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[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I love everything about this paragraph.

Griest told police he had fallen on the television and that his wife had tried to catch him but ended up getting a cut on her neck. When Griest fell, the television broke and he got a cut on his finger. Griest told officers that he called police because the incident was "going to turn into a domestic" as his wife's drunk boyfriend was allegedly going to stop the house the following day to assault him, Hornberger wrote in the affidavit.

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"his wife's drunk boyfriend"

This has to be satire.

[–] xor@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

i thought that too, but it appears to be a real news site...
i still find it hard to believe that reality has come this close to being a made-up shitpost...
but maybe, the fortnight playing convicted pedophile actually called the police because his wife's boyfriend might beat him up...
im pretty sure this means the universe will be collapsing in on itself pretty soon...

[–] Melkath@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

As a gamer, I was going to come in with an edgy "that's what you get" joke, but with this added info... I'm doubling down on a "that's what you get" joke.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Police charged Griest with misdemeanor counts of terroristic threats, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, and related charges.

Wtf? Cops just slap terrorism charges on every chance they get, huh?

Don't get me wrong, the guy is a piece of shit, but terrorism? That's not what happened here and they know it!

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"Terroristic threats" is a ridiculously common charge against school age children. Dozens of 10 year olds are charged with it every month in Texas

Based on an analysis of district juvenile justice referral data we received from Brownsville ISD, the district police made 3,102 student arrests over a period of roughly two and half years from May 2021 to November 2023. That’s 135 arrests per month in the school year. Fifty-nine percent of those arrests were for felony changes.

Of those arrests, 3.5 percent were for elementary school-aged children. From the beginning of the prior school year to November 3 this year, there have been 76 arrests of students 10 to 11 years old. Charges for terroristic threats accounted for 20 percent of those arrests. Most, 66 percent, were felony charges. There were no charges for aggravated assault for this age group.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Holy fuck! Fucking bastards! 🤬

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago

I know! Who’d’ve thought there were so many terrorists in 6th grade.

[–] xor@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

first they made terrorism the biggest problem in the world, declared war on it, made tons of draconian laws against it... and then they changed what the word means.
btw, check out the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, which makes it "terrorism" to work at a job with livestock and then secretly film the abuse other people do to them.
in some states, that is "legally" terrorism.
(its illegally, but good luck appealing that when you're in a guantanamo style blacksite somewhere, being force fed rectally)

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I'd call it Orwellian, but that's more fucked up than anything Orwell ever imagined! 🤬

[–] harry_balzac@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

She did the world a service. If only more people would be willing to step up and cut off the wifi when someone starts playing Fortnite

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

451: Unavailable due to legal reasons

Sad

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's GDPR related. It's not down.

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Btw is it only my country in which people call the internet wifi these days? As an IT worker I feel my brain deteriorate every time even a company doesn't use these terminologies properly in their ads.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

i was there when they started calling every type of program an "app".

makes tech more opaque to normies, easier to control the narrative this way.

[–] maniel@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Shutting down WIFI is synonymous with turning off the router for me

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My ISP doesn't even tell you if your WAN is down when you check your service status on their app. It just tells you to "check your Wi-Fi router and reset if necessary".

If you use your own router, it won't even tell you that, it just says "issue finding wifi 360 information".

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Oh no, this is what I'm talking about. But in our case, those stupid people don't distinguish between Wifi and LAN anymore anywhere in their anything.

Edit: one day, a dubious network worker came to my flat saying they are testing the Wifi provided by the apartment. I told him I don't need it because I set up my Wifi on my own.

Then he told that's impossible because if I'm using Wifi I must be using the hardware of the apartment.

Turned out, he can't distinguish between the fiber port and a Wifi router...

I wanted to know if he was sent by the house maintenance or just another salesman. But how can you talk with a person on IT, when he continues mixing up technological terms!?

Eventually I got upset and closed the intercom.

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Guess where you're going to be staying the next few fortnights?

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

Oh God it better not be tilted towers

[–] Kayel@aussie.zone 3 points 9 months ago

Modernists: confused why this happened

Postmodernist: of course this happened, the videogame is more real to them than the human is

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Boy, you never play Fortnite with Wifi.

[–] Staiden@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah for real, who games on wifi? I was just invited to move in to my girlfriends place, I shoved myself down in the crawlspace to run ethernet before I even set my computer up. My motherboard has wifi built in if I wanted to use it.

[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

He wasn't there to win, just to talk to little kids. Wi-Fi is perfectly acceptable for that.

[–] Lophostemon@aussie.zone -1 points 9 months ago

Isn’t fortnight for like… 8 year olds?!