The unimportant news thread

Karl Henning · April 04, 2024, 03:41:03 PM

I've seen the headline, but cannot vouch for its accuracy:
"Truth Social is Displaying Erectile Dysfunction Ads Next to Trump Posts."

Dry Brett Kavanaugh · April 04, 2024, 04:27:33 PM

Egg prices are jumping again.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/03/business/egg-prices-cal-maine-bird-flu/index.html

steve ridgway · April 04, 2024, 08:49:20 PM

Quote from: Todd on April 04, 2024, 04:58:17 AMFrom AP: NYC's AI chatbot was caught telling businesses to break the law. The city isn't taking it down

The AI must have learnt that one should break the law when the law is wrong

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AnotherSpin · April 04, 2024, 09:52:32 PM

Quote from: steve ridgway on April 04, 2024, 08:49:20 PMThe AI must have learnt that one should break the law when the law is wrong .

It is only natural.

Dry Brett Kavanaugh · April 06, 2024, 05:55:39 AM

Forbes: Baby boomers are keeping jobs well into their sixties and seventies because they 'like going to work'.

Many upper and middle class retirees feel loneliness and emptiness, and they go back to work. Would they do that if they liked art, exercise, science, academics, etc?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/retirement-no-retirement-baby-boomers-160306854.html

Todd · April 06, 2024, 07:01:28 AM

April 2, 2024: Are potatoes vegetables? WA Sen. Cantwell and Gov. Inslee think so

April 5, 2024: Is the potato a vegetable? USDA says yes, and it will stay that way

Politics in action.

steve ridgway · April 06, 2024, 07:41:02 AM

Quote from: Todd on April 06, 2024, 07:01:28 AMApril 2, 2024: Are potatoes vegetables? WA Sen. Cantwell and Gov. Inslee think so

April 5, 2024: Is the potato a vegetable? USDA says yes, and it will stay that way

Politics in action.

I don't think we'll ever know for certain. I looked to see what it says in the Bible but all I could find was that big potatoes were better than small ones.

Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace. These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us. (2 Corinthians 4:16-17)

So presumably they ought to be baked.

Pohjolas Daughter · April 06, 2024, 09:35:25 AM

Quote from: Spotted Horses on March 25, 2024, 12:39:05 PMMaybe they'll rig it to blow off as he steps through it.

I'm sure that there's a nuts-and-bolts kind of answer.

Pohjolas Daughter · April 07, 2024, 02:24:50 PM

Engine cover comes off of a plane taking off in Denver; it was a Boeing.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/engine-cowling-falls-off-boeing-plane-southwest-airlines-flight-denver-houston/

Also (different news story), https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/us/burglary-tourists-visa-waivers-target-luxury-homes/index.html

Todd · April 07, 2024, 02:31:46 PM

Keeping the Boeing story aloft, as it were: Antony Blinken had yet another problem with his Boeing plane. He had to go in a car instead

drogulus · April 11, 2024, 10:25:20 AM

We don't need no stinkin' rate cuts.

steve ridgway · April 11, 2024, 08:08:44 PM

Classical music to continue at rail stations

Rail firm Northern has said it will continue to play classical music at 35 stations to combat bad behaviour.
Works "inspired by Handel, Beethoven and Mozart" are piped out over public address systems at certain times.
The music was rolled out to more than 20 additional places last April following a pilot scheme at nine sites.
Northern said it had led to a "reduction" in reports of large groups loitering at its stations in the North West and North East of England.

BBC News