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You cannot make that up

-->> Epic Win

A fitting way to go for such a polarising subject

Guns ownership; it has its positives and negatives

It's hard to see the attraction

As yet unclear if he qualifies for a Darwin Award.

Bringing a loaded and ready to fire gun in to a hospital…. Lucky he only mortally wounded himself and not a bystander or worker.

The corruption and negligence in Turkey's building industry are mind-boggling. It's no wonder that so many people have died https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/erdogans-builder-cronies-made-their-money-now-theyve-fled-zmrs3h0rq

That kind of thing would never happen here... Oh wait.

Meanwhile in Ohio, there's been this 'controlled release' of phosgene in East Palestine. The 'controlled' part was placing explosive charges on rail tankers of vinyl chloride, to stop them catching fire.
https://twitter.com/hale27storm/status/1622782492217425921 https://twitter.com/Elpenor_Dignam/status/1624176038149234688

People were evacuated but weren't allowed to take pets with them. So all the pets and livestock are dying.

Jaysus, not even pets? :(
Bringing a cow at short notice, hard but bringing the dog or cat isn't.

I know somebody in Ohio I'll mention it to him, he's not in there luckily.

East Palestine was used as a location for a film called White Noise whose plot was a train crash releasing poisonous gas clouds.

What is going on over north america airspace? So far we had the balloon, now two undisclosed objects shot down and now a third appears to be giving them the run around over Canada

Oh and have we done liveable neighbourhoods are being sent to enslave us?

MP asking in parliment
https://twitter.com/NickFletcherMP/status/1623699476366991360

Eh???

Many big cities are a conglomerate of old"15 minute cities" and al Belfast areas that are originally towns (bar the ones that got razed thanks to shitty development) are full of small shops.

GP is near, so it the dentist, work wise a bus to town (only from inner ring) is 20 minutes so it's not perfect, but wtf are those people smoking and I'd like the phone nr of their dealer please.

I’d be more concerned that China have spotted something which they plan to shoot down.
There are no happy endings to this. One mistake by either side …

The good news is it can wait to daylight to shoot down for the TV cameras

jesus christ

just let these balloons be aliens who have come to destroy earth so we don't have to go through this

The balloons are false flags to distract from WW1 poison gas being released in Ohio. This is what I'm inferring from the tweets of that woman wh0 went undercover at MAGA events https://twitter.com/noturtlesoup17/status/1624853057602199552

What an utter twat. If you asked whether everyone should live in an olde-worlde village with a nice little shop and a school and the local doctor on his rounds smoking a pipe they'd lap it up, but because we actually have to deal with car dependence in order to achieve something similar in cities it's suddenly a socialist plot.

I can't help but think that shooting down every envoy from our new alien overlords is not going to end well.
Particularly for those living near New York, the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower and Big Ben.

My slightly more anodyne guess is that China has been sending these spy balloons for ages and the US has just finally decided enough is enough.

I seem to recall reading .mil nerdery (probably off some Reddit threads) about these things in 2021/22. Weird shaped drones, swarms of smaller ones, surveilling military activity at the edges of the US. It’s not a huge surprise that drone tech is being used for this, is it?

*and the comments being all “we don’t seem to have a grip on this”. Well, now you do.

I saw a documentary about that I can't remember which year but I'm sure it was on the 4th of July.