The news thread

[jimmy jazz]

Montreal has the worst air quality of any major city in the world right now, which would be funnier to me if I wasn't a bit worried about my mom 

Our excuse is forest fires though. What's up in your neck of the woods JJ? Still doing the whole industrial revolution thing over there, with soot-covered chimney sweeps? 

I understand this more now, thought it was recorded over a longer period of time but it is literally changing all the time.

No idea then tbh.

As you mentioned the soot and industrial revolution, there is a place here called The Black Country which is called that because it was so black and sooty from the industry.



One of the local dishes is called 'faggots' BTW.

[jimmy jazz]

Going off in France isn't it 😮

[Psy-Fi]

Going off in France isn't it 😮

Macron dances at Elton John concert as France burns amid ongoing violence

New video posted to social media caught French President Emmanuel Macron enjoying the Elton John concert in Paris on Thursday while the city and the country witnessed another night of violent protests over a fatal police shooting.

The video, shot at the Accor Arena where Elton John played for three nights as part of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, showed Macron tapping his foot and smiling while listening to the hit song "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting."

[jimmy jazz]

Good song imo.

[Psy-Fi]

NYC spent $9M in taxpayer dollars sending $5 bills with surveys — but most were thrown in the trash

[DJChameleon]

NYC spent $9M in taxpayer dollars sending $5 bills with surveys — but most were thrown in the trash

Yeah I saw that on the news. Most idiotic and ineffective way to get surveys done. Who the fuck greenlit that idea and thought it would work the way they wanted?

I feel like something else is going on with that situation. They wanted to get rid of money for some sort of reason and hide behind a failed survery initiative. A strange way of money laundering but it feels like it.

[Psy-Fi]

Yeah I saw that on the news. Most idiotic and ineffective way to get surveys done. Who the fuck greenlit that idea and thought it would work the way they wanted?

I feel like something else is going on with that situation. They wanted to get rid of money for some sort of reason and hide behind a failed survery initiative. A strange way of money laundering but it feels like it.

It does seem crazy and suspicious at the same time. I imagine that everyone should know that most people are going to throw any letters that look like "junk mail" in the trash without bothering to open it first. Probably would be a good way to scam some taxpayer money.

[jadis]

Now health professionals are urged to call vaginas 'bonus holes' to avoid offending trans or non-binary patients
 

IMO conservative outlets shouldn't be the only ones to report on this kind of contemptible idiocy

[SGR]

Now health professionals are urged to call vaginas 'bonus holes' to avoid offending trans or non-binary patients
 

IMO conservative outlets shouldn't be the only ones to report on this kind of contemptible idiocy

If the US Democrats start bleeding support from women because of stuff like this, the election won't be pretty for them.

[DJChameleon]

Now health professionals are urged to call vaginas 'bonus holes' to avoid offending trans or non-binary patients
 

IMO conservative outlets shouldn't be the only ones to report on this kind of contemptible idiocy

Title of that article sounds like an onion article.

[Lexi Darling]

Is this happening in more than one place, or is it just whining about stuff one crazy charity said?

They literally cite that right wing anti-trans person who got juice dumped on her in New Zealand, such an unbiased and reliable source.

I don't mean to roast you all but please think critically about this. I think that terminology is dumb too, but it's 100 percent a non-issue unless someone can prove that a substantial amount of health professionals are urging for this.

Conservative outlets are the only ones reporting because they think any random trans person saying something dumb is a gotcha they can use to debase the entire community. No one else cares about what one charity said.

Also I've been part of the trans community for two decades and I can tell you right here that literally nobody is offended by the word vagina lmao.

[jadis]

It's an issue inasmuch as it is representative of a broader and very real phenomenon: twisting language into absurdity and losing touch with reality to accommodate the (imagined or real) sensibilities of one or another underdog minority group.

[Lexi Darling]

It's an issue inasmuch as it is representative of a broader and very real phenomenon: twisting language into absurdity and losing touch with reality to accommodate the (imagined or real) sensibilities of one or another underdog minority group.

Whatever, I personally don't see how some people being overly cautious with inclusive language is really an issue of world-shattering importance. I've never had anything like this impact my life in any way and somehow I doubt you have either.

[Janszoon]

It's an issue inasmuch as it is representative of a broader and very real phenomenon: twisting language into absurdity and losing touch with reality to accommodate the (imagined or real) sensibilities of one or another underdog minority group.

Fun fact: the word "silly" used to mean "holy". Language is always evolving.

[jimmy jazz]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1789005/just-stop-oil-george-osborne-thea-rogers-wedding-orange-confetti

Not much of a protest is it? Throwing confetti on the bride and groom at a wedding?

I expected orange paint or something unpleasant.