In Florida 15 people were injured after a passenger train collided with a fire engine, although I guess at least the fire engine was there to put out the fire. Swings and roundabouts really. There was also another accident after a plane crashed in Toronto, many were quick to blame DEI policies and blame an all-female flight crew which is a very ignorant thing to say because look at how the plane landed upside down, clearly the cause of the accident was DEI policies resulting in an inexperienced all Australian crew that didn't realise they had to turn the plane over when you fly north.

There were new recycling plans in England and apparently all houses will be given 4 separate bins. This is being portrayed as an environmental issue although I don't think the policy is being implemented for any purpose other than raising money, when they fine people for getting them mixed up on a Thursday evening. Personally speaking I always try my best with recycling: next door barely manage any more than milk bottles and some amazon boxes whereas I make sure my recycling bin is always filled to the brim with beer cans and wine bottles. Meanwhile In Wales there's talk that the government is going to ban Greyhound racing, presumably by putting up yet more 20mph signs and speed cameras

In the US it was revealed that until the mid-1970s the code to launch the nuclear missiles was in fact 12 zeros in a row. It's unclear how many times Joe Biden somehow still managed to forget the number. Also in the US there were fresh revelations from the DOGE group. FEMA last year spent $59m on luxury hotels in New York so that the city politicians could downplay the scale of the immigration situation. This was at the same time as FEMA (1) claimed there wasn't enough money to help hurricane victims and (2) was instructing its workers to avoid giving out aid in areas liable to not vote for Kamala Harris.

Health & Human Services were forced to cancel $180m of contracts that were specifically covering "administrative affairs" - ie not medicine or doctors salaries. One line item included $168k on an exhibit to glorify Anthony Fauci, and it may as well have been one of Fauci alongside a golden calf and possibly Obama dressed up to look like Moses coming down from the mountain, proclaiming "thou shalt not stand within 6 feet of someone unless you pay $100 to Pfizer first"

And it was revealed that the cost-cutting is starting to hit a limit whereby the government is literally unable to lay off workers fast enough. It seems that in the 1950s the US Government started processing exit paperwork and then shipping it by road and storing it 230 feet underground in a former limestone mine in Pennsylvania, and thus the rate at which the government can eliminate federal employees is in fact limited by the speed of the lift-shaft in and out of the mine. It reminds me of the old joke, what do you get if you drop a piano down a mineshaft, and the answer is A Flag Miner. As compared to if you drop it onto a military based in which case it's a flat major.