Weird News Compilation

[Borg]

I'm not really impressed by bullied people becoming bullies themselves, but the article had another unrelated interesting fact:

I mostly agree such that I wouldn't want it to become a trend. At least she wasn't doxxing them like some are inclined to do. Too many people feel free to behave as badly as they like when they think that nobody sees them or knows who they are. Getting some of them to personally feel the shame of their own actions isn't the worst thing that I can think of.

Yeah, I saw that bit of info on the threatbots. Pretty scary.

 

[DrGreg]

Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson was yesterday turned away from a polling station when he could not prove his identity.

It was his own government that two years ago introduced legislation requiring voters to show photo ID.

BBC: Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting ID

 

[jack action]

Not so easy, is it?

Women on Bumble No Longer Have to Make the First Move​

[...]

The shift is a major one for Bumble. Until now, a man who matched with a woman on the app had to wait for her to message him. If she did not initiate a conversation, the match would expire after 24 hours.

[...]

But over the years, Bumble received feedback from women who found that making the first move was “a lot of work” or “a burden,” [...]

“In the end it was the data that killed me,” says Penny* about her decision to leave the dating app Bumble. If she opened the app she might receive 100 likes, 25% of which she might be interested in. She would look at their profiles and write individualised messages; a few would respond, perhaps one would result in a date.

“That’s a lot of effort to get one date,” she says. “It’s exhausting.”

Bumble, billed as the feminist Tinder when it launched in 2014, this week announced it was taking action to relieve the administrative burden on its female users. It has given them the option of firing off a short pre-written question to potential dates, rather than a carefully crafted missive, after 70% of its female users said they were becoming burnt out.

 

[Hornbein]

The analyst’s research showed that 75% of these threats were “created by robots in Malaysia and Iran.”

Hire a Malaysian robot to send out death threats. This modern world....

 

[nsaspook]

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4651051-rfk-jr-says-parasite-ate-part-of-his-brain/
RFK Jr. says parasite ate part of his brain

Those worms probably died of starvation.

 

[nsaspook]

 

[Borg]

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4651051-rfk-jr-says-parasite-ate-part-of-his-brain/
RFK Jr. says parasite ate part of his brain

Those worms probably died of starvation.
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I didn't even have to watch the video to know what Khan scene that was.

 

[collinsmark]

I didn't even have to watch the video to know what Khan scene that was.

I know!

For the past several days I've been anticipating late night talk show monologues (e.g. Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, etc.) to make reference to this Wrath of Kahn scene. But alas, no.

 

[Borg]

If only Ricardo Montalbán was still around to control him. I would pay good money to see that movie.

 

[collinsmark]

A bit of weird trivia about this (this is the Weird News thread, so it's almost on topic):

Chekov wasn't a character in Star Trek's first season. The episode Space Seed, where the Enterprise first meets up with Kahn, was in the first season.

So Chekov shouldn't have ever met Kahn. Yet in the movie, the implication was that Chekov was part of the crew during that incident. So there's a bit of an inconsistency there.

 

[Ibix]

So Chekov shouldn't have ever met Kahn. Yet in the movie, the implication was that Chekov was part of the crew during that incident. So there's a bit of an inconsistency there.

Walter Koenig apparently joked that his personal theory was that they met offscreen during Space Seed. Chekhov was using a toilet that Khan needed to use, and the whole creature in the ear thing was revenge for making him wait.

 

[nsaspook]

Walter Koenig apparently joked that his personal theory was that they met offscreen during Space Seed. Chekhov was using a toilet that Khan needed to use, and the whole creature in the ear thing was revenge for making him wait.

The AI 50's version.

 

[berkeman]

Well, if you're going to crash your car, at least you can...

https://www.kron4.com/news/san-rafael-car-crashes-in-front-of-collision-repair-shop/

 

[Tom.G]

A case of someone making an astute choice?

 

[Swamp Thing]

Maybe they were friends. "Why don't you come over and crash at my place?"

 

[nsaspook]

Brainy Smurf lives on.

 

[Hornbein]

Brainy Smurf lives on.

Goin' out in a blaze of glory.

 

[Tom.G]

And the weird part is he lived through it and WALKED to the ambulance.

A cat with nine lives has nothing on that guy!

 

[Hornbein]

And the weird part is he lived through it and WALKED to the ambulance.

A cat with nine lives has nothing on that guy!

It's not that unusual. At high enough voltages the air around the body ionizes and conducts the electricity.

 

[phinds]

It's not that unusual. At high enough voltages the air around the body ionizes and conducts the electricity.

And this protects him from a 40 foot fall, how exactly?

 

[Bystander]

And this protects him from a 40 foot fall, how exactly?

Coulombic repulsion.

 

[Ibix]

And this protects him from a 40 foot fall, how exactly?

I have read that one of the worst things you can do when falling is tense up, because it makes it much harder to absorb the impact. My guess would be the shock stunned him and he flopped on to the ground.

(There's a "high tension" joke in there somewhere...)

 

[nsaspook]

https://unofficialnetworks.com/2024...complaint-over-lack-of-trained-grizzly-bears/

Why do you think the bears just say home now instead of dancing for the tourists.

 

[Tom.G]

https://unofficialnetworks.com/2024...complaint-over-lack-of-trained-grizzly-bears/

Why do you think the bears just say home now instead of dancing for the tourists.

And there is this where a tourist tangles with a Bison.

 

[nsaspook]

And there is this where a tourist tangles with a Bison.

 

[fresh_42]

Parakeets haunt Mainz University​

The green-feathered birds don't even stop at the Mainz Microtron, the particle accelerator at the Institute for Nuclear Physics. Several holes gape in the facade - evidence of breeding holes for ring-necked parakeets, also known as lesser Alexander parakeets. “The caretakers are fighting a pretty unsuccessful battle,” says university employee Detlev Franz. For several years now, the enthusiastic recreational ornithologist has been dealing with the free-living parrots, which have spread in many communities, especially along the Rhine.

https://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/lokales/mainz/stadt-mainz/sittiche-suchen-mainzer-uni-heim-3613646

 

[Astronuc]

And there is this where a tourist tangles with a Bison.

Yellowstone Darwin Award Competition?

 

[Hornbein]

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Parakeets haunt Mainz University​

https://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/lokales/mainz/stadt-mainz/sittiche-suchen-mainzer-uni-heim-3613646

I have seen many free parrots in Barcelona and some in Santa Cruz California circa 1990.

 

[fresh_42]

I have seen many free parrots in Barcelona and some in Santa Cruz California circa 1990.

They are here in Germany since the late 60s, early 70s. Now there are thousands of them in parks in big cities along the Rhein (because of the climate there). That they inscribe in Nuclear Physics is new.

 

[fresh_42]

Yellowstone Darwin Award Competition?

I had to think about a dialogue I once read. A park ranger had been asked why they couldn't make the trash cans in the park bear-proven. His answer was, that the intelligence of some bears exceeds the intelligence of some tourists by far.