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Whiz Palace posted:This is a good article, but I worry it might have come about of a need to deflect the plane's failings onto the poor and non-white. I'm an unabashed Langewiesche fan and I think understanding the context is important to getting why he's so quick to blame the pilot(s). Particularly that he is 1. experienced flying both recreationally and commercially and; 2. his father literally wrote the book on the stick and rudder skills he emphasises in his articles He doesn't come from it so much from a 'corporations can do no wrong' (in fact, if anything he seems resigned to their existence) as from the perspective that ultimately a pilot lulled into the belief that his airplane isn't going to try and kill him at any moment, particularly when there are a couple of hundred passengers in the back.
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MizPiz posted:The unnerving part's gonna happen when he gets off for the third time and finds his fourth black, homeless kid to groom and murder lol gently caress rich people
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pookel posted:The fact that this person had this reaction to a story about a kid who was forced to sleep naked on the floor within a small square of tape, monitored with security cameras, is pretty horrifying. Like, that wasn't a claim made by the kid, that was observed by social workers. There is no behavior by a child that justifies that treatment - none. Cross-posting this post I made from the rejected parents thread in GBS on this case: me posted:Someone else posted about "research RAD" as if the kid having an attachment disorder excuses abuse. Adding that the restricted food, cameras and extreme control of movement fit into this. I'm not saying they did "attachment therapy", but it would be very appealing to this kind of parent.
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# ? Sep 18, 2019 19:51 |
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That's triggering as gently caress to me. Jesus man. How can people be so cruel and teach it as love? I'm personally familiar with a lot of these "therapies".
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MizPiz posted:The unnerving part's gonna happen when he gets off for the third time and finds his fourth black, homeless kid to groom and murder I honestly figured he’d be in the double digits before charges were even discussed. But, as far as we know, he may already be.
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# ? Sep 18, 2019 21:32 |
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LUBE UP YOUR BUTT posted:I'm an unabashed Langewiesche fan and I think understanding the context is important to getting why he's so quick to blame the pilot(s). Particularly that he is It's not that I think he thinks corporations can do no wrong, it's that I think he's passing over lightly the wrongs that Boeing, specifically, committed. There have been multiple articles on how badly the Boeing safety culture -- not just this individual decision, but the culture -- has broken down. His look at the history of commercial aviation in Indonesia is fascinating. I remember knowing "never, ever fly Garuda" but I didn't realize how much bigger the problem was than one airline.
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# ? Sep 18, 2019 22:02 |
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Wasabi the J posted:That's triggering as gently caress to me. I'm sorry to hear that. You deserved better. It's infuriating, because the kids being put through this are the kids who most need protection from it. Not that any kid would benefit, but it's particularly pushed towards parents of mentally ill children and those who have experienced abuse and deprivation. Your kid's having trouble, you provide love and firm but reasonable limits, and support from qualified professionals, you don't follow cult indoctrination techniques and psychological torture.
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# ? Sep 18, 2019 22:45 |
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In other "powerful people getting away with being murder-rapists" news https://twitter.com/THR/status/1174341459308437504?s=19 Which is actually the second time this has happened And just to cap it off, let me remind you of this video he did when the accusations were heating up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZveA-NAIDI
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 01:19 |
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MizPiz posted:The unnerving part's gonna happen when he gets off for the third time and finds his fourth black, homeless kid to groom and murder
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Content Warning: Catholic Church and all that entails
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 03:09 |
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my body is as vast and hungry as the ocean
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 03:16 |
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Ironically the ocean is more thirsty than hungry. All the salt dehydrates it.
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 03:24 |
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I'm dumb and still don't get how saltwater dehydrates and kills a person when both water and salt are good things for you.
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 07:06 |
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Too much salt makes your guts go sideways. Your body is like "welps not having any of that" and you poo poo/vomit it all out, along with the water you ingested, and whatever else helps it evacuate (even more water and whatever else was in there) and soon you have no more water and die of dehydration!
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 07:21 |
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The only way your body can get rid of salt is via urine. If the water you're drinking is saltier than the saltiest possible urine your body can produce, then every litre of water you drink and then piss out will leave some salt behind in your body. High salt levels means your body produces more urine to try and get rid of it, making you thirsty, so you drink more water.... Fairly quickly, you either stop drinking and die of dehydration or keep drinking and die of hypernatremia. As Danny says, your body will try to protect you from this fate by vomiting up the salt water before it leaves the stomach.
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 07:48 |
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MizPiz posted:The unnerving part's gonna happen when he gets off for the third time and finds his fourth black, homeless kid to groom and murder Well, turns out I'm a fuckin idiot, because I thought at least he'd have some obstacles put in his way after the last one.
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 08:16 |
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Oh, so it’s not that it’s salty water it’s that there’s just too much goddamn salt in general
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Kitfox88 posted:Oh, so it’s not that it’s salty water it’s that there’s just too much goddamn salt in general Basically yes; there are things that can drink salt water but they're way better at getting rid of salt than humans are. The human body is weird in that it's actually pretty inefficient with water use compared to basically everything else; we can get away with that because we're smart enough to figure out new sources of water like digging wells or just wiping out the predators at the water hole. Electrolyte imbalance is also a thing; hydration is actually more than just water. You can actually get water toxicity or die from having too much water as your electrolytes go out of balance and that fucks everything up.
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 12:51 |
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I recall the big thing about the human body is that a sentient brain is a MASSIVE energy hog, and upright bipedalism, seen almost nowhere else in nature, requires a lot of structural compromises. Evolution isn't smart or guided, it's mutating whatever the hell it wants and seeing what lives long enough to reproduce.
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Kitfox88 posted:Oh, so it’s not that it’s salty water it’s that there’s just too much goddamn salt in general Your body has a water 'budget' where it's trying to balance the water available to it against all the various processes that need water. If you drink a cup of seawater you've added one cup of water to the 'assets' column, but you've added more than one cup's worth to the 'liabilities' column so you're actually further behind than when you started.
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 14:02 |
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Your body isn’t as good at putting salt in water as the ocean is
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 14:05 |
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This one has a bit of everything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory Liquid rocket propellant. Liquid metals! Multiple nuclear reactors without containment buildings. OSHA-approved hazardous material handling....NOT! In an article full of WTF, is probably the most thing to me: quote:On December 11, 2002, a Department of Energy (DOE) official, Mike Lopez, described typical clean-up procedures executed by Field Lab employees in the past. Workers would dispose of barrels filled with highly toxic waste by shooting the barrels with rifles so that they would explode and release their contents into the air. It is unclear when this process ended, but for certain did end prior to the 1990s. They built the lab up on top of this hill in the 1940's, since it was far away from any urban centers. Today there are over half a million people living within a 10 mile radius of the site. LOLbertsons has a new favorite as of 14:38 on Sep 19, 2019 |
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Proving once again there's no problem a gun can't solve!
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https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1174572076629483520?s=19 Another day another cop brazenly being a cop on camera.
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 16:01 |
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So that's why UAC had all those loving explosive barrels sitting around everywhere by 1993
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Bonster posted:Cross-posting this post I made from the rejected parents thread in GBS on this case: I like to hate-read this stuff, I don't know why.
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Sarcopenia posted:https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1174572076629483520?s=19 So, like, was he getting bonuses/bounties for finding drugs? Taking cash and vehicles for his department through civil forfeiture? What the gently caress is this man’s motivation? I guess a bunch of charges were dropped, but there are surely plenty of cases that already plead out due to prosecutorial strong arming and false confessions. I wonder how many of those lucky people will be in jail for 30+ years due to incompetent bureaucracy before they finally get released with no admission of wrongdoing from the state? I’m guessing 7.
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 16:41 |
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There are always incentives for cops to arrest more people. Promotions, etc.
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 16:57 |
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RCarr posted:There are always incentives for cops to arrest more people. Promotions, etc. Uhh sir, you have no proof. There's no "official" documentation for those claims or things like speeding ticket quotas. So therefore we must lick cop boots.
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 17:10 |
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Holy poo poo I'm pissed off
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Brawnfire posted:Holy poo poo I'm pissed off Be pissed, he's just the one that went down. Also the video is wrong, he got bail it was just a high one (170k) That's the norm for policing in America. A good cop makes arrests and writes tickets. You may think that fewer arrests and fewer tickets and cops never drawing their guns on people is a good thing and a sign of a healthy community, but actually it means we are being Soft On Crime. If there isn't crime, make crime, then defeat it. One of my good friends I've known since I was a kid went into policing and between like 22 and 26 he became a buzzcut scumbag who will defend any and all arrests and shootings because even if the "criminal" is proven innocent then "just look at these people, you know they deserved it" (*because they are black/poor/young/have a different accent/drive the wrong car/posted about weed on facebook once/are different from him in any way at all) Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 18:31 on Sep 19, 2019 |
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IIRC there was a cop who talked down an armed criminal and resolved the situation without any violence and then got fired because he didn't shoot the guy.
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Sarcopenia posted:https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1174572076629483520?s=19 https://twitter.com/nickmullen/status/1174704498046046208?s=19
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 19:34 |
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Jesus Christ, to think how many of these cockpigs are walking around making peoples' lives Hell. This is my biggest problem with "the war on drugs": it gives loving fuzz a small thing they can slip into a person's car or pocket to send them instantly to jail. It's hosed up. The guy crying, the guy losing his daughter, these people were just travelling from place to place as they have a right to do, and they end up irrevocably hosed so some half-chub-toting Nazi can get a better holiday bonus. I'm glad that he's a cop in jail because he's earned every "treat" that entitles him to.
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pookel posted:I looked, but I couldn't find the thread, do you have a link? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3893726&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
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nvm
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 20:09 |
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Cops can be terrifying. I was sleeping with a Chicago cop for a little while about a year or so ago. She tracked me down to a bar I don't normally hang out at to give me a birthday present like months after we stopped seeing each other. I still have no idea how she found me, but my guess is some sort of tracking thing using my phone number. I had to talk to her partner to tell him that we had stopped seeing each other and that she kept popping up places where I was at. I think he had a talk with her because she apologized and said she didn't mean to weird me out. There was a lot of really weird poo poo with that situation and looking back I'm glad it all worked out well. All she had to do was decide she wanted me in jail so I'd have to ask for her help and it would have happened in seconds.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Cops can be terrifying. I was sleeping with a Chicago cop for a little while about a year or so ago. She tracked me down to a bar I don't normally hang out at to give me a birthday present like months after we stopped seeing each other. I still have no idea how she found me, but my guess is some sort of tracking thing using my phone number. I had to talk to her partner to tell him that we had stopped seeing each other and that she kept popping up places where I was at. I think he had a talk with her because she apologized and said she didn't mean to weird me out. There was a lot of really weird poo poo with that situation and looking back I'm glad it all worked out well. All she had to do was decide she wanted me in jail so I'd have to ask for her help and it would have happened in seconds. Can I have her number?
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Solice Kirsk posted:All she had to do was decide she wanted me in jail so I'd have to ask for her help and it would have happened in seconds. Or just suck it up and embrace that jail life. Join a gang, make some toilet wine. Enjoy.
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christmas boots posted:IIRC there was a cop who talked down an armed criminal and resolved the situation without any violence and then got fired because he didn't shoot the guy. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/12/stephen-mader-west-virginia-police-officer-settles-lawsuit If you're thinking of the same one I am, then it was worse than that. Dude correctly guesses that a suicidal man isn't a threat to him (the article doesn't mention it but I think it turned out that the gun wasn't loaded anyway, just going off of memory though). While he's trying to talk the guy down, two cops cowboy up and gun him down. Original cop gets fired for "not responding to a threat" and told that it was better to make a wrong decision than appear indecisive. Disgusting.
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