Raithe

The Prime Suggestive...

https://www.universal-sci.com/headlines/2016/10/17/what-are-volcanoes

Does this count as a joke?

Random late night thought: Do geek Trekkies still exist in the Shadowrun of 2050-2080? Who still learns Klingon? Wouldn't that make a great "combat / run language" for a team to learn so no-one could understand them or easily bug their planning sessions....

Jeff Goldblum decided to share an image of himself on set of Jurassic World: Dominion...

Well, Anchorage. The story gets weirder as it goes... Or as someone tried explaining it:

Okay, more of that "i know it could happen, but it seems ridiculous that that sort of organised, institutionalised, butchery could occur in modern day "free" world. " I didn't think we were quite at the cyberpunk mega-corporate human-rights violations stage manner just yet.

And for one of those headlines to make you blink: https://www.businessinsider.com/mexico-citizen-received-non-consensual-surgery-while-in-ice-detention-2020-10?r=US&IR=T That's one of those "No, that's got to be wrong. That couldn't happen in America." reactions to seeing a new story on first thought.

Years ago when I got into dabbling in JDoramas (ie, amusingly subbed Japanese tv series) one of the ones I ended up watching was a generally silly slice of life/romance called Hana Yori Dango (translates as Boys Over Flowers) about the four playboy sons of leading tycoons at an elite school and how their life gets disrupted by a "commoner" girl who ends up a student there. Now as I was idly flicking through Netflix I found 15 years on there's been a Korean remake of it. I am tempted to see just how well the amusingly adolescent cheese translates...