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Family of Texas pregnant woman who died sues Texas AG Ken Paxton, alleges denied abortion led to death (r/news)
- Healthy-Caregiver997: Funny to watch Mike Johnson talking about how old men don’t understand enough about AI to be trying to regulate it but does not understand the same concept about women’s health!
- aquagardener: Forcing death on others with completely treatable conditions is not pro-life. Fuck Republicans with a hot flaming cactus
- CaliforniaNavyDude: The moment Row v Wade got overturned, we all knew this would happen and would keep happening. Ken Paxton and everyone like him deserves every lawsuit and criminal charge that can be thrown at them. They knew their actions would kill people and did it anyway.
Macklemore pledges his \$1m Ed Sheeran tour salary to Palestine (r/news)
- SillyGoatGruff: \$1m for two shows is a pretty sweet deal
- heephap: Calling out Kraft to match the donation is genius.
- iamacannibal: He is making the best of this situation. He has gained a ton of fans and is using this to help people. Seems like an overall good dude too.
People whose job is to read strangers for a living (poker dealers, bartenders, TSA agents, loss prevention): what’s the tell you clock in the first 10 seconds that people don’t realize they’re broadcasting? (r/AskReddit)
- SnooCats4137: Family law attorney here: when a potential client explains something with “and then for NO REASON” ..there’s always a reason, and it is usually because that person did something shitty.
- Sad_Improvement_443: Alcoholism. There’s many give aways. Random but interesting, the other day I had a guy come to my bar and ask for rum and cokes hold the rum and keep them coming. He said “gonna get wasted tonight in my imagination”. It made me really sad for him. But I was also proud that he was sticking to cokes. Still sad to see someone struggle.
- snowflake-57: Various private security roles: someone who is carrying a weapon, who isn’t proficient at carrying weapons, will be constantly fidgeting around wherever it’s concealed to reassure themselves that it’s still there. Caught more than a few knives from people nervously playing with their pockets.
What movie was completely misunderstood at release? (r/movies)
- bfloblizzard: Office Space. Poor marketing by the studio, bad release date. Most critics werent too harsh on it but didnt “get it” the same way average people do. It’s quotable, fun and relatable for anyone in a job they’re not wild about. Took time to find it’s audience on it’s own merits and not via marketing.
- trendykendy: Last Action Hero, a genuinely hilarious deconstruction of the action genre that bombed as people were expecting a regular Arnie movie
- Mst3Kgf: John Carpenter has had multiple examples of this. See also “Big Trouble in Little Chin”, which the studio had absolutely no idea what it was or how to market it.
TIL modern beekeeping rests on a single measurement discovered by a Philadelphia clergyman in 1851: leave bees a gap between about 6 and 9 mm and they will neither build comb in the space nor glue it shut — which is the only reason a beekeeper can lift frames out of a hive instead of destroying it. (r/todayilearned)
- dinosaruman: Ran across this when I got curious about honey production. Too little space and the bees cement it shut with propolis, but too much and they fill it with comb. Hit the window and the frames stay free forever. Rev. Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth patented the movable-frame hive built on that principle — U.S. Patent 9,300, issued October 5, 1852 — and virtually every commercial hive in the world still uses it.
- Wizardmystical: The thought of destroying a whole hive just to harvest honey sounds like a nightmare, so this guy basically saved beekeeping
- Readonkulous: This for me is the perfect TIL