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BillTre
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Turning down my brain activity now!
Thinking hard about how to do this.BillTre said:Turning down my brain activity now!
This is worse than Flying Sharks!Stephen Tashi said:Watch out PF members!
Excessive brain activity linked to a shorter life
https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/...ctivity-linked-to-a-shorter-life-14540961.php
... the more as many people seem to have already drawn consequences from this.berkeman said:This is worse than Flying Sharks!
Do like I did, and change the subject to "people":Ibix said:Thinking hard about how to do this.
I'm doomed if I can't figure it out soon!
A day destined for comedy.nsaspook said:
bhobba said:Yesterdays local paper had a couple of zingers that made me laugh for hours. The title of the first one says it all (can't give the link to the local paper - its behind a paywall - but it has gone viral so is freely available elsewhere and I can give a link to one of those). The title was 'QLD mum busted after son takes her drug stash to school for 'Show & Tell'. Here is the link: https://www.kidspot.com.au/news/qld-mum-busted-after-son-takes-her-drug-stash-to-school-for-show-tell/news-story/f859bba8a138a0636feda70d014e8204
The second one involves a bit of background. There are extinction rebellion protests going on here in Brisbane at the present where the protesters do things like glue themselves to a main road in the middle of the city. Its dangerous and on that count a solution that respects their right to protest and safety concerns needs to be found.Glue themselves to the road?
Most people however get really mad and say they should not be allowed to protest which I personally, and deeply, disagree with. We are a free democratic country and freedom of speech is one of its fundamental tenets. Anyway the protesters would meet at the Brisbane City Council Library before conducting their protests. So the council decided, wrongly IMHO, to ban them from the Library.
One of the councilmen from the greens party was very outspoken about the issue and the council meeting broke into this whole climate change skeptic vs alarmist 'discussion'. Totally unproductive of course and they decided to ban one of the very pro climate change councilmen. Again I personally on free speech grounds opposed that and was quite vocal in my reply online.
One person said - OK - what would you do then. I thought about it and, half tongue in cheek, said - well let's get the pro climate change person to write a paper paper briefing the council on climate change and have it peer reviewed by Professor Peter Ridd who is a known climate change skeptic - you can look him up - his story is an interesting one about academic freedom.
I personally thought it would have been great fun to see happen, and couldn't stop laughing thinking about it, but what surprised me was the number of people that agreed. I hasten to say this in no way diminishes the public danger issues of people gluing themselves to the road - that needs resolution in some way that still respects the right to protest.
Thanks
BillSeeing more and more people falling to their death taking selfies. Darwin Award.Borg said:I guess now she will have to limit her pictures to the edge of the Grand Canyon.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/woman-selfie-cruise-royal-caribbean-intl-scli/index.html
His sister filmed it, but refused to air it after he died. Go figure.An Oregon man who died in a Yellowstone National Park hot spring and dissolved when he fell into the boiling, acidic water, was looking to soak in the water, park officials said in a report.
Definitely a Darwin Award.Evo said:His sister filmed it, but refused to air it after he died. Go figure.
Evo said:Glue themselves to the road?
fresh_42 said:I've preached for years: Kids, pay attention to your STEM classes!
256bits said:Apparently it relaxes the rat driver. And they kept on driving even when the reward ( food ) at destination was removed
NEWPORT, OR (KPTV) - The skeleton of a 78-foot blue whale was brought back to dry land this week. It will be preserved and eventually prepared for public display.
To help get it there, volunteers are needed to remove oil and fat from the whale bones that have been sitting in Yaquina Bay for several years.
https://www.vvng.com/motorist-on-i-15-stop-to-play-in-snow-on-the-runaway-truck-ramp-in-cajon-pass/ said:Motorist on I-15 stop to play in snow on the runaway truck ramp in Cajon Pass
CAJON PASS, Calif. (VVNG.com) — Saturday was another busy day for the California Highway Patrol as they received numerous calls reporting motorists stopping to play in the snow along the I-15 freeway in the cajon pass.
On Saturday, November 30, 2019, at 8:32 am, dispatch logged a call on the NB I-15, north of Oak Hill Road of several vehicles pulled over to the right shoulder and people playing in the snow.
At 12:23 pm a traffic hazard was reported on the southbound I-15 at the runaway truck ramp.
Victor Valley News Group member Shirley McConnell was traveling though the pass when she was flabbergasted by the hoards of people pulled over to play in the snow.
According to CHP incident logs, six vehicles were pulled over and twelve people were out of their vehicle and snowboarding on the truck ramp.
“People are out of their cars on the 15 freeway on cajon pass playing in the snow with their children. “They are on the truck runaway ramp. I hope a truck does not lose its brakes and need to use it. This is a shame,” stated McConnell.
A similar problem was reported by motorists traveling northbound on the I-15 in the Mountain Pass area.
Thankfully no injuries were reported.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10212780184459436&set=gm.3011852048842944&type=3&theater said:Something you don't see everyday, as it is a very rare thing to occur... Gearheads will brag about how their car can do burnouts... Trains can do a burnout too!
This obviously isn't supposed to happen... The engineer operating the locomotive that did this is in deep doo-doo with his bosses. Locomotives have things called "wheel-slip indicators" on them. His either didn't work, or he ignored it for whatever reason. But my goodness, if the thing didn't start rolling after moderate throttle, why throttle up and burn the rail?
If you're curious, this sort of thing is illegal in the USA [well, at least many states within], so I would recommend against doing these sorts of things. Here is some background on the setting up booby-traps in your own home, from a legal perspective (USA):berkeman said:An early front-runner for the 2020 Darwin Awards...
A man was shot to death by the handmade device he made to protect his home
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/01/us/maine-man-booby-trap/index.html
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said it removed the fictional country of Wakanda from an online list of nations that have free trade agreements with the United States on Thursday.
Borg said:Another trade war? U.S. is no longer trading with Wakanda.