LoooSeR Posted February 6, 2017 Report Share Posted February 6, 2017 Something a bit different - Lebanese communists demonstration yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted February 9, 2017 Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 "Seattle becomes the first city to sever ties with Wells Fargo in protest of Dakota Access pipeline." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted February 9, 2017 Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 1 hour ago, Scolopax said: "Seattle becomes the first city to sever ties with Wells Fargo in protest of Dakota Access pipeline." Wells Fargo is a collection of unethical, deceitful shitters. The problem is that most of the big banks are the same. From what I gather, it is going to cost the city a lot of money to have its bean-counters track down and divest itself of all of the individual, separate accounts. I'm also curious to see which institution Seattle will invest its $3 billion in walking money. Also I wouldn't put it past the folks who run the show in my old home town to simply walk off with a chunk of this money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted February 10, 2017 Report Share Posted February 10, 2017 LeBeouf dream is kill "Museum Shuts Down Shia LeBeouf's Protest Project Over 'Safety Hazards'" Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted February 12, 2017 Report Share Posted February 12, 2017 The might open the second largest rare earth mine on Earth in Greenland; http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/world/2017/02/10/greenland-needs-money-is-a-uranium-mine-the-answer/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShamefurDispray Posted February 12, 2017 Report Share Posted February 12, 2017 2 hours ago, LostCosmonaut said: The might open the second largest rare earth mine on Earth in Greenland; http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/world/2017/02/10/greenland-needs-money-is-a-uranium-mine-the-answer/ That article reminds me of why I hate environmentalists; these are the same people who talk about privilege without knowing how privileged they are to not have to worry about being in poverty. They would rather sentence the locals to poverty rather than development (which has strict environmental regulations today for nearly everywhere) which would provide the locals with a lot of wealth, some of which can be used to maintain and possibly improve the environment. The wealth can be also used to diversify its economy and make the locals less affected by the same climate change they're so worried about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanagandr Posted February 13, 2017 Report Share Posted February 13, 2017 1 hour ago, ShamefurDispray said: That article reminds me of why I hate environmentalists; these are the same people who talk about privilege without knowing how privileged they are to not have to worry about being in poverty. They would rather sentence the locals to poverty rather than development (which has strict environmental regulations today for nearly everywhere) which would provide the locals with a lot of wealth, some of which can be used to maintain and possibly improve the environment. The wealth can be also used to diversify its economy and make the locals less affected by the same climate change they're so worried about. Iowa is a poster child for well meaning environmental retardation. We regularly do controlled burns of prairie lands because burning functioning ecosystems is so counter-intuitive that it must be good for the environment. Since we started doing controlled burns, one of my biology teachers started keeping track of the extinction rate of native butterflies with small ranges and populations, surprisingly a whole ton of them quickly went extinct. We turn tons of corn into ethanol fuel (which is a shit show in itself), meanwhile people still need corn for other things. We've been handing out subsidies for leaving land fallow (because fallow farmland is 'prairie' now) and you can't just wave a wand to make new farmland . Anyways, guess what correlates with ethanol production? Conversion of rain forests to farmland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronezhilet Posted February 13, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2017 Priory_of_Sion and Zyklon 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted February 13, 2017 Report Share Posted February 13, 2017 Damage to the emergency spillway at the Oroville Dam; Scolopax and Donward 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted February 13, 2017 Report Share Posted February 13, 2017 Yeah. Dams overflowing aren't anything to laugh about. Living in dam country myself, it's always a good idea to know where you are in relations to the thousands of cubic acres of water sitting upstream from you. With that said, it is impressive how the original designers of that facility built her right. Also, I'm curious what the decision making process was to keep so much water on hand in the reservoir prior to this storm that hit California. Yeah. It has everything to do with the drought. Also. Fuck Los Angeles and the water wasters who live there who have zero idea where their water comes from when they water their lawns or turn on their taps. LostCosmonaut 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted February 13, 2017 Report Share Posted February 13, 2017 The spillway itself seems heavily damaged. Erosion is serious business. Former view of lower spillway from Google Maps Donward 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted February 13, 2017 Report Share Posted February 13, 2017 Yeah. It is hard to get an idea of the scope of the damage from just a photograph. But I'm looking at the two-lane access road which is mostly washed out on the photo that Lost posted. And it seems the eroded areas are three or four times wider than the road. And those are dump trucks offloading rubble to help shore up the concrete work of the dam. The good news I guess is the lake level has receded to the point that the emergency spillway isn't needed at the moment. But if for some reason another storm came in, it looks like the erosion on the lower right of the photograph is relatively close to undermining the lip of the concrete spillway. Once that goes, it'll be a chain reaction of the dam failing and being carved away by the reservoir behind it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted February 14, 2017 Report Share Posted February 14, 2017 It's a hell of a dam, the images of the spillways really mask just how huge it is: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronezhilet Posted February 14, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/world/europe/russia-cruise-missile-arms-control-treaty.html?src=twr&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0 @LoooSeR, comments? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted February 14, 2017 Report Share Posted February 14, 2017 35 minutes ago, Bronezhilet said: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/world/europe/russia-cruise-missile-arms-control-treaty.html?src=twr&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0 @LoooSeR, comments? Seems to be old news Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanagandr Posted February 22, 2017 Report Share Posted February 22, 2017 Iceland's president forced to clarify that he wouldn't actually ban pineapple on pizza (even though he should) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted February 23, 2017 Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 Iraqi army recently started operation to liberate Western part of Mosul. Here is Kataib Hezbollah very close combat with ISIS Quote combat with #IS #Daesh, as latter tried to break #TalAfar line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted February 23, 2017 Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 WC-135 Constant Phoenix deployed to Europe to investigate a spike in iodine-131. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted February 24, 2017 Report Share Posted February 24, 2017 Mesmerizing drone footage of the Monticello Dam: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted February 24, 2017 Report Share Posted February 24, 2017 It looks remarkably like a butthole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted February 25, 2017 Report Share Posted February 25, 2017 Progress in Mosul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Donward Posted February 27, 2017 Report Share Posted February 27, 2017 As one would suspect, the facts behind the assassination of Kim Jong Nam are confusing and contradictory. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39096172 It seems a VX nerve agent was used. The women who administered the agent claim they were doing it as a prank and thought that it was baby oil they were using. Also more individuals are wanted by Malaysian police. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted March 2, 2017 Report Share Posted March 2, 2017 The Oroville Dam spillway is pretty messed up. Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronezhilet Posted March 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2017 28 minutes ago, Collimatrix said: The Oroville Dam spillway is pretty messed up. Is the grey stuff a type of soil or did they dump concrete in it somehow? Imgur album with a bunch of pictures: If you wondered "How big is it actually?", well: Those are humans. Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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