Yes of course I'm staying on this side

Photos of the Last Incan Suspension Bridge in Peru

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An accident, Officer

Man fined $124 for kicking seagull that ate cheeseburger

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Not that I'm, you know, doubting

What does the pizza MRE taste like? Troops try the long-awaited 'holy grail' of military rations

In anticipation of the long-awaited rollout of the Meal, Ready to Eat pepperoni pizza, Stars and Stripes flew several of the military ration's main pizza entrees into Afghanistan for taste tests with the troops. Here's what they had to say.

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A little steganography: Fun!

How to send secret messages hidden in pictures and songs | Popular Science

https://www.popsci.com/send-hidden-files

Also, you could try lemon juice.

Or replace them for that matter

The US Congress is getting worried people will use AI to imitate them
Quartz

Elected officials in the US Congress are worried that artificial intelligence might be used to generate videos and audio of them saying things that they… Read the full story

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Not that I wouldn't replace every single one of them myself, wholesale, if I had the chance, but replacing them with Facebook [or substitute your choice of technovillian here] is a surpassingly bad idea.
Notwithstanding what you may be seeing on the electric TeeVee machine, the confirmation of yet another Supreme is not the most fraught business going on in DC this week. There's Facebook and Twitter trying to beg for some kind of government shelter from the gathering mob and a silent coup taking place in the White House as we speak. Also it's National Preparedness Month, just so you know. [ http://own.li/ZHXG ]

Maybe the word "sheeple" isn't too far off after all

Why the world is full of buttons that don't work - CNN

"In New York City, only about 100 of the 1,000 crosswalk buttons actually function."

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Good one!

	The OED (@OED)
9/4/18, 9:58 AM OED Word of the Day: smeech, n. Smoke, esp. foul-smelling or pungent smoke; dense or thick vapour; fine dust suspended in the air bit.ly/2Cf9cgw

Shakespeare on insomnia

""O sleep, O gentle sleep,
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?"

Excerpt From
The Complete Plays of Shakespeare
Shakespeare; Henry IV, II
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-complete-plays-of-shakespeare/id591553926?mt=11
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People: What a nuisance

Apple self-driving test car gets rear-ended by a Nissan Leaf in first ever crash - The Verge

 "A possible explanation is that these cars don't drive the same way that people do," Phil Koopman, a Carnegie Mellon professor and software engineer who consults for self-driving car companies, told Consumer Affairs. "And if they don't drive the same way that people do, people's expectations of the vehicles would be incorrect."

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So the safest place to be is in a war zone?

There's a new global ranking of gun deaths. Here's where the U.S. stands | PBS NewsHour

"Since 1990, the number of gun deaths has declined, the report said. But nearly every year since then, firearm deaths outside conflict zones outnumbered deaths that occurred as a result of war."

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The U.S. ranks second in total gun deaths, behind Brazil, in this new study as reported by PBS, but 20th in rate of gun deaths (deaths/100,000); 15 of the remaining high-ranked countries are in the Western Hemisphere.

Mass shootings in schools and other public places make up only a very small portion of U.S. gun deaths, the suicide rate is alarmingly high.