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AlbieQuirky posted:I think you’ll find he was a middle-class white man with a famous partner who “told it like it is” (was constantly crass and hurtful) and who “kept it real” (behaved rudely and self-indulgently). Take out Keith Haring and you’ve got slender gay Donald Trump. I just don't understand it. It's so cruel and for no reason, it's just the ultimate in "I am a dick and you love me". It's so insanely weird to anyone outside of it looking in.
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If you wanna see just how big of an rear end in a top hat he was there's a documentary about him getting out and you can tell he just hates it when he's not 100% the center of attention. I can only guess that his cult of personality came from having access to drugs and easily manipulated people. Like most cult leaders, actually.
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Gotta be fun times when you call 911 about a fire in your neighbor's backyard and discover that the neighbor is in fact burning the body of the someone he just killed.
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Kiebland posted:Just based on other stories about how police treat CIs and what we know about the Bakersfield PD, I’m not optimistic.
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Reminds me of the old Cold War joke... What’s the definition of a tactical nuclear weapon? One that detonates in Germany.
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So have we had anything on leaded gasoline and how pervasive the lead became? If so, I apologize; if not, this is a really interesting article on how a scientist brought about banning tetraethyl lead. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-most-important-scientist-you-ve-never-heard-of?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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Josef bugman posted:I just don't understand it. It's so cruel and for no reason, it's just the ultimate in "I am a dick and you love me". It's so insanely weird to anyone outside of it looking in.
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Josef bugman posted:Why did so many folks treat this person as a minor celebrity? Michael Alig I mean. He's kind of a fascinating character in terms of personality. Like Donald Trump levels of narcissistic sociopath behavior but wrapped around a gay twink party planner from the 80s-90s who murdered someone and that's literally all he ended up being known for before his death. It's not necessarily a bad thing to be fascinated with human psychology and weird levels of fame attached to it as long as you're not like, glorifying it. I thought James St James did a pretty good job of explaining the entire scene and murders associated with it etc in the two books I read from him on it
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James St. James seems like a really interesting person and seeing Alig get more and more angry that St. James was more famous and successful than him was hilarious.
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The Golden Gael posted:Hi folks, I'm back with one more mystery to close out the year. The Sloot Digital Coding System Aesop Poprock has a new favorite as of 02:34 on Dec 30, 2020 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:James St. James seems like a really interesting person and seeing Alig get more and more angry that St. James was more famous and successful than him was hilarious. I follow James St James on Twitter and yeah he infinitely more interesting than Alig without being a murderer
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:So have we had anything on leaded gasoline and how pervasive the lead became? If so, I apologize; if not, this is a really interesting article on how a scientist brought about banning tetraethyl lead. The Golden Gael posted:Hi folks, I'm back with one more mystery to close out the year. The Sloot Digital Coding System
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GWBBQ posted:Out of curiosity, do you have an Android phone and/or did Google's daily news alerts pop this story up for you? No, this story came up when someone posted a link to it on the gbs discord a few days ago.
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GWBBQ posted:Kind of reminds me of Phil Kramer, better known as the bassist for Iron Butterfly. Rumors around some sort of technological breakthrough have floated around, in the mid to late '90s before his body was found, the common conspiracy theory was that he was about to reveal an algorithm that could losslessly compress anything, even cryptographically secure random data, to an arbitrarily small file. The conspiracy theory now seems to center on an alleged method of faster-than-light communication. Thank you everyone!
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Speaking of unnerving, I was re-reading this thread today and, well. Solice Kirsk posted:Humanity managed to live for millennia with out antibiotics. So even if this was the start of a "post antibiotic apocalypse," it isn't, we'd be just fine. Mortality rates in children and the elderly would sky rocket, but that ain't nothing more fuckin and eating can't fix. Just like always. That70sShirt posted:Just because we don't have anything right now that can fight these so-called "super bugs" doesn't mean we won't in the future. A lot of people might die in a Black Plague style manner before we do, but that hardly means extinction. darkhand posted:Leave it to this thread to come up with "it's only the plague" being a sigh of relief. That70sShirt posted:Well, that's only one possible scenario. We could very well invent new techniques to fight them before it gets that far. From an e.coli discussion in 2016.
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Here's something that manages to catch that elusive "unnerving, but cool" vibe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw
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Stare-Out posted:Here's something that manages to catch that elusive "unnerving, but cool" vibe. All I could think about while watching this is that we are 100% going to have soldier robots soon.
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RCarr posted:All I could think about while watching this is that we are 100% going to have soldier robots soon. Honestly I’m surprised we don’t have autonomous patrol bots already in combat roles. The drone program has been in use for ages, I would think some kind of tracked vehicle or Boston Dynamics dog style robot doing valley patrols or perimeter security would be commonplace. Or maybe they’re out there already and not spoken about. Or a drone is just easier and more effective (against hostile schools and weddings).
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Capt.Whorebags posted:Honestly I’m surprised we don’t have autonomous patrol bots already in combat roles. The drone program has been in use for ages, I would think some kind of tracked vehicle or Boston Dynamics dog style robot doing valley patrols or perimeter security would be commonplace. If by “autonomous” you mean doing its thing on its own, not being piloted through satellite uplink by a human in the US like our armed aerial drones are, the barrier to that is partly cultural. Building literal killer robots is bad PR.
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RCarr posted:All I could think about while watching this is that we are 100% going to have soldier robots soon. All you gotta do is replace the blue LEDs with red LEDs.
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Hardwood Floor posted:Speaking of unnerving, I was re-reading this thread today and, well.
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RCarr posted:All I could think about while watching this is that we are 100% going to have soldier robots soon. Honestly, probably but this type is going be like ewok style easy to figure out and trap. We already have funny drones they just have to figure out how to shoot from them without it throwing off the balance and there you go it's metal gear solid world Bipedal robots will probably never work we are humans and will figure how to take them down
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That just gets us the Horizon: Zero Dawn world where there are communities who live off hunting robots and stripping them for scrap.
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GWBBQ posted:Fortunately, we have a new antibiotic of last resort, there's a vancomycin analog that's 25,000x more potent than current vancomycin. It’s probably already being fed to chickens in China.
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The soviets had this weird bacteria/fungus treatment thing that was antibacterial and likely is going to be effective for a long as time since more conventional antibiotics phased it out. Edit: It's phage therapy.
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Pirate Radar posted:If by “autonomous” you mean doing its thing on its own, not being piloted through satellite uplink by a human in the US like our armed aerial drones are, the barrier to that is partly cultural. Building literal killer robots is bad PR. Yeah I guess I was thinking autonomous patrol but human in the loop for lethal action. So you could have multiple drones doing perimeter security with the option to strike if something is found.
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Boston Dynamics is the dumbest grift ever and their robots will never replace actual humans or animals because meat robots will always be much cheaper and easier to train and replace when they break. There’s nothing their $100K robot dogs can do that an actual dog or mule can’t do just as well or much better for a tiny fraction of the cost.
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Besides all you have to do is hack into the mainframe and change “CopsAreAllies=True” to “False”
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This came to my attention because the trial is restarting this week. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahim_Saleh Wikipedia posted:On July 14, 2020, Saleh was found dead in his luxury apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Police have said that he was killed the day before. Earlier that night neighbors heard yelling from Saleh's unit and contacted his sister. After her attempts to contact him failed, she visited his condo on July 14 and found a grisly scene. She called police, who found Saleh's torso next to an electric saw, and his head and limbs in garbage bags elsewhere in the apartment.
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This is one of the most egregious child abuse cases I've read about. The way the police handled this is awful. Huge WARNING for child abuse, including heartbreaking images of a very sickly child. https://www.koreaboo.com/news/koreans-outraged-police-after-medical-professionals-reveal-baby-condition-unanswered-questions/ When the organ ruptured, it led to blood and infection filling up her abdomen. Her abdomen began to rot, so to speak. She may have had a chance to live if she was brought in immediately. But she wasn’t.When the organ ruptured, it led to blood and infection filling up her abdomen. Her abdomen began to rot, so to speak. She may have had a chance to live if she was brought in immediately. But she wasn’t. Nope, nope, nope. quote:“The police specifically said it cannot be child abuse unless there is a fracture or an open wound.”
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I read the entire 50 chapters of that Elan cult comic which is still not complete and I’m so disgusted. I’d never heard of it before but was curious because I feel there’s more of this (especially of the Christian Evangelical variety) than we know in America. I want to vomit.
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Somehow that comic was more disturbing to me than almost everything else in the thread. I cant stop wondering how many more are out there like it.
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Scathach posted:Somehow that comic was more disturbing to me than almost everything else in the thread. I cant stop wondering how many more are out there like it. The fact that parents are basically paying to get their children abused for mostly normal teenage things is horrifying. Like if there was legitimately something off about those kids those types of hell holes would surely make them worse.
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One of the guy's patreon incentives is that he'll draw you as a character in a future instalment in case, uh, you want that for some reason
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Sarcopenia posted:The art style makes it extra disturbing. It reminds me of the airplane safety guide drawings so it feels like I'm reading a "how to survive this awful place" guide. It's been said before: If the kids made to go to these places were actually anywhere near as 'troubled' as their parents claim they are, there'd be a lot more dead staff. I had a slasher movie idea for a masked killer going after the staff of a forced conversion camp.
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