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185 - Even More Dead Air
2025-05-31
Your favorite petalheads discuss bullshit food ingredients, bad pharma, happy (dog) mamas, pot robberies, fighting AI with AI, bad breaches, stupid California tricks, dead celebretties, and the petalheads favorite veterans.
“Sit down, strap in, shut up, and listen!” — Pheonix
Health:
- Doctors issue urgent warning over ingredient found in popular drinks that turbocharges CANCER
- Plant or Animal Protein? It Depends on Your Age, Study Finds
- This Type Of Food Was Just Linked To Heart Disease And A Serious Brain Condition—And It's Probably In Your Pantry
- This Common Over-The-Counter Medication Increases Dementia Risk, According To Doctors
Happiness:
- Dry Cleaner Gives Away his Services to Unemployed Folks Headed to Job Interviews: ‘Just Pay it Forward’
- Stray Dog Rescued from the Streets Visits Dozens of Countries with Woman Who ‘never liked dogs’
- Supermom Sticks to Breastfeeding Schedule While Running 60 Mile Ultramarathon 6 Months Postpartum
Cavalcade of Stupidity
Tales from Rideshare/Toast and Jam:
- 20Bar Espresso Machine Amazon Affiliate Link)
- Gevi Conical Burr Coffee Grinder (Amazon Affiliate Link)
Higher Consciousness:
- Bill Maher And Woody Harrelson’s Marijuana Dispensary Was Burglarized
- This Skill Can Help You Unlock an Altered State of Consciousness—And Mimic the Way Marijuana Feels
Lotus Tech Tips:
- To Prove They Don’t Cheat With AI, Students Are Turning to…AI
- In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from 'barely maintained' to 'it writes for you'Already played
- Authorities Carry Out Elaborate Global Takedown of Infostealer Heavily Used by Cybercriminals
- Massive data breach exposes 184 million passwords for Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and more
The Junk Drawer:
- Waste Of The Day: Still No CA Rail Line
- Amazon sending refunds for returns it never received, as far back as 2018
Last Call:
- George Wendt, the Beer-Loving Norm on 'Cheers,' Dies at 76
- Who is General Tso—and why does he have his own chicken dish?
- Duck Dynasty Patriarch Phil Robertson Dead at 79 – ‘Now with the Lord’
- ARTIST RESPONSIBLE FOR “HANG ON SLOOPY” AND “ROCK AND ROLL HOOCHIE KOO” HAS DIED
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Credits:
- RevCyberTrucker for the Cavalcade of Stupidity!
- Sharky
- cottongin
- Mama T
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