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Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
Also the honchos of Theranos are currently awaiting trial for wire fraud and about a hundred other similar things.

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That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos

:laffo: I didn't realize that Betsy DeVos tossed in $100m also.

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
https://twitter.com/stone_skynews/status/1029317043269591040?s=21

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
Well that doesn't look good.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


When they said Italy was collapsing I didn’t think this is what they meant. Lordy.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

god drat I've never seen a whole suspension tower get dusted like that. BBC reporting high winds and a traffic jam at the time of collapse.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-europe-45183624

Arc Light
Sep 26, 2013




From a couple pages back, but being the SSO responsible for that SCIF must be nuts. Like, imagine the daily struggle to get halfway through the latest security incident report, using all your willpower to not to eat a bullet.

:smithicide:

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Stable genius and normal president refers to former aide as an animal:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1029329583672307712

Which is interesting in the context of his next tweet:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1029332350969237504

So in the president’s eyes, both terrorists and former aides/people who have turned against him deserve the same dehumanizing language.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Both terrorists and former employees have the same level of meaning to him as all other humans, objects to be manipulated for his selfish goals for as long as he cares to think of them as useful.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Who had Aretha Franklin for 2018?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/13/entertainment/aretha-franklin-ill/index.html

Syrian Lannister
Aug 25, 2007

Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.


Sugartime Jones
From the OSHA thread

Kennel posted:

Another angle

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

Syrian Lannister posted:

From the OSHA thread

:stare:

Jesus, that's worse then the I-35 bridge.

SlightlyMad
Jun 7, 2015


Gary’s Answer
At least 22 dead from Italy bridge collapse. Lightning strike happened on the bridge just before collapse, according to witness.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

SlightlyMad posted:

At least 22 dead from Italy bridge collapse. Lightning strike happened on the bridge just before collapse, according to witness.

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

Syrian Lannister posted:

From the OSHA thread

Took me a second to realize that was taken FROM the bridge. Like holy poo poo, get off of that thing.

bengy81
May 8, 2010
In lighter news:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/melissa-howard-fake-diploma_us_5b720142e4b0bdd0620c1808

Dwanyelle
Jan 13, 2008

ISRAEL DOESN'T HAVE CIVILIANS THEY'RE ALL VALID TARGETS
I'm a huge dickbag ignore me

Arc Light posted:

From a couple pages back, but being the SSO responsible for that SCIF must be nuts. Like, imagine the daily struggle to get halfway through the latest security incident report, using all your willpower to not to eat a bullet.

:smithicide:

Gawd, I haven't even DONE this work in over a decade, and I still get angry forehead blood vessel and eye twitching whenever I read about another one of these chucklefucks complete disregard of security procedures.

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/1029355079357411329?s=19

Syrian Lannister
Aug 25, 2007

Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.


Sugartime Jones

The best timeline

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Another shot of the bridge

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
:smith: That's gonna be a hell of a lot of casualties.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

wouldn't describe free bud light as winning

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

i hope green box truck guy is out drinking the town dry after a call like that

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

EBB posted:

wouldn't describe free bud light as winning

Browns aren't gonna win anyways so...

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
The thing about beer is you can drink it until it's good.

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


EBB posted:

i hope green box truck guy is out drinking the town dry after a call like that

I was thinkin the same thing.

Dance Officer
May 4, 2017

It would be awesome if we could dance!
Genoa city council must not have paid their protection money on time

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mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

That Works posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos

:laffo: I didn't realize that Betsy DeVos tossed in $100m also.

And Mattis used to be a board member.


This checks out 95% of the time:
https://twitter.com/davallone/status/1028761789947936774?s=21

Smiling Jack
Dec 2, 2001

I sucked a dick for bus fare and then I walked home.

mlmp08 posted:

And Mattis used to be a board member.


This checks out 95% of the time:
https://twitter.com/davallone/status/1028761789947936774?s=21

There's a great sequence in the book where a Lt Col writes a email about Theranos saying "these people are loving nuts, aren't following the law and have no concept of the regulations involved" and next thing he knows he's in Mattis's office explaining why he's personally holding up the project.

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

mlmp08 posted:

And Mattis used to be a board member.


This checks out 95% of the time:
https://twitter.com/davallone/status/1028761789947936774?s=21

I think I wrote some effortpost in a CE thread a while ago why I believe "Nazi" should be reserved to the actual swastika-carrying, jew-hating shitbags. So, like the Charlottesville dudes, that SS-biker at Trump's side, the actual loving Nazi party (whatever it's called in the US), clansmen (let's throw in elected politicians sympathizing with Nazis for good measure) etc. The way "Nazi" has been thrown around casually in the past decade, or hell, even during the Bush administration normalizes the word and takes away from the impact it should have.

If anyone needs an answer like "Define Nazi" as a litmus test to identify Nazis, they're loving stupid.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
The 5% clause I gave it was for decorum centrist hand wringing and historical/language pedants.

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


EBB posted:

wouldn't describe free bud light as winning

Never look a gift beer in the mouth.

Duzzy Funlop posted:

I think I wrote some effortpost in a CE thread a while ago why I believe "Nazi" should be reserved to the actual swastika-carrying, jew-hating shitbags. So, like the Charlottesville dudes, that SS-biker at Trump's side, the actual loving Nazi party (whatever it's called in the US), clansmen (let's throw in elected politicians sympathizing with Nazis for good measure) etc. The way "Nazi" has been thrown around casually in the past decade, or hell, even during the Bush administration normalizes the word and takes away from the impact it should have.

If anyone needs an answer like "Define Nazi" as a litmus test to identify Nazis, they're loving stupid.

Yeah, I've had the same outlook for awhile. It's super infuriating to deal with too as a guy who studied a ton of stuff about Nazi Germany for my history degree. Because as lovely as some people are (Bush, Cheney, etc.) calling them Nazis immediately trivializes the argument as to why they are bad people, and it also trivializes the horrific poo poo the Nazis did.

Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Aug 14, 2018

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

So what do we call the Proud Boys instead? Neo-Fascists?

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

CommieGIR posted:

:smith: That's gonna be a hell of a lot of casualties.

Eh, it’s just Bud Light. If it were a better beer I’d be more concerned about the waste, but Bud Light is practically water to begin with.

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


EBB posted:

So what do we call the Proud Boys instead? Neo-Fascists?

I'd say that's an adequate name for them.

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

mlmp08 posted:

The 5% clause I gave it was for decorum centrist hand wringing and historical/language pedants.

No, I get what you're saying, I'm just thinking that 5% is kinda lowballing it quite a bit, what with a metric fuckton of people seeming to call literally every MAGA idiot a Nazi, when most of them are "just" racist white trash shitheels.

EBB posted:

So what do we call the Proud Boys instead? Neo-Fascists?

I'm not sure who the Proud Boys were again (weren't they also in the Charlottesville march chanting "Jews will not replace us" and hitlersaluting like there was no tomorrow?), but there's a reason we call today's Hitler-lovers and Jew-haters Neo-Nazis over here.

mods changed my name
Oct 30, 2017
The proud boys are the ones who won't beat themselves off

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
The proud boys are the cereal obsessed incels who are proud of the achievements of the white race.

Also not allowed to jack off if further than eight feet from a woman.

I just call them racist idiots.

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

I love peeps
Nap Ghost

That Works posted:

As someone who works with patient samples / does research and has to deal with HIPAA, IACUC and IRB paperwork and applications constantly this poo poo was amazing.

Like, they went in with some assholish "silicon valley" mindset that 'the only reason this poo poo takes so long / doesn't work the way it should is because of excessive regulations and outdated oversight.'

Then they proceed to ignore a bunch of safety and private protection regs. They get called out for it but since they are 'disruptors' they ignore it and get the big FDA swinging dick all over them as a result. Guess what guys, when they tell you to knock it off, you knock it off.

Apart from all the safety violation poo poo their product also just wasn't going to work as good as they wanted it to, so they cocked up a bunch of stuff showing it worked great. Like, impossibly great but we can't show you how because its a trade secret but trust the guys that are ignoring a million ethical and safety standards that we are being honest on this one point.

I hope that Theranos is used as a classroom example for years.

this actually happens sometimes in legit biotech startups. i know of multiple peeps doing fda poo poo and getting all of it passed for <1 million and, you know, their dealios work and are not crap

every single biotech specialist venture capitalist turned theranos down. every single one unanimously without exception.

mods changed my name
Oct 30, 2017
She's making everything up but also I'm going to sue her for violating an nda

https://twitter.com/AP/status/10293...ingawful.com%2F

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Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

EBB posted:

So what do we call the Proud Boys instead? Neo-Fascists?

How about Nazi Adjacent? You know, the people who probably wouldn't have a problem with jackbooted brown shirts carting off jews and minorities, but maybe wanna be low key and not tell their friends and family that Hitler did nothing wrong.

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