8/12/26 - GenZ Insult, Broken Bones, and Showering During a Thunderstorm
- bribriny
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Wednesday 8/12/26
Celebrate:
Baseball Fans Day
IBM PC Day
International Youth Day
National Julienne Fries Day
National Middle Child Day
National Sewing Machine Day
Truck Driver Day
Vinyl Record Day
World Calligraphy Day
World Elephant Day
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The Weeknd is here to stay.
While there was a time when the Grammy winner thought he might drop his stage name, not anymore.
“I tested retirement a little bit, and I don’t like the way it feels,” the artist told his concert audience Saturday in Stockholm, per footage captured by a fan. “Imma be here forever with you.”
has long said that he planned to drop the moniker he currently uses.
“I feel like i should change my stage name to ABEL at this point lol,” he wrote, adding “maybe pull a YE and just legally change my name to ABEL. no last name. Like Madonna or Cher or Prince.”
“I’m going through a cathartic path right now,” he said. “It’s getting to a place and a time where I’m getting ready to close the Weeknd chapter. I’ll still make music, maybe as Abel, maybe as the Weeknd. But I still want to kill the Weeknd. And I will. Eventually. I’m definitely trying to shed that skin and be reborn.”
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Gen Z has a new favorite insult.
LARPing, or live-action role-playing, might conjure up visions of Dungeons & Dragons costumes and renaissance fairs. But across the internet, young people are repurposing the word “larping” to call out someone they think is inauthentic.
Going to a fitness class just for the photos is larping being a pilates girl. A summer internship is larping a corporate 9-to-5. Coming into Manhattan from Long Island for the day is larping New York City.
Because just saying poser or fraud is too hard.
The rise of larping also reflects Gen Z’s heightened concern around authenticity with the rise of influencers, artificial intelligence, and ad-driven social media content; young people want to know a person is real before taking their story at face value.
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What is the most frequently broken human bone?
Using data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019, this chart ranks the 12 anatomical sites with the highest number of new fractures worldwide. In 2019 there were 178 million new fractures across 204 countries and territories, covering all ages from newborns to 95+.
The study grouped fractures into these 12 sites:
With the #1 most fractured the Patella, tibia or fibula, or ankle (knee, shin, calf, and ankle)
Second place is the Radius or ulna (forearm)
Both of these are
Skull
Facial bones
Clavicle, scapula, or humerus (collarbone, shoulder blade, upper arm)
Hand, wrist, and other distal parts of the hand
Vertebral column (spine)
Pelvis
Hip
Femur (other than the femoral neck)
Foot bones (excluding the ankle)
Fractures of the sternum and ribs were the least common.
Men outnumbered women in every category except hip fractures.
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The construction of a multimillion-dollar electricity connection project between Ireland and the U.K. was slightly diverted after "Harry Potter" fans complained the infrastructure would disturb a memorial for Dobby, the fictional elf in the popular book series.
The CEO of Etchea Energy, Simon Ludlam said that he was unaware of the meaning of the memorial.
"Apparently we're going to go straight through Dobby's grave," Ludlam recalls being told. "I said, 'Dobby? Who's Dobby?'"
After being told the complaints were "very, very serious," Ludlam said the firm went back to the planners and discussed how to divert the cable in order to avoid Dobby's memorial, and instead ended up going "quite close" to Bronze Age remains.
"We avoided Dobby's grave; a lot of people were very happy about that, the project's now going, and Dobby's happy," Ludlam remarked.
Discussing the need to be flexible when planning major infrastructure projects, the CEO added that "sometimes, a 10-year-old girl is right."
In 2022, environmental officials from the National Trust Cymru, the agency which manages the beach, asked fans to stop bringing socks and other items because they said it would be harmful to local wildlife.
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Snopes.com answers the questions..is it dangerous to shower during a thunderstorm?
Mom told you not to. Was she right?
Well, there is a small risk. There have been at least three instances of people being struck by lightning while showering in the U.S. since 2008, all of whom were injured rather than killed.
The risk is lower in homes with proper lightning protection.
In both old and new versions of its lightning safety webpage, the CDC says it's best to avoid all water during a thunderstorm. Plastic pipes may pose a lower risk of lightning traveling through plumbing than metal pipes because plastic pipes are insulators that don't conduct electricity well, but the water inside the pipes can still be conductive. The CDC says it's best to avoid contact with plumbing and running water to reduce the risk of being struck.
I would say the answer is...listen to Mom.
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Jim Carrey will front a live-action movie adaptation of The Jetsons that’s in the early stages.
Today's Useless Fact of the Day.
Despite its massive cultural footprint, the original 1962 run on ABC (the first program broadcast in color for the network) lasted for only 24 episodes. It was canceled due to low ratings (partly because many viewers still watched on black-and-white TVs, missing out on the show's vibrant colors) before being revived for syndication in the 1980s, bringing the total to 75 episodes.
In 1986, outlets like the LA Times began reporting that the song was getting major airtime on radio stations. The re-recorded version of the song reached No. 9 on Billboard magazine’s retail sales charts. Part of the reason for the tune's sudden reemergence came because the fashion and music of the '60s were back in vogue in the '80s.
Television's Greatest Hits was also a big-selling record at the time!
And there’s this
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