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October 16, 2021

The Weekly Whatever: Forbidden sprinkles

Surprise!

  • Alaskan Republican politician who was banned from Alaska Airlines for refusing to wear a mask now has COVID-19, and is consulting her naturopath and taking ivermectin.

  • $7.5 billion Mississippi "clean coal" plant is demolished, never having worked.

  • New COVID-19 pill has 46x markup.

  • Study finds that numbers of lynchings correlates with number of Confederate monuments.

  • Capitol rioter opts to represent himself in court, and confesses to two more felonies.

  • Rioter who shot up a Minneapolis police station and set it on fire during the George Floyd protests was a "boogaloo boy" from Texas.

  • Texas removes information about LGBTQ anti-suicide hotline from Department of Family and Protective Services web site.

  • Man moves to rural Idaho, and is shocked to discover that he lives in rural Idaho.

  • Dead-end street in San Francisco plagued by confused Waymo cars trying to turn around every 5 minutes.

Surprise, actually

  • Woman who thinks she has rattlesnakes under her home turns out to be correct. Very, very correct.

  • Canadian woman narrowly avoids death by meteorite.

  • Student discovers school video displays are insecure, rickrolls entire school district.

Crapto

  • Tether pays $41 million in fines for lying to investors that it had cash to back its "stable" cryptocurrency. It continues to insist that it has $69 billion of assets somewhere.

History

  • 2,700 year old Austrian turd shows that its depositor was a fan of beer and blue cheese.

  • IKEA living rooms, from the 1950s to today.

Labor relations

  • Christchurch New Zealand lays off its official wizard after 23 years on the payroll.

  • Apple finds an excuse to fire another troublesome employee.

Actual good news

  • Paizo tabletop RPG workers unionize. Now, will the company recognize the union?

  • Car tire removed from elk after 2 years.

Final randomness

  • Video game speedrunning. Innocent pastime or communist propaganda?

  • UK bakery bins bestselling cookies over forbidden sprinkles.

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