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Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school: 'So you tried to make a bomb?'quote:Police say they may yet charge him with making a hoax bomb — though they acknowledge he told everyone who would listen that it’s a clock.
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Sep 16, 2015 15:15
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karlor posted:Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school: 'So you tried to make a bomb?' If they actually charge him, the EFF and others are going to have a loving field day.
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Sep 16, 2015 15:28
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karlor posted:Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school: 'So you tried to make a bomb?' quote:It could reasonably be mistaken as a device if left in a bathroom or under a car. At least they didn't shoot the kid.
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Sep 16, 2015 16:38
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karlor posted:Back in college I did a semester-long study of megachurches for a class on the study of religion (we got to choose which religious tradition to research). As part of my research I attended several services at Cornerstone Church in San Antonio (Pastor John Hagee : Televangelist who uses the volunteer labor of his congregation to sell his books from which he keeps all the profits). One of the sermons I sat through was titled "Vote the Bible", and wouldn't you know it, Jesus would have voted straight party Republican (increase defense spending, cut welfare programs, etc.). Isn't this grounds for losing their tax-exempt status?
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Sep 16, 2015 17:11
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Bubbacub posted:Isn't this grounds for losing their tax-exempt status? Hahaha, yeah sure.
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Sep 16, 2015 17:18
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karlor posted:Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school: 'So you tried to make a bomb?' I've been tweeting MacArthur High School for the past hour asking them to advise me on what I should do since I found a clock in my living room this morning. As of a few minutes ago they have protected their twitter account. I regret nothing.
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Sep 16, 2015 17:24
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Bubbacub posted:Isn't this grounds for losing their tax-exempt status? In a 5-4 decision...
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Sep 16, 2015 17:24
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ComposerGuy posted:I've been tweeting MacArthur High School for the past hour asking them to advise me on what I should do since I found a clock in my living room this morning. As of a few minutes ago they have protected their twitter account. I regret nothing. Well done. I also hope this incident doesn't deter him from building affordable mech-suits that make the user immortal in the future. e; Irving TX schools and police: Apologize to Ahmed Mohamed for criminalizing science. MariusLecter fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Sep 16, 2015 |
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Sep 16, 2015 17:32
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ComposerGuy posted:I've been tweeting MacArthur High School for the past hour asking them to advise me on what I should do since I found a clock in my living room this morning. As of a few minutes ago they have protected their twitter account. I regret nothing. 
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Sep 16, 2015 17:50
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ComposerGuy posted:I've been tweeting MacArthur High School for the past hour asking them to advise me on what I should do since I found a clock in my living room this morning. As of a few minutes ago they have protected their twitter account. I regret nothing. The Facebook page is amazing too. https://www.facebook.com/MacArthur-High-School-Irving-ISD-1382426035322080/timeline/
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Sep 16, 2015 18:00
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blackguy32 posted:The Facebook page is amazing too. I've always wondered what sort of sinking feeling of dread comes across you when you're the person that operates the school's social media accounts and you wake up one day to discover that your boss has completely cocked up everything forever.
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Sep 16, 2015 18:44
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blackguy32 posted:The Facebook page is amazing too. Not getting a great report card, LOL.
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Sep 16, 2015 18:56
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QwertyAsher posted:I've always wondered what sort of sinking feeling of dread comes across you when you're the person that operates the school's social media accounts and you wake up one day to discover that your boss has completely cocked up everything forever. I had a friend who managed a lot of the social media for Whole Foods back when the company's CEO went and shot his mouth off in the Obamacare debates. She was basically shoveling poo poo for the next month.
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Sep 16, 2015 19:06
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Irving was a boom-town suburb in the 1950s, and now it's part of that weird crust of old, tired suburbs between rejuvenated central Dallas and the glittering new stuff up north and in Arlington. Hell, even Oak Cliff has been experiencing a relative renaissance (as far as I know; I grew up around Dallas but I've only been back a couple times in the last 25 years). When I went to school in Irving in the 70s (at Irving, not MacArthur), it was a pretty ordinary dumpy suburb, but not really depressed or anything. I mean, it was depressing, but not much better or worse than anywhere else. Now the demographics are way different, and all the Irving public high schools have serious academic problems, and I think all are majority-minority. The (literally) international condemnation of the stupidity would be more satisfying if I thought that there were any influential people involved with enough of a clue to understand how monumentally stupid they've made themselves appear. (Also, can it really be possible that somebody's never seen what a digital clock looks like when you take the cover off?)
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Sep 16, 2015 21:39
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Just found out that my city Corpus Christi had a "All Lives Matter" march. Way to miss the point, guys.
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Sep 20, 2015 04:43
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So after the BlackLivesMatter/BlueLivesMatter showdown protest at the capital, protestors decided to walk out into I-35 and stop traffic. http://kxan.com/2015/09/19/protesters-shut-down-i-35-saturday-afternoon/ quote:AUSTIN (KXAN) — 3:45 p.m.- According to Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, the Austin Police Department and Department of Public Safety six arrests have been made in connection to the group of protesters that marched onto I-35.
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Sep 20, 2015 05:10
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People say shutting down traffic just makes people angry, but that can be good I think. Basically the tactic is to be so annoying that people eventually cave just so you stop bothering them. The problem is making it clear what they're supposed to cave in to. Anyways, a friend of mine who works for a left-wing nonprof in the city hates it how all the activist groups have their rallies at the capitol. "Unless you have 10,000 people or more do to it somewhere else." Because optics. The huge building and vast lawn makes you look small and insignificant. Especially on the weekends when there's nobody in the building. The protesters stage a die-in and the only people watching are other protesters. If they hadn't blocked I-35 no one would have even heard there was a protest going on. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Sep 20, 2015 |
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Sep 20, 2015 06:27
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Omi-Polari posted:People say shutting down traffic just makes people angry, but that can be good I think. Basically the tactic is to be so annoying that people eventually cave just so you stop bothering them. The problem is making it clear what they're supposed to cave in to. Good point about the capital grounds. Then again, it's nice for actual Austin residents that protests mostly keep to the capital grounds, because it keeps a lot of bullshit out of our way. I can't imagine how annoying it would be to deal with Open Carry protests on South Congress. As for shutting down traffic, doing it one time for a total of about ten minutes is definitely an ineffective way to go. Or rather, it would be ineffective if the goal was to achieve some goal other than getting a really awesome image of yourself protesting to set as your Facebook profile pic.
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Sep 20, 2015 06:42
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blackguy32 posted:Just found out that my city Corpus Christi had a "All Lives Matter" march. Way to miss the point, guys. But but but, #BlackLivesMatters have been seen chanting about killing cops so they're a hate group/black supremacist group!  Burn this entire miserable country to the ground and start again.
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Sep 20, 2015 13:13
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e_angst posted:So after the BlackLivesMatter/BlueLivesMatter showdown protest at the capital, protestors decided to walk out into I-35 and stop traffic. How did anyone tell that I35 South was shut down and not business as usual?
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Sep 20, 2015 16:06
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e_angst posted:As for shutting down traffic, doing it one time for a total of about ten minutes is definitely an ineffective way to go. Or rather, it would be ineffective if the goal was to achieve some goal other than getting a really awesome image of yourself protesting to set as your Facebook profile pic. It seems like stopping traffic has generated more attention than the protests would have received otherwise, sounds like it was an effective tactic. Lote posted:How did anyone tell that I35 South was shut down and not business as usual? 
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Sep 20, 2015 18:56
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Just another bad idea from the Gov. https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/645743702464303104 @GregAbbott_TX Bittersweet victory for @Cowboys. Win game but lose @TonyRomo. Maybe Dallas will sign @TimTebow. #NFL.
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Sep 21, 2015 19:46
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Sep 21, 2015 19:52
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OK, stupid question in coming. How do you copy/paste tweets here? I see them all the time but can't figure out how.
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Sep 21, 2015 20:00
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radical meme posted:OK, stupid question in coming. How do you copy/paste tweets here? I see them all the time but can't figure out how. You screenshot it and host the image. Embedding tweets sounds like a good idea but there's probably some reason why it isn't implemented here.
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Sep 21, 2015 20:01
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ReidRansom posted:You screenshot it and host the image. There's no embedding tweets in SA because that would require lots of coding changes, and messing around with SA's/radium's coding tends to cause things to break, sometimes very badly.
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Sep 21, 2015 20:20
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radical meme posted:OK, stupid question in coming. How do you copy/paste tweets here? I see them all the time but can't figure out how. The easiest way is to post a screen shot of the tweet on imgur.com. Then post it here using the option for BBCode as a large thumbnail.
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Sep 21, 2015 21:15
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Spacebump posted:Just another bad idea from the Gov. Put Abbot + cowboys owners + tony romo into a rocket heading for the sun.
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Sep 22, 2015 17:58
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Very monstrous people are gaining power. https://www.texastribune.org/2015/09/26/mccarty-helm-ne-tarrant-tea-party-flexes-its-muscl/
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Sep 26, 2015 20:22
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Nonsense posted:Very monstrous people are gaining power. This is depressing, makes me fear for those counties going full red when national elections start.
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Sep 27, 2015 02:05
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As someone who's a student in Denton, I'm so...so depressed. And voter registration has been going around campus and everything and then I see this and it's just like...ugh.
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Sep 30, 2015 06:08
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So apparently 4chan is spreading a rumor that there's gonna be a shooting at UT Austin today. UTPD is (rightfully) saying it isn't a credible thread, but people are kinda freaking out. Their first Facebook post on it. quote:UTPD is aware of a potentially threatening post that is making the rounds on social media. We are working closely with other agencies. No credible threat at this time. We will alert the community when a threat is determined to be credible. Please report any activity that makes you feel unsafe by dialing 911. Be Safe, Longhorns Of course, that post kinda upset some people who decided UTPD wasn't taking things seriously, so then they posted this... quote:Your safety will always be our first concern. Please know we will text you should you need to be notified of an urgent credible threat. Go here to see the communication tools we use during an emergency. Students, faculty and staff can also find the link to sign up for text alerts on this page: http://emergency.utexas.edu/preparedness/communication-tools
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Oct 6, 2015 14:26
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Hope it won't happen, but I think students were hoping the complaints would maybe lead to the cops trying to push the poo poo in on those racist channer fucks, but we can't even expect police to abuse their power correctly for the actual safety of people.
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Oct 6, 2015 15:54
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Nonsense posted:Hope it won't happen, but I think students were hoping the complaints would maybe lead to the cops trying to push the poo poo in on those racist channer fucks, but we can't even expect police to abuse their power correctly for the actual safety of people. How would UTPD punish 4chan
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Oct 6, 2015 16:09
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Tatum Girlparts posted:How would UTPD punish 4chan I'm pretty sure inciting panic is a crime, even if it's only attempted. Isn't that what they tried to stick Ahmed Mohamed with?
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Oct 6, 2015 16:48
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e_angst posted:So apparently 4chan is spreading a rumor that there's gonna be a shooting at UT Austin today. UTPD is (rightfully) saying it isn't a credible thread, but people are kinda freaking out. We were getting the same response at Texas State University today. The 4chan post said "if you're near Austin," so I guess a bunch of campuses around the area were on alert. Had a few parents and grandparents checking in on the Texas State facebook page who had no idea what was going on. At least we got a few more students to sign up for the text alerts.... even if they do wake us up sometimes as 2am (ugh).
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Oct 6, 2015 19:12
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e_angst posted:So apparently 4chan is spreading a rumor that there's gonna be a shooting at UT Austin today. UTPD is (rightfully) saying it isn't a credible thread, but people are kinda freaking out. Oh, that's what that post was about. I saw some friends sharing it but wasn't quite in the loop about it.
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Oct 6, 2015 22:45
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No shootings then I guess. Did any of you college goers notice any increased security on campus today?
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Oct 6, 2015 22:47
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Svanja posted:We were getting the same response at Texas State University today. The 4chan post said "if you're near Austin," so I guess a bunch of campuses around the area were on alert. Had a few parents and grandparents checking in on the Texas State facebook page who had no idea what was going on. Every single text is "a black male did something weird. it's handled."
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Oct 7, 2015 03:23
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zoux posted:No shootings then I guess. Did any of you college goers notice any increased security on campus today? I was in the library at UT and the loving idiot cops had three squad cars, two ambulances, and two firetrucks go driving through campus with their sirens on so that they could do their DWI crash simulation drill. Everyone was saying WTF and getting scared.
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