Random News (not Politics) Thoughts

[Totenkindly]

Most say they probably won’t get updated COVID vaccine: Survey

Most Americans in a new poll said they probably won’t get an updated COVID-19 vaccine. The Pew Research Center survey found 60 percent said they are “probably not” going to “get an updated vaccine.” Just less than 25 percent said they “probably” will get a booster, and 15 percent said they have...

www.yahoo.com

Makes you wonder if another wave will hit eventually.
I mean, I will continue to get seasonal flu and COVID shots.

 

[ceecee]

Most say they probably won’t get updated COVID vaccine: Survey

Most Americans in a new poll said they probably won’t get an updated COVID-19 vaccine. The Pew Research Center survey found 60 percent said they are “probably not” going to “get an updated vaccine.” Just less than 25 percent said they “probably” will get a booster, and 15 percent said they have...

www.yahoo.com

Makes you wonder if another wave will hit eventually.
I mean, I will continue to get seasonal flu and COVID shots.

Same.

 

[ygolo]

Even a broken clock gets the time right twice a day.

If you take a nutty position to counter something a nut actually gets right, you diminish your own credibility, and add credence to the nut.

NYT's fact-check of RFK Jr.'s claims about popular breakfast cereal stuns social media

The New York Times offered a baffling fact-check of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s claims about American breakfast cereal containing artificial ingredients.

www.yahoo.com

"Mr. Kennedy has singled out Froot Loops as an example of a product with too many artificial ingredients, questioning why the Canadian version has fewer than the U.S. version," the Times' report read. "But he was wrong. The ingredient list is roughly the same, although Canada’s has natural colorings made from blueberries and carrots while the U.S. product contains red dye 40, yellow 5 and blue 1 as well as Butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a lab-made chemical that is used 'for freshness,' according to the ingredient label."

 

[Lark]

So, I was reading that Covid kills certain sorts of cancers, although it will kill you in different ways.

 

[The Cat]

Morning Joe is a bunch of News Cucks.
gluk gluk gluk gluk
This is what the journalistic equivalent of the walk of shame.

Their eyes are haunted.​

 

[Totenkindly]

A Secret Parachute in the FBI’s Possession May Have Finally Solved D.B. Cooper’s Identity

We might know the notorious skyjacker at last—thanks to his own children.

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Parachute ‘D.B. Cooper’ hijacker used in 1971 may have been found

The parachute used by the hijacker known as D.B. Cooper to leap out of a Boeing plane with $200,000 in cash after taking the passengers and crew hostage more than 50 years ago may have been found. Sunday marked the 53rd anniversary of the only unsolved hijacking in U.S. aviation history. Now...

www.yahoo.com

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

A Secret Parachute in the FBI’s Possession May Have Finally Solved D.B. Cooper’s Identity

We might know the notorious skyjacker at last—thanks to his own children.

www.yahoo.com

Parachute ‘D.B. Cooper’ hijacker used in 1971 may have been found

The parachute used by the hijacker known as D.B. Cooper to leap out of a Boeing plane with $200,000 in cash after taking the passengers and crew hostage more than 50 years ago may have been found. Sunday marked the 53rd anniversary of the only unsolved hijacking in U.S. aviation history. Now...

www.yahoo.com

I always thought D.B Cooper was the Lindbergh baby. He turned to a life of crime in revenge for being kidnapped, lol.

Now, if they could only figure out the Zodiac Killer and what was up with Arthur Leigh Allen...

 

[The Cat]

 

[SensEye]

It will be interesting to see what this is all about (assuming they catch the perp eventually). Hired gun or disgruntled patient (or family member thereof).

 

[ceecee]

This looked like a professional hit - silencer and the gunperson knew how to deal with malfunctions. I'm sure they will pass on the extra security costs to the subscribers in a totally health insurance company move.

 

[The Cat]

This looked like a professional hit - silencer and the gunperson knew how to deal with malfunctions. I'm sure they will pass on the extra security costs to the subscribers in a totally health insurance company move.

You can already see the Corporate news media reporting on this different. Because he was a wealthy CEO its like he's a real person to them.

The comments sections are like this in all the videos on it ive seen thus far.









































































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[Totenkindly]

Yeah, what is up with that? Screw MSM again for missing the actual story.

You can already see the Corporate news media reporting on this different. Because he was a wealthy CEO its like he's a real person to them.

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The comments sections are like this in all the videos on it ive seen thus far.

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Yeah, I was skimming my FB feed this morning when the New York Times obit / coverage came through and I had to look -- LOTS of comments, but essentially it's pretty much 90% audience talking about how high profits came from screwing over customers, 5% explicitly saying the guy was terrible / a villain because of this and doesn't deserve this attention, and 5% saying it sucks he was killed and he was answerable to stakeholders but again this is just showing how complicit the entire health care industry is to profit and is not customer-focused.

One number I saw thrown around was that United Health denied close to 23% of its claims, which is a high mark among insurers.

I have never seen such a one-sided response to an obit, and there was such variety in the wording and interactions that I don't think there were many bots. It felt like a pretty active message board, like here in its heyday.

There were a number of "thoughts and prayers" comments made sarcastically, including one gem about how "thoughts and prayers were not medically justifiable and thus not approved."

 

[The Cat]

Yeah, what is up with that? Screw MSM again for missing the actual story.


Yeah, I was skimming my FB feed this morning when the New York Times obit / coverage came through and I had to look -- LOTS of comments, but essentially it's pretty much 90% audience talking about how high profits came from screwing over customers, 5% explicitly saying the guy was terrible / a villain because of this and doesn't deserve this attention, and 5% saying it sucks he was killed and he was answerable to stakeholders but again this is just showing how complicit the entire health care industry is to profit and is not customer-focused.

One number I saw thrown around was that United Health denied close to 23% of its claims, which is a high mark among insurers.

I have never seen such a one-sided response to an obit, and there was such variety in the wording and interactions that I don't think there were many bots. It felt like a pretty active message board, like here in its heyday.

There were a number of "thoughts and prayers" comments made sarcastically, including one gem about how "thoughts and prayers were not medically justifiable and thus not approved."

When you think about how much of that comes from people who were directly affected by the loss of a loved one or their quality of life because of the scam this man and the men and women like him perpetrate day after day, and the news and the police tell us we should feel bad because this was a human life...thus implying that his life mattered more than the many affected by his average tuesday power plays.

It reminds me of that scene in Tim Burton's PotA where Michael Clark Duncan yells: "BOW YOUR HEADS!"

They're really gonna show us our place in the next four years. What they really think we're for. And my bet its gonna be Ratings. One way or another.

 

[Totenkindly]

When you think about how much of that comes from people who were directly affected by the loss of a loved one or their quality of life because of the scam this man and the men and women like him perpetrate day after day, and the news and the police tell us we should feel bad because this was a human life...thus implying that his life mattered more than the many affected by his average tuesday power plays.

Well, we already know that not all lives matter, especially with the current backswing in play. Look at how much sympathy one candidate got this year when someone registered to his own party shot at him. Certain classes of people can regularly be shot (at) without repercussion, others it is treated as a tragic violation of the social code.

Although this is pretty much the entire plot and resolution to Saw 6.

 

[Totenkindly]

Is it weird that all the discussions of Disney films coming out still get all bent out of shape about "woke" concepts (now with Moana 2 out, that doesn't feel "woke" as if that's a thing, versus Snow White coming out next March?), but the animated Arcane series is about as queer as it gets (like, literally, the show's about blended families of choice, and the only straight "relationship" feels like a token pairing in its brevity and everything else is pushing or breaking gender norms and there's multiple queer relationships either explicitly shown or strongly intimated) and yet it's never really talked about in regards to "wokeness" and higher marks than almost any Disney product, even from gamer bro guys?

 

[The Cat]

Is it weird that all the discussions of Disney films coming out still get all bent out of shape about "woke" concepts (now with Moana 2 out, that doesn't feel "woke" as if that's a thing, versus Snow White coming out next March?), but the animated Arcane series is about as queer as it gets (like, literally, the show's about blended families of choice, and the only straight "relationship" feels like a token pairing in its brevity and everything else is pushing or breaking gender norms and there's multiple queer relationships either explicitly shown or strongly intimated) and yet it's never really talked about in regards to "wokeness" and higher marks than almost any Disney product, even from gamer bro guys?

Its almost like people are welcoming of any message so long as it doesn't eclipse or lack solid writing and presentation designed to entertain rather than inflame.

 

[Totenkindly]

Its almost like people are welcoming of any message so long as it doesn't eclipse or lack solid writing and presentation designed to entertain rather than inflame.

Eh, I think it's a little too much from both sides.

For example, Lightyear wasn't a bad movie. it was unnecessary, perhaps, and not what people wanted to see -- and they canned Tim Allen and had Chris Evans voice the human version of Buzz. There was a lesbian relationship there, which I didn't feel was superfluous, a straight relationship would have been just as non-intrusive, but the "anti-woke" squad got their panties in a wad over it.

Maybe Disney at this point just has such a bad track record with (1) too much woke, fair or not, and (2) bad product (including all these shitty live-action conversion rehashes) that they have lost all goodwill. Plus.... since they bought out all these major franchises, the controversies from one spill into the other. Like all the casting in the MCU that people are flipping out about (changing a characters gender, age, or race) gets ported into arguments over other franchises like Star Wars or their animated films and vice versa -- it's all seen as "DISNEY CRAP" at this point, regardless.

 

[ceecee]

Police across the U.S. are illegally selling firearms, CBS News investigation finds

A CBS News investigation found dozens of law enforcement leaders buying and illegally selling guns. A review of government audits and court records over the last 20 years uncovered instances in 23 states across the U.S., plus Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., for more than 50 cases. CBS News...

www.cbsnews.com

Four takeaways from our investigation into police agencies selling their guns

Firearms sold by law enforcement have turned up at crime scenes thousands of times in recent years, a CBS News Investigation found.

www.cbsnews.com

Some police departments reconsidering gun sales

Earlier this year, CBS News teamed up with independent newsrooms "The Trace" and "Reveal," and found law enforcement agencies routinely sell their guns when they upgrade their arsenal. Between 2006 and 2022, more than 52,000 weapons once used by police were connected to crimes. CBS News...

www.cbsnews.com

So, when people talk about "defunding the police" especially people on the left, that know gun byback programs are simply free guns to dangerous criminals - this is partially why. Also the DoD programs that give weapons of war, like tanks, to police departments FOR FREE. It's all over the country, not just a few.

But this one is my favorite of them all. From August.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/border-police-chief-pleads-guilty-to-running-guns-to-mexico-idUSTRE77O7XG/

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (Reuters) - The ousted police chief of a tiny New Mexico border town pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiracy to run guns to a brutal Mexico drug cartel.
Former Columbus Police Chief Angelo Vega pleaded guilty in federal court in Las Cruces to conspiracy and new charges filed on Thursday of aiding in the smuggling of firearms and extortion under color of law.
Vega, who appeared in court in shackles and a red jumpsuit, faces up to 35 years in federal prison and $750,000 in fines at sentencing, which has yet to be scheduled.

He was arrested in March along with former Columbus village trustee Blas "Woody" Gutierrez, former mayor Eddie Espinoza and 10 others, charged in an 84-count gun-running indictment. Since then, a couple from the nearby town of Deming has also been charged with participating in the conspiracy.

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ownersoperators-deming-nm-gun-shop-arrested-federal-firearms-smuggling-and-money

ACAB. They just keep proving it over and over.

 

[The Cat]

good grief.
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[Totenkindly]

good grief.
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If you're bored, you can read about how Amber Heard is preggers with her second baby.