Not sure if you all have heard about Laughter Epidemic of Tanganyika, but this actually happened 😂
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/1962-laughter-epidemic-tanganyika
I don’t need anyone to read this, or offer a solution, I just need to rant about my television.
The problem: “out of memory” errors. I deleted the handful of apps that allow for it. Reset the “smart hub”. Reset the television to factory settings. Tried a hard reset. Tried ALL of this multiple times.
And when you add in the two factor authentication, security codes, and endless forum searches, I’m several hours into this project.
Here’s another fun one 😂 🕺
-Dancing plague of 1518 | Facts & Theories | Britannica
Public Service Message.
A “Trick Question” Police Use To Get Consent To Search https://youtube.com/watch?v=5SYCSG_-ZS0&si=8Nx897U6wqouej7b
FFS, it's been finally time for almost a year.
"Is it Finally Time to Quit Twitter/X?
Elon Musk is turning the platform into a haven for hate, but does that mean we should quit instead of fighting?
(...) The Musk-ADL flap feels like an inflection point for those of us who still have Twitter/X accounts. Is it time to delete them?"
🔗: https://theconnector.substack.com/p/is-it-finally-time-to-quit-twitterx
Calgary circus performers create ‘really new and different’ time-travel show
Members of Le Cirque de la Nuit circus troupe are teaming up with Calgary-based Jupiter Theatre to create a new show called The Time Machinist.
#globalnews #Entertainment #Features #CalgaryCircus #CalgaryGoodNews
https://globalnews.ca/news/9942769/calgary-circus-the-time-machinist/
Fuck the police story of the day: Undercover UK police officer deceived woman into 19-year relationship.
19 years. And a child.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/06/revealed-undercover-uk-police-officer-deceived-woman-relationship
Public health agency launches probe into Air Canada vomit incident
John Gradek, who teaches aviation management at McGill University, says the aircraft never should have been dispatched, given the "biological hazard'' on board.
#globalnews #Canada #Consumer #Health #AirCanada
https://globalnews.ca/news/9943618/air-canada-vomit-seats-public-health-agency-probe/
Something odd I’ve been noticing here and there recently: Image files on Web sites that have .jpg filenames, but which become .webp when I save them. What’s especially weird is that if I grab the file with, say, wget, it’s served as a image/jpeg, but if I save it in the browser it becomes a .webp file containing “RIFF (little-endian) data, Web/P image”.
What’s going on here?
Not only did all of this fail to free up more memory, but since it still shows “zero” memory available, I can’t reinstall the apps I deleted, and the performance glitches persist.
I’m not able to find a definitive answer, and neither Samsung nor anyone on any of the forums can provide one either. 🙃
TLDR: this machine is going in the bin, and I’m never buying another #Samsung.
SEA LEVEL RISE!
'We're going to sink': hundreds abandon Caribbean island home
Hundreds are preparing to leave the Panamanian island of Carti Sugdupu in the face of rising sea levels
On a tiny Caribbean island, hundreds of people are preparing to pack up and move to escape the rising waters threatening to engulf their already precarious homes.
#AureFreePress #GlobalWarming #climatechange
https://news.yahoo.com/were-going-sink-hundreds-abandon-012910174.html
Fletcher asks Bradford if he’s aware that the major recommendations from the last Core Service Review (Closing libraries, cutting child care, etc) were broadly unpopular. “I’m aware that there were $100 million to $300 million of savings and you voted against it,” he says.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QggVnW26jp8&si=qNpQWOTKB4tZE6Sr
⚠️🇰🇵Kim Jong-un to visit Putin soon to discuss arms supplies to Russia (Kanal13 - Azeri News in English VIDEO) #Ukraine #Azerbaijan #SouthKorea #USA #Press #News #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
#PutinEndTheInvasion
"Burning Man’s climate reckoning has begun" by Zoya Teirstein for @grist https://grist.org/culture/burning-man-protest-mud-geothermal/
G+ refugee and simply want my instance to work reliably.