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(21:48) Headline: Mystery Object Strikes United Flight Over Utah
(23:46) Headline: X's Handle Hostage: Pay Up for Your Username
(26:49) Headline: IKEA Says: If Your Phone Sleeps, Maybe You Will Too!
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This time on Nonsense, we’re taking a cross-country flight straight through America’s weirdest headlines.
First stop: Idaho, where “medical freedom” now means you can’t even quarantine an unvaccinated kid during a measles outbreak. It’s the state where bodily autonomy trumps public health, and homeopathy apparently trumps immunology.
Then—mid-flight—something smashes into a United 737 at 36,000 feet. Was it space junk? A rogue weather balloon? Or just Shohei Ohtani hitting another one into orbit?
Back on Earth, X (formerly Twitter, formerly tolerable) launches a new scheme to sell usernames for up to seven figures—because now your identity is a subscription service.
And finally, IKEA wants your phone to take a nap. Literally. Their new “Phone Sleep Collection” gives your device its own bed, proving once and for all that even our electronics are better rested than we are.
Come for the satire, stay for the science—and maybe pick up a tiny, “some assembly required” comforter for your iPhone.
Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.
Something from “space” may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah - Ars Technica
X is launching a marketplace for inactive handles | The Verge
IKEA just launched tiny beds for smartphones | Famous Campaigns
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