Sir Kodiak posted:

This was Rosie O'Donnell's tweet, for those that are curious:

Nebalebadingdong posted:

http://i.imgur.com/bf4mg4n.mp4

http://i.imgur.com/vBESst6.mp4

big scary monsters posted:

Not sure about this American remake of Monkey Dust.


"Machine Learning artist Gene Kogan demonstrates what happens repeatedly re-apply the smile filter over the same image until a face is no longer detected."

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

lancemantis posted:

https://twitter.com/SoBendito/status/862842129386790912

quote:

"People see that I'm upper middle class, that I'm a woman who stays at home, who is kept by her husband, and instantly there's no clout. My opinion doesn't matter," she says. "They look at me and think, 'She has never experienced a problem we're having.'"

lancemantis posted:

https://twitter.com/SoBendito/status/862842129386790912

lancemantis posted:

https://twitter.com/SoBendito/status/862842129386790912

lancemantis posted:

https://twitter.com/SoBendito/status/862842129386790912

Washington Post posted:

On March 21, 2011, Shawn Funk was digging in Alberta’s Millennium Mine with a mechanical backhoe, when he hit “something much harder than the surrounding rock.” A closer look revealed something that looked like no rock Funk had ever seen, just “row after row of sandy brown disks, each ringed in gunmetal gray stone.”

It was the snout-to-hips portion of a nodosaur, a “member of the heavily-armored ankylosaur subgroup,” that roamed during the Cretaceous Period, according to Smithsonian. This group of heavy herbivores, which walked on four legs, likely resembled a cross between a lizard and a lion — but covered in scales.

Unlike its cousins in the ankylosaur subgroup, the nodosaur lacked a bony club at the end of its tail, instead using armor plates, thick knobs and two 20-inch spikes along its armored side for protection, according to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. “These guys were like four-footed tanks,” dinosaur tracker Ray Stanford told The Washington Post in 2012.

This particular one, according to a news release, was 18 feet long and weighed around 3,000 pounds. As Michael Greshko wrote for National Geographic, such level of preservation “is a rare as winning the lottery.” He continued:

"The more I look at it, the more mind-boggling it becomes. Fossilized remnants of skin still cover the bumpy armor plates dotting the animal’s skull. Its right forefoot lies by its side, its five digits splayed upward. I can count the scales on its sole. Caleb Brown, a postdoctoral researcher at the museum, grins at my astonishment. “We don’t just have a skeleton,” he tells me later. “We have a dinosaur as it would have been.”

Researchers believe it was on a river’s edge, perhaps having a drink of water, when a flood swept it downriver. Eventually, the land creature floated out to the sea — which the mine where it was found once was — and sank to the bottom. There, minerals quickly “infiltrated the skin and armor and cradled its back, ensuring that the dead nodosaur would keep its true-to-life form as eons’ worth of rock piled atop it.”

We Know Catheters posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3792439&pagenumber=175&perpage=40#post472230351

quote:

Several months ago, I was interviewed by the local news and NPR. There was a new apartment building being built a few miles from my home, and one controversial item was the amount of Section 8 housing available.

My actual views are this - Section 8 housing attracts a lot of single working mothers. My neighborhood (including me) is mostly stay at home wives and mothers. There's obviously an issue there and I don't believe our neighborhood provides the right environment for those people. So I protested the Section 8 housing, made the local news, and was interviewed for NPR.

I came across very badly on NPR. Some of it is due to their agenda and some fancy editing, but some of it is mine. They asked me point blank if I was racist, and I said no. Then they asked if I was scared about lower class people moving in. I was so taken aback that I paused for a bit and stammered out an answer, which was rambling and bad and made me sound like a racist. I also mentioned that the nation was very divided and I didn't believe there were solutions to our economic disparity. And, finally, I said that I don't envy millionaires and wish I had their lifestyle, so single mothers shouldn't envy me and my lifestyle. It's not fair.

This was all from before the election and obviously, I view things a bit differently now. I see Trump is fixing the racial and especially economic divides started by Obama. So I'd love to do a followup interview but I believe that ship has sailed because we managed to shut down the Section 8 housing ANYWAY so there's no story.

But that's just backstory. This interview apparently aired in some markets last night, along with a followup stating that the Section 8 housing was closed. They also did a profile of a woman trying to get Section 8 housing and the impact on her life. Basically, the juxtaposition of the 2 stories made me seem like an enormous racist who personally ruined this woman's life. I also gave my full name in the interview and my facebook page has been swarmed with protests and horrible words and some of the most hateful things I've ever read.

I learned today that racism and classism still exist. I'm an average white middle class person, and I've been demonized and made out to be some kind of strawman representing all the forces of oppression.

lancemantis posted:

Gold

How does one end up this loving stupid?

ElectricWizard posted:

https://twitter.com/marlonfuc/status/862697252434964481?s=09

lancemantis posted:

Gold


How does one end up this loving stupid?

computer angel posted:

TheBigAristotle posted:

Holy poo poo, I got to this part and was like, wow, you're not only racist, you think things are getting better under Tromp:

"This was all from before the election and obviously, I view things a bit differently now. I see Trump is fixing the racial and especially economic divides started by Obama. So I'd love to do a followup interview but I believe that ship has sailed because we managed to shut down the Section 8 housing ANYWAY so there's no story."

Unkempt posted:

Where did this followup come from? Google doesn't seem to know.


edit: oh wait it's from that GBS thread, almost certainly bollocks

lancemantis posted:

https://twitter.com/SoBendito/status/862842129386790912

Filthy Hans posted:

It's not bullshit, it's from a follow-up statement by the airhead in this PBS Frontline clip:

lancemantis posted:

https://twitter.com/SoBendito/status/862842129386790912

Filthy Hans posted:

It's not bullshit, it's from a follow-up statement by the airhead in this PBS Frontline clip:

gbut posted:

So a precursor to