Bogus, batshit, banal, bizarre, or bicubic: Assorted News

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USPS Suspends Nearly All Mail Service To Australia Due To Lack Of Capacity

This framing, lol

Australia is among 21 countries, including war-torn destinations such as Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, the US postal service has suspended deliveries to

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A couple from today's snark column in The Times

DOUBLE JEOPARDY
The campaign to make it illegal to photograph breastfeeding without consent met an obstacle in the Lords when Lord Wolfson of Tredegar argued it could spoil family pornography. The minister said it would be rough on a man who photographed his wife on the beach “for his own sexual gratification” and “unintentionally” included a woman he didn’t know with her breast out suckling. Wolfson’s holiday snaps must be fascinating.

Mark Zuckerberg’s rebranding of Facebook as Meta has upset Jeremy Corbyn’s favourite Greek economist, who is on the board of a leftie think tank with the same name. “Hands off,” tweets Yanis Varoufakis, whose Meta also goes by the name of the Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation. A social media war will surely follow. Beware Greeks bearing GIFs.

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A potato named Doug may be the largest ever unearthed

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and then Ontario elected it as premier

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and then Ontario elected it as premier

I can see it.

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Polynesians first to discover Antarctica, not news to Māori

Love that headline.

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The Boeing Co. outsourced work on Air Force One aircraft at Port San Antonio to a financially insolvent shell company owned by a foreign government, raising troubling national security questions, a whistleblower alleges in a court filing.

Subcontractor GDC Technics, which was 80 percent owned by the Saudi Arabian government, ultimately didn’t complete interior modifications to the aircraft due to a dispute with Boeing. As a result, the aerospace giant reportedly wants a 12-month delay in the jets’ delivery and $500 million in additional taxpayer funds to cover cost overruns.

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Extreme 2020's energy headline: U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar Under Fire For Tweeting Altered Anime Video Showing Him Attacking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

EDIT: Under "I watched this thing so you don't have to" (most of it is just random shots of border guards to the theme of Attack on Titan), the ending shows him about to all kill Jeff Bidet, which I feel like is a hell of a thing for most of the news articles I saw on this to NOT MENTION.

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It was AoT so at least he picked one of the fasc anime to properly represent his view points.

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Pat Collins sounds almost exactly like my father-in-law. :O

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Researchers at the University of Glasgow invent DOG PHONE

(thanks go to Silver for the original link)

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"Hello, this is dog."

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The 'Limitless Space Institute' are claiming the simulations for their casimir effect experiments show a way to build a nanoscale volume of negative vacuum energy, IE the impossible bit of a warp drive torus. No experiments yet and Dr. Harold G "Sonny" White was NASA's EmDrive cheerleader a few years back so I'm not holding my breath.

The press coverage reads like he aleady has a functioning FTL go-cart in the garage, naturally. They're straight up using the word 'boffin'.

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Oh there's a bubble being created alright...

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Otter attack at Singapore Botanical Gardens leaves British man with 26 wounds

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Okay, what the hell is going on with these Google doodles celebrating generic foods (at a time of rampant food inflation lmao, worst in nearly 40 years)? Pizza last week, now pho?

Did someone at Google just want to run a series of really neutral, inoffensive doodles, or are these genuinely a data-fishing op to seeing how much power doodles have to influence purchasing?