The Saturday Overnight Open Thread (2/1/25)

Obviously I'm not losing sleep over this. But, as many of you know, The ONT Is Always Looking Out For You^TM

We all know how an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. So whenever one of these lumps of space rocks gets anywhere near us, it’s easy to panic.

And there’s a 1.3% chance of exactly this happening.

A newly discovered asteroid, 2024 YR4, may strike Earth in December 22, 2032, according to Nasa. Just in time for Christmas.

The space rock is between 130 feet and 330 feet long, so about the size of Big Ben. It’s the only large asteroid with an impact probability above 1%.

I believe these folks have a legitimate Beef.

'Shrimp fraud' rampant at many Gulf Coast restaurants, new studies find

Restaurants throughout the Gulf Coast are serving imported shrimp but telling their customers they're feasting on fresh crustaceans fished in the Gulf of Mexico, a series of new studies found.

SeaD Consulting, a food safety technology company, tested shrimp from randomly chosen restaurants in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Biloxi, Mississippi; Galveston, Texas; and Tampa Bay, Florida. Researchers found a significant number of the restaurants were passing off their shrimp as locally sourced, even though they were grown on foreign farms and imported to the U.S.

The cities with the highest "shrimp fraud rate" were Tampa Bay and St. Petersburg, Florida, at 96%, according to SeaD Consulting. Only two of the 44 restaurants sampled were serving authentic shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico, a study found.

I received the following note from SockMonkey:

Greetings my honored and esteemed amigo. Thought you might enjoy these two.

You thought correctly!! Good stuff.

Father's Day and other family holidays will be awkward from this point forth.

Son Reported His Father For Child Porn
Illicit images were discovered on kin's cellphone, police say

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