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Drunk on more than power it seems

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Bank error in your favor, collect several trillion dollars

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New band name just dropped yo

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i mean the keys are like right next to one another....

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33401670

Windsorite Susan Taylor was at Toast, ready to pay for her breakfast when she was told the bill had been covered.

“The waitress made an announcement in the restaurant that this lovely couple in the corner is paying for everyone who is in the restaurant at the time for breakfast,” Taylor told AM800’s Mornings with Mike and Meg.

“She (the donor) said that she was American, and she just wanted to apologize,” said Taylor.

“She said she knows that their president has caused a rift in what was happening between our countries, and she wanted us to know that not all Americans are bad people.”

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You mean all the winnings, right?

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Yum

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Kentucky to pick up remainder of Texas Roadhouse contract, also receives a second-round pick

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Very definition of a sore loser

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This guy has chutzpah, I will give him that.

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Faced with relentless Republican attacks on reproductive freedom including efforts to give embryos and fetuses legal rights from the moment of conception, Democratic lawmakers in two states have recently introduced legislation that would ban men from ejaculating for purposes other than making babies, with some exceptions.

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Printer ink costs estimated to be in the tens of thousands of dollars.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/31800573

Residents of Perth, Australia, have an unusual culprit to blame for their Sunday evening plans getting canceled: a dreaded "fatberg" causing wastewater to overflow.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.npr.org/2025/02/10/g-s1-47686/fatberg-sewer-bryan-adams-concert-australia


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