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4 days ago |
cracked.com | Ryan Menezes
Do you roll your eyes when a movie lectures the audience, offering some heavy-handed political message? If so, bad news: You’re around 10 years out-of-date when it comes to what you’re supposed to complain about. Today, it seems the biggest sin any story can commit is failing to formally deliver a lesson and promote a clear political view. The public refers to this failure as the crime of bothsidesism.
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6 days ago |
cracked.com | Ryan Menezes
In a movie, we might see a glimpse of a background news story on TV or in a newspaper. Characters will ignore it, not realizing that it foreshadows the disaster about to strike. We don’t experience that exact thing in real life. Mostly, that’s because the biggest headlines nowadays explicitly tell us about the world’s imminent destruction, and we all know exactly what that means. But there are also other stories out there, whose sinister implications we miss.
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6 days ago |
cracked.com | Ryan Menezes
This week brought news of an especially horrific plane crash, the deadliest in over a decade and among the deadliest ever. We’d like to take your mind off that with some random facts, only three of which are related to airplanes. If you read carefully, you might also learn a bit about how to make a fortune or at least how to avoid being fooled by Big Antiseptic.
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1 week ago |
cracked.com | Ryan Menezes
The artist who sings a song isn’t the only person responsible for it. Maybe someone else wrote it, and a whole team at a studio might have worked to put the record together. Occasionally, you’ll see a song credited to someone like Mark Ronson or Marshmello, whose voice is nowhere on the track, and this is fair because they were the real person behind the song.
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1 week ago |
cracked.com | Ryan Menezes
You might not guess it, from hearing how much everyone complains about costs, but the average person spends a smaller chunk of their income on groceries now than anytime in the past. A lot of us spend more on food overall than people used to, because we order so much from restaurants, with a frequency that our grandparents would consider madly extravagant, but groceries? Even as inflation raises the numbers on those price tags, groceries are more affordable than ever.
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My god. The latest Sabrina Carpenter clip is the most depraved one yet: https://t.co/0w2rXIKBRm
This illustrates of how long a million days is. But I don't think this helps anyone see how much a billion dollars is. Okay, it's 2,700 years of daily $1k's. But when we really spend a billion, it ends up being four days of highway maintenance.
People really don’t understand how much a billion dollars is. It’s 2025. If I went back in time and buried a thousand dollars in a hole every single day starting on the first day of 1 AD, I would still be over 700 years away from having a billion dollars in that hole.
He did not keep a straight face. He was joking. Everyone in the room knew he was joking. They all laughed. https://t.co/8y4GnaV0td