Random News Stories

[LMNO]

In today's "both sides are the same" news:

Experts on comparative politics say the GOP is an extremist outlier, no longer belonging in the same conversation with "normal" right-wing parties like Canada's Conservative Party (CPC) or Germany's Christian Democratic Party (CDU).

Instead, it more closely resembles more extreme right parties — like Viktor Orbán's Fidesz in Hungary or Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP in Turkey — that have actively worked to dismantle democracy in their own countries

[Cain]

Well there's 75 Republican candidates who are either Qanon tards or happy sucking up to Qanon tards. Given Qanon is a Neo-Nazi cult, that tells you all you need to know.

[Doktor Howl]

This is my United States of Whatever.

https://apnews.com/f4806754642c2075a4ddb1f04d4441f5

[Cain]

Wait...that got through international mail screening? And there were six previous letters in Texas? I can't say I know US procedures well, but that's fucking suspicious as shit.

[Doktor Howl]

Wait...that got through international mail screening? And there were six previous letters in Texas? I can't say I know US procedures well, but that's fucking suspicious as shit.

It was stopped by the USPS so probably not.

[Cain]

Ah, I hadn't been following it too closely but I thought it had gotten further than that.

[Doktor Howl]

Ah, I hadn't been following it too closely but I thought it had gotten further than that.

The one to the WH was stopped at the USPS.  The ones to Texas, I don't know.

[CorbeauEtRenard]

https://academictimes.com/first-vaccine-to-fully-immunize-against-malaria-builds-on-pandemic-driven-rna-tech/

Sometimes a news story reminds me of something Howl said many years ago about how 99% of engineers have their head up completely up their ass but the remaining 1% can put a man on the moon.

Some of the advancements for the current vaccine are apparently giving a new angle at potentially dealing with malaria. A.K.A. the cause of death of half of all the humans who have ever lived. At least solving it in humans, probably not feasible to eliminate the wildlife reservoir and completely smallpox it. But still.

[Trivial]

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2021/04/07/home-inspector-rochester-hills-elmo-doll/7130718002/

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A huge fatberg has been removed from a city sewer after engineers came up with a new idea to clear it which "literally ate it from the inside out"

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-57203734

[Doktor Howl]

Netanyahu refuses to leave the prime minister's residence and has Trump ex-officials visiting to call him "prime minister"  I shit you not.

[Junkenstein]

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/gb-news-week-1-it-takes-until-tuesday-to-go-full-wingnut-1.4596133?mode=amp

Accurately sums up launch of gb news. No one yet pushing the legatum links but from a quick look that's a whole other shitshow.

[Cain]

Netanyahu refuses to leave the prime minister's residence and has Trump ex-officials visiting to call him "prime minister"  I shit you not.

There's similar shit happening in Peru.

Thanks to Trump, basically all these populist new right leaders are never going to concede an election again.

[Doktor Howl]

To avoid having to raise wages post-pandemic, Russell Stover is now using prison labor in their facilities.

I expect a lot of this to go around.

[altered]

I hope someone is maintaining a publicly accessible list.