Amazing news stories that don't quite deserve a thread

Lukasz 2018-10-19 17:10:44 UTC #983

Julian Assange launches legal action against Ecuador

somini 2018-10-20 14:14:52 UTC #984

Biting the hand that feeds him. This is after the whole debacle of having him made an ambassador temporarily so that he could elope to Russia.

somini 2018-10-25 21:22:37 UTC #985

I like how matter-of-factly this report reads.

10-year-olds planning to butcher people with pizza cutters? Eh.

somini 2018-10-29 22:06:36 UTC #986

Not even ISIS can resist having his militants fill out paperwork. Bureaucracy trumps all.

somini 2018-12-11 00:24:38 UTC #987

Meanwhile in America, a women is thrown into Rikers Island for sitting on the ground while queueing for public benefits cradling a baby.

Ms Headley took a seat on the floor with her baby as there were no chairs, Ms Schreibersdorf said. A security guard asked her to move but there was nowhere to go.
The two broke into a row and the guard called the cops.

An officer then points what appears to be a taser at Ms Headley as she says, “I’m begging you.”

charged with several misdemeanours: resisting arrest, obstructing government administration, criminal trespass, and acting in a manner injurious to a child

Rikers Island for arguing with a cop.

somini 2018-12-18 14:49:43 UTC #988

was reading Umberto Eco’s essay “Eternal Fascism” from 1995

OK…

That article is very weird because it co-mingles Pamela Anderson and some other guy in a single interview. Successful clickbait is successful, I guess.

BillButNotBen 2019-02-01 12:30:42 UTC #989

This is great.

Shame about the reversal though.

alms 2019-02-01 14:34:07 UTC #990

Might cheer you up that the Daily Mail still is regarded as an unreliable, disallowed source for Wikipedia?

LexW 2019-02-01 21:46:38 UTC #991

Cheered me up!

alms 2019-02-12 16:03:25 UTC #992

“Sad is the country…”
(world)

somini 2019-02-19 16:40:23 UTC #993

Talking about the USA…

Duck and Cover is back!

Fumarole 2019-02-20 14:10:36 UTC #994

Sadly schools in the US have been doing active shooter drills for many years.

Lukasz 2019-02-21 13:39:38 UTC #995

If all kids go to hard corners won’t that make them easy target?

A shooter who is a student who participated in drills knows exactly where people are hiding then.
Instead of wondering around hoping to meet his targets he will know exactly where to go…

Americans are weird

somini 2019-02-24 23:34:10 UTC #996

They can then stand in the hallways, it will be unexpected. /ss(sadly sarcarm)

Literal arms races on schools…

The_Velour_Fog 2019-03-09 13:36:52 UTC #997

The answer is to arm the corners

Lukasz 2019-04-01 22:15:20 UTC #998

Swedish police officer apprehends fugitive while visiting sauna

somini 2019-04-04 21:20:20 UTC #999

Oh god the puns… Even in the police press release.

BillButNotBen 2019-04-05 08:31:44 UTC #1000

Not really amazing, but I thought it was kind of interesting.

alms 2019-04-11 22:13:06 UTC #1001

I could never quite tell whether this is a planned move from the anti-Francis crows who are using the ample ammo provided to them to undermine some of the pope’s PR work, or if some of them are just so used to escape punishment, that they don’t give a flying fsck (both sounds also like a reasonable answers; this compares favorably to Cold War intrigue).

The pedigree of this man is remarkable, and there’s practical reasons for his being the first Pope who retired, although they’re conveniently kept out of the limelight for the most part.

somini 2019-04-15 00:29:27 UTC #1002

I just find it crazy that a millennial institution is so turned inward with infighting that the bile that spews outwards speaks with a straight face of “gay lobbies”, “homosexuals=pedophiles”, “sexual liberation for non-priests 60 years ago, therefore raping kids” in 2019.
This kind of language (not to mention widespread sexual abuse) would be enough to condemn any organization to social ostracism, ISIS-like. How aren’t those documents cause for scorched earth policies against the Catholic church from the part of “secular” states?

Will something like this happen in the future to Star Wars fans, or Trekkies? Schisms about Han shooting first?
How long until a religion can form from first principles?