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It's on another thread, but basically the Chinese manufacturer stole a Polish rapper's material and put a recording of it into the cactus toy. It's likely the manufacturer didn't know what he was singing about.
Yeah, I get that. I'm just having trouble envisioning someone deliberately taking a Polish rap and whatever the hell the English and Spanish samples are, puting them in a singing cactus and calling it an educational toy. It would take an infinitesimal amount of extra effort to make a toy with audio clips that would not even potentially be offensive, and might sell better because of that.
 
Yeah, I get that. I'm just having trouble envisioning someone deliberately taking a Polish rap and whatever the hell the English and Spanish samples are, puting them in a singing cactus and calling it an educational toy. It would take an infinitesimal amount of extra effort to make a toy with audio clips that would not even potentially be offensive, and might sell better because of that.

I believe the technical term is "they don't give a shit as long as you buy it."
 

3D-printed 'living ink' could lead to self-repairing buildings​

The ink could even produce itself.
Never mind 3D-printing organs — eventually, the material could have a life of its own. Phys.org reports scientists have developed a "living ink" you could use to print equally alive materials usable for creating 3D structures. The team genetically engineered cells for E. Coli and other microbes to create living nanofibers, bundled those fibers and added other materials to produce an ink you could use in a standard 3D printer.
https://www.engadget.com/living-ink-3d-printed-191010409.html

Be afraid.
 
Have they not heard of 'grey goo'?
 

Inside the bizarre world of 'timeline shifters': The TikTok users who claim they teleport to a parallel universe by using extreme temperature change in the shower as their portal​


/ and yet they choose to be in the Covid timeline

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/...-bizarre-world-TikToks-timeline-shifters.html
Hey! This could be the best one out there!

Could it lead to a new way to make skin grafts though?
Quite possibly. Skin made out of E. coli nanofibers. What could go wrong?
 
Haven't you seen Star Trek TNG???
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Inside the bizarre world of 'timeline shifters': The TikTok users who claim they teleport to a parallel universe by using extreme temperature change in the shower as their portal​


/ and yet they choose to be in the Covid timeline

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/...-bizarre-world-TikToks-timeline-shifters.html
And what? No videos of their alternate timeline experiences? Especially if they are intentionally travelling? Imagine the number of views they'd get with those!
 

Council lifted parked cars and painted yellow lines underneath then fined drivers​


https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/02/coun...ellow-lines-under-then-fined-people-15703937/
Doesn't suprise me really. A few years ago I was walking up the high street and saw a traffic warden giving a ticket to someone parked in a disabled bay. The lines had totally faded away and the only clue was a small sign amongst the hanging baskets of the shops. I told the warden that they can't give them a ticket as even I nearly parked there a few days earlier before remembering that there was a bay somewhere there and I'm from here, and that the driver could be from out of town. His reply was ''yes, we've told the council that the lines need repainting'' and then wrote the ticket anyway.
 
BUM SQUAD
Bomb squad race to A&E after patient arrives with WW2 artillery shell stuck up his bottom
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16923295/bomb-squad-hospital-bottom-shell/
Sounds like a pretty drastic remedy for constipation.
Maybe it was to plug up diarrhea.

At least his friends can't accuse him of shooting off his mouth.

He was a collector of military memorabilia, so this probably wasn't the most dangerous thing he's had in his arse-
nal.
 
Here's a headline that made me back up and read it twice ...

A blizzard warning is in effect for Hawaii as the lower 48 contends with a snow drought

As of Friday morning, only two states in the US have blizzard warnings -- and they are Alaska and Hawaii. Yes, you read that correctly. In fact, more snow has fallen in Hawaii this season than in Denver, Colorado.

Several blizzard warnings are in effect in Alaska where blowing snow will cause travel conditions to be extremely difficult if not impossible. Snow is common in Alaska ...

Hawaii's blizzard warnings are a bit rarer. According to the Iowa mesonet data site, it's been 1,347 days (over 3.5 years) since the last blizzard warning was been issued by the National Weather Service (NWS) in Honolulu.

The weather service is forecasting up to a foot of snow or more with winds gusting up to 100 mph through the weekend for the Big Island summits.
SOURCE: https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/03/weather/weather-hawaii-snow-warm-contiguous-us/index.html
 
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