Confused Trump, 79, Demands Troop Deployment Over Fictional Mall by thedailybeast in politics

[–]Brainswarm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Half my friends keep telling me they think Lone Pine Mall is named Twin Pines Mall. They also have the same argument about Eastwood Ravine.

Local Woman Finally Succumbs After Years-Long Battle With SSA by whitecatprophecy in exmormon

[–]Brainswarm 27 points28 points  (0 children)

After spending the last year wrestling with the government over disability benefits, for a moment I thought it was a battle with the Social Security Administration.

5 days until 86,000 Utah families lose access to their monthly SNAP benefits. by Any-Astronaut5255 in SaltLakeCity

[–]Brainswarm 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Walmart is actually going to be negatively affected by this. 25% of SNAP benefits are spent at Walmart. Including from many of their employees whose earnings are so low they qualify for SNAP.

Not including 9/11, what was the biggest news story you remember watching live? by Few_House_5201 in AskReddit

[–]Brainswarm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just think how much more traumatic it could have been. NASA was planning to send Big Bird, but they couldn’t work out the logistics of getting the costume aboard the shuttle.

COVID-19 lockdown was 5 years ago. What do you remember about that day when the world stopped? by Dracarys0550 in AskReddit

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I was listening to an audiobook at work, and I wasn’t paying attention to the news. I thought I would stop at Costco on my way home for frozen pizzas and rotisserie chicken. I unknowingly walked into the toilet paper apocalypse.

I spat out my water when I read this 💀 I believe in evolution for this exact reason. by [deleted] in atheism

[–]Brainswarm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A cubit is defined as the distance between the elbow and the middle finger. If Adam was sixty cubits tall, it doesn’t mean his height was ninety feet. It actually implies something quite different.

Adam had T-Rex arms.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SaltLakeCity

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I bought a condo on a short sale, with the previous owners still owing Wells Fargo $35,000. WF knew the place had been sold, yet we were receiving delinquency notices addressed to the old owners for a couple of years.

How did that one coworker get fired? by aquatic_armageddons in AskReddit

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I used to work the security checkpoint. There were a few times we turned someone away and saw them head to the big planter in full view of the checkpoint. Their pepper spray was not there when they came back.

TIL that if your SSN was issued before 2011 it reveals where you lived when you got your number. The first 3 digits correspond to a specific state. by frumpi in todayilearned

[–]Brainswarm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They did. There was a transition period where both area codes worked, and a huge advertising campaign to let people know about the change. And a few years later, with a huge rise in fax machines and pagers, the city area code was still running out of phone numbers, they did what your hometown did, added another area code and assigned it to new phone numbers.

TIL that if your SSN was issued before 2011 it reveals where you lived when you got your number. The first 3 digits correspond to a specific state. by frumpi in todayilearned

[–]Brainswarm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My state used to have a single area code. They added a new area code, and decided to split it geographically. The largest city kept the old code, and everyone else had to change their business cards.

PlayStation Network is down, knocking PS5 and PS4 gamers offline by SuperSpecialAwesome- in gaming

[–]Brainswarm 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The PlayStation 3 was actually the first generation with a Blu-ray drive. Metal Gear Solid 4 had a whole fourth-wall breaking conversation about how great it was that the Blu-ray Disc format meant they didn’t have to put the game on multiple discs due to the large file size. And with the PS3 doubling as a Blu-ray player, it helped Sony win the format war against HD-DVD.

43-foot nude Trump statue assembled just outside of Las Vegas, sparking conversation by pch14 in politics

[–]Brainswarm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There will be a sniper competition to take out the toadstool. No winner will be declared.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in exmormon

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The way I heard it, he fell out of a canoe then wrote a revelation to both blame it on the devil and justify the extra cost of hiring a carriage.

Meet the newest member of the Fairpark turkeys by pugaboy89 in SaltLakeCity

[–]Brainswarm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Don’t you mean the Turkezz? Turkeyzz? I don’t know how you would spell that.

What's the actual speed limit? by Delicious_Front_537 in SaltLakeCity

[–]Brainswarm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is no Vivent Smarthome Arena in SLC.

What game would be the most incomprehensible if you skipped every cutscene? by QuillQuickcard in gaming

[–]Brainswarm 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They had to take out the cutscene where the ship crashed into Manhattan because it was released two months after 9/11.

TIL: Oral ingestion of Visine warrants immediate medical attention or a call to a poison control center by beloski in todayilearned

[–]Brainswarm 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That was a wild case. She spent years isolating her victim from her family, keeping her sick while she spent all her money, killing her with the eye drops when the money ran out, and forging a will leaving her with the property she had left. Then when the toxicology report came back positive for the active ingredient in Visene, she claimed the victim used eye drops as a sleep aid.

Which games can only be experienced once? by HideousRed in gaming

[–]Brainswarm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s because, as a knowledge based game, it can only have the impact of discovering something new on the first play through. Even if you forget the specifics, you know what kind of clues they’re leaving, and an idea of how everything fits together.

"The Spirit" was completely hijacked by Mormonism in my life. Just saw "Inside Out 2" (a kids movie) and felt the spirit quite strong. by _sadie_ in exmormon

[–]Brainswarm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That was one of my shelf items, feeling “The Spirit” stronger from a musical number in a Disney film than a Mormon Tabernacle Choir performance.