Crazy. Today at work I accidentally pressed the intercom button on my phone and approximately 600 people unexpectedly heard a really loud “BOOP” with no message or followup whatsoever, all at the same time, and it made me think of this.
The Great Mouse Detective (1986).
There’s that word again. Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth’s gravitational pull?
https://archive.is/20240701171319/https://www.ft.com/content/ac9fcdd9-a320-403c-b482-ef636312e3cf
Hopefully this works for you, too – The original article on Financial Times contains a little more info than the Daily Beast version.
I’m not sure. Realizing I had no idea how much wealth the truly wealthy possess has been a reoccurring theme from the past few years. I think I’d rather see some hard limitations on who can own what.
Going by her own example, they don’t seem to be very effective at preventing unchristlike behavior.
Dunno if it changes anything, but user224 posted this link elsewhere in this discussion, and it says the pipe was 30cm (almost a foot) in diameter – I’m no expert, but the photos in this and OP’s article seem to show an opening about that size to me. I only mention it because that seemed uncommonly large to me.
You can say that again. I’ve been in a lot of swimming pools and I have never seen anything like what is shown in the video attached to this article. That opening is huge. user224’s link says the pipe is 30cm (almost a foot) in diameter. Even in giant public pools I’ve been in, I can’t recall seeing an opening or fixture that size. That, coupled with a lack of any cover on it, seems so obviously dangerous. God, what an awful way to go.
Yeesh. I read the updated report linked in this article and still didn’t see any mention of where the officer went after he ran over this woman. I’m wondering why it was up to bystanders to try and lift this truck off of her, instead of, ya know, the police officer moving his vehicle just a few more inches one way or the other. Not that it would have saved her, I guess. :/
When the wedgie’s so deep a princess has to use two hands to excavate it back out