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| CRANKY OLD FART'S BROWSER HISTORY #395 [archive] DEC. 16, 2023 |
Rich countries are desperate to convince us their hollow COP28 deal is a triumph. They’re lying.
Any news coverage that's happy with progress made at COP28 is horse-doodoo.
UFO whistleblower doubles down on claims: "This is a nightmare for me"
David Grusch is a former member of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force, two entities I'd never heard of until Grusch popped up. For months he's been saying loudly that the US has recovered alien spacecraft with nonhuman aliens or alien corpses inside, but that he can't share any evidence "due to his fears of prosecution for sharing classified data in a public setting."
"I want to believe," is what Mulder said on The X-Files, but believing without evidence is faith, and faith is for nincompoops. Maybe there are alien spaceships and bodies hidden away by the US government — that's what I expect the government would do — but if Grusch won't show the evidence, he's just another ranting doofus.
The role of Facebook — and the internet more broadly — in the genocide of the Rohingya people in Myanmar
Long read. Worth it.
After 46 years and 15-billion miles, Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
Launched just after the Bicentennial, Voyager was hoped to have a five-year lifespan. It's still chugging along, but now it's no longer communicating, kinda like me.
Oklahoma governor signs order effectively banning diversity programs at public colleges
Rudy Giuliani must pay $148 million to 2 Georgia election workers he defamed, jury decides
"Must"? Get the heck outta here. He'll never pay.
Twitter OK with ads for app that creates fake nudes for blackmail
Uproar as after-school Satan club forms at Tennessee elementary school
• Amusing, Interesting, Outrageous, or Profound
AIOP is my Lemmy page, for anything that's (in my opinion) amusing, interesting, outrageous, or profound. It's mostly a rough draft of this page, but you're invited to stop by.
Facebook czar Zuckerberg builds supervillain lair in Hawaii
Archaeologists discover brutal 'bakery-prison' at Pompeii
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Twenty years ago, The Shield captured the brokenness of American policing
• The Police Problem
All about about ordinary evil cops.
Well, of course race played a role in sentencing of black child, 10, for urinating in public
California deputy gets two years in federal prison for bullshit arrest, and lying about it
Former Iowa police officer sentenced to 15 years for raping teen in ride-along program
No charges filed after police shot an 11-year-old black boy who called for help, officials say
A long but interesting interview with defense investigator Andrew Sowards, who's seen a lot of bad cops, up close
And here's part 2.
♫♬ MUSIC ♫
The Bible is Bullshit — Corporate Avenger
The Man Who Sold the World — Nirvana
Second Sight — Luther Wright & the Wrongs
You've Made Me So Very Happy — Blood, Sweat & Tears
⚰️ OBITUARIES ⚰️
🖕 Rick Ahearn
logistics planner for prominent assholes
Jack Axelrod
actor, Grey’s Anatomy
Shirley Barber
author of children's books
Cari Beauchamp
author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker
Michael Bishop
sci-fi author, The Eyes of Fire
Andre Braugher
actor, Homicide: Life on the Street
Gene Carr
hockey player, Los Angeles Kings
Emmanuelle Debever
actress, A Brutal Game
Lola Dee
singer, "Pretty Eyed Baby"
David Drake
sci-fi author, Hammer’s Slammers
🖕 Neil Drossman
brain parasite
Mort Engelberg
film producer, Smokey and the Bandit
Shirley Anne Field
actress, My Beautiful Laundrette
Jeffrey Foskett
rock'n'roller, the Beach Boys
Gao Yaojie
AIDS activist
Ian Gibson
artist, Judge Dread
Dærick Gröss Sr
cartoonist, "Trumpy"
Jack Hogan
actor, Combat
Richard Kerr
songwriter, "Looks Like We Made It"
Ken Kelsch
cinematographer, Bad Lieutenant
Kunchok Lodoe
anti-Chinese activist
Ken MacKenzie
baseballer, New York Mets
Doug McArthur
liked athletics
George McGinnis
basketballer, Indiana Pacers
Essra Mohawk
singer-songwriter, Schoolhouse Rock
Ted Morgan
author, On Becoming American
Mary Ratcliffe
codebreaker
Ron Rivett
founder, Super 8 Motels
Stan Rogow
film and TV producer, The Clan of the Cave Bear
Ken Sherrill
gay rights activist
John A. Talbott
psychiatrist with a heart
Camden Toy
actor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Mario Valdemarin
actor, Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis
Jim van der Woude
actor, Prospero's Books
12/16/2023
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ReplyDeleteThat UFO guy Grush went on Tucker Caralson, which is basically proof he's a deluded wingnut.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIOrX2F2RMI
Suspected Grusch was a lunatic. Now confirmed, thanks.
DeletePS. America needs a new and improved constitution. The one we're stuck with sets too high a threshold for changes, and was drafted when information travelled on horseback for a population 2% of today, before handguns and stupidity were being manufactured in large quantities.
ReplyDeleteAgreed of course.
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