how to label her sexuality.

[vaspider]

It's always "be gay do crime" until the crime is against your self-constructed orthodoxy of queerness which you've convinced yourself will get the cishets to respect you for sure this time.

[the-final-sif]

I feel like there's two parts to the no fly list leak that are getting overlooked right now

1) the person in question has the handle "maia arson crimew" meaning media outlets have to cite "crimew" as the person they're quoting, which is amazing.

2) From everything I've read, crimew didn't actually commit a crime (in this case at least). According to Crimew, the no-fly list was discovered on a publicly accessible server, totally unsecured. Crimew was using Shodan which is a totally legal tool regularly used by a lot of the security community for research. Schools use and provide access to Shodan, it's a normal tool. Nothing Crimew was doing was out of the ordinary. Their access and use of the file was most likely legal (or at least next to impossible to prosecute), given that it was publicly accessible.

Crimew even notified CommuteAir of the data vulnerability. Which prevented more sensitive data from leaking, and was absolutely a sign of acting in good faith. Her obligation to even do that is a pretty gray area, but they did it anyways.

Now, Crimew has gotten charged by the US in the past for other things, however, Swiss citizens cannot be extradited against their will. So the proceedings were suspended. She could only be charged under Swiss law, and given that the data is/was publicly accessible and the exposure was for public good, that's very unlikely to happen.

The people actually getting investigated by congress/the FBI/the TSA are the idiots at CommuteAir that were hosting the no fly list on an unsecured publicly accessible server. They're the ones who actually get in trouble for failing to have followed basic security protocols. They're the ones who had a legal obligation to safe guard that data, and they're the ones who fucked up.

[swarnpert]

kiss has to be one of the most disappointing bands ever. imagine hearing about this crazy rock band that dresses up in insane costumes and wears face paint and the one guy looks super demonic and has a really long tongue and everyone says they're satanic and then you listen to them and they're just singing about how they wanna bone but it's in a socially acceptable tongue in cheek way that your dad likes

[i-am-an-atomic-bomb]

[jtightpants]

[ralfmaximus]

Reblog to come play this stupid homemade board game we're all making.

[northcackalackycryptid]

last night in Moore County, NC, right wing extremists shot up three electrical substations, leaving 38,000 people without power since 7pm yesterday. this is in response to a drag show that was supposed to be hosted at that time. here is the response from the woman who organized the initial protests against the drag show:

Christian extremism in the U.S. has more than boiled over at this point, but I fucking hate to see it so close to home. Whoever did this and left so many people without power did it with the intent scaring people and of the show not being able to go on, and at the risk of people dying. Moore county has a large elderly population, and they’ve now been without power for 12+ hours. This is the danger we face as a community for even trying to exist in spaces of the country spoiled by the atrocity of violent right wing hatred.

[susansontag]

thought this was neat

[becomedog]

if on something like giving the option of a gift of food you are like “but what if i AM crossing a boundary/being rude” i’ll share an exchange between my therapist and myself i often think of:

me: “i just want to respect their boundaries”

therapist: “you can’t respect boundaries when they haven’t expressed them. those aren’t their boundaries, those are your assumptions.”

[isquirtkerosine]

This is the hot coffee case all over again isn’t it

[up-north-values]

No it isn't. The hot coffee case involved an elderly woman getting 3rd degree burns (where your skin is cooked off of your body) because a McDonalds served coffee at just about boiling, despite having many complaints about burns in the past. Also, the woman suing only asked for medical costs, the jury slapped a huge punitive judgement on top of that.

[isquirtkerosine]

Yeah that’s what I mean. Like is this case really what’s happening in this headline or a corporate smear campaign

[notafain]

The TL;DR (i read the the thing on classaction.org)

Kraft says their single serve cups are ready in 3.5 minutes total. True, it take 3.5 minutes to microwave the cup, but there's more prep time and the instructions call for more ingredients, such as water. There's also the additional time it take to stir in the cheese powder. So in actuality, it could take closer to 5-6 minutes (estimating here).

Because Kraft is selling the speed and convenience of the single serve, it's sold at a premium (11 bucks for an 8 pack, excluding tax, which yowza!), which is much higher than similar products that, in reality, would take as much time to prepare as the Velveeta.

Like I can't speak for everyone but I see those Velveeta cups at the grocery store and they're more expensive than even the other Kraft single serves, and you just know it's not because of the Velveeta powder.

This is a class action lawsuit. The plaintiff isn't getting all 5 million, it'll go to everyone who is *COPD with chronic bronchitis ad voice* entitled to financial compensation.

The firm representing the plaintiff specializes in cases like this, which also includes cases such as Frito-Lay lying about not using real lime in their "hint of lime" Tostito chips (so they can charge more), Kellogg lying about how much fruit they (don't) put in their fruit pop-tarts in spite of the advertising (so they can charge more), the use of synthetic vanilla in premium goods claiming to have real vanilla (so they can charge more), and, oh yeah, arsenic in baby food.

If you're wondering why this matters, consider that this isn't a MRE. It needs prep, not just in time but in additional ingredients, which would be damned inconvenient at best if, say, you didn't have access to water. This, and the time issue, is, in a very real sense, false advertising. It stands to reason that Kraft made a decent profit off this false advertising.

In a similar vein (see: "hint of lime" chips not having lime but a vaguely defined "natural flavoring"), it's about truth in the advertised product, and that the company knew it was lying to its customers. Like if Special K isn't putting real blueberries in its cereal (just pineapple and blue dye), but advertising the cereal as having those blueberries, what happens if a kid allergic to pineapple, or allergic to the dye used, eats the cereal and has a reaction? What if there's no water to make the damn macaroni and cheese?

Cases like this give the more serious cases (ARSENIC. BABY FOOD.) more of a legal foothold.

You can't really say "burn corporations to the ground" or "lol kill jeff bezos" and in that same breath call the plaintiff a stupid Karen or whatever for calling out the obvious bullshit Kraft is pulling here. Those single serve cups are freaking expensive for what you get and are sold at a markup because they promise a convenience that they don't actually deliver on.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Good. Take ‘em for every dollar. The only way to disincentivise companies from blatantly lying to us about their products is to make it not financially beneficial to do so. I’m sick of being lied to at the supermarket.

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

Hell is a place where companies make bank off the aggrieved father of a dead child for the removal of the child’s organs for donation.

[darwins-finch]

Oh and then, the recipient is charged hundreds of thousands of dollars for a DONATED ORGAN.

Not as in that this is just the cost of the procedure; but the hospital charges YOU $150k-800k for an organ they were given FOR FREE from a dead child whose parents have to pay to store and/or transport said organ which costs THEM $2k-30k.

Source: I work in insurance.

[biglawbear]

I don’t know how you can look at this shit and not be radicalized

[noveltytwist-deactivated2026052]

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