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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.

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.’
"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'.
'Jane Doe asked campus security if she could face discipline'
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.)
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.
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.
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...
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."
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.
Comment: See also:
- If Greta Thunberg is worried about the end of the world, why does she pose with status quo politicians?
- Why we should all be terrified of 'children's crusader' global warming activist Greta Thunberg
- George Monbiot, Extinction Rebellion And The Madmen Who Want to Wreck Civilization
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.
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:
- Political cartoons next on the chopping block as newspapers worry about 'offending' readers
- 'Fake news' a bigger threat than terrorism, poll finds - but what exactly is it?
- Orwellian Media: Censorship happens in the blink of an eye
- New Google Algorithm is Live: News Aggregators Will Be Punished














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