The unimportant news thread

[Ken B]

New from the failing New York Times: The Sounds That Haunted U.S. Diplomats in Cuba? Lovelorn Crickets, Scientists Say

From the same failing New York Times only a few months ago on the same subject: Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers

Microwaving crickets is cruel.

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

Mel Stottlemeyer, New York Yankee pitcher of the 60's and 70's, has died.

Roy White survives.

Horace Clark survives.

[Ken B]

Mel Stottlemeyer, New York Yankee picture of the 60's and 70's, has died.

Roy White survives.

Horace Clark survives.

Old pictures never die, they just fade way.

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

Old pictures never die, they just fade way.

Damn spell check...

[Karl Henning]

serious ick

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/23/nurse-charged-with-sexual-assault-after-incapacitated-woman-gave-birth-health-care-facility/?utm_term=.449447770cd3

[NikF]

'The man who captured his life on camera'

"At about age 11, he was gifted the cine-camera by his grandparents, whom he lived with in Stanely House, Paisley after his father died during World War One. Armed with an obsession for moving pictures, Harry went on to make 400 films of incidents great and small".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-46977271

And although apparently not listed yet, it's being shown as part of https://glasgowfilm.org/glasgow-film-festival

[SurprisedByBeauty]

serious ick

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/23/nurse-charged-with-sexual-assault-after-incapacitated-woman-gave-birth-health-care-facility/?utm_term=.449447770cd3

I feel like there's a move that's been made about that...

http://www.youtube.com/v/watch?v=7fl8tyEIXXI

(...and a superb one, at that.)

[Todd]

From books to bullets: inside Amazon's push to 'defend' America

Jeff Bezos's company hosts top secret CIA data and powers the US immigration case management system. Now it's poised to take on a $10bn Pentagon project


Another story that didn't run in Amazon Post.  How about that?

[Ken B]

From books to bullets: inside Amazon's push to 'defend' America

Jeff Bezos's company hosts top secret CIA data and powers the US immigration case management system. Now it's poised to take on a $10bn Pentagon project


Another story that didn't run in Amazon Post.  How about that?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/09/google-bows-out-out-pentagons-billion-cloud-computing-race/?utm_term=.326bf0a77a25

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/24/pentagon-review-amazon-employees-influence-over-billion-government-contract/?utm_term=.91f1acd11f89

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/whats-standing-between-amazon-and-top-us-secrets-quicktake/2018/07/13/172464e4-8656-11e8-9e06-4db52ac42e05_story.html?utm_term=.f2dc982ca716

Do tell.

[Todd]

Do tell.

You get a B.  Good job!

[Ken B]

You get a B.  Good job!

Gentleman's C. All I did was google. What checking did you do btw?

[Todd]

Gentleman's C. All I did was google. What checking did you do btw?

You may want to go back a read, carefully, the exact words I wrote.  Or not.  Doesn't matter.

[Ken B]

You may want to go back a read, carefully, the exact words I wrote.  Or not.  Doesn't matter.

Oh, you mean one particular copyrighted column from The Guardian didn't run in the WaPo? Who says humour is dead?

[Todd]

Who says humour is dead?

I don't know, who? 

[JBS]

https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/science/2019/02/magnetic-north-update-navigation-maps

[Todd]

Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'

Definitely bad news.  Scary news.  Terrifying news, actually.  Nature will collapse.  It kinda makes you wonder how the UN could be so irresponsible as to advocate bug eating, and how the Graun could have possibly run this story only last October:

Would you eat insects to save the planet from global warming?

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'

Definitely bad news.  Scary news.  Terrifying news, actually.  Nature will collapse.  It kinda makes you wonder how the UN could be so irresponsible as to advocate bug eating, and how the Graun could have possibly run this story only last October:

Would you eat insects to save the planet from global warming?

That's parody on your part, surely? Eating crickets has nothing to do with "plummeting insect numbers" nor would any threat for their species be associated with that. In fact, if you want to preserve it, eat it! Being delicious is good for most species*.


(* And where it doesn't, we damn well ought to think hard until we come up with the right incentives to protect them. I'm not a monster, after all. I just want tuna-tartar to still be there for my grandchildren!)

[Ken B]

That's parody on your part, surely? Eating crickets has nothing to do with "plummeting insect numbers" nor would any threat for their species be associated with that. In fact, if you want to preserve it, eat it! Being delicious is good for most species.

Works for humans.

[Ken B]

There is no shame in it. There are so many languages I don't speak, like Jamaican, or Belgian. Hell, I don't even speak Canadian now I think of it.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/10/cory-booker-invents-swiss-language-iowa-interview/

[Florestan]

There is no shame in it. There are so many languages I don't speak, like Jamaican, or Belgian. Hell, I don't even speak Canadian now I think of it.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/10/cory-booker-invents-swiss-language-iowa-interview/

A famous Romanian pop singer stated in a TV show a few years ago that she spoke Brazilian.