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Baronjutter posted:Seriously look at those buildings, that's my nightmare. All the tall buildings in my city built after a certain date claim to be pretty much earthquake proof but there's still lots of 10-20 story buildings from the 60's that we really aren't sure how they'll fair in the "big one". And this is in the "first world" with super strict building codes and inspections. In the "developing world" quakes half as big often have 6-figure death tolls due to a total lack of construction standards and everything being built out of cheap concrete with little to no rebar.    A relative of mine lives right here in the coast (not in the golden palace  ) and it always terrifies me the idea that a massive earthquake can rase this beautiful downtown area to the ground and kill god knows how many people. The underground area has suffered plenty of anti-seismic changes to prevent such a catastrophe but the fear is still there. The buildings are old as poo poo, if the foundations can hold the same might not be true for the roof or the walls. Natural disasters are terrifying.
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More tornado pics from Moore, now confirmed that it was a category 5 event, at times 1.3 miles in diameter, ran for 17 miles. All from In Focus.         
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*Is white as hell* *Sways gently*  A bunch of legislation got rammed through Parliament recently "under urgency", meaning that there were no Select Committees or any real kind of public awareness to push for amendments or anything. In addition, opposition members received heavily redacted Impact Statements. The one above allows people to be paid (little) to care for disabled family members, in response to a court decision. However it also prevents carers from taking legal action against Government on the grounds that they were being discriminated against.
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tehloki posted:edit: forgot picture, found lovely picture, found better picture I think the best thing about that is that it's not even a local news station. That's an Australian news station, reporting about ducks on a road in Canada. I remember seeing it on the afternoon news and it was really loving stupid. It wasn't even a slow news day. Our media can be just a bit useless sometimes. Front Page Exhibit a) LIGHTNING BLASTS BOOBS OFF STATUE 
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View this profile and more with an OKleftist membership! 
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Ai Weiwei has a new metal video about his being held without charge and trial and stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyQZ-oLshOQ It's just too bad Ai Weiwei is a terrible singer. Cool guy and neat video.
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Bloodnose posted:It's just too bad Ai Weiwei is a terrible singer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzHLPnGuVSQ VV I was making a joke about vocals in metal being a lot of indecipherable screaming about trolls or whatever. I wasn't suggesting DK was metal. Rent-A-Cop fucked around with this message at 06:57 on May 22, 2013 |
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^^ Ahh so it had nothing to do with DK, then? I thought you were calling them a metal band or something.Rent-A-Cop posted:That has never stopped anyone from making a successful metal record. Is the "metal record" a joke? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sF8rkSPDH8&t=2s OwlBot 2000 fucked around with this message at 06:53 on May 22, 2013 |
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Rent-A-Cop posted:That has never stopped anyone from making a successful metal record. Dead Kennedys aren't metal.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vo7f_gWxj4
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Ahh the 90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_SiOnt_Oxo
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Continuing the Jello love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f66EqCyPOE
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Ostiosis posted:Woman finds dog in rubble during interview: holy poo poo. That car's signal lights are still blinking. Lula mid-cancer. So weird to see him lose the beard. 
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 Kalmykia, the only Buddhist region in Europe.
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 PORTLAND, OREGON-May 20, 2013--Supporters for Clean Water Oregon gathered to celebrate the defeat of an initiative to add fluoride to Portland's water supply Tuesday night. Photo by Randy L. Rasmussen/The Oregonian
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Randallteal posted:
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Peanut President posted:Since this is the DND Pictures thread: You know, I've never had any actual philosophical problem with people having guns, yet I've often felt insticntively hostile to the concept when it comes up in discussions, and I now think I know why. It's because gun rights advocates are consistently the literal scum of the earth who always have to shove their hobby into every loving discussion no matter how crass that may be. gently caress those people, is what I'm saying. Also some content: 
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Dimebags Brain posted:Dead Kennedys aren't metal. Such a good album  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwIvn27PgsA
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ThePutty posted:
 Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov, former president of Kalmykia, and still president of the World Chess federation is devoted to making Kalmykia the chess capital of the universe. While he was president of the Republic, he spent a ton of money on chess programs, doing things like making chess a compulsory subject for the first three years of elementary school. When an opposition newspaper published an article exposing that he was diverting government resources to pay for these projects, the editor of that newspaper was mysteriously stabbed to death.  Here he is in June, 2011, visiting Muammar Gaddafi in Libya to play chess with the dictator while he was in hiding from rioting mobs. Gaddafi died 4 months later.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/zaha-hadid-saudi-arabia-metro-station-2013-5?op=1quote:Zaha Hadid is known for her groundbreaking architecture around the world. 
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Cerebral Bore posted:Also some content: 
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Randallteal posted:
Fluoride is pretty legit bad for you, though. SYSK did a great episode on it a few years back. Apparently, most of the rationale for adding it to the drinking water comes from a handful of industry-sponsored studies done in the fifties and sixties with medical-grade fluoride. What's added to the drinking water is usually of much worse quality, sometimes even as bad as industrial-grade. 
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Geokinesis posted:Cats are poo poo. Cats kill things, but they are predators and prey species have some capacity to be subject to predators. Cats receive undue attention when it comes to invasive species. Many plants, for example, engender wholesale habitat conversion, which can render habitats incapable of supporting whatever it is that cats might kill. This seems like a good brochure on it: http://www.mipn.org/InvasivesBrochure.pdf I can heartily recommend this book if you want to know more: http://www.timlow.com/books/feral-future     All from http://dnr.state.il.us/stewardship/cd/species/2425.html
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Earth posted:Where can I read more about this? Here's an article: http://www.thelocal.se/48026/20130520/#.UZyAW7Vwr5g  
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Kurtofan posted:A French far right historian former member of terrorist OAS organization followed his leader and blew his brains outs in Notre Dame de Paris to protest against gay marriage, sharia law and immigration. Femen's response to this shithead blowing his head off yesterday.  http://i.imgur.com/5wTsLQW.jpg
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french lies posted:Jesus, you can literally smell the crazy in that picture. All that's missing is Alex Jones and some 9/11 truth banners. Yeah, I'm going to need sources for this, particularly the 'industrial-grade' being bad chat, because all compounds are produced industrially, and fluoridation is pretty strongly regulated. You're steering close to 'toxins' here. There is also no dispute in scientific or medial circles about the benefits of fluoridation, and the rationale you state here is backed up by decades of evidence that isn't just'industry-backed'. Fluoridation is one of the most progressive acts the US has ever undertaken. In a country where dental care is a 'luxury', this at least gives the poor a fighting chance at keeping their teeth past 40. 
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Randallteal posted:
"Topically applied fluoride doesn't prevent tooth decay! It does render teeth detectable by spy satellite!" 
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french lies posted:Jesus, you can literally smell the crazy in that picture. All that's missing is Alex Jones and some 9/11 truth banners. Yeah you're going to need some references for that because you've just made a claim that is prima facie bullshit. As a poster above me mentioned, fluoride is to dental carries what vaccinations have been to communicable disease and is unambiguously regarded as one of the most successful public health interventions of all time. The only, and I do mean only, potential downside to fluoride is a principally cosmetic condition called fluorosis which can occur when consumption is >0.05mg/kg/day. For reference, an average adult in an area with fluoridated water receives about 1mg/day. Severe fluorosis was sporadically reported when the municipal supplies were less tightly regulated, but this is largely a historical consideration. Fluoride supplementation is also uniformly recommended for areas that do not have municipal fluoridation programs. Please do a checkup on your basic science of the topic. Every professional organization with any stake in the issue supports fluoridation. You may not realize it, but anti-fluoride scares are spun with the exact same cloth as anti-vaccination, climate change denial, intelligent design, etc. Here are links to the policy statements from the CDC, American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Dental Association. Content: 
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Iceberg-Slim posted:Yeah you're going to need some references for that because you've just made a claim that is prima facie bullshit. quote:Results: The standardized weighted mean difference in IQ score between exposed and reference populations was –0.45 (95% confidence interval: –0.56, –0.35) using a random-effects model. Thus, children in high-fluoride areas had significantly lower IQ scores than those who lived in low-fluoride areas. Subgroup and sensitivity analyses also indicated inverse associations, although the substantial heterogeneity did not appear to decrease. I'm not a big anti-fluoride person and won't really argue strongly against it, but over the past few years I've seen several things from outside of the normal conspiracy theorist bubble that seem to point out that it still may not be worth the benefits to dental health. I'm not going to draw any alarmist conclusions from that yet, but just writing all the anti-fluoride arguments off as on the same level as denying moon landings is ignoring some of the actual studies, of which some more are probably needed to make any definitive claim. That said, here's the kind of alarmist infographic that makes people distrust the anti-fluoride fanatics: 
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StarkingBarfish posted:Yeah, I'm going to need sources for this, particularly the 'industrial-grade' being bad chat, because all compounds are produced industrially, and fluoridation is pretty strongly regulated. You're steering close to 'toxins' here. There is also no dispute in scientific or medial circles about the benefits of fluoridation, and the rationale you state here is backed up by decades of evidence that isn't just'industry-backed'. Here, have some pictures of Shanghai sidecar riders instead:           More here: http://www.oitzarisme.ro/2013/04/09/aurelien-chauvaud-shanghai-sidecar-riders/?utm
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cyberbully posted:
 Can we not start a huge flouride derail and just agree that this and really 99% of anti-flouride studies are really cherry picking their numbers from giant, heaving seas of numbers?
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Never seen the study before, but a few comments from first glance:
I would agree that high-quality research into the issue would be appropriate, but looking at rural Chinese children exposed to coal burning and trying to extrapolate to a child drinking municipal water in Mississippi is not good information to make an informed decision with. 
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Ronald Nixon posted:Cats kill things, but they are predators and prey species have some capacity to be subject to predators. Kudzu, the plant that ate the south. Thanks Japan.  edit: By the way those pictures aren't of some isolated incidents where kudzu has gotten out of control, it's like that everywhere. I think the only way to get rid of it is agent orange.
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french lies posted:Jesus, you can literally smell the crazy in that picture. All that's missing is Alex Jones and some 9/11 truth banners. 
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