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Former chef charged with 14 counts of murder for selling "suicide kits"
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In Ontario, Canada, former chef Kenneth Law, 58, was charged with 14 counts of murder in Canada for "counseling or aiding" suicides. Apparently Law sold "suicide kits" containing a food additive that can be deadly if consumed in large amounts. According to CBS News, Law "targeted vulnerable people online" and sent 1,200 orders to people across more than 40 countries: In Britain, at least 272 people purchased products from Law's websites and 88 of them died, police there have said. — Read the rest
Trump reels in MAGA suckers yet again with digital "trading cards"
It boggles the mind to know that there are people out there eager to pay $99 for a digital image of Donald Trump cosplaying as a cowboy, a cyborg, a superhero, or Abraham Lincoln. This is Trump's third series of digital trading cards. — Read the rest
Matt Gaetz receives a humiliating surprise "award"
Last Thursday, December 7th, widely disliked Florida Congressperson Matt Gaetz was at a Christmas party where he was to be presented with an award. The award was in recognition of Gaetz's alleged sex trafficking of a minor and was not actually intended to be complimentary. — Read the rest
Entire corner of 7-story Bronx apartment building collapses (video)
An entire corner wall of a seven-story building in the Bronx collapsed yesterday, leaving apartment units utterly destroyed and exposed. (See video below, posted by Rawsalerts.) Before the New York building collapsed, one resident reported hearing a "loud boom," while another ran down the hallway, shouting, "Everybody get out! — Read the rest
Marjorie Taylor Greene says Georgia can't have both batteries and bibles
In Marjorie Taylor Greene's divisive world, you can use batteries or read bibles, but never the twain shall meet. Or at least that's what she said at a town hall, as reported by Meidas Touch. "I'm very concerned over it and completely against it," she said about a new $4 billion – $5 billion plant Hyundai is planning to build northwest of Atlanta that would employee at least 3,500 people. — Read the rest
Turn your iPad into a laptop with this magic keyboard, now $160 off
TL;DR: An iPad offers plenty — but it's nothing compared to a laptop without a keyboard. That's where the Apple Magic Keyboard Folio for iPad 10th Gen. Typically retailing for $249, this open box model is currently available fror just $84.97 but you need to order by December 14 to ensure it arrives for the holidays. — Read the rest
MAGA Senator stumped by CNN reporter's question about fake electors
CNN's Kaitlan Collins doesn't suffer fools gladly. So when Senator Ron Johnson (MAGA-WI), who is too foolish to know how big of a fool he is, appeared for the interview unprepared to back up his claims, Collins went in for the kill. — Read the rest
YouTube accused of refusing to remove scam ads featuring deepfaked Elon Musk: "We found that the ad doesn't go against Google's policies"
YouTube users are noticing a sudden increase in the number of scammy ads on the platform, accompanied by distinterested moderation: a deepfake Elon pitching trading bots is the example bubbling virally up today on Reddit. Jakob_G writes: because these scam ads are getting so annoying i started reporting them every time i see one, because i do understand that there are probably millions of advertisers on YouTube and sometimes these scams don't get detected right away. — Read the rest