China's reputation as a producer of cheaply made products goes unabated: China's newest nuclear submarine sinks. If anyone has a better unpaywalled source let me know https://archive.ph/xTJdV

#innewsoftheabsurd Another social media trend driven by boredom: kids stealing zippers off Nike backpacks. https://apnews.com/article/santa-maria-california-courthouse-explosion-santa-barbara-3a9c783569134f3157fc686ea4163726

An explosive device that authorities said was intentionally set has injured two people at a California courthouse on Wednesday. One person of interest was detained following the blast reported shortly after 8:45 a.m. at the Santa Maria Courthouse in Santa Maria. https://apnews.com/article/santa-maria-california-courthouse-explosion-santa-barbara-3a9c783569134f3157fc686ea4163726

PBS' Frontline program "The Choice" has focused on political biographies of the candidates running for president. This year...it had to scramble to do this year as Biden dropped out of race. #politics #TFG #Kamala https://archive.ph/57g8K

First impressions: from a survival, instictual standpoint what are your reactions when you see this face staring back at you? Flee, run away as fast as possible, ignore, sidestep and keep away? This person is the son of the man suspected in apparent assassination attempt of Trump in Florida last week. There are State drug charges *and* federal child exploitative images charges on file.

A bronze statue of the country musician Johnny Cash was unveiled today Tuesday at the US Capitol as one of two representations there for the state of Arkansas. #CoSoMusic #music https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/sep/24/johnny-cash-statue-us-capitol-arkansas

Terminology of storm fronts and specifically, definition of terms used for storms with defined wind speeds:
1. Tropical depression: wind speeds of <39 MPH
2. Tropical Storm: wind speeds 39-74 MPH
3. Hurricane: wind speeds >74 MPH

Then there's tropical cyclone... go to https://www.weather.gov/mob/tropical_definitions for more definitions.

#InNewsoftheAbsurd #Russia making soldiers out of sailors: Russia has formed a 'mechanized battalion' from the sailors of its aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov. The attempted conversion of sailors to soldiers gives you an idea of Russia’s acute manpower shortages. #Ukraine https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/09/22/russian-aircraft-carrier-crew-sent-to-frontline-in-ukraine/

#InNewsoftheAbsurd Seeing apparitions, talking to "God", reality skewed to absurdly "religious" end of normalcy? You may be a candidate..."We found a network of brain regions that, when damaged, are linked to higher religious fundamentalism". #religious #zealotry #fundamentallism https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2322399121#executive-summary-abstract

Is the Indus Waters Treaty the latest India-Pakistan flashpoint? India wants to renegotiate the 64-year-old pact that has withstood four wars, and under which the neighbours split water from six Himalayan rivers. #India #Pakistan #water #watertreaty https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/is-the-indus-waters-treaty-the-latest-india-pakistan-flashpoint

Made Alfredo sauce and mixed peas with noodles to compliment trout. Poured some sangria to go along with food. #foodpron #FoodPorn

Preparing today's meal: Buttered, herbed Trout topped with Parmigiano cheese. #foodpron #FoodPorn

It is abnormal for me to say anything positive about TV commercial creativity. 99.9% of commercial advertisement is crap and mostly does not leave any lasting impressions. I avoid commercials like the plague: get up off the couch, walk to...While watching today's football games out of the corner of my eye, Viator commercial suddenly got my whole attention. #TV #commercials #humor https://youtu.be/nKjWtC4acPI

#InNewsoftheAbsurd on first impression: I thought this was a Monty Python sketch but it's actually an Austrian Tongue Choir from the Alps region of Tyrol singing ‘Moscow Nights’ with their tongue.

#TFG is throwing everything, including the kitchen sink, to see what sticks... I saved vaping. Vote for me. Make Murica Great Again. #politics

Sean 'Diddy' Combs Placed on Suicide Watch While Awaiting Trial But Mental State Unclear https://people.com/sean-diddy-combs-placed-on-suicide-watch-while-awaiting-trial-mental-state-unclear-source-8715686

The worst drought on record has lowered the water level of the rivers in the Amazon basin to historic lows, in some cases drying up riverbeds that were previously navigable waterways. #climatechange #drought #aridification #water #Amazon #SouthAmerica https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/worst-drought-record-lowers-amazon-rivers-all-time-lows-2024-09-18/

Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in three regions affected by devastating forest fires that have burned through swathes of the nation's Andean and Amazonian crop lands and left 16 dead. #climatechange #wildfire #Peru #SouthAmerica https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peru-declares-state-emergency-regions-scorched-by-forest-fires-2024-09-18/