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A robot to brush your teeth, pirate democracies, van dwelling across Europe, stunning storms, death by pooping, cats vs goats, and more. |
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A robot to brush your teeth, pirate democracies, van dwelling across Europe, stunning storms, death by pooping, cats vs goats, and more. |
This week’s issue covers tons of awesome content from a variety of communities, but first I want to talk about Keenan, whose story rose to the top of r/videos this week (warning: this video is graphic, showing the draining of his keloids).
Normally we try to surface things in this newsletter you wouldn’t have seen on the frontpage, but within a day of the video being posted to the site, redditors from all over the world pitched in to help raise over $30,000 for his keloid removal. I was so moved by your response to his plight, I chipped in myself, and it’s always serendipitous stories like these that make me proud to work at Reddit. I’m hoping we can get a followup from Keenan when his treatment is done.
In other news, Stephen Hawking is in the process of doing an amazing week-long AMA on r/science, we laughed at this hypothesis for how Tom Riddle came up with his evil alias (which must not be named), a redditor caught an awesome photo of Saturn just from his backyard, and this massive squid… egg… blob… thing… captivated us all. We get to see so many awesome stories every week, and it’s only because your upvotes and downvotes make this whole thing work.
Thanks for a great week,
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simsalapim made a bold “contribution to the shitty robots of the world” with this device. She’s not stopping there, either. She’s already discussing future robots to help you floss, put on makeup, and shave. (Yikes!)
In the meantime, if you want to make your own, she’s got you covered with this tutorial.
Apparently, pirates cared about a lot of the same issues we do. Equal votes for everyone, fair distribution of loot, and following some very intricate rules (check out some of the articles from Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts’s ship). They also had some pretty crazy political campaigns—read about
all the crazy stuff Blackbeard did to keep his crew convinced he was the most badass of them all. Ah, pirates. They’re just like us.
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It could result in another broad surveillance program that public or even members of Congress don’t know about. The bill allows companies to share virtually any type of personal information, exempt from existing privacy laws. Once the government gets this information, they can stockpile it and search through it for reasons that have nothing to do with cybersecurity. |
Check out some of their pics from inside the van and on the road, as well as how they converted it.
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I don’t even have a penis and your words resonate with me. |
If you’ve been thinking about getting back in shape or trying something different in your fitness routine, now might be a great time. This community has created an amazing wiki full of routines, video tutorials, and FAQs, which imanateater used to build fitloop.co, a site to help you easily build your routine. When imanateater made that code open source, mazurio then used it to create both an Android and iOS app to help you get healthy. So now there really are no excuses. Sorry…
Over 400 redditors, led by cbartholomew, worked together to create this mosaic composed of images from his wrestling career and included over 350 get well messages on the back of it. Needless to say, he loved it (and he’s also recovering well!). You can see more pictures of the final product and the process of creating it here.
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The music from it is pretty epic as well and definitely makes the video even more fascinating to watch.
That explains all the Smiths out there, but what about all the Joneses? MacGyverMacGuffin explains here.
*except in Reservoir Dogs
P.S.If you’re going to die, you’d probably rather not be found dead on the toilet with your pants around your ankles, but apparently that’s actually super common. Farts_McGee explains why so many people die while pooping, and it doesn’t have anything to do with Peter Dinklage or a crossbow.
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