# Omnibus Evil MFers in the news thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 3, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496 "2023-05-03T11:05:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 140
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2781 "2025-03-18T00:13:38Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Yes, after reading your post I’m going to start telling everyone that any person is potentially a plagiarism generator. That’s pretty indisputably true. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2782 "2025-03-18T00:40:15Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Merry prankster uploads a photoshopped pic of themselves holding a fatally radioactive cobalt rod, complete with radiation interference in the photo, and asking what it is. > > Google AI says it’s a cinnamon stick. > > [https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed\_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yfxbzxdronxe6wd7ssiq5ct6/bafkreiawp7djm6oy6kojszwppyr75k2ij6r7m6bt2peh6uqhcqvwnxyxey@jpeg](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yfxbzxdronxe6wd7ssiq5ct6/bafkreiawp7djm6oy6kojszwppyr75k2ij6r7m6bt2peh6uqhcqvwnxyxey@jpeg) It’s a 3d-printed cobalt 60 replica originally from printables (now removed). This is the original [![](https://media.printables.com/media/prints/300072/images/2626341_01b04fbc-06a8-4eaf-834b-dda2ed7e6b3c/thumbs/inside/1600x1200/jpg/img_20221021_125050.webp) ](https://media.printables.com/media/prints/300072/images/2626341_01b04fbc-06a8-4eaf-834b-dda2ed7e6b3c/thumbs/inside/1600x1200/jpg/img_20221021_125050.webp) ~Max ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2783 "2025-03-18T00:50:49Z")
> [@Max\_S](#): > > It’s a 3d-printed cobalt 60 replica originally from printables (now removed). Of all the things you wouldn’t want a houseguest to find unexpectedly… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2784 "2025-03-18T02:04:49Z")
Before we get too critical, do we know that it _doesn’t_ taste like cinnamon? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2785 "2025-03-18T02:08:42Z")
Just out of curiosity, does radiation mess up phone camera images as well? I thought that was just film. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2786 "2025-03-18T02:24:18Z")
Evidently it does. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/t2GNvHRjcz8/maxresdefault.jpg "Radiation on a camera-equipped cell phone") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2GNvHRjcz8) ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2787 "2025-03-18T02:31:28Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > They’re apparently collecting enough data that human employees are personally listening to over 1,000 recordings per shift. That was in 2019, and the article describes them as “audio samples,” which may just be another way of saying recordings. There may be less of that going on since it has been possible to opt out of recordings. Nevertheless, I continue to be glad that I don’t have any of these devices in my home, including no Ring cameras. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2788 "2025-03-18T03:46:12Z")
FWIW, my ‘SANDY’ watch has a nuclear trefoil on the back, and ‘DISPOSE OF RAD WASTE’. I wish it still glowed. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2789 "2025-03-18T05:05:44Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Amazon Echo users can no longer opt out of Echo recording everything they say so they can use it to train their plagiarism generator. > > [Everything You Say to Your Echo Will Soon Be Sent to Amazon, and You Can’t Opt Out | WIRED](https://www.wired.com/story/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-march-28/) Joke’s on them. I keep my Echo in my bedroom with the door closed, only I am ever there and I speak with no one. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2790 "2025-03-18T14:00:13Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Before we get too critical Prompt critical? ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2791 "2025-03-18T17:40:49Z")
Do we have to cancel Tim Walz now too? He platformed the platform that platformed Bannon and Kirk. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2792 "2025-03-18T18:20:24Z")
It was just “vexing” and “unflattering” behavior, Judge - honest! [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/james-bowie-ottawa-lawyer-criminal-charge-guilty-1.7485574?\_\_vfz=medium%3Dsharebar](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/james-bowie-ottawa-lawyer-criminal-charge-guilty-1.7485574?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2793 "2025-03-18T18:34:10Z")
Wiki says the half-life of Co-60 is roughly 5 years. That fake slug says it dates from 1963. So 60 years ago = ~12 half-lives. So the current radioactivity, where it real, would be 1/(2^12) = 1/4096, or about 0.0002% as strong as when it was made. So maybe not hot enough to give you an eventually-fatal dose just from a short exposure, but still not a toy. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2794 "2025-03-18T22:34:36Z")
Is this evil enough for this thread? [A reader is appalled by the congressional candidate’s mock assassination video.](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/letters-editor/article/valentina-gomez-execution-video-20002295.php) Valentina Gomez is running for Congress in Texas. She has a video (paywalled link in the article, but there’s a still) that depicts her executing an undocumented immigrant. > In this campaign video, Texas congressional candidate Valentina Gomez calls for publicly executing “any illegal” who commits rape or murder here. Decent citizens don’t take kindly to summary execution by an interloping vigilante craving attention, a reader says. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2795 "2025-03-18T22:48:19Z")
When even X/Twitter censors your content for being too extreme… ~Max ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2796 "2025-03-19T13:52:44Z")
I suppose Ms. Gomez has proper documentation for herself. Then again, given the frequency of “Every accusation is a confession” behavior on the part of the Reactionary Wacko Traitors, I might be wrong in that supposition. In either case it might be interesting to dig into the documentation status of her ancestors. Separately to all the above … We also see the common behavior that once immigrants (legal or otherwise) get here, real quickly their (or their offspring’s) allegiance changes away from their former countrymen, and it’s all “I’m here, I’ve got mine, pull up the ladder” for any newcomers. They will be unhappily surprised how little that distinction matters to the White Supremacists. Whose beliefs are as simple as “Tan is Tan and Brown is Brown and none of that is good.” ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2797 "2025-03-19T16:46:52Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I suppose Ms. Gomez has proper documentation for herself. Citizenship is one of the few actual qualifications for federal office in this country, so she almost certainly has proper docs. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2798 "2025-03-19T17:14:30Z")
> **[Jackie Robinson’s Army career wiped from military website in DEI purge](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/jackie-robinson-army-history-dei-military-department-defense-rcna197067)** > > Robinson trained as an officer and was assigned to a tank regiment during World War II. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2799 "2025-03-19T17:19:41Z")
Jackie Robinson was Antifa and a [Black Panther](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/761st_Tank_Battalion_(United_States))! ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2800 "2025-03-19T17:36:22Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Jackie Robinson was Antifa and a [Black Panther](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/761st_Tank_Battalion_(United_States)) They heard he was also a dodger. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496.md?page=139) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496.md?page=141)