The Weekly Whatever: Happy Appomattox Day
In case you missed it
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Over 1,000 scientists worldwide engaged in civil disobedience to try to get the world to take the climate crisis seriously. Mainstream media coverage: 0.
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People are changing the way they speak and write in order to avoid algorithmic filtering.
Random hazards
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Rabid fox attacks congressman and reporter in Washington DC, strangely enough it’s not the TV “news” channel.
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You knew you could get salmonella from an egg; did you know you could get it from a chocolate egg? (Now that’s a surprise.)
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Russian soldier picked up a cobalt-60 source from a Chernobyl waste disposal site with his bare hands. (US cobalt-60 sources typically carry a warning saying DROP & RUN)
Projection illustrated
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Turns out that anti-abortion activist didn’t just have 5 dead fetuses in their collection — they had 115.
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Tennessee Republicans introduce bill allow a new form of marriage with absolutely no age limits.
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Trump aide running for Congress in NH committed voter fraud in 2016.
Unorthodox problem solving
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South Carolina judge auctioned foreclosed properties, selling them to members of his family.
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The Swedish model for dealing with COVID-19: encourage children to spread it, give the elderly morphine instead of oxygen.
History
- On this day in 1865, the last Confederate troops surrendered, having failed to preserve the “peculiar institution” of race-based slavery. The National Museum of American History has the actual towel they waved to surrender.