The unimportant news thread

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Ouch!

Peaches and apples have also been hit hard (lower-lying areas hit harder as cold air sinks).  Some Vermont apple growers have reported losing 100% of their crop.

PD

[Karl Henning]

Georgia urges residents to wear clothes in driver's license photos.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Georgia urges residents to wear clothes in driver's license photos.

I heard that news too.  I can't believe that people would do otherwise. 

PD

[Todd]

US debt ceiling deal narrowly passes Senate averting catastrophic federal default

The vote was 63-36, yet the word "narrowly" was used in the headline.  It appears AI generates headlines for The Graun now.  That should be big news everywhere.

[Spotted Horses]

US debt ceiling deal narrowly passes Senate averting catastrophic federal default

The vote was 63-36, yet the word "narrowly" was used in the headline.  It appears AI generates headlines for The Graun now.  That should be big news everywhere.

I don't pretend to understand convoluted Senate rules, but the article says 60 votes were needed and the bill received 63. That strikes me as passing narrowly.

[Todd]

That strikes me as passing narrowly.

OK.

[DavidW]

US debt ceiling deal narrowly passes Senate averting catastrophic federal default

The vote was 63-36, yet the word "narrowly" was used in the headline.  It appears AI generates headlines for The Graun now.  That should be big news everywhere.

*cough* that hardly qualifies as UNIMPORTANT news as it would have global repercussions.

[Todd]

*cough* that hardly qualifies as UNIMPORTANT news as it would have global repercussions.

I suggest reading about the 1979 US federal government default.  The world did not end.  Also, Eric Cantor gave away the game the last time around. 

[Karl Henning]

I heard that news too.  I can't believe that people would do otherwise. 

PD

No kidding!

[Karl Henning]

A regular crowd shuffles in ....

Billy Joel to end his residency at New York City's Madison Square Garden in July 2024 after a record-breaking 10 years and 150 concerts

[Karl Henning]

Newly discovered cellular process in phytoplankton—algae dependent on sunlight for energy—may account for as much as 12% of global oxygen production

[Pohjolas Daughter]

A regular crowd shuffles in ....

Billy Joel to end his residency at New York City's Madison Square Garden in July 2024 after a record-breaking 10 years and 150 concerts

Newly discovered cellular process in phytoplankton—algae dependent on sunlight for energy—may account for as much as 12% of global oxygen production

Interesting on both accounts!

PD

[Karl Henning]

Interesting on both accounts!

PD

I had no idea the Garden sponsored residencies.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I had no idea the Garden sponsored residencies.

I hadn't either!  I associate things like that with Vegas.

PD

[pjme]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65794363?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

Utah primary schools ban Bible for 'vulgarity and violence'!

[Florestan]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65794363?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

Utah primary schools ban Bible for 'vulgarity and violence'!

If "vulgarity and violence" were the litmus test for teaching a literary work in primary schools, then not only Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, Lewis Carroll, Edmondo de Amicis, Carlo Collodi or any other classical and celebrated writer of tales or children books, but also each and every traditional folk tale, irrespective of country, would fail it. 

By this token, we should really stop teaching anything and everything, for somewhere someone would surely find it offensive. 

Quod Deus perdere vult dementat prius.

[Todd]

Utah primary schools ban Bible for 'vulgarity and violence'!

I suspect the Book of Mormon was not banned.

[Mapman]

The 10th European Tram Driver Championship (including Tram Bowling) occurred today.

[Karl Henning]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65794363?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

Utah primary schools ban Bible for 'vulgarity and violence'!

The curious irony here is, both that in most of the 50 States, the Bible would not be taught in the public schools, because of the separation of Church from State (which so many of the anti-intellectual Yahoo states are happily flouting, anyway, and Utah's being, still, so substantially Mormon.

If "vulgarity and violence" were the litmus test for teaching a literary work in primary schools, then not only Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, Lewis Carroll, Edmondo de Amicis, Carlo Collodi or any other classical and celebrated writer of tales or children books, but also each and every traditional folk tale, irrespective of country, would fail it. 

By this token, we should really stop teaching anything and everything, for somewhere someone would surely find it offensive. 

Quod Deus perdere vult dementat prius.

I take your point. And, of course, parents are always free to teach their children the Bible at home.

[Florestan]

Banning vulgarity and violence is banning humanity...