News Miscellany - Page 102

JoeP · #**2526** 08-18-2020, 09:37 PM

Loo with a view: transparent public toilets installed in Tokyo parks | World news | The Guardian

Are they taking the piss; seems like shit idea.

The plan is they turn opaque when you're inside them. But I have to say the fear of the door opening on a train toilet while you're in there is nothing compared to the thought of something triggering the de-opaquing while you are busy.

JoeP · #**2527** 08-19-2020, 10:02 PM

Malfunction at Swiss chocolate factory sends out plume of cocoa 'snow' | Food | The Guardian

Quote:

Fine particles dust the ground around Lindt & Spruengli factory in town of Olten after ventilation defect

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Factory production was able to continue as normal and the company said the particles were completely harmless to people and the environment.

Ari · #**2528** 08-20-2020, 10:42 PM

It’s fire season again and this perfectly encapsulates the year,

California Fires in Loyalton, Vacaville & More: What We Know

Ensign Steve · #**2529** 08-20-2020, 11:07 PM

New desktop background.

Sock Puppet · #**2530** 08-20-2020, 11:12 PM

I don't love the smell of wildfire in the morning. But we got it anyway. :sadcheer:

I just

that it doesn't sit in our valley like a bowl of sludge for days or weeks, like it did last time.

Well, and I'd like not to get burned up, but that's highly unlikely. Li'l Puppet's rich friend up in the hills is at risk, however.

SR71 · #**2531** 08-21-2020, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

New desktop background.

Can you drop in the "This is fine" dog?

Ensign Steve · #**2532** 08-21-2020, 01:10 AM

Or Disaster Girl

JoeP · #**2533** 08-21-2020, 08:32 AM

The words
SENIOR CENTER
COME JOIN US
... did Stephen King write this?

Kamilah Hauptmann · #**2534** 08-24-2020, 04:33 AM

California:

Incredible.

Firefighters, bruh... pic.twitter.com/XIM7YzNowc
— Rex Chapman�� (@RexChapman) August 23, 2020

Kamilah Hauptmann · #**2535** 08-24-2020, 08:35 PM

Finland’s two-year test of universal basic income concluded that it doesn't seem to disincentivise working, and benefits recipients’ mental and financial wellbeing https://t.co/Y8hkf8D2db pic.twitter.com/AbykyoHZwq
— New Scientist (@newscientist) August 23, 2020

Kamilah Hauptmann · #**2536** 08-24-2020, 10:02 PM

There are times I get online, see the latest news, and wonder how we are living in a world where Kafka writes for the Twilight Zone starring the Marx Brothers.
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) August 24, 2020

Kamilah Hauptmann · #**2537** 08-27-2020, 08:58 AM

Words Hav Not Been Invented��....❤️�� pic.twitter.com/MGPJWN4QnK
— DDMD��❤️�� (@1DIDIMD) August 26, 2020

JoeP · #**2538** 08-29-2020, 07:45 PM

Polar bear kills man in Norway's Arctic Svalbard islands - BBC News

Kamilah Hauptmann · #**2539** 08-29-2020, 10:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JoeP

Polar bear has a legitimate snack in Norway's Arctic Svalbard islands - BBC News

Kamilah Hauptmann · #**2540** 08-31-2020, 04:39 AM

Black bear approaches, taps runner on popular Coquitlam trail

JoeP · #**2541** 08-31-2020, 10:33 AM

I prefer to think of this in Disney terms. Clearly the bear needs her help with one of its cubs.

Or in biblical terms - the bear had a thorn in its paw, and if the woman removed it, years later she would encounter it again and it would recognise her and save her from a more aggressive bear.

Kamilah Hauptmann · #**2542** 08-31-2020, 11:35 AM

Personally, I thing Norway’s bears win this one.

specious_reasons · #**2543** 09-02-2020, 01:43 AM

It's weird seeing David Axelrod on CNN. He really skyrocketed after working with Obama for his campaigns (I think he started with the Senate campaign), but he mostly worked local until then.

He came to talk to our US Government class about 30 years ago. By then, he was an up-and-comer Democratic strategist working on some Chicago area congressman's campaign. I don't even know who won.