Sunday, June 4, 2017
Please don’t put ground-up wasp nests in your vagina
Saturday, June 3, 2017
The Daily Drift
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Today in History
| 1098 | 'Christian' Crusaders of the First Crusade seize Antioch, Turkey. | |
| 1539 | Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain. | |
| 1861 | Union troops defeat Confederate forces at Philippi, in western Virginia | |
| 1864 | Some 7,000 Union troops are killed within 30 minutes during the Battle of Cold Harbor in Virginia. | |
| 1888 | The classic baseball poem “Casey at the Bat,” written by Ernest L. Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner. | |
| 1918 | The Finnish Parliament ratifies a treaty with Germany. | |
| 1923 | In Italy, dictator Benito Mussolini grants women the right to vote. | |
| 1928 | Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin dies as a result of a bomb blast set off by the Japanese. | |
| 1938 | The German Third Reich votes to confiscate so-called “degenerate art.” | |
| 1940 | The German Luftwaffe hits Paris with 1,100 bombs. | |
| 1942 | Japanese carrier-based planes strafe Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands as a diversion of the attack on Midway Island. | |
| 1952 | A rebellion by North Korean prisoners in the Koje prison camp in South Korea is put down by American troops. | |
| 1965 | Astronaut Edward White becomes the first American to walk in space when he exits the Gemini 4 space capsule. | |
| 1969 | 74 American sailors die when the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans was cut in two by an Australian aircraft carrier in the South China Sea. | |
| 1974 | Charles Colson, an aide to Nixon, pleads guilty to obstruction of justice. | |
| 1989 | The Chinese government begins its crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Hundreds are killed and thousands are arrested. |
California Senate Passes Single-Payer Bill to Provide Comprehensive Health Care to All Residents
As California goes, so does the nation (whether the wingnuts like it or not).
Dumbass Trump Protesters Could Be Facing Decades in Prison for Inauguration Demonstrations
How lily-liveried chickenshit can they be?
Talk about "Snowflakes"!
The Weather Channel Has Responded To Dumbass Trump Withdrawing Us From The Paris Accord
The reaction to Dumbass Trump’s withdrawing us from the Paris climate
agreement was swift and harsh, but one of the harshest reactions came
from The Weather Channel, which put the ignoramuses who supported Dumbass Trump
in this disaster in their place.
Dumbass Trump Decided To Break Paris Deal After French President’s Handshake Embarrassed Him
Dumbass Trump used ending America’s commitment to fighting climate change as
revenge for an embarrassing moment with the French president.
Dumbass Trump White House Sinks To New Lows Of Obstruction
Dumbass Trump Just Exempted His ENTIRE Senior Staff From White House Ethics Rules
This totally isn’t suspicious at all.
Nope, not at all.
Nope, not at all.
Friday, June 2, 2017
The Daily Drift
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Now, She's Flexable!
Today in History
| 1537 | Pope Paul III bans the enslavement of Indians in the New World. | |
| 1774 | The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to allow British soldiers into their houses, is reenacted. | |
| 1793 | Maximilien Robespierre, a member of France’s Committee on Public Safety, initiates the “Reign of Terror.” | |
| 1818 | The British army defeats the Maratha alliance in Bombay, India. | |
| 1859 | French forces cross the Ticino River. | |
| 1865 | At Galveston, Texas, Confederate general Edmund Kirby Smith surrenders the Trans-Mississippi Department to Union forces. | |
| 1883 | The first baseball game under electric lights is played in Fort Wayne, Indiana. | |
| 1886 | Grover Cleveland becomes the first American president to wed while in office. | |
| 1910 | Charles Stewart Rolls, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce, becomes the first man to fly an airplane nonstop across the English Channel both ways. Tragically, he becomes Britain’s first aircraft fatality the following month when his biplane breaks up in midair. | |
| 1924 | The United States grants full citizenship to American Indians. | |
| 1928 | Nationalist Chiang Kai-shek captures Peking, China, in a bloodless takeover. | |
| 1942 | The American aircraft carriers Enterprise, Hornet and Yorktown move into their battle positions for the Battle of Midway. | |
| 1944 | Allied “shuttle bombing” of Germany begins, with bombers departing from Italy and landing in the Soviet Union. | |
| 1946 | Italian citizens vote by referendum for a republic. | |
| 1948 | Jamaican-born track star Herb McKenley sets a new world record for the 400 yard dash. | |
| 1953 | Elizabeth II is crowned queen of England at Westminster Abbey. | |
| 1954 | Senator Joseph McCarthy charges that there are communists working in the CIA and atomic weapons plants. | |
| 1969 | The Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne slices the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half off the shore of South Vietnam. |
The 20th-century War on Women's Swimwear
What Goth Culture Looks Like Around The World
In Brazil the goth subculture is thriving in night clubs, and the attire is understandably cooler and less formal.
Canadian goths are big on Steampunk, which makes sense since their climate is suited to heavy fabrics and layering.
Cuba has a small but slowly growing goth scene, and some Cuban goths seem to be going all out with their looks.
Many
of the goths in France sport a romantic Victorian Vampire look, which
makes sense considering Paris is home to one of the oldest goth scenes
in Europe. Meanwhile, Kenya is home to one of the youngest goth scenes, and in Kenya goths smolder in their studded leather.
Black Lives Matter wins global peace prize
The Sydney Peace Foundation announced last week it was giving Black Lives Matter its 2017 peace prize during a ceremony scheduled in November for Sydney.
New York City law gives fast-food workers scheduling rights
Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a package of bills that the city estimates will cover some 65,000 fast food workers. A key component of the package is a requirement that fast food restaurants schedule their workers at least two weeks in advance or pay extra for shift changes.
“Predictable schedules and predictable paychecks should be a right, not a privilege,” de Blasio said before signing the legislation into law. “With these bills, we are continuing to build a fairer and more equitable city for all New Yorkers.”
Artist Installs Pug Peeing Statue Next to Fearless Girl Statue
Unsurprisingly,
critics complained that his work was sexist, but Gardega defended his
work as a critique of the corporate sponsor that was responsible for
putting up the Fearless Girl statue (yes, she wasn't made by a pro-woman
artist, but as an advertisement by Wall Street corporation State
Street).
"I decided to build this dog and make it crappy to downgrade the statue, exactly how the girl is a downgrade on the bull," he added.
Gardega took down the statue less than a day after putting it up, noting that he didn't even bolt it to the ground and that viewers damaged the dog's leg. He says he intends to put it back up after repairing it and that he eventually plans to sell it on his website for $10.
You can read more about the dog statue on Gothamist and Refinery 29
"I decided to build this dog and make it crappy to downgrade the statue, exactly how the girl is a downgrade on the bull," he added.
Gardega took down the statue less than a day after putting it up, noting that he didn't even bolt it to the ground and that viewers damaged the dog's leg. He says he intends to put it back up after repairing it and that he eventually plans to sell it on his website for $10.
You can read more about the dog statue on Gothamist and Refinery 29
Grey matter changes depending on your age and sex
Dreaming and Brain Disorders
All humans, as well as other mammals and birds, experience a stage of sleeping known as rapid eye movement sleep (REM). As the name suggests, your eyes move in a quick, random motion. During this stage some people suffer from REM sleep disorder, which leads them to act out their dreams through talking, shouting, hitting and other physical motions, according to the National Sleep Foundation. The research discovered that about 80 percent of people who suffer from a REM disorder will go on to develop a neurodegenerative disorder, such as Parkinson's.
The world's first commercial CO2 capture plant just went live
Climeworks, which will begin operations at a facility near Zurich, Switzerland, plans to compress the CO2 it captures and use it as fertilizer to grow crops in greenhouses. The company wants to dramatically scale its technology over the next decade, and its long-term goal is to capture 1 percent of global annual carbon dioxide emissions by 2025.
Scientists are working on a 'vaccine' to stop the spread of fake news
Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht loses bid to void conviction, life sentence
A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld the conviction
and life sentence of Ross Ulbricht, the accused mastermind behind the
Silk Road online black market for illegal drugs.By a 3-0 vote, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rejected Ulbricht’s claims that his trial judge deprived him of a fair trial, in part by preventing him from introducing evidence of “corrupt” activity by two federal agents.
It also rejected Ulbricht’s claim that the sentence was too long, citing the “staggering” $183 million of illegal drugs sold on Silk Road from 2011 to 2013, and a lower court’s finding it more likely than not that Ulbricht arranged at least five attempted murders for hire to protect Silk Road’s anonymity.
“That he was able to distance himself from the actual violence he paid for by using a computer to order the killings is not mitigating,” Circuit Judge Gerard Lynch wrote in a 139-page decision. “Indeed, the cruelty that he displayed in his casual and confident negotiations for the hits is unnerving.”
Two Guys Tried To Rob A McDonald's Restaurant Full Of Special Forces Officers
But, unbeknownst to them as they fired warning shots into the air and took the till for all it had, 11 of the 40 people in the restaurant were French special forces officers, from the "Groupe d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale, or GIGN - the Gallic equivalent of the SAS".
Edwige Roux-Morizot, the local prosecutor, said: “During the hold-up, the gendarmes didn’t do anything. It was out of the question to use their weapons, as this would have created difficulties and could have placed many people’s lives in danger.”
The highly trained and battle-hardened officers were able to pounce on the first of the two robbers when he tripped on his way of the outlet without firing a shot.
However, they were forced to shoot the other in the abdomen when he pointed a gun at them as he sought to make his getaway with the cash, ignoring their orders to drop his weapon.
The two robbers, both in their early 20s and from the local Mombéliard area, were taken to Besancon hospital for treatment.
Armed Dumbass Trump Sycophant Arrested
Time to put up or shut up about UFOs
NASA is testing solar panels that unfurl like Fruit Roll-Ups in space
ROSA stands for Roll-Out Solar Array. It’s a new way of deploying solar arrays in space. Satellites and spacecraft typically unfold their solar panels like an accordion. But ROSA’s solar panels stretch out on a boom and then unroll themselves in a way that’s been compared to a tape measure or a party favor. Because it's more compact, ROSA's creators at the Air Force Research Laboratory think it could make spacecraft smaller and therefore cheaper.
Beyond the Event Horizon
According to the widely accepted theory of black holes, based on Einstein’s relativity theory, black holes, including their supermassive variants, form when a star with a mass approximately great than 20 suns, collapses onto itself after running out of energy to support itself. The resulting dense concentration of matter has gravity so strong that it accretes everything that comes within its gravitational sphere, growing in mass all the time. Since everything includes light, a black hole is not directly visible, earning it its name. The concept of event horizons, while accepted by a large number of people, has not yet been proven, however.
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