August 2019 Current Events Thread: It's Hot and Everything Sucks

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shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

maximally cursed video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oou_wMYjqRk

# ¿ Aug 3, 2019 18:20

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 17:50

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bird cooch posted:

I don't even know what the gently caress. If you are on the side with the spree killing racist and the Nazis, how can you not consider that what you are supporting is nuts?

They know where these guys hang out, our every internet step is recorded forever, why aren't these dudes getting rolled up on by the FBI?

gently caress I know where these dudes hang out and I'm not extremely online or anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on9TXY8kYyk

shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Aug 4, 2019

# ¿ Aug 4, 2019 05:54

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6I_Zic29VQ

# ¿ Aug 4, 2019 21:15

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Make barrels the serial numbered "legally this is a gun" part instead of recievers. Nobody's gonna turn out rifling worth a drat in their home shop, or most decent commercial machine shops for that matter.

# ¿ Aug 5, 2019 01:22

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All the really great names were wasted on Ironic War Criminal reregs

# ¿ Aug 5, 2019 15:26

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golden bubble posted:

Outside of the US, It's the end of Article 370: India strips disputed Kashmir of special status

This is totally not a prelude to genocide

# ¿ Aug 5, 2019 17:02

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Current event: I just identified my rescue bunny's breed as "Broken Havana" and now I'm kinda sad that she's a capitalist pig-dog

# ¿ Aug 6, 2019 00:03

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# ¿ Aug 6, 2019 00:04

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lol whatever connection there was was enough to get r/chapotraphouse quarantined after how many years of dragging their feet about r/the_Donald

# ¿ Aug 6, 2019 23:24

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AreWeDrunkYet posted:

This is a couple days old, but:

https://www.kpax.com/man-accused-of-assaulting-child-at-mineral-county-fairgrounds

ahahahahaha that county's jail has been closed since March because literally no one is willing to work there for $11/hr

https://missoulian.com/news/state-a...122f6fbd71.html

# ¿ Aug 7, 2019 22:58

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pmchem posted:

I bet that county is real big on unregulated free market supply and demand economics though!

with only 66.6% of voters pulling the trump lever in 2016, it's one of the bluer areas of MT

# ¿ Aug 7, 2019 23:26

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CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Lol $23k/year to be a cop.

I literally make more than that trimming weed.

That's actually more than deputies start at here in my corner of SC

# ¿ Aug 8, 2019 00:53

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

Maybe the guy that torched Miami can get out early

Also, speaking of bad NYT headlines I saw this today and was like, "Which one? Xbone exclusive?"

shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Aug 8, 2019

# ¿ Aug 8, 2019 23:27

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FrozenVent posted:

If any other country had the rate of shooting the US does, combined with the concentration camps and mounting sectarian / political violence, the State Department would have travel advisories out.

When’s the last time there was a mass shooting in a developed country? New Zealand and Norway before that? The guy at the Canadian parliament?

The US being much more religious than those countries, you’d expect their Thoughts and Prayers to be that much more effective.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2...ry-gun-society/

quote:

“Heeding to the possibility that shooting incidents could happen anywhere in the U.S., which is a gun society, please continue to stay alert as a precautionary measure,” the Consulate General of Japan in Detroit said in a statement on Sunday.

The Uruguay Ministry of Foreign Relations advised their citizens living in or traveling to the U.S. to exercise caution against “growing indiscriminate violence, for the most part hate crimes” that “have cost more than 250 lives in the first seven months of this year.” It also warned its citizens to “avoid areas with large concentrations of people like theme parks, shopping centers, art festivals, religious events, food festivals and any kind of cultural or sporting gathering.”

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro issued a tweet on Monday urging his country’s citizens to stay alert or consider postponing travel to the U.S.

Amnesty International issued a travel warning and issued a statement Wednesday, urging tourists to “exercise extreme caution when traveling throughout the country due to rampant gun violence,” adding that the issue has become “so prevalent in the United States that it amounts to a human rights crisis.”

“Travelers to the United States should remain cautious that the country does not adequately protect people’s right to be safe, regardless of who they might be. People in the United States cannot reasonably expect to be free from harm — a guarantee of not being shot is impossible,” said Ernest Coverson, campaign manager for the End Gun Violence Campaign at Amnesty International USA.

# ¿ Aug 8, 2019 23:50

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Mechanical Fiend posted:

what

# ¿ Aug 9, 2019 21:31

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Ok I won't link it here but as twitter continues poring over the documents, the biggest new revelation is Matt Groening being implicated.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2019 00:26

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Somebody's social media intern needs a hug.

https://twitter.com/postandcourier/...ingawful.com%2F

# ¿ Aug 10, 2019 01:32

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I unironically liked Grits Sandwiches For Breakfast

# ¿ Aug 10, 2019 06:07

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Simpsons did it

# ¿ Aug 10, 2019 14:12

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Erghh posted:

Heads up,

Trump is promoting the Clinton conspiracy theories.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/do...sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

broken clock, etc

# ¿ Aug 11, 2019 01:38

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long ear moo dogge loves you

# ¿ Aug 11, 2019 04:35

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Nostalgia4Butts posted:

also im shocked that yahoo still exists somehow

They're owned by Verizon.

And hey, its only a 99.7% loss :v:

# ¿ Aug 13, 2019 01:31

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Distortion from being caught at the edge of an absolutely absurdly wide lens

Soulex will back me up on this

shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Aug 14, 2019

# ¿ Aug 14, 2019 03:49

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Ken Bone Comeback posted:

no, no, this is rape and nazi apologist turd congressperson Steve King representing Iowa's 4th.

lol is wholesome middle america farm country entirely populated by walking bags of storebought coleslaw that speak mostly in bigoted slurs?

Actually he's the only republican left in Iowa's house delegation and barely held on to his seat against a first-time leftist endorsed by Bernie Sanders by a 2500 vote margin in 2018

# ¿ Aug 14, 2019 20:41

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I don't remember if it was this thread or somewhere in C-SPAM but someone this week posted the idea that being reincarnated as a human is the animal version of hell and that thought has really been sticking with me

# ¿ Aug 15, 2019 03:00

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Nostalgia4Butts posted:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/15/politics/assault-weapons-ban-fox-news-poll-gun-control/index.html

fox news poll showing 67% support for assault weapon ban

How else are manufacturers supposed to convince people who are already sitting on a dozen stripped lowers to buy twenty more?

# ¿ Aug 15, 2019 21:41

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In-state transfers not requiring FFL mediation is absurd in the face of Wickard v. Filburn

Also NPR was dead to me as soon as they cancelled Talk of the Nation. Listening to Neal lose his patience and politely hang up on dumbasses was the highlight of my day.

shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Aug 15, 2019

# ¿ Aug 15, 2019 22:47

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McNally hasn't probed anyone for 24 hours I'm getting worried about him :ohdear:

# ¿ Aug 17, 2019 05:32

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I assume they mean it would come out of your limited vacation/sick combined pool

# ¿ Aug 18, 2019 04:32

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Last time I looked at cars my friend who was driving me looked as shocked as if I had just dropped trou and poo poo in the floor when I walked out of a dealership that wouldn't move from their sticker price on a used Mazda 3 that had been on their lot over a year. A lot of people really do think you're supposed to give the sales guy a blowjob so they'll let you buy a car, I don't understand how we got to this point but the lack of education on basic negotiation tactics in american schools is shameful.

In conclusion everyone please read this book

https://www.amazon.com/Bargaining-Advantage-Negotiation-Strategies-Reasonable/dp/0143036971

shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Aug 18, 2019

# ¿ Aug 18, 2019 18:51

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I mean it's completely by design just like the active sabotage of critical thinking skills, but still, c'mon, jesus.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2019 18:53

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There's none and I can say we're doing a terrible job without implying anywhere else is doing any better.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2019 18:58

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Nystral posted:

Ok. Who’s the best source for news in 2019?

Unironically CSPAM embedded tweets

# ¿ Aug 20, 2019 20:33

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There used to be a landlord thread in BFC where goons traded tips & tricks for pulling poo poo like this and the meltdowns when they got called out on it were so great.

# ¿ Aug 20, 2019 23:47

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lmao Walmart sues Tesla after 3% of rooftop solar installations catch fire.

https://www.engadget.com/amp/2019/08/20/walmart-sues-tesla-over-solar-panel-fires/

# ¿ Aug 21, 2019 04:04

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If he's talking about MDMA it's a serious broken clock moment

# ¿ Aug 21, 2019 21:32

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There are few better indictments of capitalism than playing standard Monopoly by the rules as written but literally no one has ever done that so :shrug:

# ¿ Aug 22, 2019 01:15

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hosed up if true:

Dark Off posted:

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/08/22/there-s-no-danger-get-to-work So much osha in that nuclear incident.

quote:

When conducting any work like this [with the missile], the soldiers should have deployed decontamination checkpoints at the testing site — there should have been at least three. The first decontamination point should be at the border between the clean and contaminated zones. Even in the absence of a major accident, individuals leaving the danger zone must pass through this checkpoint with any equipment they touched, and they have to be processed and decontaminated of any radiation. At the next checkpoint, these people have to remove all their clothing (which needs to be destroyed), before they’re cleaned and decontaminated again. After this, they’re checked again for radiation levels. People who come up “clean” are released, but anyone with abnormal readings has to be taken to a military hospital. Before they’re loaded into an ambulance, they need to be washed again and then yet again, when they arrive at the hospital. Before any surgeries, patients should be decontaminated once again at the hospital. Only after all this should doctors treat the patients.

And what happened with the accident at the test site in the Arkhangelsk region? I wasn’t on duty that day, but I know about what took place from my colleagues. Six victims were taken to Vaskovo Airport, not on military helicopters, but on two civilian helicopters operated by air-medical service. These workers weren’t warned that they were carrying radiation-contaminated patients, and they certainly didn’t sign any consent-to-assist documents. Because they weren’t told whom they were transporting, the air-medical responders didn’t even take basic safety measures. They flew into a hotbed of isotope radiation without respirators or protective gear, and took away the victims.

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And the most absurd thing in all this (though I struggle to single out what I think is “the most”) is that they didn’t leave our vehicle (a mobile radiation-chemistry laboratory) at Vaskovo Airport, where they brought the victims. Instead, they sent it to Severodvinsk to measure its radiation levels. At that time, there were reports that sensors there were showing heightened radiation levels. So our car went there, and an additional team drove to the airport with a gamma-ray sensor and nothing else. This was on orders from senior officials (not the managers at our rescue service).

Just so you understand: I’m saying that the rescue workers were in protective gear, but they had absolutely nothing to help the radiation victims. To make matters worse, our vehicle, which had everything needed to decontaminate radioactive people, had just left for Severodvinsk, on orders from management. I’ll note separately that the “Zvezdochka” and “Sevmash” factories in Severodvinsk also have their own equipment that could have been used to measure the radiation levels there.

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On August 8, at 4:35 p.m., three people injured at a military testing site were brought to our hospital. We doctors directly asked if any of the patients had been exposed to radiation. The patients’ escorts told us that they’d all been decontaminated. They said, “They’re no danger to you. Get to work.”

quote:

Some time later, when we were already in surgery with the patients, the dosimetrists showed up and started measuring beta-radiation levels. They ran out of the operating room in terror. Doctors caught them in the hallway, and they confessed that the beta radiation was off the scale.

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And another important thing: we risked the lives of the other patients who were in the emergency room at that time. We closed the area only after we realized that we’d admitted three patients who’d been exposed to radiation. The whole time up until this, literally steps from our victims, there were teenagers, pregnant women, and people who needed medical attention, all just walking by.

The next day, on Monday, staff from the Health Ministry arrived. After spending several hours with the patients (about whom the doctors themselves knew only that they’d been exposed to radiation, and not the type of radiation or doses), the physicians started asking the Health Ministry officials: “We’ve likely been irradiated. Who’s responsible for this? Whose decision was it? And how will we be compensated for this?” The acting minister said the doctors would get overtime pay, which is roughly 100 rubles ($1.50) an hour. In other words, the Health Ministry officials didn’t deny that the staff had been irradiated. So these people spent five to six hours with the infected, performed operations on them, and got 500 rubles ($7.60) for it.

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The medics from the military came to our hospital only later. When we started telling them about the victims’ exposure, their diagnoses, and invited them into the patients’ rooms, the medics said, “No. We have children,” and “I’ve got so many kids and I’m not going in there.” Well that’s just great. Meanwhile, without any warning, the doctors at our hospital spent a bunch of time with these patients, the anesthesiologists each spent six hours with them, and these military medics don’t want to go inside for a single minute.

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At Burnazyan, they found cesium in one of my colleagues. He’s a young man, and his wife is currently pregnant. At the medical center, they asked him where he’s gone on vacation in the past few years. He started listing all the places, and said he’d been to Thailand at some point. When they heard this, they said where there’s Thailand, there’s Japan: “You must have eaten some Fukushima crabs!” The man had been in contact with cesium for several hours, he’d participated in surgeries [with irradiated patients], and he’d stood over the patients without a respirator mask. Then he goes in for an examination, and they tell him: “Oops, well, it’s your own fault. You brought it home from Thailand.”

# ¿ Aug 23, 2019 01:38

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wheres the boot :confused:

# ¿ Aug 23, 2019 22:20

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 17:50

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Nostalgia4Butts posted:

i did

# ¿ Aug 28, 2019 02:00

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