Daily Dose of Doom Thread

[Shaka Shart]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/21/microplastics-brain-pollution-health

Microplastic doom

[MU82]

Several Milwaukee-area private schools are closed today due to extreme heat.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2024/08/26/milwaukee-school-closings-today-excessive-heat-cancels-classes/74949832007/

[tower912]

Several West Michigan public schools are closed due to the heat.

[MU82]

Fighting Sexual Temptation? Play Badminton, Hong Kong Tells Teenagers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/world/asia/hong-kong-sex-education-badminton.html?

A 15-year-old girl and her boyfriend are studying alone together on a hot summer day when she removes her jacket and clings to his shoulder. What should he do?

In Hong Kong, the authorities advise the young man to continue studying or to seek a diversion, including badminton, to avoid premarital sex and other "intimate behaviors."

Critics, including lawmakers and sex educators, say that the Chinese territory's new sex education materials are regressive. But top officials are not backing down, and the standoff is getting kind of awkward.

Hong Kong teenagers find it all pretty amusing. A few said on social media that the officials behind the policy have their "heads in the clouds." Others have worked it into sexual slang, talking about "friends with badminton" instead of "friends with benefits."

[tower912]

To avoid temptation, beat a shuttlecock.

[Shaka Shart]

Several Milwaukee-area private schools are closed today due to extreme heat.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2024/08/26/milwaukee-school-closings-today-excessive-heat-cancels-classes/74949832007/

Texas already figured this out silly!


https://x.com/jaredlpatterson/status/1827881552287617382?s=46&t=G2FhP_F2kWewaBOpvRv5lg

[MU82]

If you have your life together and worry for nothing, sorry to tell you: Venomous sea worms are washing up on Texas beaches, and, if touched, they'll make you feel like your skin is on fire.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/08/28/fire-bristle-worm-amphinome-rostrata/?

The bristle worms — known to scientists as Amphinome rostrata — have recently found themselves along the Texas coast, according to the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. A scientist at the institute who found one said he hasn't seen them in three to four years.

An April 14 Facebook post from the Institute calmly laid out the situation: "WARNING!!! Your worst nightmares are washing up right now in the form of fireworms!"

[Spotcheck Billy]

don't buy a pager in Lebanon

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

don't buy a pager in Lebanon

Hezbollah is so 90's!

[The Sultan]

don't buy a pager in Lebanon

This is kind of incredible because I have read that these devices had to have been manipulated in some way. A normal pager can't explode in this way. So were they manipulated and distributed early on? Recently?

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

This is kind of incredible because I have read that these devices had to have been manipulated in some way. A normal pager can't explode in this way. So were they manipulated and distributed early on? Recently?

There's more news on it now.  Israelis intercepted a shipment from Taiwan and inserted explosives before distributed to Hezbollah terrorists.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Probably not Doom but don't forget the Supermoon / partial lunar eclipse tonight.

[Lennys Tap]

There's more news on it now.  Israelis intercepted a shipment from Taiwan and inserted explosives before distributed to Hezbollah terrorists.

Israeli intelligence is indeed intelligent.

[Shaka Shart]

Israeli intelligence is indeed intelligent.

Seems like they can operate with pinpoint precision. Hmmmm

[Uncle Rico]

One benefit of climate change:

Tower will have an opportunity for seafront property in Michigan

[The Sultan]

There's more news on it now.  Israelis intercepted a shipment from Taiwan and inserted explosives before distributed to Hezbollah terrorists.

Thank you. I was able to read up on it further. That seems like an enormous oversight on Hezbollah's part. Israel has been very public about its support of Taiwan over the last year or so. One would think that this would have raised red flags about the thousands of pagers that they ordered from the country. Did they not think to open at least one of them up?

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Thank you. I was able to read up on it further. That seems like an enormous oversight on Hezbollah's part. Israel has been very public about its support of Taiwan over the last year or so. One would think that this would have raised red flags about the thousands of pagers that they ordered from the country. Did they not think to open at least one of them up?

Sounds like the pagers were made in Hungary, on license from a Taiwanese company.

[The Sultan]

Sounds like the pagers were made in Hungary, on license from a Taiwanese company.

And Orban is probably Israel's biggest ally in Europe.

Again, this feels like a huge oversight. The leader telling people to stay off their phones, and then bulk ordering pagers from a Taiwanese company and manufactured in Hungary. And no one thought they could be a security risk?

So not only have you injured and marked nearly all the operatives in Lebanon, but you have destroyed their primary means to communicate with one another.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Just wait until they try to use their rotary phones, typewriters, and VHS players.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

And Orban is probably Israel's biggest ally in Europe.

Again, this feels like a huge oversight. The leader telling people to stay off their phones, and then bulk ordering pagers from a Taiwanese company and manufactured in Hungary. And no one thought they could be a security risk?

So not only have you injured and marked nearly all the operatives in Lebanon, but you have destroyed their primary means to communicate with one another.

Sounds like The Atlantic is reading your mind.


Israel's Strategic Win
A spectacular attack on Hezbollah is the latest development in the ongoing war between Iranian proxies and the Jewish state.

By Eliot A. Cohen
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/09/israels-strategic-win/679918/

[StillAWarrior]

So not only have you injured and marked nearly all the operatives in Lebanon...

Reminds me of the old Irish saying:

May those who love us, love us.
And those that don't love us,
May God turn their hearts.
And if He doesn't turn their hearts,
May he turn their ankles,
So we'll know them by their limping.

[Spotcheck Billy]

don't buy a pager in Lebanon

LOL, or Walkie-talkies

[Hards Alumni]

Israeli intelligence is indeed intelligent.

Well, except for 10/7

[Uncle Rico]

Well, except for 10/7

Netanyahu got what he wanted

[Pakuni]

Netanyahu got what he wanted

'Bout time his investment in Hamas paid dividends.