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aeronmelon

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  • I got this popup ad on my TV while watching a DVD

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  • The Roku box was one of the good ones... about ten years ago. Though maybe this is just a TV thing. TIL Roku makes actual screens.

    In the past few years especially, I've seen so many unshakable "good ones" go bad. Some, in the worst possible way.

  • Steve Jobs Rigged The First iPhone Demo By Faking Full Signal Strength And Secretly Swapping Devices Because Of Fragile Prototypes And Bug-Riddled Software

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  • Calling the stage units prototypes is being nice. The reality was that at that point the iPhone had barely gotten to a proof of concept stage. Months before this event, the developers were still using a giant desktop tower to simulate the phone's hardware.

    That the photos of the phone were real and not concept art, that the stage units weren't just unusable rubber dummies was a magic trick itself.

    When the developers revealed years later that the iPhone presentation (just the presentation, not even the actual launch) was a make or break moment for the company, they absolutely were not kidding.

    And then they went from "should not even be working" test units to fully functional production units in six months!

    Whatever your opinion of Jobs or Apple, credit where credit is due.

  • Shit story

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  • Wow, really? They're each other's doppelganger. And they're both on YouTube for their comedy work, bizarre.

    (I stand by my previous statement.)

  • Shit story

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  • Felicia Day is a treasure.

  • 7 students ate gummy bears from a bag that tested positive for fentanyl and fell sick. Now 2 people have been arrested

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  • Welp, the Yahoo! link is dead now.

    Based on what you copied, I guess he communicated in some way with the police but it doesn't say what the police did in response.

    Like I said, it feels so intentionally vague. For whatever reason, they don't want this case or the fate of the man to be reported on for now.

    I still don't think he was trying to make kids take drugs or hurt anyone like the two in OP's report.

  • Threads Has Begun Federating Via ActivityPub

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  • You do not want the lizard prince to touch your nuts.

  • 7 students ate gummy bears from a bag that tested positive for fentanyl and fell sick. Now 2 people have been arrested

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  • Maybe I'm translating it wrong, but I think it says they interviewed the people who were hospitalized. That's how they found out it was a guy passing them out.

    You would think they would have found him by now, yet I haven't seen any follow-up news about what happened.

  • These body standards are out of hand

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  • "For the Slenderperson in your life."

  • 7 students ate gummy bears from a bag that tested positive for fentanyl and fell sick. Now 2 people have been arrested

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  • Link? Every article I read says 'the police are investigating.'

  • 7 students ate gummy bears from a bag that tested positive for fentanyl and fell sick. Now 2 people have been arrested

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  • Well, yeah. But what's strange is there are no articles about the guy. Only the store that sold it and the company that made it. Can they not find him?

  • 7 students ate gummy bears from a bag that tested positive for fentanyl and fell sick. Now 2 people have been arrested

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  • re-reads old news articles

    (Damn, this was already a month ago.)

    So it was produced by an Osaka company, but the stores selling their product wasn't the reason people got sick. Some "guy" at an outdoors festival was passing them out to minors. The manufacture specifically forbade minors from buying or consuming them. Once festival bro bought them, it was out of their hands.

    And if the Japanese company that makes these gummies wants to keep making them, they do have to change recipe to omit HHCH. If they don't, they'll run afoul of the new law now banning it from use in Japan.

    Was HHCH the real reason 20 people got sick at one festival on one day? Dunno.

  • 7 students ate gummy bears from a bag that tested positive for fentanyl and fell sick. Now 2 people have been arrested

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  • I agree, we're taking them at their word.

    But I don't think they were trying to sidestep the marijuana ban in Japan. Just trying to offer some novelty product to separate tourists from their money.

    As I said, the incident in Japan was a complete accident unlike what happened with these two characters.

  • 7 students ate gummy bears from a bag that tested positive for fentanyl and fell sick. Now 2 people have been arrested

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  • The store in Japan was unaware of the chemical or what it could do, and there was no way for them to predict that their customers would have such an adverse reaction.

    The immediate response to the wave of illnesses in Japan was a change in Japanese law to ban that chemical and the shop immediately pulled it from sale and issued an apology.

    Neither the shop nor the Japanese government has any say regarding what the producer of the gummies does outside of Japan.

  • 7 students ate gummy bears from a bag that tested positive for fentanyl and fell sick. Now 2 people have been arrested

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  • I know it's wrong to judge people based on their appearances, but they look like they belong on Red Dead Redemption wanted posters.

  • 7 students ate gummy bears from a bag that tested positive for fentanyl and fell sick. Now 2 people have been arrested

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  • The cases in Japan were accidental, the sellers didn't realize what was in the gummies.

    This feels like intentional disregard for safety, at best.

  • Appeals court rejects Trump’s use of presidential immunity in E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit

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  • "I'M SAYING THAT WHEN THE PRESIDENT DOES IT, IT'S NOT ILLEGAL!!" - Some guy named Nixon

  • What's the equivalent now?

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  • Sets VCR to EP

    Challenge accepted

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  • It got a little out of hand with the original movies. Despite everyone wearing red jackets, their collars had colors based on their departments. There were seven in total at that time:

    • Red = Trainee
    • Light Green = Medical
    • Dark Green = Security
    • Yellow = Engineering
    • Blue = Special Services
    • Gray = Science
    • White = Command

  • Bill Gates thinks of himself as 'very nice' compared to Elon Musk and Steve Jobs

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  • Steve Jobs was also philanthropic, he just chose not to be vocal about it.

    Bill doesn't come off as kind, rather amicable more than anything else. He knows how to shmooze. And constantly complaining about petty things, and still comparing himself to Jobs, in the news means he still can't let go of the past.

    But I agree with you. As long as he's giving his money away for causes that benefit the public, I couldn't care less what kind of person he is.