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R.L. Stine posted:maybe also a modernized site so there's easier options to find the one you're looking for and sort them or whatever. would people want that Archivists are all doing god's work if you ask me. The internet right now is a churning cesspit of ephemera and anyone working to preserve the fun and interesting stuff in defiance of that is pretty cool imo. Plus, there have been so many times I've wanted to link someone to some old, obscure stuff from these boards and didn't know where to even start looking
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i've collected 220 threads and have barely scratched the surface. i'm grabbing everything under the 'weird' umbrella. ghosts, cryptids, ufos, conspiracy theories, weird poo poo you'd probably find on wikipedia, unsolved poo poo, creepy photos & photoshops etc. my plan is i'm only going to use posts with actual content and catalog them appropriately. any media that's missing i'll try to track down, there are threads i remember very well like 'i found a camera in the woods' and i'm sure the images are broken, but i also know i've seen them elsewhere on the internet since then also early sa was pretty hosed up
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R.L. Stine posted:also early sa was pretty hosed up The highs were pretty high, but the lows were revolting. A land of contrasts.
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The rest of the Internet was just as bad but dumber and less funny.
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Groovelord Neato posted:I got really excited when I first started reading your post then bummed it wasn't the actual the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet. It's fascinating that one still hasn't been identified. Yeah, I misunderstood what was being described. Sorry.
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Algerian man missing for 26 years found in neighbours cellar
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The Article posted:The newspaper said, according to accounts from locals, Mr Omran's dog had hung around the suspect's home for at least a month after he disappeared. Good dog 
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R.L. Stine posted:very easy to read and not hard on the eyes at all if you don't have archives
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BrianRx posted:Did... his brother know where he was the whole time? I think the cops got a tip off after the brother started complaining about inheritance on some social media account. Maybe it was something related to not knowing if the kidnapped man was still alive and how that was affecting the inheritance. Somehow that got someone to tell the police. Didn't sound like the brother knew, at least according to the article.
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Detective Thompson posted:I think the cops got a tip off after the brother started complaining about inheritance on some social media account. Maybe it was something related to not knowing if the kidnapped man was still alive and how that was affecting the inheritance. Somehow that got someone to tell the police. Didn't sound like the brother knew, at least according to the article. Yeah, I got that, but I'm not sure how to connect those dots. I'd guess something along the lines of the brother not being able to claim an inheritance since the missing brother hadn't been declared dead, but I don't know how you get from there to the neighbor's basement. Maybe it was like that kid who 'disappeared' for several years before turning up in front of a church in his hometown when he was in his 20's. The neighbors knew he was still living (read: imprisoned) at his mom's house and even hung out with him some times, but it took a surprisingly long time for that information to make it to the public despite national interest in the story.
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I regret to inform you all that lionsgate is releasing a movie this summer about the West Mesa Murders. It is called Boneyard. It stars, of all loving people, Mel Gibson and 50 cent. It was filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada. The families of the victims were not told and found out this week.
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Droogie posted:I regret to inform you all that lionsgate is releasing a movie this summer about the West Mesa Murders. It is called Boneyard. I made the assumption he was directing and was cautiously optimistic as he is a fantastic director but nope.
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Droogie posted:I regret to inform you all that lionsgate is releasing a movie this summer about the West Mesa Murders. It is called Boneyard. Jesus Christ. But on another heartbreaking topic, you know how “engineered stone” had become the new hotness for countertops since the 2010s, since it has all the durability of granite at a fraction of the cost? And how it can be customized with colors and patterns but always has that glitter of quartz bits within? Well, sourcing and manufacturing of Silestone and other alternatives is leading to an epidemic of silicosis in quartz mine workers in Turkey and Spain, the residents around the mines, and construction and renovation workers worldwide who work with the stuff. Silicosis is incurable and agonizing. The PPE and safe handling practices for other silica-containing materials will not keep up with the 93% silica composition of engineered stone, and most sourcing and shaping of the material is done in lovely sweatshop conditions where they get no PPE, no ventilation, and absolutely no help from the company when their lungs become more silica than flesh. As of July 1, 2024, engineered stone will be illegal to manufacture or use in Australia.
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Busket Posket posted:As of July 1, 2024, engineered stone will be illegal to manufacture or use in Australia. That's going to really date my newish kitchen. Back in the '80s you could tell because it was marble. Now you can tell how old a kitchen is because it's got not-asbestos in it.
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R.L. Stine posted:i've collected 220 threads and have barely scratched the surface. i'm grabbing everything under the 'weird' umbrella. ghosts, cryptids, ufos, conspiracy theories, weird poo poo you'd probably find on wikipedia, unsolved poo poo, creepy photos & photoshops etc.    there are over 6000 pages of threads to go through. needs a lot of front end work, it's real ugly. trying to contact admins to see if it's ok to make this public when it's ready
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Busket Posket posted:Jesus Christ. Ugh, I just heard a similar story on my local NPR about coal miners here in the Appalachian area of the US (where I live). So most people are familiar with coal miners getting black lung. But as coal veins "dry up", miners are forced to drill laterally thru mountains and thus are drilling into quartz. Now you've got miners huffing what's essentially pulverized glass, but not getting proper PPE because the standard requirements are still just for coal dust. Coal dust can be ejected from your lungs over time, silica just stays there forever until, as Busket says, their lungs turn into more sand than lungs. The interviews with the miners, men and women 20 - 30 years younger than me, hacking and gasping mid-sentence for breath, fits the thread's title of unnerving.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Ugh, I just heard a similar story on my local NPR about coal miners here in the Appalachian area of the US (where I live). Can't wait for Kentucky to declare that only five doctors who all work for GE qualify to diagnose silicosis for worker's comp purposes.
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I assume those people will be eligible for the Federal Black Lung program, although I don't know what the process is to get coverage. Since it's a work comp benefit, probably a lot of hoops to jump through.
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I was a little kid when this happened and it freaked me out. Still does considering the possible awful outcomes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Chowchilla_kidnapping
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I've fallen into a youtube hole where a toxicologist tells anonymized stories of various terrifying medical cases, usually breaking down the science of exactly how the chemistry of various kinds of poisoning acts in the body. It's pretty good. He did a video on dimethylmercury and the infamous case of the scientist who spilled two drops on a gloved hand here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ7M01jV058
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mycatscrimes posted:the infamous case of the scientist who spilled two drops on a gloved hand here
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Cat Hassler posted:Yeah that incident is loving heartbreaking It is. : ( You can also really feel how deeply her passing affected her community of peers, from how they responded, and the way they still talk about her. There's some of that in the comments on the video, people saying she's considered a hero for spending her time warning other researchers about the dangers of working with dimethylmercury even as she was quickly declining. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChgIkbg0x80 Here's a lighter one with a much happier ending. mycatscrimes has a new favorite as of 01:58 on Jun 1, 2024 |
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Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton died. He was a pig farmer who murdered at least 6 women. Guess what he did with their bodies! Good riddance.
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Cat Hassler posted:I was a little kid when this happened and it freaked me out. Still does considering the possible awful outcomes One of my favourite writers, Kaleb Horton, wrote a long piece about this: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22570738/chowchilla-school-bus-kidnapping
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I'm just impressed by the whole "they put sheet metal and two hundred-pound batteries on it then buried the entrance" and these youths just problem-solve the gently caress out of it. Now that's grace under pressure.
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All this time I thought Dirty Harry copied the bus kidnapping, but those dunderheads copied the movie. Holy poo poo.
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drat they look like some hosed up mutants EDIT: The kidnappers, not the kidnapped
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Of course it was a bunch of poor little rich kids. I briefly attended a very wealthy school and it was one of the only places I've encountered high school students running an iPod (this ages me I'm sure) theft and reselling ring, just because they could. Not a one of them couldn't afford fifty new iPods, they'd just do that poo poo for fun.
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quote:American crooner Robert Goulet released a ballad about the incident in 1977, entitled "Ballad Of Chowchilla Ray".
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quote:The Rengstorff House was one of the first houses to be built in Mountain View, California. It was built c. 1867 by Henry Rengstorff, a prominent local businessman who operated a ferry between San Francisco and Mountain View. It is built in the Italianate Victorian architecture style. The house's three-bay front facade features an entrance pavilion topped by a balustrade and a pediment on the middle bay.[2]
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Holy gently caress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLw4iBEQkl4
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That is the last thing I was expecting from "ballad".
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Some record executive in the '70s: "Uhh... sure Robbie... but uhh... let's make it the b-side, OK?  "
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Yeah it's absolutely wild that their motivation for kidnapping a bunch of kids and trying to ransom them was "we wanted to renovate our house." Also apparently one of the culprits was like, a trust fund kid anyway? Totally deranged
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Kit Walker posted:Yeah it's absolutely wild that their motivation for kidnapping a bunch of kids and trying to ransom them was "we wanted to renovate our house." Also apparently one of the culprits was like, a trust fund kid anyway? Totally deranged Now, for another one of the kids it was also "I want a Ferrari and my parents won't loan me the money."
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The Mighty Moltres posted:Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton died. It was a graphic and painful death for him. As a Canadian woman, I'm very glad.
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