Posted 13 Nov 2022 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63612017 Iranian who lived at Paris airport for 18 years dies. I cannot imagine his life. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 15 Nov 2022 A baby born somewhere on Tuesday will be the world's eight billionth person, according to a projection by the United Nations. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 15 Nov 2022 2 hours ago, fraufruit said: A baby born somewhere on Tuesday will be the world's eight billionth person, according to a projection by the United Nations. I also read somewhere that 60 billion people lived so far on planet Earth since the beginning. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 15 Nov 2022 3 minutes ago, LukeSkywalker said: I also read somewhere that 60 billion people lived so far on planet Earthy since the beginning. I thought there were supposed to be more people alive today than had ever lived, which would make that wrong. However I googled and I'm catastrophically wrong. According to this it's 109 billion that have ever lived and 7% of the humans that have ever existed are still alive today. Which is nice. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/04/quantifying-human-existence/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 15 Nov 2022 Hit 7 billion only 11 years ago. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 15 Nov 2022 2 hours ago, Dembo said: I thought there were supposed to be more people alive today than had ever lived, which would make that wrong. However I googled and I'm catastrophically wrong. According to this it's 109 billion that have ever lived and 7% of the humans that have ever existed are still alive today. Which is nice. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/04/quantifying-human-existence/ I wonder if that includes those who come back a second or third time! Reincarnation thingy. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 20 Nov 2022 https://www.bbc.com/news/the-reporters-63622746 The story behind who didn't invent the toaster!😂 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 24 Nov 2022 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63636641 A gold coin proves a " fake " Roman Emperor was a real Emperor! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 30 Nov 2022 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-63792923 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 2 Dec 2022 Man finds lost wedding rings in 20 tons of trash: https://news.yahoo.com/windham-man-finds-lost-wedding-005410102.html 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 2 Dec 2022 Crikey. Needle in a haystack sort of moment. Tbf, I'd just get new ones, but good on 'em all for the effort and what a great outcome. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 5 Dec 2022 In July 1979, parts of Skylab crashed to Earth in Western Australia. Esperance Shire Council issued NASA with a $400 fine for littering ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... which still hasn't been paid. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 24 Dec 2022 Make of this, what you will. Policeman asks, "Are you praying?" I am not questioning a woman's choice to have an abortion, but this woman was not harassing anybody. In the UK, we have the right to Freedom of Thought. George Orwell's prophecy of the "Thought Police" is one step closer. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 25 Dec 2022 It's bullshit hoops, she is not being arrested for praying, she is being arrested on suspicion of breaching an anti-social behaviour order. The order will have been made by a court with the specific intention of preventing her from protesting or praying at that location. It is unlikely that the order will have been issued without a prior court case. The question from the policeman will specifically have been to decide if she was doing anything that went against that court order. I don't see any problem with asking the question. Now the general idea of anti-social behaviour orders, that is a different matter, they are widely abused and are a really crappy public order tool, but this particular arrest is just an example which is being weaponised by the ant-abortion lobby to claim that the woman shown is a victim not a nasty piece of shit.. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 25 Dec 2022 Well spotted. And well explained. Thank you. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 25 Dec 2022 5 hours ago, pappnase said: It's bullshit hoops, she is not being arrested for praying, she is being arrested on suspicion of breaching an anti-social behaviour order. The order will have been made by a court with the specific intention of preventing her from protesting or praying at that location. It is unlikely that the order will have been issued without a prior court case. The question from the policeman will specifically have been to decide if she was doing anything that went against that court order. I don't see any problem with asking the question. Now the general idea of anti-social behaviour orders, that is a different matter, they are widely abused and are a really crappy public order tool, but this particular arrest is just an example which is being weaponised by the ant-abortion lobby to claim that the woman shown is a victim not a nasty piece of shit.. Indeed, that short video would not have painted the full picture. And as you imply, the anti-social orders are wrongly executed; the police arresting a reporter at the Just Stop Oil protests springs to mind. More on the subject below. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 27 Dec 2022 On 12/25/2022, 2:04:36, pappnase said: It's bullshit hoops, she is not being arrested for praying, she is being arrested on suspicion of breaching an anti-social behaviour order. The order will have been made by a court with the specific intention of preventing her from protesting or praying at that location. It is unlikely that the order will have been issued without a prior court case. The question from the policeman will specifically have been to decide if she was doing anything that went against that court order. I don't see any problem with asking the question. Now the general idea of anti-social behaviour orders, that is a different matter, they are widely abused and are a really crappy public order tool, but this particular arrest is just an example which is being weaponised by the ant-abortion lobby to claim that the woman shown is a victim not a nasty piece of shit.. It's hoops, bullshit expected. Don't get me wrong.. I love the hoopskies. But (everything before 'but' is bullshit), ... 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 8 January "Fan outrage at Susan Meachen, the romance novelist accused of faking her death" Quote No one saw this plot twist coming. In September 2020, a Facebook post from someone claiming to be the daughter of indie romance author Susan Meachen announced the writer had died by suicide. Ms Meachen wrote what she described as "perfectly flawed" romance novels and had fostered a tightknit online community of readers and fellow authors who supported each other's work. As word of her death spread, author Susan A Cole recalled being shocked. "When it came out that one of our own had taken her life, that was destructive enough, we were grieving for that alone," Ms Cole told the BBC. Then rumors began to spread online that Ms Meachen had been bullied. "All the finger pointing started and it drove a huge wedge in the community that lasted for months," Ms Cole said. The group marked the anniversary of Susan Meachen's death for two years. Fundraisers and book auctions were held in her honour and authors like Candace Adams contributed to an anthology of short stories that was dedicated to keeping "bullying where it belongs - in fiction". But that all ended this week, when suddenly Ms Meachen was resurrected. She announced her return on social media - much to the shock and confusion of fans and friends - and admitted her suicide had been staged. "There's going to be tons of questions," the post said, according to screengrabs shared online. "Let the fun begin." Dead people don't post Susan Meachen's shocking and abrupt revival has left her online community stunned and angry. "To me it's something that happens in fiction," said Ms Cole. "I will never be able to completely wrap my brain around whatever she might have been thinking because people just don't do this." Ms Adams, who has been part of the online writing group Ms Meachen created since 2019, said the news had destroyed what once felt like a safe and supportive community. "Everybody kind of feels like now they can't take care of each other because they don't know what's real and what's not," she said. In the wake of her alleged death, someone claiming to be her daughter used Ms Meachen's Facebook account to ask for help completing her mother's final novel and promoting her previous work. When people questioned why Ms Meachen's account was still active after her death, her "daughter" insisted that "dead people don't post on social media", according to screenshots seen by BBC News. But Ms Adams said that over the years people in the group had also begun to have doubts, fuelled by a coincidence only writers would notice - a grammar mistake. "Susan had a very strange spelling error. Whenever she would write 'supposed to', she wouldn't write that, she would write 'post to'," Ms Adams said. After Ms Meachen's online death, Ms Adams said some had noticed the posts on the accounts claiming to be from Ms Meachen's daughter had the same error. Now, looking back, Ms Adams said many in the community agreed the mistake was a clue. "All of us have come to the conclusion that it was her the whole time and it was not her daughter," Ms Adams said. On Tuesday, someone claiming to be Ms Meachen revealed to the group that she was indeed alive and had been managing and posting in the group for years under an alias, according to screenshots shared with the BBC. "I am in a good place now and I am hoping to write again," the Facebook post said. "Let the fun begin." What a despicable thing to do... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64179548 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 8 January That would never happen in a democratic country ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-64204860 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
