The News Thread

[Oblivious Maximus]

Tulsi suing Google: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/454746-tulsi-gabbard-sues-google-over-censorship-claims

 

[Bloopy]

Drunk man interrupts a street race/car enthusiast meetup ...with a road roller:

 

[CiG]

Reading up on it, sounds like the drunk man is a legend:

Property owner Richard Burrell said car meet ups had been an ongoing problem for several months, and that the events usually drew large crowds of between 50 and 100 cars.

Aside from finding rubbish and broken bottles on the ground, he had also dealt with damage to the industrial machinery on site, and some vehicles allegedly had diesel siphoned from the tanks.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

dallas cop acquitted - Google Search

 

[CiG]

 

[Dak]

http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/amaras-law/

Not "weird" but relevant when thinking about "weird" discoveries.

 

[Onder]

Gilroy shooting: Three killed at California garlic festival

It's pretty cool that there's garlic festivals in the US. Is it like an entire three day event specialized on fucking garlic? I've been to some agricultural events and sometimes there's a couple of garlic growers or breeders tents but never an entire festival. I would seriously consider going (if it wasn't in the US).

Makes more sense than, say, a coffee festival. What use is having fucking 30 different coffees available on an event when you can barely drink two espressos before your heart exploding? How many can you taste, really?

Garlic is epic and deserves a festivity.

EDIT: Not to mention that it's not just food, there's like decorative cultivars and shit. Wow.

 

[Onder]

What I'd suggest is a fucking radish party. Those stingy red motherfuckers.

 

[CiG]

Gilroy shooting: Three killed at California garlic festival

He can't keep getting away with it.

 

[The Ozzman]

He can't keep getting away with it.

HE HAS TO BE STOPPED!

 

[Onder]

Czech president fires minister, still foot-dragging on replacement

Typical Zeman shit. Constitution says "president does this and this" and he goes "b-but it doesn't say when! a-ha!" and doesn't do it or uses it as a power grip. This is so Russian-autocratic.

/RANT

 

[rms]

I hope you guys elect Hasek so buffalo can be proud of something

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

@Onder
america has so many shootings that this site actually exists
Gun Violence Archive

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Didn't realize the festival was so large, with almost 100k attendees. At 4 deaths per 100k, a garlic festival could have a similar shooting every day and it'd still be several times safer than totally-not-crime-infested Baltimore.

 

[Einherjar86]

And the garlic festival was even in totally-not-liberal-gun-law-bullshit-California.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Don't understand the conundrum. Are you saying that strict gun laws in California were responsible for the relatively low body count compared to the gun homicide rate of many other American cities?

I accept the general argument that strict gun controls reduce mass shootings btw. I just don't accept that mass shootings are particularly significant to our violent crime rate overall, nor that police can sufficiently protect a disarmed populace.

 

[CiG]

Please tell me you posted this ironically.

 

[Onder]

I hope you guys elect Hasek so buffalo can be proud of something

How do you even know about this? He just mentioned it in some interview afaik.

Didn't realize the festival was so large, with almost 100k attendees. At 4 deaths per 100k, a garlic festival could have a similar shooting every day and it'd still be several times safer than totally-not-crime-infested Baltimore.

Let's not forget that garlic repels vampires so in case of a vampire zombiepocalypse, garlic festival is the place to be.

 

[The Ozzman]

I just don't accept that mass shootings are particularly significant to our violent crime rate overall

They are particularly significant to anti-gunners pushing their agenda though

nor that police can sufficiently protect a disarmed

Additionally, federal courts have ruled that LEOs have no obligation to protect citizens so it's on you and me to protect people I guess.