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America’s Most Pokémon-Obsessed States, Ranked (and the Cards Worth More Than Your House)

Pokémon turns 30 this year , and if the collective American search history is any indication, nobody has moved on. Not even a little. According to new research from EsportsGG, the US collectively searches Pokémon more than 30.6 million times per year, which works out to about 58 times a minute. The franchise that started as a Game Boy cartridge in 1996 has survived long enough to become a legitimate cultural institution, a nostalgia economy, and, for some collectors, a retirement plan. EsportsGG crunched search volume data by state to find out where the obsession runs deepest. Nevada came out on top with 11,774 searches per 100,000 people annually. That’s not entirely surprising for a state that hosts the Las Vegas Pokémon Regional Championships and other major gaming events. What is surprising is that Henderson, Nevada, has entire residential streets named after the franchise, including Charmander Lane, Charizard Lane, Snorlax Lane, Jigglypuff Place, and Squirtle Lane. S...
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Psychic Reveals the 2 Regrets She Hears Most Often From the Dead

A psychic medium from Mississippi says she’s been talking to dead people since childhood, and after decades of it, she’s noticed a theme. The spirits have regrets. Two big ones, and at least one of them will probably make you feel called out. Jill M. Jackson told the Daily Mail that she’s been communicating with spirits since she was young, first seeing them as shadow figures before eventually learning to hear them. She describes the afterlife not as some faraway place in the sky but as a higher dimension sitting inches from our own, accessible when what she calls “the veil” thins enough for a medium to cross through. Hollywood, she says, has basically gotten all of this wrong. As for what the dead actually want to talk about: regret number one is that they didn’t play enough. “A common theme is that humans need to play more often,” Jackson said. “That is when they look back on their life review, and notice that they were ...
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Weekly Horoscope: June 7-June 13

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The week opens with one of the better alignments of the month — Venus conjuncting Jupiter in Cancer on Monday, generous and warm, the sort of astral weather that makes people say things they’ve been sitting on for weeks. Let yourself be in it, stargazer, because Tuesday arrives with Mercury squaring Saturn and the mood changes fast. Conversations hit walls. Plans stall. Something you thought was settled turns out to need more work than you’d budgeted for. It’s frustrating, but it’s not permanent. The second half of the week asks you to consolidate what the first half brought up. Venus moves into Leo by Saturday, pulling focus from emotional comfort toward something bolder and more self-directed. There’s a great opportunity in that transition if you’re paying attention. The week ends stronger than it started — but only if you didn’t spend the hard middle of it hiding. How will your sign fare this week? Aries: March 21 – Apr...
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Legendary Grunge Guitarist Name Drops Some of the Heaviest Metal Bands Who Inspired Him, and You Can Definitely Hear It in His Songs

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Soundgarden was always one of the heavier grunge bands of the 90s scene. It turns out there’s a very good reason for that. The band’s guitarist, Kim Thayil, has revealed that his early musical influences were some of the heaviest metal bands of the 80s. Like Metallica and Exodus. During a guest appearance on the  Turned Out A Punk  podcast, Thayil was asked about Soundgarden’s signing to A&M. This was their first major label signing in the late 80s. The musician was questioned whether the band was ever bothered by being “marketed into the metal world.” “Well, we liked Metallica, but that was different,” Thayil replied. “The thrash scene kind of had — they crossed over with the punk scene very, very much so, and it was independent, and it wasn’t as radio-friendly or MTV-oriented or pop-oriented. We were already into Metal Church, and I was acquainted with Trouble and Exodus, so we had those records.” Thayil noted tha...
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TRE House’s Texas Peach Cobbler THCA Vape Is Bigger, Sweeter, and Mostly Delta-8

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Some vapes are designed to be sleek, discreet, and gone before you’ve even decided whether you liked them. TRE House’s Texas Peach Cobbler Live Rosin Hybrid THC-A Vape Pen is not really that. This is a 3.5g disposable, which makes it feel like a different kind of purchase. It’s wider, it lasts longer, and it gives you more oil to work through than the average pen. Speaking of oil, this vape is actually Delta-8-forward as opposed to the THCA positioning. That bigger format is the main appeal here. If you hate buying a disposable and feeling like it’s empty two weekends later, the 3.5g size will solve that problem. But it also comes with a tradeoff: because there’s so much vape oil in the device, you should expect to recharge it. That’s not a dealbreaker, but it is part of the upkeep. This is technically a disposable, but it seems more like a longer-term device you keep around. The flavor is exactly what the name promises: peach cobbler...
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Someone Wants to Build a Nuclear-Powered Floating City for 80,000 People. Here’s What It’d Look Like.

Someone looked at the world’s largest cruise ships and decided they just weren’t ambitious enough. Plans are back on the table for the Freedom Ship, a proposed nuclear-powered floating city that would carry 80,000 people, circle the globe continuously, and be too large to dock anywhere on earth. Who’s in? The concept has been floating around since engineer Norman Nixon first pitched it in the 1990s. Nixon died in 2012, and the project stalled, but Freedom Cruise Line CEO Roger Gooch has revived it with fresh renderings , a $16.16 billion price tag, and total capitalist conviction. “We feel very confident that we can put this together, but capitalization is key,” Gooch told The Telegraph . Ahh, yes. The last part.  Someone Wants to Build a Nuclear-Powered Floating City for 80,000 People For scale: Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, currently the world’s largest cruise ship, maxes out at around 9,950 people. The Freedom Ship would car...
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The Camp Snap 2 is the Upgrade We’ve Been Waiting For

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Camp Snap has just launched a follow-up to the distraction-free screenless digital camera that took over TikTok and Instagram last year. Introducing the Camp Snap 2 , which I should mention is available at an introductory launch price of $70. That’s even cheaper than the original Camp Snap, which seems to be discontinued now that the Camp Snap 2 has completely replaced it on the Camp Snap website. But there’s no real reason to buy the old model now that the Camp Snap 2 is suddenly available for sale right now. This first batch is probably going to sell out super quick (Arctic White is already gone), so I’d jump on this sooner than later. (opens in a new window) Camp Snap Camp Snap 2 (opens in a new window) Available at Camp Snap Buy Now (opens in a new window) ...
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