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- utopian5
9/11 first responder and advocate Luis Alvarez dies at 53
Shame on you POS Republicans in Congress for not funding the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund Reauthorization.
- robotron3k-8
From a guy who rocks Armani glasses, why should anyone be surprised...
Ahead of his 84th birthday, the Dalai Lama is once again insisting that, if his successor is a woman, she must be physically attractive. The Nobel Peace Prize winner doubled down on the idea during an interview with BBC News Thursday.
"If a female Dalai Lama comes, she should be more attractive," the 14th Dalai Lama told reporter Rajini Vaidyanathan. If not, "people, I think prefer, not see her, that face."
- What is your point?monospaced
- I guess the point is that the DL is sexist AFGnash
- ... or sexy AF, perhaps.Nairn
- or realises that the world is sexist AF?Projectile
- Unfortunately for him, no one quite appreciates how earnestly he views reincarnation - his comment was entirely self-deprecatoryNairn
- ^ ah, I had not looked at it from that perspective. This makes much more sense. Cheers.Gnash
- "Real beauty is inner beauty, that's true. But we're human beings. I think the appearance is also important." - nothing wrong with that statement.zarkonite
- Nothing wrong about liking pretty, petite women.robotron3k
- sea_sea2
https://mashable.com/article/fac…
Call it a perfect social media-free storm.
Facebook's three social platforms — Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — all experienced outages on Wednesday morning.
- how will I know what my internet friends ate for lunch now if no one can post a picture of it????fooler
- I think it goes a little beyond simple lunch photos..sea_sea
- dinner photos!monospaced
- blackout still going on. influencers are facing high doses of reality. thoughts & prayers...Beeswax
- Hehehe lots of out of work modelsrobotron3k
- lolsea_sea
- my mum was complaining about thisdasohr
- Nairn3
Plant trees — lots of them, for not a lot of money — save world.
- Inventing the wheel again...OBBTKN
- amen to the ideamonospaced
- Except that it's not really how that works: https://arstechnica.…zarkonite
- Except it depends entirely on what you do with the wood. Bury it, sink it in the ocean, turn it into chardust, use that to improve soil generate energy... etcNairn
- Even just planting trees where there were none beforehand sets up cyclical ecosystems that sequester carbon beyond the initial growth period.Nairn
- The point of <that article is more that just growing wood is a cheap short-term solution that outdoes more technologically- involving solutions.Nairn
- heck, we're now developing means to build skyscrapers with 'tech' wood = long-term carbon sequestration and a reduction in high emission concretesNairn
- The point is that the research that says planting trees will reduce free carbon is flawed and forests, unintuitively enough, are not good carbon sinks.zarkonite
- robotron3k-3
Shits going down... That's all you need to know atm.
The Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park is approaching a record number of eruptions
7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Southern California
Stromboli volcano: Volcanologist warns of ‘real and justified’ fear of Italy tsunami
- *plays Ænima by Tool*maquito
- Trust this guy!ben_
- 'sup numbers guy?renderedred
- that's all i need to know at the moment? fuck you for holding back on info you prick. share.capn_ron
- I'm guessing you don't know, or you've been reading your incel/reddit feeds again. :)capn_ron
- God punishing America for Trump and RepublicansBeeswax
- Meh incel threads so 1st Quarter of 2018, I'm on these Boomer threads now...robotron3k
- @robo Your crank magnet is showing again.garbage
- imbecile1
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/06/u…
Happy birthday, Alelia Murphy! The oldest woman in the United States turns 114
Alelia Murphy has lived to see 114 birthdays, but this year's celebration may top them all.
To honor the oldest living person in the United States, officials in Harlem, New York, threw her a neighborhood-wide birthday bash on Friday with a unique gift: From now on, the community will recognize July 6, her birthday, as "Alelia Murphy Appreciation Day."
- just what old people want, the whole block going crazy around their house all nightsarahfailin
- Not a single person left born in the 1800's.BusterBoy
- imbecile0
https://www.engadget.com/2019/07…
Aircraft lands itself truly autonomously for the first time
No airport assistance required.
Many airliners can land automatically, but they don't really land autonomously -- the airport is guiding them in with a radio signal (the Instrument Landing System). And when many smaller airports don't have this feature, it's not even an option. Researchers at Technische Universität München might just make true autonomous landing a practical reality, though. They've successfully tested a system that uses a combination of computer vision and GPS to have the aircraft land itself.
The technology uses GPS to navigate, but allies that with both visible light and infrared cameras to spot the runway and obtain an accurate sense of its position even when fog or rain hurts visibility. From there, the aircraft can calculate a glide path and otherwise touch down all on its own.
- Bluejam1
Tommy Robinson begs Donald Trump to grant him political asylum in US
https://www.independent.co.uk/ne…
- Why ask, you guys can just walk over the Rio Grande we'll put you on our American dole...robotron3k
- can't you put him up robo? you used to share his vidsfadein11
- Should send are Tommy to Syria.PhanLo
- robotron3k-2
Amazing Polly dug up the craziest info on Epstein, kinda unbelievable what kind of rich, perverted syndicate he is in!?! FF to 14:38...
- to sum it up, a big, powerful Jewish cabal is controlling the world sex/paedophilia trade._niko
- Wait, the vid points out the NVIXM connection, but niko are you saying that Epstein is Jewish!?! That's news to me! He doesn't act too religious...robotron3k
- reanimate1
- the fact that women actually helped him do it is the creepiest...renderedred
- It's all creepy.PhanLo
- I think because he broke the law again, they are no longer immune to prosecution. Now they are the target if the public....robotron3k
- imbecile0
Judge grants Edward Latimer permission to see sex workers
A dangerous sex offender will be allowed to use Centrelink payments to see prostitutes following a decision branded a ‘kick in the guts’ for victims of abuse.
- api0
Kyoto Animation Studio on fire
20 deadhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/kyo…
an attack, but why the heck...?
- drgs culling Japanese virgins?Nairn
- bad taste lol @ nairnFax_Benson
- Seriously though, that's fucking terribleFax_Benson
- http://www.newsonjap…shapesalad
- renderedred0
People might actually 'Storm Area 51,' according to this awesome local news report
https://mashable.com/video/storm…- Not sure if the neck beards will make it off the sofarobotron3k
- sofa? its a monster!api
- cjfclarence1
When the video game "Sleeping dog" becoming reality
- Totally fucked up. No hint of subtlety or stealth in it - just straight-up official-sanctioned thuggery.
What do they hope to gain?Nairn - that's darkFax_Benson
- Sickening, where were the cops? They claim it was triads...probably hired by China I’d say_niko
- And the gov still only talk in bullshit circling around, provide no solution at all.cjfclarence
- Totally fucked up. No hint of subtlety or stealth in it - just straight-up official-sanctioned thuggery.
- cjfclarence0
^ cont from yesterday.
- autoflavour2
Driver carrying $273 Million dollars of Meth CRASHES INTO POLICE CAR..
Like seriously, you would think with that much load you would
a) have a route worked out that avoids police stations
b) drive carefully enough not to have an accident
c) NO CRASH INTO FUCKING POLICE CARS
- elahon9
Congress passes 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund extension championed by Jon Stewart
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/23/p…
Stewart's face as McConnell walks by is priceless:
- About fkn time.sea_sea
- About FUCKING time. That photo is gold.garbage
- As a Canadian, I don't know the ins and outs of the politics here, but on this principle I can feel good this is resolved: heroes deserve help.Gucci
- The fund has never been able to control costs on its projections. Always growing and snowballing. Why? What confidence does that give********
- in management and control of such a lucrative slush fund. be so easy to game and will be gamed********
- all the while never truly serving its purpose********
- hope stewart lives long enough to see its consequences********
- It serves a purpose asshole.monospaced
- shut the fuck up deathboycolin_s
- the american government has 52% discretionary spending on the military are we really going to fight over the singular defining event of a generationcolin_s
- Deathboy, so smart... you're really squandering your big thinking on this website. You should really fuck off.ben_
- @deathboy: The fund has never been able to control cost? Where are you getting your facts Fox News?utopian
- Educated yourself: https://www.vcf.gov/…utopian
- That’s a great shot hahafuturefood
- the reason its projections are growing is because the first responders are experiencing long-term health issues, ffs ... it's not a slush fundmonospaced
- the "singular defining event of a generation". hahahaaha. such child talk********
- utopian if the costs didn't extend pass allocated funds why vote for endless slush fund?********
- because it was underfunded due to projected costs... hmm... i wonder if cost control plays a part...********
- @deathboy Child talk? If you don't get that 9/11 changed LITERALLY EVERYTHING then head over to the kid's table. Someone will be over soon with some crayons.garbage
