WTF Sh*t's F*cked Up and Bullsh*t - a "Who Cares" thread for news

[Isabeau]

The organization's draft Global Alcohol Action Plan 2022-2030 states that emphasis should be placed on the "prevention of drinking among pregnant women and women of childbearing age" because it could impact their chances of giving birth.

Men of sperm producing age should refrain from inverting their penis in “women of child bearing age” as she may have just had a glass of wine.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Men of sperm producing age should refrain from inverting their penis in “women of child bearing age” as she may have just had a glass of wine.

I think the draft might be improved by a qualification on the lines of "who are trying to become pregnant should be aware that..."

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Romana]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Transcript: JFK's Speech on His Religion

On Sept. 12, 1960, presidential candidate John F. Kennedy gave a major speech to a group of Protestant ministers in Houston on the issue of his Catholic faith. The following is a transcript of Kennedy's speech.

www.npr.org

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference; and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

 

[Romana]

 

[Veritable Quandry]

And they are focused on one issue. War, death penalty, feed the poor? They don't care. Fail to impose their doctrine on abortion? No communion.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Evernote link to NYT article

Sandro Magister, a Vatican expert with L’Espresso magazine, said that the issue was uniquely American, and was basically unheard of in Europe. He said, “The pope himself would rather not have this vivid debate.”

 

[Innula Zenovka]

It’s not our health that concerns you, guys. It’s women having fun | Barbara Ellen

The WHO’s alcohol action diktat plays into a much wider contempt for females

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link because why not

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

School asked boys to use rating system on girls, female students taught to keep virginity

Boys at a northern beaches Anglican school were told to choose the qualities they looked for in a girl from a list that allocated more points for virginity, looks, and strong Christian values than for generosity and adventurousness. In another classroom, girls were given articles to read about...

www.smh.com.au

 

[Clara D.]

School asked boys to use rating system on girls, female students taught to keep virginity

Boys at a northern beaches Anglican school were told to choose the qualities they looked for in a girl from a list that allocated more points for virginity, looks, and strong Christian values than for generosity and adventurousness. In another classroom, girls were given articles to read about...

www.smh.com.au

Gotta get em while they're young to get that Objectification firmly entrenched.

 

[Free]

Nothing like having the 1950's come back around again.

 

[Isabeau]

CCTV Company Employs Remote Contractors to Yell at Workers

Large chains are buying up these bizarre services to surveil criminals and employees.

gizmodo.com

In some cases, Live Eye’s tool is used for security purposes. One particular example is displayed in surveillance footage from a recent attempted robbery. Two masked men enter a 7-Eleven, one toting what looks like an assault rifle. As they attempt to rob the cashier, the Live Eye operator’s disembodied voice kicks into gear: “This is Live Eye security. This is to inform you that you are under CCTV surveillance and we have called 911.” The bandits subsequently scurry out the door, bewildered by the apparent convenience store deity that has chastised them.

While the Live Eye voice gimmick seems to have worked in that scenario, critics have pointed out that not only is it not really that useful, it actually seems fairly dangerous.

“That’s how someone is going to get killed,” an anonymous field consultant for 7-Eleven told Motherboard, explaining why he disapproved of the product. “You don’t startle someone with an assault rifle. That violates 7-Eleven policy. There’s a reason why the silent alarm is silent.”
On top of this, what Live Eye’s product is mostly designed to do is surveil employees and regulate how they work. In another video posted on the company’s website, it shows “the Voice” interrogating a convenience store employee whose friend has stopped by to visit. Basically, the tool can be used as an ever-present manager, tasked with literally looking over the shoulder of employees at all times.

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[Free]

I'm fascinated by the mindset that causes businesses to hire people to spy on their employees to make sure they are working. Certainly leaves a gap in the argument that they don't have the resources to pay more than minimum wage.

And what happens if the "Live Eye" folk start to shirk their duties? Do the company now have to hire spies to spy on the spies?

 

[WolfEyes]

Why wasn't the employee instructed to lock the door until the police arrived?

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Do the company now have to hire spies to spy on the spies?

If they go full THX-1138 they do.

 

[Romana]

And DeSatan is going full 1984, apparently :

 

[bubblesort]

Just another day in PA... holding an exorcism in n Home Depot, for the trees that were turned into lumber.

Police break up exorcism at Pa. Home Depot

You read that correctly. Police in Lackawanna County were called to a home-improvement store for a report of an exorcism being performed for trees in the lumber aisle Monday.

www.pennlive.com

 

[Free]

Police break up exorcism at Pa. Home Depot

You read that correctly. Police in Lackawanna County were called to a home-improvement store for a report of an exorcism being performed for trees in the lumber aisle Monday.

www.pennlive.com

Doesn't sound like any Christians I know of. Must be a splinter group...

 

[Casey Pelous]

Doesn't sound like any Christians I know of. Must be a splinter group...