May 5, 20223 yr 2 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: West Ham fans in fights in Frankfurt ahead of their Euro semi final 2nd leg. Video out there showing about 50 Frankfurt fans attack West Ham fans who were in a bar. Some of the Frankfurt fans had bats or long pokers/sticks. Couple Hammer fans were seriously injured and now in hospital.
May 5, 20223 yr Author 8 minutes ago, 20dawk4life said: Can you post the vid? I don’t know how to grab the YouTube link on my mobile.
May 5, 20223 yr 1 minute ago, DrPhilly said: Can you post the vid? I don’t know how to grab the YouTube link on my mobile. That’s from a movie
May 5, 20223 yr Author Just now, 20dawk4life said: That’s from a movie Search for "West Ham Frankfurt fights”
May 5, 20223 yr 18 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: Search for "West Ham Frankfurt fights” Just copy the link and paste it here
May 5, 20223 yr Author 36 minutes ago, 20dawk4life said: Just copy the link and paste it here Beach beer joint wine edit: bj shower, now out to dinner
May 10, 20223 yr Grandfather Performs Exorcism at Church on 3-Year-Old Who Dies https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/grandfather-performs-exorcism-at-church-on-3-year-old-who-dies/ar-AAX6EqX?ocid=BingNews Religious wackos. Un-Fing-believable.
May 12, 20223 yr I think a lot of older Millennials feel left behind by the party's enduring elitism combined with its deep dive into identity politics. Quote GLOBAL OPINIONS Opinion Are millennial leftists aging into right-wingers? By J.J. McCullough Global Opinions contributing columnist May 9, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. EDT I was listening to a podcast the other day featuring two hard-left Americans in their late 30s. I won’t name names, but you know the type — socialist intellectuals who use terms like "dissident” to describe themselves. The conversation mainly centered around a few themes: 1. The kids today are too self-righteous and judgmental. 2. The Democratic Party is corrupt and uninspiring. 3. Donald Trump wasn’t nearly as bad as everyone said. 4. I miss the good old days. It came off as a portrait of the millennial generation midlife crisis-ing its way into voting Republican. Many millennials (of which I am one) are now entering their 40s. It’s a firmly adult phase of life that tends to correlate with a recalibration of priorities, expectations and resentments. A substantial migration of millennial voters from left to right — including a significant chunk of those who might appear the unlikeliest of converts — will surely be one consequence. Every generation of American progressive has seen it happen. Ronald Reagan created "Reagan Democrats” from aging members of the war generation who supported Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy but grew disillusioned with statism. One faction of boomer leftists aged into neoconservatives as they became more anxious about the Cold War; another made peace with neoliberal economics once they left college and got good jobs in the prosperous 1980s and ’90s. Spend any time listening to left-wing millennials on their vast archipelago of blogs, podcasts, YouTube channels and Twitch streams and you’ll hear hints of the terms on which this generation’s shift will unfold; their growing distaste for their own political tribe seems as much a product of cultural alienation as anything. Many millennial leftists say it openly: They’re apathetic about "social issues.” It’s the economic stuff that really concerns them — and certainly there are plenty of metrics that can be cited to argue millennials face generationally unique economic hardships. But if engagement with this reality rarely rises above a rote denunciation of the capitalist system itself — the continuation of which isn’t exactly an active debate in U.S. politics — then economic malaise probably isn’t going to dictate many votes one way or another. Unless, that is, apathy toward social issues is seen as a form of economic justice unto itself. America’s biggest brands have received a lot of fire from the millennial left in recent years for ostentatious virtue signaling — rainbow Oreos, Black Lives Matter shirts at Walmart, that sort of thing. There is rage at this imagined disingenuousness; corporate America is assumed to be full of a bunch of greedy hypocrites who don’t believe in the causes they’re exploiting to pitch products. Yet at some point this anger becomes indistinguishable from purely aesthetic distaste — instinctive revulsion at a new highly visible evolution in the culture that finds common cause with a populist right equally contemptuous of "woke capital” and the liberal politicians they finance. Further overlap comes from a shared perception that the social causes of today simply aren’t worth much. Just as some boomers felt their progressive views on civil rights and feminism justified indifference — or hostility — to the gay rights movement that came later, aging millennials who feel they’ve proved themselves supportive of gay rights may find prissy and frivolous the younger generation’s insistence on things such as pronoun introductions and perfectly race- and gender-balanced workplaces. Layer on that most disorienting anxiety of middle-age — not knowing what’s offensive anymore — and you have a generation primed to be at least a little reactionary-curious. However, a shared loathing of the liberal establishment is probably the right’s most convincing case for leftist conversion. In the days of Reagan, or even Newt Gingrich, conservative politics was philosophical and policy-driven. Theoretically at least, voters either supported the "Contract with America” or didn’t. Today, however, the Republican Party has abandoned the idea of even offering a platform: You either hate the cringey, crooked lying libs or you don’t. A left that already enjoys dwelling on the misdeeds of the Democratic elite — "denying” Bernie Sanders the presidency and so on — is an open door for conservatives to push. In time, Democrats devolve in the millennial leftist imagination from being "no better” to objectively worse; the GOP rises from "making some good points” to being actively necessary. Fueled in part by anti-liberal animus, Sanders-to-Trump voters were a well-documented phenomenon that helped Republicans retake the White House in 2016. Many of those voters never came back, and the Sanders coalition became smaller and more ideological in 2020. Yet the Sanders-to-Trump migration continued, with some polls taken before the 2020 vote suggesting the number of converts could be as high as 15 percent. Doubtless this played a role in Trump increasing his share of the millennial vote by 8 percent. Fast-forward a decade or two and imagine millennials in their 50s and 60s. Do you suppose we’ll find a crop of seniors still interested in being on the bleeding edge of left-wing politics? Or a generation that’s simply settled into a kind of conservatism they would have recognized in their parents and grandparents — a conservatism born from confidence that they did their part when it mattered, but what the nation needs now is a strong Republican government capable of keeping a new, illegitimate progressive movement from ruining the nation with its immature nonsense? The second scenario strikes me as a matter of "when,” not "if” — and the "when” is already underway. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/09/are-millennial-leftists-aging-into-right-wingers/
May 12, 20223 yr Neat! Quote Fragment of the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs may have been found By Katie Hunt, CNN Updated 8:25 AM ET, Wed May 11, 2022 This amber may contain a piece of the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago. (CNN)A tiny fragment of the asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago may have been found encased in amber -- a discovery NASA has described as "mind-blowing." It's one of several astounding finds at a unique fossil site in the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota that has preserved remnants of the cataclysmic moment that ended the dinosaur era -- a turning point in the history of the planet. The fossils unearthed there include fish that sucked in debris blasted out during the strike, a turtle impaled with a stick and a leg that might have belonged to a dinosaur that witnessed the asteroid strike. The story of the discoveries is revealed in a new documentary called "Dinosaur Apocalypse," which features naturalist Sir David Attenborough and paleontologist Robert DePalma and airs Wednesday on the PBS show "Nova." Palaeontologist Robert DePalma is pictured at the Tanis dig site in North Dakota. The ultimate bad day DePalma, a postgraduate researcher at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and adjunct professor for the Florida Atlantic University's geosciences department, first started working at Tanis, as the fossil site is known, in 2012. Enter your email to subscribe to the CNN Fareed Zakaria global analysis newsletter. close dialog Tanis is more than 2,000 miles away from the Chicxulub impact crater left by the asteroid that struck off the coast of Mexico, but initial discoveries made at the site convinced DePalma that it provides rare evidence of what led to the end of the dinosaur era. The Tanis fossil site in North Dakota would have been a swampy rainforest 66 million years ago. The site is home to thousands of well-preserved fish fossils that DePalma believed were buried alive by sediment displaced as a massive body of water unleashed by the asteroid strike moved up the interior seaway. Unlike tsunamis, which can take hours to reach land after an earthquake at sea, these moving water bodies, known as a seiche, surged out instantaneously after the massive asteroid crashed into the sea. He's certain that the fish died within an hour of the asteroid strike, and not as a result of the massive wildfires or the nuclear winter that came in the days and months that followed. That's because "impact spherules" -- small bits of molten rock thrown up from the crater into space where they crystallized into a glass-like material -- were found lodged in the gills of the fish. Analysis of the fish fossils has also revealed the asteroid hit in spring. "One piece of evidence after another started stacking up and changing the story. It was a progression of clues like a Sherlock Holmes investigation," DePalma said. "It gives a moment by moment story of what happens right after impact and you end up getting such a rich resource for scientific investigation." Many of the latest discoveries revealed in the documentary haven't been been published in scientific journals. Michael Benton, a professor of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Bristol, who acted as a scientific adviser on the documentary, said while it was a "matter of convention" that new scientific claims should go through peer review before being revealed on television, he and many other paleontologists accepted that the fossil site really does represent the dinosaurs' "last day." "Some experts have said 'well, it might be the day after or a month before ... but I prefer the simplest explanation, which is that it really does document the day the asteroid hit in Mexico," he said via email. A limb belonging to a Thescelosaurus, a small plant-eating dinosaur, as it was excavated from the the Tanis fossil site in North Dakota. The creature may have witnessed the asteroid that ended the dinosaur era. Cosmic origin Most of the glassy impact spherules that first revealed the fingerprints of the asteroid impact to DePalma are preserved as clay as a result of geological processes over millions of years. However, DePalma and his collaborators have also found some spherules that landed in tree resin on the surface of a log that fateful day and were preserved in amber. "In that amber we've located a number of spherules that were basically frozen in time, because, just like an insect in amber which is perfectly preserved, when these spherules entered the amber, water couldn't get to them. They never turned to clay, and they're perfectly preserved," he said. It's "like getting a sample vial, running back in time and getting a sample from the impact site and then saving it for science," DePalma said. They were able to locate a number of little unmelted fragments of rock inside the glass spherules. Most of these tiny rock fragments were calcium-rich -- likely from the limestone under the Yucatan Peninsula, DePalma said. Shown here is the amber with a potential piece of the asteroid inside. "But two of those were wildly different in composition. You had spikes in chromium and nickel and some other elements that are only common in meteoritic material and those fragments based on our preliminary analysis...are almost certainly of cosmic origin." DePalma said they hope to be able to confirm what the asteroid was made from and where it might be from -- efforts that have caught the attention of NASA; DePalma presented his findings last month at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "This example of what might be a little tiny fragment, maybe micrograms, of the colliding asteroid -- the fact that a record of that is preserved, would be mind-blowing," said Goddard Chief Scientist Jim Garvin, who has studied impact cratering on Earth and Mars. Research on the amber-entombed spherules hasn't been published in a peer-reviewed journal. During peer review, scientists give rigorous feedback on one another's work to ensure it stands up to scrutiny. DePalma said a peer-reviewed paper on the preliminary findings would be published "in the coming months." Dinosaur leg An exceptionally preserved dinosaur leg with skin in tact is another discovery from the Tanis site that features in the documentary, which first aired in the UK in April, and has turned heads in the paleontological world. The Thescelosaurus leg fossil after being excavated. Very few fossils from the Cretaceous Period have been found in the uppermost rocks of the geological record, and it's possible the limb -- which belongs to a Thescelosaurus, a small plant-eating dinosaur DePalma and his colleagues discovered -- could have died on the very day the asteroid hit. The preservation of soft tissue such as skin suggests that its body did not have any time to decay before it was buried in sediment. "The only two supported scenarios here are that it died in the surge or that it died immediately before (the asteroid strike) but so close in time that it really did not have time to decay. This is not something that had died years before and then been reworked. That does not happen with soft tissue like that." Detailed analysis of the dinosaur's leg bones could shed light on what conditions were like in the lead-up to the impact. The pterosaur egg discovered at Tanis is the only one found in North America. Other cool finds from the site include a fossilized pterosaur egg, the first found in North America. It shows that the eggs of the giant flying reptiles were soft like those of many reptiles today. A fossilized turtle with a wooden stick through its body is evidence that the creature was impaled during the water surge unleashed by the asteroid strike. The work being done at Tanis not only nails down in jaw-dropping detail what happened the day the asteroid struck, it also provides insight into an event that caused a mass extinction and how that extinction subsequently unfolded. DePalma hopes this will provide a framework to think about the climate crisis today. "The fossil record gives us a window into the details of a global-scale hazard and the reaction of Earth's biota to that hazard," DePalma said. "It gives us... a crystal ball looking back in time and enables us to apply that to today's ecological and environmental crisis." "That is both startling, but also a benefit to us. Because by studying this impact event in greater detail, we can be better prepared to care for our world right now." https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/world/dinosaur-apocalypse-tanis-fossil-site-scn/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_content=2022-05-11T18%3A30%3A31&utm_medium=social&utm_source=fbCNN&fbclid=IwAR11BnQVLkx5AtPR3dRjoZ9wgQdbcCTDXBE0SvQobFrDUOZ6qoSZJUs7SUU
May 16, 20223 yr Arby's manager admits to urinating into milkshake mix 'at least twice' https://www.foxnews.com/politics/arbys-manager-admits-to-urinating-into-milkshake-mix Washington state. Guy arrested for porn has video of himself pissing into the milkshake machine.
May 17, 20223 yr Indian couple sue only son for not giving them grandchildren How are you holding up @vikas83
May 24, 20223 yr Iraqi citizen living in Ohio arrested after allegedly plotting to assassinate former President George W. Bush
May 24, 20223 yr On 5/17/2022 at 6:30 AM, paco said: Indian couple sue only son for not giving them grandchildren How are you holding up @vikas83 I feel Vikas probably has funds put aside to settle these types of disputes.
May 24, 20223 yr 13 minutes ago, Boogyman said: I feel Vikas probably has funds put aside to settle these types of disputes. Smart if he does. Settling would be a lot cheaper than raising kids.
May 24, 20223 yr 14 minutes ago, Boogyman said: I feel Vikas probably has funds put aside to settle these types of disputes. Just now, toolg said: Smart if he does. Settling would be a lot cheaper than raising kids. Took my mom car shopping when I was home last month. 50th anniversary coming up. $2k per month lease = much cheaper than a kid
May 24, 20223 yr Just now, vikas83 said: Took my mom car shopping when I was home last month. 50th anniversary coming up. $2k per month lease = much cheaper than a kid WTF are you leasing, a Greyhound bus?
May 24, 20223 yr 12 minutes ago, paco said: WTF are you leasing, a Greyhound bus? She wants a Cayenne. Probably will be like ~1,600 is my guess. Hell, my car is almost 3k.
May 24, 20223 yr 1 minute ago, vikas83 said: She wants a Cayenne. Probably will be like ~1,600 is my guess. Hell, my car is almost 3k. Gotcha. Also, leasing is for the poors
May 24, 20223 yr 2 minutes ago, paco said: Gotcha. Also, leasing is for the poors Nah, I will only lease a car. It's a free put option. If the value is higher than the residual, get paid. If it's lower, toss them the keys. I get a new car every few years anyway.
May 26, 20223 yr Kevin Spacey charged with four counts of sexual assault Quote London (CNN)US actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Thursday. Spacey was also charged with one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent, the CPS said. The charges relate to alleged incidents in London in 2005 and 2008, and in Gloucestershire, western England, in 2013.
May 27, 20223 yr How your Dr can accidently ruin your day\kill your self esteem. ( @vikas83 you may enjoy this) Went in today for my yearly check up and I'm feeling pretty good. Over the past year I was being active, eating well and dropped a bunch of weight. So I'm sitting there chatting with him and he's going over my habits. Then we have this exchange: Dr G: What other activities do you do, do you ride a bike? paco: (points to his peloton century club (100 rides) shirt) I have a Peloton. Dr G: Oh. Ok. I thought maybe you just bought the shirt
May 27, 20223 yr Author 1 hour ago, paco said: How your Dr can accidently ruin your day\kill your self esteem. ( @vikas83 you may enjoy this) Went in today for my yearly check up and I'm feeling pretty good. Over the past year I was being active, eating well and dropped a bunch of weight. So I'm sitting there chatting with him and he's going over my habits. Then we have this exchange: Dr G: What other activities do you do, do you ride a bike? paco: (points to his peloton century club (100 rides) shirt) I have a Peloton. Dr G: Oh. Ok. I thought maybe you just bought the shirt Guess you didn't drop enough weight
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