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Busket Posket posted:New theory on the Dyatlov Pass Incident, namely that they got smooshed by a particular type of slab avalanche. I thought this was already the most commonly accepted theory?
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subpar anachronism posted:I thought this was already the most commonly accepted theory? I think this theory is more specific about the (less common) type of avalanche, which answers some of the earlier criticisms about the general “it was an avalanche” theory.
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You left out the detail that this resulted from work to make the snow in Frozen look realistic, which is a twist I didn't expect. For DNA stuff, Casefile did an episode on Brittany Phillips' murder that was very interesting. I didn't see one good concise write-up of it, so I've just got the episode link: https://casefilepodcast.com/case-146-brittany-phillips/ The quickest summary is that she was found murdered in her apartment and it was hard to get much of a clear lead for the case. She either let her attacker in, or they broke into or already lived in a nearby apartment and crawled through the connected attic space to get to her. An unnerving detail was that the window screens were removed and left out, possibly as a red herring to make the cops think that someone climbed in from the outside even though that seems incredibly unlikely. They had a small bloodstain on the wall and a small semen stain on the sheets that had matching DNA, but they didn't have an actual suspect that matched for it and they ruled out most of her social circle. A key part of the case was her mother's unrelenting 15 year push to match the DNA samples, which led to a successful push for far more invasive DNA collection along with also eventually focusing on the ridiculous backlog of untested rape kits. But it was a really conflicting episode. It's hard to defend the abstract sense of privacy that a more widespread DNA database would violate when you're staring right at an unsolved crime, but... The real gutpunch was that after all those years they finally got a match through a genealogical database. And it turned out to be from a friend who they hadn't tested at the time who had apparently had an ironclad, verified alibi. He just stayed at her place and was a bad houseguest, apparently. Also, the only known likely suspect is a guy who she briefly dated and called creepy. Who originally refused to provide DNA until they got a court order, except of course it didn't match because it was unrelated DNA. So, yeah. All of that and the DNA didn't even matter. Except it could have railroaded the friend if he didn't apparently have one hell of an alibi. Just a really sad case all around. Parakeet vs. Phone has a new favorite as of 01:57 on Jan 29, 2021 |
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MightyJoe36 posted:This happened to me in the field. But it wasn't the Goatman, it was hallucinations from sleep deprivation. Off topic, but my sister's ex-husband used to stay awake for 36-48 hours at a time when he was a new lieutenant during field exercises. It seems like sleep deprivation, heavy machinery, and weapons (and higher order decision making, if that's your job) would mix really poorly with lack of sleep. How did people manage to stay effective?
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Jan 29, 2021 07:28
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Caffeine and tobacco and pre-workout. Fighter pilots get cool doctors to prescribe them enough amphetamines and nootropics to match Bradley Cooper from Limitless.
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BrianRx posted:Off topic, but my sister's ex-husband used to stay awake for 36-48 hours at a time when he was a new lieutenant during field exercises. It seems like sleep deprivation, heavy machinery, and weapons (and higher order decision making, if that's your job) would mix really poorly with lack of sleep. How did people manage to stay effective? modafinil
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Back in WWII both the Allies and Axis issued amphetamines to soldiers and aircraft crew. The Germans put it in chocolate bars.
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Pirate Radar posted:Back in WWII both the Allies and Axis issued amphetamines to soldiers and aircraft crew. The Germans put it in chocolate bars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimo_Koivunen  quote:Koivunen was a Finnish soldier, assigned to a ski patrol on 20 April 1944, along with several other Finnish soldiers. Three days into their mission, on March 18th, the group was attacked and surrounded by Soviet forces, from which they managed to escape. Koivunen became fatigued after skiing for a long distance, but could not stop. He was also the sole carrier of army-issued Pervitin, or methamphetamine, a stimulant used to remain awake while on duty. Koivunen had trouble pulling out a single pill, so he emptied the entire bottle of thirty capsules into his hand and took them all.
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Yep. Those are absolutely the eyes of a man who downed a bottle of meth and then ate a bird he caught with his bare hands.
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Bussamove posted:Yep. Those are absolutely the eyes of a man who downed a bottle of meth and then ate a bird he caught with his bare hands. The picture wasn’t even black and white,he was just that colour.
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Running the Russian language version of the Wiki article through Google Translate provides some more details: quote:On March 16, 1944, the 53rd and 54th reconnaissance and sabotage groups of the 4th separate battalion of ski troops (4th detachment of military skiers) [1] under the command of Captain Ilmari Honkanen went behind the front line to check air intelligence information about the construction of the Soviet airfield to the north of the strategic road in the Kandalaksha region. Koivunen kept 30 pervitin capsules with him for his entire squad. On March 18, the patrol of Koivunen (4th company), leaving the temporary base, stumbled upon Soviet units and was attacked from an ambush, after which the Finns began to retreat [4]. Of the nine people of Koivunen's detachment, seven returned to the location of the Finnish troops: sergeants Yrjö Helppi and Erkki Kallio with Corporal Olavi Valingas arrived at the Luiposyuntuma base, Corporal Martti Juujärvi and senior sergeants Jaakko Kontiola and Lauri Siilin - to the village of Pattaya Kuoskruski Heikki Norri - to Honkanen base (arrived on March 20). The eighth, Corporal Eino Hietala, was captured by the Soviet Union and spent 10 years in camps and prisons in Yaroslavl, Cherepovets and Norilsk, returning home on February 9, 1954 [5]. The ninth fighter, Corporal Aimo Koivunen, fled the battlefield, not knowing where he was going. [2]
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Holy poo poo. What story got loving first?
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Or Lauri Törni, who loved war so much he later joined the SS and then emigrated to the US to die in Vietnam
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I think by virtue of being extremely dead Torni was unlikely to have won the contest
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sorry, competent but boring soldiers have got absolutely nothing on a two-week insane meth binge behind enemy lines
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Not trying to change the topic or anything, but after watching the four episodes of that Night Stalker docuseries on Netflix, I just can't get over the fact that apparently Ramirez had a fuckin godawful stench. Possibly from how his teeth were actively rotting from his skull.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Or Lauri Törni, who loved war so much he later joined the SS and then emigrated to the US to die in Vietnam I'm sure he loved war but iirc his village was ceded to the soviets after the winter war and they definitely would have killed him if he went back, he joined the Germans to keep fighting them Terra-da-loo! posted:Not trying to change the topic or anything, but after watching the four episodes of that Night Stalker docuseries on Netflix, I just can't get over the fact that apparently Ramirez had a fuckin godawful stench. Possibly from how his teeth were actively rotting from his skull. my favorite part was when the cop "measured" Ramirez's footprint by holding his foot over it and saying they were the same size
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Terra-da-loo! posted:Not trying to change the topic or anything, but after watching the four episodes of that Night Stalker docuseries on Netflix, I just can't get over the fact that apparently Ramirez had a fuckin godawful stench. Possibly from how his teeth were actively rotting from his skull. I think he was also living pretty rough at that point. When the killings started he was living in a hotel but at some point I think he was basically homeless, just floating around from place to place in between killings.
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Hollywood producer Ed Solomon (most notable as one of the guys behind the Bill & Ted movies) recently posted on Twitter that he was a suspect in the Night Stalker case for a hot minute. Basically he had cosigned a car loan for a friend, Ramirez stole the car and it was discovered by a crime scene. When they ran the plates Solomon's name came up, although by the time the cops actually arrived at his place he was already ruled out as a suspect.
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Terra-da-loo! posted:Not trying to change the topic or anything, but after watching the four episodes of that Night Stalker docuseries on Netflix, I just can't get over the fact that apparently Ramirez had a fuckin godawful stench. Possibly from how his teeth were actively rotting from his skull. It's one of the things I've never forgotten since I first read about the case ages ago.
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The most insane part of the Nightstslker doc is that it spends the whole series jerking off the cops as the heroes and in the end they had minimal affect on catching him. Most of the big breaks came from civilians like the kid fixing his bike and the survivors. In fact, the cops mostly just wasted time on poo poo that ended up never mattering like the old, rare gun ammo, or other leads they would later gently caress up anyway like letting the shoe prints leak.
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bootsy posted:The most insane part of the Nightstslker doc is that it spends the whole series jerking off the cops as the heroes and in the end they had minimal affect on catching him. Most of the big breaks came from civilians like the kid fixing his bike and the survivors. In fact, the cops mostly just wasted time on poo poo that ended up never mattering like the old, rare gun ammo, or other leads they would later gently caress up anyway like letting the shoe prints leak. I figure it probably happened for one of two reasons: just plain old bootlicking from the director/producers, or possibly because they felt like they wanted to "tell both/all sides," and in doing so they wound up blowing the cops while also telling a story of them failing over and over. Honestly I would bet on the bootlicking one. They're so on cops' dicks they didn't get that the story they were telling is a good example if how cops don't help nearly as much as a lotta people think.
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Captagon is interesting re war and drugs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenethylline  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-02/italy-drug-bust-captagon-how-is-it-linked-to-islamic-state/12414804    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/12/men-making-captagon-the-drug-fueling-isis.html Also going back a page or so, how young do you think this boy Jared Leto is with is? 
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Sounds exactly like when nazi soldiers were all on Pervitin during the blitzkrieg. fake e] Oh it's meth too, no wonder it sounded the same 
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The war nerd did a write up on Captagon back in 2015. It’s just run of the mill speed, the sort that every army has been giving out to soldiers since the Second World War. Gary Brecher/The War Nerd/John Dolan posted:
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Halloween Liker posted:Also going back a page or so, how young do you think this boy Jared Leto is with is? I think he may be the frontman of the British band Years & Years, Olly Alexander, who is 30 as of this year.
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San Francisco Giants' outfielder Drew Robinson's second act. Trigger warning: This article is about an attempted suicide. It is very detailed about the attempted suicide, both the thought process behind it and manner in which it was attempted.
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Rhandhali posted:The war nerd did a write up on Captagon back in 2015. When I was in Basic Training, our rations still came with cigarettes.
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If you're in an older car that doesn't have the pulltab, that's what you're supposed to do
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Pick posted:If you're in an older car that doesn't have the pulltab, that's what you're supposed to do Things like this remind me of how much of my young-adulthood was spent learning it was my personal responsibility as an afab person to avoid or escape abduction. Don’t listen to music, always walk in groups, don’t wear your hair in a ponytail, take a different route to and from work everyday, and text your friends a photo of your date and his car so they can pass them along to the police if you haven’t texted the secret “I’m okay” code by 10:30pm. Part of it was also “be aware that you can be knocked unconscious while loading groceries and stuffed in your own trunk, so practice finding the release latch and kicking out a taillight! Then mentally prepare yourself to jump out at freeway speed!” It’s just super great to feel the weight of that responsibility combined with “ugh stop being so paranoid” from dudes and “nah keep being paranoid. In fact, ratchet it up a bit” from news media. Makes us all super healthy and not at all existentially troubled.
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Jesus Christ in always gobsmacked at how often being a woman is a loving nightmare. I mean as a small sensitive boy with no parental supervision most of the time, I was always wary of strangers. I even narced on a pedo that tried to no bullshit offer me candy while wearing gloves in Las Vegas, and I was told he got caught soon after. gently caress cops but gently caress pedophiles more. I can't imagine just having to deal with that kind of existential anxiety of abduction, assault, and abuse on a daily basis, and I've lived in a war zone.
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Wasabi the J posted:Jesus Christ in always gobsmacked at how often being a woman is a loving nightmare. It probably doesn’t mean much in the greater arc of the universe, but it does legitimately help when people who don’t directly experience that 24/7 dread acknowledge that it sucks. Thank you  Coincidentally, this article came out yesterday, about AOC’s admission of the terror she felt in January 6th and how the backlash is reminding a lot of women that they’re more likely to be mocked or threatened when they try to get others to understand that poo poo sucks: When women feel hunted, America tells them to get over it
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This one still gets to me. A teenage boy is found hanging from a tree and had left an extremely well written suicide note and no one 45+ years on knows who he was https://medium.com/true-crime-by-cat-leigh/teen-found-hanging-from-persimmon-tree-7747f71bbfc6
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Aesop Poprock posted:This one still gets to me. A teenage boy is found hanging from a tree and had left an extremely well written suicide note and no one 45+ years on knows who he was How sad. He was so articulate too. I think he could well have been the young man who went missing who they speculate may have been him; there's quite the resemblance between the photo of the missing man and the drawing of the deceased. Same long facial structure, very similar looking hair. A terrible pity that the remains have been lost; a DNA test would have likely solved the mystery.
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Wasabi the J posted:Jesus Christ in always gobsmacked at how often being a woman is a loving nightmare. It's a bit melodramatic calling Vegas a war zone.
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Inceltown posted:It's a bit melodramatic calling Vegas a war zone. We won't go quietly. The Legion can count on that.
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