The Weekly Whatever: Peeshow!
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Environment
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Only 5% of plastics get recycled, and that 5% spews microplastics into the environment, even when filters are in place.
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Massive illegal pasta dump in New Jersey. Yes, pasta.
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Private jets produce 20 times more carbon dioxide emissions per passenger than commercial aircraft. Netherlands’ largest airport plans to ban them permanently.
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This year’s record temperatures for Europe are up to 14ºC above the historical average.
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Yes, sea levels are rising, but also the Eastern seaboard is sinking. Oh, and the seas have suddenly hit record high temperatures.
No longer a problem
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The CDC holds the 2023 Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference, featuring a COVID outbreak.
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Long COVID seems to cause the buildup of Lewy bodies in the nervous system, which could lead to a massive outbreak of Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia in a decade or two.
A polite society
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A Texas man shoots his AR-15 in his yard for fun. Neighbors ask him to stop as he keeps waking their baby, so he enters their house and murders 5 of them.
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Texas man scammed out of $40 interrupts his date to go murder the perpetrator, then returns to the restaurant to finish dinner.
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Guns don’t kill people, people… oh, wait, sometimes guns do kill people.
Problem solving
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Ultramarathon runner suffers tired legs, so she takes a car to the next checkpoint. Turns out you shouldn’t do that and accept a prize for coming in third place.
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Texas plans to solve its power grid problems buy building more fossil fuel power plants, and requiring that any solar or wind power developments get approval from the state Parks and Wildlife Department.
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A man finds an affordable place to live in London — he pays $62 a month to live in a dumpster.
Business news
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The mass layoffs in tech companies are more about copycat behavior than actual business needs.
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Tucker Carlson was fired because Fox didn’t want to have to enter into evidence additional text messages that were far worse than the ones reported on. But don’t worry, he’s already been offered a job by Russian state TV, who have been big fans for a long time.
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Mercedes will let you use the full acceleration your electric car is capable of, for just $60 a month.
Technology
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Microsoft Edge has been sending the URL of every page you visit to Microsoft.
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Amazon launched its Halo Rise sleep tracker 5 months ago. They didn’t sell enough, so they’re going to brick them all.
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Tesla’s lawyers argue that Elon’s past lies about the car autopilot’s capabilities might just be deepfakes.
Brexit dividends
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Britain’s food price inflation is at a 45-year high, and it’s going to get worse.
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30% of UK nightclubs have closed in the last year, along with 1 in 12 restaurants.
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Company selling Coronation-themed playing cards can’t make money selling them overseas, because Brexit.
$8chan
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Microsoft drops Twitter sharing support for Xbox.
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Twitter verifies a fake Disney account that had posted racist slurs, and gives unpaid blue checkmarks to a bunch of dead people.
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Mr Free Speech Absolutist hasn’t refused a single government censorship demand.
Fancy that!
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Man vandalizes libraries, spray-painting “GROOMERS” on them during Pride Week. Police find diapers, children’s dolls, and a child-sized doll in his bed, plus child pornography on his laptop.
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Declassified FBI documents reveal that the Saudi government may have helped the 9/11 hijackers.
Politics
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Congress needs to either cut defense spending or cut welfare. Can you guess which it will choose? Hint: Democrats are attending expensive fundraising dinners with arms companies.
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Four members of the Proud Boys are found guilty of seditious conspiracy for the January 6th attacks on the US Capitol. Curiously their orange ringleader has yet to be charged.
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Minnesota is working on legalizing cannabis. Wait, say Republicans, what about the poor drug-sniffing dogs? Who will save their jobs?
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A magazine reports that Devin Nunes’ family farm knowingly employed undocumented workers. Nunes sues. The court rules that yes, the Nunes family farm did knowingly employ undocumented workers.
Critical what? Structural what?
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Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman whose admitted lies led to Emmett Till being lynched, died peacefully in her sleep without ever facing consequences.
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Pedestrian deaths have hit a 40 year high, particularly if you’re Black.
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A Black man reports being threatened by “truckloads of white guys”, unsuccessfully asks police for help, and goes missing that day. His remains are found a month later. Police say no cause of death “could be reasonably determined”, but I think I could hazard a guess.
And finally
- Black bear breaks into Jeep, guzzles 69 cans of soda, but knows better than to touch the diet stuff.