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  • Gnash0

    • This is awful. I'mw watching live on Periscope on my phone. That steeple's gonna go any time.mg33
    • horrible :/Gnash
    • Thoughts and Prayersutopian
    • :(Krassy
    • This is so sad.NBQ00
    • LIVE https://www.youtube.…pablo28
    • Daaamn. It took 200 years to build :(NBQ00
    • This can't possibly be rebuilt again :(NBQ00
    • Forget 200 years... I didn't realize it was built in 1160... Crazy to compare that to US history really beginning in the 1700's.mg33
    • ugh. roof and spire totally gone.hans_glib
    • This is so awful. Centuries of history, gone.Continuity
    • fuck :(PonyBoy
    • oh my...OBBTKN
    • Fuck! :( I visited that place 2 times, one of the most impressice place i've seen. Losing such an old place is very sadBennn
    • "Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart" China would do this intentionally simply to put up an industrial park.imbecile
    • some crazy footage on the snapchat mapimbecile
    • Horriblerobotron3k
    • I hope this was an accidentrobotron3k
    • accident or not, the result is the same. But yeah i understand what you meanBennn
    • robo, you don't have an idea of who did this already? the alt-right reddit boards all seem to have it figured out, which is why I askmonospaced
    • Karmaseverian
    • Karma?NBQ00
    • Karma.severian
    • @severian ?Krassy
    • explain severianBennn
    • I need to explain the Catholic church?severian
    • I'm atheist, don't even care about religion in this case. But about history, art, human achievements. And sad to see so much history destroyed.NBQ00
    • nothing lasts forever. the whole world will go up in flames one day when the sun grows and consumes earth. enjoy it while it lastsshapesalad
    • thanks, shape.NBQ00
    • @NBQ00 +1Krassy
    • oh dear, i don't want to be that worker who dumped this cigarette. good that nobody got hurt!api
    • Actually, I was wondering about that. No casualties at all?Continuity
    • wow, just saw this...fortunately no casualties; impressive event, hope they succeed to save as much as possible of the stone structureuan
    • le coeur de paris qui brûle, glad I managed to visit it before it went, they will rebuild though.uan
    • The stone stucture is OK, its all the Art inside that matter nowBennn
    • Imagine the chaos if IS or another terrorist organization claims responsibilityautoflavour
    • yeah also a great fake reason to fire up the Crusadessted
    • Well, it's out now. Really, it could have been so much worse, it could have been completely lost.Continuity
    • It's the 12th french catholic building to be attacked in the last week. Seems like it's no accident.set
  • PhanLo13


    and

    • holly cow!nbq
    • This is what Brexit doesrobotron3k
    • Surprisingly not in Florida.PhanLo
    • Very, Florida man must have been busyrobotron3k
    • 80 and still has it with the ladiesBoz
    • Still got it baby!!BK
    • A cow in the hand is worth more than two in the trough.utopian
    • Speech: 100
      Strength: 100
      Endurance :100
      Charisma & Intelligence: Less than 100
      DRIFTMONKEY
    • Dead wife defense .. nice way to make sure your entire family and most of not all of your friends never ever speak to you againautoflavour
  • Krassy1

    Bill Gates and Melinda Gates are splitting up after 27 years

    https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/03/…

    • Bill will boning some 20 year old Instagram model, bank on it.utopian
    • Looks like Bill will be giving away half his wealth after all!bulletfactory
    • She must've found out he's been secretly tracking billions of hot babes with his vaccinesIanbolton
    • I would never have thought that.zaq
    • gates already gave away half his wealth... twice even?sarahfailin
    • Bill Gates was married to Caitlyn Jenner?elahon
    • A divorce lawyer's wet dream.wagshaft
    • @elahon lolKrassy
    • Strangei_was
    • I'd bone Bill for a bit of that $138bill action.BusterBoy
    • Bill can‘t get his billy up since more than 20 years probably, how would he bone a 20 year old insta model?NBQ00
    • he is probably after the queen. king status is something he didn't reach yet.uan
    • She bought bitcoinAQUTE
    • grimes has a crush on himneverscared
    • after 27 years, just take a months vacation from each other and then get on with it.shapesalad
    • ^ they’ve been doing that for 7 years, apparently.nb
    • "That divorce announcement was not for us. It was to calm global markets."
      https://twitter.com/…
      Bluejam
    • https://i.imgur.com/…jmckinno
    • Hmmmm so whois left with the Vaccines 5G Control Console™ now?!grafician
  • Bluejam7


    • this makes me embarrassed to be a San Diegan.capn_ron
    • I heard the audio of this on the radio this morning, a Dallas Ft. Worth sports station I listen to played it. It's even more cringe watching it...mg33
    • the people who aren't participating and are just standing there... omg do I feel their pain.mg33
    • I sent to my wife and said "if this event ever shows up on our shared calendar, I'm finding a new place to live."mg33
    • cringeworthy AF!Krassy
    • good morning mr. whacky! LOLrenderedred
    • omg, less than a minute in and I'm curling in my chairfeel
    • holy fucking shitballs...pedromendez
    • This is weapons-grade hilarity. Nothing is working. Cut the feed.garbage
    • that news guy is the equivalent of being a retail designerMaaku
    • Best part is having heard this on the radio. It might have been worse without visuals.mg33
    • and it's all adults too. I could excuse aspects of the event if it were focused around children. But can you imagine doing this as a grown human being?mg33
    • "what KIND of fun do you think you're going to have today?"mg33
    • "um, lots of fun..." "helping, just..."mg33
    • news guy should find another vocationKrassy
    • I'm guessing there's some old grudge at play here. Reminds me a bit of
      https://www.youtube.…
      detritus
    • Just saw this on MR...multi-lolsee_thru
    • ......futurefood
    • As a current San Diegan, I can confirm this is pretty typical. "The Human Torch was denied a bank loan."MondoMorphic
    • mg33, was it 1310 The Ticket who played this?MondoMorphic
    • does that reporter remember the day he lost the love for his job?futurefood
    • @Mondo - it was indeed. how did you know? I'm a long time P1 from Dallas Ft. Worth, and stream it in Chicago daily.mg33
    • hahaha@detritus linkBluejam
    • ha only just seen det's link because of your comment. hilarious!fadein11
    • @mg33, lol it's exactly the sort of thing they'd play. I'm also a good strong Ticket P1, still streaming it from out here in CA.MondoMorphic
    • ^ Awesome! I love them all. Big Musers and Hardline fan. Bob and Dan are boring, those poor guys.mg33
  • Krassy9

    Man’s plot to dump tons of LSD in L.A. water supply thwarted by police

    https://worldnewsdailyreport.com…

    “He hoped that by pouring massive quantities of synthetic LSD into the water supply he would awaken the universal love within each of us, thus destroying the capitalist economy of the United States in a matter of hours and setting the stage for a new worldwide communist revolution”

  • renderedred10

    PETITION: Biological males don't belong in girls' sports - #IStandWithSelina

    https://lifepetitions.com/petiti…

    • why downvote this? identifying as a women doesn't mean you're biologically a women.Beeswax
    • Boys need to go play with themselves. Literally. Get the fuck out of our sports. If you believe you're a legit athlete, go create your own 3rd league.BustySaintClaire
    • Nobody believes you're a woman.monospaced
    • i identify as a billionaire but my bank doesn't support me :(renderedred
    • I can understand the reasoning behind the petition somehow, even though I dont have an opinion about it.Fabricio
    • But I dont think there is a need to go on with transphobic comments no? Regardless of where you stand with the petition...Fabricio
    • There is no need to attack a whole community and give opinions on something that is so personal to many individuals.Fabricio
    • The very idea that a trans boy would make a point to beat all the girls at sports is a bit far. I doubt it's a thing even.monospaced
    • It clearly is a "thing" for this girl though, so I'm not denying that.monospaced
    • If you are legally recognized as female you cannot be prevented from participating in female sports.deadsperm
    • Either don't recognize trans as female or create a new biological female only category.deadsperm
    • to be fair, the "biological female only category" doesn't need to be created nor would it be "new"monospaced
    • lol renderedredreddNairn
    • Should all females have the right to participate in this already existing sport category in that case?deadsperm
    • That IS the question now isn’t it?monospaced
    • Well if you follow it at all you’ll see that men are crushing women at all sports they enter so it’s become a farce. Girls that have been busting their asses_niko
    • To reach the pi Accor if their sport are now having their dreams ruined by men. It’s quite absurd but so are the times we’re living in so yeah._niko
    • Maybe guys are just better at being womenGnash
    • Well said! With the excuse about the physical superiority of men you would think a record like being the smallest person in the world would go to women.deadsperm
    • But men even beat then at that. Women just don't have it in them.deadsperm
    • This is a tar baby topic.i_monk
  • PonyBoy7

    Subscription-based heated seats, guys...

    "Want Heated Seats in Your BMW? There’s a Monthly Fee for That.

    Luxury auto maker is charging customers a subscription for heated seats in several countries"

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/wan…

    • Belongs in the Fuck Adobe! threadnb
    • haha... that was the first thing that popped in my head too, nbPonyBoy
    • Own nothing!instrmntl
    • Dang. BallzyGnash
    • My wife charges me a subscription fee, discuss.utopian
    • Subscriptions on QBN soongrafician
    • Like, comment and Subscribe !!!shapesalad
    • can i buy the subscription as a nft token... ?neverscared
    • $5.99/mo gas cap unlock feeprophetone
    • Hack that shit. The car is YOUR FUCKING PROPERTAAH.jagara
    • Capitalism's idea of innovationi_monk
    • One hell of a new after market about to emerge if this is the way automakers go.ETM
  • ok_not_ok5

    BREAKING NEWS!!!

    Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet Are Giving Their Marriage Another Chance

    https://hollywoodlife.com/2022/0…

    • Now THATS NEWS!grafician
    • OH THANK GODNairn
    • WAIT WAIT!! WHAT BOUT ZOE KRAVITZ?!??! NOOOO!!pango
    • There is a god!utopian
    • Zoe is her daughterrrrr with Lenny
      pango you so celebrity uninformed
      grafician
    • Should be good song material for LennyAQUTE
    • what happened to moamoa?Fax_Benson
    • Thank Jah!ideaist
    • thank you Lord!Bennn
    • I had to google bothdrgs
    • He took the wife AND the daughter?!??!?! DAYUM!! leave some for us!pango
    • finally some good newsGuyFawkes
    • Oh man, THANK FUCK! Been so concerned over the past few weeks.microkorg
    • In these dark times, a light shall bring forth hope!Akagiyama
    • Lamecannonball1978
    • who the f*ck is Lisa Boner?oey_oey
  • set7

    Here's one of 13 million recently declassified CIA documents, this one regarding a remote viewing exercise from 1984. The remote viewer was asked to view certain co-ordinates on mars, which happen to be the area we now know as Cydonia - with the alleged group of pyramids, circa 1million years BC...

    Pretty interesting -

    https://www.cia.gov/library/read…

    • "using the information within the envelope" so did the remote viewer know it was mars? 1mil BC? hopefully not, because then that shit is mind blowing.inteliboy
    • got any more? fascinatedinteliboy
    • The sealed envelope is given to the remote viewer but not opened until after the session..set
    • http://i.imgur.com/1…set
    • that is some interesting stufffadein11
    • Pyramids?monospaced
    • Curious how the person being questioned is so intimate with the polar coordinate system applied to Mars. It is for the most part arbitrary.monospaced
    • Remote viewing is the practice of seeing in the minds eye images based on the intent of the target. If you're open to that possibility then the numerical...set
    • co-ordinates are irrelevant. It's the intent of the person providing them that guides the viewer..set
    • Evidently the CIA were very much open to that possibility.set
    • how come these remote viewers are not millionaires, if you could see remote stuff, you'd figure out: A) how to get rich, B) who your wife is cheating with.fruitsalad
    • rather than coordinates on mars. what use is that!fruitsalad
    • Project Star Gate.fadein11
    • The intent was to view the area on mars with what looks like remains of ancient pyramids, and the viewer saw a dusty ochre coloured environment with pyramids...set
    • These are official CIA documents.set
    • good point, setmonospaced
    • Pretty interesting whichever side of the belief fence you sit on.set
    • From 1972 - to its disclosure in 1995 the American Intelligence and military machines used and expanded forms of ESP or psychic functioning for intelligencefadein11
    • gathering purposes. This mainly settled on a form of PSI functioning known as remote viewing.fadein11
    • i want to believe.ApeRobot
    • I think the original experiments involved the dark side of the moon also - I presume they will be in those docs somewhere.fadein11
    • America started to take this research v.seriously because the USSR was way ahead in the field - loads of stuff on net about their programs also.fadein11
    • I've seen so many versions of how these remote viewing techniques can be compromised and gamed, so I am of course extremely skeptical.monospaced
    • Yeah they just have to have glanced at a strategically placed poster of mars or something mars related on the way in to influence their thoughts_niko
    • Or if have any clue as to what it was about at all. So much margin for human error and intervention to allow it, as is usually the case when these are debunked.monospaced
    • I'm not making an official call on this remote viewing being supernatural, I just don't really think there are million year old pyramids standing on Mars.monospaced
    • We know you don't....

      :)
      set
    • What's most impressive is the viewer's ability to interpret cartesian coordinates on a then-largely unmapped body across a million years of space time.detritus
    • Apparently the coordinate system are irrelevant to remote viewing.

      set, you believe there are ancient pyramids on the martian surface?
      monospaced
    • I believe it's highly likely, yes.set
    • lolscarabin
    • there's literally nothing in this report to indicate the experiment was successfulscarabin
    • Hilarious, I'm sure.set
    • What does that even mean, Scarabin...? Clearly you're totally missing the point.set
    • The only points here are that 1. the CIA were/are using remote viewing. 2. were interested in Cydonia 1 million years agoset
    • 3. that remote viewing clearly works in as much as the RVer was able to view something that sounds just like the intended target, without being told the target.set
    • If your poor little mind can only ridicule and insta-deny without acknowledging the interesting facts attached to it, then I really do feel for you.set
    • right, there's the attack i mentioned invariably comes up when anybody doesn't share your viewscarabin
    • you're hanging the whole "similarity" thing on the word "okra" which is said after "yellow" and btw is green but whatevsscarabin
    • we have not discovered any pyramids on marsscarabin
    • fascinatingkona
    • If someone comes in, simply laughs at it as if they have fucking clue in the world what the reality of it is, then says...set
    • 'there's nothing to indicate it was successful' which shows you've totally missed the point, then I'm going to call you a fucking idiot, sure.set
    • no, that's called critical thinkingscarabin
    • Pompous ignorance and ridicule, rather than intelligently discussing the interesting reality of the CIA investigating this stuff is embarrassing behaviour.set
    • You can convince yourself otherwise all you like.set
    • is it an interesting experiment? sure. if that's your point, cool. is there any evidence it was successful? no.scarabin
    • Not once has anyone here suggested there is proof that there are ancient pyramids on mars built by tall humans. That isn't the point.set
    • How did I know this would happen?
      .
      HOLY SHIT, I MUST BE PRESCIENT.
      detritus
    • then we're on the same page. calm your titsscarabin
    • My tits are perfectly calm and firmset
    • *honks one just to be sure*scarabin
    • Nice, I remember traveling to a planet with pyramids while on shrooms once. It was a rad visual. x)sea_sea
    • 'okra' was likely mistranscribed, he surely said 'ochre'Gnash
    • Indeedset
    • finally the CIA LSD experiment results were releasedmoldero
    • You're incapable of doing it or understanding it so you must try and rationalise it using your limited knowledge. I guess that's fair enough, right...set
    • who are you talking to?scarabin
    • the notes in this post read almost as amazing as the actual CIA notes. You guys are pretty amazing! I'd like to trip with you all at some point.capn_ron
  • Bennn6

    "You eat thousands of bits of plastic every year"

    'Though abundant in water, air, and common foods, it’s unclear how it might affect our health'

    https://www.nationalgeographic.c…

    • 5G though.monospaced
    • chernobyl/fukushima thohans_glib
    • terrorists tho?Ianbolton
    • Socialism thodeadsperm
    • Toxic masculinity innit.Morning_star
    • Most of it from synthetic clothesdrgs
    • words thoGnash
    • we're slowly turning ourselves into tupperwareBluejam
    • Not that there's anything wrong with identifying as tupperware.
      Live your truth.
      deadsperm
    • I identify as funneldrgs
    • all of this for the longest life expectancy ever in human history.uan
    • ..which is dropping in America and some other western countries, and was mostly down to reduced rate of deaths during birth, infancy and childhood.Nairn
    • Folk are dying earlier than previous generations for the first time in a while. I think it's because we party like legends.PhanLo
    • if we poop it out, everything will be OKdbloc
    • but emissionsmonospaced
    • #MAGA Prideutopian
    • Humans are slowly making ourselves extinct, even if you sent a bunch of humans to Mars - they'll be infected with plastic.shapesalad
    • Yet humans still won't be extinct. Look at how we're able to sustain stupid pandas. We can take care of ourselves. Human extinction is a long way from now/here.deadsperm
    • If yalls wanna do the right thing then do the right thing. Human extinction is not a real issue.deadsperm
    • Yalls here believing that dinosaurs went away while we're eating them as nuggets on the daily.deadsperm
    • lol, we're not really sustaining any meaningful panda population, you know that right?monospaced
    • but dinosaurs as most people see them did indeed go away, in the same way Neanderthals are extinct but here I sit, with a percentage of their DNA.Nairn
    • Neanderthals are a species not a major group. The equivalent would be saying that mammals are extinct or even primates if you wanna narrow it down.deadsperm
    • My apologies for my ignorance, but in taxonomical terms wtf is a 'major group' other than an arbitrary distinction meted out to concretise an arbitrary point?Nairn
    • If you knew ANYTHING about science, you'd know that dinosaurs are more related to frogs anyway, if Jurassic Park taught us anything... .

      //
      Nairn
    • If we're talking Disney & cladistics, knowing that frogs are really cursed princes would that make them Crown-Aves?deadsperm
  • Ramanisky24

    Horrible news out of Miami.


    • Oh fuck, were there people inside? I saw this on Twitter and was under the impression the building had been cleared?!Nairn
    • Wow, fuck! that looks like a controlled demolition.utopian
    • 51 people assumed to be living in collapsed building are not accounted for.utopian
    • No news yet on how many people were in the units during the collapse. So far they’re saying 1 person has died.Ramanisky2
    • this is the world's richest and most powerful country? what a shitshow. poor people inside :(_niko
    • Totally Niko. Is the US equivalent of the Grenfall Towers fire?Ianbolton
    • South Florida looks more like Beirut.utopian
    • Jesus. Poor people, that's awful.instrmntl
    • This might finally put some regulation on labor in that city. Most of it is random Cubans/Puerto Ricans (non union) building shite for foreign cash.toemaas
    • BTW, My family and I stayed at a place 2 blocks away from there on the ocean front in FEB - area is in "re-development" kinda shitty over there.toemaas
    • Just heard a report that there is something like 99 people on accounted for so far... UnbelievablePonyBoy
    • UnaccountedPonyBoy
    • Mostly retired people already in bed.
      The stuff of nightmares.
      Ramanisky2
    • The entire infrastructure of America is literally collapsing and crumbling...roads, bridges, energy grid, water, sewage, housing, internet, etc...MAGAutopian
    • And yet they worship and celebrate multi billionaires who are too smart to pay taxes. Capitalism ftw_niko
    • Is it really capitalism if there are state bailouts? Capitalist in profit, socialist in lossesESKEMA
    • Wow! Maya? Houdini?i_was
    • I'm so confused rn.. they're reporting a partial collapse? that top video doesn't look partial. Partial in regards to the whole complex? wtfsea_sea
    • oh shit... the lights were on....
      proper demolition would have cut the power already....
      pango
    • Horrible to say the least. So sad.dbloc
    • @niko, if you want to talk about about first world disasters you need not go any further than your country's handling of the pandemic.hotroddy
    • and you need not go beyond 60 miles off floridas' coast to see how socialism can ravege a country to where the infrastructure is a trace of 65 years agohotroddy
    • even after receiving billions in 'economic aid' from Russia in 80's and Venezuela's pertro dollars for the last 20 years.hotroddy
    • which one Hotroddy? the relatively low deaths or the social net that allowed Canadians to not starve to death and/or die because they had to work?_niko
    • or the part where the ones that got sick didn't lose their homes or all their life savings to get cured?_niko
    • calm. calm. all hotroddy is saying is that as long as US is doing better than Venezuela, it's all good.pango
    • the part where they doubled down on ruining the economy and case count per capita exceeds that of the US. In a country one tenth the size of US.hotroddy
    • got it, thanks pango. in that case congrats hotroddy on having less building collapses than a third world country... or is it more?_niko
    • Yes, we are by far the leaders in collapsed buildings. Can't wait to be the leaders of tropical socialism.hotroddy
    • so glad Us is doing better than Venezuelapango
    • your sarcasm is insulting to venezuelans and almost racisthotroddy
    • Still confused about how a handful of inspectors' neglect is somehow associated with a countries economic index...toemaas
    • Yet another rant on socialism and Venezuela, LOLutopian
    • wut? lol go ask any venezuelans and see if they think US should be doing better than them. US has every advantage to do better. it's a given.pango
    • Venezuela WAS the USA 30 years ago.hotroddy
    • US was a tropical socialist country?pango
    • Keep up pango. Venezuela was a rich capitalist country that attracted as many immigrants as USA.hotroddy
    • @utopian, I was talking about Cuba (60 miles off the coast of Florida. @pango made it about Venezuela. I guess he doesn't know his geography.hotroddy
    • as many?
      nono you made it about Venezuela. i wouldn't be talking about Venezuela if you didn't start it. don't push that shit on me lol
      pango
    • also seems like Venezuela is your go to punching bag. talk about insulting Venezuelan. you've done it every single time. the comparison is a real stretch.pango
    • also i wonder if US had anything to do with government change.... hmmmmpango
    • US played a part in the 2002 coup to try to overthrow Chavez.hotroddy
    • not acknowledging that USA can become another venezuela is part of the problem. It shares the same class and demographic structures as USA. Cuba as well.hotroddy
    • see that's exactly my poing. every time someone criticizes US, he then goes "what about Cuba? what about Venezuela?" thinking US cant be criticized is a farpango
    • bigger problem than becoming cuba or venezuela. pffff lol if possible at all.pango
    • You’d have to be a special kind of fucktard to think this was a product of socialism or that capitalism could have prevented this.monospaced
    • 159 now listed as missing... :( horriblePonyBoy
  • Ramanisky25

    • 30M vehicles a year, and it took five years to build. Traffic's going to be fun in Baltimore for a while...Nairn
    • That bridge looked fragile as fuck.milfhunter
    • Captain was on his phone probably :-PHAL9001
    • i can't believe how easily it fell to bits. So horrible.Ianbolton
    • Boeing making ships now?Gnash
    • @Gnash you mean: Boeing making bridges now?milfhunter
    • That ship is a repeat offender.palimpsest
    • milfhunter with the victim blaming.palimpsest
    • @palm It goes both ways. Shitty old infrastructure and shitty shipment.milfhunter
    • What was the bridge wearing and why was it "open" at night?palimpsest
    • @milfhunter
      Very shitty people on both sides.
      palimpsest
    • What was the bridge doing in the middle of the water in the first place? And why didn't it move out the way?palimpsest
    • The bridge was shit, but those container ships are terrifying. Once I was on a ferry back into town, container ship stalled and was floating into our path.garbage
    • I was taking a nap in my car, and woke up to full sirens as the captain was pulling whatever the ferry equivalent of an e-brake is.garbage
    • https://i.imgur.com/…sted
    • Holy shit. The lights come on and you can see the exhaust of full reverse way too late.garbage
    • Did 'Harbour Control' (I don't know) stop traffic when they realised something was amiss, or was it just a coincidental quiet period for vehicles?Nairn
    • lol shitheads are already pinning it on DEI and WOKE!
      https://twitter.com/…
      face_melter
    • JFC. Next they'll retcon Exxon Valdez into a Democratic scheme to "Make Alaska Black Again".garbage
    • Biden presidency in one photo.Milan
    • now we know how easy it is to crash a ship, just bring the captains kid on the board and let him play with the power button.sted
    • https://youtu.be/OnI…prophetone
    • flol @ paliContinuity
    • I'm guessing shipping's fucked there too, right? Nothing can come in or out until that mess is dealt with.
      Fucking critical infrastructure, eh?
      Nairn
    • 'i can't believe how easily it fell to bits'
      you'd fall to bits if you were hit by 120,000 tons. bridges aren't designed to eat that kind of momentum.
      face_melter
    • lol. Peeps thinking the bridge was at fault here. The engineering of these things is remarkable, taking out 1 of the 2 supports is what brought it downGnash
    • @Nairn I can bridge nerd on this. I live pretty much on the water, in between a few drawbridges and the second-most popular suicide bridge in the world. Fun!garbage
    • This on was a continuous truss, and it's essentially a budget bridge used for shipping lanes and port entrances.garbage
    • Sometimes they don't have bridge tenders, can't tell if this one had one or not.garbage
    • Everybody knows bridges don't collapse from "legitimate crashes".palimpsest
    • Everybody knows about Tampa Bay boat bridge collapse in 1980... they should anyway if making blanket statements for everybodyprophetone
    • is this like an accidental 9/11, or Flight 9525 wherein every cunt globally is going to want lock down big ass ships in their domain?Nairn
    • This happened a couple of weeks back in Turkey https://www.youtube.… It's a great wat to fuck over a country's logistics...Nairn
    • Oh nothing about it was legit. Seriously might turn out to be a drunk crew or some severe mechanical malfunction.garbage
    • I think it was last year we had one crash into one of the most obnoxious tourists locations.garbage
    • ISIS-K claimed responsibilityMilan
    • Yall trying to defend the infrastructure of the USA is hilarious. We all know its in a downfall.milfhunter
    • https://fredblog.stl…milfhunter
    • Public investment in U.S. infrastructure as a share of GDP has fallen by more than 40 percent since the 1960s, according to the world economic forum.milfhunter
    • More than 45,000 U.S. bridges and 1 in 5 miles of roads are in poor condition, per the American Society of Civil Engineersmilfhunter
    • someone calculated the force of impact, its around 3 million kilojoules of force, its like a localized lvl 3 earthquake, no bridge can stand thatfeel
    • Only one could. Trusty 11 Foot 8.garbage
  • GuyFawkes16

    Conservatives Are Pussies, Brain Study Finds

    https://www.psychologytoday.com/…


  • whatthefunk10

    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rund…

    “The department of the Army will not approve an easement that will allow the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe,” said Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault. “Instead, the Corps will be undertaking an environmental impact statement to look at possible alternative routes.”

    • This made my day.sea_sea
    • ^ me too, there hadn't been much to celebrate lately. Gives me/us hope...whatthefunk
    • WOOT! WOOT! BABY GROOT!since1979
    • The influx of 2000 army veterans acting as human shields was the tipping point it seems_niko
    • Great news. But let's see if it will start again if trump gets in the office.pango
    • Don't worry Trump will reverse this. He is personally invested in the pipeline.yuekit
    • gonna be a expensive breach of contractdeathboy
    • does this mean the pipeline needs to go through another path, possibly a longer detour, therefore creating even more environmental risk?chukkaphob
    • it's 90% completed. it's not like they've pulled the plug on the entire project. So could this be a worse of 2 evils? shouldn't ALL land be sacred?chukkaphob
    • Yea it's just a halt for the holidays maybe? but as of now they must re route the dapl away from the river and lake. Drilling hasn't stopped tho :/sea_sea
    • Drumpf says he will overturn the decision.utopian
    • thanks Trumpoey
  • pockets2

    Marijuana grow house bust nets $35 million in drugs, 16 arrests

    Since then, detectives identified the five grow houses, each of which averaged 340 to 1,500 plants in each home, and linked the alleged traffickers “to a larger international organization serving not only Gwinnett County and the metro Atlanta area, but also the southeast United States,” Pihera said.

    • https://www.gwinnett…pockets
    • https://youtu.be/g74…fooler
    • sadly, this wouldn't even be criminal in some statesmonospaced
    • Wow, the crime of growing plants. Get them!yuekit
    • 340 - 1500 is ALOT of plants. We get 4 a household in Canada.ideaist
    • https://www.youtube.…imbecile
    • @fooler good one!Krassy
    • Lol horrible math, they only netted between $5.5-$22.5 million, and the higher number if they were selling to dispensary...robotron3k
    • highly doubt they were selling to a dispensarymonospaced
    • https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
    • Lets say the 5 houses had 340 plants each. Each plant giving away about 3 ounces, at a low price of $200 an ounce. That's a little over $1M every 3-4 months.Maaku
    • 1 plant = $3k in profitrobotron3k
    • ^ a year?Maaku
    • Just some honest hard working urban farmers that’s all. Guy top right-best_niko
    • Guy top right-stonedfooler
    • I thought Asians were supposed to be smart, according to the stereotype...shapesalad
    • These guys are Vietnamese, more clever than smart, also ballsy as hell and a little crazy. Love them. Even the yanks couldn’t fuck with them_niko
    • reminds me of the grow house busts in europe a decade ago. reporst always ended with asian or vietnamese owners or growers :Dsted
    • Sted, they'd always find some poor guy in a cupboard in his pants burning porn dvds that hadn't seen daylight in months.PhanLo
    • Our country sucksBenDover
    • i would have like to smoke their bud.
      they probably had it down to a science.
      hotroddy
    • roboeconomicsfadein11
  • dmay10

    Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of Figma

    https://www.theverge.com/2023/12…

    • Interesting.. does this mean Adobe will un-sunset XD now ?dee-dubs
    • FUCK ADOBEhans_glib
    • ^ and that!dee-dubs
    • At least Figma made a billion dollars from the deal gone south.utopian
    • @utopian; totally / 1 billion "escape clause". #FuckAdobe.

      (Changes focus window to Adobe Illustrator)
      ideaist
    • a friend just reached out and let me know lol.... what a lovely christmas present :)exador1
    • I'm OK with this, and with un-sunsetting XD just so I can continue to use it to batch one-click tons of artboards to native AE comps.evilpeacock
    • nah, fuck figma. fucking insane to have a file with 10 people in it.doesnotexist
  • Krassy6

    New Yorker Suspends Jeffrey Toobin for Masturbating on Zoom Call

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/…

    • lolKrassy
    • l "oh face" lAQUTE
    • https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
    • hahahKrassy
    • that's a proper epicfailsted
    • a+colin_s
    • I think this is a great example of an honest (albeit massive!) mistake and how human we all are.ideaist
    • haha, this has made my morning.fadein11
    • An honest, human mistake of jacking off while on the clock?garbage
    • I tend to only rub one out when I haven't got any prior commitments, but that's just me.Continuity
    • @garbage Yes.

      I agree @Continuity; get your job done and then get the job done.
      ideaist
    • This is Louis CK kind of a "mistake"
      Bet he has a sexual misconduct history hidden in the past
      Beeswax
    • because he spanks his monkey?moldero
    • hahaha, i wonder how many times this has happened on zoom since covid beganMilan
  • imbecile11

    chart shows how 8 billionaires have as much wealth as 3.6 billion people

    • and meanwhile google gets 20% of advertising budgets from industrialized nations...
      those guys have big amounts of their money in the industry,
      uan
    • all white menClaymantis
    • Not really.monospaced
    • Point being? Of those 3.6, about 3.2 will never know about it and most of the remainder - if they do know - don't care because they can't do anything about itBustySaintClaire
    • Well said Busty.robthelad
    • yeah busty, my thoughts. the 1% of the 1% of the 1%mugwart
    • Income diversity; not news. What would be news is if everyone on the planet suddenly had $55k. And if that happened, it wouldn't last long.BustySaintClaire
    • Thought they would own more. Disappointing...pango
    • So it's not a problem because the worst off can't do anything about it?i_monk
  • Krassy6

    'Defund the police' activist Alyssa Milano calls 911 sparking massive police presence in her quiet California neighborhood claiming an armed an gunman was on her property - but it was really a teen shooting at squirrels with an air gun

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news…

    • Moronic on so many levels.BusterBoy
    • definition of hypocrisyKrassy
    • She’s a wing-nutGnash
    • lol the tanpango
    • still hawtbezoar
    • This is confusing... why didn't she just call a social worker, or maybe a grief counselor or perhaps even an art therapist?PonyBoy
    • Great questions, PonyBoy.MondoMorphic
    • No she did exactly what DTP activists are calling for: Suspected gunman in your neighbourhood? That call goes to the Police. The grief councillor is there forben_
    • the dead squirrels' family. You two are thick.ben_
    • I don't know about this one. If I saw an armed gunman on my property, I might call the police, even though I'd like to defund them...CyBrainX
    • Defunding them from military gear, tanks, heat rays and roles they weren't trained for doesn't mean I don't want them completely eliminated.CyBrainX
    • and yes, still hot.CyBrainX
    • She did exactly what any normal human would do, fellas... the police have always been there for such a thing. This isn't some new novel reasoning... lol.PonyBoy
    • The fact she suddenly realized the value of a cop is what's humorous here... talk all that shit 'til you need help—chances are people will pick on you little :)PonyBoy
    • cake and eat it toodeathboy
    • *value* For example should police get same budget as military? what's the proper budget that reflect the police "value"pango
    • The fact you think "defund the police" means total elimination of police...just means you're dumb cuntz.BusterBoy
    • Don't defund the police = All lives matterpalimpsest
    • Well said BusterBoy. Nuanced topics like this are just too deep for a lot of people to understand... And all it takes is some research to figure it out.brandonp
    • lol... SO DEEP!! You HATE Cops until you need them... such deep thinking! //PonyBoy
    • yes thinking the check and balance system is skewed = hating cop.pango
    • if teachers can do their jobs with their salary and edu budget in the US. Cops will be fine with their ridiculous high budget.
      https://i.imgur.com/…
      pango
    • on second thought... have they actually been doing their jobs? its hard to believe that some time.pango
    • ACAB tho... :)
      I don't see ATAB everywhere. (T is for Teacher!!)
      You're not even coming close to an apples to apple comparison w/that one, pango. :/
      PonyBoy
    • why is it not? they all take money from government. one's budget gets cut all the time and you guys seem fine with it.pango
    • i guess fuck edu, keeping people in their place is more important.pango
    • Teachers aren't doing so well w/the budgets we've given them (most teachers spend plenty from their own pocket on their students)... they 'do' their jobs...PonyBoy
    • Lol, pangoGnash
    • ... but arguably much like the police if you funded and trained them appropriately you'd have a much better edu sys than the joke we have in the States.PonyBoy
    • FUND THE POLICE!
      That sounds STUPID... yes? Well so does DEFUND the police... it's moronic. They need MORE training... so defunding them makes zero sense.
      PonyBoy
    • Shit... I just proved it to actually be an "apples to apples" comparison w/out meaning to. You're sneaky, pango. :)PonyBoy
    • at least you're admitting there are problems with the police. i'll take that.
      how about more check and balance. more whistleblower protection?
      pango
    • and instead of having the prosecutor the same police work with daily to work on police misconduct, having someone who can be more impartial.pango
    • all fair ideas...
      ... all gonna require more money tho :)
      (I'm all for spending in these areas... not defunding)
      PonyBoy
    • the idea of defunding came from many things and its not accurately "defunding". the downside of not actually have an organized boy to hire marketing.pango
    • boy... = body... d key didn't want to respond for some reason.pango