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Covid-19: What’s the harm of ‘funny’ anti-vaccine memes?
Memes, often in the form of humorous images and videos, are a major part of how people communicate on the internet, but they can also be used to spread disinformation.
We’ve been looking at how these memes can present false and misleading information about Covid-19 vaccines, feeding into concerns about their efficacy or safety.
This is a serious piece by the BBC.
The Daily Beast published a lengthy story on Friday about Beth Lee-Crowther, a so-called “pet psychic” who claims to have communicated telepathically with Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s two pet dogs.
“…The teenagers said, according to “Today”, that such clips were “perfectly normal” in their culture and that it was a joke. FPÖ chairman Norbert Hofer identified a mockery of the victims of the attack in Vienna and demanded that the people involved and their parents be expelled: “This culture, which the young people talk about, has no place in our country.” Anyone who thinks something like this is funny and “shares such situations as videos in social networks has no place in our society.”
A group of so-called ‘sovereign citizens’ who say they own most of the land in the Western Hemisphere have been knocking on the doors of wealthy homeowners in the Seattle area and showing fake documents alleging that their properties belong to them.
Moorish Sovereign Citizens has been labeled an extremist group of squatters who do not recognize the authority of the United States government or its laws.
No different than Black Lives Matter – Black Lives Matter crowd demands Seattle homeowners ‘give up’ property: ‘We coming for it’
Reports of a plan to tear down the Rogers Centre have Blue Jays fans dreaming of a more intimate, scenic, well-stocked ballpark in its place.
But the owners of the 31-year-old stadium say an overhaul of any kind will have to wait.
“Prior to the pandemic, we were exploring options for the stadium but through this year our primary focus has been keeping our customers connected and keeping our employees safe, so there is no update on the Rogers Centre to share at this time,” Rogers spokesperson Andrew Garas said Friday.
Mayor “I used to work for Ted Rogers” Tory will see to it the public pays for his friend’s scam.
This morning in the city of Orenburg, Russia, a man entered an elevator with a cigarette and a plastic cup of alcohol. He lived.
Bites from a giant centipede, known as a Vietnamese centipede or Chinese red-headed centipede, can cause swelling and severe pain for up to five days.
Family Arranged Kidnapping: BLM Daughter Taken to Hospital
Buffalo, NY: Gabriel Prince, 18, known by her street name “Shan”, was taken by force to the Erie County Medical Center.
Prince’s mother and uncle believe BLM is a cult and she needs a mental evaluation.
Prince posted on Instragram that she was being held against her will at the facility.
A SCHOOL pupil who joined a Coventry school claiming to be a 15-year-old boy as parents feared he ‘looked like a 40-year-old’ is now being taught apart from other pupils.
Parents at the school in Coventry raised concerns after the asylum-seeker student – who appeared to be a balding, adult male – joined the school in October.
“…I have just returned to Quebec. A month ago I was living in Thailand. I had been living abroad for almost three years, mainly in Asia. I have often been asked why. And although this answer could be answered in a thousand and one ways, the simplest is that I am well in Asia. It will always be one of my homes. People look like me and that feels good.
There is something extremely powerful about being in an environment where you blend in, where you don’t have to deal with micro (sometimes big) attacks. Daily for some or rare events for others, these micro-attacks accumulate, and in the end, it is heavy on the heart.”
Note this is Google translate but the meaning is clear. Should Quebecers all have plastic surgery to Asianize themselves for her sake or just fall over dead en masse to please her?
More government scientists have sought to frighten Britons over the prospect of getting too close to their loved ones at Christmas, including telling people that kissing their grandparents could deliver “a deadly dose” of coronavirus.
The small Austrian village of Fucking will get rid of the unfortunate name that has seen a brisk tourism trade and frequent thefts of the town sign, the town council announced Thursday.
Mayor Andrea Holzner told Austrian broadcaster Oe24 that the name would be changed to Fugging from January 1, 2021.
Salvador, Brazil: Four men attempted to rob a convenience store at the moment a customer was paying for his goods. Forced to lay flat, one of the robbers attempts to check the man. A poor job at best and that cost him and his two idiot friends their lives as they exchange fire with the officer.
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This month, HBO Max released the documentary Transhood, a film celebrating transgender identity for children as young as age four. According to director/producer Sharon Liese, the film’s central characters — children ages 4, 7, 12, and 15 — “redefine ‘coming of age.’” Many conservatives rightly condemned the film as “child abuse,” launching a Twitter hashtag “#BoycottHBO.”
