Screenshot of post from 2019 by AFP News Agency reading: "@NASA is investigating what may be the first crime in outer space, with astronaut Anne McClain accused of identity theft and improperly accessing her estranged wife's private financial records while on the ISS." @Lana@beige.party on Mastodon captions this with: "Lesbians are responsible for 100% of all space crime" is by far my favorite statistic to date. Just barely edging out "Mars is populated entirely by robots".

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[–] 77 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The claims were later found to be false, and McClain was cleared.[28]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McClain

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  • [+] 36 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Why is this place already turning into Reddit?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It was built to mimic Reddit and is populated almost entirely by refugees from Reddit. I’m not sure this could have turned out any other way, man.

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  • [+] -16 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Armytimes is the first place I go to find about crimes of US service members.

    Also, she's yankistani, they even hide war crimes of their service members. This means nothing.

    Do you think they'd not try to hide being labeled as "1st criminals in space"?

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  • [–] [M] 18 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    1 report: “misinformation”

    The accusation and investigation really happened.

    The conclusions made by the color commentary are inadmissible and, true or false, funny to read. And I doubt very seriously it was a deliberate attempt to mislead or slander.

    General life advice: I discourage the reporter and everyone else from using a meme community as any kind of news source.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm not the reporter but just for my understanding: Spreading false information about a real person is not misinformation if it is

    • funny
    • maybe not deliberate
    • posted in a meme community

    Am I getting this right?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    be crime

    do gays

    ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Literally how??

    I didn't even know could access your own back records from space, let alone pull off Ocean's Lesbian.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You do realise they have WiFi up there, right?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Imagining the astronauts recording TikToks in between their very serious space experiments.

    I know there have been viral videos from space before, but like...

    "Jerry? You've been on the space toilet for three hours."

    "My bad. I got caught up scrolling Lemmy on my space phone."

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    "There's no laws in space, Batman."

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    WOKE LEFT COLONAZING SPACE :3

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Be gay, do [space] crime

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not stupid at all. While on the ISS, I believe no laws are enforced. So I suppose she did it on purpose while she was in space, to avoid criminal conviction.

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