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  1. The Muftak

    More than half of all “long shot” bets on Polymarket pay off

    Hell, I've been in seedy casinos that don't allow it, that's how fucked up this is. Polymarkets are more like back alley cockfights, but with less shame.
  2. The Muftak

    ABC can beat Trump FCC’s license threat if owner Disney is willing to fight

    John Oliver summed it up best last time Carr wanted to "punish" ABC/Disney:
  3. The Muftak

    Retro Rewind re-creates the glorious drudgery of working a ’90s video store

    And if so, does it have a set of swinging doors just high enough for kids to wander under?
  4. The Muftak

    A word from Editor Moonshark about Artemis II

    View: https://youtu.be/U8V2U7vTys0?si=Vw4wnuuqC0SUDMOW
  5. The Muftak

    Water utility announces it’s ditching fluoride—then reveals it did so years ago

    I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said "I ❤️ asbestos" among other right-wing troll slogans.
  6. The Muftak

    Tesla slashes Cybertruck prices as it tries to move (unpainted) metal

    Wouldn't buy even if Telsa gave me one.
  7. The Muftak

    US government finds new excuse to stop construction of offshore wind

    God, I love all this winning. /s
  8. The Muftak

    Microsoft makes Copilot “human-centered” with a ‘90s-style animated assistant

    It's the ghost of Bob, forever trapped between the realm of the living and the dead.
  9. The Muftak

    Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement

    We weren't taken over by Big Brother, we invited him in.
  10. The Muftak

    DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026

    Here's my pic: Good fucking luck, DirecTV.
  11. The Muftak

    DJ Bruce Lee and Jackass Mr. Rogers—dead celebrities become puppets in Sora 2 videos

    I'll have you know that the Stephen Hawking video is 100% real. My uncle's cousin's father sent it to all his email contacts with the header "RE:RE:RE:RE:RE So inspiring! ❤️🙏", so it's gotta be true.
  12. The Muftak

    HBO Max subscribers lose access to CNN livestream on November 17

    I've been listening to NPR during my morning and afternoon commutes and the reporting is pretty good.
  13. The Muftak

    HBO Max subscribers lose access to CNN livestream on November 17

    Serious question: With all of the media consolidation, partisan bias, and general appeasement to the current government in news reporting, are there any trusted news site/outlets that Ars users swear by (other than Ars Technica itself, of course :))?
  14. The Muftak

    Trump pacifies anti-vaccine allies by trashing shots alongside Tylenol

    I remember when my kids were born the doctor came into the room with a vat, pulled out a metric shit ton of vaccines, and used a dart gun to inject them into the five-minute old baby.
  15. The Muftak

    RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine panel realizes it has no idea what it’s doing, skips vote

    Holy shit, we are fucked.
  16. The Muftak

    FCC derided as “Federal Censorship Commission” after pushing Jimmy Kimmel off ABC

    For those wondering what Kimmel said: View: https://youtu.be/-j3YdxNSzTk?si=kewtHaSg7xGIH3Ug
  17. The Muftak

    Thirty years later, SimCity 2000 hasn’t changed, but I have

    Those damn Launch arcos also left you with a mess to clean up, and dropped your population by 19.5 million, but at least they compensated you for the construction costs.
  18. The Muftak

    Thirty years later, SimCity 2000 hasn’t changed, but I have

    It's because the transit guy will have his revenge.
  19. The Muftak

    Thirty years later, SimCity 2000 hasn’t changed, but I have

    Time to find those old cities I build way back in 1993, and try to clean up the radioactive mess I left San Francisco in.
  20. The Muftak

    In win for infectious diseases, Florida to end all school vaccine requirements

    Florida: Where woke, and everything else, goes to die.