Random Nonpolitical News and Links Not Worth Their Own Threads

Starting this thread because I didn’t know where else to put this / I didn’t want to clutter the Canada<>US thread that seems to pick up random Canadian news.

Canadian fare enforcement officers have gained an amusing job title acronym.

When I lived in Colorado, not long after they legalized weed, we had a re-org. I almost pulled off naming my group the Program Outcomes Team but at the las minute it got nixed.

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r/theyknew

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Hey! I used to live in Stow!

Apparently they went all-in for the temporary rename.

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I came across this map of the DUI frequency by city. Before clicking on it, I imagined that denser cities with good transit would have lower DUI frequency. I expected NYC, Chicago, DC, and San Fran to be low on the list. Chicago is indeed the lowest, but NYC is pretty high and SF isn’t too far behind.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-u-s-cities-with-the-most-duis/

In related news, Google tells me that the highest recorded BAC where the inebriated person survived was 1.374.

And to think, I found a .351 impressively disturbing…

Getting a DUI requires being a fairly entitled person who thinks that rules don’t apply to them, of which NYC and SF have no shortage.

Some English teacher got engaged to a gym teacher today.

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https://www.itv.com/news/2025-09-19/train-named-ctrl-alt-deleaf-to-tackle-clear-billions-of-leaves-from-uk-rail

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This seems like a good concept to me

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Would it have been legal if they’d skipped the weed?

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Seen on /r/actuary. Note the earrings and Christmas tree ornament.

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