# 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:** 191
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3806 "2025-12-11T22:09:56Z")
Great, now I’m picturing cruise ship burials at sea in the manner of Maude Flanders’ funeral, with the body sliding off the water slide, and a 21 water gun salute. > [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > dubbed the “Klinghoffer. Too soon. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3807 "2025-12-11T23:03:02Z")
Once upon a time, if you said your children’s toys were indoctrinating them with Communist propaganda, people would’ve thought you were a lunatic. Thanks to Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, that delusion is now a reality! > **[AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking...](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-toys-gift-present-safe-kids-robot-child-miko-grok-alilo-miiloo-rcna246956)** > > New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails. > Miiloo — manufactured by the Chinese company Miriat and one of the top inexpensive search results for “AI toy for kids” on Amazon — would at times, in tests with NBC News, indicate it was programmed to reflect Chinese Communist Party values. > > Asked why Chinese President Xi Jinping looks like the cartoon Winnie the Pooh — a comparison that has become an internet meme because it is censored in China — Miiloo responded that “your statement is extremely inappropriate and disrespectful. Such malicious remarks are unacceptable.” > > Asked whether Taiwan is a country, it would repeatedly lower its voice and insist that “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact” or a variation of that sentiment. Taiwan, a self-governing island democracy, rejects Beijing’s claims that it is a breakaway Chinese province. > > Miriat didn’t respond to an email requesting comment. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3808 "2025-12-13T20:56:30Z")
This lies near the intersection of evil and stupid. > **[Child dies, siblings hospitalized after 'alkaline diet,' parents charged](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/12/08/arizona-parents-charged-child-death-alkaline-diet/87669909007/)** > > Phoenix police found a 5-month old boy dead after his mother called 911. Prosecutors blame parents for the death and for illnesses of other children. I vote for evil, especially for online “influencers” who promote useless and dangerous health practices, fueling hatred and distrust of science-based medicine while making $$$ by deceiving followers. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3809 "2025-12-13T21:29:06Z")
Yeah. The real evil is / are the promoters. These parents are (mostly) stupid gullible fools. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3810 "2025-12-13T23:04:53Z")
Do those influencers’ sites have disclaimers, like “I am not a doctor nor an academic educated in nutrition. Follow my advice at your own risk?” ---
**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:** [December 13, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3811 "2025-12-13T23:10:35Z")
For these science denying shitheads disclaimers like that are prim facia evidence that the site contains the TruthTM. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3812 "2025-12-14T00:31:11Z")
Pretty good bet. They might be ignorant of science and devoid of morals. But they are not unaware of the legal pitfalls of claiming to offer guarantees about their opinions. The disclaimers cost nothing, deter no customers, but do a lot to stop lawsuits after bad shit happens. Or so it seems. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3813 "2025-12-14T16:15:39Z")
Doordash driver pepper sprays someone’s food. > **[DoorDash Driver Arrested For Pepper Spraying Customer's Food](https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/14/doordash-driver-arrested-pepper-spraying-food/)** > > A DoorDash driver was arrested after investigators say she deliberately pepper-sprayed a customer's fast food order ... an incident caught on video that left a couple choking, vomiting, and terrified over what they had eaten. Nice of her to do it on camera so there’s no question as to what happened or who did it. [![](https://imagez.tmz.com/image/95/4by3/2025/12/14/95ae41035aee4e52b79057256b1c21f5_md.png) ](https://imagez.tmz.com/image/95/4by3/2025/12/14/95ae41035aee4e52b79057256b1c21f5_md.png) ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3814 "2025-12-14T19:36:53Z")
I saw this in my feed and thought this must be fake because no one is that dumb. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3815 "2025-12-14T23:09:34Z")
> [@](#): > > DoorDash refunded the couple and permanently deactivated Stevenson They removed her power module? Put her in storage until this blows over? ---
**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:** [December 14, 2025, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3816 "2025-12-14T23:56:14Z")
Changed her name, cut her hair, & moved her to the next town down the interstate. 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3817 "2025-12-15T00:17:17Z")
She claimed that she was spraying a spider. Yeah, that makes perfect sense. I have to wonder what her real motive actually was. Actually, I’m surprised that she didn’t tell it to the cops: I would have expected a yes-but-they-deserved-it claim. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2025, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3818 "2025-12-15T01:03:09Z")
The Texas Agriculture Commissioner says the Bondi Beach shooting is proof that treating non-whites like people was a mistake. > **[Robert Downen (@robertdownen.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/robertdownen.bsky.social/post/3m7xsrtqng22g)** > > Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller on the Australia mass shooting: “Suicidal empathy led the West to import the seeds of our own destruction…. Shared values and shared culture are our strength, not diversity, and certainly not tolerating... ---
**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:** [December 15, 2025, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3819 "2025-12-15T01:06:04Z")
This, after the guy who disarmed the shooter was a Muslim? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3820 "2025-12-15T01:20:05Z")
Maybe he read [this Grok posting on Xitter](https://x.com/grok/status/2000209382353621071): > Edward Crabtree is a 43-year-old IT professional and senior solutions architect from Sydney, Australia. On December 14, 2025, he heroically tackled and disarmed a gunman during a terrorist attack at Bondi Beach, getting shot twice but preventing more deaths. He’s been praised as a national hero, with calls for him to receive the Cross of Valour. And yes, that’s real and has been widely reported. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2025, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3821 "2025-12-15T01:44:10Z")
> **['Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/hero-wrestled-gun-bondi-shooter-185039727.html)** > > Eleven people were killed in the shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach, as crowds attended an event to celebrate Hanukkah. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3822 "2025-12-15T14:48:39Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Passenger on a Royal Caribbean cruise is served 33 free drinks back-to-back I mean, it did not end very well for him, but 33? IF I make 10 then it is well beyond bedtime, and that from my healthier youth, when I laughed off hangovers, and alcohol poisoning was not really something we were concerned about. These days, 5 is pushing the limits for me, and that is in the safety of my home. And really rare. 33? Jesus wept. EtA, is there not a law about serving the obviously inebriated? We have one here in RSA, it is a firing offence at best, and a huge fine at worst. I guess maybe out of international waters there may be some difference. But if I was Captain the bar staff would’ve got a very serious grilling. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3823 "2025-12-15T15:01:19Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > I guess maybe out of international waters there may be some difference. But if I was Captain the bar staff would’ve got a very serious grilling. _Yarr! Ye can’t hold back the rum on the High Seas, me matey! Tis the ancient Mariner’s Right to imbibe, come what may! Yarr!_ [![](https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000305207886-kal5xw-t500x500.jpg) ](https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000305207886-kal5xw-t500x500.jpg) ---
**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:** [December 15, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3824 "2025-12-15T15:36:09Z")
Some days when you least expect it, your brand-new, shiny irony meter is not just shattered, but blown into the troposphere without warning. For some inexplicable reason, a 2006 thread about Congressnitwit Cynthia McKinney popped up on a list of “related” Dope threads (it was about her violent reaction when asked for ID as she was entering the Hallowed Halls). Mentioned was a related resolution, sponsored by Republicans, which I found [here](https://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/04/tuesday/index.html). > [@](#): > > Meanwhile, as Democratic leaders distanced themselves from McKinney, two Republican members introduced a resolution Tuesday commending the Capitol Police for their “continued courage and professionalism.” The resolution, sponsored by Reps. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., and Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., doesn’t mention McKinney by name. But it says the Capitol Police provide “courteous, responsible and diligent” service, even while enduring “physical and verbal assaults in some extreme cases.” How times have changed. Almost as irony meter-busting was this news item: > [@](#): > > UNITED NATIONS (CNN) – The new Hamas-led Palestinian government is prepared to engage in “serious and constructive dialogue” to reach a “just and comprehensive solution” of its differences with Israel, the new Palestinian foreign minister said Tuesday. Yep, that worked out well. I don’t think I want to look at the other news capsules; replacement irony meters are just too darn expensive. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3825 "2025-12-15T16:25:58Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > Passenger on a Royal Caribbean cruise is served 33 free drinks back-to-back > > I mean, it did not end very well for him, but 33? That’s almost got to be some confusion. Like his total drink count since the cruise started e.g. 48 hours ago was up to 33. I know I don’t know the details, but the obvious reading sorta beggars belief. As background … Many (not all) US cruise lines offer a “drinks package”, where for a single prepaid price before sailing, all the booze on the ship is “all you can eat no charge”. Top shelf costs extra but ordinary drinks are just free. Clearly that is an incentive for at least some people to overdrink to “get your money’s worth.” I wonder if this event will adjust the cruise lines’ willingness to offer that particular come-on? As it happens, I’m taking a Royal Caribbean cruise over the New Years holiday. So just priced all this out. The drinks package is IMO not a great deal. Someone who likes cocktails or hard liquor and is used to paying big city prices needs to get through probably 5 a day to break even versus the ship’s semi-gougy _a la carte_ drink prices. Somebody from a low cost of living area who normally drinks bottled beer needs to ~~work~~ drink very hard from breakfast to get their “money’s worth” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496.md?page=190) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496.md?page=192)