The circle of life. Stores fail for complex reasons → retailer quietly posts accurate analysis of its own mistakes → retailer loudly posts press release blaming shoplifters and gangs → media likes …
Boing boing .net has been a reputable site for years. I think it started as a blog for author and journalist Cory Doctorow, but has become a news site of its own. The recent term enshittification was coined by Doctorow.
A pro-gun lawyer was shot by his own weapon while visiting a hospital when a powerful magnetic field from an MRI scanner set the pistol off.
Leandro Mathias de Novaes was taking his mother for a scan at the Laboratorio Cura in Sao Paulo in January and entered the facility with a concealed handgun.
Despite warnings from staff to remove jewellery and metal objects in the MRI room, Mr Mathias kept his weapon on his waistband.
The magnetic field from the machine was so strong that the weapon was pulled from his waist and fired off a round, which hit him in his stomach.
The 40-year-old Brazilian was treated in hospital for more than two weeks before he died from his wounds.
When you go into an MRI room you hear this weird but very distinct sound from the liquid helium pumps keeping the giant superconducting magnets near absolute zero.
Then when it runs, the vibrations from the current being pushed through the gradient coils is significant enough that you need hearing protection.
It’s serious business in there. But it lets us see inside our bodies without incisions or ionizing radiation, so it’s also awesome. But jeez some people and their guns.
Let me guess. The stores they closed tried to unionize, so they made up some shit about shoplifting.
This, with a generous side of pushing right wing narratives about urban crime panic because they think it will help Republicans win.
And yet this was all done by the “national Retain Federation”.
Literally complain, yell, cry, and fire people because of unions and yet they are in a corporate Union themselves.
Unions work.
I thought it was just because real estate is expensive af now
I’m not going to trust “boingboing.net”, but that’s just me
Holy shit, boingboing.net?
That’s a site I haven’t heard of in a long time.
It was one of the first websites I remember regularly visiting in the 90s, and looks like they haven’t changed much since.
That’s cool.
Been hanging in there, all the way from when they were in print in the late 80’s. https://i.imgur.com/4yMYB1u.png
If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.
Boing boing .net has been a reputable site for years. I think it started as a blog for author and journalist Cory Doctorow, but has become a news site of its own. The recent term enshittification was coined by Doctorow.
You may be right but when I read headlines like this: A woman took her gun to an MRI appointment. It shot her in the ass.
it makes it hard to take boingboing seriously.
edit: strong opinions about boingboing lol. I guarantee half of you who are downvoting have no clue whether its a reputable source.
It’s an actual story though.
Thats happens fairly often because people are stupid as fuck.
Another source butt shot lady:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/woman-shot-in-butt-after-sliding-into-mri-machine-with-loaded-firearm/ar-AA1laLzt
Some guy even died earlier this year:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/02/10/pro-gun-lawyer-shot-gun-mri-scanner-dies/
Don’t fuck around with MRIs. Magnets don’t care.
When you go into an MRI room you hear this weird but very distinct sound from the liquid helium pumps keeping the giant superconducting magnets near absolute zero.
Then when it runs, the vibrations from the current being pushed through the gradient coils is significant enough that you need hearing protection.
It’s serious business in there. But it lets us see inside our bodies without incisions or ionizing radiation, so it’s also awesome. But jeez some people and their guns.
I don’t know why they post the boingboing piece when it links to a much better Reuter’s article.