Being the victim of blackmail is a harrowing experience. Having to pay someone to keep your secrets secret can not only drain you financially, but also have a significant negative mental impact. But toward the end of last year, one hacker took the concept of blackmail to a whole new level. They really had their …
I don’t know how it is living in Australia. From the other side of the globe, it seems like a continent where you can’t mess around. The sum of my knowledge regarding Australian life comprises seeing Crocodile Dundee in my childhood, pictures on Reddit of giant insects, and the season of wildfires that almost wiped …
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Bad boys, bad boys, what’cha gonna do when they come for you? Law enforcement exists for one reason – to solve crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice. That’s how it should be, but unfortunately it’s not always the case. Some crooks are so devious, their plans so meticulously crafted, that the cops are never …
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The American obsession with true crime shows no signs of stopping in 2021. Everyone and their brother has a podcast these days, and at least half of those people are doing them about true crime. It’s a booming industry, and it’s only gaining momentum. Netflix is getting in on the action by churning out new …
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With everybody stuck at home, shows about murder and serial killers have exploded in popularity. Who knows why, but people seem to love a good murder mystery. Maybe those shows give the watcher a feeling that they’re part in solving the murder. If you don’t like solving puzzles from scratch, it’s a good alternative. But …
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The coronavirus pandemic is still going strong, and with a new wave of infections ripping through the world, people continue to be confined to their homes. For a lot of people – especially those living alone – are understandably starting to feel a bit lonely at this point. This need for companionship has led to …
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“Practice what you preach” is generally a pretty good guideline for going through life. If you start telling other people what they should do, it’s only right that you yourself abide by the same rules. Right? Well, we all know that all too often it doesn’t work that way. It’s easy to dictate other people’s …
It’s a common scene in Saturday morning cartoons and comedies. An elderly person, be it a grandma or grandpa, grabs a walking stick and chases someone around while beating them around the head. Usually such an instance of violence is used to elicit laughs from the audience. But there was nothing funny about it when …
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Black Friday has gone beyond the best shopping day of the year to live in the pantheon of weird things Americans get killed doing. People forgo time with family and Thanksgiving dinner to line up at Wal Mart and Best Buy to get heavily discounted towels and HDMI cables. Planning for and attending Black Friday …
Ah, the Vikings. The legacy of these fascinating and brutal seaborne plunderers from Scandinavia is pretty much a staple of popular culture. Vikings are regularly directly featured in or inspire the stories of books, movies, games, names of sports teams… The couple of popular TV shows that aired in the past few years didn’t make …
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