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Wave pool malfunction triggers tsunami at water park in China, injuring 44 people

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Video of swell goes viral after false claim that machine operator was drunk
It was supposed to be a fun day out at a waterpark, with hundreds of people enjoying the gentle swell of a wave machine while riding inflatable rings.

But when machinery malfunctioned at the Yulong Shuiyun Water Park in northern China on Sunday it instead generated an enormous tidal wave which swept away unsuspecting swimmers, causing at least 44 injuries.

A video of the accident shows dozens of visitors, many riding lilos, being hurled into the air as the artificial tsunami crashes through a pool packed with adults and children.

Comment: World's tallest waterslide to be destroyed after decapitation of 10-year-old Kansas politician's son


NPC

Not satire: WaPo sees 'hidden Russia connection' in hamburgers

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Since hamburgers are so quintessentially American, they are perfect targets for disparagement by the woke clickbait media - Latest nonsense? They have a ‘hidden Russia connection.’
There is no food so quintessentially American as hamburgers, which of course makes them a perfect target for disparagement by the woke clickbait media. The newest twist is that they have a 'hidden Russia connection.'

"Even one of Trump's favorite foods has a hidden Russia connection": That is how the Washington Post Magazine chose to spin its most recent article about the humble ground meat patty sandwich, which delves into the history of the Soviet cousin of hamburgers. More on that in a minute, however.

The Post tweet about the story was widely seen as being in bad taste, with a ratio of 1,300 replies to 250 retweets and likes combined, within two hours of being posted.

Most of the replies mocked the paper for continuing to beat the "Russiagate" horse that has already been clobbered to death - if not by the report of special counsel Robert Mueller, then by his congressional testimony last week. The Post's reporting on the subject has already earned the paper widespread scorn.

Comment: Washington Post content has at times become so similar to The Onion, that it's difficult to determine if they're serious - or just that 'woke'.


Briefcase

Lawsuit launched after college hid evidence that accuser invented rape to avoid punishment for drinking



'Jane Doe asked campus security if she could face discipline'

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A Minnesota liberal arts school hid exculpatory evidence from a student it found responsible for sexual assault, even though it knew his accuser had ulterior motives, according to a federal lawsuit filed earlier this month.

Carleton College withheld evidence that "Jane Doe asked campus security if she could face discipline for underage drinking before filing her complaint" against "John Doe," he alleges in the suit.

John was also left in the dark about the fact that a Title IX coordinator told Jane she wouldn't be punished if her underage drinking was disclosed "as part of a sexual assault claim," the suit claims.

He and his attorney only learned about the existence of exculpatory evidence after Carleton had expelled him, while he was under criminal investigation for sexual assault. (The Pioneer Press named him based on this criminal proceeding.)

Comment: College rape policy a 'failed system' says Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, sparking outrage


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Elderly woman's body, donated to science, instead blown up in US Army explosive experiment

Doris Stauffer

Doris Stauffer's body was donated to science.
A US family have expressed their outrage after their elderly relative's body was blown up in an explosives test.

Doris Stauffer's body, 73, was donated to science after her death in 2013, with her family believing her remains would be used to study the effects of Alzheimer's Disease.

Instead her body was sold to the US Army for explosives testing, her son Jim told Reuters.

Megaphone

'We have a crisis of courage': Professor runs for Parliament to save universities

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David M Haskell
'Our universities no longer cherish the idea of searching for truth'

David Haskell tried to promote freedom of expression at Canada's Wilfrid Laurier University by working from the inside, with little to show for it.

Now the journalism professor wants to promote campus freedom of expression from the outside, as a member of Parliament.

Haskell is running for office as a candidate of the People's Party of Canada, formed less than a year ago by a disgruntled ex-Conservative Party member.

Arrow Down

American Idiocracy: 79-yo woman sentenced to jail for feeding stray cats

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In order for any society to function smoothly, the vast majority of the people need to behave at least somewhat rationally. Of course there are always going to be exceptions, and we understand that, but most of us operate under the assumption that most of the people that we are going to encounter in our daily lives are not going to act like nutjobs. Unfortunately, that may not be a safe assumption any longer. As our society literally degenerates right in front of our eyes, it seems like someone has opened up the barn doors and let out all the crazies. And the truth is that "our leaders" are some of the best examples of this phenomenon. Just look at some of the winners that we have running for president. Quite a few of them are far more qualified for the insane asylum than they are for the highest office in the land. Of course it doesn't end with our politicians. All across this country, it seems like people in positions of power can't think straight any longer.

If you doubt this, just consider what just happened to a 79-year-old woman in Ohio named Nancy Segula. When her neighbor moved away, he left a couple cats behind, and they became very hungry. So Segula would feed them and care for them, because she didn't want them to suffer. Well, eventually one of her neighbors found out about this, and the animal warden was called...

NPC

Rose City Antifa claimed attack on Andy Ngo, boasted it was a victory for 'community defense'

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Rose City Antifa claimed its attack on Andy Ngo in June as a victory for "community defense" just a few days after the assault left Ngo with a brain hemorrhage.

Journalist Andy Ngo was attacked and left with a brain hemorrhage while reporting at an Antifa rally June 29. Rose City Antifa released a statement July 3 celebrating the attack and explaining how Ngo and "the far-right mob were stopped, physically." The actions by Antifa were cited as a means of "community defense," according to the statement.

"On June 29, 2019, Andy Ngo tried a repeat of his actions on May 1, 2019- to film the actions of armed men on a mission to attack activists, to be used for propaganda purposes," Rose City Antifa's statement read. "As on May Day, this past weekend he and the far-right mob were stopped, physically."

Boat

Let them sail yachts: Why Greta Thunberg and the environmental elite hate you

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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg will sail across the Atlantic by boat to attend two climate conferences. But the teenager's carbon-neutral odyssey reveals the disregard - even contempt - the elite have for the rest of us.

Thunberg shot to fame for organizing school walkouts against climate change last year. A series of talks lamenting her generation's impending doom have since made her the poster child for a strange, apocalyptic brand of environmentalism, with British lawmakers nodding along to her declaration that "we probably don't even have a future anymore" in April, and the world's power-brokers listening intently to her exhortation that they should "feel the fear I feel every day," made at the World Economic Forum in Davos several months earlier.

She offers only one path to salvation: an immediate halt to all carbon emissions - there can be no compromise.


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Microscope 1

Five couples agree to CRISPR their embryos to avoid deafness

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Hearing Things

Denis Rebrikov wants to use CRISPR to create more gene-edited babies — and he already knows who their parents might be.

In June, the Russian biologist told Nature he planned to gene-edit human embryos and then bring them to term. To date, only one person — Chinese scientist He Jiankui — has ever openly produced gene-edited babies, with the claim that the edits would prevent the babies from inheriting their fathers' HIV.

On Thursday, Rebrikov told New Scientist he has five pairs of Russian parents eager to let him gene-edit their embryos for a different and socially loaded reason: to prevent the offspring from inheriting their parents' deafness.

Rebrikov told New Scientist that each parent interested in his study is deaf due to mutations in their GJB2 gene. When two people with those mutations reproduce, the child is guaranteed to be born deaf.

By using CRISPR to edit one copy of the GJB2 gene in a fertilized embryo, Rebrikov believes he'll be able to grant the parents' wishes to have a biological child that isn't deaf.


Comment: He believes it will work. That's a far cry from actually working considering they still can't get it exactly right with plants.


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HAL9000

Prof develops AI to determine who is spreading 'misinformation' online

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Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara are developing an artificial intelligence system that will identify whether or not what someone shares on social media is "genuine" or "misleading."

Titled Dynamo: Dynamic Multichannel Modeling of Misinformation, the project is headed up by UCSB professor William Wang. Wang specializes in "natural language processing," the subsect of artificial intelligence dealing with a computer's ability to process human language.

Using this type of analysis, Wang and his team have set out to create a means of analyzing text in social media posts and online articles to reveal information about their origins, as well as individuals who are sharing them. Wang's research will be used to create tools that identify the ideologies, motivations, intended audiences, and affiliations of those sharing information online, according to a UCSB news release.

This information will then be used to determine if a post is "misleading," "clickbait," or whether or not it comes from what UCSB terms "established' news sites.

Comment: Yet another AI tool that will in the end be used for censorship masked as protecting the public from 'misinformation'. See also: