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I've heard audio and seen vids of hypoxia before but it's still amazing how quickly it goes from slow, almost slurred and clearly impaired <insert 'everything is fine' cartoon here> to snappy, in control as soon as there's reasonable oxygen again.
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Pick posted:The case of Charles Becker, the only policeman ever executed for murder in the USA, is also a pretty interesting "trial of the century". https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/100-years-after-a-murder-questions-about-a-police-officers-guilt/ Apparently some people doubt his guilt (not of the corruption, only of the murder). Interesting story.
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This isn't the thread's usual sort of "unnerving," but it's utterly heartbreaking. This guy takes only foster children who are in hospice care, because he knows no one else will take them. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-foster-father-sick-children-2017-story.html quote:The children were going to die. quote:“If anyone ever calls us and says, ‘This kid needs to go home on hospice,’ there’s only one name we think of,” said Melissa Testerman, a DCFS intake coordinator who finds placements for sick children. “He’s the only one that would take a child who would possibly not make it.”
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pookel posted:This isn't the thread's usual sort of "unnerving," but it's utterly heartbreaking. This guy takes only foster children who are in hospice care, because he knows no one else will take them. I wonder if there's a German word meaning "simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking". Who am I kidding of course there is.
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Feb 14, 2017 19:47
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pookel posted:This isn't the thread's usual sort of "unnerving," but it's utterly heartbreaking. This guy takes only foster children who are in hospice care, because he knows no one else will take them. I read this over the weekend and it made me cry. Such a beautiful human being.
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Feb 14, 2017 19:56
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There's something a little weird about someone that can do that. I'd be demoralized and emotionally tapped out for years after watching one kid die. Dude has more empathy than I will ever have in my entire life.
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Stairs posted:I wonder if there's a German word meaning "simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking". You could argue it could come under the heading of 'Weltschmerz' (i.e: world-pain; the bittersweetness of feeling what existence is truly capable of) if you're willing to be a bit poetic about it 
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pookel posted:This isn't the thread's usual sort of "unnerving," but it's utterly heartbreaking. This guy takes only foster children who are in hospice care, because he knows no one else will take them. I know you prefaced it with saying it's not the threads usual type of unnerving but I seriously thought the article was going to be "person takes advantage of kids/the system somehow by fostering hospice orphans" and was cringing but I ended the article tearing up for a completely different reason. Jesus
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Feb 14, 2017 21:04
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pookel posted:This isn't the thread's usual sort of "unnerving," but it's utterly heartbreaking. This guy takes only foster children who are in hospice care, because he knows no one else will take them. Wow. Sad story but it's an immensely kind thing he is doing for these children. No child deserves to die alone without someone there to care for them. Mohamed Bzeek is a truly heroic man.
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Feb 14, 2017 22:09
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Solice Kirsk posted:There's something a little weird about someone that can do that. I'd be demoralized and emotionally tapped out for years after watching one kid die. Dude has more empathy than I will ever have in my entire life. Like seriously, the system should be subsidizing the cost of any therapy this guys needs. Lol who am I kidding?
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Feb 14, 2017 22:15
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That is an amazing person. I couldn't do that once much less multiple times and with total strangers too drat.
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Feb 14, 2017 22:29
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Jack Gladney posted:Netflix just got a ton of Forensics Files episodes, and per the earlier discussion of the show here, my big take away is that most people who commit crimes are incredibly stupid. I like the ones where it's like "30 years later, Gary told the police that the weekend his brother's wife disappeared he had helped his brother bury a large bag full or 'tractor parts' in the woods. He recalled that the bag was covered in 'red paint' and that his brother became agitated when he wanted to look inside of it".
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It was either Forensic Files or Cold Case Files, where they busted a man like fifty or so years after he killed a cop as a teenager.
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whiteyfats posted:It was either Forensic Files or Cold Case Files, where they busted a man like fifty or so years after he killed a cop as a teenager. Gerald Mason?
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Platystemon posted:Gerald Mason? I can't remember the name, but his wiki seems to be the one!
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The first two seasons of Unsolved Mysteries are streaming on Amazon prime now
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Maraschino Cherries, the sweet and crunchy topping to a perfect sundae... In the areas around the Dell Maraschino Cherries factory the bee keepers noticed that instead of harvesting delicious golden honey the bees were only producing red slime. It turns out the bees were visiting the maraschino cherry and filling up on high-fructose corn syrup and dye run off before flying home. "The Mystery of the Red Bees of Red Hook" http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/nyregion/30bigcity.html Then it gets weird, investigators go in to check the factory, and instead find huge underground pot growing factory under the maraschino cherry factory. After they tell the CEO they are going to get a search warrant, he says, "I have to go to the bathroom," and shoots himself in the head. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/nyregion/the-fall-of-the-cherry-king.html?_r=0 This wasn't a little cherry farm, this was a billion cherry a year business opened in 1948. Like, one of the biggest suppliers of maraschino cherries in country, supplying places like Olive Garden, TGI Fridays, Steak ’n Shake, and Chick-fil-A.
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:Maraschino Cherries, the sweet and crunchy topping to a perfect sundae... I can't wait for the Coen Brothers adaptation of this series of events
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A quick death is probably preferable to time in an American prison. That poo poo is unconscionable.
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Chard posted:A quick death is probably preferable to time in an American prison. That poo poo is unconscionable. 
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:Maraschino Cherries, the sweet and crunchy topping to a perfect sundae... No one should have to excuse themselves to blow their brains out because they created a huge underground pot growing factory, that deserves a medal Guess that's just (the lame parts of) America for ya
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Punkin Spunkin posted:The polluting bees is hosed up but it's sad the dude's downfall and suicide was over something so harmless Also if that guy was actually making millions or whatever then lol at the idea that he'd even see a jail cell
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Aesop Poprock posted:Also if that guy was actually making millions or whatever then lol at the idea that he'd even see a jail cell Except he was making it selling drugs that are not proscribed by doctors. See if something is super addictive and get you high as gently caress, it's illegal unless you get a doctor to say you need it for your gammy back. It makes it all okay.
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Tehdas posted:Except he was making it selling drugs that are not proscribed by doctors. See if something is super addictive and get you high as gently caress, it's illegal unless you get a doctor to say you need it for your gammy back. It makes it all okay. Maraschino cherries are delicious and addictive, but I wouldn't call them drugs, friend.
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I guess I should have added that people think he killed himself before the mafia got the chance to.
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Chemical warfare is always a fun topic; I was in the initial invasion of Iraq, and few things freaked us out more than the possibility that Saddam was going to dump a bunch of nerve gas on us. Had to deal with a lot of lovely false alarms where I'm stuck wearing a mask for hours, and wearing what's basically a charcoal-filled snowsuit in the middle of the goddam Sahara since we all had to be constantly prepped for gas attacks. In 1854 Lyon Playfair, British Secretary of Science and Art, proposed using cyanide artillery shells in the Crimean War, and was pretty put out when people thought it was a monstrous idea: quote:There was no sense in this objection. It is considered a legitimate mode of warfare to fill shells with molten metal which scatters among the enemy, and produced the most frightful modes of death. Why a poisonous vapor which would kill men without suffering is to be considered illegitimate warfare is incomprehensible. War is destruction, and the more destructive it can be made with the least suffering the sooner will be ended that barbarous method of protecting national rights. No doubt in time chemistry will be used to lessen the suffering of combatants, and even of criminals condemned to death. Basically he's all "so shooting them with bullets, stabbing them with bayonets, that's all cool, but I want them to just die in their sleep and I'm a monster?" EDIT: Here's some old-school "disruptive American tech" quote:A general concern over the use of poison gas manifested itself in 1899 at the Hague Conference with a proposal prohibiting shells filled with asphyxiating gas. The proposal was passed, despite a single dissenting vote from the United States. The American representative, Navy Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, justified voting against the measure on the grounds that "the inventiveness of Americans should not be restricted in the development of new weapons."
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Mahan had a point. He had already created the most toxic weapon ever to strike America’s enemies, though it wouldn’t be recognised as such till about fifty years later.
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That attitude of "we need to come up with the most destructive weapons possible because then people won't want to go to war and if they do the war will be short" was really common back then, and stayed common all the way up until several nations each had weapons capable of ending life on Earth and war still didn't stop. I'm sure there's still people who hold it, too.
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A Pinball Wizard posted:That attitude of "we need to come up with the most destructive weapons possible because then people won't want to go to war and if they do the war will be short" was really common back then, and stayed common all the way up until several nations each had weapons capable of ending life on Earth and war still didn't stop. I'm sure there's still people who hold it, too. Well, technically speaking, the nukes did stop the war between the US and Japan from continuing and being several times worse for both sides, and it kept the Cold War from going hot(er, ignoring the proxies).
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Chemical warfare is always a fun topic; I was in the initial invasion of Iraq, and few things freaked us out more than the possibility that Saddam was going to dump a bunch of nerve gas on us. Had to deal with a lot of lovely false alarms where I'm stuck wearing a mask for hours, and wearing what's basically a charcoal-filled snowsuit in the middle of the goddam Sahara since we all had to be constantly prepped for gas attacks. Sounds like he really should have been called, "Lyon Playunfair"
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poopy pee pee posted:Sounds like he really should have been called, "Lyon Playunfair" 
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WickedHate posted:Well, technically speaking, the nukes did stop the war between the US and Japan from continuing and being several times worse for both sides, and it kept the Cold War from going hot(er, ignoring the proxies). Isn't it true that all Purple Hearts awarded since WWII were made in anticipation with continuing war with Japan, which stopped because of the bomb? Do they make new Purple Hearts anymore or are they still left over from seventy plus years ago?
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bean_shadow posted:Isn't it true that all Purple Hearts awarded since WWII were made in anticipation with continuing war with Japan, which stopped because of the bomb? Do they make new Purple Hearts anymore or are they still left over from seventy plus years ago? More were manufactured in 2000, but at that time the Operation Downfall stockpile stood at one hundred and twenty thousand.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Chemical warfare is always a fun topic; I was in the initial invasion of Iraq, and few things freaked us out more than the possibility that Saddam was going to dump a bunch of nerve gas on us. Had to deal with a lot of lovely false alarms where I'm stuck wearing a mask for hours, and wearing what's basically a charcoal-filled snowsuit in the middle of the goddam Sahara since we all had to be constantly prepped for gas attacks. Syrian and Arabian Deserts, actually!
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:I guess I should have added that people think he killed himself before the mafia got the chance to.
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1000 umbrellas posted:What's up plane crash enthusiasts. Haven't seen this posted in a while (or maybe at all), and there's some great contemporary media to accompany it. quote:Futrell and Stoner had not found the cockpit flight recorder, it said, but rather the rack that had fixed it on to the plane - and the promising spool of tape turned out to be "an 18-minute recording of the 'Trial by Treehouse' episode of the television series 'I Spy', dubbed in Spanish."
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Chemical warfare is always a fun topic; I was in the initial invasion of Iraq, and few things freaked us out more than the possibility that Saddam was going to dump a bunch of nerve gas on us. Had to deal with a lot of lovely false alarms where I'm stuck wearing a mask for hours, and wearing what's basically a charcoal-filled snowsuit in the middle of the goddam Sahara since we all had to be constantly prepped for gas attacks. Even in the 1850s it must have been known that cyanide is far from humane. At best you're looking at panic followed by convulsions, then unconsciousness and death. In that particular case I'd argue a bullet or shrapnel is the less savage way to cause death.
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More plane stuff - Experienced pilot in Melbourne plane crash under investigation for previous incident Yesterday in Melbourne a chartered flight crashed into a shopping center next to a major highway, killing the pilot and the four Americans on board. A tragic accident. However new evidence unveiled by the fourth estate today: Linked news.com.au article posted:Mr Quartermain has been remembered as a “fine pilot”, but he was involved in a “close shave” less than two years ago. He was tested and cleared to fly again after this incident. That linked article has a lot of footage of the plane going down and the DFO burning in the aftermath. AvGas burns like a motherfucker, don't it.
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Personally I think it's a little lovely that some media organisations have focussed on the "close shave" thing so much. I mean firstly, he had to undertake three separate assessments after to prove his competency after the incident (all of which he passed, the latest in October) and it sounds like the "close shave" was in pretty dire conditions, rather than a sunny clear day where everything was hunky dory. In any case, they're currently saying the plane suffered a catastrophic double engine failure, which sounds like a mechanical fault to me. I mean of course examine the pilot and his record, but it feels to me like some media organisations are actively looking to make it his fault before any evidence of it actually being so is out. (This isn't an attack on you, paramecium, more a criticism of how the media reports on accidents.)
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