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Lechtansi posted:The way things are headed, California is going to be on fire 24x7 so it might not be so seasonal after all Wasn't the latest huge fire deliberately set by some whackjob? There was a blurb about it on the news last night but I didn't get to see more about it because "Whoop, time for more Olympic poo poo!"
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Tracula posted:This but unironically is what a lot of people think Oh yeah, I've been in the Freep thread. They unironically wish that you could just kill anyone who's being problematic.
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Just found out that Tony Perkins (shitlord extraordinaire who sincerely believes gays cause natural disasters) has lost his house in the big floods we've had in our state. Apparently God either has terrible aim, gives no gently caress about friendly fire, or Tony is just not telling us something...
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Just found out that Tony Perkins (shitlord extraordinaire who sincerely believes gays cause natural disasters) has lost his house in the big floods we've had in our state. That's just God challenging his faith, though. Not a smiting at all.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Wasn't the latest huge fire deliberately set by some whackjob? There was a blurb about it on the news last night but I didn't get to see more about it because "Whoop, time for more Olympic poo poo!" Yeah they caught some construction worker in Lake County who they believe is a serial arsonist who's set 12+ fires over the last year.
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Scruff McGruff posted:Ooooh yeah, that's the good stuff right there. Problem: That guy actually deserved the medal. This is a bribery scandal, and they awarded the medal to the other guy after it was contested.
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C.M. Kruger posted:Yeah they caught some construction worker in Lake County who they believe is a serial arsonist who's set 12+ fires over the last year. I was just telling my fiance that one ISIL moron with a lighter could cause a shitload of damage in CA. Hopefully they actually caught the rear end in a top hat, if this was arson.
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Snapchat A Titty posted:That's just God challenging his faith, though. Not a smiting at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsb2pMzwmdI
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Pesticide20 posted:The Justice Department announced they'll no longer use privatized prisons. The DEA didn't reschedule weed, but at least the gods gave us something in return.
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Grem posted:You think that's bad? Check this poo poo out fam I thought California was a lovely progressive utopia?
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Alternative pants posted:I thought California was a lovely progressive utopia? Only on the coast.
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Like I mentioned earlier. After bringing OitNB this was really great news. I know, I know it's just a TV show and I'm sure a good deal is fictionalized but seeing how much everything went to poo poo after the prison went privately owned depressed the poo poo out of me. But hey. It's a step on the right direction for once. Maybe, just maybe, we can avoid the future Robocop predicted though sans the actual Robocop and ED-209 we are getting goddamn close 
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chitoryu12 posted:Oh yeah, I've been in the Freep thread. They unironically wish that you could just kill anyone who's being problematic. I think most people feel this way about some "other" in society. The difference is a lot of people realize that it's a terrible idea for a variety of reasons and moral ethics is like forth or fifth down the list.
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Trig Discipline posted:I can see the financial logic from a state's perspective, but "hey let's create private companies that have a financial interest in keeping as many people in jail as possible, in a nation where corporate money is allowed to have massive influence on the political decision-making process" never sounded like a great idea to me. Private vs. not-private prisons is entirely orthogonal to that. One of the chief opponents of marijuana legalization in California was the prison guard union...because they had a financial interest in keeping as many people in jail as possible. The prison guard union also was a huge supporter of California's three-strikes legislation that wound up vastly increasing the prison population. And it funded opposition to Proposition 5, which was a diversion program to keep non-violent drug offenders out of prison. Private prisons might be a stupid idea, but it's an issue that's not as important as huge incarceration rates and the laws that make purely consensual activities illegal in the first place.
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Tracula posted:Please don't tell me it gets worse get ready, it's going to get hosed up.
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walrusman posted:It happened yet again. quote:"Nothing like this has ever happened to me," said Manning. "I'm very careful."  And speak of the devil, the 11 foot 8 bridge gave a RV a haircut. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=027W59y45sE
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Midnight Voyager posted:Problem: That guy actually deserved the medal. This is a bribery scandal, and they awarded the medal to the other guy after it was contested. It's already in the schadenfreude thread.
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Volume posted:No schadenfreude, just pure unadulterated joy. Says you. Peep the stock of the company that owns the places.  https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AGEO Edit: KoRMaK posted:The DEA didn't reschedule weed, but at least the gods gave us something in return. Bonus 'freude on the US Federal Government: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fbi-cant-find-hackers-that-dont-smoke-pot TheRagamuffin has a new favorite as of 12:35 on Aug 19, 2016 |
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 They're okay. One attempting the murder ended up with a broken leg and hip and then charged with, well, attempted murder  .
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I like how half of the bystanders run away from the edge as if they're going to fall in as well.
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It's probably more "I don't want to see someone die today."
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Enos Cabell posted:Got a link to that story? Can't find any good English sources, but here's a presumably Mexican news clip. It happened five years ago, apparently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnVnHCZozjM And someone in this reddit thread translated it: quote:She said that "she stole my boyfriend".
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Kurieg posted:It's probably more "I don't want to see someone die today." "Whelp, that train's delayed, better find a better way to get where I'm going. No reason to stick around here."
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Kurieg posted:It's probably more "I don't want to see someone die today." That's definitely what it is. I had the same reaction when I witnessed something similar and then my legs kinda stopped working properly and I had to sit down on a park bench and take some deep breaths. You don't want to be in a foxhole with me, is what I'm saying.
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Foxhound posted:Latest failarmy is out. Chicken with pants. CHICKEN. WITH PANTS.
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Foxhound posted:Latest failarmy is out. "They're Excited."
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Foxhound posted:Latest failarmy is out. I understand the people who try to do a flip or skateboard fast or whatever and land on their head. That's pretty understandable, even if it's really dumb. They're trying to do a cool thing and it could work, at least in theory. But I'll never understand someone who voluntarily drives their car into waist-deep water, or drives away with a boot on their wheel. What the gently caress. You're just guaranteed trashing your vehicle for no loving purpose. What goes through someone's head when they do something that stupid?
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Foxhound posted:
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Gotta say, that seemed out of line for what I'm used to from these videos. I'd be surprised if no one died in that accident. Yes, you would be: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/horrifying-footage-captures-head-crash-8628717
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And More posted:Yes, you would be: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/horrifying-footage-captures-head-crash-8628717 Well then I'm surprised.
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DontMockMySmock posted:But I'll never understand someone who voluntarily drives their car into waist-deep water, or drives away with a boot on their wheel. What the gently caress. You're just guaranteed trashing your vehicle for no loving purpose. What goes through someone's head when they do something that stupid? Sometimes it works!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcsVzyb_skU But then there's the British response... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bek_matBjf0
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:But then there's the British response... Am I understanding this correctly, his car was booted because he didn't pay his License fees, so he makes it literally undriveable in protest?
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