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We all have to make sacrifices when times are tough

Thunder Road is now a gated community

Amazing — it looks like the only reason Southwest avoided being hit by the outage was because they're still running on ancient software

Lamest way to disrupt the supply chain tbh At least get a ship stuck in the Suez if you're gonna do it

Microsoft users: Mac & Linux users:

Everywhere you look: blue screens of death

POV: your weekend started early

Biden gets Covid England loses Euros Largest IT outage in history Trump almost assassinated Drunk HR derby national anthem Ken Griffin pays $45M for a dinosaur JD Vance named Trump running mate Crowd breaks into Copa America final What a week, huh?

Crowdstrike getting hammered pre-market Causing the largest IT outage in history tends to do that

1/ Amazon is reportedly tracking the real-time in-office hours of its corporate employees. Last year, Amazon started requiring most corporate workers to RTO at least 3 times/week, but didn't specify how long those visits had to be.⁠ They are now. Let's get into it.

🔴 Dow -1.3% 🔴 S&P -0.8% 🔴 Russell -1.8% 🔴 Nasdaq -0.7% No one was safe today

tfw you can buy dinosaur skeletons and copies of the US Constitution just because you feel like it

If you're paying $45 million for a dinosaur skeleton it better come to life in the middle of the night at least

Bud Light's firmly the No. 3 beer in America now with Modelo running away from the pack Last year's boycott clearly still hurting business

Nasdaq: Today -1.1% Yesterday -2.8% This week -3.3% Rotating ain't easy

Angel City FC is now the most valuable women's pro sports team in history Bob Iger and his wife have agreed to take a controlling stake in a deal that values Angel City at $250 million Last year, the club generated the most revenue of any women's team in the world

Can't argue with science

How it started: How it's going:

Why is today World Emoji Day? That's because it was on July 17th, 2002 that Apple introduced iCal for Mac. They honored the date years later by putting it on their Calendar emoji It's ultimately the standard now, but we've still got some holdouts (Meta uses Zuck's bday)

We really got a Pickleball video game before GTA 6

Russell's at its highest level in 2 1/2 years btw

"Guys, he's right behind me isn't he?" - S&P 500

Spinzone: never sleep so you can reap the benefits of both lifestyles

Tough look for the rise and grind gang

7/ And retailers are getting in on the action as well. Costco sells emergency food supplies and kits that last for a quarter-century and cost under $100. To prep, just add water to the food and you'll be hunky dory if disaster strikes.

1/ ~20 million Americans (approx. 7% of all households) identify as doomsday "preppers," per FEMA. It's felt like the end of times quite a bit over the last few years, and even more recently, which is why the $11 billion doomsday economy is alive and well. Let's get into it.

Tobacco giant Phillip Morris is making plans to invest $600 million in a new Zyn production plant Operations at the new facility in Colorado should start by 2026 The national Zyn shortage has them scrambling

The wonders of AI: draining the world's energy supply to give us lines we'd hear from a used car salesman

It's a dangerous job