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Sorry guys... I fucked up. | |
Submitted at 12-02-2020, 08:32 PM by Disruptive Emotional-Support Pig | |
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Submitted at 12-02-2020, 02:37 PM by Xiphias | |
Submitted at 12-02-2020, 02:54 PM by Xiphias | |
Trump really wants to go after Twitter. | |
Submitted at 12-02-2020, 02:55 PM by wintermute | |
Submitted at 12-02-2020, 05:55 AM by Grief Bacon | |
Back in September of 2019, a 600+ foot cargo ship called the MV Golden Ray, which was apparently loaded in an unstable fashion with over 4,000 cars, capsized in St. Simons Sound just off the port of Brunswick, Georgia. Since then, responders have been working to remove the ship in sections to send the hulk to the scrapper. November was particularly exciting, as workers used a chain to cut off the first enormous chunk of ship, revealing mangled cars within. Here’s at look at the fascinating way the team pulled this off. | |
Submitted at 12-02-2020, 05:16 AM by The Livin' Burden | |
More than 300,000 farmers marched from the states of Punjab and Haryana – on foot and in convoys of tractors – at the weekend to reach the Indian capital for what they described as a “decisive battle” with the central government. | |
Submitted at 12-02-2020, 04:22 AM by Nibbles | |
The first detailed 30cm radio map of the southern sky - which includes everything a telescope can see from its location in the Southern Hemisphere - was Sydney University's Molonglo Sky Survey. Completed in 2006, this survey took almost a decade to observe 25 percent of the entire sky and produce final data products.
Our team at CSIRO's Astronomy and Space Science division has smashed this record by surveying 83 percent of the sky in just ten days. | |
Submitted at 12-02-2020, 04:21 AM by Nibbles | |
Late nights analysing the resulting data trove led to some of the earliest insights about how the coronavirus spreads through a population. The data showed, for example, that almost half of infected people are asymptomatic, that children are much less likely to become sick than adults and that the most common symptoms of mild COVID-19 are muscle aches, headaches and a cough — not fever | |
Submitted at 12-02-2020, 03:39 AM by Nibbles | |
A total of just under 400kg of rock and soil were retrieved by American Apollo astronauts and the Soviets' robotic Luna programme - the vast majority of these materials coming back with the crewed missions.
But all these samples were very old - more than three billion years in age. The Mons Rümker materials, on the other hand, promise to be no more than 1.2 or 1.3 billion years old. And this should provide additional insights on the geological history of the Moon.
The samples will also allow scientists to more precisely calibrate the "chronometer" they use to age surfaces on the inner Solar System planets. | |
Submitted at 12-02-2020, 04:47 AM by Nibbles | |
One 42-year-old father wrote that the world in 2050 would be “a hot-house hell, with wars over limited resources, collapsing civilisation, failing agriculture, rising seas, melting glaciers, starvation, droughts, floods, mudslides and widespread devastation.” Schneider-Mayerson said he thought the pessimistic views held were all within the range of possibilities, if not necessarily the most likely outcome. | |
Submitted at 12-02-2020, 04:36 AM by Nibbles | |
It’s about to get a lot more expensive to stay at short-term rentals in Canada as Ottawa announced a new tax on Airbnb and other short-term accommodation plat | |
Submitted at 12-02-2020, 02:25 AM by Spöklika | |
Thousands of people took to the streets across France at the weekend to protest against the new measure, over fears that police violence would be harder to expose. | |
Submitted at 12-02-2020, 01:53 AM by Xiphias | |
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court confronted a seemingly simple question: If an American corporation aids and abets child slavery in a foreign country, can its victims sue the company in an American court? Given that SCOTUS has repeatedly granted corporations the same rights as actual humans, you might think the answer is obvious. But it isn’t, because the same justices who think corporations deserve free speech and religious liberty do not believe they should be saddled with the same legal responsibilities as real people. Neal Katyal, who defended the companies accused of abetting child slavery, proposed an extreme theory that would shield all corporations from lawsuits under a crucial federal law. A majority of justices might not be ready to endorse this radical position. But they may still find a way to let Katyal’s clients off the hook.
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Given his pedigree and prominence as a center-left advocate throughout the Trump years, Katyal is almost certainly a candidate for a major position in the Biden administration. So it was somewhat surreal to hear him defending corporations accused of abetting child slavery. | |
Submitted at 12-02-2020, 01:51 AM by Xiphias | |
An online training used in 2020 by a Kentucky state law enforcement training agency features a Nazi symbol in a clip from an anti-Semitic video produced by a neo-Nazi media company.
The Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training (DOCJT) created the online training which requires watching a six-minute video. The full video, which is not included in the training, alleges that the Jewish people caused the American opioid crisis, that Las Vegas casinos are “run by Jewish gangsters” and that in Hollywood, Jewish people “are endlessly glorified among other mind-control agendas working hand-in-hand with the U.S. government.”
An anonymous source who works in law enforcement alerted Manual RedEye to the existence of the clip after RedEye published a story about a Kentucky State Police (KSP) training that quoted Hitler three times and featured the Nazi phrase “über alles.” KSP used Hitler-quoting trainings during at least two years and trainings that quoted Robert E. Lee and instructing cadets to be “ruthless killer[s]” for at least 10 years, resulting in Commissioner Rodney Brewer’s resignation. | |
Submitted at 12-02-2020, 01:50 AM by Xiphias | |
Submitted at 12-02-2020, 12:54 AM by SolarW | |
Submitted at 12-02-2020, 12:53 AM by Forensic | |
A group of Democratic and Republican lawmakers just joined together to shield their corporate donors from lawsuits when they kill more workers. If this legislation passes, corporations won't be held to account for their criminal actions during coronavirus. | |
Submitted at 12-02-2020, 12:36 AM by a murder of lawyers | |
Tagirov had conned his way into the apartments of elderly women living alone by impersonating an electrician, plumber, or utilities worker.
Once inside, he would overpower the women and strangle his victims using either his hands or nearby objects, including an apron and a clothesline. The vast majority of his victims were older than 70. | |
Submitted at 12-01-2020, 11:31 PM by Nibbles | |
More than 180 police officers raided homes in three German states early Tuesday after the German government banned a far-right group, the interior ministry said.
The homes of 11 members of the far-right group Wolfsbrigade 44 were searched in Hesse, Mecklenburg West-Pomerania and North Rhine-Westphalia to confiscate the group’s funds and far-right propaganda material, the German news agency dpa reported.
“Whoever fights against the basic values of our free society will get to feel the resolute reaction of our government,” Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said. “There’s no place in this country for an association that sows hatred and and works on the resurrection of a Nazi state.” | |
Submitted at 12-01-2020, 10:32 PM by Xiphias | |

Sorry guys... I fucked up.
Trump really wants to go after Twitter.
Back in September of 2019, a 600+ foot cargo ship called the MV Golden Ray, which was apparently loaded in an unstable fashion with over 4,000 cars, capsized in St. Simons Sound just off the port of Brunswick, Georgia. Since then, responders have been working to remove the ship in sections to send the hulk to the scrapper. November was particularly exciting, as workers used a chain to cut off the first enormous chunk of ship, revealing mangled cars within. Here’s at look at the fascinating way the team pulled this off.
More than 300,000 farmers marched from the states of Punjab and Haryana – on foot and in convoys of tractors – at the weekend to reach the Indian capital for what they described as a “decisive battle” with the central government.
The first detailed 30cm radio map of the southern sky - which includes everything a telescope can see from its location in the Southern Hemisphere - was Sydney University's Molonglo Sky Survey. Completed in 2006, this survey took almost a decade to observe 25 percent of the entire sky and produce final data products.
Our team at CSIRO's Astronomy and Space Science division has smashed this record by surveying 83 percent of the sky in just ten days.
Late nights analysing the resulting data trove led to some of the earliest insights about how the coronavirus spreads through a population. The data showed, for example, that almost half of infected people are asymptomatic, that children are much less likely to become sick than adults and that the most common symptoms of mild COVID-19 are muscle aches, headaches and a cough — not fever
A total of just under 400kg of rock and soil were retrieved by American Apollo astronauts and the Soviets' robotic Luna programme - the vast majority of these materials coming back with the crewed missions.
But all these samples were very old - more than three billion years in age. The Mons Rümker materials, on the other hand, promise to be no more than 1.2 or 1.3 billion years old. And this should provide additional insights on the geological history of the Moon.
The samples will also allow scientists to more precisely calibrate the "chronometer" they use to age surfaces on the inner Solar System planets.
One 42-year-old father wrote that the world in 2050 would be “a hot-house hell, with wars over limited resources, collapsing civilisation, failing agriculture, rising seas, melting glaciers, starvation, droughts, floods, mudslides and widespread devastation.” Schneider-Mayerson said he thought the pessimistic views held were all within the range of possibilities, if not necessarily the most likely outcome.
It’s about to get a lot more expensive to stay at short-term rentals in Canada as Ottawa announced a new tax on Airbnb and other short-term accommodation plat
Thousands of people took to the streets across France at the weekend to protest against the new measure, over fears that police violence would be harder to expose.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court confronted a seemingly simple question: If an American corporation aids and abets child slavery in a foreign country, can its victims sue the company in an American court? Given that SCOTUS has repeatedly granted corporations the same rights as actual humans, you might think the answer is obvious. But it isn’t, because the same justices who think corporations deserve free speech and religious liberty do not believe they should be saddled with the same legal responsibilities as real people. Neal Katyal, who defended the companies accused of abetting child slavery, proposed an extreme theory that would shield all corporations from lawsuits under a crucial federal law. A majority of justices might not be ready to endorse this radical position. But they may still find a way to let Katyal’s clients off the hook.
...
Given his pedigree and prominence as a center-left advocate throughout the Trump years, Katyal is almost certainly a candidate for a major position in the Biden administration. So it was somewhat surreal to hear him defending corporations accused of abetting child slavery.
An online training used in 2020 by a Kentucky state law enforcement training agency features a Nazi symbol in a clip from an anti-Semitic video produced by a neo-Nazi media company.
The Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training (DOCJT) created the online training which requires watching a six-minute video. The full video, which is not included in the training, alleges that the Jewish people caused the American opioid crisis, that Las Vegas casinos are “run by Jewish gangsters” and that in Hollywood, Jewish people “are endlessly glorified among other mind-control agendas working hand-in-hand with the U.S. government.”
An anonymous source who works in law enforcement alerted Manual RedEye to the existence of the clip after RedEye published a story about a Kentucky State Police (KSP) training that quoted Hitler three times and featured the Nazi phrase “über alles.” KSP used Hitler-quoting trainings during at least two years and trainings that quoted Robert E. Lee and instructing cadets to be “ruthless killer[s]” for at least 10 years, resulting in Commissioner Rodney Brewer’s resignation.
A group of Democratic and Republican lawmakers just joined together to shield their corporate donors from lawsuits when they kill more workers. If this legislation passes, corporations won't be held to account for their criminal actions during coronavirus.
Tagirov had conned his way into the apartments of elderly women living alone by impersonating an electrician, plumber, or utilities worker.
Once inside, he would overpower the women and strangle his victims using either his hands or nearby objects, including an apron and a clothesline. The vast majority of his victims were older than 70.
More than 180 police officers raided homes in three German states early Tuesday after the German government banned a far-right group, the interior ministry said.
The homes of 11 members of the far-right group Wolfsbrigade 44 were searched in Hesse, Mecklenburg West-Pomerania and North Rhine-Westphalia to confiscate the group’s funds and far-right propaganda material, the German news agency dpa reported.
“Whoever fights against the basic values of our free society will get to feel the resolute reaction of our government,” Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said. “There’s no place in this country for an association that sows hatred and and works on the resurrection of a Nazi state.”