Non-IT News Thread
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Hmm, perhaps I'm misinterpreting the graphs. They just had SAU as a pretty dark color in all three categories.
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http://satwcomic.com/art/brexit-to-the-right.png
Haha. The last panel.
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Dallas police officer has been killed in the protest going on in Dallas just now.
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I'm in bed but my news alerts keep going off. Five Dallas police now killed by snipers.
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Dallas police shooting: Four officers killed, seven hurt by snipers
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At least five dead and two more shot by snipers.
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At least one shooter says that there are bombs planted in downtown Dallas
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Food chain Wendy's hit by massive hack
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Up to 11 shot now. Still only five dead. Cops and snipers still exchanging fire.
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@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?
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@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?
Yup. The game, not because of the bodies out there.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@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?
Yup. The game, not because of the bodies out there.
Well...At least she hasn't found any yet.
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@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?
Yup. The game, not because of the bodies out there.
Well...At least she hasn't found any yet.
Bodies or Pokemons?
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A Pokemaster's journey is dangerous: Australian police issue warning about Pokemon Go
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If I could just laugh about this... There are strange things going on over in Turkey:
- http://www.dw.com/en/merkel-erdogan-meet-cant-mend-fences/a-19390316
- http://www.dw.com/en/mps-threaten-to-block-military-cooperation-with-turkey/a-19389205
PS: MPs means "Member/s of the (German) Parliament"
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@thwr said in Non-IT News Thread:
If I could just laugh about this... There are strange things going on over in Turkey:
- http://www.dw.com/en/merkel-erdogan-meet-cant-mend-fences/a-19390316
- http://www.dw.com/en/mps-threaten-to-block-military-cooperation-with-turkey/a-19389205
PS: MPs means "Member/s of the (German) Parliament"
They hate Kurds more than they hate ISIS, so they bomb Kurdish positions in Syria that are fighting ISIS, and at the same time Erdogan claims that "Kurdish independence [in a difference country] is more dangerous to Turkey than ISIS," meanwhile ISIS has killed hundreds and hundreds of people in Turkey. The biggest joke of all is the US doesn't call them out on this and in fact kisses their butts to an insane and disgusting degree.
Even now, every US president since Truman has promised to recognise the Armenian genocide, but suddenly when Turkey says "no," the US president bows. It's all disgusting, Turkey bullies ethnic minorities in other countries meanwhile claims they don't do this at all, and it's everyone else who is trying to kill Turks.
Merkel should tell Turkey to go to hell, why should Germany help a country which helps ISIS on a daily basis? Glad to see at least for once Germans aren't on the side of evil, am I right
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US forces have been wearing the insignia of the Perg Mersha recently. The US seems to be changing its stance slowly in the last year. But if Trump wins the election, the US will likely be totally pawns again with no thinking of their own.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
US forces have been wearing the insignia of the Perg Mersha recently. The US seems to be changing its stance slowly in the last year. But if Trump wins the election, the US will likely be totally pawns again with no thinking of their own.
Do you mean the YPG? I saw nothing at all wrong with that, it's been done before, and it wasn't a big deal until Turkey stomped their feet and whined about it like a bunch of big ass babies, then the US suddenly says "oh no, they shouldn't have done that, it was wrong!" What the hell is going on with this? Turkey is such a dump, why does the US care so much?
You can sum it up with Erdogan's statement a few weeks ago that "The Kurds [in Syria] are a bigger threat to Turkey than ISIS," and how many YPG/SDF terrorist attacks have there been in Turkey? Zero, how many ISIS? A decent amount, and this statement comes after the ISIS attack on the air port there recently as well, which the Turkish media initially claimed was Kurdish terrorists. My brother who lives in Istanbul has told me apparently every single time there's an ISIS attack, they initially claim it's some Kurdish group, and when it turns out not to be, they back off and don't even talk about it anymore.
It's profoundly racist and bizarre and I constantly see Turks online defend it or even say it's the other way around. A few weeks ago I saw a post on Reddit of some Turkish guy saying that all the Kurds live so much better than Turks, they're "wealthy" and all Turks live in slums. It was a really bizarre and backward statement, and if not for his other posts I'd assume he was just a troll. He's not the only one, you can find this constantly. There are Turks who aren't like this, unfortunately most don't seem to talk online about the issues at hand.
In addition to Armenian genocide denial which is official government policy, now there's a Turkish government sponsored web site (which I won't link to as to not help their rankings) which promotes not just denial, but claims the reverse is true, it was the mighty Ottoman Empire which was being haplessly attacked by Armenians, not the other way around and all the images of dead Armenians at the hands of Turks are actually dead Turks at the hands of Armenians, these Armenians just happen to look like Turks and wear Turkish military uniforms and clothing. The same thing is happening now with Kurds.
