Creative challenges - pitch stories for a 2024 version of a thriller like "24"
Catch - you can ONLY use actual real pulled from reality (if not alas mainstream reporting) storylines...
post a bunch of these pitches, make a handful - but only a couple - entirely fictional - see if anyone can pick those out}
Related/similar - pitch parody news stories ala The Onion - can anyone tell which aren't actual parodies? ([#nottheonion may be one of my most used hashtags in recent years)
That #WebEx call between #German airforce officers where they discussed confidential stuff and somehow #Russia recorded the whole thing? Well. This is #NotTheOnion. It seems they were able to simply dial in to the call as a normal participant and no-one really noticed. #Oops.
@jwildeboer Well, two tidbits from there: the call in was explicitly mentioned in the call. Also the leaked recording starts already before that participant joined.
Not from the Onion : Ukrainian soldiers are opening up American 155-mm M864 cluster shells presumably in order to use its submunitions as independent lethal weapons for dropping from copters.
@faab64 Reportedly the usual delivery mechanism, howitzer, has been less effective than hoped. Due to the high volume of shells, the barrels have need repeated maintenance. Said maintenance has to be conducted in Poland because Ukraine doesn’t have the capability. There is also some question about whether Ukraine military had the discipline to do PM in the field.
See also: "Southern Water were fined a record £90 million for illegally dumping raw sewage into the sea across the south coast. The company wilfully discharged untreated sewage 7,000 times between 2010- 2015" but actually it was seagulls that did it, and their lobby is so influential you don't know about it.
"[Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction] only permits a text-only version of Mein Kampf that is devoid of pictures, photographs, drawings, diagrams, etc. of [N]azi symbols"