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| Topic | Can someone recommend a news source other than CNN and FOX. |
Antifar
10/30/21 8:47:20 AM
#43 | Sheiky-Baby posted... Your local news station will always be the best out of them all. This is extremely not true! --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Follow a phrase with ", Mr. Bond." to turn it into a threat. |
Antifar
10/29/21 9:52:21 PM
#36 | I'm Pickle Rick, Mr. Bond --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Facebook is now Meta |
Antifar
10/29/21 9:50:27 PM
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| Topic | Forza Horizon 5 early access is one (1) week away |
Antifar
10/29/21 8:54:15 PM
#3 | metralo posted... does gamepass get early access? No, but you can get 10 percent off the premium pack that includes early access, expansion pass, car passes, etc. --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Honestly Lost Judgment has fantastic combat. |
Antifar
10/29/21 8:46:36 PM
#7 | ThisWaterIsDry posted... Is that a Yukuza game? It's a spinoff made by the same studio --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Forza Horizon 5 early access is one (1) week away |
Antifar
10/29/21 8:45:25 PM
#1 | Can I get a hell yeah? --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Honestly Lost Judgment has fantastic combat. |
Antifar
10/29/21 8:31:43 PM
#4 | Lol. But also it is my favorite of the series. --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Locals rally in defense of event where male students dressed in lingerie |
Antifar
10/29/21 8:20:16 PM
#1 | https://amp.courier-journal.com/amp/6190799001It was an event that once would have barely made news outside the school gymnasium much less traveled beyond this 4,900-resident Appalachian mountain town.
But within hours of Hazard High School's homecoming "Man Pageant," where male students dressed in womens undergarments appeared to lap-dance and grind on seated school leaders, the photos hit social media.
By the next day, theyd gone viral sparking outrage that turned a derisive national spotlight on this tiny Kentucky community like never before.
Images that included principal Donald "Happy" Mobelini, who is also Hazards mayor, smiling while half-clad students danced suggestively and young women dressed as Hooters waitresses drew condemnation from legions of social media users.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear called it "totally unacceptable," an investigation was launched and the resulting media coverage stretched all the way to a British tabloid.
The scope of reaction shocked many in tight-knit, conservative Hazard, whose red-brick downtown framed by mountains was once a hub of a now-depleted Appalachian coalfield.
And while some locals were appalled by what happened in their school, many parents, students and residents, stung by the onslaught of condemnation, have leaped ferociously to the schools defense casting the controversy as overblown and the work of outsiders.
People who were not even connected to the school went after us, said student Gavin Goins, a sophomore who was at the event. I think its an attack on tradition.
He was among 100 residents and students gathered in a Hazard city park on a rainy Thursday, two days after the controversy broke, near a hand-painted sign strung between two picnic tables reading, We Love you Happy.
Some in attendance had changed their social media profile to a photo of the principal in a superhero costume. Others in a county where nearly 90% voted for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election blamed the media and refused to speak to reporters.
Cars honked as they passed the park, and cheers erupted when Mobelini who had been avoiding public comment finally strode toward the crowd, shaking hands with residents.
Happy! Happy! Happy! chanted several dozen Hazard High students.
The viral scandal comes as Perry County has worked hard to reinvent its economy and image in the wake of coals decline in a region with some of the nations highest poverty rates.
In September, it posted one of the nations highest COVID-19 incidence rates.
Even some who found the Man Pageant tradition unacceptable said the outcry hit a nerve in a place where some feel we don't have a lot anymore, so our pride is one more thing under attack, said Hazard resident and high school graduate Terry Thies.
Others believe that long-standing Appalachian stereotypes helped stoke the incidents virality.
In Eastern Kentucky, very rarely do you hear anything positive about us. Were constantly being made fun of and called hillbillies, stupid and ignorant, said Tosha Lindon, a Hazard High graduate whose freshman-year son was at the event. You never hear anything positive. But when something negative happens, boom. Its everywhere.
Still, there is certainly no unanimity on a controversy that has sparked countless debates and discussions in Hazard, from parking lots at dollar stores to fast-food joints and the downtowns shops and courthouse, residents said.
Online, rancorous arguments and name-calling have erupted between residents on Facebook. Some call it indefensible, saying the principal should have immediately stopped the bawdy performance and stopped allowing Man Pageant events.
Brenda Fletcher, 66, who said generations of her family have attended the school, wearing a school T-shirt in her home perched on a steep hillside, said she blames the leadership for letting it happen.
While the Man Pageant has been a feature of homecoming week for years, she said, they crossed a lot of boundaries this year.
I was so angry when I first saw it. And its unacceptable, she said. I dont think its overblown. They needed to crack down and say this will not happen again.
Others argue that the Man Pageant was simply a student-led skit that got too racy, and it was unfair to blame the school leaders who they believe didnt plan or approve what was meant as a prank on school officials.
They take their robes off and start twerking or whatever. The teachers laughed, they got up and pushed them off. Somebody took a picture. And yes, it looks bad. Yes, it was in poor taste. You know how social media is. It just exploded, Lindon said, whose son was at the event.
Now were being made out to be child molesters, a cult, and Ive heard were promoting human trafficking the most ludicrous stuff on social media by people who arent from Hazard, they don't have children in Hazard schools, they know nothing about Eastern Kentucky, she said. But the power of social media: Thats the way it is. It sucks. Lot going on here --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Donald Trump, on the Wall Street Journal |
Antifar
10/29/21 7:32:37 PM
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| Topic | Remember the Lincoln Project? |
Antifar
10/29/21 6:49:01 PM
#10 | RamboCell29 posted... Society will be better if he wins. Why do you think that --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Remember the Lincoln Project? |
Antifar
10/29/21 6:30:29 PM
#3 | WeeWeiWiiWie posted... Seems like an exceedingly bad idea to pretend "false flag" a party that is pretty actively convincing their supporters that all the bad done by the party and its supporters are just false flag events. Would not be the first bad idea to come from the Lincoln Project. So, yeah. --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Supreme Court to consider limiting EPA's ability to protect environment |
Antifar
10/29/21 6:11:52 PM
#18 | Do you think, if Alito and Kavanagh were to die and their replacements were appointed by Biden and a Democratic senate, the court's interpretations would stay the same? --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Democratic child care bill has some big problems |
Antifar
10/29/21 5:51:22 PM
#1 | https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2021/10/29/dem-child-care-proposal-uses-welfare-reform-tactics-to-exclude-the-poor/In order for a child to be eligible for child care benefits under the current Democratic proposal, one of the parents they live with has to be engaged in one of the following activities:
Full-time or part-time employment.
Self-employment.
Job search activities.
Job training.
Education.
Work-limiting health treatment.
Activities to prevent child abuse, neglect, or family violence.
Work or training activities related to SNAP or TANF requirements.
Taking leave under the FMLA or a paid leave program.
The Congressional Research Service roughly estimated that this activity test would exclude around 5 percent of children from child care benefits. Given the nature of the test, its clear that the excluded will be some of the poorest kids in the country.
Close observers of the American welfare state should notice an uncanny similarity between the activity test in the current Democratic child care bill and the activity test that was part of the 1996 welfare reform bill and that remains to this day as part of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.
Under the TANF activity test, state eligibility for a TANF grant is conditioned upon states making sure that a certain percentage of people using the TANF program are engaged in one of the following activities
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The TANF activity test has for decades been a major impediment for people seeking TANF assistance, which are almost entirely impoverished single mothers. The similar activity test in this child care legislation will probably have the same effect.
The TANF rules require states to ensure that a certain percentage of people on the program are meeting the TANF activity test, meaning that some TANF users get benefits despite not meeting the test. In the Democratic child care bill, all children whose parents fail to meet the activity test are excluded from child care benefits.
This activity test is, of course, very cruel and mean-spirited and harmful. But more than that, it is also confusing and stupid.
Although I dont agree with this idea, its easy enough to see an intuition that says that parents who arent engaged in these kinds of activities dont need child care services because they can watch their own kids and so they should not be given any services.
But if this is the theory you are operating off of, the rule should be that both parents in a two-parent household must meet the activity test, not just one of them. After all, if one of them does not meet it, then they are available to watch the kids. Yet the bill as written gives child care to stay-at-home parents provided they have a spouse who satisfies the activity test.
If a married stay-at-home parent becomes a single stay-at-home parent due to divorce or death, the resulting single-parent household is now in violation of the activity test and the child eventually becomes ineligible for child care services. Yet surely a parent in this situation is at least as much in need of child care after the divorce as before the divorce. In fact, they are probably in more need of it.
Another intuition for this kind of activity test may just be to indulge the usual punitive sentiments people have towards those they think are deadbeats or losers or drug addicts or whatever. Under this line of thinking, we shouldnt provide expensive child care benefits to these kids because their parents are bad and dysfunctional people and, if anything, these benefits will just encourage their parents and their bad ways.
But if a kid has rotten parents, surely it would be a great thing for them to be able to spend their days in a high-quality child-friendly environment rather than with their dysfunctional parents. These kinds of kids would seem to benefit from child care services far more than kids in a two-parent family with a stay-at-home parent. And yet the bills activity test makes the latter eligible and the former ineligible.
None of this makes much sense. And its especially crazy in light of all the impassioned arguments Democrats have been making over the past year about why it is wrong to exclude the poorest kids from the Child Tax Credit. These kids should get cash but they shouldnt get child care? Its truly baffling.
If you arent sympathetic to the estimated 5 percent of kids, mostly living in very bad circumstances, who get knocked out of child care eligibility by this test, perhaps you can find some sympathy for all the parents of eligible kids who will have to go through the rigamarole of proving to their day care center that they are engaged in one of the required activities.
Do you want to provide paystubs to the day care center to prove you are employed? Do you want to provide the names and addresses of companies youve applied to in order to prove you are engaged in jobseeking? I could really do without all that, speaking personally.
Imagine someone whose eligible activity is health treatment (including mental health and substance use treatment) for a condition that prevents the parent from participating in other eligible activities. Are we seriously asking this person to tell their day care provider that they are in mental health or drug treatment? Would you want to tell your day care provider that? Do we have any concern at all for peoples privacy or dignity in this? Is this what we want the welfare state to be like, an institution that forces you to reveal everything about yourself, no matter how embarrassing, in order to access basic benefits?
These are the kinds of rules conservatives put in programs to make users miserable and discourage participation. Its wild that a Democratic trifecta is doing it. --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Communism. |
Antifar
10/29/21 5:47:40 PM
#6 | BobanMarjanovic posted... Who is Lavern Spicer and why should I care about what she thinks? Someone who lost her congressional race by 55 points. She doesn't matter, and you should not care what she thinks. --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | "How do bad cops stay in power? Look at Miami" |
Antifar
10/29/21 5:43:09 PM
#1 | https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/10/22/javier-ortiz-florida-police-misconduct-protections-516231In a police department with a history of brutality, Captain Javier Ortiz holds a special distinction as Miamis least-fireable man with a badge, a gun and a staggering history of citizen complaints for beatings, false arrests and bullying.
Over his 17 years on the job including eight as the union president of the Fraternal Order of Police in South Florida 49 people have complained about him to Internal Affairs as he amassed 19 official use-of-force incidents, $600,000 in lawsuit settlements and a books worth of terrible headlines related to his record and his racially inflammatory social media posts, many of which attacked alleged victims of police violence.
Yet Ortiz has repeatedly beaten back attempts to discipline him. He returned to work in March from a yearlong paid suspension during which state and federal investigators examined whether he engaged in a pattern of abuse and bias against minorities, particularly African Americans [and] has been known for cyber-stalking and doxing civilians who question his authority or file complaints against him. The investigation was launched after three Miami police sergeants accused him of abusing his position and said the department had repeatedly botched investigations into him.
But investigators concluded their hands were tied because 13 of the 19 use-of-force complaints were beyond the five-year statute of limitations, and the others lacked enough hard evidence beyond the assertions of the alleged victims. The findings underscored a truism in many urban police departments: The most troublesome cops are so insulated by protective union contracts and laws passed by politicians who are eager to advertise their law-and-order bona fides that removing them is nearly impossible even when their own colleagues are witnesses against them.
The story of Ortiz shows the steep public costs of the way elected officials of both parties use the police to keep themselves covered politically: They can demand justice for victims after especially egregious acts of brutality, even while they support contracts and laws that protect officers accused of abuse. They can soothe the victims and at the same time enjoy the benefits of supportive police unions.
Ortizs reinstatement in March was no surprise to the many people in Miami who have watched him escape any meaningful punishment for years.
Ive known Javi for 15 years. One thing I realized: Wherever he is, you want to be nowhere near him. Hes done nefarious things, says Miami Police Lt. Jermaine Douglas, who once starred in the true-crime TV series The First 48, and more recently accused Ortiz of unfairly disciplining him, a complaint that was upheld by a civilian investigative panel.
Javi is a bad cop protected by bad leaders, adds Douglas. You can say its a bad system. The system itself is broken. But at some point, you have managers and leadership above him who are supposed to tame that, to address that.
But the bosses have claimed theres little they can do, either.
As a police officer with an encyclopedic knowledge of labor law and grievance procedures, Ortiz shielded himself over the years with the extensive protections woven into the local unions collective bargaining agreement and Floridas Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights, a police-friendly law that passed decades ago and has been continuously beefed up with bipartisan support. He has also availed himself of a controversial judicial doctrine, called qualified immunity, which shields police from certain forms of liability.
Among the special provisions that have made policing Floridas police so difficult is a rule in the bill of rights that says all investigations must be wrapped up in 180 days. Critics say the rule is a vehicle for sympathetic colleagues to protect an officer simply by dragging their feet. In its review of Ortiz, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement reported that between 2013 and 2018 seven citizen complaints against him were voided because the department failed to finish investigating within the prescribed time limit.
An even more significant obstacle in the bill of rights is a rule that officers must be shown all evidence against them before they are interviewed about complaints a right that isnt afforded to civilians and that flies in the face of normal investigative techniques. It allows officers to tailor their responses to the evidence, avoid being caught in lies and even, says former Miami police chief Art Acevedo, interfere with the investigation or retaliate against witnesses.
Upon taking over the department last March, Acevedo reviewed Ortizs record and determined that the rules protected him. Unfortunately and fortunately for him [Ortiz] I could take no action, Acevedo says.
Instead, it was Acevedo, who once received national attention as the Houston police chief when he walked alongside Black Lives Matter protesters, who got fired Oct. 11 by the city manager after a spate of alleged offenses including making an insensitive comment about Cuban mafia in heavily Cuban Miami.
Now, the new acting chief, Manny Morales, is telling City Hall insiders that Ortiz has to go not because of his interactions with the public, but due to his repeated run-ins with other officers on the 1,300-member force.
On Thursday, Morales once again suspended Ortiz with pay his third time. --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Supreme Court to consider limiting EPA's ability to protect environment |
Antifar
10/29/21 5:33:54 PM
#4 | Mr Hangman posted... They interpret the law. I've read enough Russian lit to know that interpretation is a very fluid thing. What I'm saying is that this is a naive view of how the Supreme Court acts. --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | I'm thinking Popeye's tonight, CE |
Antifar
10/29/21 5:30:31 PM
#4 | Remind me in the future that I don't need the meal deal. Chicken only is just fine. God damn I ate too much. --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Supreme Court to consider limiting EPA's ability to protect environment |
Antifar
10/29/21 5:28:01 PM
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| Topic | Ever wonder why some people have such a hard time avoiding suspension? |
Antifar
10/29/21 5:09:34 PM
#7 | EmbraceOfDeath posted... Not really. It's pretty obvious why they keep getting suspended. --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Vicious_Dios is Suspended |
Antifar
10/29/21 5:08:27 PM
#89 | Ving_Rhames posted... He wants to be The_Admiral so bad. Addy was significantly less blatant about it --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Tucker Carlson having a normal one |
Antifar
10/29/21 10:24:51 AM
#21 | The first amendment, baby! --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | I'm thinking Popeye's tonight, CE |
Antifar
10/29/21 9:23:34 AM
#1 | Who's with me --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Billionaire proposes 4,500 student dorm, 94% of whom wouldn't have windows |
Antifar
10/29/21 9:14:22 AM
#1 | https://www.independent.com/2021/10/28/architect-resigns-in-protest-over-ucsb-mega-dorm/A consulting architect on UCSBs Design Review Committee has quit his post in protest over the universitys proposed Munger Hall project, calling the massive, mostly-windowless dormitory plan unsupportable from my perspective as an architect, a parent, and a human being.
In his October 25 resignation letter to UCSB Campus Architect Julie Hendricks, Dennis McFadden a well-respected Southern California architect with 15 years on the committee goes scorched earth on the radical new building concept, which calls for an 11-story, 1.68-million-square-foot structure that would house up to 4,500 students, 94 percent of whom would not have windows in their small, single-occupancy bedrooms.
The idea was conceived by 97-year-old billionaire-investor turned amateur-architect Charles Munger, who donated $200 million toward the project with the condition that his blueprints be followed exactly. Munger maintains the small living quarters would coax residents out of their rooms and into larger common areas, where they could interact and collaborate. He also argues the off-site prefabrication of standardized building elements the nine residential levels feature identical floor plans would save on cost. The entire proposal, which comes as UCSB desperately attempts to add to its overstretched housing stock, is budgeted somewhere in the range of $1.5 billion.
McFadden disagreed sharply with what the university has described as Charlies Vision for the benefits of a close-knit living experience. An ample body of documented evidence shows that interior environments with access to natural light, air, and views to nature improve both the physical and mental wellbeing of occupants, he wrote. The Munger Hall design ignores this evidence and seems to take the position that it doesnt matter.
So far, McFadden continued, the university has not offered any research or data to justify the unprecedented departure from normal student housing standards, historical trends, and basic sustainability principles. Rather, he said, as the vision of a single donor, the building is a social and psychological experiment with an unknown impact on the lives and personal development of the undergraduates the university serves.
McFadden explains he felt compelled to step down from from the Design Review Committee (DRC) after it became clear during an October 5 presentation that the dorms plans were already set in stone. The design was described as 100% complete, approval was not requested, no vote was taken, and no further submittals are intended or required, he said. Yet in the nearly fifteen years I served as a consulting architect to the DRC, no project was brought before the committee that is larger, more transformational, and potentially more destructive to the campus as a place than Munger Hall. This kind of outlandish proposal is why the committee exists, he said.
McFadden draws striking comparisons between Munger Hall and other large structures to illustrate its colossal footprint. Currently, he said, the largest single dormitory in the world is Bancroft Hall at the U.S. Naval Academy, which houses 4,000 students and is composed of multiple wings wrapped around numerous courtyards with over 25 entrances.
Munger Hall, in comparison, is a single block housing 4,500 students with two entrances, McFadden said, and would qualify as the eighth densest neighborhood on the planet, falling just short of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It would be able to house Princeton Universitys entire undergraduate population, or all five Claremont Colleges. The project is essentially the student life portion of a mid-sized university campus in a box, he said.
The project is utterly detached from its physical setting, McFadden goes on, and has no relationship to UCSBs spectacular coastal location. It is also out of place with the scale and texture of the rest of campus, he said, an alien world parked at the corner of the campus, not an integrally related extension of it. Even the rooftop courtyard looks inward and may as well be on the ground in the desert as on the eleventh floor on the coast of California, he said. --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | US in talks to pay $450k per person to separated immigrant families |
Antifar
10/29/21 9:06:13 AM
#83 | I see Payzmaykr beclowned himself again here. --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Do you think being a truck driver now is a good job? |
Antifar
10/29/21 7:29:30 AM
#23 | https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/news/rigged-forced-into-debt-worked-past-exhaustion-left-with-nothing/A yearlong investigation by the USA TODAY Network found that port trucking companies in southern California have spent the past decade forcing drivers to finance their own trucks by taking on debt they could not afford. Companies then used that debt as leverage to extract forced labor and trap drivers in jobs that left them destitute.
If a driver quit, the company seized his truck and kept everything he had paid towards owning it.
If drivers missed payments, or if they got sick or became too exhausted to go on, their companies fired them and kept everything. Then they turned around and leased the trucks to someone else.
Drivers who manage to hang on to their jobs sometimes end up owing money to their employers essentially working for free. Reporters identified seven different companies that have told their employees they owe money at weeks end.
The USA TODAY Network pieced together accounts from more than 300 drivers, listened to hundreds of hours of sworn labor dispute testimony and reviewed contracts that have never been seen by the public. --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | US in talks to pay $450k per person to separated immigrant families |
Antifar
10/28/21 9:27:49 PM
#10 | BilalPowell posted... I had my 20 children separated from me and they all got eaten by coyotes. Money please. Shuuut da fuck up --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | US in talks to pay $450k per person to separated immigrant families |
Antifar
10/28/21 9:00:55 PM
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| Topic | I can't get past the 2nd fucking EMMI lmao |
Antifar
10/28/21 7:23:04 PM
#15 | Yeah you won't have much luck trying counter them consistently. Until you get the Omega Beam, just avoid it as best you can. --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Facebook is now Meta |
Antifar
10/28/21 2:28:04 PM
#5 | TendoDRM posted... Facebook the company (that owns Instagram, Oculus, etc) is now Meta, right? Not the website itself? Yes --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Facebook is now Meta |
Antifar
10/28/21 2:25:05 PM
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| Topic | Gaming as an online subscription service is so much worse than digital only game |
Antifar
10/28/21 1:23:12 PM
#15 | Also I've found streaming games via Xcloud to be shockingly smooth, but your mileage may vary given internet speeds and whatnot. --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | What the fuck is happening here |
Antifar
10/28/21 12:05:56 PM
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| Topic | Americans use to be with the president no matter who it was |
Antifar
10/28/21 11:57:38 AM
#5 | This isn't true, though. --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Wait, people hate Google phones? Why? |
Antifar
10/28/21 10:51:32 AM
#14 | I've had a Pixel 3 and Pixel 5 now, no complaints about either. --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Huh. Nintendo put out a demo for Metroid Dread...today |
Antifar
10/27/21 10:54:07 PM
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| Topic | Paid family leave dropped from reconciliation bill |
Antifar
10/27/21 9:14:11 PM
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| Topic | I finished* Scarlet Nexus today |
Antifar
10/27/21 8:45:48 PM
#2 | Bumpo --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Paid family leave dropped from reconciliation bill |
Antifar
10/27/21 5:56:33 PM
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| Topic | How many Krispy Kreme donuts do you think you could eat in a sitting? |
Antifar
10/27/21 4:28:29 PM
#1 | I feel like I could do 8 if I had to. --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Anyone else find it odd that the electoral college still exists? |
Antifar
10/27/21 4:16:04 PM
#25 | Democrats should seek legislative majorities at the state level so they can pass the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and effectively do away with the issue. It could be done with passage in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Nevada. Obviously Republican control over districting in some of those states, most notably Wisconsin, makes that easier said than done, but Virginia and Nevada could do this shit any day now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact--- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Exceedingly normal shit happening at Portland school board meeting |
Antifar
10/27/21 4:05:42 PM
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| Topic | I finished* Scarlet Nexus today |
Antifar
10/27/21 4:03:51 PM
#1 | *Kasane's route, but I've got no interest in going back for another 20 hours. I really liked the combat, and I put up with the story to get there. Definitely glad it got added to Game Pass; played a lot of it via Xcloud at work lol. --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Blackhawks 2 million fine is Old News? |
Antifar
10/27/21 1:58:13 PM
#5 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Blackhawks-to-hold-briefing-on-sexual-assault-16565426.phpThe Chicago Blackhawks mishandled allegations that an assistant coach sexually assaulted a player during the teams Stanley Cup run in 2010, according to an investigation commissioned by the franchise that cast a shadow over the NHL.
Stan Bowman, Chicago's general manager and president of hockey operations, resigned Tuesday in the wake of the findings by an outside law firm, and the NHL fined the team $2 million for the organizations inadequate internal procedures and insufficient and untimely response. Al MacIsaac, one of the team's top hockey executives, also is out.
Florida Panthers coach Joel Quenneville and Winnipeg Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff, who were with the Blackhawks when the sexual assault allegations were first reported, were named in the damning report as well.
The Panthers declined to comment, citing NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman's plans to meet with Quenneville. Cheveldayoff said he shared everything he knows with Jenner & Block for its report.
Further, I look forward to my discussion with Commissioner Bettman at the soonest possible date to continue to cooperate fully with the National Hockey League, Cheveldayoff said in a statement provided by the Jets to The Associated Press. I will reserve any further comment until after that conversation has been conducted.
Quenneville was on the ice with the Panthers for their game-day morning skate Wednesday. He said afterward he would meet with Bettman on Thursday.
Quenneville said he had taken part in a number of meetings with the Panthers since Tuesday, saying only that the investigations findings were addressed. I look forward to continuing to contribute to the process, he said of the meeting with Bettman.
The Blackhawks hired Jenner & Block to conduct what they called an independent review in response to two lawsuits filed against the franchise: one by a player identified as John Doe alleging sexual assault by then-assistant coach Brad Aldrich in 2010 and another filed by a former student whom Aldrich was convicted of assaulting in Michigan.
The report, which team CEO Danny Wirtz called both disturbing and difficult to read, was released by the franchise. Former federal prosecutor Reid Schar, who led the investigation, said the firm found no evidence that Wirtz or his father, Rocky, who owns the team, were aware of the allegations before the former player's lawsuit was brought to their attention ahead of its filing.
It is clear that in 2010 the executives of this organization put team performance above all else, Danny Wirtz said. John Doe deserved better from the Blackhawks.
In a statement released through his attorney, Susan Loggans, John Doe said he was grateful for the accountability shown by the Blackhawks.
Although nothing can truly change the detriment to my life over the past decade because of the actions of one man inside the Blackhawks organization, I am very grateful to have the truth be recognized, and I look forward to continuing the long journey to recovery, John Doe said.
Danny Wirtz said he has instructed the organization's lawyers to try to reach a fair resolution consistent with the totality of the circumstances. But Loggans said there hadn't been any settlement talks.
I'm waiting to see if there's any action behind their repentance that they expressed today, she told the AP.
Bowman, the son of Hall of Fame coach Scotty Bowman, said he was stepping aside because he didnt want to be a distraction. He also resigned his position as GM of the U.S mens hockey team at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Eleven years ago, while serving in my first year as general manager, I was made aware of potential inappropriate behavior by a then-video coach involving a player, he said in a statement released by the Blackhawks. I promptly reported the matter to the then-president and CEO who committed to handling the matter.
I learned this year that the inappropriate behavior involved a serious allegation of sexual assault. I relied on the direction of my superior that he would take appropriate action. Looking back, now knowing he did not handle the matter promptly, I regret assuming he would do so.
According to the report, the encounter between John Doe, then 20, and Aldrich, then 27, occurred on May 8 or 9 in 2010. Doe told investigators that Aldrich threatened him with a souvenir baseball bat before forcibly performing oral sex on him and masturbating on the player's back, allegations that he also detailed in a lawsuit. Aldrich told investigators the encounter was consensual.
On May 23, right after Chicago advanced to the Stanley Cup Final, Bowman, MacIsaac, former team president John McDonough, former executive vice president Jay Blunk and then-assistant general manager Cheveldayoff met with then-coach Quenneville and mental skills coach Jim Gary to discuss the allegations. (McDonough, Blunk and Gary are no longer employed in the NHL.)
Schar said accounts of the meeting vary significantly.
What is clear is that after being informed of Aldrichs alleged sexual harassment and misconduct with a player no action was taken for three weeks, Schar said.
According to the report, Bowman recalled that, after learning of the incident, Quenneville shook his head and said it was hard for the team to get to where it was, and they could not deal with this issue now.
The report found no evidence of any investigation or contact with human resources before McDonough informed the team's director of human resources about the allegations on June 14 a delay that violated the Blackhawks' sexual harassment policy and had consequences, according to Schar.
During that period, Aldrich continued to work with and travel with the team, Schar said. "On June 10th, during an evening of celebration after the Blackhawks' Stanley Cup win the previous day, Aldrich made an unwanted sexual advance towards a Blackhawks intern, who was 22 years old at the time.
Also after the Stanley Cup win, Aldrich continued to participate in celebrations in the presence of John Doe, who had made the complaint.
While announcing in July that he was willing to participate in the team's probe, Quenneville said in a statement that he first learned of these allegations through the media earlier this summer. Cheveldayoff said in a statement that he had no knowledge of the allegations until he was asked if he was aware of anything prior to the end of Aldrich's employment with the Blackhawks.
Bettman said he would reserve judgment on Quenneville and Cheveldayoff, and he plans to meet with them to discuss their roles in the situation.
The NHL said $1 million of the Blackhawks' fine will help fund organizations in the Chicago area that provide counseling and training for, and support and assistance to, survivors of sexual and other forms of abuse. --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Girls all over california. |
Antifar
10/27/21 1:45:20 PM
#2 | Buddy I'm gonna need you to be like 50% less horny --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | Exceedingly normal shit happening at Portland school board meeting |
Antifar
10/27/21 1:34:34 PM
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| Topic | How's your GOTY list shaping up? |
Antifar
10/27/21 9:08:41 AM
#9 | scamatoru posted... anything good even out this year? Hitman 3 came out this year My list: Hitman 3 Fights in Tight Spaces MLB The Show 21 WarioWare: Get it Together Lost Judgment Game Builder Garage Scarlet Nexus New Pokemon Snap Mario Golf: Super Rush Dodgeball Academia --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | I regret to inform you that the crypto people are at it again |
Antifar
10/27/21 8:14:47 AM
#7 | bump --- kin to all that throbs |
| Topic | I regret to inform you that the crypto people are at it again |
Antifar
10/26/21 11:50:39 PM
#1 | https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7njgd/crypto-investors-are-bidding-to-touch-a-1784-pound-tungsten-cube-once-a-yearIn the latest phase of the quest to turn everything into an NFT, crypto traders are now bidding to digitally own a 1,784-lb. cube of tungsten in Willowbrook, Illinois. According to the terms of the sale, which will have the receipt posted to the blockchain for posterity, the owner can have one supervised visit to the cube per year to touch or photograph it.
Over the past two weeks, a joke fired off by Coin Center's Neeraj Agrawal about a nonexistent tungsten shortage thanks to crypto traders buying cubes of tungsten due to a meme actually caused one for Midwest Tungsten Service. The Illinois manufacturer actually creates small cubes of tungsten, and the tweet caused a 300 percent increase in sales that depleted the companys stock on Amazon, Coindesk reported.
Last week, The Block reported that the company entered a partnership with crypto payment processor OpenNode to accept Bitcoin payments. One explanation as to why this is happening, which doesnt really explain why this is happening, was offered to The Block by CMS Holdings' Dan Matuszewski, who said "crypto just has a propensity for the density." Tungsten is a very dense metal, comparable to uranium or gold, and its surprising weight is, apparently, pleasurable.
Midwest Tungsten told Coindesk that it primarily makes these cubes for industrial firms, and Sean Murray, the company's director of e-commerce, suggested to Coindesk there would be a 14-inch cube next. The company offers cubes ranging from an 18-gram, 1-centimeter cube that costs $19.99 to a 41-pound, 4-inch cube that costs $2,999.99.
Well, the 14-inch cube is finally here. It weighs 1,784 poinds and is now listed on OpenSea as an NFT. Seemingly, its the biggest cube that Midwest Tungsten can create.
Since we began selling the cube we have constantly asked ourselves, 'What is the right size?', and 'Would anyone buy a bigger cube?' Only recently has anyone asked us, or have we asked ourselves, 'What is the biggest cube we can make?' We have an answer that creates a bit of a problem. The answer is 14" and 1,784 lbs (809 kg). The problem is, what do with it if we make it. Shipping and receiving can be a problem, the company wrote in a blog post.
To get around the issues inherent in creating such a massively heavy object for sale, Midwest Tungsten has put some restrictions on the sale of the cube, which will be kept at the companys HQ:
One visit to see/photograph/touch the cube per calendar year will be allowed and scheduled with a Midwest Tungsten Service representative, the NFT listing reads. Subsequent owners of the NFT cannot visit the cube in a year in which the cube has already been visited. The cube will not be available to view until 10 weeks after the first sale.
The minimum bid is 47.74 ETH, currently equivalent to $201,295.23. According to the listing, the only way to take physical possession of the cube will be to burn the NFT, meaning send it to a dead-end address so it can no longer be traded. --- kin to all that throbs |
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