There are also questions about schooling and transportation. Queens' high schools are at 117 percent capacity, and Long Island City's only elementary school is at 135 percent, but Amazon workers will have to cram their kids in somewhere. More schools are coming, but it's unclear whether they will provide anywhere close to enough seats. 25,000 new workers would also strain NYC's already oft-delayed and overcrowded subway system, and while we're sure that will inspire a new wave of hilarious open mic night observations, it will also keep people from getting where they need to be.

So in sum, a lot of people are going to show up and be given tons of money to make things more inconvenient. Amazon has talked about a vague commitment to sustainable development, job training programs, transit reform, and other long-term growth plans, and if those all work out, it could legitimately be great for Queens. But it's sort of like letting a dozen people come live with you rent-free because they've promised to help renovate your house one day. Maybe they eventually will, and that would be awesome, but will you even still be able to afford to live there when the time comes?

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Sadly, this "email with catittude" program was never run by Google, despite our best attempts to prove otherwise. But the URL offered eight-year-olds and sassy grandmas alike a free @catsrule.garfield.com email address, at least a few of which we really hope ended up on job applications and business cards. You could find catsrule emails at early internet bastions like Tripod, Angelfire, GameFAQs, and Fanfiction.net, where Garfield demonstrated how deep his love for lasagna truly ran.

The service eventually migrated to the now-defunct e-garfield.com in 2001. (Modern fans should head straight to garfield.com for all their many Garfield needs.) While the opportunity to score cracked@catsrule.garfield.com has sadly long passed us by, as of early 2018, the service appeared to still be active for whatever legacy users are clinging to it. Weirder still, an @catsrule.garfield.com email appeared in Wikileaks' 2010 Syrian government dump, as one of Bashar al-Assad's lackeys was apparently hit with an offer for cheap software from a Russian spammer using such an address.

WikiLeaksOf course, it's possible that this is simply how Jim Davis is paying the bills these days.

Does this prove that the seemingly innocent Garfield has ties to the Kremlin? Does he hate Mondays and freedom? We're still investigating. But in the meantime, if anyone reading this is still telling the world that cats rule via email, please get in touch and let us know what it's like to be trapped in 1998.

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Most people still use LinkedIn for its original purpose, if they're unfortunate enough to have the need to. But there's been a clear increase in extreme politics and toxicity, so don't be surprised if a bunch of people screaming about the need to Make America Great Again show up in the comments of your post about learning some new Excel tricks.

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That was in 2008. By 2016, Vice had moved on to a new trick where over half of their supposed traffic came from sites like Ranker, Distractify, and OMGFacts -- your top sources for whatever the writers saw on Reddit this morning. Vice sold ads on their behalf, then claimed their traffic as their own, because nothing says stable, trendsetting publication like being forced to claim the clicks of a bunch of 14-year-olds getting into arguments about which Supernatural episode is the thirstiest.

Anyway, Vice recently fired 250 hardworking people, because you can only move shells around for so long before people realize that there's nothing under them. And now you know how the internet economy works!

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