Godholio posted:

Well, that's going to make things interesting.

quote:

Turkey Plans to Invade Syria, But to Stop the Kurds, Not ISIS

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is planning a military intervention into northern Syria to prevent Syrian Kurds from forming their own state there, despite concerns among his own generals and possible criticism from Washington and other NATO allies, according to reports in both pro- and anti-government media.

In a speech last Friday, Erdogan vowed that Turkey would not accept a move by Syrian Kurds to set up their own state in Syria following gains by Kurdish fighters against the so-called Islamic State, or ISIS, in recent weeks. “I am saying this to the whole world: We will never allow the establishment of a state on our southern border in the north of Syria,” Erdogan said. “We will continue our fight in that respect whatever the cost may be.” He accused Syrian Kurds of ethnic cleansing in Syrian areas under their control.

The daily Hurriyet reported Erdogan and Davutoglu wanted to “kill two birds with one stone” with a military intervention along the Mare Line. One aim would be to drive ISIS away from the Turkish border, depriving the jihadists of their last foothold on the frontier and thereby cutting off supply lines. Such a move would tie in with the U.S. strategy to contain and weaken ISIS.

A second goal of the operation would be closer to Ankara’s own interests. The English-language Hurriyet Daily News quoted one source saying there was a need to “prevent the PYD from taking full control over the Turkish-Syrian border,” and also to create a zone on Syrian territory rather than in Turkey to take in new waves of refugees.

Stultus Maximus posted:

No, This is going to make things interesting. Turkey claims it's sending in ground forces - but not for the reason you'd expect:

Accretionist posted:

Couldn't they try to prop up a Kurdish state across Iraq and Syria in exchange for said state hoovering up troublesome separatists from their own territory or something? That seems like it'd be productive.

Stultus Maximus posted:

No, This is going to make things interesting. Turkey claims it's sending in ground forces - but not for the reason you'd expect:

bitcoin bastard posted:

I genuinely hope the Kurds come out of this with a state, they seem like cool dudes who have gotten poo poo on for too long.

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Perhaps most perniciously, neo-Confederates now claim that the South seceded for states’ rights. When each state left the Union, its leaders made clear that they were seceding because they were for slavery and against states’ rights. In its “Declaration Of The Causes Which Impel The State Of Texas To Secede From The Federal Union,” for example, the secession convention of Texas listed the states that had offended them: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa. These states had in fact exercised states’ rights by passing laws that interfered with the federal government’s attempts to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act. Some also no longer let slaveowners “transit” through their states with their slaves. “States’ rights” were what Texas was seceding against. Texas also made clear what it was seceding for: white supremacy.

We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.

Despite such statements, during and after the Nadir, neo-Confederates put up monuments that flatly lied about the Confederate cause. For example, South Carolina’s monument at Gettysburg, dedicated in 1965, claims to explain why the state seceded: “Abiding faith in the sacredness of states rights provided their creed here.” This tells us nothing about 1863, when abiding opposition to states’ rights as claimed by free states provided South Carolinians’ creed. In 1965, however, its leaders did support states’ rights. Indeed, they were desperately trying to keep the federal government from enforcing school desegregation and civil rights. The one constant was that the leaders of South Carolina in 1860 and 1965 were acting on behalf of white supremacy.

annapacketstormaya posted:

Israelis didn't develop nukes for nothing

psydude posted:

Here's an article about the South's confederacy fetish in the Washington Post that I'm currently using to troll people on facebook.

Godholio posted:

Several seceding states published such letters saying the same poo poo. They're all available online.

CommieGIR posted:

You figure both the Cornerstone Speech, the Secession Speeches, and the Second Confederate Flag designer's statements would be enough...

Bernard McFacknutah posted:

My family's company does a lot of business in India. No matter how much free poo poo you give to the Indians there is no cohesive central government like there is in China and it's so ridiculously corrupt it makes the PRC look like a Nordic country.

Any defense technology or production technology would just get hemorrhaged out and sold off in about 15 seconds flat.

holocaust bloopers posted:

A robot at a german VW plant killed a man.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/world-news/robot-kills-man-berlin-volkswagen-plant

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Skynet is real.

Also what a lovely way to go.

holocaust bloopers posted:

A robot at a german VW plant killed a man.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/world-news/robot-kills-man-berlin-volkswagen-plant

holocaust bloopers posted:

A robot at a german VW plant killed a man.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/world-news/robot-kills-man-berlin-volkswagen-plant

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Urada was maintenance engineer at a Kawasaki Heavy Industries plant. While working on a broken robot, he failed to turn it off completely, resulting in the robot pushing him into a grinding machine with its hydraulic arm.

Reign Of Pain posted:

holocaust bloopers posted:

A robot at a german VW plant killed a man.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/world-news/robot-kills-man-berlin-volkswagen-plant

MrYenko posted:

Lockout-tagout is a thing for a reason.

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

Never underestimate willful ignorance of safety precautions by workers.

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

Never underestimate willful ignorance of safety precautions by workers. The USCSB has a goldmine of incident rundowns online:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXIkr0SRTnZO4_QpZozvCCA

Groups of professionals can do dumb stuff with bad consequences. One of my favorites: Pipe has leak, firefighters try to identify leak by prying off insulation with picks, causing a small explosion. Firefighters contain the fire then try to blast off the remaining insulation with fire hoses. Then things go really bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiILbGbk8Qk

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

that rundown is probably the best i've ever seen of a post-incident report.

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Truls Hellevik, a diver undergoing decompression aboard the oil rig Byford Dolphin was accidentally exposed to an eight-atmosphere change in air pressure, leading to instantaneous massive expansion of his internal bodily gasses, causing him to explode into many small parts which rained down upon the rig; official investigation of the incident led to changes in some diving-bell resurfacing procedures.

holocaust bloopers posted:

This on the job death spun my head.

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The normal procedure would have been:

Close the bell door.
The diving supervisor would then slightly increase the bell pressure to seal this door tightly.
Close the door between the trunk and chamber 1.
Slowly depressurize the trunk to 1 atmosphere.
Open the clamp to separate the bell from the chamber system.
The first two steps had been completed when, for an unknown reason, one of the tenders opened the clamp before D4 could close the door to the chamber. This resulted in the explosive decompression of the unsealed chamber. Air rushed out of the chamber with tremendous force, jamming the interior trunk door and pushing the bell away, striking the two tenders. The tender who opened the clamp was killed while the other was severely injured.

Coward, Lucas, and Bergersen were exposed to the effects of explosive decompression and died in the positions indicated by the diagram. Subsequent investigation by forensic pathologists determined Hellevik, being exposed to the highest pressure gradient and in the process of moving to secure the inner door, was forced through the 60 centimetres (24 in) in diameter opening created by the jammed interior trunk door by escaping air and violently dismembered, including bisection of the thoracoabdominal cavity which further resulted in expulsion of all internal organs of the chest and abdomen except the trachea and a section of small intestine and of the thoraccic spine and projecting them some distance, one section later being found 10 metres (30 ft) vertically above the exterior pressure door.[5]

psydude posted:

I get that people don't want to shut off production or whatever because they're scared a bunch of retarded MBAs will descend upon them and "realign" their position, but god drat I can't imagine any situation where "Hey, this pipe is leaking highly volatile hydrocarbons. Let's poke it with metal poles and then shoot it with high pressure hoses without turning it off" is preferable to not losing my life.

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Carrey has been an activist on the issue since his relationship with Jenny McCarthy

Jim Carrey left his 14 million Twitter followers in no doubt about his feelings on California’s tough new vaccination law on Tuesday.

The actor believes there is a link between vaccines and autism. He branded California Gov. Jerry Brown a “corporate fascist” after he signed into law one of the strictest immunization programs in the country earlier in the day.

ded posted:

Jim Carrey is a loving anti-vaxxer.