In other news today...
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@jbert said in In other news today...:
Art teacher in Utah finds a bundle of artwork post cards, hands out a few stacks to groups of students to discuss. Turns out some contain nudity so he took them away.
One kid must have told his parents because an anonymous complaint to the sheriff and school district made him suspect for "handing out pornography". The sheriff closes the case but meanwhile parents are livid so the teacher must go, because he showed art in his art class.
To be fair, that's Utah.
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@pjh He went on to backpedal though and spout some more bullshit:
He said: "We always intended this vessel would be named for the kids. After a summer on the harbour, Ferry McFerryface will now be renamed after prominent Australian author May Gibbs.
"This will retain the vessel’s appeal to our youngest customers while also recognising an Australian icon with a long connection to Sydney."
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@jbert One of these days someone is actually going to change his name to Carrotty McCarrotface, and then he's going to do something to make people want to honor him by naming something after him.
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@da-doctah It would hardly be the most noteworthy thing.
I'm reminded of this old story of a Florida man / congressional candidate who changed his name to get the web address "voteforeddie.com" on the ballot:
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Do you think a private jet from Colombia might get just a little scrutiny from HM
CustomsBorder Force, or whatever it's called?
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
Do you think a private jet from Colombia might get just a little scrutiny from HM
CustomsBorder Force, or whatever it's called?Apparently someone didn't!
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@jbert Unfortunately, the website doesn't work.
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@pie_flavor That's why I added a link to the Internet Archive at the beginning of my post!
EDIT: Apparently his Twitter account still works? https://twitter.com/VoteForEddie
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Ok, so the title is pure clickbait with intent to provocation, but this is still pretty funny.
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Posted without comment (beyond pointing out that Tomo is being clickbait-y again, though that should go without saying).
https://youtu.be/zqJixhEDLdU
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Because the only mention so far which I found was in the Garage. Also, TomoNews makes The Crazy fun.
https://youtu.be/P5BJBvjvMYQ
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
It took me a minute to pick up on the double meaning in her tweet.
You need more
Or less weed.
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Stop ruining things!!!
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
It took me a minute to pick up on the double meaning in her tweet.
You need more
Or less weed.
Well, only less indica. Sativa'd probably help.
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@pie_flavor HANJ!
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
Stop ruining things!!!
Bacon is processed using nitrites and nitrates, which could enhance chemicals thought to cause cancer in the meat
The meat is already dead; I don't think it's going to get cancer.
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
by the name 'Doobie'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn-JgBjZjSk
Oh wait, that was "Doom" not "Doobie"...
Edit: Holy fuck, replaced with a video that doesn't have a screech at the end, WTF
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
Stop ruining things!!!
The whole cancer thing, as you might expect, is massively trumped up bullshit anyway.
Nitrites may cause a small increased risk of cancer if burned to a crisp, in a way that very few people would like in their bacon. Even then, it's really not a significant danger
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Police in Spain have recovered four tonnes of stolen oranges after pulling over two cars packed with the fruit.
The oranges were found when police in Seville became suspicious and searched the vehicles following a short chase.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
Police in Spain have recovered four tonnes of stolen oranges after pulling over two cars packed with the fruit.
The oranges were found when police in Seville became suspicious and searched the vehicles following a short chase.The editor of that article really must have thought "This is it. This is what I was born to do, let's nail this title".
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This could turn into a discussion, but I'm going to post it here; please keep it civil.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/technology/amazon-berkshire-hathaway-jpmorgan-health-care.html
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall I expect that TomoNews will have a video on it as soon as they get their grubby paws on it.
I CAN PREDICT THE
OBVIOUSFUTURE!EDIT: Titling Fail on the third item.
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But Amber Marie said she was vegan and "this is not cool".
"Best way for non-vegans to think ill of vegans," she wrote. "People are spending money, buying a meal, uniting with family, celebrating their life's joys, on dates. You have successfully ruined these moments for them, they will never want to hear from a vegan again."
I call lies, no Vegan is that cognizant.
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UK's digital surveillance program is illegal
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
Best way for non-vegans to think ill of vegans
Perhaps, but not necessary. I think ill of vegans even without that sort of disruptive behavior.
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
UK's digital surveillance program is illegal
Hmmm...but only until Brexit?
Three judges looking at the case brought by Liberty on behalf of MP Tom Watson said that DRIPA's lack of safeguards meant that it was "inconsistent with EU law."
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Apple : Late to the party and doesn't bring beer
That takes courage, I guess
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@r10pez10 said in In other news today...:
I don't think that's how information works.
Yeah, you should never get your information from the commercials. Sheesh.
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- can only work with iOS devices
- doesn't work well with other streaming services besides Apple Music
I am shocked that Apple would do something like that.
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I'm not sure whether they deliberately wrote the headline to be ambiguous or not, but the deceased appears to have been someone who was on the trash truck, not someone who was on the train.
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If this doesn't make you mad...
Also, WTF is up with Oklahoma. That site is like the who's who of Oklahoma perverts and pedophiles, and the other few stories I clicked on were recent, too. As far as I can tell, mainly just the Oklahoma City area, too.
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I lived in OK for a while, and yes, it's crazy. Though my Preschool teachers in Kansas duct taped my left hand to the chair because I was ambidextrous. They were arrested a few years later and put in prison for child abuse.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/31/hamas-palestinians-terrorism-blacklist-380414
I find it fascinating that both of these stories are in the news today even if they don't have anything to do with each other.
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
Also, the lottery has a such a brain-rapingly high potential payout for such a seemingly minuscule investment (because no one in human history has ever considered how much they have spent on a lottery in the past for any reason other than to apply the Gambler's Fallacy towards justifying their decision to spend even more), that it overrides the good sense of even those who realize it that they would be more likely to find a gold bar lying out on the sidewalk.
I have wondered if your chances of becoming wealthy would be better or worse by randomly buying shares of stock. I.e. if you normally spend $100 on lottery tickets (a modest amount), but instead buy $100/ year of randomly-selected stock, what would your chances be of becoming a millionaire?
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
I'm not sure whether they deliberately wrote the headline to be ambiguous or not, but the deceased appears to have been someone who was on the trash truck, not someone who was on the train.
When I first read that this morning, the article said it was not yet clear who was killed (but not anybody on the train). But yeah, in a collision between a train and a car or truck, no matter how big and heavy the truck may be, the truck is going to lose, badly, and unless there's a derailment, the train is barely going to notice. The locomotive alone outweighs a maximum-weight semi by more than 3:1, or almost 200000 pounds, never mind the rest of the train (roughly 100000 pounds per car). The likelihood of a serious injury on the train is pretty small unless it derails.
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
I call lies, no Vegan is that cognizant.
I had funny moment with vegetarians (not vegan) sometime last year when I ran across this cat café. They had a poster in the window that they are vegetarian and that “you won't find a single piece of meat around here”¹.
Oh, right. Except for all that premium quality cat food that the cats have such nice shiny hair from², because our little feline friends are obligate carnivores and literally can't digest anything but meat.
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@bulb said in In other news today...:
They had a poster in the window that they are vegetarian and that “you won't find a single piece of meat around here”<abbr title="Unfortunately they don't have that on the web, and it seems to be in Czech only anyway">¹</abbr>.
It is on the web, and Chrome's built-in translation takes care of the language problem — approximately, anyway:
(Emphasis in original)
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@hardwaregeek Cool.
I was not able to quickly find that bit in the long confusing scroll and having Czech as accepted language hides the translator quite thoroughly unfortunately.
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During account creation, the choice to name the app Matt Hancock creates some awkward moments, with system alerts noting that “Matt Hancock would like to access your photos”, “Matt Hancock would like to access your camera” and, on the buggier Android version of the app, “Matt Hancock keeps stopping”.
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@bulb said in In other news today...:
our little feline friends are obligate carnivores and literally can't digest anything but meat
Actually, housecats can digest starch a bit. They're better off eating meat (and need to do so for their non-energy needs), but they can eat other things in a pinch. I think it's an adaptation to being better able to survive off of what they can scrounge from humans or get by raiding
middenswaste bins.
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@Boner They've tried to reach Matt Hancock for comment, for Matt Hancock stopped responding.
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@zecc Matt Hancock has performed an illegal operation and is now serving 8-10 years at Her Majesty's pleasure.