The unimportant news thread

[Kalevala]

"Australian man charged with stealing Labubus worth $5,000"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg4d47r1wzo

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[Kalevala]

Vegan burgers are losing the US culture war over meat.



https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/sep/12/vegan-burgers-meat-vegetarian

Interesting to see what is happening to Beyond Meat's stock price at the moment.  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cew4kqg09j8o

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[Todd]

Doctor is arrested while performing illegal penis enlargement procedures in the back of his Toyota Corolla

Yelp reviews, indeed.

[Todd]

From Forbes: The Highest-Paid Dead Celebrities Of 2025

American royalty tops the list again, with the King of Pop taking the top slot.  Top cumulative earnings of estates over the past twenty-five years (or less, as may be the case):

[JBS]

From Forbes: The Highest-Paid Dead Celebrities Of 2025

American royalty tops the list again, with the King of Pop taking the top slot.  Top cumulative earnings of estates over the past twenty-five years (or less, as may be the case):

25 years includes (just barely) the release of all of the Peter Jackson films (Fellowship was released in 2001). Jackson must have driven a pretty hard bargain.

[Todd]

From Neuroscience News: When Using AI, Users Fall for the Dunning-Kruger Trap in Reverse

[SimonNZ]

Kim Kardashian Blames Failing Her Law Exam on Studying with ChatGPT: 'I'll Get Mad and I'll Yell at It'

[...]"When I need to know the answer to a question, I'll take a picture and snap it and put it in there. It has made me fail tests ... all the time," Kardashian explained. "And then I'll get mad and I'll yell at it."

"So she's a frenemy?" Taylor, 34, asked, to which Kardashian replied, "Yes, a frenemy. And then it'll say back to me, 'This is just teaching you to trust your own instincts. So you knew the answer all along.' "

"So she clocked you," Taylor replied.

"Clocked me," Kardashian added.

"So, technically, you and ChatGPT are friends, just toxic friends," Taylor said, to which Kardashian agreed.

"But they need to do better because I'm leaning to them to really help me and she is teaching me a life lesson and then becoming my therapist to tell me why I need to believe in myself after they got the answer wrong," Kardashian continued. "It's like a thing. I screenshot all the time and send it in my group chat. Like, can you believe this bitch is talking to me like this? This is insane."

[pjme]

Earlier this week, baboon Robert has died at De Zonnegloed in Vleteren (West Flanders).
Robert arrived at the shelter in June with an alcohol addiction. The monkey was used as entertainment in a café and was given beer as a reward for a trick. De Zonnegloed took him in along with seven other abused baboons. Each animal has its own story of abuse and illegality.