Outrage of the Week

[Tazer That Evil, Yellow Bastiche Find all posts View Profile Close Tazer]

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absolutely un-fuckin'-believable: https://www.inkstonenews.com/society...rticle/3046243

Chinese student who died of malnutrition never received bulk of donations

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https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020...-kindness.html

U.S. Bank employee says she was fired after Christmas Eve act of kindness

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[Space Cop The Dandy Find all posts View Profile Close Space Cop]

^It particularly stinks since she got permission to leave and help. It would be different if she had just walked away from her station.

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https://www.wjcl.com/article/mama-do...side/30653220#

Mama dog in McIntosh County found on dirt road dragging crate with her 4 pups inside

Officials in McIntosh County say someone cruelly abandoned a mama dog and her four pups. But there appears to be a happy ending for the furry family.

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I'm putting this here becuz by the looks of it this man did everything as BY THE BOOK as was required, but state authorities _could not_ let that stand....so they called in the feds: https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rap...udge-says.html

Michigan medical marijuana seller gets prison: ‘Federal law has not changed,’ judge says

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[Space Cop The Dandy Find all posts View Profile Close Space Cop]

^Yeah, I've heard of that kind of thing. That's what happens when state and federal laws don't gel. Essentially the feds are just overlooking the "legal" sellers in general, but every now and then they make an example I guess as a reminder. It won't be truly legal until it's federally approved.

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Disabled boy dies after father quarantined with corona virus: authorities only fed boy with cerebral palsy twice a week

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..........damn.




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this isn't an "outrage", but more like a "damn shame": https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...kish-avalanche

Dozens of rescue workers killed in second Turkish avalanche

At least 33 rescue workers killed and 53 injured during search for missing from earlier snowslide

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[Trey Strain Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Trey Strain]

Ha, ha. These are the folks who smugly lecture everyone at the shows where they hand each other awards, then wonder why the ratings of those shows keep dropping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPpoKquOG5Q

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/terral-...-dying-inmate/

Video appears to show Oklahoma jail staff ignoring pleas from dying inmate

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[Agent Purple The Illustrated Man Find all posts View Profile Close Agent Purple]

The CIA secretly bought an encryption device company, and then sat back and listened in on everyone

[Trey Strain Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Trey Strain]

This is truly a charming group of folks. I noticed that they're selling meth now. They used to sell heroin, and were known to many of their non-fans as the "Heroin Brotherhood." Maybe their pipelines for heroin have been cut off.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...id=hplocalnews

[Tazer That Evil, Yellow Bastiche Find all posts View Profile Close Tazer]

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this isn't so much OUTRAGEOUS, inasmuch as it is PRETTY MESSED UP....but I thought it worth the share anyways: https://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...1998d9045ba372

Flight attendant loses job for being less than 1kg overweight

A flight attendant sacked for being less than 1kg heavier than the maximum weight has lost her unfair dismissal case against the airline.

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[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

I think having such a stringent weight requirement is extremely dumb, but given that they have it at all, it makes sense that being over by ANY amount would be grounds for dismissal. Otherwise, why not just make the cutoff a little bit higher? I think that focusing on how close she was to the cutoff (as the article seems to do) misses the point of the outrage. The outrage isn't that they let her go when she was so close, the outrage is that they have such a stringent policy at all.