Sunday Overnight Open Thread (6/11/23)

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"It was quite a painful experience [being canceled]. My world sort of blew up over the course of a couple of days and my life seemed to fall apart," Former Mumford & Sons guitarist Winston Marshall

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“I was praying that the police would come and take this situation over. I couldn’t sit still and let him carry out these threats,”Daniel Penny

When I think of a "Magic Carpet Ride" this is not what I envision.

Locals in the Indian state of Maharashtra were shocked to discover that their newly-laid road was actually just a carpet with a thin layer of asphalt poured over it.

According to the Lokmat Times, the people of Karjat-Hast Pokhari, a village in Maharashtra’s Jalna district, had long been pleading with elected representatives to rebuild their poor roads, and last month, their prayers were finally answered. Or, at least, that’s what they originally thought when they saw the layer of asphalt covering their dirt roads. Only their joy was short-lived, as it soon became clear that the company in charge of the project did a very shady job, laying a very thin layer of asphalt over a carpet-like canvas that could easily be lifted from the dirt base with little effort.

Sounds like an Obama shovel ready job.

Maybe some of us can get off these meds. Cause and Cure Discovered for Common Type of High Blood Pressure

Clinicians at Queen Mary University of London and Barts Hospital have identified a gene variant that causes a common type of hypertension (high blood pressure) and a way to cure it, new research published in the journal Nature Genetics shows.

The cause is a tiny benign nodule, present in one-in-twenty people with hypertension. The nodule produces a hormone, aldosterone, that controls how much salt is in the body. The new discovery is a gene variant in some of these nodules which leads to a vast, but intermittent, over-production of the hormone.

Are you and your state ready?

New study ranks states on their chances of surviving alien invasion – Where does your home stand?

A military whistleblower’s account of otherworldly craft being studied by the U.S. government in secret sparked a renewed interest in extraterrestrial life, leaving some set to determine which state would fare the best if aliens attacked.

Too soon? I chuckled.

BUTNER, NC — In a tragic development, invitations to the Unabomber's funeral were sent out via mail, but no one has yet been willing to open one.

"Seems like a bad idea," said former neighbor Daniel Jones, as he laid the invitation aside. "One more bomb in the mail would just be so like Ted."

Joni Mitchell returned to the stage last night for an epic, 24 song performance at the Gorge Amphitheater in Quincy, Washington. It was her first headlining, ticketed concert in roughly two decades.

With the assistance of singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile, who herself headlined the venue the previous evening, Mitchell enlightened the audience with both classics ("A Case of You," "The Circle Game") and deep cuts ("Come in From the Cold," "Sex Kills") from her 60-year career.

Born on this day: June 11, 1949 - Frank Beard
Frank Beard, American drummer with ZZ Top, who had the 1984 US No.8 & 1985 UK No.16 single 'Legs'. Beard is notable as being the only musician in the band without a long beard, an ironic fact considering his last name. The band has had global album sales in excess of 50 million as of 2014. Via thisdayinmusic.com

Alligators, Social Media jeez I wonder what they produce. No, not really. Genius Award Winner.

A man is accused of breaking into a Florida theme park, jumping into an alligator enclosure and filming a video for social media – a dangerous stunt that authorities say led to his arrest.

Police in Tampa Bay say Jacob Pursifull, 20, hopped a fence to enter Busch Gardens theme park illegally on June 1. He and two others went to the park’s alligator enclosure, which is outfitted with two layers of metal fencing, footage of the incident shows.

Authorities say Pursifull entered the enclosure while one of the people with him recorded him, according to a news release from the Tampa Police Department.

Onlookers can be seen in a video posted to social media showing Pursifull inside the enclosure, with some shouting at him to get out and that it was dangerous to get that close to the reptiles. Footage of the incident went viral

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