MT-LB-2M-3s. Via social media Those bizarre, improvised armored vehicles the Russian army is manufacturing—80-year-old naval guns on top of only slightly less aged armored chassis—are starting to make...
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Weird crypto quirk sees user turn $1.45 into $2 million
Amid the madness of the last 24 hours, with the USDC stablecoin depegging and fears over how much this will impact the wider crypto market, there was a peculiar trade that stood out. In it, one ...
Swedish Missiles. Emirati Armored Trucks. The Ukrainian Army’s Newest Mechanized Brigade Has A Weird Mix Of Weapons.
An 88th Mechanized Brigade Panthera F9 armored truck. 88th Mechanized Brigade photo The Ukrainian army has been forming new mechanized brigades as fast as it can recruit, train and equip the troops. I...
Kraken is on track to launch bank ‘very soon’ despite regulatory ‘weird place’
Kraken is moving ahead with plans to launch its own bank despite a challenging regulatory environment and the recent shuttering of its on-chain staking services for U.S. clients to settle U.S. Securit...
Weird Winter Weather Set To Send Wheat Prices Back Higher
MYRONIVKA, UKRAINE – JULY 29: A stork flies above a wheat field as a combine harvester of TVK Seed … [+] agricultural company harvests wheat on July 29, 2022 not far from Myronivka, Ukrain...
Great Investing and Trading Requires This ‘Weird’ Combination
Market action, like we have on Thursday, brings to mind something that Warren Buffett’s business partner, Charlie Munger, said: Good investing requires a weird combination of patience and aggres...
Gold price forecast: gold bugs & equity investors are on the same team (and that’s weird!)
Call me a boomer, but I love talking about gold. It occupies such a funny little place, both in financial markets and the human psych. This enigmatic metal is equally at on a Bloomberg terminal ticke...
Illinois lawmaker floats ‘weird’ digital property protection bill
Illinois’ Sen. Rebert Peters has introduced the digital property protection act, which aims to mandate blockchain projects in the state to reverse already executed on-chain transactions when ordered b...
President Herbert Hoover Saves the Day for a Crypto Bank? Yeah, That’s Weird
Basically, Silvergate is the bank for a lot of crypto businesses (1,300+, according to the company website, if you include “fintechs”), which tend to have problems maintaining banking relationships. A...
Game of Thrones NFT collection sells out in 7 hours despite weird avatar hands
An official Game of Thrones NFT collection sold out in just seven hours on NFT marketplace Nifty’s. That’s despite the collection getting ridiculed on Twitter for its art quality, mainly due to ...
FTX used ‘weird Korean account’ to mask Alameda liabilities, CFTC says
Former CEO of FTX Sam Bankman-Fried directed company executives to reallocate Alameda Research’s large liability with the exchange to “the weird Korean account” to mask its liability...
Here’s what Joe Rogan found ‘weird’ about the FTX exchange meltdown
As one of the largest crises in the cryptocurrency sector, caused by the collapse of the crypto trading platform FTX, continues to affect most of its assets, it has captured the attention of the media...
Sam Bankman-Fried’s weird, cryptic tweets attract even wilder theories
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX created a strange Twitter thread starting on Nov. 14 attracting the attention and speculation of the crypt...
DeFi trailblazer Andre Cronje returns with ‘weird psyops’ Medium post
A lengthy Medium post titled “The Crypto Winter of 2022” from DeFi trailblazer Andre Cronje has stirred controversy among the community. The piece goes into detail on the market drawdown, particularly...
Is It Weird That DC’s Biggest Movie Stars Are Villains?
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – JULY 23: Actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson appears at the Warner Brothers … [+] panel promoting his upcoming film “Black Adam” at 2022 Comic-C...
‘House Of The Dragon’ Gets Weird With Feet And Mercy
Aemond HBO Last night’s House of the Dragon started off thrilling, got weird, then was a bit confusing by the end, albeit we are now headed toward what is no doubt going to be a blockbuster season 1 f...
The weird world of crypto litigation – Cointelegraph Magazine
Want to sue a crypto project that ripped you off? That will be $1 million, thank you. Luckily, there are options for those who face the daunting prospect of spending a small yacht’s worth of money in ...
Thiel-Backed Urbit Is Web3, Weird and Wonderful. IDGAF Who Made It
But I have to, in order to minimize the risk of this piece disappearing into a black hole. And the fact that this thirsty, pathetic pandering is practically a job requirement for my profession, even i...
Weird, Undemocratic Voting System Is Taking Hold In U.S.
The winners of elections receive more votes than their opponents, right? Not under a novel system that has been adopted in Maine and Alaska and in several cities, including New York, San Francisco and...
‘Tales Of The Walking Dead’ Is Here, And It Is Weird
Tales of the Walking Dead AMC Tonight marks the official debut of Tales of the Walking Dead, AMC’s new anthology series set within the Walking Dead universe. AMC+ subscribers have already seen the fir...
Chicken Soup Completes Redbox Acquisition, Ending a Weird Meme-Stock Tale
Text size A Redbox video rental kiosk. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment has finished its purchase of Redbox , winding up one of this year’s strangest meme-stock ep...
‘Glorious’ Is A Fun Weird Horror Outing with a Wonderfully Unhinged Central Performance
Glorious Shudder If you’re heartbroken, hungover, or drowning in self-hatred, it doesn’t matter… never converse with a voice in the adjacent stall of a truck stop bathroom. It’s a lesson that he...
How weird could things get if Twitter settles with Elon Musk?
Elon Musk’s acquisition deal with Twitter has been unpredictable from the start. Don’t expect that to change soon. (Patrick Pleul / Associated Press) As Elon Musk’s imbroglio with Twitter ...
Thailand’s Crypto Utopia — ‘90% of a cult, without all the weird stuff’ – Cointelegraph Magazine
The story of how a Bitcoin OG set up a Libertarian crypto community and commune for digital nomads on beautiful islands in Thailand three times — and why he hasn’t yet given up on the dream. It’s a wi...
Returning Something Weird You Bought Online? The Employee Is Judging You
It’s never been easier to buy stuff online. Returning it is the awkward part. getty Undersized funeral urns, cursed tarot cards and used bidets, oh my. The e-commerce boom has produced an unprecedente...
Something Weird Is Up With Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Editing
Young Leia Netflix Disney Plus’s new Obi-Wan Kenobi show has a lot going for it, namely Ewan McGregor’s performance free of a prequel-era George Lucas script, but if you watched the dual episode premi...
A homage to weird and wonderful BTC purchases
Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day! Before you dial for a Margherita to commemorate the world’s first real-world Bitcoin transaction, here’s a slice of trivia: What do a family holiday to Japan, a 50 Cent album,...
Wine News of the Weird
Sometimes wine news can be as kooky as a Kardashian! Wine news can be pretty weird Collage: LBortolot Few people get too hepped up over wine news, but every once in while there’s the story that goes v...
The Weird Relationship Between Ethereum Price And Vitalik Buterin
As Ethereum saw a 16% increase from a rally that took the coin to $3,000 on Monday, someone might have spotted an unusual link between Ether’s highs and times where the Ethereum Founder’s name, Vitali...
‘It put everyone in a weird position’: Our waitress said a 20% service fee was added to cover benefits and health insurance, but that it was not a tip. Is this normal?
I went to brunch last weekend and, when the server handed us the bill, she said a 20% service fee was added to cover her benefits and health insurance, but that it was not a tip. I am absolutely supp...