Cygnia Posted August 19, 2021 Report Share Posted August 19, 2021 Capitol Hill buildings evacuated as police negotiate with man claiming to have bomb Sociotard and pinecone 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 Oh man...... Now I'll never get a Hanso sword.... https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/19/entertainment/sonny-chiba-death-trnd/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 Public health studies' publications get pressured by funders Interestingly, publicly-funded studies are pressured as much (or more) than privately-funded ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 Hey, did you hear how former producer Mike Richards is going to be the new host of Jeopardy!? Well, not any more. Mike Richards out as 'Jeopardy!' host after past scrutinized From NPR: The Mike Richards 'Jeopardy!' Fiasco Was Maddeningly Predictable Logan D. Hurricanes and Cygnia 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 On 8/19/2021 at 1:39 PM, Cygnia said: Capitol Hill buildings evacuated as police negotiate with man claiming to have bomb Of course he targeted that most liberal of institutions, a library. Pariah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 You may have heard the news that OnlyFans is getting rid of their sexual content (ie, the reason they exist at all). Well, apparently not all of it. Spoiler So you'll have to look elsewhere for your extreme fisting fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 Necrophilia? I wouldn't be caught dead with one of those guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 New England Is Facing Its 1st Direct Hurricane Landfall In 30 Years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Pariah said: Necrophilia? I wouldn't be caught dead with one of those guys! What about the girls? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 21, 2021 Report Share Posted August 21, 2021 Why Is OnlyFans Banning Content? Visa and Mastercard Blamed for Shock Move Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted August 21, 2021 Report Share Posted August 21, 2021 I can't say for certain (seriously; I can't. Yes: I am that one guy out of a thousand who has zero interest in porn. My wife actually thinks it's hilarious. Sue me), but I am pretty certain that this is a crock of crap, and that Visa and Mastercard (Good God! Does Mastercard still exist? Or is it just a division of VISA now?) funnel tons of money from all the other porn sites on the internet.... Hmmm.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 21, 2021 Report Share Posted August 21, 2021 Mastercard still exists. They're the provider backing the hubby's health benefits card. Duke Bushido 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 Don Everly dies aged 84 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58297621 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 This belongs here rather than in the General Sports thread but it could go in the Nice Happy Thread as well. Olympic boxer becomes Mayor of Wolverhampton for a day https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-58299944 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt the Bruins Posted August 23, 2021 Report Share Posted August 23, 2021 On 8/20/2021 at 8:40 PM, Duke Bushido said: I can't say for certain (seriously; I can't. Yes: I am that one guy out of a thousand who has zero interest in porn. My wife actually thinks it's hilarious. Sue me), but I am pretty certain that this is a crock of crap, and that Visa and Mastercard (Good God! Does Mastercard still exist? Or is it just a division of VISA now?) funnel tons of money from all the other porn sites on the internet.... My understanding of the issue is that OnlyFans is not the actual producer of the content it hosts, unlike the various adult studios with their dedicated websites, and that it would be prohibitively expensive for them to provide the kind of oversight/moderation for thousands of individual content providers that would quickly take down anything illegal before it became a problem. Cygnia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 23, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2021 She bought a house and found a century-old diary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted August 23, 2021 Report Share Posted August 23, 2021 Ah. Hadn't even thought about such a problem existing, to be honest. Thanks, Matt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted August 23, 2021 Report Share Posted August 23, 2021 6 hours ago, Matt the Bruins said: My understanding of the issue is that OnlyFans is not the actual producer of the content it hosts, unlike the various adult studios with their dedicated websites, and that it would be prohibitively expensive for them to provide the kind of oversight/moderation for thousands of individual content providers that would quickly take down anything illegal before it became a problem. OnlyFans takes a substantial cut of the money the content producers makes from their content. They seriously couldn't hire people to fast forward through porn that was just posted looking for legally problematic content? Heck I could show them the broad concept how to do it on the cheap. 1) Hire people as contractors. 2) Their pay is to get to watch the pay-for-porn for free. 3) They get paid a bonus for finding each item that has to be taken down from the site. 4) Monitor the contractors to make sure they're watching a certain amount of porn per week and to make sure that each one is eventually reporting questionable content to someone for review (in order to make sure they aren't just watching the porn rather than not doing the job and to make sure they're using good judgement in what to flag for attention to their superior.) 5) Content producers who have to have too many items removed from the site get banned. Weight the "seriousness of the offense" so that posting kiddie porn isn't treated exactly the same as much less damaging behavior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted August 24, 2021 Report Share Posted August 24, 2021 On this date: A.D. 79: Long-dormant Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash; an estimated 20,000 people died. Don't know why this really struck me today, but there it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 24, 2021 Report Share Posted August 24, 2021 Look at a recent picture of Vesuvius, and you'll see development going up its slopes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted August 24, 2021 Report Share Posted August 24, 2021 Woman is on trial for murder for leaving her immobilized patient locked in a car for five hours CES Grailknight and Matt the Bruins 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grailknight Posted August 24, 2021 Report Share Posted August 24, 2021 1 hour ago, csyphrett said: Woman is on trial for murder for leaving her immobilized patient locked in a car for five hours CES She should be. Haven't seen a news story but if the deceased was a patient then she was a caregiver and should know better. Cygnia and Duke Bushido 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tjack Posted August 25, 2021 Report Share Posted August 25, 2021 2 hours ago, Grailknight said: She should be. Haven't seen a news story but if the deceased was a patient then she was a caregiver and should know better. Caregiver hell, if she was a human being she should know better. There are some people and some crimes where the idea of banning “cruel and inhuman punishment” should be suspended. This is one where you just get some horses and some chains and a film crew. Either that or how about a strong paralytic and a small room for however long it takes. I’m going to the “Something Cute” thread and try to unbury my mood. Duke Bushido, Cygnia and Pariah 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted August 25, 2021 Report Share Posted August 25, 2021 Take care of yourself, Tjack. Can't blame ya. I cannot offhand construct ANY excuse for leaving the person in the car for that long. I agree that, come on, ANY adult should understand the risks. Make it a caregiver, and it qualifies in my book as aggravating circumstances. I can see the 2nd degree charge, as we have no reason to believe there was premeditation...but this is as egregious as I think it could get without the premeditation. The max sentence is life, and I would support that without a second thought. Grail: here's a link. https://www.wnct.com/on-your-side/crime-tracker/greensboro-woman-charged-with-murder-in-connection-to-death-of-person-with-cerebral-palsy-left-in-hot-car-for-around-five-hours/ Cripes...all you'd think it would take is the experience of getting into your car after work, when it wasn't in the sun, on a hot day. Even if you've got a sunscreen on the windshield. The car is BLOODY HOT! 5 minutes and you're sweating...long drive, take a break middle of the day? Yeah, 5, 10 minutes tops, and the sweat starts. EDIT: HELL...would you leave a patient in an open, public place (I presume it was a parking lot) for 5 hours??? That in itself feels like it'd be grounds to yank the caregiver license, even if nothing bad happens. Tjack and Matt the Bruins 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 25, 2021 Report Share Posted August 25, 2021 Sounds like the kind of person I'd like to invite over for a drink. Amontillado, perhaps. I think I've got a cask of it in my basement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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