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  • newThe flowkey app is just $40 through 5/17 if you're finally ready to learn piano
    TL;DR: The flowkey app makes piano practice approachable, and the 1-year Classic Plan is down to $39.99 with code MAY10 through May 17.A surprising number of adults secretly want to learn piano. Very few of them want to sit through formal lessons…
    - 7 hours ago 16 May 26, 9:00pm -
  • newCapture as many pictures as you want with this 2TB SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD for just $270
    TL;DR: This SanDisk Extreme USB 3.2 Portable SSD features a sturdy, robust design with 2TB of storage and fast transfer speeds. Grab yours at 46% off for just $269.99.These days, if you want extra storage you'll often have to turn to the cloud. —…
    - 13 hours ago 16 May 26, 3:00pm -
  • One of the most popular microlearning apps finally added fiction books, and it's only $60 for life
    TL;DR: It's only $59.99 to get a Headway lifetime subscription right now (reg. $299.95).There are so many books worth reading and so little time to actually sit down and read them. Headway solves that by turning the key ideas from more than 2,0…
    - 1 day ago 15 May 26, 9:00pm -
  • I have seen the face of death on a piece of toast
    Some things from the past are best left to the past. The segregation of schools. Smallpox, Cop Rock… and Libby's Spread n' Heat Pizza.Born in 1975 of an unholy union between a can of Manwich and a bottle of Ragu, Spread n' Heat Pizza sounds good o…
    - 1 day ago 15 May 26, 7:44pm -
  • Upcycle your old smart speaker with a new brain
    The world is absolutely filthy with Google Home Minis. The wee smart speakers made their debut back in 2017 and were inexpensive enough to be given away by telecoms, banks as a promotional gift for opening a new account. Hell, if you were feeling daf…
    - 1 day ago 15 May 26, 7:38pm -
  • Thunderous applause: JD Vance edition
    In fairness, audible indifference is still technically a reaction.Devoid of charisma, JD Vance stepped up to the podium and was greeted with the kind of applause usually reserved for a substitute assistant vice principal being introduced at a mandat…
    - 1 day ago 15 May 26, 7:34pm -
  • Ted Turner's secret newsroom lair looks like the saddest airport lounge ever
    Proof that even in the 80s, immense wealth could not protect you from aggressive beige.You might expect the hidden crash pad of CNN founder and billionaire media baron, yacht enthusiast, and owner of enough land to have his own zipcode, Ted Turner,…
    - 1 day ago 15 May 26, 6:43pm -
  • 19-year-old got 12 years for selling $5 of pot in 1975
    I came across a September 1976 piece in High Times headlined "Missouri — 12 Years for 11 Grams." Jerry Mitchell, a 19-year-old from West Plains, Missouri, had sold about a third of an ounce of marijuana to an undercover Highway Patrol agent for fi…
    - 1 day ago 15 May 26, 6:37pm -
  • Waymos perform ritual robot pilgrimage around suburban Atlanta cul-de-sac
    One assumes this was either a routing glitch or the first step in selecting tribute.Atlanta residents recently awoke to what appeared to be the opening scene of a very boring AI apocalypse, as empty Waymos repeatedly looped through their neighborhoo…
    - 1 day ago 15 May 26, 6:27pm -
  • California declares war on the Kars4Kids earworm
    The problem wasn't that the money went somewhere; it was that the jingle strongly encouraged donors to imagine it going somewhere else.In a rare triumph for both consumer protection law and everyone with functioning ears, a California judge has effe…
    - 1 day ago 15 May 26, 6:17pm -

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