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China's unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs
No-one would want to work without getting a salary, or even worse – having to pay to be there. Yet paying companies so you can pretend to work for them has become popular among young, unemployed adults in China. It has led to a growing number of such providers. The development comes amid China's sluggish economy and jobs market. Chinese youth unemployment remains stubbornly high, at more than 14%.

With real jobs increasingly hard to come by, some young adults would rather pay to go into an office than be just stuck at home. Shui Zhou, 30, had a food business venture that failed in 2024. In April of this year, he started to pay 30 yuan ($4.20; £3.10) per day to go into a mock-up office run by a business called Pretend To Work Company, in the city of Dongguan, 114 km (71 miles) north of Hong Kong. There he joins five "colleagues" who are doing the same thing. "I feel very happy," says Mr Zhou. "It's like we're working together as a group."
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fatness said:
China's unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs
No-one would want to work without getting a salary, or even worse – having to pay to be there. Yet paying companies so you can pretend to work for them has become popular among young, unemployed adults in China. It has led to a growing number of such providers. The development comes amid China's sluggish economy and jobs market. Chinese youth unemployment remains stubbornly high, at more than 14%.

With real jobs increasingly hard to come by, some young adults would rather pay to go into an office than be just stuck at home. Shui Zhou, 30, had a food business venture that failed in 2024. In April of this year, he started to pay 30 yuan ($4.20; £3.10) per day to go into a mock-up office run by a business called Pretend To Work Company, in the city of Dongguan, 114 km (71 miles) north of Hong Kong. There he joins five "colleagues" who are doing the same thing. "I feel very happy," says Mr Zhou. "It's like we're working together as a group."
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Remember when we were worried about China?
 
A 450-year-old tree is on fire. Firefighters may or may not be able to save it.
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Authorities in Oregon are trying to extinguish a fire that is burning in one of the world’s tallest trees near the state’s southern coast. The Doerner Fir, a coastal Douglas Fir tree over 325 feet (99 meters) tall and estimated to be over 450 years old, has been burning since Saturday in Coos County in Oregon’s Coast Range. An infrared drone flight on Tuesday showed no active flames or smoke at the top of the tree, but it detected heat within a cavity in the tree trunk some 280 feet high, federal Bureau of Land Management spokesperson Megan Harper said.

Figuring out how to approach the tree from the side to douse the cavity with water has been a challenge, Harper said. Various options have been discussed, including building scaffolding or climbing adjacent trees for better positioning, or letting it smolder and monitoring to see if it reignites.
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Bear story #4

Japanese police have said that an elderly man who they had believed was killed by a bear had in fact been stabbed to death by his son. Fujiyuki Shindo, 51, was arrested in the northern Akita prefecture on Tuesday for allegedly murdering his 93-year-old father Fujiyoshi, local media reports. Police sent out a bear attack warning mail after the victim's wife found him collapsed and bleeding on the floor. But it was withdrawn after investigators concluded the wounds were more consistent with knife injuries.
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So they first thought a bear stabbed him?
 
fatness said:
Bear story #4

Japanese police have said that an elderly man who they had believed was killed by a bear had in fact been stabbed to death by his son. Fujiyuki Shindo, 51, was arrested in the northern Akita prefecture on Tuesday for allegedly murdering his 93-year-old father Fujiyoshi, local media reports. Police sent out a bear attack warning mail after the victim's wife found him collapsed and bleeding on the floor. But it was withdrawn after investigators concluded the wounds were more consistent with knife injuries.
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So they first thought a bear stabbed him?
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Maybe they thought a bear stole a knife from someone. Seems logical to me.
 
Nathan R. Jessep said:
www.eurekalert.org

An alternative to LASIK — without the lasers

Hundreds of thousands of people undergo corrective eye surgeries each year, including the laser-assisted technique known as LASIK. But the procedure involves cutting away tissue, which can result in negative side effects, prompting researchers to develop a less invasive technique that takes the...
www.eurekalert.org
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That's some good sci-fi stuff.
 
Leroy Hoard said:
fatness said:
Bear story #4

Japanese police have said that an elderly man who they had believed was killed by a bear had in fact been stabbed to death by his son. Fujiyuki Shindo, 51, was arrested in the northern Akita prefecture on Tuesday for allegedly murdering his 93-year-old father Fujiyoshi, local media reports. Police sent out a bear attack warning mail after the victim's wife found him collapsed and bleeding on the floor. But it was withdrawn after investigators concluded the wounds were more consistent with knife injuries.
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So they first thought a bear stabbed him?
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Maybe they thought a bear stole a knife from someone. Seems logical to me.
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They thought the bear was his son
 
Wile E. Coyote in the news.

This man keeps buying and returning 110-pound anvils on Amazon
The creator, who goes by Johnbo Stockwell on TikTok, went viral back in June after revealing he’d spent the past eight months repeatedly buying and returning anvils—each one costing just under $230 and weighing 110 pounds. Because he is an Amazon Prime member, Stockwell takes advantage of the free shipping perk. So when his Vevor anvil orders arrive on his doorstep, he immediately ships them back—also for free. In one video, he scrolls through his Amazon order history, showing 10 anvil orders placed and returned within just a few weeks.
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Stockwell, who is also a stand-up comedian, hasn’t actually shown anvils arriving at his doorstep, raising the question of whether the whole thing is just a bit. Either way, the stunt has worked: It went viral.
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fatness said:
Wile E. Coyote in the news.

This man keeps buying and returning 110-pound anvils on Amazon
The creator, who goes by Johnbo Stockwell on TikTok, went viral back in June after revealing he’d spent the past eight months repeatedly buying and returning anvils—each one costing just under $230 and weighing 110 pounds. Because he is an Amazon Prime member, Stockwell takes advantage of the free shipping perk. So when his Vevor anvil orders arrive on his doorstep, he immediately ships them back—also for free. In one video, he scrolls through his Amazon order history, showing 10 anvil orders placed and returned within just a few weeks.
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Stockwell, who is also a stand-up comedian, hasn’t actually shown anvils arriving at his doorstep, raising the question of whether the whole thing is just a bit. Either way, the stunt has worked: It went viral.
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If I was the delivery driver I might think about accidentally dropping an anvil through his window.
 
Drones blasting AC/DC and Scarlett Johansson are helping biologists protect cattle from wolves
For millennia humans have tried to scare wolves away from their livestock. Most of them didn’t have drones. But a team of biologists working near the California-Oregon border do, and they’re using them to blast AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” movie clips and live human voices at the apex predators to shoo them away from cattle in an ongoing experiment.

“I am not putting up with this anymore!” actor Scarlett Johansson yells in one clip, from the 2019 film “ Marriage Story.” “With what? I can’t talk to people?” co-star Adam Driver shouts back.
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The preloaded clips include recordings of music, gunshots, fireworks and voices. A drone pilot starts by playing three clips chosen at random, such as the “Marriage Story” scene or “Thunderstruck,” with its screams and hair-raising electric guitar licks. If those don’t work, the operator can improvise by yelling through a microphone or playing a different clip that’s not among the randomized presets. One favorite is the heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch ‘s cover of “Blue on Black,” which might blast the lyric “You turned and you ran” as the wolves flee.
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Tick said:
Tick said:
I didn't know there was a remake of Blue on Black - off to Spotify!
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Yawn, mostly a note for note remake.
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I enjoyed it. There's a version with 5 Finger, Kenny Wayne, Brantley Gilbert and Brian May that's pretty good.

That playlist fed me into Bad Wolves cover of Zombie, which of course I have heard, but I happened to see the video this time and the caption said Delores was supposed to come remake the vocals for their cover THE DAY SHE DIED. They decided to release the single and donated all the proceeds to her children. Pretty cool.
 
Nathan R. Jessep said:
Tick said:
Tick said:
I didn't know there was a remake of Blue on Black - off to Spotify!
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Yawn, mostly a note for note remake.
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I enjoyed it. There's a version with 5 Finger, Kenny Wayne, Brantley Gilbert and Brian May that's pretty good.

That playlist fed me into Bad Wolves cover of Zombie, which of course I have heard, but I happened to see the video this time and the caption said Delores was supposed to come remake the vocals for their cover THE DAY SHE DIED. They decided to release the single and donated all the proceeds to her children. Pretty cool.
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which led me to THIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjHmXq0wdl4&list=RDu9Dg-g7t2l4&index=36

I'm usually underwhelmed by covers but THIS was GOOD. Immediate add to playlist.
 
Nathan R. Jessep said:
Nathan R. Jessep said:
Tick said:
Tick said:
I didn't know there was a remake of Blue on Black - off to Spotify!
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Yawn, mostly a note for note remake.
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I enjoyed it. There's a version with 5 Finger, Kenny Wayne, Brantley Gilbert and Brian May that's pretty good.

That playlist fed me into Bad Wolves cover of Zombie, which of course I have heard, but I happened to see the video this time and the caption said Delores was supposed to come remake the vocals for their cover THE DAY SHE DIED. They decided to release the single and donated all the proceeds to her children. Pretty cool.
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which led me to THIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjHmXq0wdl4&list=RDu9Dg-g7t2l4&index=36

I'm usually underwhelmed by covers but THIS was GOOD. Immediate add to playlist.
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I think I know how you got there - Spotify went to the 5FDP version of the same song automatically for me.
 
phys.org

For the first time in 40 Years, Panama's deep and cold ocean waters fail to emerge

The natural phenomenon of upwelling, which occurs annually in the Gulf of Panama, failed for the first time on record in 2025. A study led by scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) indicates that the weakening of the trade winds was the cause of this event. This...
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The natural phenomenon of upwelling, which occurs annually in the Gulf of Panama, failed for the first time on record in 2025. A study led by scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) indicates that the weakening of the trade winds was the cause of this event. This finding highlights the climate's impact on fundamental oceanic processes and the coastal communities that depend on them.

During the dry season in Central America (generally between December and April), northern trade winds generate upwelling events in the ocean waters of the Gulf of Panama. Upwelling is a process that allows cold, nutrient-rich waters from the depths of the ocean to rise to the surface. This dynamic supports highly productive fisheries and helps protect coral reefs from thermal stress. Thanks to this movement of water, the sea along Panama's Pacific beaches remains cooler during the "summer" vacation season.

Scientists from STRI have studied this phenomenon and their records show that this seasonal upwelling, which occurs from January to April, has been a consistent and predictable feature of the gulf for at least 40 years. However, researchers recently recorded that in 2025, this vital oceanographic process did not occur for the first time. As a result, the typical drops in temperature and spikes in productivity during this time of year were diminished.
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Would you like fries with that?

"It was during that time that it became very obvious we were not going to make it to the hospital in time and the baby was coming," Alyce tells PEOPLE.
Kevin called 911 and explained the emergency situation. He told the dispatcher they were going to pull into a Speedway gas station in the next town and to send paramedics there. But as the couple got closer to the Speedway, they saw that it was still open and "completely lit up," making it far from ideal for an impromptu parking lot delivery.
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The couple ended up stopping at a McDonald's further down the road. Alyce got out of the van, as Kevin rushed to her side to help, and within minutes, Matilda made her arrival. "I reached down to feel what was happening and her head was fully out. I just remember yelling, 'Kevin catch her right now!' Alyce recalls. "I didn’t know, but at that exact moment, Kevin was already standing behind me, bending down ready to grab her. I didn’t even have to push — she honestly just fell out into Kevin’s arms."
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Giant 250-foot wind turbine collapses as locals hear 'almighty crack' in night
The wind turbine, located at insurance giant Aviva's Pitheavlis base in Perth, toppled over in the early hours of Friday due to what the insurance firm described as an "engineering fault". A local resident said: "There was an almighty crack in the middle of the night heard by many residents. The blade snapped off the wind turbine and there's a huge lump of ragged and twisted metal that fell meters away from the public path." An Aviva spokesperson told the Perthshire Advertiser: "Our on-site security team observed that the turbine arms had detached from the wind turbine shortly before 1am this morning (Friday, September 12).
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