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- uan1
- what's with bridges collapsing in italy?renderedred
- Age, corruption and a subsequent lack of maintenance was what they said for the previous one.webazoot
- figures @webazootrenderedred
- thanks to lockdown only 1 wounded person. looks like bridge was reported for inspection last winter but wasn‘t controlled.uan
- Jeez, didn't Italy already have a devastating bridge collapse last year due to lack of maintenance. Many people were killed in that collapse.utopian
- That’s what happens when the mafia gets all the contractsGnash
- Nairn3
There's an amusing write up in The Register about a somewhat recalcitrant pensioner who accidentally ejected from a jet fighter..
- robotron3k0
The Cannonball Run record was set the other day, 26 hours 38 minutes from Manhattan to Redondo beach California in an Audi A8L with marine gas cans in the trunk. It's all hush hush but probably averaging 110 mph across the USA in a day.
- Woah!!!OBBTKN
- Crime generally is down in the UKa the moment.. except for excessive speeding. Apparently a few people are taking advantage of emptier roads... .Nairn
- https://www.youtube.…imbecile
- Wow! Perfect time to attempt it actually.mandomafioso
- Nice oneinstrmntl
- It's a real missed opportunity that this race wasn't from Manhattan to Manhattan Beach, CA.MondoMorphic
- Bluejam2
Man accidentally ejects himself from fighter jet during surprise flight
https://www.theguardian.com/worl…- Wow.
That was 'lucky' "A malfunction prevented the pilot from being automatically ejected too and he was able to land"webazoot
- Wow.
- Projectile0
Absolute fuckwits are burning cellphone towers because of 5G conspiracy theories! Most of them don't even have 5G. Imagine your internet went down because of people spending too much time on the internet?
- Bluejam4
Captain Tom Moore raises more than £7m for NHS
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-en…- Think he passed the £20m mark, now that's a hero - twice!grafician
- Yes, confirmed, https://www.justgivi…grafician
- he's 99 soon to be 100 yo btwgrafician
- Boris as useful as an ant right now vs. this oldie chap!grafician
- make that *young chap, my badgrafician
- It's amazing he's raised all that money, but it's weird that the British people are funding something we already pay taxes to fund.PhanLo
- *underfundfadein11
- ^true Fade, true.PhanLo
- grafician-1
"Iranian teen shocks chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen to win $14,000 prize"
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/…
"A 16-year-old Iranian chess prodigy has upended the chess world by beating World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen in the final of the Banter Blitz Cup.
Alireza Firouzja defeated the Norwegian 8.5-7.5 in the final of the online quickfire knockout contest -- where players must comment verbally on their moves, and their opponents, during the game -- to claim the $14,000 prize."
- Nice! Love when the chess world gets a shake-upGnash
- the kid is #21 overallgrafician
- Geniuses can come from anywhere, remember thatgrafician
- so proud of this kid!
proud of Magnus too, no sense of arrogance in this man, sign of a true geniusgrafician - Magnus is great. Has done so much to advance the gameGnash
- renderedred1
A malfunction causes red wine to flow from faucets in an Italian town
- robotron3k1
Free oil in Canada, no joke
- Yup, below zero - how’s that possible. LolGnash
- Tweet gone, but... Oil so cheap & they've run out of storage. It costs money to shut down production. So the market shifts and you pay people to haul it away.nb
- could always flick reverse on the pump direction and put it back where it came from.shapesalad
- Everything costs moneynb
- Gardener3
- what's up with danish cartoonist :)renderedred
- ^ IKR, even gunning them down won’t shut them upGnash
- the truth hurtsutopian
- The world demands apology from China.sted
- Gnash1
At least 19 dead in Nova Scotia shooting rampage
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/…
No motive yet. Guy was a dentist/denturist
- Guy dressed up as a cop, even painted his car to look like a cop carGnash
- grafician1
"One for the history books: RTRS: U.S. CRUDE OIL FUTURES FALL BELOW $0 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY"
Wow...we are truly living interesting times lol
- uan0
- Krassy6
- That depends on what exactly was shotGnash
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- ^ LOLKrassy
- hahaha! utopianfuturefood
- nb5
- This is the actual news.nb
- This is a headline that would have been considered too far-fetched for The Onion or SNL just a few weeks ago. What a time to be alive.nb
- Lol no exactly_niko
- The fact that you need to point this out shows how dumb this entire situation (and the masses of people are)NBQ00
- Commie Moranutopian
- Robo, hayoth, will you be using Clorox or Lysol? serious question._niko
- Guaranteed some number of people who will actually do itdrgs
- Sadly, some people don’t agree.maquito
- Nairn2
"Lib Dem councillor apologises after tweeting picture of a plate of bacon as he tried to show solidarity with Muslims fasting for Ramadan"
- i would love to have been a fly on the wall when he realised what he'd done, hahaNairn
- Ya con los "guilty gringos"robotron3k
- You call that mess bacon?Gnash
- fucking hell, that bacon looked rancidBluejam
- oh, don't even start on how insulting a meal it is to send a photo of to a community. That's not even student-level cooking.Nairn
- I bet it's unsmoked bacon too.
fucking libdems.Nairn - His colleagues must be thanking God he's working from home - he must fart like the holocaust.Nairn
- who boils eggs for bacon + eggs? and I think he boiled the bacon too.Fax_Benson
- Bluejam0
Paul Joseph Watson having a very public breakdown because Piers Morgan blocked him
https://twitter.com/DavidJBradle…
- I check in on his Twitter to see what his take on the lockdown was. Seems he's just really scared of people who aren't white. That's all I could get in 5 weeks.PhanLo
- think he had a bad day yesterdayBluejam
- Piers has also had a meltdown of sorts and now daily lays into the tories and trump (who has now blocked him) ...Bluejam
- He keeps calling people yellow, but is scared to leave his own house. Even his followers think he's a lightweight.PhanLo
- Such a weird little army he commands.PhanLo
- Jim Noir yeahMrT
- Wut, Trump blocked Piers? Lol. Piers was such an ass-kisser of him, how could he?NBQ00
- webazoot1
Nine million logs of Brits' road journeys spill onto the internet from password-less number-plate camera dashboard
In a blunder described as "astonishing and worrying," Sheffield City Council's automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) system exposed to the internet 8.6 million records of road journeys made by thousands of people, The Register can reveal.
The ANPR camera system's internal management dashboard could be accessed by simply entering its address into a web browser. No login details or authentication of any sort was needed to view and search the live system – which logs where and when vehicles, identified by their number plates, travel through Sheffield's road network.
A total of 8,616,198 records of vehicle movements, by time, location, and number plate, could be searched through the dashboard last week
