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Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Pick posted:

Dogecoin gets dark

quote:

... vape enthusiast Alex Green ...
Unnerving as gently caress...

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Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Everyone knows you remove all the identifying body parts when performing a burial at sea.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic
A teen girl moves in with her birth mother, and is abused and murdered.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ody-police-say/

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Asehujiko posted:

If I have the money, I'd like a sealed and heavily reinforced casket designed to survive whatever geological upheaval the cemetery is expected to go through the next few thousands years, and then be mummified and buried with a thick tome consisting of printouts of the most mundane wikipedia articles possible, with the aim of making a far future archaeologist team really loving happy when they dig me up.

Gotta be careful, or you’re going to end up with a coffin full of articles about Sonic the Hedgehog and lightsabers.

I’ve told my wife that I want to be cremated and have some of my ashes sent to space because it is in all likelihood the only way I could ever afford to go there. She wants to do neither, so I’d better die last.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic
Two part long-ish read about the Missing Five in northern California:

Part 1
Part 2

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Dr. Video Games 0081 posted:

I feel weird basically banning my kid from content that she likes, especially as my grounds are mostly aesthetic.

Don’t feel bad. Since YouTube isn’t going away anytime soon (unfortunately, IMO), it’s important that they recognize that you’re in charge of the content they consume.

Otherwise, you end up with a kid running around t-posing, yelling “YEET” while dabbing, and begging for “merch” from idiots like the Paul brothers.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic
I guess I was a very cynical teen - when my middle and high school had bomb threats, all I could think about was how herding us into the same particular location every time would just make that the location the one an actual bomber would use.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

M_Sinistrari posted:

I've often wondered when we have a Fat Acceptance/HAES thread, in the shared posts where the morbidly obese are insisting it's genetics or PCOS for why they're morbidly obese, none really claim Prader-Willi when you'd think that would be fair game for them.

Prader-Willi seems to have enough comorbidities that it would be difficult to claim disingenuously.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Croatoan posted:

I have never understood how these people can be such monsters. My son is autistic although he's on the milder end of the spectrum. He's just the sweetest little thing, I can't imagine trying to "cure" him. Autism isn't like some disease or some poo poo what the gently caress. He's just him. God these people make me angry sorry.

My son can be sweet, kind, thoughtful, and brilliant. But he can also scream, hurt, fight, and destroy. He’s in eighth grade, and it kills me that I can’t see a path to him graduating high school, driving a car, holding down a job, or having a relationship because we can’t find a way to help him navigate the world and self-regulate.

He’s aware of his struggles, and he’s miserable because of them. It’s heartbreaking to hear your child sobbing and screaming “I just want to live a normal life; why can’t I live a normal life?” after an outburst spawned by something as simple as the classroom switching from one subject to another.

I can’t sympathize with trying to murder my child based on bullshit on Facebook that was probably created by trolls, but I can sympathize with the desperation to do something that can help my son live a productive life.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Yeah...I was doing OK until I got to the part about :nms: harvesting organs from living, conscious children :nms:.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

M_Sinistrari posted:

A common practice back in the '70s was to oil down dirt roads to keep the dust down...

In rural Oregon, we had a road a few hundred feet from our house that was “maintained” this way into the Obama presidency (it was finally paved with what my father derisively called “Obama Dollars”).

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

quote:

They believe suffering and pain are inevitable.

:same:

Content: In 2006 when I was at a small, very liberal college, I had to take a semester of a “cross-cultural communications” class.

The amount of casual stereotyping and racism from the materials, instructor, and students in that class was shocking. Of course, this is also the same school that would go on to serve, for the first and only day that year, fried chicken and collard greens on MLK Jr. Day while inviting black leaders from the area to speak.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Busket Posket posted:

“Kalyb Wiley-Primm was just 7 years old when he found himself face to face with the law — not because he did anything wrong, but because, after being taunted by a group of boys about his hearing impairment in the middle of class, he began to cry, which led to his being escorted out of the room — and handcuffed — by school officer Brandon Craddock.
...
As a result, the boy had sore wrists and night terrors, prompting his mom to permanently remove him from the school...
...
Now, after being tied up in court for years, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has come to its final decision — ruling, shockingly, in favor of the officer, by calling his use of handcuffs on the not-quite-4-foot, 50-pound child a ‘reasonable course of action.’

In the worst incident my autistic son had at school, he picked up and threw a desk and kicked a hole in the door to the special needs quiet room. Somehow, the officers that showed up managed to get him out of there without cuffing him.

Somehow, I’m guessing the only threat this boy presented was having a breakdown while black.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic
Before I begin: I believe what’s being said about Dan Schneider.

What I think Terra-da-loo! is getting at is that it would be nice to have a coherently written piece of journalism about it. It sounds like he’s the Harvey Weinstein of kids entertainment, so I’d like to read a Ronan Farrow-esque piece diving into it, and I think such writing would probably do a better job of making the story accessible to people unfamiliar with him than Twitter threads and gossip blog blind items.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

hawowanlawow posted:

the coke lord is by far the most likable

I like how the guy who calmly talked about cutting up a human being somehow came out sounding like the sanest person involved.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Pick posted:

It's been covered who those people are and why they'd have a vested interest. Like, you don't exclusively verify a nasty rumor with someone's enemies, including people who embezzled your money.

To be fair, the only person verifying Carole Baskin’s story seems to be Carole Baskin:

Carole Baskin posted:

The Time Leading up to Don’s Disappearance
In the few years preceding his disappearance Don’s behavior was gradually showing signs of mental deterioration. Originally Don, from time to time, would buy vehicles or other equipment at auctions with a view to reselling them, although mostly he never got around to reselling them. But gradually his hoarding of junk that he brought to the 40 acres the sanctuary now sits on increased and involved junk of no value. He deteriorated into dumpster diving and even got stuck in a dumpster and called me crying because he did not know where he was.

Back then Alzheimer’s was not a commonly used word. I had not heard of it. Someone mentioned Alzheimer’s to me and I got Don to agree to set up an appointment with a specialist, Dr. Gold. Anne McQueen intervened and convinced him to see her psychiatrist, Dr. Blasini. He referred us to a Dr. West in the same building who was not there, so Don saw Dr. Russell. He diagnosed Don with Bi-Polar Disorder and gave him a prescription to have an MRI at St. Joseph’s Hospital. I did not find the prescription until I was searching his bedside table looking for clues to his disappearance.

His behavior became increasingly strange. He started refusing to use the bathroom and defecating outside. He brought in a homeless man to stay in our house. I rescheduled an appointment for him to see the specialist Dr. Gold. But he disappeared before the appointment date.

An explanation of “it was the 90s and nobody knew about Alzheimer’s and it wasn’t properly treated after years of deterioration due to scheduling snafus” is pretty self-serving too.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic
I don’t think she fed her husband to tigers or a meat grinder, though her comments on sardine oil are hilarious in that context.

Between the “business” and what I’m going to assume was some pretty questionable sex tourism, I’m guessing all she would have needed to do was let the right person in Costa Rica know he was coming and the problem would sort itself out.

In short, she might not have killed him, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all if she made it easy for him to die.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

The Golden Gael posted:

Actually if you go through a lot of the videos you'll find extremely obscure references to Star Trek sometimes baked into the editing as a joke for me and like two friends who may get it.

I love the videos - is the use of a SimCity 2000 music track in many of them another one of these in-jokes?

Edit: The first one I noticed it in was about the North Korean Godzilla knockoff, which is especially funny since SimCity got in trouble from Toho for an unlicensed Godzilla depiction.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Parakeet vs. Phone posted:

In general, what's the feeling on the Netflix episodes of Unsolved Mysteries? I didn't love how much they left out of the Jack Wheeler one and how much it felt like they were trying to jazz it up toward the conspiracy narrative, but I understand that that's what the people want.

I felt like the first batch were a little stronger than the second, but I’ve enjoyed them. I feel like it’s a decent format for stories that probably wouldn’t warrant their own full miniseries, and don’t wrap up tidily enough for Dateline or something.

Edit:

Solice Kirsk posted:

Also the ghost and UFO episodes aren't as fun if there's no weird re-enactments.

I think the UFO episode of the first batch was the weakest of them because it’s such a huge tonal shift. It’s obvious they were trying to treat it a little more seriously than most shows do for UFO stories, but the people they interviewed didn’t match up with that at all.

For the ghost episode in the second batch, I felt like it was an interesting angle to take on the disaster, but made the case for extreme PTSD and survivor’s guilt more than anything ghostly.

Blue Moonlight has a new favorite as of 03:34 on Oct 30, 2020

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Captain Hygiene posted:

So he has seniority over the forums

Actually, Jeffrey is Jack Thompson, and the sale of Something Awful was the last thing he needed in order to stop video games once and for all.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Busket Posket posted:

Bellingcat is also a goon-founded project (Brown Moses), so it’s just as pertinent to say their revelations about Syria were entirely supported by Big Mangosteen.

No ethical posting under capitalism.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic
I seem to recall Frank Fencepost’s posts here at SA on the topic were nuts - like, if you questioned PJ/TCAP’s methods at all, they just couldn’t let it go.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Busket Posket posted:

I’m genuinely curious to know what y’all think about this article/phenomenon:

False calls about active school shooters are rising. Behind them is a strange pattern

I believe the Netflix documentary Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet covers a similar situation in one of its episodes (I think episode 1, but awful people on the internet often have “co-morbidities”). I recall being dismayed how long they had managed to get away with it despite doing the same drat thing over and over.

Unfortunately, it wouldn’t at all surprise me if it was just some troll on the internet who is just routing their attempted school swattings through a VOIP provider and a VPN specifically to less-monitored/recorded lines that still guarantee a response.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Your Gay Uncle posted:

This Idaho quadruple murder is pretty nuts. Seems like there is tons of theories and wild speculations and the police are shooting down mlst lf them.
https://abc7chicago.com/university-of-idaho-murders-4-students-murdered-in-moscow/12521695/

How do 4 people getted stabbed in the same house and no one hears anything

I’d assume they’d screen the victims for drugs/alcohol - seems like the only way you could manage to stab four people to death without anyone realizing or being able to act on what’s happening.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Kirk Vikernes posted:

After decades of true crime TV shows and 15+ years of podcasts, does anyone know of any "missing" people that have finally surfaced after being the topic of an episode? In most cases it's probably unlikely, but maybe something like someone hitchhiked their way across the US to escape their current situation whatever that may have been just to change names and stay on the down low?

Unsolved Mysteries has an ~20% solve rate, though it’s unclear how much that can be directly attributed to their efforts, and the number likely improves once you drop the ghosts, UFOs, etc.:

Some content aggregator posted:

The original series ran from 1987 to 2002, airing over 230 episodes. According to the Unsolved Mysteries site, 260 of the over 1,300 cases were solved. Additionally, half the cases featuring wanted fugitives were solved.

Over 100 families were reunited with lost individuals, and seven people wrongly convicted had their convictions overturned.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Zero One posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-abxgFv1bU

A very serious murder video and not funny but the twist at 52 seconds...

I think the narrator’s voice is more unnerving than MLP.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic
Without having watched the video, I have to assume it’s my wife.

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Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

HelleSpud posted:

hivliving did it so she could write fanfiction about the characters of Hamilton as teens with hiv in high school in the 80's without getting on the wrong side of tumblr Discourse

I’m trying to decide if seeing Rent would cure this woman’s brain worms or make them worse.

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