It's probably a combo of a lot of things, like screenshotting, encoding issues, accidental conversion, etc, but at least for sites that advertise themselves as image repositories, I'm pretty sure it's to get you to actually visit the site. I've run into sites where the real image actually costs money to download, and ones where it's free and they're probably hoping for ad revenue from the page view.

The perils of community-sourced data

It looks like a Cloudflare interstitial. I also don't think sites get to choose which challenge types show up in reCAPTCHA, so this is on Google.

The site is using Cloudflare for DDoS protection, and unfortunately Cloudflare is probably the most effective tool for this. It also looks like it might be archive.org in the screenshot, and they've been dealing with a lot of DDoS attacks lately.

I don't think Google advertises "we force you to scan a QR code" as a feature of reCAPTCHA either, so it feels a little weird to me to blame the site for using a DDoS protection tool that in turn uses reCAPTCHA for human verification when Google randomly decides to add a new stupid challenge type.

Origami cake

We're happy?

The "family size" lasagna is about 1400 Calories total. I think it's reasonable to say that's 2 adult servings, but Stouffer's says it's 5.

I got a 4TB NVMe SSD for $160 a couple years ago. It's over $500 last time I checked a couple months ago.

I'm sure that's their excuse, but I think most people buying and heating a frozen lasagna are doing it because of time and effort, so it's about on par with cereal companies calling their sugar pellets "part of a balanced breakfast"

Assuming they're actually moving a lot of units.

When cars came along? How old is he?

Old Brazillian

It's a double subversion

IMO (formal) American Portuguese and Spanish are pretty close to mutually intelligible, especially in writing. There's a surprisingly consistent "system" for converting words between them and once you notice it, it's pretty easy to tell what a sentence should be in the other language, if it's even spelled differently in the first place. The grammar is also very similar. The biggest difference that gets me is how Portuguese tends to shift past tense conjugations further into the past vs Spanish.

We're censoring "useless" now?

It's actually git

Sort of relevant https://slate.com/...

There are so many options!

Did someone say heat pumps?

This is a weird way for me to find out about another shooting