! What a wild ride this has been

Also that. That would have also been a wild ride :|

Hoping his next trip is the one that finally brings him home into the sea

lol no he's going to have a new contract next tuesday

or this tuesday maybe

also good work new york get owned rudy

@TimStone someone is trying to be ICE

hell yeah

turkey banned uber for being "pirate transportation"

and drivers will get warning points for it if they continue doing it (and it'll cost 3000try to get those warnings removed)

@Ave well that is a solution cabbies in Australia could use

and those who get caught doing it twice in a year will be banned from getting transportation service provider permit thing for up to 2 years

now i have this mental image of Jack Sparrow as a Urber Driver

turkish link milliyet.com.tr/son-dakika-basbakan-talimat-ekonomi-2678481

@Ave if Urber in Turkey is anything like what's been complained about here in Australia, Urber Drivers weren't going to get that anyway

my best experience in istanbul for private transportation was with uber. Turkish taxi drivers tend to be really talkative and carefree (in a bad way, as they violate traffic stuffs)

yarrrrr lmfao

uber is a shitty company but they're better than regular taxi stuffs

Uber drivers need to start putting up pirate flags on their cars in protest tbh

they're still prosecuting wtf lol

I forget how many defendents are left

They dropped 3/4 of them I think

An initial group of about a dozen was found not guilty on all charges

Charges were dropped for about 150 more, and I think there are about 50 left

and didnt we already get the ruling on them witholding evidence

@quartata Yep, that is indeed a thing that the DC prosecutor has done

my only assumption at this point is they're just trying to waste everyone's time out of spite

they edited a fuckin project veritas video lol

you would think that wouldn't need much more editing

@GodEmperorDune Me too, and doing his own with expanded drone warfare.

@quartata Edward Snowden?

@quartata Is Snowden saying Trump is too dumb to collude with Russia?

lol it's a small part of the article but

> Anna introduced Shkreli as a “dear friend,” although it was really the only time they’d met, Shkreli told New York in a letter from the penitentiary

Did you guys seen Kendrick Lamar invite a fan on stage to sing with him then interrupt the whole fucking show because she used the language he wrote in the song without censoring herself

What a joke lol

Definitely lost a little respect for him

Eh, I'm not really a rap person so it doesn't bother me.

hmm... me going to this library meeting is going to be logistically annoying now that I look at it

(the meeting is at 9am. I'm usually working at 8am. The library itself opens at noon)

Tentative plan: 1) arrive in the parking lot around 8 2) hope the library wifi isn't just randomly turned off 3) hope I can log in to VPN on the library wifi 4) probably end up just spending 4 hours PTO

@Yuuki I guess, but in a really weird passive aggressive way

If that's the case, I'm not sure Snowden's logic is sound. You don't need to be smart to collude with Russia. You need to be smart to collude with Russia and not get caught.

@quartata What was the whole comment about him being alive?

joking about his relevance

@Yuuki I'd say you're putting too much thought into it

@quartata Ah okay

leaving aside the fact that Russia is giving him asylum lol

@quartata Have you noticed a pro-Russia slant to his comments?

@quartata I have not but you are right that Russia is currently giving him asylum

No, but he's not going to be able to say anything bad about Russia either

@quartata Agreed

(but also burn Wikileaks specifically down because Assange should get in the sea)

Extremely cool

@Unionhawk IIRC, this is precedent from someone suing the police for trying to protect them but failing in some regard?

looks like Warren vs DC, 1981 yes

Everyone involved is Very Stable, thank goodness for that

@TimStone what

The best excuses for horrible behaviour, naturally

> Nearly 6,000 Died In Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria, A Harvard Study Says. The Government Still Claims 64 People Died.

That's a margin of error of practically the entire death toll.

iirc roughly the same numbers work happens all the time

they're only counting like, people who died while the hurricane was happening

flooding afterwards? no

So, "died in the hurricane" vs "died because of the hurricane"

@murgatroid99 the article explains that the "official death count" was due to procedures that didn't match how the CDC qualifies natural disaster deaths

> The researchers noted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that deaths can be directly attributed to storms like Maria if they are caused by forces related to the event, from flying debris to loss of medical services; in Puerto Rico such deaths continued for months.

Harvard study estimates thousands died in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria

oh dang lol

@TimStone the link takes me to some login page, is this legit?

Oh, lol, I didn't click thru

But yes

That login page's redirect goes to preview.abcnews.go.com, so it might be listed as prepublished news or something

The person who tweeted is a social media editor at ABC so they may have copied a prelease link by accident

Apropos of nothing,

found it

abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/…

@TimStone Yep

@GodEmperorDune I think that's the shortest news article I've ever read

@TimStone is it a bubble based on all those soros checks i'm owed?

@murgatroid99 yeah i thought there was a missing picture or something

also lol that ABCnews needs to post an AP story about its own internal things

also as people on twitter have pointed out, this is not even the first time that roseanne barr has tweeted that a black person is an "ape", so ABC really should've seen this coming

@murgatroid99 To be fair they probably weren't anxious to go into detail about how this was all entirely avoidable because she was exactly the person she advertised herself to be

@TimStone final destination prequel

@TimStone Bad Luck Brian

Also I remember there being some drama about roseanne being a racist, but just now seeing more context about what she said and wow.

Glad they cancelled her show

@Wipqozn yeahhhhhhhhhh

Also glad the backlash was so large. Helps establish racism isn't okay.

as are shows that normalize it

Ten days ago, Roseanne pledged that she was "leaving all social media except Instagram", saying it was because the atmosphere had become "toxic".

It is toxic, and you're part of the reason why, so thanks?

@GodEmperorDune She also said some pretty terrible (equally if not more offensive, not that it's a race) things about George Soros. They're not original with her but neither is calling black people apes.

oh yeah that tweet was also something and a half

@puzzlepiece87 i mean calling black people apes is a racist thing that started a very long time ago

but it is still racist to do so

> "I don't think any President should go from WH to producing big media 4 public consumption."

Is she unaware of what the current president used to do?

and yeah. this also leaves off the "terrorist because she's muslim" part of it

@murgatroid99 oh was someone upset about the obama netflix deal?

@GodEmperorDune Exactly, it was multiple things, all really bad.

@GodEmperorDune Absolutely, them not being original with you doesn't make it any less terrible to repeat.

I think the important thing to remember now is all the horrible hot takes we'll get followed by Rosanne getting a permanent anchor seat on InfoWars for some reason

Who knew covering the watershed with non-porous materials could result in the water not going away?

@TimStone too bad climate change is FAKE NEWS

This isn't even a climate problem per se, they just paved over the water's exit route!

Wow Posobiec managed to spin up a take that involves a bunch of racists and the blockchain and I could certainly have done without that

I don't think that one legally counts for my "who's going to be the first with a no effort censorship post here" because I was thinking of NYTOpinion or some similar outlet

sorry jack

expand your thesis to however long a NYT opinion piece is

@TimStone inb4 racistcoin ICO

@TimStone As somebody who has been to Ellicott City many many times before, it's also not a place totally unknown to floods (though floods of this caliber are new). One of the defining features of the city is a height chart on a bridge in the city that shows the peak flood water rises for floods of the past 100 years, like some kid's morbid growth chart.

1972/1975, not out of living memory by a long shot, but yes let's do it like Houston.

@puzzlepiece87 We have one of those on our river wall here.

@Fluttershy Please don't let your city overdevelop.

> ABC cancels Roseanne Barr's sitcom after her tweet about black Obama aide Valerie Jarrett

Context: Roseanne recently tweeted that Valerie Jarrett looked like the Muslim Brotherhood and "Planet of the Apes" had a baby.

There's no way you can say "well, I meant something <not racist> but you guys are interpreting that it incorrectly" with that.

I mean, they (as in rosanne and as in a decently narrow far right media sphere) are doing this

Really sucks for all the people working on the sitcom not named Roseanne Barr though.

@Unionhawk For values of "narrow" here meaning "even Bill O is like 'yea no ABC did what they had to"

@Yuuki You must not have seen Bill Mitchell's tweet then

:o

How and why?!

@Ash :(

I hope the animals eff them up >_>

Yeah :(

woo! Are there details?

There is a thread there, is all I have

Making me click-thru pssh

lol so the usual alt-right Twitter ranters have apparently coalesced behind the "If Rosanne is fired why shouldn't Bill Maher be too?" which absolutely get on that HBO I'm waiting

oh yeah leftists, well then by your logic this other thing you want should happen

yeah good point my man

though him getting canned for the wrong reasons (for something about alt right guys not for punching down on people as his entire show) is potentially not desireable but

eh

Tennessee wyd?

lol, of course

Press conference scheduled for a bit after 5:00 pm

@TimStone Can't wait to hear Stephen Colbert mention this in his Profiles in Discouragement.

@TimStone Diane Black must go to some weird grocery stores.

And it's not like she's wrong. Porn is pretty publicly available if you have access to the Internet.

It's just dumb that she went with grocery stores instead of "search 'boobies' on Bing".

I mean I'm also not sure on the correlation to gun violence in schools either but

@TimStone This seems to be more related to his dark money scandal than his sexual assault one 🤷

@TimStone Yeah, I don't get that either but it's so weird how they flub these things. "It's so easy to get access to porn..." (yes) "... in grocery stores and supermarkets" (what).

It's like saying "Mario is the most recognizable video game character. He's in plenty of PS4 and Xbox games."

It's almost like saying you made a TV show to show that not all Trump supporters are racist bigots and then you get that show shuttered by making a racist and bigoted tweet.

@TimStone What on earth is that Twitter name?

lol idk

Only partly related, but I should probably make a userscript to easier copy links when I don't necessarily care about the tweet they're coming from

Greitens resigning effective Friday at 5:00 pm

lol, he's basically saying it's because it's just SO HARD for him now

@TimStone bwahahahahahahaha

ohh a classic

lmfao

He's going to let Trump open a McDonald's franchise in exchange for lifting sanctions

@TimStone im told this is also what happened to China

Is what I can only assume will happen

@TimStone you think trump would want any brand other than his involved

I mean it's got his name right in there, I assume that's why he eats there so often

Well, eats from there, I suspect he doesn't often actually go into a McDonald's

@TimStone i read this as "Kim Jong Un wont give up nukes instead opening McKimmy's"

Phase 2: Invade US Market and slowly replace all McDonalds with McKimmys