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Est. 2026 · Vol. I · The Daily Grievance
Grump News
"The worst thing that happened to me today that you NEED to know about. And some other news stuff."
❖ The Gripe ❖
A Personal Affront, Reported Faithfully
I have opened a car door the same way for fifty years. You pull the handle, the door opens, you get out. Now I read that Tesla built doors so clever that when the power drops in a crash the handles quit, and people have been trapped inside, some of them children, while the sleek flush handle sat there doing nothing. The government is finally writing a rule about it. A rule. That the door has to open. There might be something in the cereal.
❖ The Damage Report ❖
Today's News, Ranked By How Much It Ruined My Mood
🔥 Most Enraging
Meta quit the big corporate clean-energy club it had belonged to for ten years, right as it is putting up at least a dozen gas plants to run its AI. It once swore it would be all renewable by 2020. Now it is building enough gas power to run a small state, and says not to worry, it will buy some certificates to even it out. So the promise is gone, the gas is here, and the paperwork will handle the guilt.
😩 Most Exhausting
Scientists say the good news about Antarctica is that the ice will melt at a pace we can see coming for about thirty years, which gives everyone time to get ready for the water. Thirty years of warning. After that, they say, it gets hard to predict and maybe hard to stop. So the comfort on offer is that the flood has a schedule. I have reached the age where I appreciate anything that tells me when.
😤 Unreasonably Annoying
A Japanese company has built what it calls a human refrigerator, a box about the size of a vending machine that you step into so cold air can blast your head and shoulders in the heat. So the summers have gotten bad enough that we are now refrigerating the person instead of the room. I have a basement that does this for nothing, and a wife who says I use it too much.
🤷 Somehow Also Happening
A family in Florida woke up to their doorbell camera showing an eight-foot alligator at the front door, tail slapping the house, hissing like a busted radiator, looking, in the woman's words, so mean. They had to call a trapper to haul it off. Larry barks at the mailman, the vacuum, and his own reflection in the oven door, and means none of it. Put a real eight-foot problem on the step and he would be under the bed billing me for the fright.
❖ And Some Other Stuff ❖
Briefly, And With Limited Enthusiasm
▸ Scientists found the hidden brain switch that assigns bees their jobs — Scientists found the switch in a bee's brain that decides what job it does, the young ones minding the queen, the middle-aged ones building and guarding, the old ones sent out to forage. They can flip it and make an old bee act young again. A whole society sorted by one gene, no argument, everybody in their place. My family cannot agree on who hosts a holiday. The bees have it worked out and we do not.
▸ A new gel could regrow tooth enamel — Scientists in Nottingham made a gel that grows back tooth enamel, pulling minerals out of your own spit to rebuild the surface and fill the small cracks, and they say it ends up behaving just like the real thing. They want it on the market next year. Enamel does not grow back, everyone has always told me, and now apparently it does. Too late for the four teeth I already negotiated away, but good news for whatever is left.
▸ Webb found a giant planet hiding in a famous nearby star system — The Webb telescope found a planet twice the size of Jupiter that had been hiding in a nearby star system the whole time, tucked inside so much cosmic dust that nobody could pick it out. Sixty-three light-years off, and it sat there unseen for years. I cannot find the ketchup when it is in the door of my own refrigerator. They found a whole planet in a dust cloud from here.
Go touch grass. Then complain about the grass.
— The Grump · (and Larry)
Grumpnews. The bad mood, delivered fresh.
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