# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 5, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657 "2024-01-05T16:15:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 80
**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:** [June 18, 2024, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1581 "2024-06-18T01:49:14Z")
Second that recommendation. If you actually need what Notepad is for, switch to ++ for major improvements in capabilities OTOH … Notepad isn’t and never was a word processor. It’s a bare-bones text editor. Although if you’re not an IT person and you’re using Notepad or the like for anything at all you’re probably using the wrong tool for whatever you think your mission is. It’s so last century for any writing or noting task except hand-editing script files or raw data dumps; tasks pretty well limited to propeller heads. And I say that with respect as a former propeller head. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2024, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1582 "2024-06-18T06:56:52Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Although if you’re not an IT person and you’re using Notepad or the like for anything at all you’re probably using the wrong tool for whatever you think your mission is. > > It’s so last century for any writing or noting task except hand-editing script files or raw data dumps; tasks pretty well limited to propeller heads. And I say that with respect as a former propeller head. I use Notepad to store my recipes, make shopping lists, and track my budget, in addition to general note-taking, because it’s capable of everything I need it to do in order to do those things and I avoid writing by hand whenever possible, both because I’m left-handed and my writing usually gets smudged by the side of my palm, and because writing for extended periods of time gives me cramps. Anything beyond that I use Wordpad for. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2024, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1583 "2024-06-18T06:58:16Z")
In other news, the most popular game on Steam is now a bare-bones Cookie Clicker clone that people are auto-playing with bots so that they can win rare skins and sell them on the Steam marketplace, because NFTs are sooooooooooo 2021 and grifters gonna grift. > **[As ‘Banana’ Tops 400,000 Concurrent Players, Will Steam Step In?](https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/06/14/as-banana-tops-400000-concurrent-players-will-steam-step-in/)** > > If you’ve been paying attention to the most-played games on Steam lately, you have no doubt seen a strange one. That would be “Banana” a game where you…click a banana. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1584 "2024-06-18T08:17:34Z")
Fucking Hell, I read the thing about Notepad getting screwed up and was going to suggest Notepad++ but forgot where I was. Yeah that program is the shit. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2024, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1585 "2024-06-18T08:29:23Z")
Another local one; Seattle’s recently ousted chief of police, who was fired four years into the job due to the city facing multiple lawsuits over discrimination and retaliation on his part, is now playing the Kevin Spacey gambit to try and prove his “innocence”. > **[Diaz Comes Out as Gay to Right-Wing Radio Host, Who Says this Proves His...](https://publicola.com/2024/06/17/diaz-comes-out-as-gay-to-right-wing-radio-host-who-says-this-proves-his-innocence/)** > > Also, the head of SPD’s communications office will be stepping down—but not just yet. 1. Former police chief Adrian Diaz… ---
**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:** [June 18, 2024, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1586 "2024-06-18T11:41:43Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I use Notepad to store my recipes, make shopping lists, and track my budget, in addition to general note-taking, because it’s capable of everything I need it to do in order to do those things and I avoid writing by hand whenever possible, both because I’m left-handed and my writing usually gets smudged by the side of my palm, and because writing for extended periods of time gives me cramps. I too write all that stuff down and more. For the same set of reasons as you, other than being a leftie, which I am not. I used to do that via Notepad too, just like you. But for about the last 20 years I’ve use a tool designed for that sort of collection of semi-random sorta free-form notes about whatever: OneNote. It’s a great invention that’s part of MS Office. The big advantage to me is that you (I) don’t end up with a collection of separate files whose names and folders you need to remember. And there’s infinite undo so I can’t lose anything. Back when my wife was alive it had the advantage that she and I could access the same e.g. shopping list on our respective PCs, tablets, and phones, and all 6 devices always had the same real-time updated content. Pretty magic. Now I’m down to one Surface tablet/PC and one phone, but the real-time sync is still handy. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1587 "2024-06-21T21:06:05Z")
Surely if you lose your keys you are going to look for them in the place you think they are? [in this case where they probably dropped out of your pocket] > **[Kings Island guest hit by Banshee roller coaster, critically hurt](https://www.fox19.com/2024/06/20/kings-island-guest-hit-by-banshee-roller-coaster-critically-hurt/)** > > The 38-year-old man was flown in a medical helicopter to a hospital in Cincinnati [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/QKcOQKwa2EE/maxresdefault.jpg "Banshee at Kings Island POV") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKcOQKwa2EE) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1588 "2024-06-21T21:14:58Z")
> [@](#): > > “Kings Island notified the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) of an incident Wednesday evening at the Banshee rollercoaster. ODA ride inspectors are on site today to conduct a full re-inspection of the ride and an investigation to ensure the ride was operating in accordance with Ohio’s law and rules,” the spokeswoman, Meghan Harshbarger, wrote in an email to FOX19 NOW. Did they find his keys? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1589 "2024-06-21T21:27:43Z")
I went to King’s Island multiple times as a kid since my mom is from Ohio and we’d go to the state sometimes during Summer vacation to visit her family. I specifically remember riding on The Beast as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1590 "2024-06-21T22:00:46Z")
I don’t know if I’m pitting those who write these articles or the subjects of the articles (or maybe myself for clicking on them) but my Google News feed often offers me articles about people being shocked to discover very basic things. Today I’m told that people are _shocked_ to discover that the “g” in “5g” stands for “generation”. > **[People left shocked after only just realizing what the 'G' in 5G means](https://www.unilad.com/technology/news/5g-meaning-acronym-g-explained-849321-20240621)** > > Tons of natural-sounding acronyms have infiltrated our language to the point we’ve forgotten what they actually stand for. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1591 "2024-06-21T22:14:20Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Today I’m told that people are _shocked_ to discover that the “g” in “5g” stands for “generation”. I never heard about 1g through 4g, so “5g” doesn’t feel like the fifth of something. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2024, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1592 "2024-06-21T22:19:50Z")
If you got your first smart phone in the mid 00s, it probably had 3G. And, IIRC, a few years later you’d be seeing “LTE” on your phone, that was 4G. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1593 "2024-06-21T22:21:33Z")
It probably had 3g, but I don’t remember anyone saying “3g”. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1594 "2024-06-21T22:26:46Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > “Kings Island notified the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) of an incident Wednesday evening at the Banshee rollercoaster. ODA ride inspectors are on site today to conduct a full re-inspection of the ride and an investigation to ensure the ride was operating in accordance with Ohio’s law and rules,” the spokeswoman, Meghan Harshbarger, wrote in an email to FOX19 NOW. > > Did they find his keys? - Probably somewhere near the skull fragments. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1595 "2024-06-21T22:29:35Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > It probably had 3g, but I don’t remember anyone saying “3g”. No, 3G was certainly a very widespread term. I remember when it came out, it was a big deal. It started rolling out in 2002-2003 in the US. 2G was less-advertised because it came out in the early ‘90s, when cell phones weren’t very common. By the time cell phones became a standard thing a decade later, 2G was already the standard so there was little need to advertise it. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2024, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1596 "2024-06-21T23:40:18Z")
Swell story out of Michigan about Republican State Representative Neil Friske, arrested by Lansing police following an incident in the wee hours of Thursday morning in which he allegedly chased a stripper from his home. Police responding to a call of a man with a gun and possible shots fired took the (aptly named?) Friske into custody, and he faces potential sexual assault and weapons charges. To top it off, Friske’s re-election campaign released a statement saying he “is always exercising his 2nd Amendment right” (terrific damage control, guys). And naturally he’s a member of the House Freedom Caucus which is “focused on traditional conservative values”. Gruesome details [here](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/neil-friske-arrest-michigan-representative-gun-adult-dancer-stripper.html) and [here](https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2024/06/21/michigan-neil-friske-charges-assault-weapon/74167129007/). ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1597 "2024-06-21T23:45:49Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > To top it off, Friske’s re-election campaign released a statement saying he “is always exercising his 2nd Amendment right” (terrific damage control, guys). > getting collared at 2:45 a.m. Thursday by Lansing PD because, according to an [initial report](https://x.com/MIRSnews/status/1803795790466552061) by the MIRS news service, he had “chased an adult dancer after a disagreement” I wonder if he was baring more than his arms at that time. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2024, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1598 "2024-06-22T01:12:23Z")
Just showing her his ‘gun’. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2024, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1599 "2024-06-22T01:42:16Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Just showing her his ‘gun’. - Likely a derringer. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2024, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1600 "2024-06-22T02:01:59Z")
Update on the Turks & Caicos visitor with ammo in his luggage: > **[American arrested in Turks and Caicos over ammo in carry-on bag gets...](https://www.yahoo.com/news/american-arrested-turks-caicos-over-145711075.html)** > > Ryan Watson was arrested in the Turks and Caicos Islands in April after four rounds of ammunition were found in his bag. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=79) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=81)