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[-Jrabbit]

Your ESL (at least when writing) is much better than a lot of Americans.

[N35t0r]

“Abduction and boxing a car in and road rage are two different things,” the official added.

I'm no linguist, and English is not my first language, but it seems to me like those are three different things.

[BeBMan]

People's Convoy? Sounds like something from China...

[-Jrabbit]

I had no idea that the idiotic truck convoy was still hanging around Washington DC after more than 2 weeks. But they are...

People’s Convoy Gets Hilariously Trolled by Lone D.C. Bicyclist

The People’s Convoy got a taste of its own medicine on Saturday afternoon in Washington, D.C., when a single bicyclist moving at a snail’s pace brought the truckers to a near halt by occupying an entire lane of traffic in front of them.

“Hey, what are you doing? You have a bunch of trucks behind you,” a convoy live streamer and YouTuber WYSIWYGTV (pronounced “whizzy-wick”) yelled at the unidentified cyclist while confronting him. “You got a bunch of trucks behind us.”

The biker then trolled in response: “What’s that? I didn’t hear you… I didn’t hear you, what did you say?”

After the streamer snapped back, “You have a bunch of trucks behind you,” the cyclist replied: “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you—it’s too loud.” The cyclist continued to ride in front of the truckers at a plodding pace, unmoved by the line of honking big rigs behind him.

The farcical moment came as the right-wing trucker convoy enters its third week of repeatedly attempting and failing to cause mayhem in the Beltway area.

On Saturday afternoon, The Daily Beast reported that some of the anti-vaccine mandate truckers boxed in a white Tesla driven by someone who had allegedly been antagonistic towards the convoy. The incident was captured on a livestream by “Sasnak,” a lead convoy participant. “A Tesla pulled in… slammed the brakes on real hard and caused a brake-check,” the YouTuber declared, adding that his fellow truckers then brought the car to a standstill.

Sasnak then turned on his fellow truckers for their actions toward the Tesla driver. “That’s illegal. You can’t do that. You can’t block somebody in like that,” the trucker said. “That’s considered abduction. The person in the car has the right to go bang bang and shoot you!”

Sasnak did not return a request from The Daily Beast for comment on the incident. But on Sunday afternoon, during a YouTube stream, he added: “Talked it through with a few of them. One guy is still mad at me.”

A Maryland State Police official told The Daily Beast late Saturday evening that “no abduction occurred” on the interstate. “Abduction and boxing a car in and road rage are two different things,” the official added.

By Sunday’s morning meeting, the convoy turned their focus to their absent leader Brian Brase, who had taken the weekend off to visit with family back home in Northwest Ohio—a move that left his fellow truckers confounded.

While camped for weeks at the Hagerstown Speedway, the convoy has continued to make daily treks on the Beltway and more recently into D.C. proper. The truckers have seemingly struggled to navigate downtown city traffic, however, often getting split up by red lights. The group has been met with jeering inside the city from both pedestrians and commuters alike, whom the convoy has taken to labeling “antifa.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/peoples-convoy-gets-hilariously-trolled-by-a-single-dc-bicyclist?source=facebook&via=desktop

[Dauphin]

It's a bird....it's a plane....it's a NON-potato!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-records-rules

I just hear Arnie's voice in protest that it is in fact a potato.

It's not a tuber!

[BeBMan]

Ppl can switch the website to English if they wish (change flag in top right corner)

The Cuban Painted Snail has made it

[-Jrabbit]

Winner to be announced March 18 and the website is .de/German -- should be any time now!

I'm rooting for the barge-footer, a scaphopod. Also called a tusk or tooth shell.

[Uncle Sparky]

Why is there no poll for this?!?

[BeBMan]

Vote now! Painted snail and shipworm vie for mollusc of the year title

Winner from shortlist of five will have its genome sequenced as scientists raise awareness of species’ amazing roles in nature

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/13/vote-now-painted-snail-and-shipworm-vie-for-mollusc-of-the-year-title-aoe

[BeBMan]

Giant New Zealand potato is not in fact a potato, Guinness World Records rules

Couple who believed they had dug up the world’s largest potato in the garden of their small farm near Hamilton have had their dreams turned to mash

It's a bird....it's a plane....it's a NON-potato!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/16/giant-new-zealand-potato-is-not-in-fact-a-potato-guinness-world-records-rules

[SlowwHand]

[Broken_Erika]

Is this going to become a yearly tradition?

Another Evergreen shipping vessel runs aground

One year after the Ever Given container ship ran aground in the Suez Canal, her sister vessel is repeating the feat - in the US state of Maryland.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60754135

[BeBMan]

Largely ignored by the intl community, someone declared war on the moon

First they said it's Elon Musk, then maybe China, which denied it.

However, the moon just shrugged it off

A discarded part of a rocket should have crashed into the Moon's far side by now, say scientists who were expecting the impact at 12:25 GMT.


The three-tonne rocket part had been tracked for a number of years, but its origin was contested.

At first, astronomers thought it might have belonged to Elon Musk's SpaceX firm, and then said it was Chinese - something China denies.

The effects of the impact on the Moon should have been minor.

(snipsnap)

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60596449

[Wezil]

Welcome to America where even the wildlife is obese.

[Uncle Sparky]

Gee, Americans can't tell black bears apart either.