https://www.npr.org/2024/10/18/nx-s...-island-wide-blackout-as-power-grid-collapses
Cuba plunged into an island wide blackout as power grid fails

Cuban officials have not indicated a timeline for when the power grid will be operational again. The massive blackout is a new low in a country that has already been dealing with a deepening economic crisis and widespread food shortages.

Lots of classic cars on the road.
https://www.youtube.com/live/sXWL-SjP4Yw?feature=shared

 

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/18/nx-s...-island-wide-blackout-as-power-grid-collapses
Cuba plunged into an island wide blackout as power grid fails

Cuban officials have not indicated a timeline for when the power grid will be operational again. The massive blackout is a new low in a country that has already been dealing with a deepening economic crisis and widespread food shortages.

And it's always someone else's fault ...

 

And it's always someone else's fault ...

Our time's coming.

 

Lock him inside and throw away the key.


https://www.kptv.com/2024/10/19/kla...saulting-2-women-locking-1-cinder-block-cell/
Klamath Falls man guilty of kidnapping, assaulting 2 women, locking 1 in cinder block cell

MEDFORD Ore. (KPTV) - The man accused of kidnapping a woman and keeping her in a cinder block cell in Klamath Falls was found guilty by a federal jury on Friday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office - District of Oregon.

Negasi Zuberi, 30, (also known as Justin Joshua Hyche) was found guilty of kidnapping, transporting a victim for criminal sexual activity, and illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon.

 

https://www.idropnews.com/news/appl...-is-missing-the-most-important-button/226469/
Apple’s New iPhone Calculator is Missing the Most Important Button

I’m also happy the iPad finally got its own Calculator app, but I do have one bone to pick with Apple. My guess is many of you felt the same way the first time you tried using your iPhone’s calculator after updating to iOS 18. What happened to the “C” (Clear) button? Why did Apple remove it? We’ve been using calculators the same way forever. Why change now?

The C button is a relic of old calculator chips where the C button input cleared a hardware register but why change it to a number by number backspace/erase function?

 

I frequently get the impression that OS and app programmers don't actually get a panel of end users (with a range of computer literacy) to test drive 'updated' or 'improved' software before unleashing it on the general public.

 

Woman reaching for phone gets stuck upside down in boulders

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Unbelievably, the rescued woman was left with just minor scratches and bruises, NSW Ambulance said.

She did not, however, manage to retrieve her phone.

"Thank you to the team who saved me you guys are literally life savers," she wrote in a message online.

"Too bad about the phone tho."

 

Woman reaching for phone gets stuck upside down in boulders
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Stuck between a rock and a hard place.

 

I'll take two #40's.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/germany-pizzeria-cocaine-menu-order-police-crime-4694106

BERLIN: German police busted a pizzeria in the western city of Düsseldorf that also delivered a side order of cocaine when customers asked for item number 40 on the menu.

“That was one of the best-selling pizzas,” criminal director Michael Graf von Moltke told reporters in Düsseldorf.

 

Instant Noodle Repair.

Even if it's mainly clickbait, it's still of sort of cool.

 

The machetes are back and there's gonna be trouble.

 

The pathetic consequences of the "A small family is a happy family" ideology:

'Outnumbered by puppets': Depopulated village in Japan crafts dolls for sense of life

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https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/28/moscow_sewage_plume/
Skyscraper-high sewage plume erupts in Moscow
https://regmedia.co.uk/2024/10/28/moscow-sewage-fountain.mp4

 

Not a Mac user but this seems weird to me.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/10/29/apple-stuck-the-mac-mini-power-button-on-the-bottom
Apple stuck the Mac mini power button on the bottom

 

Not a Mac user but this seems weird to me.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/10/29/apple-stuck-the-mac-mini-power-button-on-the-bottom
Apple stuck the Mac mini power button on the bottom

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I foresee a plethora of funny-looking 3D printed gadgets that will "aid" with the activation of said button ...

 

The 1983 Byford Dolphin Decompression Incident Is The Worst Diving Accident In History


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"The scalp with long, blond hair was present, but the top of the skull and the brain were missing," the autopsy report explained. "The soft tissues of the face were found, however, completely separated from the bones."

 

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/russian_court_fines_google/
Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Don't hold your breath Putin

 

Pfffttt...pocket change.

 

 

Cheesy consequences:

'Grate cheese robbery': Man arrested after 24 tons of cheddar totaling $390,000 is stolen in London

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A fraudulent buyer posing as a wholesale distributor for a major French retailer nabbed the 950 wheels of cloth-wrapped artisanal cheddar, the company said. Every wheel of cheese had been delivered before it realized it had been scammed.