News Sidequest
Keith ConradA collection of stories you might have missed while everyone was focused on the Red Team vs. Blue Team fight
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The Lavish Funeral of a Pickled General
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Antonio López de Santa Anna served as President of Mexico eleven times. He fought the Texas Revolution, lost the Battle of San Jacinto, and declared himself the Napoleon of the West. He was ex...
A year of college now costs $100,000 / She said "that's the law" about noodles / Why fact-checking doesn't change minds
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16 Colleges Now Cost More Than $100K a Year
If you’re going to pay $100,000 per year, that degree should come with a guaranteed job
Woman Refuses to Pay for Son’s Uneaten Noodle...
The iPhone is birth control, apparently / The economics of solo-maxxing / The pilot who flew 900 flights without a license
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Killing the mood: smartphones reduce birth rate, studies say
This is somewhat surprising to me, since smartphones seem to be just about the only way that people meet and interact w...
Why You Can't Escape the Spam Call Epidemic
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Americans received 52.5 billion robocalls in 2025. That’s 160 unwanted calls per person. Per year. And most of them are offering you a loan you didn’t apply for, from a company you’ve never he...
The restaurant that stopped charging / Why June is disappearing / Gen Z can't read a sentence
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This Restaurant Stopped Charging for Food. And Profits Are Up
They’re taking donations. That’s actually pretty heartwarming, and not a bad business model to consider at any time, b...
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