News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2024

[Precious Roy]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

http://nypost.com/2016/09/29/cops-hunt-for-man-who-cold-cocked-woman-on-street/

includes video

HOLY SHIT

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

Interesting study on violence among mammals. It claims humans while more likely to kill each other than the average mammal are average for primates and are becoming less likely to do so.




http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/humans-are-unusually-violent-mammals-but-averagely-violent-primates/501935/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

Some excerpts...

Humans do all three. Gómez’s team calculated that at the origin of Homo sapiens, we were six times more lethally violent than the average mammal, but about as violent as expected for a primate. But time and social organizations have sated our ancestral bloodthirst, leaving us with modern rates of lethal violence that are well below the prehistoric baseline. We are an average member of an especially violent group of mammals, and we’ve managed to curb our ancestry.

Gómez’s team predicted that when our species arose, around 2 percent of us (1 in 50) would have been murdered by other people.......


They concluded that rates of lethal violence originally ranged from 3.4 to 3.9 percent during Paleolithic times, making us only slightly more violent than you’d expect for a primate of our evolutionary past. That rate rose to around 12 percent during the bloody Medieval period, before falling again over the last few centuries to levels even lower than our prehistoric past.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

Also holy shit meerkats.

 

[Baby Shoes]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

Also holy shit meerkats.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

https://theintercept.com/2016/10/03/former-cia-detainees-describe-previously-unknown-torture-tactic-a-makeshift-electric-chair/

Former detainees reveal the CIA's "Torture Chair"

 

[Precious Roy]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/10/10/a-saudi-teen-flirts-online-with-a-young-woman-in-california-and-ends-up-in-jail/

 

[BruiserBrody]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGJIB5cO0cQ

Rush is pushing this.

 

[Damaramu]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

And his duty ends in 3 months.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/gop-candidate-offers-harlem-residents-free-kfc-and-watermelon-they-offer-him-a-foot-in-the-ass/#.V_6e-02oJUs.facebook

Playing to the base.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

https://boingboing.net/2016/10/24/rip-jack-chick-father-of-the.html

I don't celebrate when people die but fuck this asshole, can't say I'm sad to see him gone.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/31/health/cancer-survivor-bully-trnd/index.html

stuff like this makes me feel physically sick.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

That's heartbreaking.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/01/06/wikileaks-proposes-tracking-verified-twitter-users-homes-families-and-finances/?utm_term=.d8f29f6cf0f1

Wikileaks slow transformation into the thought police is alarming.

 

[Richard]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

http://www.ocweekly.com/news/fbi-agent-admits-best-buy-recovered-photo-not-exactly-child-porn-in-case-against-doctor-7810770

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/world-richest-men-eight-oxfam-own-poorest-half-50-per-cent-bill-gates-warren-buffett-amancio-ortega-a7529741.html

I do like Bill Gates, the amount of money he's given to charity is insane and just generally done some good work.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/bristol-police-taser-race-relations-adviser-article-1.2952522?

A pair of Bristol police officers were caught on video firing a Taser at a man tasked with easing relations between the black community and law enforcement after they mistook him for a wanted criminal.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/world/san-antonio-gunman-multiple-victims-reported-at-shopping-mall/news-story/b82b2e734f0fbaba4c7a46a19a322dec

SAN Antonio Police responding to an ‘active shooter’ situation at the Rolling Oaks shopping mall, Live Oak police confirmed, after an armed robbery went wrong.
The dead person was a ‘concealed carry’ armed witness who attempted to intervene, police reported. One of the robbery suspects was wounded in the exchange of gunfire. The second suspect fled the scene while continuing to shoot, wounding several bystanders in the process.
Police say they are seeking one of the robbers. He is described as a hispanic male wearing a hoodie.

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The Alex Jones in me cries "False Flag" with the hispanic male turning out to be an illegal, opening up the doors for Trump's "Border" executive order tomorrow that has been promised.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Re: News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2015

http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/01/how_trump_happened.html


???

The audacity of whiteness is incomprehensible to me sometimes. Never mind why some jackoff in New Zealand felt like he needed to give the world his hot take in the first place...

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"I was a good white person until@you made me be politically correct! Now I'm a racist!"

 

[BruiserBrody]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/michigan-republican-suggests-kent-state-protesters-article-1.2963902

Shoot the protesters....ugh

 

[JHawk]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/michigan-republican-suggests-kent-state-protesters-article-1.2963902

Shoot the protesters....ugh

Worst part of that is the thing Kent State is most known for is a shooting of protesters. Stay classy, Michigan.

 

[Sex Machine Gun]

It won't help but I've been calling every station that airs an anti-unionizing TV spot regarding the Boeing plant here. The kind of shit they're flooding the airwaves with to prevent the International Machinist Association from developing a chapter in their plant is disgusting and full of false equivalencies. One spot talks about the family of the IAM chairman making $600,000/year when including all of their collective incomes and using it as a reason not to pay dues to a union. Of course, $600k is what the Boeing CEO individually makes makes in a month or less. Think they'd talk about that? Naaaah.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/denver-police-to-protesters-stop-doing-anything-that-could-be-construed-as-free-speech/

“Stop doing anything that could be construed as free speech without a permit,” he explains.

Lopez warns in the video, which lacks context, that even carrying a copy of the U.S. Constitution was prohibited in the airport.


“I cannot carry the Constitution without a permit?” one protester asks.

“Correct,” the officer replies.

Carrying a concealed constitution is a serious charge.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/09/footloose-town-oklahoma-dance-cancelled-near-church

A small town in Oklahoma has cancelled a Valentine’s Day dance because of an arcane city ordinance enforcing a strict moral code, echoing the story line of 80s movie Footloose.

The organiser ditched the event at Rosie LaVon’s Marketplace in Henryetta because it would have taken place 300 feet (90 metres) from a church, in violation of a rule forbidding dancing within 500 feet of a place of worship, KTUL-TV reported.

Is this Dama's home town?



Also this is fucked up, but I bet someone on the board at least knows someone who has done it:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/funeral-selfies-1.3970113

Funeral directors in Quebec are discussing how to educate people that taking selfies over a corpse and posting it to social media may be considered disrespectful in some families.

The president of the corporation of funeral directors of Quebec, Denis Desrochers, said the act of taking photos at a funeral isn't new, but sharing those photos on social media is.

 

[Damaramu]

Henryetta is like 2 hours from me, but it is the birthplace of Troy Aikman!

Also I'm not from a small town.

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://theintercept.com/2017/02/13/oklahoma-lawmakers-want-men-to-approve-all-abortions/

Silly women, you'll learn your place

 

[Damaramu]

Also they're trying to introduce a bill to put the 10 Commandments back at the capital and for it be funded by tax dollars!

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://theintercept.com/2017/02/13/oklahoma-lawmakers-want-men-to-approve-all-abortions/

Silly women, you'll learn your place

“I understand that they feel like that is their body,” Oklahoma Republican Justin Humphrey said of women. “I feel like it is a separate — what I call them is, is you’re a ‘host.’

 

[Damaramu]

*smacks head* If I didn't have a custody arrangement with my son I would probably have transferred to our Colorado Springs office by now.

 

[KOAB]

Though Israeli politics is atypical—steeped in questions of war, peace, religious identity and the relationship with Palestinians—the voting behaviour of its young is nevertheless all of a pattern with the rest of the rich world. In Britain and Poland less than half of under-25s voted in their country’s most recent general election. Two-thirds of Swiss millennials stayed at home on election day in 2015, as did four-fifths of American ones in the congressional election in 2014. Although turnout has been declining across the rich world, it has fallen fastest among the young. According to Martin Wattenberg of the University of California, Irvine, the gap in turnout between young and old in many places resembles the racial gap in the American South in the early 1960s, when state governments routinely suppressed the black vote.

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21716023-democracies-are-risk-if-young-people-continue-shun-ballot-box-millennials-across

 

[Mickey Massuco]

Young people have always been less likely to vote. You're gonna have to show some significant changes from previous stats for me to think something's up.