Reddit’s blockchain-based Community Points are going away Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeReddit is sunsetting its blockchain-based Community Points product, the company announced on Tuesday. A Reddit admin (employee) shared the announcement about Community Points, which uses the Ethereum blockchain, on a few subreddits, including r/CryptoCurrency (which had its own “moons” crypto token), r/Fort…

Truck Driver Somehow Walked Away Uninjured From This Massive Crash Sometimes, things go beyond what we mere humans can understand. Take for example this semi crash. The front end of that red truck is annihilated, and I wouldn’t blame you for thinking whoever was inside has been reduced to a warm pink goo, but that is not the case. Not only did the driver survive, goddammit, he wasn’t… Read more…

My space away (with bonus night pic) submitted by /u/grishna_dass

Grandmother passed away in 2019, left behind unpaid property taxes that I just found out about recently. As the title states, my grandmother passed away 4 years ago. I moved into her place on a lease almost 2 years ago with my wife. We had a baby, life is good. Until the state sent a letter stating that there was $5,000 in back taxes that needed to be paid or they would take the property. Her two daughters are either unwilling or not interested in …

Am I being manipulated into signing away ownership of a home while retaining liability for the mortgage? My (30F) and my mother (64F) have a strained but cordial relationship. Long story short I had to purchase her house under my name in 2018 because she was going through bankruptcy (her husband spent all their $150K HELOC gambling behind her back) and she needed my income and work history to qualify for a refinance. I felt uncomfortable with the d…

I’m one month away from paying off my debt Next month will be my final payment of £424, wiping a total debt of £4,920.24. I stated paying from the beginning of this year and it’s been a tough slog each month. I turn 30 in January and I couldn’t bear to bring the debt accumulated in my 20s into my 30s. I used a debt management plan (StepChange) to help me with it and I can say I definitel…

Listen Early to ‘This American Life’: Getting Away With It Stories of people breaking the rules completely, and with no bad consequences.

I Cannot Believe You Heartlessly Threw Away the Sixteenth Craft I Brought Home from Preschool This Week While on my way to dispose of a breakfast of which I only took three bites, I noticed something that has broken my heart: The sixteenth craft I made at preschool this week, stuffed into the garbage beneath a layer of yesterday’s trash as if I wouldn’t find it. No, not the one with the blue crayon circles. Also, no, not the paint handprints that …

How a fiery first quarter put Las Vegas one win away from a WNBA repeat The Aces hit seven of their first nine shots en route to an WNBA Finals-record 38-point opening period.

Which live show has blown you away? I’ve been to a lot of concerts, shows, festivals, etc and haven’t been more blown away by the talent of a band/performer than with Marcus King and Billy Strings. Who have you seen that left you walking out speechless? submitted by /u/bruiserthedogrul

MacBook Pro With OLED Display Likely Still at Least Three Years Away Apple’s first MacBook Pro models with OLED displays are still at least three years away from launching, according to information shared today by Ross Young, CEO of research firm Display Supply Chain Consultants. On a display-related webinar with Bloomberg Intelligence’s Woo Jin Ho, Young said it will take a few years for Apple’s supply chain pa…

I’m 19 attempting to finish college and one of my parents passed away and the other i have no contact with. I just have a couple questions For privacy reasons, I’m using an alt account. Backstory involves my mother’s passing when I was 17 and still in high school. At that time, I didn’t know how to process what I was going to do moving forward, because i also had two younger siblings that were living with my father at the time and i didn’t know how the news would hit them. Consider…

McLaren Says ‘Real’ Electric Supercars Are Still Years Away Slowly but surely, we’re electrifying every aspect of the car world. We’ve got electric crossovers, fancy electric sedans, electric hot hatches in Europe, and even an all-electric racing series. However, McLaren warns that we’re still a few years off from one important area for electrification: supercars. Read more…

Telly has a plan to build the best TV ever — and give it away for free Image: Samar Haddad / The VergeIlya Pozin, the CEO of a TV startup called Telly, has a plan to take over your living room. The first is to build the best TV ever because he’s convinced that your TV is the most important device in your house and is being criminally underutilized as manufacturers cut every imaginable cost in the name of selling th…

LPT – If you’re closing the estate of some one who has passed away, scan all of the photos. This way everybody can have a digital copy. Don’t just throw out the ones that nobody has asked for yet to save space. (This just happened to me) submitted by /u/Overall_Device_5371

Charles Feeney, Who Made a Fortune and Then Gave It Away, Dies at 92 After piling up billions in business, he pledged to donate almost all of his money to causes before he died. He succeeded, and then lived a more modest life.

Warrior Nun Revival Away from Netflix Gets Disappointing Update submitted by /u/ArsBrevis

Dolly Parton on style, stardom and sexists: ‘I know how to push men off and get the hell away’ submitted by /u/zsreport

Running away with it: Kiptum sets marathon WR Kenya’s Kelvin Kiptum shattered the men’s marathon world record in Chicago on Sunday, winning in 2 hours, 35 seconds to best the previous mark by more than 30 seconds.

LPT: Instead of throwing away your plastic bags, look into donating the clean, intact ones to your local library. Plastic bags protect checked-out items from rain and snow, and they’re handy when patrons have a lot to carry. Reusable bags are often a welcome donation too. Libraries exist to help us, but there are a lot of ways we can help them back. In honor of Banned Books Week, here are some more ways you can support your local library: First and foremos…