Some Silicon Valley companies are now offering a perk of a mandatory week off for all employees so they ran recover from being burnt out. So they’re offering vacation. How disruptive.

Read more at Protocol.

A bunch of vans parked on the streets of NYC were being illegally rented as AirBNB accommodations. They sold for about $100 a night, were parked in the East Village and Chelsea, and had lapsed registrations. One renter described them as smelly and awful, and didn’t live up to the ads to “glamp in a spacious camper.”

The room is shitty but Location, location location!

Sheriff's Road Patrol Deputies were busy this week impounding seven alleged fraudulent and illegally registered vans being used as Airbnb rentals on various streets in Manhattan. 🛑🚦🚔 pic.twitter.com/rBZ1TBZ2xt

— NYC SHERIFF (@NYCSHERIFF) September 25, 2021

By an overwhelming vote, Switzerland says yes to same family rights.

Congratulations!

What’s it like to be the last one to the party?

Read more at thedailybeast.

Illegal sex trade operating in plain sight as “massage parlors” are so numerous in NYC that they outnumber Starbucks locations 2:1. There are at least 629 of these special places in the city with more than 1/3 scattered throughout Queens.

If you’re lucky you’ll find one inside of an old parked van.

Read more at NY Post.

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China’s central bank announced today that all crypto-related transactions are illegal.

Who TF wants the Chinese government to know about your crypto? Wasn’t the whole point to go around that shit?

Read more at arstechnica.

On Oct 1, the US Postal Service puts into action a ten year plan to try to get themselves out of ridiculous debt. The plan is to raise prices, slow down service, and cut back on office hours.

In other news Libraries promise fewer books

Read more at cnet.

There’s plenty of backlash targeted at Tesla for offering full self driving. Whether they’re nervous about it or jealous, it’s happening. Tesla owners will have the option to kick back and relax on their next road trip.

Every new Tesla should with a free case of beer.

Read more at washington post.

A used pair of Jordan underwear have sold at auction for $2,784. 19 people bid on them, and they still had the dry cleaning tag attached. They will be the focus of a new 30 for 30 called The Last Shart.

Read more at TMZ.

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Katmai National Park is holding its yearly vote to figure out which bear is the fattest bear, and therefore the fittest for hibernation.

In West Hollywood fat bear week is redundant.

Vote at Explore.

Only fans creators met up with some tiktokers for an #OrigamiCamp, a weekend getaway to put their creative minds together for a big Collab at a cabin. “Origami” is a substitute for the word “orgy”

Also, now girl on girl is known as “collab”

Read more at mashable.

Everyone is trying to figure out the curious phenomenon known as Altoona pizza- a bizarre creation that looks like the last leftovers before the fridge is empty.

Altoon, the town that thinks Pizza is prison food.

Read more at pghcitypaper.

Buzzfeed thinks SciFi fans are going to have a huge reading list this fall.

There haven’t been 26 good books written since To Kill a Mockingbird but you got them all coming out this fall?

Read in BuzzFeed News:

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Evergreen Fog. It’s a gray green. Nothing like that stupid Breezeway

Let’s just agree it’s green. And it’s not easy being green.

Read more at design taxi.

Read more at designtaxi.

Well this answers it Earl, the most embarrassing thing to do is falling flat on your face trying to kick a field goal. A bad pitch or a missed half court shot is nothing compared to this.

Watch the video on Barstool.

Hey James Dolan, watch out, there’s a new billionaire bar band in town.

Watch it on Twitter.

With the guys… pic.twitter.com/w1KZl6H0by

— Jim Irsay (@JimIrsay) September 26, 2021

While conspiracy theorists have been worried that drugs will deliver micro chips to your body, scientists are working on micro computers that will deliver drugs into your body.

This may sound sick but we’ve been cutting people open with knives for the last century and nobody complained.

Read more at studyfinds.