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Celery Face posted:In 2001, there was a mentally ill German guy who put an ad on the internet for someone to eat. He found several people, turned down a few for being (...) too weird Let's all take a moment to let that little fact sink in.
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And before we have the inevitable derail, "eyeball the dose" here is to be interpreted in the sense of "guestimating the quantity to be taken." Not "sticking drugs in your eyeballs."
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May 4, 2014 21:05
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Karate Bastard posted:Also I think search is broken for the moment You must be new around here 
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May 4, 2014 21:56
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KoRMaK posted:Just to be clear, the plague wasn't riding through space on the comet right? It's just that it kicked up enough dust to make humans change how far they would travel, and some far off place had a disease that propagated. Am I paraphrasing that correctly? Yes; the temporary climate changes affected migration patterns and the alimentary supply chain, which caused plague-carrying parasites to be carried into previously unaffected area.
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May 6, 2014 17:50
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SylvainMustach posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cunanan To be a bit more accurate, that quote uses the word déluge, which is the French word for the biblical flood Noah built a boat for. So it's basically "After me, the end."
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May 7, 2014 01:24
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:There was a thread in Old GBS about the feet thing, and my favorite response was 'What if they test them and they all come back as the same person?' Orphan Black season 3 writes itself.
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May 7, 2014 16:20
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Plus those two italian brothers have been pretty thoroughly debunked. Apparently their antenna set-up wasn't sufficient to do the kind of tracking they claimed to be doing, and they reported copying transmissions when the spacecraft was out of line of sight. I had a pretty complete page on the subject in my bookmarks, but it looks like that was on another computer 
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May 18, 2014 23:42
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Phobophilia posted:Everything I've read makes Kruschev to be an okayish guy, and Brezhnev to be a total rear end in a top hat. Nah, he was an rear end in a top hat too. The USSR never had a premier who wasn't a murderous rear end in a top hat; it's how you got ahead in that system. The nice guys got murdered / sent to the gulag.
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May 19, 2014 11:42
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Denouncing Stalin was the hip thing to do for a short period, and considering the cult of personality he'd built around himself, probably necessary to take control of the country after his death. poo poo started to get weird before he'd even died, his Wikipedia article goes into some details : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Stalin#Death_and_legacy (It's not scary, but I guess there are some unnerving elements to it)
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May 19, 2014 12:51
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Jack Gladney posted:What details can you remember? Most human experimentation in the US was done by the CIA or the army, or by independent scholars funded by the military. Isn't most of it done by pharmaceutical company, and a completely routine thing?
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May 21, 2014 02:10
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dk2m posted:God her hand movements freak me out so much. I literally get shivers when I see it, I have no idea why. Those are not the hand movements of someone with healthy brain chemistry.
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May 25, 2014 13:10
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Phobophilia posted:Anonymous never forgives, it never forgets. It just gets bored and move on. A few anonymous big names got stuck in litigation for a good while after that poo poo, one of them had his cats poisoned IIRC.
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May 30, 2014 12:23
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I think it was legit, that guy wasn't the most stable person to start with... Again, it's been a few years and I'm going from memory but I don't think anyone really questioned that one (Sean something, right? Didn't he go by Rorschach online?) There was another guy in Clearwater who'd film scientologists and stuff who "killed himself" more recently and that was a heck of a lot more suspect.
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May 30, 2014 23:48
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And then people wonder why America isn't always the most beloved nation everywhere.
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Jun 3, 2014 17:56
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duckmaster posted:Personally if some doctor came up to me as I was bleeding out of the stump where my legs used to be and said, "Well it seems some builders round here don't know how science works. Would you like to speak to an imaginary man in the sky or just go straight for the morphine?" then they can motherfucking load me up. So edgy The Hyatt collapse has been studied pretty extensively, first I heard of it was in a book about safety management, or management to prevent accidents or... Something like that anyway, a few years ago. Basically what happened was the walkways were designed one way, the contractor went "Uh, we'd save a shitton of money by changing this one little thing, no big deal", the engineer went "Oh yeah ok, not a big change, here's a stamp", and it turned out the "small change" made a big difference. I mean, if I'd been a contractor working on the project, splitting the support rod would have been the best idea ever. 
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Jun 10, 2014 03:19
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El Estrago Bonito posted:The suggested theory by several places is that they were found somewhere else by Asian fishermen and buried there. The body was buried with a stack of paper and foil which is a tradition in a lot of Asian cultures. I suspect all of them died pretty soon after drifting off and eventually the boat marooned itself on a sandbar or atol (which is why the survey didn't find the grave) where it was found by fishermen. They probably assumed by the fact that the boat was for short distances and since it was found in an area populated by Asian fishermen that the corpse was also an Asian fisherman and so they buried him in the local style next to the sea on whatever larger landmass was close and then never told any government or national body about it because they assumed he was a local. And they didn't find that much of him either, when whoever found him discovered him he might have been not much more than a few bones in the bottom of a boat. Ah, yes, traditional Asian burial rites. The ocean's awfully big. Boats are small. That boat, or debris of it, could have drifted for a long loving time, and it's indeed entirely possible that whoever found the body buried it because what the heck else are you going to do with a body. Debris moves around at sea quite a lot; there's been cases of navigation buoys carried away by ice from the St Lawrence River popping up a few years later in Ireland or what not.
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Jun 14, 2014 13:20
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Atmus posted:I think 'Mishap' was the actual selection, but Tomfoolery was in the description of a guy that lost an eye at a meat packing plant because he and his coworkers decided to have a snowball fight, but with ground beef instead. We had "Human Error", which we interpreted to mean "loving idiocy." There was something like "Inadequate training" for legitimate gently caress ups. Stuff like the guy filling a water bottle with bleach and chugging it? Human error. Dude pushes the wrong button on some machine and crushes his foot? Inadequate training.
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Jun 17, 2014 15:42
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Could also be that back when they started scenting gas, the marking agents were easily available and cheap. Now that the smell is commonly associated in the public consciousness as "GAS!", changing it would be difficult.
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Jul 16, 2014 21:32
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BattleMaster posted:Why does anyone even write fictional stories about monsters when we have real monsters wearing human skin living among us? To reassure ourselves that the monsters are different.
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Jul 30, 2014 15:58
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Nobody in the shipbuilding industry has used "unsinkable" since, oh, 1912. Nobody with a passing knowledge of naval architecture or physics would describe a submarine as unsinkable. They're designed to sink. You'll notice the reference is to a Guardian article; mass media is absolutely terrible about anything that relates to naval technology.
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Aug 6, 2014 01:23
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aghastly posted:The most unnerving thing about the Titanic to me is that, nearly a century later, we didn't learn our lesson and the Costa Concordia was destroyed by the same drat thing: both ships had her hulls sliced open by an immovable object, resulting in massive flooding. The Titanic hit an iceberg, they aren't immovable. If anything the Concordia's initial incident was ever dumber than the Titanic's. It's completely ridiculous to say that we haven't learned our lesson; the sinking of the Titanic resulted in a casualty rated of 68%; Costa Concordia was 0.75%. It's not any more acceptable, but it's not remotely comparable. It's like saying plane crashes haven't changed in a hundred years because planes still die from hitting the ground. aghastly posted:From what I've read, a double hull would have helped slowed, if not stopped, a fatal amount of flooding on the Costa Concordia, but cruise ships generally don't utilize them in favor of more possible cargo weight. I'm probably wrong on that, though, I'm not a shipbuilding expert. A double hull would have helped to an extent, but that kind of whack (Remember, the ship was sliced open over about 60 meters) would have still caused an extreme list. You want your double bottom compartment split port and starboard for stability reasons, so one side's tanks would have flooded and leaned the ship way the hell over. Whether that would have kept the generators out of the water, considering how massive the hull damage was... The rock could very well have punched through both hulls, and the shock could have very well hosed up the structure. Cruise ships don't carry cargo (Most of their deadweight is fresh water and fuel), and some of them are pretty much double hulled already; you stick the fuel and water in the double hull. Concordia had a double bottom, it just ended a coupe of meters too low. At the end of the day, you don't build ships to withstand running aground at high speed, you hire a guy to drive it who's not going to run it aground at high speed. That's where the failure point was with Concordia, not in the ship's construction; nobody assumed anyone would ever be dumb enough to drive a ship into a rock outcropping at high speed. aghastly posted:The idea that a sheet of steel is the only thing keeping water out on even modern ships, and that they are still incredibly susceptible to being torn open despite the fact that we have 100 years of advancements in shipbuilding, is unsettling to me. Yeah I can't believe people entrust their lives to inch-thick steel plates that can't withstand an impact between 70 000 metric tons of ship going 15 knots and a rock, either. TheFallenEvincar posted:If God had wanted man to float... People float, though. FrozenVent has a new favorite as of 05:47 on Aug 9, 2014 |
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:Well, DNA has a "half-life" of over five hundred years, so finding evidence from a case a bit over a century old isn't out of the question. Still seems like total guesswork, though. How do you know that DNA is from the killer? How do you even know that shawl is from the victim? Did you read the part of the article where they specifically addressed those issues? I mean if you want to get pedantic about it, all they claim to have proven is that a shawl with the blood of someone who shares mitochondrial DNA with the victim also has mitochondrial DNA compatible with one of the suspect in the original investigation on it. Don't know if it'd hold up in a court of law (Ahahaha no it wouldn't) but circumstantially, it seems pretty strong.
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peter gabriel posted:I'm not being sarcastic at all, I can't recall ever seeing a bomb looking anything like that thing and would love to see the x rays of it that were took, I spent ages looking and couldn't find them online anywhere. Weird, why wouldn't the FBI make the schematics of the undefusable bomb public?
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Sep 19, 2014 00:55
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Puseklepp posted:How did he fool those people testing his material and the people in the TV show? People making shows for Discovery and History manage it every day somehow. Did you know a voodoo shark lives in a Louisiana bayou? Also aliens built the pyramids.
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How much would it suck for history to record your identity as "pinkeye"?
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Feb 10, 2015 04:41
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Sappo569 posted:Cell towers, what about satellites? Satellite bandwidth is expensive as gently caress. That being said, the Air France flight was reporting home pretty much until the moment it hit the water. It's just that planes move fast as gently caress, they don't transmit their position all that often comparatively, they sink fast and the ocean is hella big and hella deep. Seriously. The ocean is loving big. And you can't see very far at all through it.
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dissss posted:None if the devices passengers are likely to be carrying would be of any use for that. Plus you'd need to have someone tracking at that moment, which nobody will do unless they get paid. Even those satellite pagers people take into the wood only report in on a schedule or when they're pinged / the user pushes a button. Long range communications use up a shitload of battery juice. If the weather's good, you're high enough above the water and the tower is high enough, you might get a cell phone signal ten miles out on the water. I've managed to text people from fifteen miles out, from about six storeys above the water. From a plane you might be able to get a little more. At some point, though, the distance is just too big for your little 0.5W cell phone. Satellite devices aren't great from inside a plane, what with the aluminium tube blocking your line of sight and all.
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bamhand posted:Apparently ships have a thing that constantly pings their position to this company in the UK. The company offered to allow airlines to do the same but a lot of Asian airlines (not sure if others do it or not) didn't bother since that would cost money and they're not regulated much. There's a lot of those systems, you can. Apparently even get. Satellite positions from https://www.marinetraffic.com although I never tried it because $. But again, it costs money, is of very limited use outside of an emergency, and as we saw in the Air France crash, it doesn't help that much after an accident.
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Karma Monkey posted:
You have no idea. Wine and food are basically France's religion.
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I knew the French were serious about their wine, but drat.
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darkwasthenight posted:Charles de Gaulle famously lamented the difficulties of governing a nation with two hundred and forty-six types of cheese. That number seems low. darkwasthenight posted:I once asked for a medium-rare steak in Paris What is wrong with you?
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Aug 24, 2015 02:20
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Rondette posted:I was watching a 'Top 5 spooky otherworldly travellers' video on Youtube this morning and this story popped up. quote:No documentation verifying this story has yet surfaced, I love it when they straight up tell you it's bullshit. Officials would have kept a record, especially if they detained a guy and seized his passport. The story was probably invented for the 1981 book.
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Nubile Hillock posted:I don't understand why we can't change Ubers model slightly and still have the best of both worlds. I'm immediately reminded of private driving schools/instructors. They get a business license, they get their car modified by a licensed mechanic and then that's it. Get Uber drivers to put in stab shields, maybe an emergency strobe (for the passenger and driver? Iunno.) Let the drivers to claim it all on their taxes as a business expense and that's that, they're free to cart people wherever and everyone feels safe. So you're saying cabs should be operated as if they're cabs? Spooky.
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The feeling I got from Bauer's story was that they were so desperate for warm bodies that whoever was screening resumes didn't care that he was a journalists. Obviously the higher ups cared, but all the staff at the prison was trying to do was meet minimum hiring. The turnover at that prison is ridiculous.
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They're not super light to carry, though... And the batteries aren't great. Last time I had to pay for sat phone time it was multiple dollars a minute, too, but that was ten years ago.
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Someone needed some pre-atomic steel for instrumentation? Scrap steel prices have been really low for almost a decade now, so it doesn't make much sense to me.
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Breakfast Feud posted:I just don't understand how something like that Ghost Ship fire can happen in this day and age. Like, I get the place will never be up to code and will never have a legit permit, but it's not hard or expensive to rig up a makeshift fire alarm system and maybe some LED string lights towards an exit. Hell, exit signs (with 30 minute battery backup!) are only like ~$70. Honestly though, if you're capable of rigging up a living space like that you could at least cobble together a domestic pressure sprinkler system for partial coverage. Glue, plastic pipe and sprinkler heads is all it would take. You'd need to give a gently caress about those things though, which obviously wasn't the case here.
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Platystemon posted:It probably wasn’t a dream. It was sleep paralysis. Does anyone ever actually get that?
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ranbo das posted:Im bad at genders it was a girl Did you ask? Or are you basing your assessment on physical appearances seen through your hetero-normative lens?
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Captain Monkey posted:I mean, euthanasia isn't exactly some big dealm doing it for the timing of the presses is a little bit strange I guess. Armstrong's first steps on the Moon were delayed to coincide with TV prime time in the US.
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City Confidential had the best narrator of all the crime shows, and I'm sad there aren't more of them.
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