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Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th

Turkey Wants to Send Astronaut Into Space on Russian Mission

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The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, has died.

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An Indonesian dude called Sadiman has turned barren and arid hills green through his 24-year personal reforestation project. People called him a madman but his efforts helped lots of people.


EDIT: there are actually many stories about one or two people restoring forests, or turning deserts into lush, green places.

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Farmer protests in India. Everything you need to know.

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Scientists Create Early Embryos That Are Part Human, Part Monkey

The hidden world of whale culture (From singing competitions to food preferences, scientists are learning whales have cultural differences once thought to be unique to humans)

Very interesting stuff.

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Success! NASA's Ingenuity Makes First Powered Flight On Mars (NASA Helicopter Hovers Over Mars)

Runaway veld fire: Rhodes Memorial restaurant damaged, hikers and visitors urged to evacuate

Deputies: St. Petersburg woman accused of choking, biting Uber driver


Never change, Florida...

Also, that woman is 55? I thought she was in her sixties.

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Chadian President Idriss Deby dies on frontline, rebels vow to keep fighting

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American astronaut Michael Collins, the command module pilot for Apollo 11, has died on April 28 at the age of 90. May he rest in peace.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/scien...at-90.html

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/28/509599284...llins-dies

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Mexico City metro overpass collapse: Carriages and bridge crumpled

4chan Founder Christopher Poole Quietly Leaves Google After 5 Years

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A group of archaealogists discovered Neanderthal remains in Italy.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57044002

https://www.dw.com/en/archaeologists-dis...a-57470987

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"yo, all this talk about Neanderthals makes me wonder.... is there any truth to Danny Vendramini's Neanderthal Predation theory?"

You mean the one that states that Neanderthals were a bunch of scary Gorilla-like monsters? No, there isn't.

https://outwardbounder.wordpress.com/201...re-stupid/

https://blog.waikato.ac.nz/bioblog/2010/...es-this-o/

https://www.filthymonkeymen.com/2015/05/...ed-humans/

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WhatsApp sues India govt, says new media rules mean end to privacy

WhatsApp/Facebook is fighting FOR privacy? It's official, hell froze over.

Neanderthals carb loaded, helping grow their big brains (To quote the title from the Reddit post: A “groundbreaking” new study suggests the ancestors of both humans and Neanderthals were cooking lots of starchy foods at least 600,000 years ago. And they had already adapted to eating more starchy plants long before the invention of agriculture 10,000 years ago)

Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer in 2022 (Internet Explorer will no longer be supported in June 2022)

So... Israel started bombing some cities.

The war between Israel and Palestine has been going on for decades, but it seems violence is escalating.

'I Will Destroy You': Chechen Leader Threatens Kid On Instagram

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov used his Instagram account to threaten a person who called him "Satan" during a live broadcast, saying, "You won't sleep at night. You'll be writing your will.... I will destroy you."
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/chechnya-kadyrov...65313.html

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Bashar al Assad won the Syrian elections and was reelected for a fourth time.

Opinion: The ‘open secret’ of sexual abuse in Venezuela’s famous youth orchestra program is finally exposed

This is seriously fucked up.

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John Cena called Taiwan a country during a promotional interview for The Fast and Furious 9. Controversy ensued. John Cena apologized to the people of China.


People are mocking John Cena for this.

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Tropical storm Dante.


Guerrillas Release Captive Venezuelan Troops After Humiliating FANB

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'Construction flaws' caused deadly Mexico City metro crash

Former president of the Philippines Benigno Aquino III dies at the age of 61

Sex without consent is finally defined as rape in Slovenia

Games Workshop is trying to shut down fan animations (Even as the latest push for animated Warhammer shorts draws from fan content.)

‘Forbidden Fruit’: Apple Daily, Pro-Democracy Newspaper in Hong Kong, Is Forced to Close

Two newly discovered human species were discovered yesterday: Homo longi (AKA Dragon Man) and Nesher Ramla Homo

John McAfee was found death in prison. He was the guy who created the antivirus of the same name.

https://apnews.com/article/john-mcafee-d...60cc2bf3d3

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government...021-06-23/

Introducing Windows 11.


‘Real Green Goblin’ Flew His Hovercraft Through Times Square


There's a video going around about the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan touching a woman's butt because he didn't realise the camera was still on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGY4c-L3Zyc

This isn't completely accurate. It was an EX-Prime Minister who did it, not the current one. The name of that EX-PM is Huseybala Miralamov. The current Azerbaijan hasn't been involved in any sexual scandals.

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Greece-Born Adoptees Seek Justice

So Canada is planning to make online hate speech a crime punishable by law. Bills C-10 and C-36. It should be noted that the Canadian parliament just wrapped up for their summer break and won't resume until September, so everything proposed so far is still only proposed and not yet enforceable.

You're probably asking yourself: "Why are so many people worried about this? It's only hate". The problem is this will be extremely easy to redefine - and even true statements can still be "hate" which means this can totally be used to win arguements.

https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-cs...6/index.do#

"Truthful statements can be presented in a manner that would meet the definition of hate speech, and not all truthful statements must be free from restriction."

So yeah, there is a reason to be worried.

U.S.A Government Threatens Retired Engineer With a Crime for Doing Math

Wayne Nutt is an engineer. He graduated with a degree in engineering from the University of Iowa in 1967, and he promptly went to work as an engineer. He spent most of his time working in North Carolina, mostly for DuPont, using his expertise to do things like designing piping systems and helping with international technology licensing. Since his retirement in 2013, Wayne has not done any engineering—he hasn’t designed or built things—but he is still an engineer at heart, and so he talks about engineering a lot: When he spots math errors in public documents, he speaks up. When he thinks people are mischaracterizing engineering reports, he speaks out. And when he can answer a question that he thinks is important, he answers it.

https://ij.org/press-release/north-carol...gineering/

And that is what has gotten him into trouble. Wayne never needed a license to work as an engineer. Because he worked for big manufacturers for his whole career, everything Wayne did (like everything most engineers do) fell under North Carolina’s “industrial exemption” and did not require a license. But according to the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors, talking about the sort of work Wayne did does require a license.

Wayne’s trouble started when he volunteered to testify as an expert witness in a case his son, an attorney, was litigating. The case involved a piping system in a housing development that allegedly caused flooding in nearby areas, and Wayne, who had designed plenty of pipes in his day, volunteered to testify about the volume of fluid that pipe could be expected to carry. Wayne still had a copy of the leading sourcebook on his bookshelf, and the analysis itself seemed pretty easy—at least for Wayne.

But it was also—according to the Board—illegal. After Wayne’s deposition in the case, where he truthfully testified that he was not (and never had been) a licensed engineer, someone complained to the Board that he was practicing engineering without a license, which is a criminal misdemeanor.

It might seem impossible to “practice” engineering by sitting in a conference room answering questions, but, shockingly, the Board seems to think Wayne crossed a line. The Board’s position is that offering any testimony that requires “engineering knowledge” is illegal without a license—even if someone truthfully discloses their credentials, and even if a judge wants to hear the testimony.

But that is wrong. In this country, we rely on people to decide who they want to listen to. We do not rely on government to decide who gets to speak. The Board’s position gets that important principle backwards. That is why Wayne has joined forces with the Institute for Justice to file a major First Amendment lawsuit against the Board, designed to vindicate the basic principle that the First Amendment protects our right to hear useful speech on difficult topics and that the Board cannot silence Wayne simply because his opinions are based on his knowledge of engineering.