SETI scientists spot 72 signals ‘from alien galaxy’ 3bn light years away
The researchers at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute discovered the unusual signals when examining 400 terabytes of radio data from a dwarf galaxy three billion light years away from Earth.
Almost all artificial intelligence technology involves automating data analysis, combing through huge data sets to identify patterns or unusual occurrences.
The signals they spotted – fast radio bursts (FRBs) – are bright and quick pulses which were first discovered in 2007 and are believed to come from distant galaxies, although it is not yet know what causes them.
“The nature of the object emitting them is unknown,” SETI said, adding: “There are many theories, including that they could be the signatures of technology developed by extraterrestrial intelligent life.”
You know, it’s probably just spam. Three billion-year-old spam about tentacle extension creams.
Amazon Removes 9 Books By Notorious Rape Apologist ‘Roosh’
For more than a decade, America’s tech giants have helped author and self-described “pickup artist” Daryush “Roosh” Valizadeh earn a living from writing and selling books that denigrate women and glorify sexual assault.
Amazon sells Valizadeh’s self-published books, which detail his confessions of rape. Twitter verified his account, which he uses to promote them. YouTube has allowed him to publish videos and livestreams where viewers can donate money to him. Altogether, Valizadeh’s empire of hate brings in more than $60,000 a year, he claims — money that allows him to continue publishing books the Anti-Defamation League described as how-to manuals for sexual predators.
Now that’s finally starting to change.
On Monday, Amazon took the rare step of removing nine of more than a dozen books written by Valizadeh from its website, including his most recent one, published Friday. Amazon banned the books after HuffPost reached out to ask whether Valizadeh’s content was in violation of the company’s content guidelines for self-published material — but not before it hit the top 1,000 books sold on Amazon that day. Valizadeh sold more than 2,000 copies at $23 each before Amazon knocked the books off its site, he claimed later.
HuffPost repeatedly attempted to talk to Valizadeh, who declined a female reporter’s interview request (he instructs all women who want to communicate with him to first show him a photo of themselves). He blocked another HuffPost reporter on Twitter after ignoring his emailed requests for comment. But on Twitter and his website, Valizadeh has expressed shock that his newest book has been taken off Amazon.
The Cleansing proceeds apace. Soon America will be perfect.
This Guy Watched an Adam Sandler Movie Every Day for an Entire Year
To some, a yearlong marathon of the Sandman’s considerable oeuvre brings to mind questions of why? And how? And what? (And WTF?) To Los Angeles music publicist and avowed Sandlerhead Eloy Lugo, however, it simply was the #YearOfSandler, a quest most honorable whose purpose has been to prop up his hero and perhaps encourage a reevaluation of Billy Madison’s extensive body of work. This isn’t the first time Lugo has paid homage to Sandler, this January he hosted the third annual SandlerCon, a 24 hour movie marathon complete with cosplay and themed menus that received Twitter shoutouts from members of the Sandlerverse.
Lugo’s yearlong cinematic pilgrimage began on a day most holy, September 9th (Sandler’s birthday) of last year and came to its conclusion with a well-attended screening of the underrated (Lugo’s words) Little Nicky at LA’s Downtown Independent Theater exactly one year later.
This fall’s hottest game guides you through a duck’s labyrinthian vagina
As a society, we spend an absurd amount of time talking about penises. Even at this very site, we’ve shared childhood-ruining studies confirming the existence (and size!) of Mario and Luigi’s animated members. Last year, however, our interest was piqued by a story about the difficulties of bringing a dolphin vagina onto an airplane, and now, with the release of the VR Duck Genitalia Explorer, our gaze has officially pivoted. Sure, it’s weird and kind of cool that pigs have corkscrew dicks, but the vaginas of muscovy ducks are as twisty and claustrophobic as a Doom level. As writer Samantha Cole puts it in this Motherboard article, the new app wandering these dank, fertile halls is “like the Magic School Bus, but for the inside of a waterfowl.”
VR Duck Genitalia Explorer, an Android app that whisks you on a whimsical journey through a muscovy duck vagina, was designed by science educator Jules Howard and biological sciences professor Patricia Brennan, the latter of whom also narrates the proceedings. “I think apps like this one can really serve two functions: one is to really allow folks to visualize complex structures that may be too difficult to grasp with 2-D, and two, to get people who normally may not be interested in science, to start asking questions about interesting biological phenomena by stepping in the VR novelty,” Brennan told Motherboard, making the obvious, yet understated, point point that, yes, folks are much more likely to pay attention when genitalia is involved.
The game doesn’t seem to answer the question: Can ducks queef? I guess they are saving that for a DLC.
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That’s pretty rich coming from an admitted Canadian.
Hello.
No thank you.
Shouldn’t that be in French?
We should collect (stupid) author bios from around the Internet.
“The signals they spotted – fast radio bursts (FRBs)”
We just call it routine message traffic
And first?
And first?
Not quite. Perhaps lizard technology is not advanced as we feared…
I think we all know which Glib that transmission was intended for.
You Called?
The most annoying thing about the culture wars is that it forces me to defend the rights of pieces of human excrement like Roosh.
“glorify sexual assault”
I’d rather hear the specifics on that, rather than take HuffPo’s word on it.
exhibit A:
he once wrote a satirical piece on making rape legal so women would defend their vaginas like they defend their phones and purses.
exhibit B:
he also writes pickup books about his exploits in foreign countries.
exhibit C:
he’s also a Trump supporter.
game. set. match.
And exhibit C is the most damning.
has he ever been accused of rape or actually charged with a crime?
Don’t be a victim blaming shitlord? What kind of misogynist doesn’t believe vague accusations from anonymous sources?
yes and no, methinks:
You probably defend his being published, his ideas being tried in the clear light of day. You defend his right to write and have opinions. But that’s not culture at all; the kids are mixing up culture at the expense of liberty, but that’s not what you/we do.
You probably don’t defend his being an asshole (if he is one, I defer); that’s a cultural position, but there’s little debate on that point; he is an asshole, and he’s free to be one, but we don’t care to drink with such folk.
There is a similar point on which the Glibertariat renders me squeamish from time to time: the casual drift from the leave-free-or-die lane into the big-middle-finger-to-folks-who-annoy-me lane (to me it sounds just a step away from punch a nazi because he’s a nazi and leads to all kinds of lazy comments and generalizations). But, erring to the freedom side, I live with it and resolve to enjoy the other 70% of the content here that is just spectacularly thoughtful.
the casual drift from the leave-free-or-die lane into the big-middle-finger-to-folks-who-annoy-me lane (to me it sounds just a step away from punch a nazi because he’s a nazi and leads to all kinds of lazy comments and generalizations)
My response
I read it and am not sure it helps me know how you feel on this one; we seldom disagree. Cudos: whose “particular identity politics ox is gored” is an excellent turn of phrase.
When I wrote “drift” and “punch” I guess I was hinting around a sense that who has a punchable face just isn’t funny to me; I don’t think NAP is a joke. But maybe such discourse is hilarious and I just need to get the stick out of my ass, but it’s up there pretty tight because these things get out of hand quickly; we’re quick to excoriate sloppy, malicious, hateful speech when slate dot com publishes it, but many Glibs comment in a similar way all the time, all the while (rightly) pointing out exactly why the bad guys are starting down a slippery slope with their shoddy logic and pandering for violence. I’ll keep reading, but I’ll never be thrilled about it; agreeing with 70% of the content here is a win in my book. It’s mostly a style thing, maybe, but it sounds like the dumb hate I hear from my toothless cousins all the time , all of whom are authoritarian socons on the public dole .
When I wrote “drift” and “punch” I guess I was hinting around a sense that who has a punchable face just isn’t funny to me; I don’t think NAP is a joke.
I don’t think many of us here do. I think the comments section here is sort of a lot of our online hangout. And, given that most of us are pretty like-minded about the importance of liberty, there’s going to be a little bit of blowing off steam. The same way a lot of us rightly make comments about “the king’s men”, we make comments about the myriad petty tyrants on the left who are just as eager to infringe on our liberties.
Well put.
I’m glad someone brought this up. There’s an irrational tendency around here to focus on appearances and not actions (or any proxy closer to the reality)—just like pretty much anywhere, but I expect more from commenters here.
You probably don’t defend his being an asshole (if he is one, I defer)
Yeah, it’s that last part that bothers me. I keep seeing these incredibly vile accusations, even from the journalistic crowd, about certain people. I ask to hear it explained and….crickets. Even TOS wasn’t immune from playing that game (albeit their target was Milo Yiannopoulos). “Roosh” could be an utter douchenozzle. I don’t know. And the people telling me I got to hate the guy haven’t provided an iota of support as to why I should.
It appears most of the Left aren’t content with living their own life peacefully, but rather want to forcibly rearrange mine and others to their nightmare dystopia. Giving them a live-free-or-die lane is as dangerous as leaving metastasized cancer free to run its course.
If they were content to restrict their follies to voluntary communes or HOAs, I’d have absolutely no qualms about letting them have it.
Amazon sells Valizadeh’s self-published books, which detail his confessions of rape.
Unless he actually confesses to rape (as legally defined in criminal statutes), it seems to me he has a pretty good defamation per se case here.
Not very likely. Roosh is enough of a celebrity that this would fall under the Sullivan test, and even if it didn’t, it’s likely an opinion formed based on the facts presented – a reasonable person reading Roosh’s works could make a reasonable inference of such.
The Sullivan test isn’t unbeatable. Its an interesting question, whether claiming he confesses to rape in his books is a statement of fact or opinion; I could argue it either way, but I’d be comfortable making the argument that claiming somebody confessed to rape is making an assertion of fact, especially when as it is stated in the article – there’s no hedging at all.
Whether its reasonable to infer that he confessed to rape, of course, depends on what he actually wrote and, crucially, on what definition of rape we are using. As his lawyer, I would say that this is statement that he confessed to a crime, and so we should look at the legal definition.
he instructs all women who want to communicate with him to first show him a photo of themselves
See, that’s how you shitlord.
The Southern Poverty Law Center put him on their hate watch a few years ago. Yes he may be scum but this treatment of him is over the top.
Even more maddening is the realization that they’re basically banning snake oil. From what I understand, this guy’s books are just run-of-the-mill pickup artist drivel that’s highly unlikely to bestow sexual super powers upon the type of guy that would feel inclined to buy such a book. It’s like banning a Charles Atlas book because you’re worried that the fatass you made fun of in school might someday come to beat the shit out of you when in reality he’ll still be just a fatass.
Better PUA – Roosh or Mystery?
This guy.
If they are removing books about fantasies/depictions of rape and “glorifying” sexual assault, they will need to start removing about 80% of the romance novels. A (very smart) woman I know well LOVES those books. As far as I can tell, she is completely asexual, so…..?
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”
…H. L. Mencken
Dammit, dammit, dammit.
DON’T MAKE ME MAKE A HARD DECISION AMAZON.
Sandler movies are all the same. Just with different titles.
Not true! One of them is a comedy!
But it wasn’t funny.
Pretty sure we saw the same one.
The Waterboy is a masterpiece, damn it!
I like Happy Gilmore.
Bob Barker made that movie work.
“Now you’ve had enough…bitch!”
i wanted to shoot those O-lines to put them out of my misery.
Favorite Adam Sandler Movies Ranked
1. The Waterboy
2. Happy Gilmore
3. The Wedding Singer
4. Billy Madison
“hey, look, that MLB is running another stunt!”
“and the offensive line is apparently playing blind b/c they can’t pick up shit”
Nobody needs 23 kinds of Adam Sandler movies.
Nobody needs
23 kinds ofAdam Sandlermovies.Yes, they are all equally unwatchable.
No love for Punch Drunk Love?
Afternoon.
Now that I am at my house, I’m going to walk two miles and see how long it takes me. Getting moving at 4:07 pm
4:49, holy crap, that’s slow.
I had a couple of recurring thoughts while walking.
First, why did I pick a day with no breeze and high humidity?
Second, the worst thing about hating sweating and being winded is it incentivizes behaviours that lead to being more likely to sweat profusely and be winded more often.
There is nothing better after a workout than a beer, so always work off 150 calories more than the base budget.
40 minutes to walk 2 miles? That’s 3 miles an hour. That is both the most common speed that humans of all shapes, sizes, and cultures walk at, and it is also the one that economizes on energy for distance traveled (assuming flat land, not load carried.)
I was miserable from sweating and not having walked that far continuously in a few months. If I’d made it in ten minutes I’d have been upset.
I had intended to say that there was nothing wrong with your pace. You weren’t slow. You were in fact at just about optimal speed for a person with an average set of limbs.
I was born to durable people; we suffer well, and I’ve finally learned that’s not normal (or even desirable). But if there is a way to program yourself to joy in the sweat, it might turn it around. Today, it’s all negative: you have to fight the thing per se as well as your feelings about it.
I was 12 before I stopped chewing my nails. For some reason I suddenly started to delight in not chewing them as much as I had formerly obsessed with and enjoyed with chewing them. I don’t know what that switch is, but somehow from time to time I get a rush out of the sense of conquering something that is more pleasant that the comfort or joy that the former habit delivered, and the table turns.
This might just be BS; I’ve never heard former smokers talk this way.
Have you ever heard a former smoker preach at a current smoker? That’s their new obsession.
Kinda like formerly catholic atheists; they always seem to be the maddest at God for not existing.
It’s been just over a month for me. I just look at other smokers and think “I’m glad I stopped” and go on my way. I have no intention of lecturing anybody.
I don’t believe I’ve ever preached to a current smoker (or vaper), nor at any of my Catholic friends. Perhaps I should try Crossfit, and become a vegan to see if I can truly resist.
‘Stache on Scooters, AGGHH!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvIM8pSjWqY
So… today’s theme is the Drake Equation, hmm?
SWISS! GET OVER HERE!
Can SDF-7 duck a narrow gaze?
I’ll take a quack at it, I think it may be my first. If not — ah, I’ll wing it.
I took a gander at it, but it left me scratching my patè…
Seems a bit of a canard.
All the same, I’m glad that you gave a flip — per the usual responses.
Y’all need to bring it down a little.
This entire conversation has taken a rather fowl turn. Perhaps we should all take a gander at Q’s links to goose the creative juices?
Uh-oh… you brought in the Hate Birds, the Birds Who Hate.
Now you’ve really egged Swiss on. I suspect he’ll eider give another stern gaze or hen peck us.
I know you’re trying to goose it up but you’re dabbling in the worst puns on the web. I hate to be a scrooge but we need to pull the canvas back over this thread before it gets too daffy.
What a bunch of milk and quackers.
Let’s hope Swiss doesn’t bill for those.
I get all the glares I need for free, baby.
The feathers would really fly.
He can send a bill or not. Eider way, I ain’t paying.
But if he can make a living by charging for it, that is quite the teal.
He might try to claw back some of your other assets. All he’d have to do is get in front of the the right judge and parrot the right words. He’s got a talon for this sort of thing. Wouldn’t be the first time. Reporters wouldn’t think its news worthy. They wouldn’t have to change the newspaper headline, because it wouldn’t be news.
Talon? On a duck?
Oh what a tangled web foot is spun
when we first practice elision for our pun
Forget it. They’re rolling.
*fiercely narrows gaze*
“books that denigrate women and glorify sexual assault”
Roosh is a slimeball, but this is just wrong.
Eh. It’s pretty close to the truth from what I’ve read (his website, never read his books).
Doesn’t mean what Amazon is doing is right, mind you.
I kind of hate everyone involved.
^This. I’ll amend my comment: his work does denigrate women in the same way men denigrate women in locker rooms when talking about sexual conquests. The “glorification of sexual assault” hangs me up a bit as the stuff I have read of his doesn’t seem to. He wrote an article about rape as a sexual strategy in caveman times, in an abstract sense (and written tastelessly) and it was twisted into rape advocacy.
I stand by my statement that he’s a slimeball and Amazon can boot him if they want. However, I maintain that it is incorrect to call him a rape apologist.
Meh. Amazon is under no obligation to sell his product.
“Meh”?
YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO NEG HARDER!
It’s like he’s not even trying to crush puss, brah.
*shakes head sadly*
Which head are you shaking? Big one or small one?
Well it’s *sadly*, so I would say small one.
Why not both?
That would be appropriate.
If they can be forced to bake a cake, why can’t they be forced to sell a book?
Two wrongs don’t make a right. (But three lefts do.)
Wait…really?
*runs in left turns*
Hey, he is right!
*falls down*
I assume they are using “sexual assault” in the broad sense of “sex I regretted later”.
I’m confused too about the whole rape thing. He went frim being a pick-up guy to an alpha red pill type.
The search warrant for Botham Shem Jean’s apartment
They’re on a fishing expedition for anything they can find that might present him as being a less than perfect person, therefore excusing the shooting.
It’s also being called an “officer involved shooting”, even though the investigation started with the premise that it was not an officer involved shooting.
That’s pretty messed up.
The “off-duty, potentially drunk, potentially spurned lover, we don’t really know what was wrong with her” preface to “officer involved shooting” is silent.
What’s interesting is that the warrant calls out all kinds of evidence relevant to the shooting (shell casings, projectiles, blood, etc.) that I would have thought they already had. Even more interesting, it calls out a “ballistic vest”, which makes it sound like she took off her vest in his apartment for some reason. And, yes, they call out stuff of the victim’s, like cell phone, laptop and “narcotics” (which is probably listed in every single warrant the Dallas DA gets). The cell and laptop should be examined for evidence of a relationship of any kind with the killer.
Narrowly, of course, if they find drugs or other evidence of lawbreaking by the victim, its completely irrelevant. But we all know that it will be leaked to prep the PR battlespace.
The guy was on drugs. Therefore, the cop, who is able to sense these things from afar, was led to his apartment to save him from drugs. Upon entering she shouted ‘put down the illegal drugs!’. He failed to comply, therefore the shooting was justified. Give that cop a medal and close this up, nothing to see here, move on.
On the other hand, authorities bulldozed the New Mexico jihad training compound before anything resembling evidence could have been collected there.
https://www.lifezette.com/2018/08/jihad-compound-in-new-mexico-is-destroyed-mysteriously-by-authorities-whats-going-on/
I never will understand the application of forensic science.
Titty Tuesday continues!
http://archive.is/xXYBC
12 is the master of ceremonies.
I suppose these links would get me banned from Amazon as they “denigrate women and glorify sexual assault”.
And by the way 15 is best in show.
breast in show
Yeah both solid choices. 14 makes my list as well.
9 and 30.
13 and 14 for me.
20 if her legs were just a *little* longer. Kinda looks disproportionate, but that ass is fly.
Someone born on 9/11 is now eligible to join the military (even if they can’t serve for another year) and could end up having to serve in the worthless war we started as a result of 9/11.
That fact was pointed out to me earlier and I still can’t wrap my head around how sad it is.
Er…continued, I should think. An awfully long, long continuance.
9/11 just got it warm again.
Nearly 1300 years, by my count.
Nearly 1400 brah, give credit where it is due.
Alexander the Great was Chopped liver? OHHHHH…….
I rather think 9/11 started it – we just have continued it for… a wee bit long.
A seventeen year old can be on active duty, I think they just have to have graduated high school.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. YES, YES. CLEANSING MAKES EVERYTHING CLOSER TO PERFECTION. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
“[ACC Entry] Should Transgender Children Transition?”
http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/09/08/acc-entry-should-transgender-children-transition/
Geez, first the ACC let in Va Tech, BC and Syracuse and now this??
this is a mess.
puberty blockers are being prescribed to children despite evidence that 50%+ of gender dysphoric children desist during puberty.
Puberty blockers? Does OMWC know about this (lack of) development?
Isn’t that the position he played in High School?
Don’t forget: teenagers can’t consent to any of that; their parents are the ones consenting.
I predict ruinous malpractice lawsuits against the physicians who order puberty blockers, hormone therapy, etc. for teenagers. As a plus, the statute of limitations for malpractice doesn’t run for minors until they turn 18, so they typically have until age 20 or 21 to file suit.
Toxic puberty?
That’s pretty much the way my parents remember it, yes.
SETI scientists spot 72 signals ‘from alien galaxy’ 3bn light years away
we already know how this ends
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I believe is ends with chewing bubblegum and kicking ass.
I would have guessed Vger.
They showed up from space. Put up a force field around Haiwaii, and destroyed the Pacific fleet in 10 mins….but the never saw the Missouri coming.
DISBELIEVER!!!!!
“SETI scientists spot 72 signals ‘from alien galaxy’ 3bn light years away”
-Drink…. your……. Oval….tine.
Round the singularity, lickety split….
Beautiful warp drive…
wasn’t it?
Burma Shave
Sunofabitch!
V…o….t…e…….T….r….u….m….p…….T..o..v..a..r..i…s..c..h…
Lots going on in the tropics.
Florence might end up hitting around Wilmington and then slow down and scrape the coast down to Georgia before going back out to sea (or going further inland). Or it might hit near Wilmington and keep going. Anyways, Wilmington is in trouble.
There’s a system in the Gulf of Mexico that’s likely to turn into a tropical storm and will likely hit somewhere along the Texas coast.
Isaac will probably be a hurricane or strong tropical storm when it hits the Lesser Antilles and then will likely weaken and barrel westward into Central America (may fall apart in the process).
Helena is turning out to sea.
There’s a system in the central Atlantic that may form and meander around for a while nowhere near land.
And after all that the hyper period of the tropics is probably over. May shut down after that (based on looking at what’s happened in seasons with similar weather patterns). One or two more storms after this huge group.
Just Because: Exhibit 13
Three clowns known for wearing blue face paint very, very quietly released this video on 9-11-02. I imagine very few people have ever seen it. I remember being completely shaken at the time.
I revisit it every couple of years. I think it holds up after 16 years.
Wow. that was incredibly moving. Why some sraps of paper could have that effect is amazing. I think, because it’s so mundane it’s easy to relate.
Really cool. Thanks!
You are welcome.
This Guy Watched an Adam Sandler Movie Every Day for an Entire Year
I wouldn’t even be able to make it through 8 crazy nights of this.
More than 6 would be Ridiculous.
After I few, I’d be filled with punch drunk hate.
“More adults not working than working in South Africa
Delivering the UASA trade union’s 17th South African Employment Report (SAER)‚ he said the number of unemployed had increased from 6-million to 9.6-million between 2001 and 2018. This was a 60% increase in the broader rate of unemployment‚ which had had a devastating effect on inequality and poverty in the country‚ said Schussler.
“South Africa is one of the few countries in the world where there are more adults not at work than adults at work.
“Along with other factors‚ such as single female-headed households‚ this low number of employed results in much of South Africa’s poverty and inequality.
“The magnitude of the crisis is the single biggest crisis facing South Africa. South Africa is the only country that our research finds has had a 20% plus unemployment rate for over two decades‚” Schussler said.
“The unemployment rate in South Africa is higher than that of the United States during the Great Depression when unemployment reached 25%.””
https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-09-03-more-adults-not-working-than-working-in-south-africa/
It’s about to get a lot worse.
The best part will be the ANC blaming the Afrikaners and their former colonizers for turning South Africa into socialist hellhole.
To be fair, Marx was a European.
From the duck vagina article.
https://www.avclub.com/luigi-definitely-has-a-dick-and-its-3-7-inches-flaccid-1823832544
Luigi is not packing all that much heat.
Yeah, but Luigi is only 3 feet tall.
Perspective.
He’s Italian, not Australian.
“Alex Jones predicted 9/11”
https://twitter.com/ashtonbirdie/status/1039514034205282304
If that video is real, it’s uncanny. He mentions both Bin Laden and the WTC.
He mentions those because Bin Laden was responsible for the first WTC attack, it’s hindsight that would make a connection to 9/11, not prophecy.
I think the WTC reference was to the ’93 bombing.
Watching that video made me think that if anyone ever makes an Alex Jones biopic he should be played by Bob Odenkirk.
Better Call Saul is great.
In to second this before some contrarian asshole here types a “this good thing is actually bad” take.
*stops typing and flips keyboard*
Every school year, my son seems to have to do a video project for history or social studies. In 8th grade, he was Donald Trump on a spoof of the O’Reilly Factor (as that show was going off the air), last year he was Trump again on a phone call to SNL Weekend Update. And he hates Trump in real life. This year, if he has a project, he plans to be Alex Jones. He says “he’s awesome, he rants about everything.”
Guys, I think I’ve found Dunphy’s twitter account.
https://twitter.com/Coach_Crash/status/1039597197220880384
Whoa. You might be right. Shades of “Don’t answer the door at 2am with a gun in your hand that the police couldn’t have possibly seen and you won’t get shot.”
Was she in uniform?
Yes, she was.
Gotta love “blame the victim” logic. As if the guy committed suicide.
Mad props to Ted S for dropping an Iron Law on them.
The tweet at issue:
Note that he sets up a hypothetical (“If she clearly identified as a police officer”) which we don’t any evidence is the case (all that she has said is that he refused to follow commands). Nor would she necessarily identify herself as a police officer if she thought she was in her own home.
There is also this gem:
Thank you, but it’s the obvious logical conclusion of the OBEY OR DIE mindset.
If she was in uniform, doesn’t that identify her as a police officer?
By her own words, it was too dark for a person to get a detailed view of things that are in the apartment. So no, no it does not.
So it was too dark to make out a police uniform, but light enough to shoot an undressed black man?
And he was shot dead from a handgun, so it must have been good shot placement.
I’ve come to the conclusion that her story is bullshit and she straight-up murdered the dude.
UCS – That’s the only reason any of this makes sense. Too much of her story can’t really be balanced with reality.
1) I’m kind of curious if she was in a low-drag, high-speed tactical operator pajamas. You know, the kind designed to make it hard to identify a cop as a cop in low light situations. That’s not the biggest issue here, but its a very bad trend none the less. The purpose of a police uniform *should* be to clearly identify police as such, not to be comfy when kicking down doors.
2) Yeah, I was kind of suggesting that her story doesn’t sound like it has internal consistency. Replace “a police uniform” with “her furniture being missing and someone else’s furniture in its place,” and you’ve succinctly illustrated the apparent problem with her story.
She might have though it was a dog.
So it was too dark to make out a police uniform, but light enough to shoot an undressed black man?
I expect they were both silhouetted – she would have had the door open behind her, with whatever light is on in the hallway, and he was probably backgrounded by a window, with whatever light was coming through the window. If so, you couldn’t tell she was in uniform.
Unless, of course, the lights were actually on the whole time and she knew damn well it wasn’t her apartment.
“Trump is right: More than Facebook & Twitter, Google threatens democracy, online freedom
Americans must be wary of powerful institutions that seek to control what we see and hear.
As the internet has become an increasingly central part of modern life, Big Tech giants such as Facebook, Twitter and Google have increasingly sought to become the gatekeepers of the internet and political discourse. Without any sort of democratic mandate, these companies have appointed themselves the arbiters of acceptable thought, discussion and searches online.
These companies’ pervasive command of the internet — and blatant desire to control how we interact with it — is a direct threat to a free society. And arguably the worst offender is Google.
Google claims to value free expression and a free and open internet, but there is overwhelming evidence that the Big Tech giant wants the internet to be free and open only to political and social ideas of which it approves.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/09/10/trump-google-youtube-search-results-biased-against-republicans-conservatives-column/1248099002/
None of that is untrue, but that still doesn’t mean regulation is the solution. Google offers a superior product on the market and they built an empire off it. How they want to run that empire is up to them.
I will continue to use DuckDuckGo and protonmail to do my small part.
“How they want to run that empire is up to them.”
Then why isn’t that true for any other business?
If I open a store that only sells bananas, I need city and state permits, comply with zoning, health inspections, SNAP cards, insurance, taxes, trademarks, labor laws, be handicap accessible, have insurance, etc.
Not gonna get any argument from me on that count. The solution is less regulation, not more.
^this.
They work great for most things. I will occasionally use google search when DuckDuckGo isn’t on top of its game, but that is maybe 1/50 searches.
https://coloradopolitics.com/diane-mitsch-bush-defends-in-these-times-subscription/
“‘For the record, I am not a socialist, I’m a Democrat,’ Mitsch Bush said.”
Potato, potahto.
“‘I was raised in Minnesota as a DFL, that means Democratic, farmer, laborer. Meaning I believe urban and labor groups have more in common than what separates them.’”
Al Franken agrees.
Sure but everyone else thinks you are dirty hippies.
http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site21/2015/0403/20150403_124845_0420SMOKE9.jpg
Need this:
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/southpark/images/c/c9/Infernalmachines_thumb_05.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120227215505
“SETI scientists spot 72 signals ‘from alien galaxy’ 3bn light years away”
Well, that’s nice. Those galaxies are so far away we couldn’t reach them now, period. Because of cosmic inflation, if we started traveling there now at the speed of light, when we got there in 3 billion years, they’d probably still only be 10 billion years away.
They’re trying to interfere with our elections obviously.
Slow clap.
we couldn’t reach them now, period.
Not with that attitude, Mister!
Due to relativity, if we started traveling there at the speed of light, we’d perceive that we got there nearly instantaneously.
And inflation isn’t exceeding the speed of light. If it were, we would barely see anything in the sky.
If we are traveling at the speed of light, and they are 3 billion light years away now, we’d get there in 3 billion years, right? IF they weren’t moving in relation to us. I don’t know how to do the math, but I think most of what there is of the universe has already moved out of our observation range.
Also, the greater the distance, doesn’t expansion speed up?
If you are traveling at the speed of light, time stops for you. Yes, it would take 3 billion years, but you’d perceive it as getting there as soon as you got up to speed.
Expansion doesn’t speed up with distance. Just think of a blueberry muffin baking. As it rises it expands and all the blueberries move further apart. From the perspective of any one, all the others are moving away, and the ones furthest away are moving away fastest. But, it’s purely perspective. No part is moving faster than any other.
OK, I get all of that, but…
So, you’re saying, that if I am standing on earth, and some dudes in a rocket take off right now towards a planet 3 billion light years away, they will reach the planet in 3 billion years by my watch?
This is a little confusing.
“they will reach the planet in 3 billion years by my watch?”
If they are traveling the speed of light.
Your watch and their watch are different. It is relative, hence the name.
Take two twins at birth. Put one on a spaceship and travel at .99c away and back. A toddler will arrive back to meet an old man twin (I didn’t do the exact math on that, but adjust the numbers to make it work).
“Your watch and their watch are different. It is relative, hence the name.”
Yeah, I’m way past that. We’re talking about how cosmic expansion would lengthen the time taken to reach the destination over time, or not.
Assuming they can go instantly to light speed, yes. That is correct. You’ve just explained part of the theory of relativity.
Now what will really bake your noggin, is lets say you are twins. One of you hops on the rocket, one of you stays here.
Hyperion1 on the rocket goes to the planet and comes back. For him, mere seconds or minutes pass. For Hyperion2, 6 billion years have passed.
Here’s a real brain bender. One twin sits at speed 0. One twin gets on a train traveling at 1c. While on the train with the twin, you take him up to the front of the train and throw him forward just a little bit faster than the train.
What happens.
You go to jail you baby-murdering bastard!
don’t forget to turn on the headlights while you’re there.
I want an equal amount of blueberries in each muffin.
We still have not gotten to whether cosmic expansion makes my travel longer or not.
Like this, OK, in the relative neighborhood, say Andromeda, yeah I’m cool, because Andromeda is actually moving towards us, but for galaxies billions of light years away, those should be moving away because of inflation, and maybe I don’t get the math, but from what I’ve read, watched documentaries, the farther away those very distant objects are, the faster they are moving away. I has a confuse.
Gravitational forces between objects is a inverse square function. Stuff in the “middle” of the universe is tangled up in a web of greater gravitational forces with other stuff in the “middle.” Stuff out on the edge is, due to its nature on the edge, less strongly attracted to stuff in the middle. Therefore, its not slowed down as much.
Maybe this will explain what I’m getting at:
Cosmic Expansion
“Even if we were to leave today for the most distant stars and galaxies we can imagine at nearly the speed of light, only 3% of the ones in the observable Universe could be reached, a number that gets smaller and smaller with each moment that passes.”
So, eventually, no one will ever be able to travel beyond their own local group, for us, the merged Milky Way/Andromeda.
Maybe God had mercy and realized that once we achieve near light travel technology, we’d start mass genocide on a universal scale. Then he decided to have mercy and limit it to a galactic scale?
But then maybe the evil force, dark matter, not only halts expansion, but reverses it. Before you know, it’s a universal scale killithon going down.
We don’t actually understand what the expansion rate of the universe is. If that is consistent across regions or even if it is a constant. There’s several competing theories about it. So I’m not sure there is an answer to whether we could get to that or not. Also, .99C and 1C are really different numbers.
I’m going to just play No Man’s Sky and pretend like this expansion stuff isn’t real.
“We don’t actually understand what the expansion rate of the universe is.”
Yeah, it’s variable, throughout different zones of the universe. I’ve heard this. But I have not heard anyone say that it isn’t happening and that in general, the further away objects are from each other, the greater the expansion rate.
We’re still taking about this??
Jesus christ, guys, go look at Q’s girls or something. People are gonna think we’re a bunch of nerds!
“Jesus christ, guys, go look at Q’s girls or something. People are gonna think we’re a bunch of nerds!”
We are. A bunch of nerds who look at tits.
What does any of this have to do, with the number of blueberries in each muffin?
“What does any of this have to do, with the number of blueberries in each muffin?”
How many blueberry muffins can there be in a Milkdromeda? Apparently, that is the last relevant question.
turtles, all the way down
Space turtles. Their only fear is SPACE SMITH! SPACE SMITH RAPE YOU ALL THE WAY DOWN! IN SPACE!
they are 3 billion light years away now, we’d get there in 3 billion years, right
If Mrs. “Leadfoot” Dean is driving, you’ll get there in a couple hours.
3B light years away makes it really pointless for any type of communication (3B years in the past). We have to hope for some sort of “Here’s how you build a quantum II hyperdrive message”. Other than that it would be amazing to know we were not always alone.
The Hold Steady were a great show live.
We begin to hold steady;
Steady holding all night long
Craig Finn can be a bit of a douche, but they are a good band.
Check out Lifter Puller – an earlier incarnation.
It’s amazing I made it this long without wondering what banging a duck would be like.
the vaginas of muscovy ducks are as twisty and claustrophobic as a Doom level.
Stick to Hate Birds. Swiss will tell ya!
I merely wish them killed, not duck-raped.
Apparently, “Michael” didn’t know who he was arguing with.
He could get it close if he threw it to Burton’s camera right side and let Burton use his body to shield Dix. But Dix can probably close pretty fast.
I think the defender underneath – #25? #35? – might have been able to play the ball too.
Headline: “Deficit Soars 32 Percent to $895B”.
Paragraph: The nonpartisan CBO reported that the central drivers of the increasing deficit were the Republican tax law and the bipartisan agreement to increase spending. As a result, REVENUE only ROSE 1 percent, failing to keep up with a 7 percent surge in spending, it added.” Doesn’t that mean the increase is entirely the product of spending?
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/406040-federal-deficit-soars-32-percent-to-895b
There’s never enough revenue for the statists.
If they’d have spent moar, revenue would have higher!
/Krugnuts
This is where the GOP fucks up. If I was President, I would of course try to implement tax cuts, but I would also state that since it’s never a good idea to maintain or increase spending with tax cuts, I’m also going to cut spending by this X-amount. They may still cry wolf, but the Left wouldn’t be the position to say, “President Ed’s tax cuts are what caused the deficits to increase.”
The GOPe in Congress would sabotage the cuts and restore the pork, then add a little more to the steaming pile, and the Left would still blame President Ed for the deficit and every other evil, real or imagined.
To spend is to tax.
I’m certainly not excusing Team Red for this fiasco, but it’s amusing that all of a sudden now that there’s a pachyderm in the WH, deficits are important again.
It’s kind of like how they’re talking about civil liberties and journalist “rights.” Like bro, the previous President expanded some of Bush’s policies with regards to civil liberties and y’all said nothing. It’s the hypocrisy that burns me up and their refusal to admit that they could give two shits about civil liberties violation until their guy/gal is out of office.
I’m in the camp that taxes should be cut to the bone, cut again, and then cut again. Doesn’t matter what happens to the deficit… not even a blip on my radar.
The deficit is only going to be solved long-term by a fundamental shift in government spending. Until that happens, keeping taxes high to offset the deficit is like throwing heroin to an addict. If this bitch is going to burn down, let it happen sooner than later so rebuilding is easier. If the deficit numbers have as much practical meaning as unicorn farts, then let taxpayers keep more of their money.
Eliminate taxes and just print money. There is no difference for fiat money: it’s worth whatever people think it’s worth; that’s true today, and that will always be true, even on the day when it finally becomes worthless. It’s not a share of America; it’s not a redeemable coupon; it’s a picture of a president printed on cotton that is, today, worth one seventieth of a barrel of oil. We could balance the budget tomorrow and, if folks suddenly think it’s worthless they would be correct.
What is the correct amount for M1, anyway (assuming anyone believes in fiat currency) ?
What is this government revenue?
“The game doesn’t seem to answer the question: Can ducks queef?”
This is the sort of thought provoking content that makes this place so special.
Well if you want duck related navel gazing (with some romanticism thrown in to boot) this is the video for you. (NSFW)
*I am ashamed for the lot of you that no one posted this earlier
** I am sure that now that I have thrown shade on you, I will discover that someone already linked to it
Category: Education.
I hate you for my clicking on that link.
I clicked and closed within 34 nanoseconds.
Challenge accepted! … Oh, my word.
I….uh….I can’t….he……nevermind
Damn Indiana for supplying them with all those guns!
https://www.france24.com/en/20180911-safrica-close-war-zone-with-57-murders-day-minister
It’s going to get a lot worse. And they won’t even need guns to achieve that. Getting rid of 80% of your food supply will do the trick.
On that continent they can be just as murderous with machetes.
cheap labor makes manual murder economical.
Doing the jobs Americans won’t do.
No, they just need more cops.
Make everyone a cop. Problem solved!
CITIZENS ARREST
That would get you a nice beat down at least.
‘There’s 2 sets of laws, one for the police and one for the regular citizens’
Gomer was a prophet, who knw?
According to the Peelian principles, the people are the police and the police are the people.
That would suck.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/09/11/missouri-boy-10-survives-being-impaled-in-face-by-metal-meat-skewer.html
Holy shit.
The fuck?
Punji sticks seem a little hardcore for a treehouse.
Comment: “I had a Japanese father, “No need go hospital, I pull, save money, hold still, (puts foot on chest), okay, I pull, one, two…got it, now, you go cut grass, than study.”
lol.
Man that was crazy.
Finally
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45484856
Damn, who knew that Laaang Eyelen was so libertarian like. Are they taking out the roads next?
Why didn’t they wait to see who picked up the money?
They were in their bunk fapping over banning vending machines?
I would and may be offered the guy a job in some sort of engineering/marketing role.
I saw this under that:
Aussie cartoonist called racist after depicting Serena throwing a tantrum.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-45487873
How do people know it’s about Serena? The only label is the U.S. Open. Could be any two tennis players, right? We know the one jumping on the racket identifies as female, because the judge refers to that character as ‘her’. Other than that, no names given for anyone.
The other one clearly isn’t Osaka.
Human nature abides.
“Citizens and officials of one of our so called allies, Saudi Arabia, were involved in the financing of terror including 9/11.”
https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/778674898172600320
Well Akshually, they aren’t technically an ally because we don’t have a formal alliance with them. They are “strategic partners,” which is totally different.
“Yay censorship is good!
No no no not when it happens to us!”
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1039592611302924288
Crowdsourced censorship.
https://quillette.com/2018/09/09/when-censorship-is-crowdsourced/
Scary stuff. “Struggle sessions”, indeed.
“The reason Book*hug can pulp Shannon Webb Campbell’s book without worrying much about lost readers or earned revenue is that, to a rough order of magnitude, they don’t have any readers or earned revenue. Like most small, high-concept book publishers in Canada, Book*hug is overwhelmingly dependent on government subsidies, which are what allow it to publish obscure manifestoes and poetry volumes that, outside of copies assigned to review, libraries, friends and family, might be expected to sell a few hundred copies.”
I would have had kids if I could have had a guarantee that they’d turn out like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B229-KLudTo
Well, there are no guarantees, but you’re awesome so it stands to reason your kids would be too.
That was fucking incredible. What a brave kid. You could tell she was sacred shitless, but she got it done! I knew she was gonna be fine, but it still freaked me out.
Thanks for posting.
60 hours of flying!! 60!!
Yep. Pilots are well trained, even the ones flying shitty rentals.
I’m trying to imagine Spawn 2 doing that, and I can’t. She’d be bitching at the instructor about the wheel falling off.
Everyone takes a different time to learn, but I had earned my license at 48 hours.. 40 is the minimum. 60 should be in the final stages of the private license.
Take advice from someone older and convinced they are therefore wiser. Play the odds, don’t do it. Now, get off my lawn.
THat ship has left the station. That train has sailed.
What? You’re pregnant!? Why didn’t you tell us!
No, dude. That’s hit by a bus.
LOL – pretty much the opposite. THe choice whether or not to have spawn is out of my hands (which is kindda what I’ve been hoping for all along)
You’re one of the lucky ones. Kids are smelly, obnoxious, loud, and destructive. Then they turn into teenagers.
Well I guess if you’re going to be accused of sexual assault by anyone, you might hope it would be by a woman proven incapable of ever telling the truth.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/09/11/julia-salazar-update-trust-fund-lost-endorsement-claim-sexual-assault/
I hear there’s lot of this going on. The one that really got my attention lately, was the woman who had managed to help get a guy convicted of child sex abuse and the guy was about to spend a 50 year prison sentence. When they found out that she had lied about him shooting her dog. The dog was found alive, given away. They dropped the charges. Here is a person who was about to spend 50 years in prison, basically a death sentence, and an accuser who apparently had no remorse for this. If there’s a reason for a death sentence, here it is. But this person will not face any consequences.
Yeah, I saw that story. We just watched a show the other night where this guy has been in prison for over 20 years for kidnapping a woman presumed dead. He and his brother were accused because someone saw two men in a van that resembled his brothers pulling a woman into it. There was no evidence against either of them and his brother with the van had been found innocent. The only thing they had were some jailhouse snitches who claimed he confessed to them. 20 years later comes to light that the girl had worked as a confidential informant (never mentioned at trial) and a drug dealer had told a number of people that he and his buddies had killed her. A taped phone call between a witness to his bragging and a women who he had visited with the kidnapped girl in his van collaborated this. The judge decided this was not enough for a new trial so he still rots away in jail.
This was the episode
http://heidiallenarticles.blogspot.com/2017/10/deadline-crime-on-investigation.html?m=1
The woman in that case was the then underage supposed victim.
https://www.registerguard.com/zz/news/20180910/discovery-of-dog-saves-oregon-man-from-sex-crime-conviction
Russian hacking totes the same as 9/11 terror attack.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/11/angus-king-compares-911-russian-election-meddling-/
Couldn’t this idiot wait ONE day before saying something so retarded?
That would require a modicum of class. I’m sorry, who are the deplorables?
Blue wave says it’s us non-bleebers.
“Evergreen supports and benefits from a local and global commitment to social justice”
Prog harder.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/09/10/evergreen-state-college-professor-freshmen-enrollment-300/
The market is a cruel bitch.
“This fall, we expect less than 300 freshmen to attend Evergreen, a fifty percent drop from two years ago.”
But what a woke bunch they be, no?
They’ll make excellent surly and inattentive baristas.
+1 “I have a double espresso for…. Messopotamian Shitposter?”
“fewer”
You really can’t make it up.
Does anyone know if they even teach anything worthwhile? Like, would the place even exist were it not for the college bubble?
It’s a government school, so it would probably still exist.
Oh, no wonder they’re freaking out so hard.
“Trump warned about 9/11 beforehand in a 2000 book. ”
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1039517791588503553
I know about 9/11 every year before it happens.
You know who else was a big fan of codes ?
Spandau Ballet?
Coming to a country near you.
Blaise de Vigenère?
Oh, China, never change. At least when the bodies start piling up we’ll still have the NYT to cover it up for us.
NFPA?
Gilfoyle?
OMWC approves.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45490196
Sure. If I can beat the teachers when they screw up.
Were they paddling the school canoe?
FloridaMan® auditions for Cake Boss .