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When he tumbles down the stairs, I honestly can’t stop laughing. I showed this to a 15-year-old who had never heard of Peter Sellers or The Pink Panther, and when she saw this scene, she nearly peed herself laughing so hard!
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My friend Yumi has been a tour guide in Kyoto for nineteen years. Almost all of her groups are American.
Every December, Kyoto's tour guides have a year-end party. There is one tradition. Everyone stands up and tells the story of their favorite American of the year. Then they vote.
The winner gets a can of beer.
This year, Yumi wrote them all down for me.
"A man from Texas asked me what time the Imperial Palace closes. Then he asked if the Emperor was home. Then he asked if we could knock. He had brought a gift. Beef jerky. He said, 'You can't show up to a man's house empty-handed.'" (22 years guiding)
"We don't accept tips in Japan. Americans cannot accept this. They hide money in my coat pocket. In my bag. One woman hid it in my hat while I was wearing it. This year, a man hid forty dollars inside my folded umbrella. On Tuesday it rained. Money fell on my head. I bought lunch for my whole office. We call it 'American rain' now." (17 years)
"There are almost no public trash cans in Kyoto. A man from Michigan carried one candy wrapper in his pocket for three days, 'out of respect.' He apologized to me about the trash cans. As if it was his fault. On the last day, he handed me the wrapper. As a gift. I still have it." (9 years)
"An old woman dropped a bag of oranges on the train platform. Eleven Americans got down on their knees and chased oranges across the station. The train left without them. The old woman missed her train too, because she stayed to direct them. She is now pen pals with a man from Alabama." (31 years)
"At a temple garden, the monk asked for silence. Thirty Americans were completely silent for twenty minutes. I have never seen Americans be silent for twenty minutes. Then a grandmother from Iowa whispered, 'This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen,' and all thirty of them started crying. Then the monk started crying. Monks are not supposed to cry. He said it was pollen." (14 years)
"On the second day, a woman from Kentucky asked my children's names. I thought she was being polite. On the last day, she gave me an envelope with all three of their names in her handwriting, and a two-dollar bill for each one. 'For luck,' she said. My daughter is fourteen. She keeps hers in her phone case. She refuses to spend it. She says it's from America." (11 years)
"A seven-year-old boy asked me if I was sad, because my job is saying goodbye to people every week. I said yes, a little. He reached into his backpack and gave me his rarest Pokémon card. His mother tried to give it back. He said, 'No. She needs it more.'" (6 years)
"At the airport, my whole group of forty sang 'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow' to me in the arrivals hall. Loudly. Badly. Security came over. Then the security guard started clapping." (26 years)
Then the oldest guide in the room stood up.
Mr. Okada. 78. Fifty years of guiding. He never speaks at these. Yumi said the whole room went quiet.
"In 1964, I was sixteen. Tokyo had the Olympics. My father told me I would never amount to anything. My English teacher sent me to the station to help foreign visitors, mostly to get me out of the house.
The first person I ever helped was an American man. I was supposed to take him to his train. It took two hours. I got lost twice.
He never got angry. He just laughed and said, 'Lead the way, partner.'
On the platform, he asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I said I didn't know. Nobody had ever asked me.
He shook my hand and said, 'Well, whatever it is, you're going to be great at it. I can tell.'
I never saw him again. I don't know his name.
For fifty years, every American I have guided, I have been trying to say thank you to that one man."
Yumi said nobody clapped for a long time.
Then everybody did. And they gave him the beer.
So if you have ever been to Kyoto, and a tiny old man with a flag treated you like the most important person in the world, now you know why.
He was saying thank you.
It might have been to your grandfather.
That's the thing about you, America.
You say something kind to a lost kid in two minutes, and you forget it by dinner.
And somewhere in Japan, someone is still carrying it. Fifty years later.
So keep saying it.
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🚨 PARAGUAY 🇵🇾 RIOTS IN THE STREETS AFTER 3 MILLION PEOPLE GOT LOCKED OUT OF THEIR OWN MONEY
The central bank shut down Ueno Bank, one of the biggest banks in the country.
3 million customers. About 60% of all adults in Paraguay.
Salaries. Pensions. Savings. FROZEN.
No app. No cards. No ATMs.
Even $380 million of the state pension fund is stuck inside.
Covid locked people inside their homes. This locked them out of their own money.
Then it turned POLITICAL.
President Santiago Peña, the right-wing friend of Milei and Kast, was a SHAREHOLDER in Ueno's holding company until 2025.
And the man he picked to run the central bank in 2023 used to run Ueno.
Within 24 hours:
• the central bank chief signed his resignation after Peña asked for it
• Ueno's CEO handed himself in to police, 5 more executives DETAINED
• crowds in central Asunción demanding Peña's exit
• the opposition pushing to impeach him
The last time Paraguay's banks broke, in 1995, more than half of them went down.
If you want the parts of this story Paraguay's government would rather you never heard, follow me.
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🇧🇷 Brazil football match sets Guinness record with 51 red cards
The referee sent off 43 players and 8 coaches.
Players used chairs and stretchers and attacked those already on the ground. Six ball boys reportedly joined the fight. Only the police managed to separate them.
The brawl erupted in the second half of the Minas Gerais U20 state championship game between Uberlândia and Mamoré and lasted nearly 40 minutes.
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North Korea stole $6.3 billion from Binance by inviting one of its engineers to a job interview at a company that didn't exist.
And the guy didn't even have access to the money.
It took them five months and two separate hacks to pull this off.
Back in June, an engineer on Binance's wallet team went looking for an AI tool and installed a tampered Homebrew package. Binance caught it, swapped the laptop and reset the passwords. Problem solved, they figured. Except by then the attackers already knew who worked on that team and what each person did.
So they went recruiting.
In September a different Binance engineer got a message on a real job site from someone calling himself a project director. First round was a video call with a fake HR person, who even shared a social media account full of personal photos so the whole thing felt legit. Second round was with the "CEO," who told him to download a coding assignment onto his work computer. It was loaded with malware nobody had seen before, and Binance's security software missed it completely.
Then they waited. On October 20 they used his laptop plus one of Binance's own internal AI tools to get onto two wallet engineers' computers, and one of those engineers had permission to spin up new code on Binance's systems. Nine days later the attackers did exactly that. They ran a script and used an Ethereum feature called EIP-7702 to hand themselves control of a hot wallet, one of the wallets Binance keeps online to process withdrawals. Money started pouring out at 8:05pm UTC.
It took Binance four hours to stop it, which works out to more than $25 million a minute.
And it took that long because of a safety feature. Binance splits the signing power on those wallets into pieces held by different parties, so no single employee can ever drain one alone. That sounds great until something goes wrong, because it also meant nobody could hit the off switch on their own.
For context, the previous record was Bybit's $1.5 billion in February 2025, also North Korea. This one is four times bigger. Binance has already refilled about 98% of it out of its own pocket and says customers won't lose a cent.
Binance says it blocked 57 suspected North Korean attacks this year, and the one that got through started with a guy who just wanted a new job.
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Одна северокорейская перебежчица сказала, что, прибыв в Южную Корею в 17 лет, первое столкновение со свободой заставило её даже подумать о возвращении в Северную Корею.
«Они заставили меня пройти тест на определение уровня, и я обнаружила, что мне нужно учиться вместе с семилетними детьми. Я даже не знала, что такое континент и где находится Африка».
В центре адаптации в Южной Корее она начала с нуля, осваивая использование банкоматов, посадку в автобусы и езду на лифте.
«Я правда думала, что внутри банкомата сидит кто-то, кто передаёт тебе деньги. Когда ты идёшь за покупками, там есть 10 разных штанов на выбор. А в Северной Корее режим решает за тебя. Свобода — это сложно. В те времена я даже подумала: если у меня будет базовая еда, чтобы поесть, я готова вернуться в Северную Корею».
Роган удивлённо спросил, почему.
«Потому что я не привыкла думать. Думать для меня очень тяжело. Раньше мне никогда не приходилось думать самой за себя. Не могли бы вы просто сказать мне, что делать? Потому что я очень хорошо выполняю приказы».
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The indomitable girl who captured him was waiting for him thirty years later
On September 21, 1965, a 17-year-old Vietnamese girl named Nguyễn Thị Kim Lai was photographed escorting an enormous American airman through the countryside. His hands were tied behind his back. His head was bowed. She was carrying a rifle.
His name was William Andrew Robinson. He was 22, a helicopter mechanic and flight engineer in the US Air Force. The previous day his helicopter had been shot down during a mission to rescue another American airman.
Kim Lai was tiny. She weighed 37 kilograms. She had only finished seventh grade before joining the local militia. Her home province, Hà Tĩnh, was being bombed relentlessly by American aircraft.
According to her recollection, she discovered Robinson hiding among the rocks in a forest. Frightened by his enormous size, she fired three warning shots. He surrendered. Other militia members arrived and tied his hands.
A photographer named Phan Thoan captured the extraordinary contrast between the two.
The photograph became famous throughout Vietnam. It appeared on postage stamps. A celebrated Vietnamese poet wrote a poem about it. The image travelled around the world, becoming a symbol of a small country resisting a superpower.
Robinson was taken to prison.
He spent 2,703 days in captivity. Seven years, four months and twenty-three days. Much of it in isolation, enduring brutal conditions and torture. He was finally released on February 12, 1973.
Kim Lai became a nurse. She married, had three children and eventually became a grandmother.
Thirty years after their first encounter, in September 1995, she was playing with her grandchildren at a neighbour's house when someone came to tell her that foreigners were looking for her.
She returned home.
Standing there was William Andrew Robinson.
He had come back to Vietnam with a Japanese documentary crew. He had apparently wanted to find her for years but had never been able to afford the journey.
She recognised him immediately.
According to her recollection, he approached and embraced her before she could greet him.
They talked about their lives. Their families. Everything that had happened since those few minutes in a Vietnamese forest.
They even returned to the place where he had been captured.
Robinson reportedly expressed the hope that there would never be another photograph like theirs.
There is another photograph of them, taken during that reunion.
She is looking up at him. Smiling. He is standing beside her, still towering over her. No handcuffs. No rifle.
With no US government throwing away the youth of its own citizens to forcefully decide the future of Vietnam both can stand tall side by side.
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LOL Idaho is voting on a state gun. This is the most Idaho thing I’ve seen
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🚨🚨This is an URGENT Notice of Public Interest to the Jewish, Israeli & Iranian diaspora communities of Vancouver & Abbotsford BC @AbbyPoliceDept @VancouverPD
Farzaneh Sadat Hosseini @farzanehhosein1 is an Iranian national currently living in either Vancouver or Abbotsford. She originally arrived in Montreal living for a time while studying at @HEC_Montreal.
Farzaneh Sadat Hosseini openly calls for the “eradication” of Jews globally, which to her delight she stats there is “nothing lovelier than the smell of burnt Zionist meat.”
“Inshallah the Zionists filthy existence will be wiped off from Earth!”
After hearing about a Jewish family of 6 that was murdered, Farzaneh Sadat Hosseini writes “6 members of a whole rat family went down the hell. Never felt this happy about someone’s death.”
Farzaneh Sadat Hosseini wishes Adolf Hitler was still alive while calling for Iran to “Hitler them rats in their nest”, a dehumanizing term she uses to describe Jews frequently.
Farzaneh Sadat Hosseini admits she wants to see Iran with a nuclear weapon “to nuke your rat asses.”
According to Farzaneh Sadat Hosseini, her family is linked to known IRGC members & that she admits she bypassed Canadian immigrations @CitImmCanada where they should have been otherwise flagged by simply asking for personal information:
“I just hope they don’t ask for our personal information at any stage, so it can’t be traced back to us since family and friends would be on that list.”
Farzaneh Sadat Hosseini has also stated that she is reporting on Iranians living in the diaspora to the Islamic Republic of Iran so that they may either be targeted or have their families still living with Iran punished.
This is an URGENT Notice of Public Interest to the Jewish & Iranian communities of both Vancouver & Abbotsford along with the general population of Canada regarding this IRGC agent operating on Canadian soil at the behest of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
We believe Farzaneh Sadat Hosseini may be infiltrating Iranian diaspora groups undercover as a Pahlavi supporter while reporting to the IRGC or her family members.
This is also another example of how Canadian immigration is a completely wide open door that does absolutely zero due diligence in preventing the most dangerous people from entering their country.
All materials provided were obtained via publicly available sources & does not contain any forms of private materials.
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Avcı Av Olunca!
ABD’li milyoner Ernie Dosio (75), Afrika’da yaklaşık 40.000 dolar ödediği av gezisinde hayatını kaybetti.
Gabon’da antilop avına çıkan Dosio, yavrusuyla birlikte ilerleyen beş dişi fille karşılaştı.
Tehdit algılayan filler aniden saldırıya geçti. Profesyonel av rehberi ağır yaralanırken Dosio, dev hayvanların ayakları altında ezilerek öldü.
İşin ironik tarafı ise Dosio’nun hayatı boyunca filler, aslanlar, gergedanlar ve çok sayıda vahşi hayvan avlamış olmasıydı.
Hayatı boyunca av peşinde koşan milyoner, son avında kendisi av oldu.
Olay, 17 Nisan 2026’da Gabon’da yaşandı.
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Long post worth the read. I have a close friend who flies private jets. He flew Lear 60 for over 15 years and now flies a Gulfstream. This is a copy and paste of his response to me asking him if I thought Ice was the issue.
“We always fly in ridiculous cold temperatures.”
“Usually you get the bad ice when the temperatures are like 0 to negative 20. Believe it or not, there's a point where it gets too cold for ice. At negative 40, you pretty much can't get ice. Besides that, the airplane is equipped with hot wings and hot tail.”
“I flew the Lear 60 for like 15 years. It's a no joke airplane and probably the most dangerous airplane I've ever flown. It has a super critical wing. The airflow has to be perfect. When it gets into rough air and turbulence, it will easily stall. It has stalled on me at 41,000 feet just because we got into some turbulence. (On the way to Palm Beach as a matter of fact. ) we recovered and got her flying again around 30,000 ft. Scary
But here's the problem. This airplane has a terrible coffin corner. (At high altitudes) what that means is, you fly in a really narrow window where if you lose 20 knots, it stalls. And if you gain 20 knots, it goes into overspeed. The air goes supersonic over the wing and it goes into a high speed stall, or worse, a Mach tuck.
So if you stall, the normal recovery is to push the yoke forward to lower the nose and gain air speed again. At low altitude, you can push really hard and recover quickly. But in the 60... if you push hard, it will gain air speed and go into a high speed stall, it doesn't take much. It's very sensitive. The 60 has super short wings that don't make much lift. So then you high speed stall, and the computer is yelling at you... OVERSPEED! So then you pull back and enter a low speed stall. And you go back and forth trying to keep it in the air speed window.
This whole thing is pretty scary. And you should recover basically by using your finger tips using super small corrections. You can't over do it. If you try to muscle the recovery, she gets mad and will become unrecoverable. If she enters a mach tuck. You're done.”
“I taught the Lear 60 to other pilots and mentored them. I told them... this airplane has a soul and it's trying to kill you. Do not ever try to top the weather. Don't go over a thunderstorm. Go around it. If it means a half hour longer, then do it. Going over the thunderstorm will go into turbulence that you might not recover from.
These pilots went right over a thunderstorm. I think it stalled which caused them to drop down into the thunderstorm and ended up in mach tuck. They picked up so much speed that it ripped off the horizontal stabilizer. At that point... chuck Yeager can't fix it.
These same pilots did something similar a couple months ago. ATC got mad at them. They poked the bear one too many times.
This is not a beginner airplane. The Gulfstream would never do this. It has HUGE margins of error and won't stall like that. But then again... it's got HUGE wings. It's a pussy cat.
The Gulfstream is like driving a 4 wheeler. The Lear 60 is like riding a uni cycle.”
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Get a load of these unfuckable rejects.
3 young “climate activists” who went to school and can’t find work in the “environmental field” want the Federal Government to give them a job with a new billion dollar program they’ve come up with.
Our Government has created a generation of psychologically abused people who think a tornado and a rain storm in Ottawa are a result of big oil.
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Ruchira Ranasingha, 50 ans, est coincée sur l'ile de Cook depuis 10 ans. Sauf miracle, elle n'en partira probablement jamais.
Son histoire commence il y a dix ans quand cette habitante du Sri Lanka obtient un visa touristique de 2 mois pour la Nouvelle Zélande. Une fois qu'elle arrive dans le pays elle dépose une demande d'asile. Son but était de ramener son fils une fois qu'elle a les papiers en poche.
Sauf que sa demande trainait en longueur et il y avait peu de chance qu'elle reçoive un avis favorable. On lui accorde simplement un permis temporaire d'un an et elle trouve un boulot dans un restaurant.
Ruchira Ranasingha va voir un conseiller en immigration qui lui propose de déposer une demande pour un vrai visa de résidence et de travail.
Les autorités locales exigent qu'elle quitte temporairement le pays pendant que sa demande est traitée. C'est une exigence assez fréquente : on doit faire le changement de statut depuis l'étranger.
Comme le passeport du Sri Lanka est très faible, elle n'a pas beaucoup de destinations possibles sans visa. C'est ainsi qu'elle prend un avion pour l'ile de Cook. Il s'agit d'un petit archipel d'iles et d'atolls à environ 4 heures de vol d'Auckland. Nous sommes au beau milieu du Pacifique.
Une fois sur place, elle apprend que la Nouvelle Zélande lui refuse le permis de travail. Par sa sortie du pays, elle a automatiquement annulé sa demande d'asile.
Comment revenir au Sri Lanka ? Il n'y a pas de vol direct vers Colombo. Depuis l'aéroport de Rarotonga, il n'y a que quelques vols internationaux :
- Vers la Nouvelle Zélande
- Vers l'Australie
- Vers Tahiti
- Vers Hawaï
Pour Tahiti il faut demander un visa à la France. Pour Hawaï, il faut s'adresser aux USA. Sauf que les consulats et les centres biométriques ne se trouvent pas à Cook, mais à Auckland !
Aujourd'hui, elle supplie pour que la Nouvelle Zélande lui permette de transiter vers le Sri Lanka. Mais Auckland ne veut rien savoir. Pour eux, si elle met le pied dans le pays, elle va demander l'asile encore (elle en a le droit). Dans ce cas, son dossier peut partir sur des années encore.
Les bateaux ne peuvent pas l'embarquer. Parce que si un capitaine prend la responsabilité d'une personne sans papiers en ordre, on peut lui interdire d'accoster ailleurs et il devra aller la déposer au Sri Lanka pour s'en libérer. Elle pourrait même refuser d'aller au Sri Lanka et causer des soucis sur le navire.
Avec son historique d'immigration, ce n'est pas gagné. Elle dit même qu'elle sera prête à voyager ligotée ou menottée, sauf que les régulations aériennes ne permettent pas à un passager de demander de tels arrangements.
Elle se trouve sans permis de séjour a Cook, mais ils n'ont aucune solution pour l'expédier ailleurs.
Situation administrative totalement bloquée.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Ruchira Ranasingha est arrivée aux îles Cook en novembre 2023 et n'a pas pu en repartir depuis, soit environ trois ans, pas dix. Elle s'était rendue en Nouvelle-Zélande avec un visa de visite de deux mois en décembre 2022.
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Dennis Rodman made a valid point.🔥
“MJ wouldn’t be as good as LeBron today? You mean he wouldn’t be as good at flopping? Yeah, that part he can’t do. When I was in Detroit trying to take his head off, he never hit the floor screaming. That was a league where you earned every bruise. Don’t talk to me about today’s soft rules and LeBron’s four rings from team hopping. My guy got his where scoring was a fistfight, not a parade to the free-throw line. Put MJ in this era with open lanes and no hand checks, he’d average 40-50 a night without breaking a sweat. No super teams, no recruiting tours—just domination. If you think MJ wouldn’t be as good as LeBron now, you have no idea who Michael Jordan was.”
— Source: Dennis Rodman
All of us NBA fans 100% agree with Dennis Rodman’s opinion.
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Washington commanders fans get locked in the metro.
It took so long for the train to get home that by the time it arrived at the final station, there were no employees there and all the doors were locked.
So tons of people were just trapped.
It normally takes like an hour to get home on the metro but today it took two hours. So everybody was already like frustrated.
Thank goodness the commanders won lol
Anyways, your final update, somebody showed up and let us out. The game ended at 11:27 PM and I got home at 1:59 AM.
I may never Metro again lol
