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News of the day...
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- neverscared0
- God has spokenGnash
- Gorillas have got to stop wearing tinfoil hatsNairn
- Horrible. Imagine finding that as you're lolloping through the jungle.Fax_Benson
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Carl Sagan prediction, 25 years ago:
- This.. isn't news of the day.Nairn
- https://www.qbn.com/…utopian
- ^ and some guy running in his living room is?********
- Anyone else take 10 minutes to read that in sagans slow drawn out cadence lol_niko
- Well yes, it's not a fairly mundane excerpt from a book written 25 years ago by someone who long dead.Nairn
- "someone who's long dead"Nairn
- people are tall when they're alive, long when dead.renderedred
- I SEE SOME JADED CYNICS ARE PRESENTgrafiske
- "I predict a future that will be a lot like today but more of it", Carl Sagan 1995nb
- "I predict a future that will be a lot like today but I will be confused and stubborn before dead",
Carl Sagan 1995sted - @grafiske - nb's hit the nail on the head - this was a fairly common trope in the 90s and as interesting as it may be otherwise, it's hardly 'news of the day'.Nairn
- Read this book a while back, it’s great.OP31
- Gardener1
- "Nazi" — 4 instances
"German"— 0 instances
"Poland" — 2 instances
Muddying history is so easy.raf - Words Matter - German Nazi Camps
https://www.youtube.…raf
- "Nazi" — 4 instances
- renderedred1
James Brown: prosecutor may investigate claim singer was murdered
Woman contacted Atlanta-area district attorney to say she had evidence musician’s death was caused by someone else
- Krassy3
- Looks cool except for being electrocuted on the far right!!!robotron3k
- Andrew Yang was rightGuyFawkes
- instrmntl1
This breaks my heart
Body camera video shows 6-year-old Orlando girl arrested at school
https://www.tampabay.com/news/fl…- can't do the time...don't do the crime!utopian
- "Kaia, a first grader..., had a tantrum... where she had kicked and punched three school employees, leading to her arrest on a charge of misdemeanor battery..."PonyBoy
- misdemeanor battery?! She's SIX you fucking pussies... unbelievable. At least the cop was fired.PonyBoy
- There was a little girl at my sons school who legit wanted to murder kids, she was like 9 and she’d attack 5 year olds, smashing their heads on the ice repeate_niko
- Throwing her chair at students, yelling screaming and punching walls, knocking over bookcases, no class was allowed scissors or any sharp objects if she was in_niko
- She knew staff could do fuck all and would taunt everyone, The parents were idiots and couldn’t control her. So the kids at school were terrified when she was_niko
- ...around. So if this little girl in the video was anything like her, I fully support the cops here._niko
- hmm... a 6 yr old and 9 yr old are a lil different tho-yes? My wife's niece shot up 9" and about 30 lbs in 3 years. A 6 yr old really needs cops & zipcuffs? :(PonyBoy
- like I said...CAN'T DO THE TIME!utopian
- Not really utopian, she was like that at 4,5 and 6 and they removed her from school, only to bring her back at 9 and nothing had changed, got worse in fact._niko
- Maybe if she would gave got some tough love or zip ties at 6 she would have straightened out a bit._niko
- If we tried that back in our day we would have been beaten up by other kids/ older siblings and our parents. In our parents day the teachers would have_niko
- ...administered the beatings. Not saying any of it was ok or right but if she was a threat to herself or other kids or staff she got off easy with zip ties._niko
- I’m sure the staff reached a breaking point and exhausted all options over a long period of time, I’m sure this wasn’t a one off thing._niko
- Sorry utopian that was for ponyboy_niko
- You're describing something very unordinary. A child like that needs help / discipline / love—professional help for sure. A cuffed arrest a seems over the top.PonyBoy
- For sure, I’m just giving them the benefit of the doubt that they exhausted all other options, at least I hope they did. Hope they tried reason and compassion_niko
- Do any of you have kids?monospaced
- niko does... I have about 20 nieces / nephews but none of my own... so I will shut up nowPonyBoy
- Sorry but a nation who arrest 6 y-o childrens like this have a serious problem. Fuck all this.Bennn
- I didn’t ask because I was gonna tell you to shut up btw. Just curious. I have no idea if my 2 year old will have homicidal tendencies or not yet.monospaced
- I agree that there is no reason for adults to have to call police to deal with a 6 year old. Seems like I’m missing the whole story or something.monospaced
- But considering our fucked litigious culture these days, I’m not even surprised these caretakers resorted to this if their hands were tied. Poor parents too.monospaced
- I wouldn't be so quick to say 'poor parents'. Kids like this girl who got arrested, and the psycho niko was talking, you can bet a serious amount of money ...Continuity
- ... that they're like this because it's most likely really, really no bueno at home. Abuse of some description, and this is squarely on the parents.Continuity
- Behaviour like that doesn't just pop up out of the blue for no reason.Continuity
- @Continuity that kid can have perfect harmony at home, and just have a few friends to pull him down to this level. But this is still fucking nuts.sted
- Brought down to niko's psycho's level by friends? This I doubt. That's indicative of something far more serious.Continuity
- what would you think if the parents say that their kid is an angel at home, and they don't understand why is she doing these things?sted
- Kids who behave at home go
nuts in kindergarten, and this goes vica-versa. Ones with troubled behavior need special attention what she didn't got.sted - Intimidation and humiliation have the worst consequences for a developing consciousness.sted
- That poor little girl is obviously struggling with something. It's hard to parent neurodiverse kids, and there are few supports in place to help.Melanie
- NBQ004
Luxembourg becomes first country to make public transport free: https://www.reuters.com/article/…
- SOCIALISM.Nairn
- Goddamned commies!Gnash
- counrty of 600,000 people. all cut from the same cloth. have fun making that work here bernie!hotroddy
- The trains to the death camps we're free to idiots!Hayoth
- 44.5% of the permanent residents are foreign born... “all cut from the same cloth”dmay
- yeah by german, Belgian, and french and italians immigrants. All probably speak 3 languages fluently.hotroddy
- You forgot portuguese, like me, 15% of the total population, the largest foreign communitydmay
- And I steel don’t know what you mean with the same “cloth”dmay
- *stilldmay
- Come visit me in Los Angeles and use public transportation for a week. You’ll get it then.hotroddy
- That's sounds like a LA problem. I don't get what same cloth mean eitherpango
- I think LA is probably the worst case scenario you can get. The traffic there is world famously bad.pango
- Pfff in Luxembourg is like making it in Monte-Carlo or Monaco..********
- Comparing public transport in LA with anywhere in Europe is comedy. Completely different attitudes in both places.PhanLo
- My understanding of public transport in LA (without ever having been there) is that it's woefully inadequate, by any standards, including North American ones.Continuity
- Its an eyecatching headline, this video runs though it pretty well https://www.youtube.…webazoot
- "The trains to the death camps we're free to idiots!" Are you suggesting the Jews were idiots? That's a bit harshIanbolton
- Hayoth is so fucking stupid he even accidentally sounds like a Nazi asshole when trying to make a tasteless joke like the sad cunt he is.monospaced
- The only other alternative is that he’s saying Jews were idiots for boarding the free trains to death camps. Either way he’s bottom scum of humanity.monospaced
- Even at its most benign, comparing this to the holocaust is only what a moronic asshole would do. That’s the best scenario.monospaced
- how dare u luxembourg..neverscared
- how dare u free public transportpango
- Fax_Benson2
What the fuck is going in India? so little coverage.
People dragged from their homes and murdered in the streets, buildings petrol bombed, journalists attacked and killed - with Modi's approval.
- Trump was there last week and there was trouble then tooGardener
- ࿕ HINDU NATIONALISM ࿕Nairn
- Because cognitive dissonance of not-white, not-colonial nationalismGnash
- incredible how under reported this has been so far.fadein11
- Yeah... it's insane over there. :(
Shame you have to watch John Oliver to hear about it: https://www.youtube.…PonyBoy - my inlaws have been keeping an eye on it for sure..
they're Catholic, from Kerala...exador1 - The only coverage of this I've seen was on John Oliver this week. He spent half the episode on it.CyBrainX
- neverscared0
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Alphabet’s Tidal moonshot tracks individual fish to help sustainably feed humanity
- Nairn0
- similar in China and Myanmar - with one common theme.Fax_Benson
- Penis size?Nairn
- Probably. That and MuslimsFax_Benson
- oh, haha - i'm so dense, that didn't even occur to me.
And yet penis size did. Hmmm.Nairn - Send many bobs_niko
- Bennn2
'How the English Language Is Taking Over the Planet'
-No language in history has dominated the world quite like English does today. Is there any point in resisting?-
https://getpocket.com/explore/it…
- flol “I value too much our beautiful Polish literature to introduce into it my worthless twaddle. But for Englishmen my capacities are just sufficient.”Nairn
- I mean, if you're going to go on and on about gatekeeping language and identity, yet fail to mention your country's most significant literary mind..garbage
- ..this English-speaker is just saying it's convenient that the writer never mentioned Gombrowicz by name, because he would have hated this article.garbage
- And I could go on about linguistic theory, and how a history of fascist censorship led to the dominance of the English language, but that would be boring.garbage
- Gardener1
Judge Judy to end in 2021 after 25 years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/enter…- cranky old boomer cuntGuyFawkes
- She has a job lined up at Fox News.utopian
- Looks exactly like my granmasarahfailin
- She's also inexplicably $147m richer than your granma.garbage
- her memes are great tho.
https://media.giphy.…pango
- Bennn3
'The Dystopian Lake Filled by the World’s Tech Lust'
''Hidden in an unknown corner of Inner Mongolia is a toxic, nightmarish lake created by our thirst for smartphones, consumer gadgets and green tech''
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Link: https://getpocket.com/explore/it…
- Gardener-1
first look at what's to come on April 18th :
https://imgur.com/gallery/yjsBe0…
