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New comment by randycupertino in ""Tame" boar and deer are instinctively adapting to the wolf in the Netherlands"

randycupertino — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:30:20 +0000

I live in the Bay Area and have an advanced degree and good career. It was a simple autocorrect error. Chill out, grammar police!!

New comment by randycupertino in ""Tame" boar and deer are instinctively adapting to the wolf in the Netherlands"

randycupertino — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:29:15 +0000

It was autocorrect, my bad.

New comment by randycupertino in ""Tame" boar and deer are instinctively adapting to the wolf in the Netherlands"

randycupertino — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:28:29 +0000

Sorry was autocorrect, geeze!

New comment by randycupertino in ""Tame" boar and deer are instinctively adapting to the wolf in the Netherlands"

randycupertino — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:27:51 +0000

I went through a phase where I was recommended a bunch of boar traps on youtube. There is one called "the pig brig" that is like a soft net where they can go in under the net but not get out. It's sad they all get trapped and then shot but sounds like necessary because they destroy land and native species. It's sad watching the pigs panic and run around trying to escape once they realize they are trapped :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b-m9WxW6VM

New comment by randycupertino in ""Tame" boar and deer are instinctively adapting to the wolf in the Netherlands"

randycupertino — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:32:25 +0000

Are wild boar a nuance in Europe like they are in Texas?

New comment by randycupertino in "We still use paper"

randycupertino — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:27:50 +0000

I still send my family hand-written postcards when I travel. I know my mom and mother-in-law love and appreciate them, my mom still has one hung on her fridge from my trip to Singapore 9 years ago.

It feels like postcards are a dying thing because it seems harder and harder to find them when abroad! I try to pick them up in the airport now when I land that way I can immediately write them and mail them from the hotel. My last postcards sent from Bangkok took over 7 months to arrive, I assumed they had just gotten lost or destroyed. I think they must have come on a boat and/or maybe gotten stuck in the Suzez Canal.

New comment by randycupertino in "Broker Accused of Illegally Buying 18.5M Tickets to Beyoncé, Post Malone"

randycupertino — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:22:59 +0000

By "broker" they mean scalper.

Broker Accused of Illegally Buying 18.5M Tickets to Beyoncé, Post Malone

randycupertino — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:22:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/beyonce-post-malone-pitbull-concerts-ticket-broker-lawsuit-1235643546/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132428

Points: 5

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Has China lost 130M people?

randycupertino — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:30:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thetimes.com/world/asia/article/china-falling-population-130-million-nh6jbcftf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50106123

Points: 8

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California Engineer Convicted of Poisoning CoWorker Seeks to Erase Felony Record

randycupertino — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:51:06 +0000

Article URL: https://boomaround.com/2026/10/13/california-engineer-david-xu-poisoning-conviction-expungement/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50095027

Points: 3

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New comment by randycupertino in "TX real estate investor gets 15 yrs federal prison for investment fraud scheme"

randycupertino — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:36:56 +0000

The "We Buy Ugly Houses" CEO took $40 million of investments and used it as a personal slush fun and ran a ponzi scheme.

> The U.S. Attorney's Office said Carrier defrauded investors out of $39,514,300.00 and "sold properties without informing investors and used forged or unauthorized lien releases to facilitate those transactions. He then diverted investor money for personal expenses, unrelated business costs, and payments to earlier investors."

TX real estate investor gets 15 yrs federal prison for investment fraud scheme

randycupertino — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:36:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/dallas-real-estate-investor-sentenced-over-15-years-federal-prison-investment-fraud

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094802

Points: 2

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New comment by randycupertino in "OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room"

randycupertino — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:43:36 +0000

Yes- she actually tried multiple times! The saddest part is he told his friends and family he thought she was trying to poison him but stayed with her because of the kids. Totally infuriating.

> Eric Richins told the other friend he thought his wife had tried to poison him, prosecutors allege.

> "They advised he warned them that if anything happened to him she was to blame," the records said. Eric Richins, according to the records, suspected his wife had tried to poison him on multiple occasions.

"According to a sister, Eric and his wife went to Greece a few years ago and after his wife gave him a drink he became violently ill and called his sister saying he believed his wife had tried to kill him," the records said.

"On Valentine’s Day of 2022, his wife brought him a sandwich, which after one bite Eric broke into hives and couldn’t breathe. He used his son’s epi-pen as well as Benadryl before passing out for several hours," according to the records.

New comment by randycupertino in "OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room"

randycupertino — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:54:22 +0000

There was a mom in Utah who killed her husband poisoning him with a moscow mule spiked with fentanyl who googled "luxury prisons for the rich" as well as "how long does life insrance companies takento.pay" "can you delete everythjng on an old icloud account" "can deleted text messages be retrieved" "what information can be cbtained from a cellphone" "how to turn find my iphone off" "can cops force you to do a lie detector test," "when does FBI get involved in a case," "what is considered a lethal.dose of fentanyl" and "what are you allowed inside utah jails."

She took out $2 million in life insurance on him and was having an affair with their handyman and they were having disputes about $$.

https://www.ktvu.com/news/utah-mom-kouri-richins-googled-lux...

After she killed him she authored a children's book about grief for kids.

New comment by randycupertino in "The DNA test was supposed to settle everything. It launched a year+ legal battle"

randycupertino — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:32:48 +0000

Fascinating article about a serial impregnator who faked his paternity test results in court. He has at least 5 child support cases in Texas and Louisiana.

The DNA test was supposed to settle everything. It launched a year+ legal battle

randycupertino — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:32:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/investigations/article/gary-matthews-paternity-child-support-new-orleans-22458652.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076410

Points: 2

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New comment by randycupertino in "Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon's producer"

randycupertino — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:29:58 +0000

Imagine if they went after the child predators listed in the Epstein files with the same amount of force they are going after journalists and critics of ICE.

New comment by randycupertino in "How Protein Took over the World"

randycupertino — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 06:28:51 +0000

Are the protein doritos good? Has he told you? Doritos are my achiles heel for junk food. When I was weightlifting a lot my coach said to have Doritos with cottage cheese as a post-lifting snack which actually was pretty good!

I'm on GLP-1 so I no longer obsessively crave Doritos and can resist their siren song. But maybe the protein ones are worth trying.

New comment by randycupertino in "Trump says anyone who uses the phrase "artificial intelligence" is "the enemy""

randycupertino — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:16:37 +0000

I remember an article about how his own lawyers refused to be alone in a room with him without the other attorney present because he just continuously lied to all of them constantly.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/trumps-l...

McDonald's sued over AI tool that recommends prices to US franchisees

randycupertino — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:07:17 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/mcdonalds-ai-pricing-lawsuit-competition-franchisees-bb78e854b11b54b394603effa7550bbe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49997379

Points: 11

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