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- utopian1
Why we should be mourning the death of the Great Barrier Reef
By now, you've probably heard that at least 90 percent of the Great Barrier Reef has been affected by a global bleaching event. But these "rocks" on the seabed play a key role for life in oceans - and for people, too.
- mg333
^ Pango, that immediately made me think of the amazing video of my friend throwing a guy off a bus. Some total stranger filmed this and my friend found it on YouTube or something like that. My friend is a real crusader for the times. Apparently the guy he threw off was saying horribly inappropriate stuff to women up and down the bus and talking about the crack he was gonna smoke and, the driver was doing nothing (as per usual).
- threw him off the bus? he just yelled at him and shook him a bit.johnny_wobble
- ^sarahfailin
- Eventually the cops came after the guy stopped filming. My friend had already thrown the guys belongings off the bus.mg33
- Great vid title though...pango
- does his sweater text read hispster?yurimon
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nop. not hipster. really? that's all it requires to be hipster for you?pango - No yurimon... It says "meat is murder" a phrase that can't possibly even be an anagram for "hipster."mg33
- hipsderyurimon
- I wish I had ballz like that sometimes.Bennn
- i like the ''get out the bus nooow MUTHERFUCKER''Bennn
- Or maybe the other dude was being very annoying on the bus?pango
- nb1
http://news.nationalpost.com/new…
America’s first ‘climate refugees’: Entire community to be relocated as Louisiana island ‘sinks’ into the sea.
- read the comments.yurimon
- https://www.youtube.…sted
- $48 Million to move about 60 people. Meanwhile, the science deniers claim that it's a hoax so the government can get rich.nb
- lol @ science deniers.yurimon
- yuri you should reevaluate the concept of time when it's about climate change. these processes take place over decades.sted
- you mean science of building canals that causes the salt water erosion?yurimon
- Sad to see this dilettantism, and the way they deal with these people.sted
- "Channels cut by loggers and oil companies eroded much of the island, and decades of flood-control efforts have kept once free-flowing rivers from replenishing"IRNlun6
- if they wanted to really preserve their way of life prob see how the levees, canals effect the movement of water. prob wouldn't cost much more to save.yurimon
- Labeling it climate change would be a good way to get money to move these people, rather than fix the real problem upstream.IRNlun6
- https://www.youtube.…wagshaft
- This is the worst type of environmental damage. Direct negligence, but lets blame CO2 and tax everyone. That'll work.IRNlun6
- Nothing like good ol propaganda.Hayoth
- I guess its better than giving them gondolas and a free coupon for a night at motel 6********
- The government is gonna make so much ca$h on this deal!!!!! $$!!$!$$nb
- yurimon-2
http://www.telesurtv.net/english…
Thousands of Tons of Dead Creatures Hit Chile's Beaches
- citizen_h0
- Probably a flight risk?prophetone
- LOL Canada, he will get community serviceDillinger
- He said he was sorry, the bank apologized for all the fuss. Everything is now all good.prophetone
- "Probably a flight risk?"
:|detritus - "Flight of the Navigator"prophetone
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- sarahfailin0
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/liv…
Glenn Beck 'predicts' Americans will never elect another GOP president after Trump.
I was just wondering why everyone stopped paying attention to Glenn Beck. Now I remember.
- nb0
This is how big that fire in northern Alberta is, compared to NYC. According to the Forestry department, it is now too big to put out. They say it can only be put out with rain.
There is no rain in the forecast for two full weeks from now.
More cities for comparison: http://imgur.com/a/WqPsB
- Also, another major fire is spreading in Alberta and there are five more listed as "Out of Control".nb
- Why is the shape overlaid on the cities different on every one? I don't get it.********
- I'm not sure, but for all the Canadian cities, it gives a good sense of the size to people who live there. For example, it carefully outlines suburbs, etc.nb
- I think the NYC one is not very good. Might be better if it covered the city. Likely the person who made the maps is Canadian.nb
- this overly does cover NYCmonospaced
- Yeah, but not very well.nb
- Why go to Freeport when covering Staten and all of Brooklyn would have more impact to most people.nb
- Regardless, the point is that there is a forest fire bigger than NYC that is currently spreading and uncontrollable!nb
- "overly does"? smh.sarahfailin
- "overlay," it's a typo, no need to be a dick about itmonospaced
- I think the whole point of qbn is that you do thoroughly need to be a dick about it********
- I give up.monospaced
- That's the spirit********
- unrealbklyndroobeki
- I live about an hour from there.Mattjanz3n
- utopian0
About 330 million people are suffering from drought in India, as the country reels from severe water shortages. Desperate farmers from a neighbouring state regularly attempt to steal water from the Barighat dam, forcing authorities in central Madhya Pradesh to protect it with armed guards to ensure supplies.
- imbecile0
oh no, he's doing math!
Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight
- PonyBoy0
Uber, Lyft to halt Austin service after losing vote
http://www.usatoday.com/story/mo…
"When Uber and Lyft began operations, they were allowed to self-regulate. But in December, the city council adopted a set of rules that included requiring fingerprinting of drivers, which draws strong objections from both companies as being unnecessary because of their own background checks. Uber says is also threatening to pull out of Houston, which also requires fingerprinting. It notes that other cities, like Toronto and Miami, have passed ridesharing laws that don't require fingerprints."
- lol, Austin. lived there 13 years. ignore the bumper stickers, most backward and conservative places in Texas. Fact.robotron3k
- Fuck off Uber/Lyft. Austin didn't push you out. Bunch of crybaby wankers. So sorry we wanted background checks before getting in cars with basically anyone.GM278
- According to the articles, that's not the case, you wanted finger prints. They already do background checks.formed
- I actually took a lyft two weeks ago and the driver admitted to me he spent 5 years in prison. FACT Background checks my assGM278
- perhaps the guy wasn't in for an offense that would keep him from a job like this? debt to society was paid... let the man work?PonyBoy
- sarahfailin0
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metr…
The Boston Globe does it again. 200 victims, 90 legal claims, 67 elite private boarding schools' staffers accused of sexual misconduct, rape and abuse against students.
The true frequency of sexual abuse against minors is really unknown, but a 2004 study of public schools (the only one of its kind) indicate that 9.6 percent of all students in grades 8-11 reported sexual harassment by teachers, coaches, or other school employees.
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- imbecile0
When you take acetaminophen, you don’t feel others’ pain as much
The popular painkiller reduces empathy, study finds
- imbecile0
$3M worth of heroin, opium found in O'Hare passengers' luggage
A judge Wednesday set $50,000 cash bonds for three Minnesota women who were arrested at O’Hare International Airport on Tuesday after customs agents found more than $3 million worth of heroin and opium in their luggage, authorities said.
Pa Yang, 57, Mai Vue Vang, 58, and True Thao, 52, had been passengers on a flight from Japan to O’Hare, police said.
- imbecile0
World's Oldest Person Dies in New York at Age 116
Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world's oldest person, has died in New York at age 116.
1899-2016 RIP
- prophetone-2
Real news of the day, KJ is a DJ. I would be lying if I said I didn't want to go see the trainwreck in person. Hopefully there'll be Youtube footage, or a live stream?!! Haha
- i want to see her and paris in a battleimbecile
- I hope she plays some absolute fucking bangers. REACH FOR THE LASERS!face_melter
- But we all know it will be fucking JLo remixes and weak, piss-water 'dance' music.face_melter
- I'm hoping and praying for back to back 'dwyck' instrumental beat juggles and bionic booger break tear upsprophetone
- ...or an ol skool jungle playoutprophetone
- from the E to the D to the M.fadein11
- Yeah, proper breakbeat insanity - starting with Goldie's Terminator then just playing everything on No U Turn and watching everyone kill themselves.face_melter
- I literally just listened to Terminator like an hour ago, a metalheadz-incidenceprophetone
- http://i.imgur.com/5…utopian
- imbecile4
Study: Average Person’s Life Plan Can Only Withstand 25 Seconds Of Direct Questioning
- paging...yurimon
- Hahaha.monospaced
- I thought the onion was supposed to be satirekalkal
