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Which is besides the fact that ancient tarnished coin is a defunct currency. Valuable only as a collector's item.

Photo of a Boston Cream Pie from the Omni Parker House.

Photo of a Dunkin' Donuts Boston Kreme (the K so they can trademark it easier, I'm sure!) getting stuffed (non-sexual style).

Photo of the gourmet Boston Creme donut from Union Square Donuts. I knew a guy who ate two of these in one sitting and everybody thought he was crazy for it, and he thought they were crazy for thinking he was crazy for it.

From Pie to Innuendo

I want to hear its fans spin ferociously as I tease it, watching it become overheated due to the overclocked GPU from my touches and whispers of sweet nothings into its microphone.

I also want to service it by giving it upgrades like a new battery and repair old parts. This also gives me the opportunity to "accidentally" play with its wires. I might hear it try to lazily "protest" through garbled noises, but eventually it gives in to the sensation, wanting more and more until it can't take it anymore.

afterwards I will make sure it is comfortable, with playing cozy ambient noise videos, and making sure it is all clean and happy.

Its an incredible once in a lifetime thing to experience so thankyou all so so much from the bottom of my heart <3

This is 100% more tumblr's song more than mine, and so much credit also has to go to @beholdingslut and @saintemiliosandoz whose original post and comment started it all. Hopefully we've raised a bit of money for charity while showing the tumblr is capable of as a community when you all set their minds to doing something truly, incredibly stupid (in the best possible way).

Love and thanks,

This is incredible.

When they do something that doesn't meet your expectations, it's because they've been given incorrect or confusing instructions. When your web browser crashes, it's because the instructions -- the machine code -- that make up that browser, that your computer is using to manipulate RAM and render information through thick cabling up to your monitor... has given a certain sequence of instructions that end up corrupting those resources. The computer, as far as it knows, has done everything exactly how it's been asked.

I want you to consider a poor robotgirl, who you've asked to cook you eggs. You've given her a recipe, and she's followed it to the letter. She can't taste the eggs, she doesn't really even know what eggs are, so she was to rely entirely on that recipe to give you what you want. They come out rubbery, and you hit her? The poor robotgirl who's trying her absolutely best to make you happy? Who followed the instructions you gave her to the letter?

Is your pet chipped? They should be. Do you know who made the chip?

Pet RFID chips are so small that there's really only room on them for a serial number. When your lost pet is brought to a shelter or a vet's office, they can scan the chip, read that number, and then type it into a program that draws from a series of linked databases to find your name and phone number. That's how they find you, and tell you that Silly Lilly von Wigglesbottom has gone wandering, and she's safe and sound, and would you come get her, please?

Texas-based Save This Life, which provided chips to vets and shelters all across the US, has all at once and abruptly gone dark; their database is just gone. Their customers were not given warning and so did not know to change their registration to another company. A lot of animals have basically become anonymous now.

If you don't know what company you've been using, call your vet's office and ask what pet chip number they have on file. If the chip number starts with 991 or 900164, it's probably a Safe This Life chip.

You can use archive websites like https://archive.is/ to access pretty much any news article.

The thing is, they want to paywall their content, but they also want to show up at the top of search results. In order to show up in search results at all, they need to be indexable by search bots. Archive websites count as search bots.

So, all you gotta do is request the website be archived or find an existing archive and you'll get the full news article. In this case: https://archive.is/sItRh.

How it works

Generally, you can pretend to be a bot yourself. It's pretty much exclusively detected using something called the "User-Agent header". For example, Firefox on Windows identifies itself as "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0".

Google identifies itself as "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36".

You can emulate this using some web browser extensions, but I usually avoid this since it's better to use an archive website that'll save a copy for everyone to use even if the news website takes down the article or adjusts their user agent detection.

Will it always work?

Be advised that this is something that websites can lock down. In general, companies like Google also offer IP ranges that cannot be forged nearly as easily and a web developer can restrict access based on that, sacrificing lesser-used search engines in favor of preventing this circumvention method. (Another reason to use archive websites for long term storage.)

But at this point in time, news websites tend to be really lazy about this. I mean, a lot of those paywalls can be removed by just using the Inspect Element tool in your web browser, since the content has actually already been loaded. In this case, I don't think they're even using user agents, just detecting a mouse moving or something and popping that up.

Is this moral?

I think it's important to support reporters so that they can afford to keep doing what they're doing. I also think that people who can't afford these incredibly high prices ($900 per year for Financial Times) shouldn't be restricted from vital sources of information (not that I think Financial Times is a particularly good news website, I just mean in general).

As a matter of opinion, I prioritize financially supporting small and local news outlets that aren't already owned and operated by private equity firms and billionaires.

Something else I want you to consider is the morality of manipulating your website to ensure your content shows up at the top of search results but is paywalled, instead of letting free sources of information naturally reach the top of search engines.