2026-05-16 Social General Briefing Summary
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‘Point of no return’: 36 countries join special tribunal to prosecute Vladimir Putin (r/worldnews)
- asdhjasdhlkjashdhgf: When even Switzerland joins support for an international tribunal you should be able to see the writing on the wall.
- The-marx-channel: Putin’s place should be in the Hague
- Golden–: Yeah, this is meaningless unless you actually plan to arrest and prosecute him.
Mass casualty incident’ after explosion near Maine lumber complex (r/news)
- DNAturation: Sounds like a fire started and turned into a sawdust explosion.
- HorrorAd6729: Unbelievably dangerous situation. Reports indicate a wood shaving silo exploded while crews were already on the scene fighting a warehouse fire, which is why so many firefighters are among the 11 injured. Sending 10 patients to a Level 1 trauma center and calling multiple maydays shows just how catastrophic the blast was. Grateful that all mill staff were safely accounted for, but this is a massive blow to Mid-Coast Maine.
- b0xturtl3: Don’t forget most firefighters in Maine are volunteer.
Phoenix police fire sergeant who brought gun to ICE protest (r/news)
- mastermidget23: Reading the article, this pos went to the protest masked up with gun, literally on camera talked about how he was going to try to get them all to gang up on him to arrest them, while he had people in the distance film for evidence. Fucking psychopaths with no self awareness like Rittenhouse going to protests just to make them dangerous and still think of themselves as “the good guys”.
- OhNoIBoffedIt: Other cops are like “you’re supposed to be in uniform when you commit crimes, dude.”
- Iribumkiak: He is just going to get another police job in another jurisdiction.
What’s a problem humanity solved so well that younger people don’t even realize it used to be a huge issue? (r/AskReddit)
- obligated_existence: The hole in the ozone layer. One of our biggest (and only) global environmental success stories.
- Longwell2020: Clean water
- chickenmcdruggets: Anything solved by vaccines
TIL that Empress Ma was born poor and during a famine she stole cakes to feed her husband by hiding them in her breasts. The cakes were hot and she got burns. Later her husband became a rebel commander who became Emperor and made her his Empress. He was deeply devoted to her even as an Emperor. (r/todayilearned)
- StaleSunTease: hongwu turned into one of the most paranoid emperors in chinese history and she’s basically the only reason his purges didn’t get even worse.
- Own_Bar2063: This did not stop him from having a huge harem of Korean and Mongolian concubines, and from them he had 26 sons and 16 daughters.
- derpdelurk: I would also be devoted to someone that provided breast cakes.