Best News Headlines

[Broken Crow]

I used to wish mine were that simple.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Not a 'Best' news headline, but I'm hoping someone can help me understand this but first here's why I need help:
I have brain-damage and a limited working-memory span so complex ideas that I used to grok instantly can now take a very long time to make sense to me as I now have to deal with smaller data-sets. One of the consequences of the injury was a loss of income and the ability to make up for that loss, which is the whole reason I'm one this site...ie: I like good beer but can't afford it unless I make it myself. I was hoping in time to make use of the 'cured-meats' part of the forum, and so have been greatly annoyed by what looks to me as a potential future obstacle to the pursiut of....I had a very wide skill set and I remember the fallout after 9/11, even here in Canada, I could no longer buy ferric-chloride to make circuit boards.
The details the news keeps leaving out or just don't seem to care about is this: Was this guy actively marketing a useful and needed product as a suicide solution with nothing to do with the actual curing of meats? Is my LCD government going to crate yet more obstacles for me in my attempts to have afforable ham and bacon?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/kenneth-law-police-update-1.6950350

Not done any real meat curing, but Wikipedia mentions sodium nitrite in curing salts is low under 1% and the rest is made up of normal table salt (sodium chloride). Worst case scenario is that you would only get pre-mixed curing salts instead of being able to mix your own from pure sodium nitrite and sodium chloride. And that is only if someone decides to actively pursue the idea of banning it. There's been lots of discussions on other forums in the past where places like Amazon ended up recommending sodium nitrate after the search profile indicated self-harm risk because their algorithm was dumb enough to link suicide method books and chemical purchases as thing bought together.

Nothing came from that, and likely this will follow the same course once this guy is convicted, if he is actually distributing for self-harm purposes versus his purported "I didn't know they wanted it for anything else than preserving food" defense. They take down the distribution and recommendation channel, but not not the actual chemical.

Ferric chloride was a different matter, besides electronics hobbyists, it wasn't that widely used in the wide population. Sodium nitrite is. But who knows with some governments

 

[day_trippr]

This never gets old.

Yikes!
Now I'm wondering if I watched the same video you did

 

[Kent88]

Car with bull named Howdy Doody crammed into passenger seat pulled over by Nebraska police

 

[balrog]

Whoever gets the back seat is in for helluva ride.

 

[day_trippr]

He must've welded the suspension rigid...

 

[Jonakr]

Like there weren't already enough reasons not to visit Australia.

I've twice visited Australia. I'd go back in a heartbeat if money were no object.

 

[Sailingeric]

Well that was pretty sh!tty Delta flight diverted after passenger reportedly has 'diarrhea all the way through the airplane'

 

[day_trippr]

The stuff nightmares are made of

 

[jschein]

https://www.nj.com/atlantic/2023/09...to-drop-damaging-dye-into-pools-cops-say.html
@Bobby_M territory

 

[balrog]

Guess we need to post more on HBT.

https://futurism.com/neoscope/internet-use-dementia
Scientists investigated whether internet use is linked with the likelihood of developing dementia — and found, interestingly, that moderate and regular internet use seems to be cognitively helpful to older folks

 

[day_trippr]

Us old folks are staying digitally nimble in our decrepency!

 

[Kent88]

Coast Guard arrests a man trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the Atlantic

 

[AzOr]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/woman-killed-mafia-fed-pigs-30888379.amp
This isn’t a “Best News Headline”. But pretty strange nonetheless.

 

[Rish]

https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3157...-delivered-to-doorstep-in-mystery-amazon-hack

 

[Dland]

I guess we should not make fun of the LoDo people after all, they may be armed!

https://news.yahoo.com/seen-lodo-shooting-suspect-110133076.html

 

[Broken Crow]

I guess we should not make fun of the LoDo people after all, they may be armed!

https://news.yahoo.com/seen-lodo-shooting-suspect-110133076.html

Why isn't "O2CD" listed in the DSM?

 

[Dland]

Why isn't "O2CD" listed in the DSM?

Nice thought, but do we really want the DSM folks to be lookin' at any of us home brewers in any way?

We all have to stick together in perpetuating the perception of our "normality" , despite any differences we may have in brewing process, even LoDo.

I also fear being swept up in the take down of LoDo. As a spunder, I worry the DSM effs prolly don't even know to differentiate between hot side and cold side O2 exclusion.

Best to keep the Govt & Pharma/Med/insurance effs out of our lives and breweries.

and yeah I said lives, not hobby. [;

 

[Rish]

Yeah, I'm from Alabama and wonder why they think this is weird?

https://www.al.com/news/2023/09/res...g-school-building-just-a-weird-situation.html

 

[Dland]

The poor guy would prolly been OK if he had stuck to beer.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

I'm pretty sure she could afford to pay for a hotel like normal people...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-66943230

 

[Northern_Brewer]

What's the worst that could happen after marrying Ozzy? The full "story" is here.

 

[sweetcell]

i 'like' the use of 'single' quotes by cnn

Disney sued over ‘severe’ injuries allegedly caused by ‘wedgie’ from water slide

 

[Sailingeric]

 

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[balrog]

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[AzOr]

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Hmm. Makes you wonder if some of these are truly a coincidence. Reminds me of Schwarzenegger’s letter.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Best job
(he studies penguin population genetics at Oxford)

 

[Kent88]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/14/us/dog-trapped-cave-bear-tennessee-trnd/index.html

 

[Kent88]

I don't understand rich people

Jada Pinkett Smith Announces She’s Pregnant With Chris Rock’s Baby