Well, we haven’t had a good apocalyptic cult story in a while
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article255656871.html
A metallurgist in Washington state pleaded guilty to fraud Monday after she spent decades faking the results of strength tests on steel that was being used to make U.S. Navy submarines. Elaine Marie Thomas, 67, of Auburn, Washington, was the director of metallurgy at a foundry in Tacoma that supplied steel castings used by Navy contractors Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding to make submarine hulls. From 1985 through 2017, Thomas falsified the results of strength and toughness tests for at least 240 productions of steel — about half the steel the foundry produced for the Navy, according to her plea agreement, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma. The tests were intended to show that the steel would not fail in a collision or in certain “wartime scenarios," the Justice Department said.
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When confronted with the doctored results, Thomas told investigators, “Yeah, that looks bad,” the Justice Department said. She suggested that in some cases she changed the tests to passing grades because she thought it was “stupid” that the Navy required the tests to be conducted at negative-100 degrees Fahrenheit (negative-73.3 degrees Celsius).
Holy :beep:!
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Saw this in my BBC feed yesterday. Crazy world we live in.
Gives a new perspective on the biblical plagues.
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Woman was reportedly breastfeeding her hairless cat that was swaddled up like a baby on a flight and refused to stop when asked to by flight attendants.
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That definitely fits the thread topic.
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Dafuq?
That’s satire. Right? Please?
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You want pictures of a cat lady?
IIRC, The Daily Mail is sort of like the UK’s version of The World Weekly News . . . but I could be mistaken.
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This story was covered by many major news outlets. Google it and you’ll probably find it on a news source you like
Like Newsweek?
Woman Allegedly Breastfeeds Cat on Delta Airlines Flight (newsweek.com)
DailyMail attributes this source as being “first” to break the news.
You are mistaken, as the WWN deliberately fakes up 100% of their stories (when they did print, they did pick up the “news of the weird” wire stories, but currently all their stuff is just fiction for humor purposes). The Daily Mail has some real stuff, such as that wedding that happened in my town.
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that said, there is definitely made-up shit to see what you will swallow in the Daily Mail.
But it doesn’t match the good-natured goofiness of my one true news site, the Weekly World News.
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Pregnant man gives birth. That’s a fact.
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Calling it now: Time’s headline of the year for 2022.