February Current Events: a momentary lapse of treason

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shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

facialimpediment posted:

There are fuckups, then there are "oops we might have radiated thousands of people at the Grand Canyon and then removed the buckets full of uranium ore with dishwashing gloves and a mop handle" fuckups.

https://twitter.com/stephaniekays/status/1097696581153972224

I guaran-goddamn-tee the fuckup here is the safety director not knowing the difference between m and μ. You can't get that much dose from a 5 gallon bucket of unused reactor fuel much less goddamn ore.

# ? Feb 19, 2019 05:30

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# ? May 28, 2024 08:31

Nostalgia4Infinity: Feb 27, 2007; 10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING

DoktorLoken posted:

I don't know.. I've done a lot of dumb things in my life, especially while drunk. But I've never poo poo my pants while drunk.

Well that�s one thing you and gun Barbie don�t have in common 😂

# ? Feb 19, 2019 05:30

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

Godholio posted:

Myth.

The existing treatment options are basically painkillers and/or surgery.

This might cause some issues with the whole "Five Eyes" intel/mil sharing thing.

smoke pot

# ? Feb 19, 2019 05:31

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzfihVLm_Uc

# ? Feb 19, 2019 05:31

Godholio: Aug 28, 2002; Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Bored As gently caress posted:

gently caress man. That sucks. I know it might not help right now, but always remember - it could be worse. Could be something life threatening.

The surgery does not involve any cutting. I'll let you figure the rest out from there.

EBB posted:

smoke pot

Narp. I like my job.

# ? Feb 19, 2019 05:36

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

Bored As gently caress posted:

gently caress man. That sucks. I know it might not help right now, but always remember - it could be worse. Could be something life threatening.

Firing hot glass shards out of your dilz might as well be life threatening

(if kidney stones can't be reduced in size through diet change or passed with a muscle relaxation medicine then the next step is blasting it with ultrasound and letting the smaller pieces pass through the next time you pee)

# ? Feb 19, 2019 05:41

Bored As Fuck: Jan 1, 2006; Fun Shoe

Godholio posted:

The surgery does not involve any cutting. I'll let you figure the rest out from there.

gently caress

I thought they opened you up laproscopically, and picked em out like some bladder stones or gall stones. I just looked at surgery videos. Holy gently caress.

# ? Feb 19, 2019 05:49

Nostalgia4Butts: Jun 1, 2006; WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

l https://mobile.twitter.com/LaF3mm3Nikita/status/1097561285745692672

malcom nance is cool right

# ? Feb 19, 2019 05:55

Acebuckeye13: Nov 2, 2010; Ultra Carp

facialimpediment posted:

There are fuckups, then there are "oops we might have radiated thousands of people at the Grand Canyon and then removed the buckets full of uranium ore with dishwashing gloves and a mop handle" fuckups.

https://twitter.com/stephaniekays/status/1097696581153972224

"Thousands" is overstating it heavily. That building is in a back area of the village that's decently set away from any tourist areas, it's not on public maps or generally open to the public, and most people who go through there are part of prearranged tours. I worked at the park, I've been through that building, and I'm not concerned in the slightest.

The dishwashing gloves and mop handle parts are pretty hilarious, though.

e: bonus :byodood:

~radiation~ :byodood:

sign off of Grandview Trail:

There used to be a bunch of mines directly in the canyon, mostly for copper but then it turned out there's a shitload of uranium there. This mine was only ever for copper and closed down in the first decade of the 1900s, but since there's still exposed uranium ore/dust it gets the ~radiation~ sign ~~which also helps deter visitors from dicking around in old mines~~. Uranium was directly mined on the rim of the canyon near the village up until 1967 when the Orphan mine was finally shut down, and they still mine it off park land and on the bordering reservations. :eng101:

Acebuckeye13 fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Feb 19, 2019

# ? Feb 19, 2019 06:44

KirbyKhan: Mar 20, 2009; Soiled Meat

Eej posted:

Firing hot glass shards out of your dilz might as well be life threatening

(if kidney stones can't be reduced in size through diet change or passed with a muscle relaxation medicine then the next step is blasting it with ultrasound and letting the smaller pieces pass through the next time you pee)

What the gently caress is the point if a male dominated patriarchy if my dick injuries are not pushed to the front of the line?

# ? Feb 19, 2019 07:03

Bored As Fuck: Jan 1, 2006; Fun Shoe

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

l https://mobile.twitter.com/LaF3mm3Nikita/status/1097561285745692672

malcom nance is cool right

He's a great author and all around cool dude. I don't know if he's a progressive, but he's extremely intelligent and well informed on all things terrorism, national security, and international relations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Nance

quote:

Intelligence consulting
In 2001, after retiring from the Navy, Nance founded Special Readiness Services International (SRSI), an intelligence support company. On the morning of 9/11, driving to Arlington he witnessed the crash of American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon.[1][8] He acted as a first responder at the helipad crash site where he helped organize the rescue and recovery of victims.[1][8] Subsequently, Nance served as an intelligence and security contractor in Iraq, Afghanistan, the UAE and North Africa.[17][18]

Between 2005 and 2007 Nance was a visiting lecturer on counterterrorism in Sydney, Australia at Macquarie University's Centre on Policing, Intelligence and Counter-terrorism (PICT) and at Victoria University of Wellington in Wellington, New Zealand.[19]

Nance now directs a think tank that he founded, the "Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideologies", which analyzes counterterrorism.[1][14] Nance is also a member of the advisory board of directors for the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.[8]

On August 20, 2016, Nance told MSNBC viewers that Green Party's presidential nominee Jill Stein "has a show on Russia Today."[20] Glenn Greenwald later wrote: "there is no disputing the fact that Nance�s statement was a falsehood, a fabrication, a lie. Stein did not have a show on RT, nor did she ever host a show on RT."[21] Nance also accused Greenwald of being "an agent of Moscow" and "deep in the Kremlin pocket." He also stated that Greenwald "helped Snowden defect" and "reports into [his] masters in Moscow." Greenwald accused Nance of lying.[21]

Writing
In 2007, Nance wrote an article criticizing waterboarding for the counterinsurgency blog Small Wars Journal titled "Waterboarding is Torture... period."[22][23] Nance wrote: "I know waterboarding is torture - because I did it myself." Nance claimed to have witnessed and supervised waterboarding of hundreds of people.[24] Republished in the Pentagon Early Bird, it set off a firestorm as the first credible description of the torture technique as used in SERE. The article strongly swayed the Pentagon against the use of the waterboard because its misuse would damage America's reputation worldwide. Nance claimed that using the torture techniques of America's former enemies dishonors the memory of U.S. service members who died in captivity through torture, and that torture does not produce credible intelligence.[15][16] Nance was called to testify before the U.S. Congress about the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques".[15][16] He told the House Judiciary Committee that: "Waterboarding is torture, period... I believe that we must reject the use of the waterboard for prisoners and captives and cleanse this stain from our national honor...water overpowering your gag reflex, and then feel(ing) your throat open and allow pint after pint of water to involuntarily fill your lungs."[15][16]

Nance's books on counter-terrorism and intelligence include: An End to al-Qaeda,[25] Terrorist Recognition Handbook,[26] The Terrorists of Iraq,[27] Defeating ISIS,[2][28] The Plot to Hack America,[3] and Hacking ISIS.[29] In 2018, he published The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West.[30]

Dude rules.

Bored As Fuck fucked around with this message at 08:01 on Feb 19, 2019

# ? Feb 19, 2019 07:55

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

Bored As gently caress posted:

gently caress

I thought they opened you up laproscopically, and picked em out like some bladder stones or gall stones. I just looked at surgery videos. Holy gently caress.

The progression of treatment is, diet change (including increased hydration), medication to reduce the size of the stones if possible, medication to relax the tubes so you can pass it more easily, ultrasound applied to pelvic area to shatter the stones into pieces that can be passed in the urine, endoscope through the urethra to either shatter directly with ultrasound or physically remove the stone (like Deadwood but slightly more high tech) and the worst case scenario is direct surgical removal via incision if the stone is too big or in a bad spot and can't be passed easily.

Cutting people open is always the last resort for anything nowadays because your skin is excellent at repelling infection as long as it's intact and going under anesthesia comes with its own risks as well (reminder that your body still experiences pain while under anesthesia, your brain just doesn't feel it).

# ? Feb 19, 2019 08:35

egyptian rat race: Jul 13, 2007; Lowtax Spine Fund 2019; Ultra Carp

Condolences... had a co-worker go through multiple rounds of the ultrasound and looked pretty miserable for the next few days passing whatever bits got broken up. He was in his mid-30s... When asked what caused it he said he grew up in rural Oklahoma and couldn't really remember drinking water as a kid, just coke 24/7, even at breakfast :911:

# ? Feb 19, 2019 12:24

psydude: Apr 1, 2008

Eej posted:

(reminder that your body still experiences pain while under anesthesia, your brain just doesn't feel it).

This is one of those things I could have been OK with not knowing.

# ? Feb 19, 2019 12:53

Time Crisis Actor: Apr 28, 2002; by Hand Knit

It�s time to feel the Bern....again!

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/19/6769...ontent=20190219

# ? Feb 19, 2019 12:55

psydude: Apr 1, 2008

I think Bernie's the only Dem candidate so far I'd be enthusiastic for, other than Buttigieg (who has no chance of winning).

# ? Feb 19, 2019 13:02

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I'm imagining something like plugs for making ear piercings bigger, but for your urethra

# ? Feb 19, 2019 13:20

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

psydude posted:

I think Bernie's the only Dem candidate so far I'd be enthusiastic for, other than Buttigieg (who has no chance of winning).

I'd be enthusiastic for Warren if I wasn't worried about her losing head to head with Trump.

# ? Feb 19, 2019 13:23

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# ? Feb 19, 2019 13:35

FrozenVent: May 1, 2009; The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

Hot Karl Marx posted:

I'm imagining something like plugs for making ear piercings bigger, but for your urethra

These are called sounds, and they�re sold at sex shops.

# ? Feb 19, 2019 13:36

Hot Karl Marx: Mar 16, 2009; Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

FrozenVent posted:

These are called sounds, and they’re sold at sex shops.

I really didn't need to know those actually existed

# ? Feb 19, 2019 13:44

Vasudus: May 30, 2003

That statement applies to probably half of all things on the internet.

# ? Feb 19, 2019 14:05

bird food bathtub: Aug 9, 2003; College Slice

Hot Karl Marx posted:

I really didn't need to know those actually existed

We have the internet. There are entire communities devoted to the ins ( :v:

) and outs of things like these.

# ? Feb 19, 2019 14:08

mlmp08: Jul 11, 2004; Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration; Nap Ghost

https://twitter.com/pftompkins/status/1097742184109957120?s=21

# ? Feb 19, 2019 14:32

Proud Christian Mom: Dec 20, 2006; READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

No war but class war Bernie 2020

# ? Feb 19, 2019 14:49

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

Deathy McDeath posted:

It’s time to feel the Bern....again!

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/19/6769...ontent=20190219

Finally, TAKE ALL MY DONATIONS BERN

# ? Feb 19, 2019 15:01

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shame on an IGA posted:

Finally, TAKE ALL MY DONATIONS BERN

https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1097858298261450752?s=19

# ? Feb 19, 2019 15:05

Crakkerjakk: Mar 14, 2016

That Works posted:

I'd be enthusiastic for Warren if I wasn't worried about her losing head to head with Trump.

I dunno, I think she'd probably still go after him pretty well, seeing how she's gone after rich assholes in various Committee hearings and such.

Honestly these days climate change is my number one issue (and securing sufficient democracy/political power to keep people in power who will do something drastic about climate change), and my general feeling is that Warren isn't ready to kick off Green New Deal-level changes to save our asses.

Also I'm more confident of Sanders' stance on staying out of further "killing foreigners" adventures. He was weak on that front in 2016, but he's gotten a lot better. I haven't seen much of that from Warren yet.

# ? Feb 19, 2019 15:25

Hot Karl Marx: Mar 16, 2009; Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

This election cycle is gonna own

https://twitter.com/NatsSquid/status/1097857759612207104?s=19

# ? Feb 19, 2019 15:31

Mr. Nice!: Oct 13, 2005; bone shaking.
soul baking.

FrozenVent posted:

These are called sounds, and they�re sold at sex shops.

Sounding rods. It's a take on an old nautical term. Maffew buildings used to initiate people into his gang of cool people by showing them a sounding video. I ate a probation for making a joke about the old "kids in the sandbox" sounding video a while back. If you weren't on the internet 15-20 years ago, kids in the sandbox is a clip from a porno where a chick sticks a 4-5" vibrator down the urethra of an erect penis. The man had a meatatomy (I think that's the name of the procedure where they increase your dickhole opening by snipping it down the frenulum) to allow for it. A non-trivial amount of prince albert jewelry incorporates sounding rods.

I have encyclopedic knowledge of poo poo like this seared into my brain and I can't always remember something someone told me 10 minutes ago.

# ? Feb 19, 2019 15:35

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# ? Feb 19, 2019 15:38

facialimpediment: Feb 11, 2005; as the world turns

Fuckin' 2019.

https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1097875316285034498?s=19

When you know what's going on with the Supreme Court because TMZ had a cameraman ready in the nearby airport.

# ? Feb 19, 2019 16:22

Hot Karl Marx: Mar 16, 2009; Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

facialimpediment posted:

Fuckin' 2019.

https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1097875316285034498?s=19

When you know what's going on with the Supreme Court because TMZ had a cameraman ready in the nearby airport.

# ? Feb 19, 2019 16:23

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

Mr. Nice! posted:

Sounding rods. It's a take on an old nautical term. Maffew buildings used to initiate people into his gang of cool people by showing them a sounding video. I ate a probation for making a joke about the old "kids in the sandbox" sounding video a while back. If you weren't on the internet 15-20 years ago, kids in the sandbox is a clip from a porno where a chick sticks a 4-5" vibrator down the urethra of an erect penis. The man had a meatatomy (I think that's the name of the procedure where they increase your dickhole opening by snipping it down the frenulum) to allow for it. A non-trivial amount of prince albert jewelry incorporates sounding rods.

I have encyclopedic knowledge of poo poo like this seared into my brain and I can't always remember something someone told me 10 minutes ago.

You arent very nice at all

# ? Feb 19, 2019 16:23

Mr. Nice!: Oct 13, 2005; bone shaking.
soul baking.

TF CURES GENERATOR posted:

You arent very nice at all

If you want to join maffew's club just PM him I'm sure he'll send you a link.

# ? Feb 19, 2019 16:26

pkells: Sep 14, 2007; King of Klatch

Mr. Nice! posted:

Sounding rods. It's a take on an old nautical term. Maffew buildings used to initiate people into his gang of cool people by showing them a sounding video. I ate a probation for making a joke about the old "kids in the sandbox" sounding video a while back. If you weren't on the internet 15-20 years ago, kids in the sandbox is a clip from a porno where a chick sticks a 4-5" vibrator down the urethra of an erect penis.

Was it a black vibrator?

Because we had a similar video file on the desktop of a shared computer in our fraternity house that was titled something along the lines of �Chris�s 21st birthday� in an effort to get people to open it. A lot of people opened that file.

# ? Feb 19, 2019 16:29