More oddities spotted in the news

[Dartz]

Swedish cartoon character Munchkin

Otherwise, just the usual 'walk in the woods with a pre-teen' sort

[robkelk]

Typo leaves entrepreneur with 10,000 political-message t-shirts

[robkelk]

Anybody have any ideas what to do with 158 bowling balls that aren't round enough to bowl with?

Because this guy found that many of them under his house.

[robkelk]

'Dead parrot' sketch invoked as B.C. judge OKs glucosamine sulfate class action

Health Canada cannot establish a protocol that requires that a parrot only still have its feathers in order to be sold as a live parrot, and thereby prevent anyone from suing after being sold a parrot who 'joined the bleedin' choir invisible.'

[Dartz]

Austria declares war on Serbia

You sort of get the feeling they were itching for it since last month's assassination. This is probably going to turn into some sort of quick Puppy-kicking. Or will Russia actually try to help - or just capitulate again? They're probably still thinking about the bloody nose they got from Japan.

[Black Aeronaut]

Don't hold back - tell us what you really think...

Anime News Network: Crunchyroll Originals Have Been A Disaster

Pffft.

Old news but just like the Cooler meme that I do love so much...  "Oh, is that right?  Well, I sure hope somebody picks up that phone.  BECAUSE I FUCKING CALLED IT!!!"

https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/9/215476...hing-anime

Yeah.  I know.  December 2020.  But even so, this is the first I'm hearing about it.  But I fucking called it the moment I heard they were chumming up with Funi.  And I fucking called it on CR turning into a fucking dumpster fire once it happens.

[Dartz]

ITANIC SINKS.

At last

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSEAnMZgeGE

[robkelk]

So, Twitter had a "find the bug" contest. Now it has to fix the bugs that were found... but, for some reason, I doubt that these were the types of bugs that they were expecting.

Twitter's AI image-crop algo is biased towards people who look younger, skinnier, and whiter, bounty challenge at DEF CON reveals
Oh, it's also more likely to leave people in wheelchairs out of the picture

EDIT: And when it comes to cropping to show text, the AI has a bias toward English.

[robkelk]

Just because it gives you wings doesn't mean you have to use them...

Italian stuntman flies aeroplane through two motorway tunnels

[Dartz]

Decrease in Leinster burglaries attributed by gardaí to deaths of three criminals in N7 crash.

General consensus among the Irish twitteraity is people are getting the sense that Truck-Kun did what Judge-kun should've done a long time ago. Or more accurately, they did it to themselves by driving the wrong way down the road at high speed.

[Labster]

Thanks, Truck-kun!

‘Star Wars’ sequel trilogy ‘sucks,’ original film editor says

[ About ] Episodes VII through IX, flat out saying: “It sucks. The storylines are terrible. Just terrible. Awful.”

[Bob Schroeck]

Meteorite crash-lands in woman’s bed in Canada

This is like, what, only the second time someone's had a meteorite hit their house? At least unlike the last time it didn't actually hit her.

[robkelk]

Computer scientists at University of Edinburgh contemplate courses without 'Alice' and 'Bob'

In an effort to promote diversity... so maybe they might switch to Aerith and Bob?

[robkelk]

Information wants to be free, and it's making its escape

tl;dr: Physics exists.

[robkelk]

RIP Wiarton Willie

Survived by co-workers Punxsutawney Phil, Balzac Billy, Shubenacadie Sam, and others.

[robkelk]

Why Quebec is unlocking its strategic reserve of maple syrup

[Star Ranger4]

Umm... yeah, suddenly the Evil Genius 2 mission where I swipe PATRIOT's Maple syrup supply makes a LOT more sense?

[Dartz]

Explosive Diarrhoea?

Or things not to do with a 57mm shell.

[robkelk]

Man breaking his back on 'commute' from bed to home-office desk deemed a workplace accident

Because it was his first commute of the day. If he had detoured to the kitchen to get breakfast, the court would have ruled the other way.

(If this holds in Canada, then I'll have to check the vaccination status of anybody who comes into my home workplace, as per federal regulations...)

[hazard]

What if he commuted from the kitchen to the office?

[Dartz]

Wait 'til Biggus Dickus hears about this!

[Labster]

As if North Korea still needed to prove it’s the worst country in the world.

[Bob Schroeck]

People have something to laugh about in North Korea? Whodathunkit?

[robkelk]

It was 69 years ago this month that the nuclear plant in Chalk River did not completely melt down, thanks in part to a US Navy lieutenant who would later become President.

[robkelk]

Court finds city council was biased when they imposed a fine, then re-imposes the exact same fine.