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Autocorrect Has No Remorse: A Damage Assessment of History's Worst Phone-Generated Disasters
Tech Nonsense

Autocorrect Has No Remorse: A Damage Assessment of History's Worst Phone-Generated Disasters

Your phone has been quietly sabotaging your relationships, your career, and possibly your legal standing since the moment you trusted it to finish your sentences. Here is a full accounting of autocorrect's worst crimes against human communication, ranked by how long the victim cried afterward.

Jul 20, 2026

Streaming Password Theft: A Moral Tier List for the Ethically Flexible
Tech Nonsense

Streaming Password Theft: A Moral Tier List for the Ethically Flexible

Not all password theft is created equal. Some betrayals are practically civic duties, while others will haunt you at Thanksgiving for the next decade. We ranked every major streaming service by how justified you'd feel stealing someone's login, and the results are deeply uncomfortable.

Jul 20, 2026

Every Sound a Grocery Store Makes, Ranked by How Much Psychological Damage It Causes Per Decibel
Tech Nonsense

Every Sound a Grocery Store Makes, Ranked by How Much Psychological Damage It Causes Per Decibel

You went in for milk and paper towels. You emerged twenty-two minutes later, twitching slightly, with no memory of the frozen foods aisle and a vague hostility toward strangers. The grocery store did that to you — specifically, its sounds did. Here is a full accounting of the acoustic war zone you've been walking into every week without armor.

Jul 20, 2026

A Field Guide to Office Mug Criminals: Classifying the Unwashed, the Abandoned, and the Aggressively Passive-Aggressive
Food Crimes

A Field Guide to Office Mug Criminals: Classifying the Unwashed, the Abandoned, and the Aggressively Passive-Aggressive

Every office breakroom harbors a rogue's gallery of ceramic offenders that no HR training has ever been brave enough to address. From the mug that's been 'soaking' since the Obama administration to the passive-aggressive sticky note arms race, coworker cup behavior is a rich and deeply upsetting taxonomy. Welcome to the crime scene.

Jul 20, 2026

A Completely Unhinged Ranking of State Fair Foods by How Hard They're Trying to Kill You (Affectionately)
Food Crimes

A Completely Unhinged Ranking of State Fair Foods by How Hard They're Trying to Kill You (Affectionately)

Every August and September, Americans across this great nation make a pilgrimage to fairgrounds where they willingly hand over twelve dollars for a stick of butter that has been battered, deep-fried, and dusted with powdered sugar. Nobody is forcing them. Nobody is confused. This is a choice. This is America. Here is a definitive ranking of the most aggressively fried foods in the state fair canon, ordered by how deeply they represent our collective decision to simply not think about it.

Jul 20, 2026

USB Cables: A Monument to Human Stubbornness and Our Eternal Inability to Plug Things In Correctly
Tech Nonsense

USB Cables: A Monument to Human Stubbornness and Our Eternal Inability to Plug Things In Correctly

Humanity has split the atom, landed on the moon, and invented self-checkout machines that still need a human to approve every third purchase. Yet somehow, after three decades of USB cable development, we still flip the thing over twice before it goes in. This is the story of how we got here, and more importantly, why nobody fixed the one problem that actually mattered.

Jul 20, 2026