Odd Stuff (Part 1)

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Chinese government has got it ‘spot on’ when it comes to face-recog tech says, er, London’s Met cops’ top rep

Damn it, Florida man is an educator as well.

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I see what they did there. :wink:

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It seems so wrong, but I want to try it.

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Plants Dig It

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The sexist socialization that makes people, especially women (IVF and adoption are almost always wife-driven) so desperate to have children is an underlying factor here.

In your linked article, there seems to be someone who knew while still pregnant that there was a mix-up and it wasn’t hers, so once the baby was born she handed it over to the biological parents. Was she forced to stay pregnant because it would have been illegal for her to abort someone else’s property?

The legal issues are so ridiculously complex, but they do rely on sexism from start to finish.

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"Man, your writing REALLY stinks!"

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https://www.thejc.com/news/world/israeli-diplomat-yossi-sheli-ridiculed-for-censored-lobster-with-brazilian-president-jair-bolsonaro-1.486257

OK, won’t onebox. Story: the Israeli ambassador to Brazil had a lobster dinner with Bolsinaro, tried to hide the lobster in social media coverage, and was entertainingly mocked for it.

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I noticed an odd square landmark in this story (just above the crack), and wondered what it was:
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Going to google maps for the epicenter of the quake, I found this:


but hovering over the landmark gave no identity. If you expand:

something seems to have been hand-obfuscated.

Maybe I watch too many movies:

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Looks like recently poured concrete. But what is this going to be when it’s finished? Seems too big for a car park in the middle of nowhere.

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Or too many of the right (wrong?) kind of movies…

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It’s a quarry where they mine Wite-Out.

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You go girl!

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But you missed this right next to the crack?!?!


And well I guess since this China lake, it wouldn’t be too surprising that they blur something out…

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Yes, I googled on the epicenter, not the crack. I assume those white dots near the plane are the parts of the fuselage that broke off; I wonder how long they just let that sit there.

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This wreak would obviously be off limits to hobbyists, but I knew a few folks in Las Vegas who would make a weekend out of going out in the desert to locate old documented crash sites.

Of course my totally serious theory is that it is actually an enemy craft built by the hollow earth aliens or lizard people of death valley, & the crack was an attempt at recovery of their advanced military technology. ;-p

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Ohh! Ohh! Ohh!
Even better though is this nearby boat launch, clearly used to mount assaults on our subterranean foes!

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