Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33401670

Windsorite Susan Taylor was at Toast, ready to pay for her breakfast when she was told the bill had been covered.

“The waitress made an announcement in the restaurant that this lovely couple in the corner is paying for everyone who is in the restaurant at the time for breakfast,” Taylor told AM800’s Mornings with Mike and Meg.

“She (the donor) said that she was American, and she just wanted to apologize,” said Taylor.

“She said she knows that their president has caused a rift in what was happening between our countries, and she wanted us to know that not all Americans are bad people.”

You mean all the winnings, right?

Yum

Kentucky to pick up remainder of Texas Roadhouse contract, also receives a second-round pick

Very definition of a sore loser

This guy has chutzpah, I will give him that.

Faced with relentless Republican attacks on reproductive freedom including efforts to give embryos and fetuses legal rights from the moment of conception, Democratic lawmakers in two states have recently introduced legislation that would ban men from ejaculating for purposes other than making babies, with some exceptions.

Printer ink costs estimated to be in the tens of thousands of dollars.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/31800573

Residents of Perth, Australia, have an unusual culprit to blame for their Sunday evening plans getting canceled: a dreaded "fatberg" causing wastewater to overflow.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.npr.org/2025/02/10/g-s1-47686/fatberg-sewer-bryan-adams-concert-australia

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Disgusting

The Kansas Legislature has formed its very own Senate Committee on Government Efficiency (COGE instead of DOGE) and has asked residents to submit their ideas on making government leaner, meaner and more attuned to the needs of South African-born billionaires! Ha, ha. Just joking a bit there, folks. I’m sure that the bigwigs behind the Kansas committee have your best interests at heart, just like those teens and twentysomethings poking around in D.C. buildings.

Soup to nuts

Slashdot Summary:

Since November, British telecom O2 has deployed an AI chatbot masquerading as a 78-year-old grandmother to waste scammers' time. The bot, named Daisy, engages fraudsters by discussing knitting patterns, recipes, and asking about tea preferences while feigning computer illiteracy. The Guardian has an update this week: In tests over several weeks, Daisy has kept individual scammers occupied for up to 40 minutes, with one case showing her being passed between four different callers. An excerpt from the story:

"When a third scammer tries to get her to download the Google Play Store, she replies: 'Dear, did you say pastry? I'm not really on the right page.' She then complains that her screen has gone blank, saying it has 'gone black like the night sky'."

Whoops, now worth $50k.