Well, it is Fat Pile Friday and that means there is a mountain of fat to get through today and I think it's time that maybe we just get rid of all the fat that we've got in the pile today.

Maybe we just call it, you know, I don't know, liposuction and we just get rid of the fat today and we go through, I mean, the way I break up the stories is, you know,

we just have the regular stories and crime and health and animal and bug world and sports and, you know, AI and the royals and space and then we go to the break room and, you know, we have the entertainment, the magazine rack and we have headlines and we have, you know, the coronavirus and the TSA and some politics and then maybe some ending stories and some extra stories.

So maybe we just, I mean, the fat is, the belly is hanging over the belt. The belly is hanging over the belt today. So I think it's time that we just get rid of all the fat today and start a new as we begin chewing the fat today.

So welcome and let's do some liposuction today on chewing the fat.

I feel like maybe we should just read the headlines and see where that takes us. I don't know, I've got a ton of stuff, we've got to get to it.

Like, for instance, I see where Twitter, those of you that are still on Twitter and I am at JFR is going to now start calling out mean tweets before they're even sent.

Boy, am I looking forward to that. So they want to combat toxicity on the platform and so they were developing a feature that makes users reconsider sending messages that its system detects as mean or offensive.

So they claim that their initial tests show that 34% of the users who received the warning chose to revise their message or not send it at all.

I'd like to know the difference between those who chose to revise and those who didn't send it at all but they don't break it down like that because I was not part of this special test.

But I can see where if I went to tweet something and they popped up saying, do you really want to send this?

I may go back and look at the tweet and change a word. Does that mean that I revised it?

For instance, last night on Twitter, I see where one Twitter account breaking 911 tweeted that Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance bottoms will not seek reelection and she has reportedly accepted a position with at Walgreens.

And so I quote tweeted, make up or photo counter. Now something I think that was a low blow or mean or offensive had I popped that they popped up a this tweet seems mean or offensive.

Do you wish to change it or still tweet it? I may have changed it. I may have changed it to does that mean pharmacy tech or front counter?

I may have changed it to a stalker or cleaner is something like that. But does that that means that I revised the tweet but it still is not really nice.

I mean, I thought it was funny but I know that she's going to work for Walgreens. I got it. Stop it. It's just silly. It's just silly. Let the platform be but we're not going to that. Those days are long gone.

Now if you're say a farmer in Michigan and you are mad at your neighbor and you have a dispute with your neighbor over the property line, you build a poop wall.

Does Twitter pop up and say, is that mean or offensive? Do you miss, do you mean to revise your poop wall? Well, no. According to this story, the farmer erected a 250 foot long wall of manure along their property lines in a lowly township south.

It's south of Ann Arbor, southeast of Ann Arbor, southwest of Ann Arbor somewhere in there. It's in Michigan. You know the state. If you're looking at the screen right now, you can see my hand here and it's right there in the state of Michigan.

The neighbors are all wound up, of course it stinks to high heaven. It's just a pile of crap, a wall of crap. Normally the farmers spread that out over different fields for fertilizer. In the summertime, you get that fresh country air smell in Michigan. I was raised in Michigan and believe me, I'm well aware of the smell of country air.

But if it's all piled up along the property line, oh man, I bet you that smells great. Now the farmer claims that, hey, that structure is not a poop wall. That's a compost fence. That's my compost pile.

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