Leon Einstein posted:

You got a source on this? Not that I think you're lying, but I haven't heard this story.

Madkal posted:

I think I posted it ages ago but with the current chat about Canada and aboriginals, I figured I could post again about the staggering amount of missing native women. Most of the women disappeared from the downtown eastside in Vancouver which is quite famous for being a heavy drug use area, and an extremely poor area too. With a lot of women missing there not the police at first didn't really think much about until they found out that a bloody serial killer was using the area as his hunting ground. So that accounted for a few missing women, but there are still many others that have not been found or attributed to Pickton. This isn't only a problem in a major city like Vancouver, as there is also the highway of tears where numerous women have gone missing. I think they pinned it all on some dead serial killer now, but who knows.
Really the issues of missing aboriginal women is happening on other places throughout the country, and it is only recently that the federal government said they would look into it, only after the last government were voted out (they were also massive dipshits who didn't really care much about the plight of their less than rich citizens so that might be a reason no-one did anything about the whole mess).

Anyway, if you want to go through some data and reports, here is the RCMP report from a year or so back about missing aboriginal women.

RandomPauI posted:

I'm reasonably sure that Forensic Files is a combination of original content and stuff from discontinued TV shows where the makers own the rights and they had the same narrator so gently caress it.

I've seen a similar thing happen with a WWII documentary series from Britain that aired stateside. It got redubbed with a new intro but the incidental music and the archival footage was the same.

Edit: Forensic Files used to have different titles and that's what was throwing me off.

Edit 2: To clarify the latter thing, the show was aired on the History Channel with the British narrator and the British title. Then it stopped getting aired. Finally it was reintroduced with a new American narrator and title but the content was the same.

Pick posted:

DNA is forensic science, do you believe in it or not?

And why on earth, if you think a modern trial with forensics is bad, would you want a return to the old system where guilt was primarily decided--genuinely--by the "hunch" of the jury, where that hunch can be strongly induced via jury selection.

PetraCore posted:

The problem comes from the fact that psychologically healthy humans who don't have any of those innate conditions are still able to shut down their ability their empathize with others, as long as they can classify the person they're hurting as belong to some OTHER group then the one they've got an emotional connection to.

Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:

i too encourage poor and marginalized people to get into physical altercations with government agents

in adjacent news, the relationship between the qanon estranged parent network and their legal assistance is going as you'd think

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/qanon-mom-accused-murder-man-child-custody

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Petrie-Blanchard was indicted Tuesday on separate charges of kidnapping, relating to an incident in March when she allegedly abducted her twin daughters from their grandmother's home in Bowling Green, Kentucky

catgirlgenius posted:

I'm feeling quite glad I stopped giving the time of day to gore videos early on after that one of the flying brick going through that windshield. You know the one. The one where you can't see anything. The one where not knowing was scarier than anything.

BrianRx posted:

Just read this after not being aware of the accident beyond "a plane disappeared near Brazil a few years ago, something something pitot tubes". I didn't realize the degree of pilot error involved. Goddamn, Bonin was a stupid rear end in a top hat. That was a really stupid mistake for a pilot with experience to make. He manually kept the aircraft in a stall nearly the whole way down. It sounds like if he had just let go of the stick, either the copilot or the plane itself would have recovered quickly.

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In an article in Vanity Fair, William Langewiesche noted that once the AoA was so extreme, the system rejected the data as invalid, and temporarily stopped the stall warnings, but "this led to a perverse reversal that lasted nearly to the impact; each time Bonin happened to lower the nose, rendering the angle of attack marginally less severe, the stall warning sounded again—a negative reinforcement that may have locked him into his pattern of pitching up", which increased the angle of attack and thus aggravated the stall

PhantomOfTheCopier posted:

Groovelord Neato posted:

I've seen it too but don't recall the documentary's name but I think he sexually assaulted other kids and the documentary didn't go into exactly what he'd done.

Pogonodon posted:

Pretty sure what you're looking for is Kid Criminals.

Sarcopenia posted:

God this is devastating.. The husband of a teacher who was killed in the Uvalde shooting died of a heart attack leaving 4 kids orphaned...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/texas-shooting-joe-garcia-1.6467831

FishBulbia posted:

It sucks that the amount of time you can waste on a videogame has become a proxy measure for how fun/enjoyable it is

FireWorksWell posted:

Do we count swatting?

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The 4-acre Van Der Horst USA Corporation site is located in Terrell, Texas. A chromium and iron electroplating facility operated at the site from the 1950s until 2006. Plating operations generated spent kerosene, wastewater treatment sludge and chromium-contaminated wastewater. Facility operations contaminated soil, sediment and groundwater. Site investigations and long-term cleanup planning are ongoing.

Busket Posket posted:

Miller, who was convicted of three counts of murder in 1999, requested to be killed by nitrogen hypoxia (essentially suffocation) because he’s scared of needles. After the state said they weren't ready to use the untested method, a federal judge issued a halt in the execution order.

WaywardWoodwose posted:

What's up with this? I've seen maybe three or four articles with headlines saying this is the second killer targeting indigenous sex workers in Canada, but listening to enough true crime podcasts seem point to like a ton of them.
Indigenous sex workers are really common victims. I get that the cops don't count them, but drat.

I can't remember the full quote, but i heard "in America, killing a black sex worker is like killing a ghost".

Brawnfire posted:

My actual vote is Cake, I want Cake to sing my eulogy song

Arsenic Lupin posted:

I don't want to follow the links because squeamish. Was the first guy trying to commit suicide?

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1.1. BACKGROUND TO THE ACCIDENT

On 26 October 1991, a radiological accident occurred in an irradiation facility in the town of Nesvizh, about 120 km from Minsk, Belarus. A variety of agricultural and medical products are sterilized at the facility by means of an internal transport system that passes them, in a controlled manner, close to an intensely radioactive Co source in a moveable rack. Following a jam in the product transport system, the operator entered the facility to clear the fault; at this point, the source is thought to have been in the safe position. However, on entering the facility the operator bypassed a number of safety features and left the controls in a position such that exposure was imminent.

At some stage, the source rack became exposed and the operator was irradiated for about 1 minute. He suddenly felt unwell and then noticed the source rack in the irradiation position. The accident was quickly reported to the authorities and the operator was taken into medical care, first in Nesvizh and Minsk, and then for specialized treatment in Moscow. It was estimated that he had received a whole body dose of 11 Gy, with localized areas of up to 20 Gy. Despite intensive medical treat-ment, he died 113 days later.

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The next safety feature he would have encountered was the pressure plate in the floor, and it is difficult to envisage how he could have avoided stepping on this. Subsequent tests showed that the pressure plate was in correct working order (tested 25 times) and that it was impossible to jump over it (its position prevented a possible run-up).

Theoretically, it would be possible, but extremely difficult, to cross the pressure plate using the product transport system. This could not have been done while holding a dose rate monitor and there would have been no reason to attempt such a move because of the danger involved.

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After about 1 minute, he developed an acute headache and pain in his joints and gonads.