June 19, 20223 yr comment_2880314 French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant dead at 91 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-61846894 He did a film with Marlene Jobert which is what I know him from
June 20, 20223 yr comment_2880370 1 hour ago, Cygnia said: Record-Breaking Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down Quote Posted July 16, 2021 Hubble Space Telescope is operational again ... fifteen years after its design lifetime. I have said before ... that when our descendants look back on this era, they may judge that our truly superheroic creations have been things we sent to space. (link)
June 21, 20223 yr Author comment_2880553 A man contracted a new antibiotic-resistant 'super gonorrhea' strain after having sex on an international trip
June 21, 20223 yr comment_2880581 A wildfire in southern Arizona destroyed four buildings (no telescopes) at Kitt Peak National Observatory.
June 22, 20223 yr comment_2880639 A spider monkey wearing fatigues and a bullet proof vest was found dead after a shootout between police and a cartel. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/monkey-bullet-vest-dead-mexico-cartel-b2105250.html I gotta say, this Dark Champions game looks wild.
June 22, 20223 yr comment_2880718 That, and an RPG dedicated to over-the-top absurdities in levels of action and deliberate inattention to physical realities. You want a vehicle chase between an airship and a streetcar, with the cyberized sentient apes on the streetcar chasing the minions of the ancient Chinese eunuch sorcerors fleeing on the airship? I'm reasonably sure we've done that.
June 23, 20223 yr comment_2880829 In personal news, I misgendered a young, although very drunk, person today. This has nothing to do with the following stories. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-23/latest-news-the-loop-quantum-computing-mining-westminster-dog/101177418?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
June 23, 20223 yr comment_2880832 US Swimmer rescued after fainting at World Championships https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/61906249
June 24, 20223 yr comment_2880923 'You might be on the menu': Crocodile frying pan attack prompts tourist safety warninghttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-23/crocodile-safety-warning-after-nt-pub-owner-frying-pan-video/101172770
June 24, 20223 yr comment_2880944 Electric Car falls from building in China killing two https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61919581
June 24, 20223 yr comment_2880953 Man loses entire city's personal details https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-61921222
June 24, 20223 yr comment_2881004 Today is the 1 year 'anniversary' of the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida. It is also the day where a $1B settlement was finalized. For such a major settlement, that's fast. And that in itself is satisfying; the system's not completely broken.
June 24, 20223 yr comment_2881018 In case you didn't already think Ohio was messed up. The Ohio State University Has Won Its Fight to Trademark the Word ‘The’
June 25, 20223 yr comment_2881102 I wonder how long it will be before our common English words disappear into trademark. In the past, I was told that words by themselves cannot be trademarked, but if incorporated into a logo, design, etc then it becomes trademarkable. This is because the word is a component of some larger image, not the image itself. Now it sounds as though the word is all that is needed for the trademark.
June 25, 20223 yr comment_2881104 9 minutes ago, Asperion said: I wonder how long it will be before our common English words disappear into trademark. In the past, I was told that words by themselves cannot be trademarked, but if incorporated into a logo, design, etc then it becomes trademarkable. This is because the word is a component of some larger image, not the image itself. Now it sounds as though the word is all that is needed for the trademark. It's somewhat more nuanced than that. From the AP story https://apnews.com/article/sports-education-ohio-scholarships-trademarks-730b748275bddac70547062ffea0b1f8 Quote The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office approved the university’s request Tuesday. The school says it allows Ohio State to control use of “The” on branded products associated with and sold through athletics and collegiate channels, such as T-shirts, baseball caps and hats.
June 25, 20223 yr comment_2881114 World's deepest Shipwreck discovered https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61925862 Surprising find in Pompeii, an ancient pregnant tortoise https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61931172 Frozen Baby Mammoth found in Canada https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61936818
June 27, 20223 yr Author comment_2881271 Wow! Giant bacterium is largest ever discovered Visible by the naked eye!
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