News Miscellany

[Kyuss Apollo]

Also in Michigan. There it goes.

Michigan dam failure caught on video - YouTube

The Michigan Dam Failures Are a Warning

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Kyuss Apollo

Also in Michigan. There it goes.

Michigan dam failure caught on video - YouTube

The Michigan Dam Failures Are a Warning

There it goes.

Looks like it was just made of topsoil. Which I can entirely believe.

Next, tell us about your American bridges, and roads, and railroads. Infrastructure spending is un-American, right?

[Kyuss Apollo]

When our president is un-American, that goes without saying.

[Qingdai]

Apparently the people who owned the damn used it as a tax shelter. So they weren't going to spend a dime on it, it was bought to fail

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Qingdai

Apparently the people who owned America used it as a tax shelter. So they weren't going to spend a dime on it, it was bought to fail

[Qingdai]

HEH. Also that

[JoeP]

2020 in a gesture:



Technical issues with live reporters on location in Minneapolis, I think.

One of the issues might have been the police trying to make the reporter not live.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by JoeP

2020 in a gesture:



Technical issues with live reporters on location in Minneapolis, I think.

One of the issues might have been the police trying to make the reporter not live.

Ready for some more Ebola? New Ebola Outbreak Declared in Congo City That Last Saw the Virus in 2018 - Slashdot

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

A bit out of my knowledge area, for the benefit of nerds who know more about what and who.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Members of the American Indian Movement are preparing to tear down the statue of Christopher Columbus at the Minnesota State capitol pic.twitter.com/8vLdELlxqG

— Max Nesterak (@maxnesterak) June 10, 2020

[JoeP]

Wherein

So......governments really are going to allow it all to be destroyed and torn down? Western Civilization is going to be replaced with what exactly?

— Louis Adimando (@LouisAdimando) June 10, 2020

What a snowflake ... destroying a statue feels like an attack on the whole of western civilisation. Maybe this is what the "owning the libs" thing that I struggle to understand is really about - projection (it's always projection) of their own fragility and fear?

And the subtext. Black rights and indigenous rights are a destruction of "Western civilisation"? Which was brought to the indigenous Americans, as a gift, a blessing - they should be grateful for being liberated and accepting of their position. (Even more shouty emphasis should be added there.)

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

That dude really wanted to fight everyone in those replies.

[Stephen Maturin]

Have you seen the mass snowflake meltdown attending HBO Max's decision to remove Gone With the Wind from its streaming service? It is nothing less than the complete erasure of ... well, something pretty important.

No matter, though. The one true Gone With the Wind remains.

show spoiler

[erimir]

Wouldn't Native American civilizations be the westiest of all? How can they be the downfall of Western Civilization?

[JoeP]

They were westlier for sure, but they weren't civilised, you see. You can't be civilised without flags and guns.

[JoeP]

North Korea threatens to send army into demilitarised border zone - BBC News

and then ...
North Korea blows up joint liaison office with South in Kaesong - BBC News

This can't be posturing to get more aid funding because Great Leader Trump sorted North Korea out.

[BrotherMan]

I think using the gambling board from Cabin in the Woods is on the nose.

[JoeP]

Yes, you just have to remember to update the month.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Canada has a lot of good regulation on a variety of things. Animal rescue has none or next to none.

So...

Animal activists urge consumers not to buy dogs online after dozens of puppies found dead on Toronto-bound flight | CTV News

[JoeP]

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Sex addict claims hot female gamers caused him to injure penis

[JoeP]

The headline does not do justice to the size and frequency of the engorged examples in the article.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

A peak Dominatrix achievement, tho, prompting some wanker to jerk it off in a most final manner.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Russia: Nuclear dust? What nuclear dust?

VIENNA (Reuters) - Radiation sensors in Stockholm have detected higher-than-usual but still harmless levels of isotopes produced by nuclear fission, probably from somewhere on or near the Baltic Sea, a body running a worldwide network of the sensors said on Friday.