Thursday, December 5, 2024

Today's news and jokes







Nearly a dozen children worked under strenuous and hazardous conditions at a pork processing plant in Iowa, the US Department of Labor announced following an investigation.

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— CNN (@cnn.com) December 4, 2024 at 1:33 PM
("This marks the second time this year that the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division has investigated a sanitation contractor at the ... facility and found the contractor hired children for dangerous work")





This is explosive. Summary: -WADA's investigation unit tells WADA that Chinese athletes are likely/historically taking trace amounts of TMZ. -WADA then learns Chinese athletes tested positive for trace amounts of TMZ. -But WADA does not inform its own investigation unit WADA --> not fit for purpose

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— Mark Dreyer (@dreyerchina.bsky.social) December 4, 2024 at 6:18 PM






NYT is mostly a game company now; anti-trans right wing op-eds are hooks to grow their app business

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— Robert Yang (@radiatoryang.bsky.social) December 4, 2024 at 2:08 PM






Just been sent this, I did supply work here for a time and none of this is surprising. The place has easily been the worst school I've worked in. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...

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— Bantership Potemkin (@bonesdrawstuff.bsky.social) December 4, 2024 at 1:42 PM












everyone’s got mutuals who are like “I’m gonna make a reply that’s so putting us on a new government list”

— Amy Ash (@lolennui.bsky.social) June 11, 2024 at 8:21 PM




meanwhile, just a few blocks away, Samantha had her sights set on a rich CEO as well

— JP (@jpbrammer.bsky.social) December 4, 2024 at 4:25 PM


Incredible number of assassination experts out here on social media mansplaining subsonic ammunition for us

— Sam Barlow πŸ”₯ IMMORTALITY (@mrsambarlow.bsky.social) December 4, 2024 at 5:50 PM








In one of the strangest chapters of my life, I spent several months in the trenches of Big Headlight, looking to understand just how and why headlights became brighter than the sun. Answers, graphs, penis sketches—it's all here, on the brand new Ringer site: www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/t...

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— Nate Rogers (@naterogers.bsky.social) December 3, 2024 at 10:37 AM
(Rules are outdated and a loophole allows manufacturers to avoid any brightness limitation, and manufacturers are motivated to make more powerful lights for better safety ratings (the same way huge SUVs protect the occupants to the detriment of everyone else))

















(My favorite was the race a few years ago in America when the interviewer referred to him as Chuck Leclerck)











in the early 2000s a web forum created a brand new income stream: letting users pay to change someone else’s avatar. sharks, i’m asking you for $10,000,000 to start Namely, the website where you can rename a stranger’s dog

— nattie winters (@utilitylimb.bsky.social) October 19, 2024 at 10:45 AM


















the headrests look like little cars!

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— πŸ‘»⚰️dead niedermurder⚰️πŸ‘» (@niedermeyer.io) October 21, 2024 at 1:13 PM






@ninabucksner

I picked my sister up from work and the dogs didnt want her to leaveπŸ˜‚πŸ˜­

♬ original sound - Nina B ❤️‍πŸ”₯




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