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Alan Cooper retweeted
Such good news- finally! 🍯
A govt crackdown on dodgy suppliers of “honey syrup” - illegally labeled to fool consumers into thinking it’s something bees made - is underway.
They’ve been getting away with this for far too long.
And beware - this is what many cafés give you when you ask for honey.
Alan Cooper retweeted
Major Internet outage hitting services ranging from Gmail to Facebook to MSN. Hard to tell how widespread it is, as Down Detector is also down. 🥴
Alan Cooper retweeted
Humanity has about six months to purchase 8 billion ape costumes for the ultimate prank.
Boeing Starliner astronauts stranded in space for 80 days will not return home until 2025 trib.al/473iGmL
Alan Cooper retweeted
I’ve just received an email from a S. African woman who was caught by this.
The fraudulent email came amid a stream of genuine booking.com emails about her UK booking.
She lost >R18K.
@bookingcom sent her a warning email but it landed AFTER the scammers’ ones. 😡
Soon as my next trip is done I'm deleting booking.com. I've been getting messages ON THE APP FROM THE HOTEL trying to get money out of me. The hotel on the same messages is telling me it's been hacked and don't click the link. The messages are every few hours. Go away
Alan Cooper retweeted
The world is not quite ready for ‘digital workers’ theguardian.com/technology/a…
Alan Cooper retweeted
I was at Mugg & Bean at the Cape Town airport when my brother called. Weeping he told me my beloved son had died. My tears started rolling down my face and I burst out, "no no no my son has died!" Everyone froze, but not one young man who walked over to me. His eyes were filled with compassion that held me for long enough to gather my things. He offered to pay for my order as I fled sobbing out of the restaurant. He was black and I a middle-aged white man. This is the South Africa that I cherish.
Alan Cooper retweeted
There were a couple of closely contested heats in the Opening Round of the #eThekwiniSurfPro QS 1,000.
Read more at worldsurfleague.com
📷WSL/Tostee
@eThekwiniM @dbntourism @SASurfing
Alan Cooper retweeted
holy shit they recorded tinnitus
ALT The most mind-blowing moment, not only for De La Mata but the scientists too, came when they managed to actually record the sounds that she heard in her ears – which now appear as ‘Left Ear’ and ‘Right Ear’ which begin sides A and B on the album – and in doing so opened up questions about the nature of tinnitus itself. “The NHS definition is that it’s a phantom sound that your brain is creating, that it isn’t something ‘real’, so you should try to ignore it.” By having De La Mata place her ear into an anechoic chamber, with an ultra-sensitive microphone perched in her ear canal, they were able to provide significant evidence to the contrary. “After the first recording of it, it was ‘There’s no way, this isn’t possible.’” They tried again with her breath held, and again with her tensing her ears, and again with other members of staff, but each time it became apparent that yes, the noises De La Mata hears are seemingly something physical.
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Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Only some rare forms of tinnitus can be heard by a microphone, and this has been well known to medical science for over 30 years. It's called objective tinnitus, as opposed to subjective tinnitus, which is the more common form and is indeed idiopathic (only in the brain).
medlink.com/articles/objec….
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2273894/
Alan Cooper retweeted
Discovery Insure call centre agents duped by impersonator into sending them clients' policy schedules timeslive.co.za/news/consume…
Alan Cooper retweeted
“Thank you for holding, I’ve had a chat with my colleague and explained what’s been going on, he should be able to help you, okay? I’ll just transfer you now…”
One of three things will now happen:
1. You’re transferred to someone who has no idea who you are or what you’ve just been talking about for the last twenty minutes. They say, “I’m not sure why you’ve been put through to me”
2. You’re put on hold and then eventually an automated voice tells you to “listen carefully to the following options…”
3. The line goes dead.
Alan Cooper retweeted
It’s been more than 6 years since the Tiger Brands listeriosis outbreak rocked the nation.
And the victims are still nowhere near getting any compensation.
Gives new meaning to the term 'long tail'
'Dr Steve Chingwaru, a 26-year-old metallurgist... showed the 6 billion tons of tailings around Johannesburg's mines may contain up to 460 tons of so-called “invisible gold”.'
iflscience.com/up-to-24-bill…
Full marks to the staff at the @Victorinox UK flagship store in Oxford Street, London.
Greeted this backpack-toting Saffa with the same courtesy as other designer wear-clad customers.
Replaced the spring on my 30-year Swiss Champ's scissors quickly & efficiently.
The bill... £0!
Alan Cooper retweeted
“Earlier today I visited the haunted red painting and asked it for permission to dissolve, which I have now begun to do.”
