The Weekly Whatever: Forbidden sprinkles
Surprise!
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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.
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$7.5 billion Mississippi "clean coal" plant is demolished, never having worked.
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New COVID-19 pill has 46x markup.
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Study finds that numbers of lynchings correlates with number of Confederate monuments.
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Capitol rioter opts to represent himself in court, and confesses to two more felonies.
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Rioter who shot up a Minneapolis police station and set it on fire during the George Floyd protests was a "boogaloo boy" from Texas.
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Texas removes information about LGBTQ anti-suicide hotline from Department of Family and Protective Services web site.
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Man moves to rural Idaho, and is shocked to discover that he lives in rural Idaho.
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Dead-end street in San Francisco plagued by confused Waymo cars trying to turn around every 5 minutes.
Surprise, actually
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Woman who thinks she has rattlesnakes under her home turns out to be correct. Very, very correct.
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Canadian woman narrowly avoids death by meteorite.
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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
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2,700 year old Austrian turd shows that its depositor was a fan of beer and blue cheese.
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IKEA living rooms, from the 1950s to today.
Labor relations
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Christchurch New Zealand lays off its official wizard after 23 years on the payroll.
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Apple finds an excuse to fire another troublesome employee.
Actual good news
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Paizo tabletop RPG workers unionize. Now, will the company recognize the union?
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Car tire removed from elk after 2 years.
Final randomness
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Video game speedrunning. Innocent pastime or communist propaganda?
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UK bakery bins bestselling cookies over forbidden sprinkles.