Frizzo the Clown
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Post by Frizzo the Clown on Jun 1, 2022 18:56:15 GMT -5
We just had an "active shooter situation" at a local hospital. 4 dead, including the shooter.
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Post by frankyt on Jun 1, 2022 21:25:36 GMT -5
Memorial day weekend saw 12 mass shootings. The definition is a bit narrow but can't imagine a better definition of 'moving the goalposts' than changing the parameters of a mass shooting to include more deaths/injuries just to stop tracking them.
It's pretty ridiculous. Something should be done. If an outright ban isnt feasible there has to be other options. This whole doing nothing and buying more guns sure doesn't seem to be working.
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Post by 1godzillafan on Jun 2, 2022 6:13:17 GMT -5
We just had an "active shooter situation" at a local hospital. 4 dead, including the shooter. Just heard about that. Came to check if you and the family were safe and sound.
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Frizzo the Clown
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Post by Frizzo the Clown on Jun 2, 2022 9:43:21 GMT -5
We just had an "active shooter situation" at a local hospital. 4 dead, including the shooter. Just heard about that. Came to check if you and the family were safe and sound. We're all fine here thanks for asking. So many people were like "oh I never thought it would happen here," as if we don't live in a reasonably large metro with a million people in population. Then you get the ubiquitous "thoughts and prayers," which pisses me off to no end. On the news one of the hospital administrators even said "all we can we can do right now is just pray for our community." Really that's all we can do?
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Post by Frizzo the Clown on Jun 2, 2022 14:04:20 GMT -5
*Update from today's press conference*
The shooter, Michael Lewis, had gone to Dr. Preston Phillips for back surgery on May 19th and was released on May 24th. He continued to have back pain after the fact, and blamed Phillips for that ongoing pain. He purchased a handgun on May 29th and a "AR-15-style" rifle on June 1st. The police chief said Lewis went to the hospital to specifically shoot Dr. Phillips "and anyone who got in his way."
Lewis killed 4 people, including Dr. Phillips, before taking his own life. Police believe he took his own life as they entered the building, as they heard one final shot after entering and announcing their presence. The victims included another physician, a receptionist, and a patient.
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Post by Jibbs on Jun 2, 2022 18:04:31 GMT -5
That certainly puts my post-back surgery issues in perspective.
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Post by Neverending on Jun 29, 2022 14:46:25 GMT -5
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Post by Dracula on Jun 29, 2022 16:33:49 GMT -5
So... now that he's behind bars and can't hurt anyone am I allowed to listen to his music again? Kind of sick of having to "mute" Ignition (Remix)
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Post by frankyt on Jun 22, 2023 10:03:53 GMT -5
I mean we've all been hearing about this titan submersible. The nightmare scenarios are unimaginably bleak.
On this video you can see the inside of the sub, imagine they didn't implode and they were just either adrift or stuck under something - being crammed in there with 4 other people in the absolute darkness of the deep... And the weird noises that inevitably surround you in the deep sea. As a note that special on the new station had them go under and get lost on communications for 2.5 hours.
Either way though the air has run out, and they prob froze to death from hypothermia first anyway if they did just lose power and get carried by ocean currents. But they prob imploded thru the viewport as it wasn't rated for 4k feet and there isn't even anything for sea creatures to predate.
But if they did just suffocate slowly and we do recover the sub and maybe their cell phone videos... Well id imagine they won't share it with the public in our lifetimes.
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Post by frankyt on Jun 22, 2023 12:25:29 GMT -5
Press conference today. Debris field found near titanic.
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Post by Dracula on Jun 22, 2023 16:26:28 GMT -5
Cameron speaks:
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Post by SnoBorderZero on Jun 22, 2023 16:35:06 GMT -5
It's a tragedy, but one that could've been avoided. Lots of cost cutting and ignoring of critical warning signs from people involved with the submersible's creation and expert opinions from the outside saying that this was highly dangerous.
No backups with a lot of features, from batteries to lighting. Changing the frame of the ship from fully titanium to a cheaper, lighter material. Just a lot of head scratching decisions that in retrospect make this so much worse.
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Post by Dracula on Nov 29, 2023 21:13:33 GMT -5
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