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Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Those look like weasels.

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Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

There’s a small tiny part of me that despite how awful it would be to not have my iphone and inconvenient life was 100 years ago that it was sorta in a unique window where almost nobody knew a goddamn actual thing about “exotic” foreign places and they were shrouded in comical myths but you could also feasibility and safely travel there.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Crab Dad posted:

Those look like weasels.

What is an otter if not a weasel that swims

Anyway, give singapore back to the otters

mods changed my name
Oct 30, 2017
posting to post just to say hi, hi

edit: wrong account!!

CHICKEN SHOES
Oct 4, 2002
Slippery Tilde

mods changed my name posted:

posting to post just to say hi, hi

edit: wrong account!!

loving moron!!

pmchem
Jan 22, 2010


Keanu's always current

https://twitter.com/dz/status/1469424767488962570?s=20

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?
god bless that man

Acebuckeye13
Nov 2, 2010

Against All Tyrants

Ultra Carp
Keanu Reeves is truly a treasure

Bored As Fuck
Jan 1, 2006
Fun Shoe
That's awesome

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





Hard data on Omicron is still very difficult to come by, but this is concerning:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59621029


quote:

Dr Nick Davies, one of the researchers, said Omicron was spreading "very fast", was "quite concerning" and was likely to be the dominant form of the virus in England by the end of the year.

The report says the number of people infected is currently doubling every 2.4 days in England despite the country having high levels of vaccination. That is faster than the original form of the virus spread when nobody had protection.

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Hard data on Omicron is still very difficult to come by, but this is concerning:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59621029

Yeah it's spreading incredibly fast

https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1469157790564319236

We just had a probable Delta breakthrough case at work with a double-vaxxed guy in his 30s. He ended up having to go to the ER to get monoclonal antibodies and it took him a few weeks recovery before he was able to start working again.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
Check out this motherfucker and his run at a high score on article collection.

Connecting Vets: Special Operation network specialist facing slew of charges.
https://www.audacy.com/connectingvets/news/special-operation-network-specialist-facing-slew-of-charges

quote:


CONNECTING VETS
NEWS
Special Ops network specialist facing 43 charges from drugs to sex assault
IT specialist
Photo credit Photo by Hun Chustine Minoda
By Jack Murphy
Connecting Vets
16 hours ago

Staff Sgt. David Rankine was arraigned at Fort Bragg on Dec. 9 on a whopping 43 charges that range from sexual assault to drug-related offenses.

Rankine was enlisted in 2014 as a U.S. Army information technician specialist, according to a spokesperson for Army Special Operations Command Public Affairs Office. His last duty station was as a network system noncommissioned officer at U.S. Special Operations Command South in Florida.

According to court records, Rankine is being court-martialed for:

Two counts of Article 120 defined as rape, aggravated sexual assault, aggravated sexual contact, and abusive sexual contact.

Three counts of Article 128 for assault.

Four counts under Article 128b for domestic violence.

Two counts under Article 115 for communicating threats.

Six counts under Article 119b for child endangerment.

Eight counts under Article 112a for use or possession of a controlled substance.

One count under Article 113b for obstruction of justice.

One count under Article 134 for adultery.

Six counts under Article 92 for disobeying orders.

Five addition Article 128 assault charges, three addition Article 92 charges, and an additional Article 112a charge related to the Article 120 charge.

As of now, "Staff Sgt. David Rankine is awaiting court-martial on multiple offenses ranging from sexual assault to drug charges," the Army Special Operations Command Public Affairs Office told Connecting Vets.

CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Dec 11, 2021

Bell_
Sep 3, 2006

Tiny Baltimore
A billion light years away
A goon's posting the same thing
But he's already turned to dust
And the shitpost we read
Is a billion light-years old
A ghost just like the rest of us
poo poo. How long were they sitting on that?

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Check out this motherfucker and his run at a high score on article collection.

Connecting Vets: Special Operation network specialist facing slew of charges.
https://www.audacy.com/connectingvets/news/special-operation-network-specialist-facing-slew-of-charges

With all those charges maybe he should just inform the duty Sergeant that he would like to be terminated and cremated on the spot.*

*Escape From New York reference

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Bell_ posted:

poo poo. How long were they sitting on that?

Seriously. Especially the sexual assault poo poo. Army gonna army and let a soldier dig a deeper hole.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Seriously. Especially the sexual assault poo poo. Army gonna army and let a soldier dig a deeper hole.

So is the worst place you can send a military convict still Leavenworth? I mean what’s the equivalent of the ADX Florence for the military?

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
Not really sure. Leavenworth is probably where he'll be going though.

Used to have a neighbor in the Springs that was navy a long time ago. He shot/killed his civilian drug dealer while on active duty, navy just cut him a dishonorable and let the civilian prison system handle him, did 15 years. He died earlier this year of a massive heart attack, mid-40s.

This high score guy isn't getting off as easy, with a dishonorable and civ prison time. He's going to be playing army in jail for a very long time.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Tornado made a town go kerpoof:

https://twitter.com/bclemms/status/1469662822795816968?t=lZpBPYcjadwz2qDb5RYY4g&s=19

And the omicron news isn't terrible on the evasiveness front:

https://twitter.com/freja_kirsebom/status/1469350543172771852?t=dFdRBE0yYb5XtNvsK19LNg&s=19

https://twitter.com/BogochIsaac/status/1469291236695674890?t=PHvFDxRgciIVFunM8iIN9g&s=19

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Tornado also apparently took out an entire Amazon distribution facility in Illinois.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/11/us/amazon-warehouse-deaths-tornado.html

Soul Dentist
Mar 17, 2009

Apparently death toll is expected to be between 70 and 100. It collapsed a candle factory that a whole shift is trapped inside of.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
I'd bet it's gonna be a lot higher than that

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
On the lighter side of things.

William Hartmann, 63, Michigan Official Who Disputed Election, Dies
He refused to certify Joseph Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in Detroit but later relented. A foe of Covid vaccines, he was hospitalized with the virus.

I can’t find the link from the New York Times again but, I doubt any of us need tons of detail for a good laugh.

Bored As Fuck
Jan 1, 2006
Fun Shoe
Reddit has a subreddit for all of those types of idiots. It's called r/HermanCainAwards

The schadenfreude is great. Especially when you link it to anti vaxers.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Bored As gently caress posted:

Reddit has a subreddit for all of those types of idiots. It's called r/HermanCainAwards

The schadenfreude is great. Especially when you link it to anti vaxers.

My wife loves reading out the HCA winners out daily it’s like a ritual for her lol. I think part of coping with the insane side of her family who actually tried to encourage us not to vaccinate our children and who currently can’t see the kids.

I remember one person‘s last post that she showed me was literally just the word Jews.

Hekk
Oct 12, 2012

'smeper fi

MazelTovCocktail posted:

My wife loves reading out the HCA winners out daily it’s like a ritual for her lol. I think part of coping with the insane side of her family who actually tried to encourage us not to vaccinate our children and who currently can’t see the kids.

I remember one person‘s last post that she showed me was literally just the word Jews.

Maybe she was just grateful to the ethnic group that brought the worlds greatest breakfast food to the US?

Soul Dentist
Mar 17, 2009

Hekk posted:

Maybe she was just grateful to the ethnic group that brought the worlds greatest breakfast food to the US?

Brisket?

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!



Fresh bagels are better than oxygen

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


The Jews are responsible for biscuits and gravy?

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
I'd sell my soul for some lox on onion bagels rn

Grip it and rip it
Apr 28, 2020
Dang that Tornado killed 50 people, that poo poo is horrible. Why werent people sheltering in place?

Grip it and rip it fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Dec 11, 2021

MRC48B
Apr 2, 2012

Warning systems are a liberal plot.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Grip it and rip it posted:

Dang that Tornado killed 50 people, that poo poo is horrible. Why werent people sheltering in place?

I don't know what the building codes are like out there, but that is not always an option. A tornado hit Salt Lake City when I was a teenager and frankly there isn't anything built for that, because it's a once-every-few decades event. You just hide in the bathroom downstairs and hope the house doesn't come down on you.

Elendil004
Mar 22, 2003

The prognosis
is not good.


If amazon workers are sheltering in place then packages can't get picked so

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Grip it and rip it posted:

Dang that Tornado killed 50 people, that poo poo is horrible. Why werent people sheltering in place?

Tornado came in when it was already nighttime, the area was under a tornado watch, nothing known about if/when a warning was declared. But there's also only so much you can do - this is in the area of the aforementioned candle factory:

https://twitter.com/ForecasterJGG/status/1469706237260574732?t=cFoSOyheeyf4S8v1_jwLiA&s=19

SquirrelyPSU
May 27, 2003


Godholio posted:

I don't know what the building codes are like out there, but that is not always an option. A tornado hit Salt Lake City when I was a teenager and frankly there isn't anything built for that, because it's a once-every-few decades event. You just hide in the bathroom downstairs and hope the house doesn't come down on you.

IBC is a national standard, local municipalities can make it more restrictive.

e: The IBC references ASCE-7, which has adjustments per region.

2e: This looks like some EF-5 stuff, which nothing outside of the MIC is designed to hold up to.

SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Dec 11, 2021

Grip it and rip it
Apr 28, 2020

facialimpediment posted:

Tornado came in when it was already nighttime, the area was under a tornado watch, nothing known about if/when a warning was declared. But there's also only so much you can do - this is in the area of the aforementioned candle factory:

https://twitter.com/ForecasterJGG/status/1469706237260574732?t=cFoSOyheeyf4S8v1_jwLiA&s=19

Dang, full shift at the candle factory. drat these time traveling Dickensian Tornadoes. drat them to hell

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

SquirrelyPSU posted:

IBC is a national standard, local municipalities can make it more restrictive.

e: The IBC references ASCE-7, which has adjustments per region.

2e: This looks like some EF-5 stuff, which nothing outside of the MIC is designed to hold up to.

Ok maybe less "codes" and more "norms"...availability of shelters and whatnot is what I had in my head. Most houses had shelters where I lived in Oklahoma, but when I was a kid in Texas I never saw one (which seems odd, but it might not have caught on back then).

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

MRC48B posted:

Warning systems are a liberal plot.

https://twitter.com/s_webber/status/1469486823068028932

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

Godholio posted:

Ok maybe less "codes" and more "norms"...availability of shelters and whatnot is what I had in my head. Most houses had shelters where I lived in Oklahoma, but when I was a kid in Texas I never saw one (which seems odd, but it might not have caught on back then).

Still really no shelters in Texas, but this should absolutely not surprise you

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CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
A tornado shelter would impose on a texan's freedom to shoot at the tornado, so they fall under lib territory.

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