Non-IT News Thread

nadnerB

It's election time in Australia. the twitter tag #ausvotes now also includes a sausage sizzle emoji (on election day aka the democracy sausage) instead of a ballot box emoji.

Also, #democracysausage is trending

nadnerB

https://twitter.com/GoogleMapsAPI/status/748676246993793024
(links to...)
https://election.google.com.au/?center=-26.539285,131.314157

scottalanmiller

Juno probe enters into orbit around Jupiter
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36710768

coliver

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/global-index/

Looks like the US lost three places in a year.

Kelly

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/global-index/

Looks like the US lost three places in a year.

It is difficult to trust a site that rates Saudi Arabia so highly.

coliver

@Kelly said in Non-IT News Thread:

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/global-index/

Looks like the US lost three places in a year.

It is difficult to trust a site that rates Saudi Arabia so highly.

It does? Maybe in comparison to other countries that have a smaller GDP but compared to other countries in its bracket it performs very poorly.

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/countries/sau/

tonyshowoff

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Kelly said in Non-IT News Thread:

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/global-index/

Looks like the US lost three places in a year.

It is difficult to trust a site that rates Saudi Arabia so highly.

It does? Maybe in comparison to other countries that have a smaller GDP but compared to other countries in its bracket it performs very poorly.

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/countries/sau/

Having been there myself I can tell you there's a huge wealth gap, essentially absolute bottom or fairly high toward the top, much like Russia. They're just really good at pretending the bottom doesn't exist. There are huge slums though.

coliver

@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Kelly said in Non-IT News Thread:

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/global-index/

Looks like the US lost three places in a year.

It is difficult to trust a site that rates Saudi Arabia so highly.

It does? Maybe in comparison to other countries that have a smaller GDP but compared to other countries in its bracket it performs very poorly.

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/countries/sau/

Having been there myself I can tell you there's a huge wealth gap, essentially absolute bottom or fairly high toward the top, much like Russia. They're just really good at pretending the bottom doesn't exist. There are huge slums though.

I don't doubt that. Just from looking at the data presented on this website it looks like there is a massive issue.

Kelly

Hmm, perhaps I'm misinterpreting the graphs. They just had SAU as a pretty dark color in all three categories.

coliver

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/07/vladimir_putin_has_a_plan_for_destroying_the_west_and_it_looks_a_lot_like.html

Interesting perspective.

coliver

http://satwcomic.com/art/brexit-to-the-right.png

Haha. The last panel.

scottalanmiller

Dallas police officer has been killed in the protest going on in Dallas just now.

scottalanmiller

I'm in bed but my news alerts keep going off. Five Dallas police now killed by snipers.

scottalanmiller

Dallas police shooting: Four officers killed, seven hurt by snipers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36742835

scottalanmiller

At least five dead and two more shot by snipers.

scottalanmiller

At least one shooter says that there are bombs planted in downtown Dallas

scottalanmiller

Food chain Wendy's hit by massive hack
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36742599

scottalanmiller

Up to 11 shot now. Still only five dead. Cops and snipers still exchanging fire.

scottalanmiller

http://www.ktvq.com/story/32403198/wyoming-teen-playing-new-pokemon-game-on-phone-discovers-body

dafyre

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

http://www.ktvq.com/story/32403198/wyoming-teen-playing-new-pokemon-game-on-phone-discovers-body

Is this why your wife was wandering around a field today?