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Comment Re:Reddit's fine (Score 4, Interesting) 147

That's kinda funny. Who was calling Ben Carson and Thomas Sowell a house ngger for walking off the plantation? Or Candice Owens? How about the LAPD Deputy Chief? I personally enjoyed the well known socially verified progressives suddenly against race mixing. And telling them they're not the right kind of blacks, and they're traitors to their race.

Damn...that sounds...almost...ALMOST like the rhetoric of another infamous group of people.

Comment Re:lol, reddit sucks (Score 0, Troll) 147

You can thank your Orange Bunker Boy for that. He's the one that radicalized me.

Sounds more like the media you consume has radicalized you. If you're that soft mentally, then your best bet is to stop consuming and start thinking instead.

Your other option is the Biden guy who's pulled himself out of a basement from 1931 screeching racism. Where rational people look at him and wonder who's letting the elder abuse happen.

Comment Re: People who have children (Score 1) 175

Considering that the polar bear population was considered to be increasing until 2015, and then suddenly it was declining. This is despite active counts, including by transponder and native hunters using IR dye markers. Yes, that something politically unpalatable can suddenly have a swing in fortune is reality. You can always look at all the researchers who suddenly lost their federal funding over the last 5 years when they started publishing research showing that the populations are still increasing.

Comment Re: People who have children (Score 0) 175

Strange, I didn't know that the CBC and Toronto Star - also having the moniker of the Red Star - two of the further leftist news media organizations in Canada, were Fox or Breitbart!

Wow! Look at that stunning revelation. There really is a vast right-wing conspiracy that controls even far-left media. Or, you're a partisan hack, who's so doped up on thin air they don't realize where they went wrong.

Comment Re:Trumptards are vandals and criminals (Score 0, Insightful) 147

Then again trusting the twitter information spokesman isn't really smart in the first place, they're the same people who said that no private DM's were accessed. But I guess the last what? 60? 70 days have been a love-in. I find it funny though, at just what constitutes "bot like behavior" for twitter. Especially since you can find 500-1k of them boosting various anti-Trump hashtags and other crap all with the same message, which then are latched on to. And those accounts just keep going on with that bot-like behavior.

Unfortunately, your premise that it's "majority alt-right" fails even harder then your screed. Since there are organizations like BAMN and various BLM directly linked accounts that have come out in support of this violence. Well whatever, if you want to believe that leftists aren't burning shit, assaulting people...that's your delusion.

Comment Re: People who have children (Score 0, Troll) 175

Not even Fox News says anything this stupid.

Prior to the Liberal's coming into power here in Canada, that the ice was increasing was considered scientific fact. The feds since CPC left majority status, has been to shred and obfuscate global warming information at a level that has never been seen before. Something for you to think on though, that "old" information is apparently now so dangerous that you can't get it through a AI request, that's a similar process to the US's FOIA law.

Remember how just ~6-7 years ago, here on /. there were all those articles decrying the conservatives "muzzling scientists" and all that? Wonder why you don't hear now that government scientists are told they will be fired with prejudice if they deviate from the government's current policy, and sharing information with any party even in a scientific setting is grounds for prosecution. It's not like there isn't a long list of people who've studied the arctic, and associated environs who've been forced from university positions, had federal grant funding cuts, and so-on because their research painted a different picture.

Well whatever I guess.

Comment Re:This should also benefit sleep. (Score 1) 117

Apparently you don't drive at night. A 18ft high diffuse light will blind the driver in a car or truck as they drive towards it at a wider angle and as they pass under it. You can see this with the high reflectivity-high diffuse LED lamps mounted at 30ft compared to the low or high pressure sodium lighting that was used(these had their own issues with fog and snow). The 36"x3bulb fluorescent light arrays used in some cities for street lighting suffered from the same problem.

Bug

Germany Plans To Dim Lights At Night To Save Insects 117

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MSN: In a draft law seen by AFP, the country's environment ministry has drawn up a number of new measures to protect insects, ranging from partially outlawing spotlights to increased protection of natural habitats. "Insects play an important role in the ecosystem...but in Germany, their numbers and their diversity has severely declined in recent years," reads the draft law, for which the ministry hopes to get cabinet approval by October. The changes put forward in the law include stricter controls on both lighting and the use of insecticides.

Light traps for insects are to be banned outdoors, while searchlights and sky spotlights would be outlawed from dusk to dawn for ten months of the year. The draft also demands that any new streetlights and other outdoor lights be installed in such a way as to minimize the effect on plants, insects and other animals. The use of weed-killers and insecticides would also be banned in national parks and within five to ten meters of major bodies of water, while orchards and dry-stone walls are to be protected as natural habitats for insects. The proposed reforms are part of the German government's more general "insect protection action plan," which was announced last September under growing pressure from environmental and conservation activists.
The Courts

Twitter Hack Zoom Court Hearing Interrupted by Loud Music and Porn (vice.com) 71

From a report: A judge was forced to suspend the virtual bond hearing of the 17-year-old accused of being the "mastermind" behind the recent massive Twitter hack, after several people got into the Zoom meeting posing as CNN and BBC staffers and played loud music and even a porn video. Multiple reporters who attended the hearing via Zoom on Wednesday confirmed the incident. According to independent security journalist Brian Krebs, the problem was that the judge and his clerks did not set up the meeting in a way that would mute attendees and prevent them from taking over the screen (these are features that can be easily set when one creates a Zoom meeting). "Judges holding hearings over Zoom need to get a clue," Krebs wrote on Twitter.

Comment Re:This would be awesome news... (Score 1) 267

Was this the case with Floyd? Do people in such a state normally plead for their lives?

You mean the part where he was pleading for the police to restrain him on the ground? Did you miss that part?

In Floyd's case, he managed to kneel on him without shooting him at all, so how is this relevant?

ED is a 100% unknown, a person can be compliant and flip in literal seconds. Every police force and police service in North America and Europe are trained to deal with a person in that state in that exact way. Read up on it, since you've never seen it happen. Never experienced what it's like to deal with a person in that state either. If you think that's a bad option, pray you never have to deal with someone who goes from a "good boy" to a raging nut trying to squeeze the life out of someone in the span of 30 seconds.

The report doesn't actually state what the proximal cause of death was, just what he died of (heart attack). I read the whole coroner's report. Assuming the police actions were not a significant contributor would be a conclusion you may or may not draw from the report but it certainly isn't stated in it.

Yes. With a massive amount of drugs in his system that would kill the average person in minutes. FYI, speedballing(uppers and downers) kills people pretty good too, via a heart attack. The lack of a statement in the cause of death is a significant point, since it effectively absolves that it would have been a contributing factor.

To put simply: He had a massive amount of drugs in his system. Nalox likely would have done zero good at those levels. In the end he died from a heart attack. The polices actions were not significant in the cause of his death.

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