Local Bean Collects Stuff &Things

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

The office immediately split into two factions over it. One says that if anyone falls in the spike pit it's their own fault for being so stupid and not watching where they're walking, so we should remove the sign. The other says that the sign is an insult, there shouldn't be a spike pit in our office at all, and having the sign up like that is just normalising the existence of the spike pit, so we should remove the sign.

Then she published Murder Must Advertise, where a character falls down a spiral iron staircase and dies.

"[F]ell down an iron spiral staircase on their premises, situated in the upper part of Southampton Row, and died immediately of injuries received, to wit: one broken neck, one cracked skull, one broken leg and minor cuts and contusions, various. The time of this disaster was, as nearly as can be ascertained, 3.30 in the afternoon.”

“Hum!” said Parker. “Pretty extensive injuries for a fall of that kind.”

“So I thought, before I saw the staircase."

I get the sentiment but I must stress the fact that russia shoots at anyone they see first. Doesn't matter who you are, you can be a civilian covered in white flags or visibly an old person/child, they shoot everyone. It's not like they pick and choose their targets at the frontline, they just shoot.

And if you're worrying about people being tortured for being queer if they get captured by russia, then you must know that they torture everyone. Civilians, warriors of all genders, anyone who gets captured. There have been reports of rape and castration as part of torture by russians no matter the gender or age of the captured person.

They don't even care about the affiliation of the captured person. Recently one woman from occupied areas ran away to Ukrainian troops for help because russians came to her home, killed her husband and raped her. Turned out she stayed in the occupied area to wait for "the russian liberators" until she found out what they really were like.

tl;dr: There's no evidence the interview that this was mentioned in even exists, no evidence the route of the cable has ever changed, and the whole story seems to originate from one dude's podcast.

Here's a link from The Guardian, a much more reputable news organization.

Not only are HP fans actively ruining the Welsh national park, despite repeated pleas from the owners, but it looks like the story is completely legitimate... and instead of going near/through a fictional gravesite, the cable now goes near/through ACTUAL Bronze Age human burial remains and a critical archeological site.