the "Headline That Caught My Attention or the WTF" thread

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Not sure about how I feel about this...

California to stop sales of new gas-powered cars by 2035
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By ADAM BEAMAssociated PressSeptember 23, 2020
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California will halt sales of new gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks by 2035, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday, a move he says will cut greenhouse gas emissions by 35% in the nation’s most populous state.

The proposed rule would not ban people from owning gas-powered cars or selling them on the used car market. But it would end the sales of all new gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks in the state of nearly 40 million people.

“Pull away from the gas pumps,” Newsom said. “Let us no longer be victims of geopolitical dictators that manipulate global supply chains and global markets.”

California and the roughly dozen states that follow its lead on auto emissions standards make up a significant part of the U.S. auto market, giving the day’s move huge potential impact for the U.S. automobile industry as well as for long-term efforts against pollution and climate change, which is driven by fossil-fuel emissions. It also is likely to meet opposition from President Donald Trump, who wants to roll back tougher Obama-era auto emissions standards and is battling California to force it to comply.
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Remember GM's EV1? When it came out California passed a law that 10% of vehicles sold in the state had to be electric. Amazingly, they quietly repealed that years later when it didn't work out. GM took all their EV1s back and crushed the ones that didn't end up in museums.

The thing these idealogues never realize is that you can't legislate markets. You cant legislate technology or infrastructure either. It all sounds good in the fantasy world these people live in, but when engineering and money collide it all vanishes in a puff of reality.
 
This one is really disturbing. :unsure:

I was making a straight ocifer. I swear I was.

Are you okay? Yeah I'm okay. The muscles are still hot and it
goes unnoticed until about an hour later and then you find out
there's something broke.

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Subway bread isn't bread, Irish court says

Ireland’s Supreme Court has ruled that bread sold by the fast food chain Subway contains so much sugar that it cannot be legally defined as bread. The ruling came in a tax dispute brought by Bookfinders Ltd., an Irish Subway franchisee, which argued that some of its takeaway products - including...
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Interesting science news...


TRILOBITES
First Fossil Feather Ever Found Belonged to This Dinosaur
To settle a lengthy debate, a team of paleontologists says the specimen unearthed in the 19th century was shed by an archaeopteryx.


A close-up photograph of a fossil feather found in 1861 in Bavaria, and originally identified as coming from an archaeopteryx.

A close-up photograph of a fossil feather found in 1861 in Bavaria, and originally identified as coming from an archaeopteryx.Credit...Museum für Naturkunde


The feather looks like any feather you might find on the ground. But it’s not. It’s about 150 million years old, and it fluttered to the ground back when the dinosaurs roamed what is today called Bavaria. It’s entombed in limestone, and, when paleontologists unearthed it in 1861, it became the first fossil feather ever discovered.

Many paleontologists think the feather came from archaeopteryx lithographica, a creature that, with its feathered wings and sharp-toothed mouth, bears features of both dinosaurs and birds, making it a herald of the evolutionary transition between the two groups.

But that first-known fossil feather isn’t attached to an archaeopteryx skeleton, and so for more than a century, not all scientists have agreed on the identity of the feather’s owner.

“There’s been this debate, even when the feather was found: Does this isolated feather belong to the same animal as these skeletal specimens of archaeopteryx?” said Ryan Carney, a paleontologist and epidemiologist at the University of South Florida who has a tattoo of the feather on his arm.

In a study published Wednesday in the journal Scientific Reports, Dr. Carney and a team of colleagues compared the feather with the fossil remains of other feathers found with archaeopteryx fossils more recently, and they claim that the debate is now settled: The feather belongs to archaeopteryx.

Although the debate about whether the feather belonged to archaeopteryx has persisted, it came into greater focus in 2019 when other scientists argued in a paper that the feather might have belonged to another winged dinosaur species. Many scientists have been critical of this hypothesis, and Dr. Carney and his team set out to counter it by studying the shape of the feather. They hoped to see whether it matched the anatomy of feathers that were still connected to other fossilized Archaeopteryx specimens.



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The right wing of the Altmühl archaeopteryx fossil. The top surface of the wing has feathers that are identical in shape and size to the specimen found in 1861, the researchers said.

The right wing of the Altmühl archaeopteryx fossil. The top surface of the wing has feathers that are identical in shape and size to the specimen found in 1861, the researchers said.Credit...Helmut Tischlinger & Ryan Carney

They report that the feathers, for instance, have similar widths, lengths and curvatures. After overlaying an outline of the 1861 feather atop a fossil archaeopteryx wing, the team also found that the feather fits onto the wing perfectly. They additionally point out that the feather comes from the same fossil site as four archaeopteryx specimens later unearthed near Solnhofen, Germany.

Using a high-powered scanning electron microscope, the team also captured images of the feather with enough detail to reveal the presence of thousands of molecules called melanosomes — organelles responsible for the feather’s coloration — that preserve the feather’s original pigments. The pigments suggest that the feather was matte black in color. What color the rest of archaeopteryx was remains an open question.
 

More evidence that 2020 is a living nightmare has been found deep in the forests of Missouri, where arachnids are spinning webs large enough to "catch" humans.

Just in time for Halloween, a giant spider web was discovered by the Missouri Department of Conservation's Francis Skalicky off a trail near Springfield.

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:eek:

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'Human-sized' spider web found in Missouri forest

A giant spider web was discovered by the Missouri Department of Conservation's Francis Skalicky off a trail near Springfield
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Burger served with mayo leads to fatal shooting, 130-year prison term, AR officials say

The man also shot his brother several times, according to officials.
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A man was sentenced to 130 years in prison after Arkansas officials say he fatally shot a woman because there was mayonnaise on his fast food burger.

In March 2019, Priscilla Aldridge and Kevin Thomas took an order from a fast food restaurant to Andra Crockett, 35, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. Thomas and Crockett are brothers.

When Crockett opened the bag, a neighbor heard him yell, “B----, you know I don’t like mayonnaise on my hamburger,” before shooting his brother three times, and 37-year-old Aldridge once, killing her, according to THV.
 
interesting - if not long - article for those interested in these things - your mileage may vary

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40+ Genius DIY Hacks That Take The Pain Out Of Painting

Painting your home doesn't have to be a painful chore. In fact, armed with these brilliant DIY tips and tricks, the whole process can become a breeze. From Vaseline to Pringles cans, these objects found around the house come in so handy, we wish we heard about them sooner.
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Jackie Kennedy Onassis
Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ ancestors were of African-American descent, with one of her relatives becoming the first formally trained black doctor. Her father, Jack Bouvier, was known as ‘Black Jack’ due to his flamboyant lifestyle and dark complexion inherited from his family line.
 
Seen Jurassic Park? T-Rex Skeleton Brings $31.8 Million at Christie’s
A 40-foot-long dinosaur fossil named Stan was the headliner at an auction of Impressionist and Modern art worth more than $300 million.


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Stan, at 40 feet long and 13 feet high, was one of the most unusual offerings at Christie’s New York on Tuesday night, breaking records for dinosaur fossils.Credit...Spencer Platt/Getty Images
By Zachary Small

A creature from the late Cretaceous period smashed sales records on Tuesday in an auction that also included works by Picasso, Pollock and Monet.

The Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, nicknamed Stan, closed the 20th Century Evening Sale, nearly quadrupling its high estimate of $8 million to bring in $31.8 million, with fees. In the 20-minute bidding war that ended with buyers on the telephone in London and New York, the price rocketed up from a start of $3 million, with the final bid ultimately taken in New York by James Hyslop, head of the auction house’s Scientific Instruments, Globes and Natural History department. The buyer has not been identified.

It’s rare that archaeologists find Tyrannosaur fossils as complete as Stan, according to Mr. Hyslop, and even rarer that such skeletons appear on the market. The last time a comparable specimen came to auction was in 1997, when a T. rex named Sue sold for $8.36 million — or nearly $13.5 million today, given the rate of inflation — to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

“I’ll never forget the moment I came face to face with him for the first time,” in Colorado, said Mr. Hyslop said of Stan. “He looked even larger and more ferocious than I’d imagined.”
 
Hmmm, a major environmental and economic disaster wraps into one oily mess...

Venezuela, Once an Oil Giant, Reaches the End of an Era

Venezuela’s oil reserves, the world’s largest, transformed the country and the global energy market. Now its oil sector is grinding to a halt — perhaps never to recover.

By Sheyla Urdaneta, Anatoly Kurmanaev and Isayen Herrera Photographs by Adriana Loureiro Fernandez
Oct. 7, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET

CABIMAS, Venezuela — For the first time in a century, there are no rigs searching for oil in Venezuela.
Wells that once tapped the world’s largest crude reserves are abandoned or left to flare toxic gases that cast an orange glow over depressed oil towns.

Refineries that once processed oil for export are rusting hulks, leaking crude that blackens shorelines and coats the water in an oily sheen.

Fuel shortages have brought the country to a standstill. At gas stations, lines go on for miles.

Venezuela’s colossal oil sector, which shaped the country and the international energy market for a century, has come to a near halt, with production reduced to a trickle by years of gross mismanagement and American sanctions.
The collapse is leaving behind a destroyed economy and a devastated environment, and, many analysts say, bringing to an end the era of Venezuela as an energy powerhouse.

“Venezuela’s days as a petrostate are gone,” said Risa Grais-Targow, an analyst at Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy.

The country that a decade ago was the largest producer in Latin America, earning about $90 billion a year from oil exports, is expected to net about $2.3 billion by this year’s end — less than the aggregate amount that Venezuelan migrants who fled the country’s economic devastation will send back home to
support their families, according to Pilar Navarro, a Caracas-based economist.

Production is the lowest in nearly a century after sanctions forced most oil companies to stop drilling for or buying Venezuelan oil — and even that trickle could dry up soon, analysts warn.

“Without drilling, without services companies and without money, it’s very difficult to maintain even the current levels of production,” said David Voght, head of IPD Latin America, an oil consulting firm.

“If the political situation in the country doesn’t change, you could go to zero.”
 
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Jackie Kennedy Onassis
Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ ancestors were of African-American descent, with one of her relatives becoming the first formally trained black doctor. Her father, Jack Bouvier, was known as ‘Black Jack’ due to his flamboyant lifestyle and dark complexion inherited from his family line.
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Some other relatives too...


Jackie O, perhaps America’s most emulated and admired First Lady, descended from a family known as the van Salee’s, who were described as “mulatto” in the 17th century. This family traced its lineage in part to a Dutch mariner named Jan Jensen, who turned Turk (what some Europeans called “going native”), which was more popular than common history reveals.

It is widely believed Jensen fathered two children, Anthony and Abraham van Salee, by a Moorish concubine. Following a dispute with his white wife, Anthony van Salee was exiled to territory across the river, where he became Brooklyn’s first settler. Until a few decades ago, this property adjoining Coney Island was called Turk’s Island after Anthony van Salle — the term “Turk,” in his day being synonymous with Moor (North African). A descendant, John van Salee De Grasse, born in 1825, was the first black American formally educated as a doctor. When Jackie Kennedy was asked about her van Salee roots during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, she called her ancestors “Jewish.” Of course, her socialite father, born in 1891, was nicknamed “Black Jack” Bouvier for his swarthy complexion. In the 1960s, journalists described the First Lady’s features as “French,” earning her the cover page of countless magazines, including film and fan publications. Not only Kennedy Onassis, but well-borns Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Vanderbilt (and thus Anderson Cooper), are van Salee descendants.
 
Talk about impeccable job credentials...

Sound guy from South Portland is mixing presidential debates
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By Kelley BouchardStaff WriterOctober 7, 2020

When last week’s presidential debate turned into verbal pro wrestling match, with insults and interruptions landing like knee drops and ref bumps, Lance Vardis was uniquely qualified to make sure the raucous back-and-forth was heard clearly by millions across the globe.

Vardis, who lives in South Portland, is an independent broadcast audio engineer and live sound producer who has helmed the soundboard for televised World Wrestling Entertainment events for the last decade.
Vardis was at the controls when Republican President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden went head-to-head for the first 2020 presidential debate in Cleveland. And he’ll be at the soundboard again Wednesday night when Vice President Mike Pence takes on Sen. Kamala Harris in Salt Lake City.

“It was a lot like a wrestling match,” Vardis recalled Tuesday during a break from setting up sound equipment in the Marriott Auditorium at the University of Utah. “There were obvious similarities with the sparring that went on.”
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