Doctor Malaver posted:

It makes more sense to be sad over people suffering from depression. They can't experience emotions normally either but they have it much worse than this woman. Hell, maybe I'd take her condition and I'm not even depressed.

benito posted:

There was the 2008 Chinese Milk Scandal in which baby formula was found to be adulterated with melamine, the same chemical that killed a bunch of cats and dogs from tainted pet food. But here's the one that has always terrified me:

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2008/09/22/2003423869


A baby formula company was literally making formula with no nutritional content. And that's not a case of somebody not wearing a hair net or some bizarre cow disease, it's an entire company deciding to cut corners by making something that would vaguely look like milk when combined with water.

atomicthumbs posted:

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

We need a goon to infiltrate Scientology and report back with all the poo poo that goes on. Who's the richest goon with excess time on their hands, that won't go all stockholm syndrome and actually fall for all that crap?

Atomic Coyote posted:

Searching "where to commit murder" on your laptop? Nice.

Basebf555 posted:

I've always been under the impression(I admit I've purposely not looked into it because if its not true I want to enjoy the fantasy) that the Pacific Northwest has forests in it that are so goddamn huge, that it becomes technically possible for an undiscovered great ape to be living there.

The idea is that nobody ever finds remains because you'd have to stumble on them within X amount of days after the animal died, otherwise it would be completely carried away by scavengers. These areas see so few people in them per year it would be extremely unlikely for a person to stumble on a body during the very short window it will be there.

Of course I've never seen any real evidence that convinces me Bigfoot does exist, but I've never really been convinced that its impossible either.

pookel posted:

I'm wondering now, is it an American thing to think of military bases as places to house lots of troops while they train and equipment gets tested? It never really occurred to me to think of them as primarily strategic installations that you put near places that need to be defended. But then, we usually fight wars far from home - there's not much need to set up bases for local defense.

monster on a stick posted:

Well that Gypsy Rose story is a thing. Running away I get, killing someone is kind of another matter.

stickyfngrdboy posted:

That article seems to be sourced almost entirely from Facebook. I reckon it might pay to wait a bit before making any judgements.

Fyadophobic posted:

A little creepy, but also kind of inspiring, charming, and humorous. I would totally buy some of those as poster prints, and I would love it if they made a home computer version of the software someday.

Solice Kirsk posted:

Not to be "that guy," but Larson asked the internet nicely not to post his stuff around, and we goons have been pretty good about respecting that.

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

The artist of The Far Side, Gary Larson, wrote a sappy letter to the Internet years ago asking people not to share digital copies of his comics because he and his agent and lawyer and whoever wanted to be able to keep making money from creating and reselling compilations of his work without fear of decreased sales due to file sharing. Goons fell for this poo poo hook line and goddamn sinker and would dogpile anyone who posted a The Far Side image. You were able to post whatever the hell copyrighted poo poo you wanted but goddamn you even try posting "Cow Tools" or whatever he asked nicely he asked nicely nicely he asked nicely _{he asked nicely} he asked nicely ^he asked nicely

Sulla-Marius 88 posted:

Like they said he was in an induced coma for the vast majority of that. Even if there was a 0.00000001% chance he'd make it, there's still a lot of useful knowledge you can gain by studying and working on someone suffering from a rare (but scientifically important) sickness directly. Think how many rats and rabbits and monkeys we put through hell to further our medical understanding of sickness and injuries and disease, this guy was unlucky enough to get it accidentally, there's no way you throw away an opportunity like that on TOP of trying to argue "morally it's probably safer to put him out of his misery".

Sulla-Marius 88 posted:

Are you kidding me

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there's no way you throw away an opportunity like that on TOP of trying to argue "morally it's probably safer to put him out of his misery".

13Pandora13 posted:

If they are in a state wherein they are not suffering or in any way conscious, they are at the very end, and the experimentation can possibly save others, uh...yeah? If my death can save others, or drastically improve the lives of others even, and there is zero chance of saving my rear end and I won't feel anything, more power to the science and medicine pioneers. "Ethical" is not black and white, it's very much gray.

Ernie Muppari posted:

from a strict futilitarian perspective i find any attempt to do anything ever to be immoral

Literally Kermit posted:

stuff

Literally Kermit posted:

Have we covered Leob and Leopald in a while?

Literally Kermit posted:

^^^

Thanks, I can tone the silliness down some if it is distracting.

I make absolutely no apologies about them Duke boys however.

Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:

Tone down the monkeycheese a bit, and those flight stories would be great posts.

Literally Kermit posted:

Eh, I don't find constructive criticism unnerving.

Alain Perdrix posted:

I'm guessing the world where you google "Mt. Everest elevation" and don't pay attention to the "m" following "8,848"

RNG posted:

I find your posts pleasant and heartening and therefore off-topic.

mostlygray posted:

My cousin was almost killed by a serial killer when she was a teenager. She had met a man at a concert and foolishly gave him her address. He came to her house and offered her a ride to school. Once in the car, he suggested ditching school and going somewhere private. She decided not to take him up on the offer and he dropped her off.

The cars owner's body was in the trunk the entire time.

Screaming Idiot posted:

In this graphic novel by Derf who was actually friends with Dahmer, we see just how tragic he was and where he came from. Dahmer really was human beneath the horrible things he did, and he's just another example of how society can fail people when they need help the most.

That's the scary thing about serial killers, rapists, and other "monsters": they're human, just like anyone else. A person can do awful, terrible things and still pet dogs, laugh with their friends, cry at funerals, and other normal things. They're people, and the biggest mistake we -- and especially the law -- make is to assume they're subhuman.

Basebf555 posted:

This actually created quite a big derail not that long ago. Some people have a really hard time with the idea that a human being will always be a human being no matter what horrible things they've done.

mostlygray posted:

I don't recall his name. I'm sure she would remember. It wasn't a huge news story. Just super creepy. I only say serial killer as he had no motive other than trying to abduct and kill a teenager with a corpse already in the trunk. We all avoid talking about it as it was very traumatic for her.

Freudian posted:

The bit about his mom is really loving sick. It would honestly be a better world if his big sister had successfully drowned him.

stickyfngrdboy posted:

I'm not sure I should have laughed out loud at that last sentence.

AdjectiveNoun posted:

Huh. I didn't know that. A little bit of tangent, but Netflix has a series called "The Fall" about an Irish police force (and a London Metropolitan Police Detective) trying to stop a serial killer who exclusively targets young professional women (as in lawyers and corporate workers, not prostitutes), and one thing I thought was a nice touch was that the killer escaped suspicion for a while because he's a counsellor who deals with grieving couples, and spent years volunteering at a hotline.

I guess now that that probably drew at least some of its inspiration from Bundy, but when I first watched it I just thought it was a cool thing they'd come up with on their own.

Literally Kermit posted:

I'm sure it is. My wife will enjoy the twist. Hell, I may have, too.

FourLeaf posted:

We have a very large population.

Also, we may have a lot, but the award for most vicious serial killers with the highest number of victims goes to Colombia.

TotalLossBrain posted:

Two serial killers running into each other is the twist in the utterly horrifying movie "Man Bites Dog". Except that they also have camera crews with them because they are live-documenting the killers.

TotalLossBrain posted:

Well then why haven't you already seen it?

Sorry though about the tags. I wouldn't recommend watching it. Probably one of the most disturbing movies I have ever seen.

FourLeaf posted:

Raping, torturing, and strangling literally hundreds of young children.

Here in the US most famous serial killers targeted adults or teens. There are exceptions (Albert Fish), but they're in the minority. Also, few killers in any country managed to match Colombia's huge body count.

Astrofig posted:

Yeah I forget if it was Colombia or Ecuador but this one guy raped and murdered literally 300+ little girls----showed police a giant pit full of bodies in the jungle. Scary part is, I forget if it was via corrupt officials or he just escaped, but he never saw the inside of a jail cell. Guy's still out there somewhere.

Frostwerks posted:

17 in 4 years sounds like a ton.

pookel posted:

Yesssssss, mysterious plane crashes are back. My favorite.

Patattack posted:

Are there really anti-seatbelt people in this day and age? Like, not just skipping the seatbelt out of laziness, but actively believing that seatbelts are bad? This is blowing my mind.