this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2024
224 points (93.8% liked)

Not The Onion

11642 readers
1030 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

  1. Links to news stories from...
  2. ...credible sources, with...
  3. ...their original headlines, that...
  4. ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Reminds me of a news segment from The Onion Movie, which came out long before the internet became an integral part of international commerce:

The internet went down for three hours this morning, plunging the nation into productivity.

The outage, which caused major work startages from New York to California, prevented an estimated 120 million American employees from messing around on the Web at work.