This Is Fine

12:29 AM

@Unionhawk how many people would it take to pull apart a luxury car into multiple <$750 parts given to each person, to then be re-assembled

@Memor-X i think the reassembly is going to be where most of the cost goes

3:28 AM

Man suing parents for $86,000 for throwing out his porn collection http://hill.cm/Lg3dZEA

Tweeted by thehill on April 16, 2019 at 2:07 AM

> His father responded by saying he destroyed the pornography collection for his son’s “mental and emotional health.”

“I would have done the same if I had found a kilo of crack cocaine,” the father reportedly wrote. “Someday, I hope you will understand.”

i could understand the first part but you could have had a talk instead. the second bit however is just dumb because (most) porn is not illegal unlike crack

9:06 AM

La rosace est sauvée ! #NotreDame #NotreDameDeParis

Tweeted by bougetoneglise on April 16, 2019 at 5:56 AM

Honestly, while it's obviously been a massive blow to the French Spirit, there has been a sizeable silver lining: the priceless art and relics have been saved, the walls are still standing and serviceable and apparently even the rose window has been saved. It's going to take a while to rebuild, but it could have been a lot worse

Maybe the catholic church is going to spend some of it's enormous fortune to keep it in proper shape now

> Two of the country’s richest tycoons pledged millions to the fund. François Pinault, the head of Kering, which owns fashion labels including Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen and Gucci, pledged €100m from his family’s fortune.

Shortly afterwards, Bernard Arnault, the owner of the group Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy declared he would donate €200m.

Vogel612

lol... they're outdonating one another..

12:27 PM

Since the summer of 2017, a handful of high-profile men accused of sexual misconduct in the tech industry lost their jobs. Most of those men now have new ones. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/tech-men-accused-sexual-misconduct-new-jobs-metoo

Tweeted by RMac18 on April 16, 2019 at 12:07 PM

CRIMINAL COMPLAINT: Man charged with throwing 5-year-old boy off 3rd-floor balcony at Mall of America told police he was angry at being rejected by women at the mall & was "looking for someone to kill" - http://2wsb.tv/2Gn9rpI

Tweeted by wsbtv on April 15, 2019 at 8:09 PM

Holy shit

@TimStone oh what would make this worse is if he started identifying himself as an incel

12:51 PM

And here we see the convergence of the right’s racist obsession with Ilhan Omar and their dangerous conspiratorial fixation on the idea the cathedral fire must have been an arson.

Tweeted by ztsamudzi on April 16, 2019 at 11:47 AM

starting to think that the right hates her because of racism reasons

Wipqozn

1:24 PM

@TimStone jfc

Humanity was a mistake

@Memor-X I think he already did that.

1:39 PM

@Unionhawk what? you thought it wasn't?

@Yuuki dam it, and here i was hoping that he was just a prick, not a stupid prick

Glenn Beck speculates on the Notre Dame fire: "If this was started by Islamists, I don't think you'll find out about it." https://t.co/Yvq5iRdUCw

Tweeted by JasonSCampbell on April 16, 2019 at 1:18 AM

Oh joy, we went to "abscence of evidence is evidence that brown people did it" territory"

Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Immediately even, just skipping all the steps in between so we can be racist conspiracy 'theorists'

@Nzall Occam's Razor suggests it was just an accident related to the renovation tools and materials.

Ave

zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-15/… yikes lol

@MBraedley I don't doubt that at all. This is just a tragedy, and I'm fairly sure that Glenn Beck is wrong in this case. Remember, France has had like a dozen Islamic Terror attacks 3 years ago. If they had any evidence that this was caused by Islamic Terrorists, you'd be damn sure they're going to use that

2:09 PM

I stand with the millions who suffered horribly in French colonies, and whose wealth was stolen to build this monstrosity. https://twitter.com/HadleyFreeman/status/1117899272819593216

Tweeted by nopidgeon on April 16, 2019 at 5:01 AM

I think John here needs a bit of a History Lesson

Oh? How so?

@Kevin The Notre Dame was built in the 13th century. France didn't have any colonies in those days

Hmmm, well that's a good reason!

@Kevin It's like responding to a hypothetical fire in the Washington Capitol with "I stand with the millions who suffered horribly as a result of the Korean War"

2:15 PM

@Nzall Or more historically accurate burning of the White House during the War of 1812 with "I stand with the millions who suffered horribly as a result of the Bay of Pigs invasion"

@MBraedley I don't think that quite works.

Or Civil War. That might be more apt

Still doesn't quite work.

The construction has to take place before the atrocity but the burning takes place after.

@Yuuki ah, fair.

There was another war between the revolution and War of 1812, right?

List of wars involving the United States

@MBraedley White House was built in 1790-1800 apparently

This is a list of wars fought by the United States of America. == 18th-century wars == == 19th-century wars == == 20th-century wars == == 21st-century wars == == See also == Military history Timeline of United States military operations United States involvement in regime change List of ongoing armed conflicts == References == == External links == Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK) Conflict Barometer – Describes recent trends in conflict development, escalations, and settlements A Continent Divided: The U.S.-Mexico War, Center for Greater Southwest...

2:20 PM

There's not a lot of time between the White House construction and the War of 1812 for there to be an appropriate simile.

Only things that apply are the Whiskey Rebellion, the Quasi-War, the First Barbary War, the 1811 German Coast uprising and Tecumseh's War.

I think of those, Tecumseh's war has the right timeframe and also a similar "white people oppress non-whites" feeling

Tecumseh's War pretty much became part of the War of 1812 though.

Anyways, point is that yes colonialism is/was a terrible thing and it is right to protest it. But also, do some research before you decide to grandstand.

2:38 PM

@Nzall guess that means Trump is a Russian Lizardman and the son of Grand Lizard Putin

3:17 PM

Side note, it's a bit weird to me that some people's attachment to Notre Dame lies solely through The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Assassin's Creed: Unity.

Ave

3:48 PM

I have never been to france, but I did read the hunchback. I guess it's not that surprising for me.

I don't mean in the sense that "I've never been to Notre Dame in person but I did watch the Hunchback".

But more like "Notre Dame only has value to me because it appears in this game I played".

puzzlepiece87

4:11 PM

Bernie Sanders got to call Trump a pathological liar in a Fox town hall and wasn't even challenged by the moderators? Nice, I like it.

Was this before or after they asked the crowd who would like Medicare For All?

I've been having an extremely fun time over the last several hours considering a unitedhealthcare or whatever CEO watching a fox crowd be flat out excited by the possibility of replacing their employer healthcare

after they've spent however much money on "well, you won't have your insurance anymore"

an upper middle manager bursting through the mahogany door of that guy's office "sir, you're going to need to see this"

puzzlepiece87

@Yuuki After based on Conor Friedersdorf's review of the event, but I didn't watch it.

@Unionhawk That is a fun scene :)

@puzzlepiece87 That's probably for the best.

6:41 PM

A judge just heard args in BuzzFeed and @JasonLeopold's FOIA request for the Mueller report. Judge denied request for an injunction to have the report produced under FOIA by 4/18 — judge wants to wait and see what gets released by AG Barr on Thursday and go from there

Tweeted by ZoeTillman on April 16, 2019 at 6:32 PM

Thread has more info

"Let Maduro and his cronies worry about what that means," concludes the senior administration official speaking about #Venezuela.

Tweeted by W7VOA on April 16, 2019 at 4:37 PM in reply to W7VOA

(re need for transition of power)

Uhhh actually maybe we should all worry about what that means? idk

7:13 PM

I for one find it Really Funny that they had no plan b for "what if the opposition leader only manages to get 50 guys"

well they're working on plan b but it's going to be "continue to push their economy until it breaks" etc

@Unionhawk this admin is great at hiring people that don't think beyond step 1

don't worry they got seth adams or whoever on the case now, ready to roll out the "smuggle arms in 'humanitarian aid'" playbook oh what's that everybody knows about that now

because it's a thing we've done many times

weird

yeah step 2 is "let's figure out what we did during that 70s/80s and try it again"

(it was "fund right wing death squads")

Ave

@Yuuki ah, that's obviously fucked up.

It's a very important historic place.

Or, was.

7:28 PM

Still is, the structure is still mostly there.

And the Rose Windows are all intact.

Wipqozn

8:04 PM

@Nzall also no one died

8:20 PM

@TimStone I should figure out how to make a button that adds a self-updating "Time is a flat circle" quote.

NEW: The beleaguered military tribunals at Guantanamo suffered another major blow Monday as a federal appeals court voided 3 years of rulings in USS Cole case from a military judge who was seeking job as an immigration judge. A blistering ruling on ethics https://politi.co/2ZfeEY1

Tweeted by joshgerstein on April 16, 2019 at 7:51 PM

8:47 PM

Not a single human being gave to embattled Rep. Chris Collins campaign this cycle Via @lachlan https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-chris-collins-campaign-did-not-receive-a-donation-from-a-human-being-this-cycle

Tweeted by samstein on April 16, 2019 at 7:44 PM

Who knew doing finance crimes would mean people wouldn't trust you with money?

#Ecuador president #LeninMoreno tells me ⁦⁦#JulianAssange smeared the walls of the embassy with feces and that is why they revoked his asylum. The #WikiLeaks leader exhausted their tolerance, the president told me ⁦@BBCBreaking⁩

Tweeted by BBCJonSopel on April 16, 2019 at 8:33 PM

puzzlepiece87

9:12 PM

High quality photos from inside the Notre Dame cathedral

It's better than I hoped, especially after this was posted:

yesterday, by Ash

They're saying all teh stained glass is gone and there won't be much if anything left of the frame

10:42 PM

@TimStone yeh, painting the walls shit brown tends to do that

CEO Jack Dorsey said Twitter is looking to change the focus from following specific individuals to topics of interest, acknowledging that what's incentivized today on the platform is at odds with the goal of healthy dialogue https://www.axios.com/how-jack-dorsey-plans-to-change-twitter-60f0e69c-808a-429d-93c6-6335ea1a38c3.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100

Tweeted by axios on April 16, 2019 at 4:24 PM

truly the worst ideas come from this man

they probably heard that the chinese version of twitter has the topics feature and want to copy it but in a completely awful way

A few days ago, I shared a video of a woman that threatened to call ICE on the owners of a taco truck that was operating in her neighborhood. In response community members brought a mariachi band in front of her home. Fight hate with love & tacos. https://t.co/ddyDc8jzbl

Tweeted by sahluwal on April 16, 2019 at 5:15 PM

user15026

11:01 PM

@GodEmperorDune no thank you.