“The U.S. begged [Israel] not to do it, and literally no one from the Pentagon to the Joint Chiefs to the CIA to the intel community thinks this is a good thing,” said one of the U.S. officials. “At this point, it’s truly embarrassing how much Israel does not listen to us, but yet this doesn’t keep President Biden from blind fealty.”
“Israel is playing a dangerous game, and it feels like Biden is putting us in the crosshairs,” the official continued"
“Tesla is recalling all 3,878 Cybertrucks that it has shipped to date, due to a problem where the accelerator pedal can get stuck, putting drivers at risk of a crash, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.”
🤡 🚙
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/19/tesla-cybertruck-throttle-accelerator-pedal-stuck/
NPR suspends editor who criticized his employer for what he calls an unquestioned liberal worldview
"Berliner wrote that NPR has always had a liberal bent, but for most of his 25-year tenure had an open-minded, curious culture.
“In recent years, however, that has changed,” he wrote. “Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/npr-suspends-editor-criticized-employer-232052707.html
Archdiocese of Baltimore to cut number of parishes from 61 to 21 as weekly attendance drops from 250,000 to just over 2500 persons
www.12ft.io/https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/04/14/proposal-reshaping-catholic-baltimore/#:~:text=A%20proposal%20shared%20Sunday%20with,of%20the%20city's%20Catholic%20life /nosanitize
🤖 Boston Dynamics announces all-electric humanoid Atlas robot, replacing prior hydraulic versions
FAA issues ground stop for Alaska Airlines and subcarriers due to airline’s system for correctly balancing aircraft weight was found to be operating incorrectly
A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production.
Too weird to live, and too rare to die.