Today I Learned...
TIL that the raeson why water doesnt enter our buttholes when we fart or spread our asscheeks arbitrarily is because, is because the human body is engineered after the principle of the submarine, who is also doesnt the water doesnt enter his butthole when he enlarges rectum to shoot tortilas
google cancels stadia
This was a self-fulfilling prophesy. Google has a deserved reputation for cancelling popular projects so everyone assumed this one would be cancelled as well. The project managers even tried to explain how they were "really, really not going to cancel the service this time, we promise" but people continued to doubt and now it's happened.
In their defense, stadia was a hard sell. Google wanted you to rent your games from them in perpetuity in exchange for not having to buy the latest gaming hardware (though you still needed a fast internet connection). I've been very vocal about never renting software (or even using closed source) but I don't think this view is very widely shared.
Google is now in a situation where no-one will use any of their cloud services because they will eventually shut them down - regardless of their popularity, and any promises they make can be considered a lie. This has been true since they killed google reader.
or so the joke goes, but at this point I wouldn't trust google even if they did bring back reader. What we want is to return to the time when google was an engineering company run by engineers striving to advance the human race. Today google just wants money and will do anything to get it; including tricking people via adware, gaining a browser monopoly and then pushing a plugin model to force people to view ads, and working with the military to kill people.
I believe their "Don't be evil" motto was sincere when it was uttered. I suppose capitalism destroys everything.
Whoever says wrestling isn't real needs to watch this.
It's certainly very entertaining. This is Luigi Primo. You can read his biopic in that link.
His training regimen involves throwing hundreds (over a thousand by his estimate) of pizzas every day and running in place for hours.
When he has his opponents down on the mat, he's been known to "top" them with cheese and vegetables in a grotesque perversion of the pizza-making process.
He's rumored to be the father of Pastaman:
The match in which they wrestled:
recognizing Pastaman's great wrestling talent, the chef proffered his own legs to be broken. Overcome by love, however, the tenderhearted, alfredo-slathered beast threw his chair aside and embraced the mustachioed pizza-artist. the touching moment was cut short when a waiter entered the ring to take Pastaman to be eaten by a couple at a restaurant. Primo, never a friend to the service industry, and Pastaman, a devotee of violence in many forms, proceeded to stomp on the waiter until he could no longer speak, and then topped him with Ragu and mozzarella in an incident referred to as the "Parmageddon."
There are other videos of his matches online but I was most intrigued by this interview where he talks about wrestling. The interview isn't anything special but he has a definite italian accent.
Venezualian navy attacks cruise ship
I was confused by news of a Venezuelan navy ship firing on and colliding with a cruise ship in international waters. There's video of them firing on the cruise ship and failing to ram the icebreaker.
Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro accused the captain of the cruise ship of "piracy" and "terrorism",[14] adding later that he did not rule out that RCGS Resolute was "carrying mercenaries to attack onshore military bases".[15][16] The Venezuelan minister of defence said RCGS Resolute's action was an act of "imperial aggression".[17]
The excuse given on the wikipedia page about the incident is unhinged and it was only when I read closer and saw it was Maduro, our Trumpian South American dictator that it started to make sense.
Several Venezuelans chimed in on the twitter thread suggesting they were attempting to rob the cruise ship. It's funny how you don't hear about piracy much these days.
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