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[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The penguin is okay, that's the only thing important here.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

First thing I checked the article for.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

And that’s why I came here before potentially seeing something that would make me sad in the article.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Should have tariffed him better

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Apparently the penguin wanted a say in whether or not it was being deported

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The birds are fighting back

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

See, penguins were never meant to fly

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

And he was drunk!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The penguin, which had been placed in the box and on the lap of a passenger, slid off and knocked the pilot's controls just after take-off from **Bird Island **

take-off from **Bird Island **

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

The authority said that "the lack of secure containment for the penguin" was responsible for creating the "dangerous situation".Hahaha

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm going to be a pedant, and point out it was an unsecured box, with a penguin in it, which knocked the controls.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Weird way to say the on-board computer is Linux based, but ok. Link to the CVE?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It was just shitty drivers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

(CVE-2016-5195)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah but unsecured box doesn't generate clicks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah but would the box have slipped without the penguin in it? We need more penguin box experiments I think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Could this be a Schroedinger's penguin situation?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

So was it Kowalski, Rico, Skipper, or Private?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it bad that my immediate thought was "Is the penguin okay?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If it is bad, I don't wanna be good. Poor penguin

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

"Ooh, look, a button!"

"Huh? Private, don't!!!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

they were probably trying to steal the penguin... so they got what they deserve

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

in a box for pets, rather than proper cage conservationist use, definitely stealing it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

And Grounded Linux was born on this day

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

THIS is why america tariffed them!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Feathers mcgraw strikes again

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

it's because franklin sherman wasn't there to point out the plotholes

https://youtu.be/3ENLigFHadY