Pepper X: Eating world's hottest pepper was euphoric, says creator | ‘Kia Boys’ Trend Fueling Nationwide Crime Wave Is Running Rampant on Instagram | Army General: Barracks Aren't Filthy Hellholes, Soldiers Are Just Lazy | Terry Bisson’s History of the Future

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Pepper X: Eating world's hottest pepper was euphoric, says creator - BBC News

After taste-testing peppers and hot sauces all day for his South Carolina company, PuckerButt Pepper Company, he will add peppers or hot sauce to his dinner. His favourite pepper to cook with, though not his own creation, is a chocolate scotch bonnet.

"I eat peppers all day long," he says. "If there's the right kind of dessert around, I tend to put something hot on my dessert."

Even as a pepper connoisseur, tasting his own creation, Pepper X, which was crowned the world's hottest pepper earlier this week by Guinness World Records, had him "literally bent over groaning in pain" for three or four hours.

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‘Kia Boys’ Trend Fueling Nationwide Crime Wave Is Running Rampant on Instagram -

Jessica had vaguely heard about the Kia Boys trend on social media from scattered news reports and a brief mention by the police officer who took her report. But it wasn’t until the summer, when a coworker showed her some Instagram accounts, that she fully understood what was going on. When searching “Kia Boys” or “Kia Boyz,” account after account popped up showing people stealing cars, joyriding in cars with ripped-up ignition boxes, and similar videos featuring cars that were seemingly stolen. Many of these videos, seen by Motherboard, showed extremely erratic and downright dangerous driving, such as playing chicken with parked cars at high speeds, driving into oncoming traffic in broad daylight, or speeding down a dedicated bike path or sidewalk. And a few showed people flashing guns

“I knew it was a viral sensation,” Jessica told Motherboard. “But I didn’t know it was, like, that deep, where the actual people stealing the cars were bragging and taunting their victims online.”

The nationwide surge in Kia and Hyundai thefts is the result of multiple, overlapping factors. The car companies didn’t install a simple, cheap, yet effective anti-theft device in most of its cars over a 10-year period unlike every other manufacturer, creating a vulnerability that makes the cars easy to target and steal. This vulnerability was widely shared on social media platforms starting in 2021 and a subculture developed around showing off those stolen cars in videos posted online to Kia Boys accounts. And the people who commit these crimes largely get away with it, for reasons that vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but generally speaking reflect a trend in American policing where property and violent crimes tend to go unsolved.

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Army General: Barracks Aren't Filthy Hellholes, Soldiers Are Just Lazy -

The living conditions for U.S. military members are well documented and terrible. But when asked about the prevalence of mold in U.S. military barracks, a Major General for the Army said that soldiers just need to learn to be adults and clean up after themselves.

“I don’t have a mold problem, I have a discipline problem,” Major General James P. Isenhower III told a crowd during a discussion at the Association of the United States Army on Wednesday. Isenhower was there to discuss how best to take care of soldiers.

U.S. military bases are famously filthy and disgusting. A recent report from the Government Accountability Office found barracks filled with sewage, squatters, disease and—yes—mold. During a question and answer session at the conference, a soldier asked about housing conditions on military bases. “There are some areas that are still dilapidated,” she said. “How do we avoid being on the Army Times—mold, asbestos, and so forth.”

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Terry Bisson’s History of the Future - The New Yorker

Sometime in 1989, Terry Bisson was driving his daughter to college in upstate New York when an idea for a short story came to him. Glancing toward the highway median, he had a vision: animals sitting together, in their own world, talking to one other. The vision became a title: "Bears Discover Fire."

The story that resulted is strange and funny, yet oddly realistic. It takes place in Kentucky, where Bisson grew up, but is set in "unclaimed land" that could stand in for any exurban wilderness, and follows an uncle and nephew during an odd season in which bears stop hibernating and discover fire. "They make a fire and keep it going all winter," a character explains. No one knows what to make of this development. The uncle and his nephew, Wallace Jr., follow the story on TV, but grow frustrated that the news mainly shows "guys talking about bears" rather than the bears themselves. They decide to go looking for the genuine article.

After supper, they head into the back yard and through a fence. "Across the interstate and through the trees we could see the light of the bears' fire," Bisson writes. "Wallace Jr. wanted to go back to the house and get his .22 and go shoot one, and I explained why that would be wrong." Also, the uncle points out, "a .22 wouldn't do much more to a bear than make it mad." Later, Wallace Jr.'s ornery grandma escapes her nursing home and disappears into the dark wilderness; they find her with the bears, enjoying their campfire in silence. "My imagination ran wild," the uncle recalls. "I looked around the circle at the bears and wondered what they saw."

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