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PURE EVIL Student empties kettle of boiling water over defenceless screaming puppy as punishment for it pooing on his bed.
The dog, called 'Strawberry', couldn't escape the brutal abuse as it was locked in a cage. This dog is a Shibe Inu.

They also claim he starved another Shiba inu, a small dog native to Japan, to death, and that he allegedly often posts videos of similar sadistic animal abuse by captioning his footage: “Here’s my latest work.”

His horrific minute-long video - posted under the same gleeful caption on April 10 - shows him lifting the kettle of boiling hot water from his kitchen and walking over to the cage where Strawberry is kept.

He upends the kettle, pouring its contents onto the pooch which howls in pain, but cannot escape the confines of its small cage. He does this god damn thing to a Shibu Inu because he is a Chinese insect bug.

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If I was on a plane and saw that I would immediately ask to be deplaned as I would not consider that aircraft airworthy.

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Roger Stone is indicted for blatantly lying before congress and witness tampering.

That would be fair if the law was applied equally, but when are they going to arrest any Democrat for blatantly lying before Congress about running arms to al-Qaeda and Mexican drug lords, giving $billions to Iran, having the GCHQ spy on the opposing party's candidates, or any of a half dozen other scandals that would have gotten anyone other than America's First Black President impeached and possibly hanged for treason, or "witness tampering" Michael Hastings, FBI Anon, the DNC's "Russian hacker", and several pizzagate investigators and sources?

There has been two years of noise about possible Russian interference in the election because Donald Trump did business with the Russians as part of an FBI sting operation that got a Russian bank sanctioned. When are they going to talk about Qatari interference in the election? Do you remember the "Safe Space" campaign a few years ago or the appearance of "Social Justice" "feminists" who never badmouthed Islam but tried to tell you that Hamas was a feminist group? That was them. Have you heard of Common Core? That was also a Qatari operation by the same people who put Jamal Khashoggi at the Washington Post.

Roger Stone is indicted for blatantly lying before congress and witness tampering.

That would be fair if the law was applied equally, but when are they going to arrest any Democrat for blatantly lying before Congress about running arms to al-Qaeda and Mexican drug lords, giving $billions to Iran, having the GCHQ spy on the opposing party's candidates, or any of a half dozen other scandals that would have gotten anyone other than America's First Black President impeached and possibly hanged for treason, or "witness tampering" Michael Hastings, FBI Anon, the DNC's "Russian hacker", and several pizzagate investigators and sources?

There has been two years of noise about possible Russian interference in the election because Donald Trump did business with the Russians as part of an FBI sting operation that got a Russian bank sanctioned. When are they going to talk about Qatari interference in the election? Do you remember the "Safe Space" campaign a few years ago or the appearance of "Social Justice" "feminists" who never badmouthed Islam but tried to tell you that Hamas was a feminist group? That was them. Have you heard of Common Core? That was also a Qatari operation by the same people who put Jamal Khashoggi at the Washington Post.

Roger Stone is indicted for blatantly lying before congress and witness tampering.

That would be fair if the law was applied equally, but when are they going to arrest any Democrat for blatantly lying before Congress about running arms to al-Qaeda and Mexican drug lords, giving $billions to Iran, having the GCHQ spy on the opposing party's candidates, or any of a half dozen other scandals that would have gotten anyone other than America's First Black President impeached and possibly hanged for treason, or "witness tampering" Michael Hastings, FBI Anon, the DNC's "Russian hacker", and several pizzagate investigators and sources?

There has been two years of noise about possible Russian interference in the election because Donald Trump did business with the Russians as part of an FBI sting operation that got a Russian bank sanctioned. When are they going to talk about Qatari interference in the election? Do you remember the "Safe Space" campaign a few years ago or the appearance of "Social Justice" "feminists" who never badmouthed Islam but tried to tell you that Hamas was a feminist group? That was them. Have you heard of Common Core? That was also a Qatari operation by the same people who put Jamal Khashoggi at the Washington Post.

I suspect that the chance is small, and it definitely had a good run.

Dozens of 'mysterious radio bursts' from outer space are detected by alien-hunting artificial intelligence

Coincidence? I don't believe so.

all of my Apple devices just keep working.

Yeah, almost unbearably slow, but working. There's nothing quite like Apple's planed obsolescence. Good brand choice indeed.

Hey, COWARD:

I am SURE you didn't watch this year's WWDC Keynote; but one of the first topics (if not THE first) was how they had SPECIFICALLY focused on PERFORMANCE of iOS 12 ON OLDER DEVICES.

In fact, they used an iPhone 6 (which I happen to have), and the performance gains were QUITE impressive.

And I guess that real-world tests with the Beta releases of iOS 12 seem to bear out these claims:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/...

https://www.engadget.com/2018/...

https://9to5mac.com/2018/06/05...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06...

https://www.fastcompany.com/40...

Speaking of which, I just recently Upgraded my iPhone 6 (actually a 6 Plus) from iOS 10.3.3 to iOS 11.4.1. I'm here to tell you that it is NOTICABLY FASTER.

So, kindly Stick It In Your Ass, COWARD!

Yeah. REAL demeaning.
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A lot of Vern Unsworth's criticisms of Elon Musk are contradicted by many of Elon Musk's tweets (most of which pre-date the criticisms).

During a video interview, Vern Unsworth was asked for his opinion on Musk's submarine, and he responded, "He can stick his submarine where it hurts. It just had absolutely no chance of working. He had no conception of what the cave passage was like. The submarine, I believe, was about 5 foot 5 inches long, rigid, so it wouldn't have gone round corners, or around any obstacles. It wouldn't have made the first 50 metres into the cave from the dive start point. Just a PR stunt."
The interviewer then asked, "But he went into the cave, Tuesday?"
Vern Unsworth responded, "And was asked to leave very quickly. And so he should have been."

From what I read on Elon Musk's twitter feed: (1) Musk had exchanged emails with at least one of the cave divers (Musk posted a copy of the emails on his twitter feed) showing that the diver(s) wanted Musk to develop the submarine as a back-up rescue option; (2) Musk got confirmation from the diver(s) that the planned submarine was small/slim enough to be navigated around tight bends in the tunnels; (3) Musk not only made the initial submarine, but also made (or at least planned to make) a second submarine that was 30cm shorter (thus making it more nimble), plus an inflatable dummy which could be used on a dry run to test that the real submarines could successfully make the journey without risk of causing a blockage (if the inflatable dummy gets jammed in a tight corner, then just puncture it to remove it); (4) a team of SpaceX engineers worked for about 48 hours almost non-stop to develop the submarine; (5) Musk used a swimming pool near the SpaceX factory to carry out a test of the submarine's manoeuvrability before flying it to Thailand; (6) contrary to what Vern Unsworth claimed about Musk being asked to leave the cave, Musk tweeted, "Only people in sight were the Thai navy/army guys, who were great. Their navy seals escorted us in - total opposite of wanting us to leave".

I also read somewhere (either on Elon Musk's twitter feed or in a newspaper article) that another company had also been asked to see if it would be possible to make a small enough submarine, but the other company was unable to do so.

One newspaper article stated that Vern Unsworth is a caver with detailed knowledge of the cave system but is not a diver. This might go some way towards explaining the disconnect between Musk's and Unsworth's viewpoints: Musk had been in contact with divers who believed the submarine could work, and that its dimensions made it nimble enough for the tight corners and passages, and encouraged Musk (and a second company) to develop it as a backup rescue option; but perhaps those divers had not discussed this submarine backup plan with Unsworth, so Unsworth had assumed incorrectly that Musk didn't know enough to be able to help with the rescue". If this is true, then it could be argued that Vern Unsworth's comments were gratuitously insulting, untrue, and even defamatory. After all, despite Musk agreeing specifications with the divers, apparently he managed to develop something that was not fit for purpose. To me, that sounds like Unsworth was claiming Musk is an incompetent engineer. It is unsurprising that Elon Musk lost his temper and chose to respond with (presumably) untrue and defamatory insults. Unfortunate, but unsurprising.

What a lot of words you've had to write because of your hero's Toxic Muskulinity.

A lot of Vern Unsworth's criticisms of Elon Musk are contradicted by many of Elon Musk's tweets (most of which pre-date the criticisms).

During a video interview, Vern Unsworth was asked for his opinion on Musk's submarine, and he responded, "He can stick his submarine where it hurts. It just had absolutely no chance of working. He had no conception of what the cave passage was like. The submarine, I believe, was about 5 foot 5 inches long, rigid, so it wouldn't have gone round corners, or around any obstacles. It wouldn't have made the first 50 metres into the cave from the dive start point. Just a PR stunt." The interviewer then asked, "But he went into the cave, Tuesday?" Vern Unsworth responded, "And was asked to leave very quickly. And so he should have been."

From what I read on Elon Musk's twitter feed: (1) Musk had exchanged emails with at least one of the cave divers (Musk posted a copy of the emails on his twitter feed) showing that the diver(s) wanted Musk to develop the submarine as a back-up rescue option; (2) Musk got confirmation from the diver(s) that the planned submarine was small/slim enough to be navigated around tight bends in the tunnels; (3) Musk not only made the initial submarine, but also made (or at least planned to make) a second submarine that was 30cm shorter (thus making it more nimble), plus an inflatable dummy which could be used on a dry run to test that the real submarines could successfully make the journey without risk of causing a blockage (if the inflatable dummy gets jammed in a tight corner, then just puncture it to remove it); (4) a team of SpaceX engineers worked for about 48 hours almost non-stop to develop the submarine; (5) Musk used a swimming pool near the SpaceX factory to carry out a test of the submarine's manoeuvrability before flying it to Thailand; (6) contrary to what Vern Unsworth claimed about Musk being asked to leave the cave, Musk tweeted, "Only people in sight were the Thai navy/army guys, who were great. Their navy seals escorted us in - total opposite of wanting us to leave".

I also read somewhere (either on Elon Musk's twitter feed or in a newspaper article) that another company had also been asked to see if it would be possible to make a small enough submarine, but the other company was unable to do so.

One newspaper article stated that Vern Unsworth is a caver with detailed knowledge of the cave system but is not a diver. This might go some way towards explaining the disconnect between Musk's and Unsworth's viewpoints: Musk had been in contact with divers who believed the submarine could work, and that its dimensions made it nimble enough for the tight corners and passages, and encouraged Musk (and a second company) to develop it as a backup rescue option; but perhaps those divers had not discussed this submarine backup plan with Unsworth, so Unsworth had assumed incorrectly that Musk didn't know enough to be able to help with the rescue". If this is true, then it could be argued that Vern Unsworth's comments were gratuitously insulting, untrue, and even defamatory. After all, despite Musk agreeing specifications with the divers, apparently he managed to develop something that was not fit for purpose. To me, that sounds like Unsworth was claiming Musk is an incompetent engineer. It is unsurprising that Elon Musk lost his temper and chose to respond with (presumably) untrue and defamatory insults. Unfortunate, but unsurprising.

No, what you're observing is garbage being dumped into streams and rivers from poor and remote villages in countries that don't have waste management.

It has NOTHING to do with plastic forks and straws used in advanced countries. Banning this is pure virtue-signalling, and will do nothing to reduce plastic in oceans

Boom! Very astute. One of the strangest things about the gyres of plastics is that the assumption is that it all comes from the USA. When in fact, we have a lot of recycling going on.

Because it is getting very difficult to open new landfills, most of us recycle as much as possible.

Where the more developed countries need to focus on is eliminating microspheres of plastic in skin care products. Those don't do anything but make the product feel "silky smooth".

Enter the "Friendly Floaties". In 1992, a container of some 28,000 rubber ducks washed overboard on a ship coming from Hong Kong, while traversing the Pacific Ocean. We've been tracking them ever since. Not surprisingly, they've shown up in the pacific, but have been tracked above the arctic circle and to the East Coast of USA, and even in Europe. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/...

Cats are a protected class, but owls are Nazis. Anyone who disagrees is a bigot!

You people have to stop getting your news from Fox and Breitbart. The homicide rate in London is not even 1/30th of the US' worst cities, and is nearly half that of New York (all per capita).

Here's the Sun with an article more or less devoid of editorializing. Please tell us which facts you disagree with.

Apple iPhone sales are not slowing down but competitors are...

Which if you bother to think of what that means Apple's overall market share of smart phones is increasing, globally.

Apple is doing these other things, to also grow other areas of the company, not to offset anything. Why wouldn't you try to grow every area of the company you could. especially if you have as much cash as Apple?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/...

And how would they do that?
Sure, they can make slashdot.org unreachable for me ... but not spiegel.de or wetter.de or https://www.japantimes.co.jp/ or god forbid https://www.thesun.co.uk/

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Shall I go on?

If women walk around with their heads uncovered, it's an invitation to rape them. Remember the Arab Spring and Tarhir Square in Egypt? On the night that Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS Reporter Lara Logan was gang-raped by men who were too turned on by her bare head.She wasn't wearing a headscarf, so she was asking for it. Do we not remember this? It was huge, huge news.

Logan said her clothes were torn off and her muscles were agonizingly stretched as she was separated from her crew and swallowed into the 200-to-300-strong mob. She recalled the flashes of cell phone cameras taking pictures of her naked body as her merciless attackers raped her with their hands.

Logan said she hoped her screams would stop her assailants, but they only provoked them.

"Because the more I screamed, it turned them into a frenzy," she said.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/cbs-reporter-lara-logan-opens-tahrir-square-assault/story?id=13492964

Outrage as Iraqi migrant who raped boy, 10, in 'sexual emergency' at swimming pool has conviction overturned because court couldnâ(TM)t prove the child said 'no'. The child was attacked at an Austrian swimming pool last December. The boy was a refugee from Serbia. And afterwards, what did he do? He went for a swim like nothing had happened. I mean, the natural reaction would be to run far away, but it was no biggie. I mean, the little kid was too attractive, he had a sudden sexual emergency, he satisfied himself, problem solved right? Because in his own country, it would be nothing. The boy would be stoned for making an accusation. They are taught this way of life from birth, for thousands of years. Why would we expect they change just because they come to our countries?

This case was hardly covered in Austria, for obvious reasons.

A MAN marrying a stranger on a reality TV show was so disappointed by his new wife's disgusting, fat appearance that he muttered "oh s**t" the moment she appeared at the top of the aisle.

Viewers were left cringing as Sean D struggled to hide his disgust about the fat, used-up single mom who he had been set-up with by a team of scientists. Watch the moment a disappointed groom mutters ‘oh s**t’ as he sees his biggest mistake in life for the first time.

Only a desperate, lonely idiot would buy a USED FAT PIG and raise her stupid fucking children. You must be so ugly, lonely and desperate. Divorced women should be murdered along with their children.

You mean now?? HODL the PHYZ bitchez!

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Second developer of WikiLeaks inspired submission system "SecureDrop", security expert James Dolan, aged 36, has tragically died. He is said to have committed suicide. The first, Aaron Swartz, is said to have taken his own life at age 26, after being persecuted by US prosecutors.

Britain's top human rights lawyer who represented Julian Assange and worked alongside George Clooney's wife Amal dies in apparent suicide

A key witness in the Las Vegas shooting massacre has killed himself and his disabled daughter in a horrific murder-suicide shortly after the FBI raided his home. John Beilman was wanted for questioning by federal agents in connection with a communications device discovered in suspected shooter Stephen Paddock's hotel room.

Klaus Eberwein, a former Haitian government official who was expected to testify against alleged Clinton Foundation corruption and malpractice next week, has been found dead in Miami via gunshot wound to the head. The death was ruled a suicide.

Peter W. Smith, GOP operative who sought Clinton's emails from Russian hackers, committed suicide, records show

If I've said it once.... I've said it a hundred times.

Our technology is evolving faster than our species.

• 
  Suicides of teen girls in the USA are up due to cell phones and social media.
  Cell phones are killing our necks.
  In addition to carrying a personal tracking device, governments are using and abusing any and all technology to spy on citizens
  The Sun could wipe out our power grid with a direct hit from a geomagnetic storm, and utilities aren't doing anything to mitigate the risks.
  5 Countries are destroying the ocean with plastics and covering the earth with asbestos.
  And let's not forget about the Doomsday clock and Nuclear Weapons. We still have a cold war posture that could end badly.
  We have governments with cheap gene editing tools CRISPR/CAS9 working to make designer pets that glow in the dark and super biological weapons
  Video Game Addiction is rampant
  The Internet is a Pandora's box of garbage and porn, bad behavior are shaping your minds through YouTube and other video streaming sites.
  The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. There will be a tipping point and this will lead to global unrest.

We can truly say it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. If we could all just grow up and use our technology for good, but we can't. Just like light and dark, yin and yang, the good of technology is always accompanied by the evil dark side.

My prediction for 2018 is that AI and machine learning are going to be applied to hacking. AI's will be trained to write code to exploit all things and the exploits will be endless. Humans won't even be able to understand the exploit code as the AI software churns them out. Further I predict human cloning will happen this year and that China/Russia/North Korea will test some pretty nasty hacks on Americas Banks, Stock Market, Telecommunications, and/or gas/electric/water. I also predict that US drug usage will continue to increase (opioids, weed, alcohol) and the life expectancy will continue to decrease and suicide rates will continue to increase. I also predict that based on an increased energy in the atmosphere that storms will continue to grow in intensity. I also predict there will be a war in North Korea due to an error in a rocket test hitting a US ally. Further I predict Russia will take over another ex-Russian republic and China will continue to flex it's military muscle.

7 billion people on the planet. Technology everywhere, and we still can't figure out to behave and share.

I was watching TV with a little child and she was horrified by the war videos on the news and she asked me, "Why is there war? Why are they fighting?"

My answer, "Because, Sharing is hard."

To all reading this, in 2018 do a better job of sharing, loving your neighbor, and using less plastic.

Happy New Year!

Uh no, actually, the current era began with an incident on

Well I didn't really want to go that far back, but if we really want to we can start with 60 minutes back in the 1970's. I'm sure you already know that one.

Oh, if you want to go there, then let's go back to your old friend in the Publishing business. Or even....a made up incident!

But hey, at least you aren't going to war because of jealousy.

Meanwhile, oops... you believed another hoax!

Man, that is a crazy conspiracy Mashiki, and you don't even have a reason to blame the... You know, you wouldn't sound so crazy if you didn't make up such hysterical bullshit, but stuck to facts. Actual provable events.

Not your foaming at the mouth hyperbole.

Guess that's why some schools in the UK have seen a 2800% increase in kids suddenly claiming to be trans right?

Oh no! BIG HUGE PERCENTAGES! C'mon, you lying bullshitter, you know when you make blind claims of 2800% you'd just making yourself an obvious joke. You might as well complain that Hogwarts has had an outbreak of Goblin Flu for all the legitimacy that your complaints have.

Not been paying attention at all? I guess not.

Oh, is this like the time you wanted me to believe Satanic Worship was going on? Spare me your hysteria! You know what your moral panic doesn't mention? That the parents mentioned NOTHING other than a name change, a longer hair-style and different clothes. THE HORRORS!

Here's a real problem. Or this one. Or this!

Nope, I'm a citizen of the United States, and you may not understand this, but I want healthcare EVERYWHERE in my country, and more to the point, there are some practical considerations that necessitate my ability to cross state lines to get healthcare, as the boundaries of states were not set according to population or economics

How do you think it works in Canada?

According to you, it's apparently a death trap.

You know the single payer system that the left loves in droves? Each province is responsible for the level of healthcare. The federal government has no input. The fact that you want some bureaucrat in Washington to decide if Atlanta gets a new hospital is sure telling.

I sure don't want the idiots in Georgia deciding I get access to a hospital or not. And to be honest, they're not so good at paving their own roads. Or managing their own elections. Or staying away from other people's water. They need adult supervision. Sorry, but it's true.

Everybody everywhere has rationed healthcare. That's because health care resources are not infinite or unlimited.

Except the part where healthcare is rationed because the government is unwilling to pay for it right?

Nope, not when it's the insur

Usually it's those casinos on the reservations that seem to have the reputation for having a slot machine that was faulty when it made a payout on those networked machines. But it happens in other places:

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The best news article I have seen so far come out of this tragedy is this guy who didn't duck down, and instead drank his beer and looked to spot the shooter, then gave him the finger.

Brave, stupid, and conveying a message from all of us.

Most importantly... can anyone identify what kind of beer that was?

If this guy had had a gun ready, it's possible only half as many people would have died at the concert.

The best news article I have seen so far come out of this tragedy is this guy who didn't duck down, and instead drank his beer and looked to spot the shooter, then gave him the finger.

Brave, stupid, and conveying a message from all of us.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabul...

Indeed, almost every over-consumption of calories can be offset by enough exercise. Athletes in Tour de France, Michael Phelps etc. can consume 12k calories a day where a normal adult male's consumption is 2.5k. Here is a guy eating a full pizza a day for a year and still being very fit. However for these people it's a job or a life style, like Micheal Phelps spent like six hours a day, six days a week exercising in the pool and not at the leisurely rate you and I might swim. For most of us you can "waste" a lot of exercise real quick by eating too much or eating unhealthy. I'm not a total blob but not super fit and I can consume 6-700 kcal/hour exercising, even a pretty modest 500 kcal/day over-consumption is 5-6 hours of exercise per week. It's too much for people with a normal life and an office job, yes if I was an actor or model and my "day job" was to look buff or pretty then maybe but the rest of us got to eat healthy.

Trump is at fault — blame his recklessly reversing Obama's Executive Order banning hurricanes.

And then there are the well-meaning witches seeking to end Trump's Presidency ASAP — well-meaning, but clumsy and unprofessional, miscasting their spells...

Yeah. No mass sexual assault in Germany

Leaked document says 2,000 men allegedly assaulted 1,200 German ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com......
Jul 11, 2016 - Germany approves new sexual assault law after mass New Year's Eve ... outcry over mass attacks on women in Cologne on New Year's Eve.

No acid attacks in London.
Acid attacks in the UK - how many have there been in London and ...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/...
2 days ago - IN LONDON alone the number of acid attacks shot up by 65 per cent last year to 431 – or one every 20 hours – as a growing number of victims ...
Why are you so certain that these things are not happening?

Sex robots do not exist, and likely will not exist for quite some time.

Except they do

https://www.thesun.co.uk/livin...

https://www.theinquirer.net/in...

You might be thinking of true artificial intelligence, which we don't have yet and probably won't for quite some time. Robot != artificial intelligence, as demonstrated by the ample use of robots in factories to assemble electronics, cars and practically every other consumer good on the market.

Too bad for you that the decision has already been made that telling everything you know makes sense.

Such a system also allows for disinformation by feeding your troops false data about related stuff. Telling them stuff that they can confirm makes it easier for them to swallow the false information that the soldier believes to be true.

Or do you not compartmentalize sensitive data any more?

The only reason they're investigating it is because they've seen camera footage of the plane parked at the gate with the first officer's iPhone and iPad lying on the glareshield (not even charging). They just have to rule out any cause, no matter how unlikely.

Maybe it should be pointed out that on that footage there where bottles of perfume right next to the iDevices. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2611419/egyptair-plane-ms804-may-have-crashed-because-the-pilots-placed-his-iphone-6s-on-the-instrument-panel-causing-it-to-ignite/

CCTV cameras at Charles de Gaulle airport clearly show the personal belongings lying on the glare-shield, said Le Parisien.

“The images very clearly indicate that the Egyptian co-pilot put his telephone, tablet and bottles of perfume bought before boarding on the glare-shield,” the paper said.

But I guess "The Judges also ordered some bottles of perfume to be bought, to see if perfume seeping from a damaged bottle could ignite a fire." doesn't quite sell as many papers.

That's not what "brick" means.

It's an article in "The Sun". They don't know what most words mean especially if they have more than one syllable. It has been shown that reading The Sun or other tabloids results in a worse vocabulary than not reading any newspaper and if you want to gauge their level have a look at their toughest words in the dictionary quiz. It is frankly rather sad that Slashdot is linking to such a wholly unreliable source.

That's true in theory, but not in practice, at least not in practice in this 2017 General Election.

As evidence for this consider the Conservative "battle bus". If you double click on the top photo on that page to enlarge it (or alternatively click this link), and then look *very* carefully just under the window on the open door at the front you might be able to just make out the word "Conservatives". If you have the eyes of a hawk.

That's true in theory, but not in practice, at least not in practice in this 2017 General Election.

As evidence for this consider the Conservative "battle bus". If you double click on the top photo on that page to enlarge it (or alternatively click this link), and then look *very* carefully just under the window on the open door at the front you might be able to just make out the word "Conservatives". If you have the eyes of a hawk.

One of the web-browsers out there is to have a minor change to its GUI... How fascinating...

A particularly slownewsday? I wish it were...

Extra points if you get one in a wheelchair or one with bad teeth, because then you get to use your inbred and meth-head jokes.

Inbreeding doesn't really limit itself to poor meth heads.

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And the kicker:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/...

• has billions to throw at an election, yet
• spent much less on his campaign than he said he would, and
• has alleged ties to Russian hackers?

Not saying he spent his campaign money on Russian hackers, but...

Hundreds of windmills and flocks of dead birds? In your backyard? Have you considered writing for The Sun?

For those wanting some context, here is a collection of articles from a variety of sources. For those saying "show me the evidence", they wouldn't believe any evidence -- or are themselves Russian trolls.

What Does Putin Want?
5 Oct 2016

The United States should pursue confrontation where necessary and mutual interests without illusions where possible.

However therapeutic and tempting, especially during election season and after Russiaâ(TM)s direct complicity in the Syria horror, the understandable impulse to confront and isolate President Vladamir Putinâ(TM)s Russia is not wise policy. Notwithstanding the many areas of altercation as well as the doomed attempt by President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to âoeresetâ U.S.-Russia relations after the George W. Bush administration, the next president should pursue a dual strategy designed both to challenge Putin where U.S. national interests demand it but find areas of collaboration where interests coincide. The United States should pursue confrontation where necessary and mutual interests without illusions where possible.

http://nationalinterest.org/fe...

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Russia Suspends Nuclear Agreement, Ends Uranium Research Pact With United States
5 Oct 2016

âoeThe regular renewal of sanctions against Russia ... demands the adoption of countermeasures against the U.S. side.â

Russia further curtailed its cooperation with the United States in nuclear energy on Wednesday, suspending a research agreement and terminating one on uranium conversion, two days after the Kremlin shelved a plutonium pact with Washington.

The Russian government said that as counter-measures to the U.S. sanctions imposed on Russia over Ukraine, it was putting aside a nuclear and energy-related research pact with the United States.

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Russian state newspapers predict âdirect military conflictâ(TM) with US as it compares Syria stalemate to Cuban missile crisis
5 Oct 2016

'Third World War' fears have been voiced by the newspapers over the growing tensions with the USA

A RUSSIAN newspaper fears a Third World War with the US over Syria.

Tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets predicts a âoedirect military confrontationâ on par with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/...

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Russiaâ(TM)s Military Sophistication in the Arctic Sends Echoes of the Cold War
4 Oct 2016

Norwegian, NATO and U.S. officials express concerns over Moscowâ(TM)s increased sophistication in region

When the U.S. wants to learn what Russia is doing in the Arctic, it often turns to the Norwegian military, which has been conducting operations for decades from this Arctic town amid the fiords.

These days, it isnâ(TM)t the volume of Russian military activity in the region that concerns Norway and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies. Adm. Haakon Bruun-Hanssen, Norwayâ(TM)s chief of defense, says Russian military activity in the Barents Sea has grown in recent years but still pales in comparison to Cold War levels.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/ru...

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Amid Deteriorating U.S.-Russia Relations, Questions Grow About Cyberwar
4 Oct 2016

Just when you thought U.S.-Russia relations couldn't get worse, diplomatic deals on both Syria and nuclear security fell apart this week.

Moscow went first, announcing that it was pulling out of a landmark agreement on plutonium. Russia's President V

...so it may not be limited to the Note 7.

There's CCTV footage of one going up in smoke at a coffee shop in London and there's speculation in this article that an S7 caused a fire in a car.

Can't believe I'm posting a link to the Sun newspaper (ick!), but they have a video of a S7 going up in smoke on a table whilst the owner appears to be ordering food.

It wasn't even being charged at the time.

"MEET THE WORLD'S MOST TERRIFYING MAN Dictator known as âThe Bossâ(TM) branded the cruellest leader on the planet

Iron-fisted leader Teodoro Mbasogo has even been accused of CANNIBALISM as he enforces ruthless control over Equatorial Guinea"

"He has even been accused of CANNIBALISM, allegedly believing that eating the flesh of his opponents gives him more strength."

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/...

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"MAN-EATERS Worldâ(TM)s worst cannibal cases: 10 of the grizzliest incidents from Jeffrey Dahmer to Luka Magnotta

Following another gruesome cannibal attack in the USA we look at other killers who have eaten their victims flesh"

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/...

"MEET THE WORLD'S MOST TERRIFYING MAN Dictator known as âThe Bossâ(TM) branded the cruellest leader on the planet

Iron-fisted leader Teodoro Mbasogo has even been accused of CANNIBALISM as he enforces ruthless control over Equatorial Guinea"

"He has even been accused of CANNIBALISM, allegedly believing that eating the flesh of his opponents gives him more strength."

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/...

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"MAN-EATERS Worldâ(TM)s worst cannibal cases: 10 of the grizzliest incidents from Jeffrey Dahmer to Luka Magnotta

Following another gruesome cannibal attack in the USA we look at other killers who have eaten their victims flesh"

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/...

Because it's so easy to fact-check nowadays.

The Krym annexation, unrest at Maidan in Ukraine, conflict in Donetsk, coup in Turkey - this is happening less than 2000km from me. And I have hard time doing any fact checking.

There are conspiracies and propaganda everywhere. Infiltrated social networks, state sponsored shills, ... It is easy to pick sides. But really doing fact checking is difficult.

How do you know whether this image of the BUK system in Donetsk is true? You would have to be familiar with the location to recognize the aerial view. You would have to be aerial reconnaissance expert to identify the vehicle. You would have to have access to the history of movements of the military personnel in the area. And of course you would have to be able to check that the image was not doctored. Or you could stand on that street next to the vehicle when the picture is taken. That allows you to check facts, but then you have to convince others. Your close friends may trust you, but with each degree of separation the trust gets weaker.

Sometimes I think about what I would do to convince the world, that something that I saw is true. Something like cryptographic photo authentication might help - but we had a discussion about that before and it does not work.