Non-IT News Thread
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This has to take the cake for most boring headline news item of all time...
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups: Customers React Negatively to Company's Christmas Tree Candy
Customers are taking to social media to post photos of the company's annual Christmas Tree-shaped candy, some of which appear to lack any shape.
Seriously, I mean I'm thrilled that there is so little news to report in the world that poorly formed holiday candies are the most important thing to know about... but really?
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Also, in the "I can't believe someone took time to report this" category...
Albuquerque, New Mexico: Wall of Tumbleweeds Blocks Road Near Kirtland Air Force Base
The tumbleweeds, piled several feet high, blocked most of Wyoming SE on Friday morning, city officials said. Cleanup crews had the pile cleared from traffic within a few hours.
Basically there is nothing in this story. It didn't happen at an AF Base just "kinda near one" and it was just a pile of weeds, nothing more. The wind blew a bunch of weeds and they sort of collected on a bit of the road.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Also, in the "I can't believe someone took time to report this" category...
Albuquerque, New Mexico: Wall of Tumbleweeds Blocks Road Near Kirtland Air Force Base
The tumbleweeds, piled several feet high, blocked most of Wyoming SE on Friday morning, city officials said. Cleanup crews had the pile cleared from traffic within a few hours.
Basically there is nothing in this story. It didn't happen at an AF Base just "kinda near one" and it was just a pile of weeds, nothing more. The wind blew a bunch of weeds and they sort of collected on a bit of the road.
Well, in reality, that is a little more newsworthy than the Global Climate Summit going on in Paris this week...
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@art_of_shred said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Also, in the "I can't believe someone took time to report this" category...
Albuquerque, New Mexico: Wall of Tumbleweeds Blocks Road Near Kirtland Air Force Base
The tumbleweeds, piled several feet high, blocked most of Wyoming SE on Friday morning, city officials said. Cleanup crews had the pile cleared from traffic within a few hours.
Basically there is nothing in this story. It didn't happen at an AF Base just "kinda near one" and it was just a pile of weeds, nothing more. The wind blew a bunch of weeds and they sort of collected on a bit of the road.
Well, in reality, that is a little more newsworthy than the Global Climate Summit going on in Paris this week...
Has it been cancelled due to snow storms yet?
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@dafyre No, but it's 20 degrees outside today, here in NY...
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Hamburg Turns Down Olympics
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Amazon showcases their new delivery drone...
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UK Votes for Air Strikes in Syria
Overwhelming vote by MPs to begin airstrikes against IS in Syria.
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This is the power plant walking distance from my house in NY.
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Nothing like finding $1bn of gold!
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Major shakeup in Venezuelan politics. The biggest ever right wing swing since the reigning socialist party was formed in 1999.
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Monsanto: US Agricultural Biotech Company to Face ‘Tribunal’ for Crimes Against Nature and Humanity
The trial will be held Oct. 16, 2016, in The Hague, Netherlands, advocacy groups announced Saturday at the COP21 summit. Monsanto is charged with damaging health and the environment.
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Pendleton Correctional Facility: Officials Searching for 28-Year-Old Escaped Inmate
Madison County authorities are seeking Charles Adams, who walked out of the minimum security facility Sunday evening, according to security officials. Adams is white and 5 feet 11 inches tall.
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@mlnews said:
Monsanto: US Agricultural Biotech Company to Face ‘Tribunal’ for Crimes Against Nature and Humanity
The trial will be held Oct. 16, 2016, in The Hague, Netherlands, advocacy groups announced Saturday at the COP21 summit. Monsanto is charged with damaging health and the environment.
No matter what your opinion on Monsato and what they is, this is enormous news with incredible potential to alter the world we live in and the one we will be living in in the future.
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Mendeecees Harris: Reality TV Personality Receives 8-Year Federal Sentence for Drug Trafficking
Harris, 37, received 97 months Tuesday for his role in an upstate New York drug ring, having pleaded guilty in April in a negotiated deal. He appeared on the VH1 show "Love & Hip Hop: New York."
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And guess where he was caught.... yeah, Rochester
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Woman's Hospital of Texas: Nurse Carjacked Outside of Houston Hospital, Police Say
Susan Grant, 63, was attacked outside the hospital at around 4 a.m. on Monday, police said. The Houston Police Department is investigating, and the hospital says it is increasing security patrols.
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Florida Man Hiding from the Law Eaten by Alligator
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@mlnews So, I guess you can hide from the law, but not from the gators.
