Daily Dose of Doom Thread

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

Here is some new life topper -- rare doom

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/510471-cdc-expects-2020-outbreak-of-rare-life-threatening-condition-affecting

[mu_hilltopper]

High five.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

This Tropical Storm Isias was llike doom. Weirdest storm. Started about 1:00 and gone by 6:30.  300,000 people without power including me and my place of work.  No rain either.

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

nm

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Oh, great: NASA says an asteroid is headed our way right before Election Day
By Jay Croft and Melissa Alonso, CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/22/us/asteroid-earth-november-2020-scn-trnd/index.html

[tower912]

At this point, that doesn't seem that bad.

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

Oh, great: NASA says an asteroid is headed our way right before Election Day
By Jay Croft and Melissa Alonso, CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/22/us/asteroid-earth-november-2020-scn-trnd/index.html

[🏀]

At this point, that doesn't seem that bad.

I’d be okay with it

[rocket surgeon]

moving the food they disapprove of further from the cash register?  i don't buy this so called "junk food' myself, but what's next?  scales in the candy isles? 

https://abc7news.com/berkeley-healthy-checkout-city-of-new-ordinance-grocery-stores-soda-tax/6522765/

[Skatastrophy]

moving the food they disapprove of further from the cash register?  i don't buy this so called "junk food' myself, but what's next?  scales in the candy isles? 

https://abc7news.com/berkeley-healthy-checkout-city-of-new-ordinance-grocery-stores-soda-tax/6522765/

Tax vice food up the wazoo to subsidise healthy food. It won't matter to all of us weathly Scoopers, and it will really help a lot of families out there.

[naginiF]

Tax vice food up the wazoo to subsidise healthy food. It won't matter to all of us weathly Scoopers, and it will really help a lot of families out there.

Word. Yeah, some folks would eat the crap anyway (*cough*Arby's*cough*) but given the choice most would choose the healthy option. Easy to make it more affordable if we choose.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Escaped cloned female mutant crayfish take over Belgian cemetery

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/escaped-cloned-female-mutant-crayfish-take-over-belgian-cemetery/YZDGK4GTJKKML7Y76OELOTHGPA/

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1326181841762738176

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Not necessarily doom but still...........

The Air Force Is Putting Death Rays on Fighter Jets. Yes, Death Rays.
Kyle Mizokami
Wed, November 11, 2020, 8:06 AM CST

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/air-force-putting-death-rays-140600098.html

[mu_hilltopper]

This could have gone in the Higher Education or COVID thread. 

I think the Doom thread is best:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/university-of-alabama-tuscaloosa-sorority-kappa-delta-farm-party-to-host-600-in-possible-superspreader-event

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55056570

A strange metal monolith has been discovered in the Utah desert by a helicopter crew, leaving local authorities baffled.

[tower912]

Holding all of the  missing Trump votes from Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona.

[rocky_warrior]

Well poop...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/12/honeybees-use-tools-dung-repels-giant-hornets/

In Vietnam, Asian honeybees use feces to ward off the cousins of “murder hornets." The finding could help protect bees in other countries with invasive wasps.

[rocket surgeon]

  better hurry while they last...only gonna make 400,000 of these bad boys

 https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/mcdonalds-oreo-spam-burger-china

[Dr. Blackheart]

Well poop...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/12/honeybees-use-tools-dung-repels-giant-hornets/

Sounds like civet coffee, hey?

[mu_hilltopper]

I found this to be interesting .. statistical doom.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

That's a fascinating chart, thanks for sharing

[mu_hilltopper]

https://twitter.com/michaelsderby/status/1350121698499174401

Minneapolis Fed leader Kashkari says economy's resilience to pandemic is overrated, says instead "our toleration for death is much higher than I thought” as the economy powers through the crisis.

What a great t-shirt idea.

[naginiF]

https://twitter.com/michaelsderby/status/1350121698499174401

Minneapolis Fed leader Kashkari says economy's resilience to pandemic is overrated, says instead "our toleration for death is much higher than I thought” as the economy powers through the crisis.

What a great t-shirt idea.

I forget who to attribute this to but 'what this pandemic has taught me is that we don't live in a society, we live in an economy'

[muwarrior69]

I think the Mods should Rename the 'Hangin at the Al' board the 'Daily Dose of Doom' board as there is no light at the end of the tunnel that I can see for MU mens basketball.