This Is Fine

Tim Stone

12:20 AM

> City Wants to Force Landlord to Evict Family Who Did Nothing Wrong

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wtaf?

Tim Stone

12:41 AM

Well I guess if the box of chicken tells you don't do knife crimes you gotta listen. But not to the orange soda, it's in French and won't be available for import in a few months

Memor-X

> When Jessica discovered that he was attempting to hide out from police in their home’s crawlspace, she turned him in. Rather than being thanked for helping the police make a successful arrest, several weeks later officers were on the family’s doorstep with an eviction notice.

some thanks

Cop: hey thanks for turning in this guy, now get the fuck out

@TimStone question, what is in those chicken boxes that needs a knife?

Tim Stone

It's actually unrelated, the Home Office is essentially putting a PSA on chicken boxes for no particular reason in an attempt to solve crimes carried out with the kind of knives you'd carry out crimes with in a country that does not have a lot of guns

Mass stabbings and muggings and whatever

Memor-X

@TimStone Trump has a solution to that. more Guns

and that was his suggestion for London

@TimStone now six

> Two other officers were also injured in a car accident while responding to the shooting.

not sure if they are counted in the 6 though

no doesn't seem like it, missed the part that 6 were taken to hospital for gun shot wounds

Jeremy Corbyn might be looking to hold a general election

America: Woman gets shot by someone else and looses the baby. we'll charge her with murder
El Salvador: Hold my Beer

A woman who was raped and suffered a stillbirth is now facing a murder trial

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> The now 21-year-old will go on trial for the second time, despite a court ordering her release from jail earlier this year.

GodEmperorDune

4:23 AM

ebola effectively cured with two new drugs

> The two antibody-based treatments, REGN-EB3 and mAb-114, work by blocking a critical protein in the Ebola virus. Patients receive them once, intravenously, and “ideally, as soon as possible” after infection, Fauci said.

> They saved about 90 percent of patients with low levels of infection, according to preliminary data released from the trial. Across all levels of infection, patients who received REGN-EB3 had a mortality rate of 29 percent, while those treated with mAb-114 had a mortality rate of 34 percent. The average mortality rate for Ebola has been about 50 percent, according to the WHO.

ICE guard drives into group of protestors outside detention center (cw: video)

Tim Stone

4:50 AM

The Philadelphia gunman has finally surrendered

> It's The Go-To Drug To Treat Opioid Addiction. Why Won't More Pharmacies Stock It?

Elva

8:30 AM

@TimStone Got it, don't help the police or you'll get punished for checks papers helping apprehend criminals

GnomeSlice

12:30 PM

San Fransisco school board votes to hide, but not destroy, depression-era school murals

@TimStone I don't know why first responders here still aren't carrying naloxone

It should be required at all night life venues imo as well

Unionhawk

that reminds me, I wanted to pick up a nalaxone trainer kit to get anyone who wants to learn up on the how

I should do that, hm

Unionhawk

12:50 PM

too many things to do lol, I also kind of want to get my emergency first responder instructor

Martin Sleziak

1:14 PM

Leaked Draft of Executive Order to “Censor the Internet” Sets Off Alarm Bells

Tim Stone

1:29 PM

Well the stock market seems to not be doing great but I'm sure it'll be fine, now to take a big sip of coffee and look at the news…

> A whistleblower who warned regulators about Bernie Madoff released a report alleging that General Electric is short on cash and hiding $38 billion in losses, calling it a "bigger fraud than Enron"

Unionhawk

Ah cool I'm sure that Cincinnati, a big GE Aviation town, will do fine from this

Wipqozn

@TimStone jfc why does the US seem to be in a competition with itself to be terrible? Like wtf.

> But Granite City is now upping that ante by forcing private property owners into this scheme.

> This past year, the ACLU persuaded the city of Savannah, Georgia to suspend its program. Police were instructing landlords to refuse to rent anyone convicted of a nonviolent felony within the past ten years or a misdemeanor within the past five years.

Like wtf even is that

"If you've committed a crime, you literally need to live on the street. I mean until you steal food to live, then we'll force you into slave labour (aka the US prison system)"

and from the linked article, on that ban that is no gone:

> The ban also extended to, among others, anyone who has been convicted of a nonviolent felony — like a drug possession felony — in the last 10 years and anyone who has been convicted of any misdemeanor — like driving with a suspended license — in the last five years.

Tim Stone

1:53 PM

> Ready, set, slow: UK holds the annual World Snail Racing Championships

Tim Stone

2:05 PM

Ah cool the President saying it's totally good and fine for a foreign country to refuse entry to our representatives because he doesn't like them

Yuuki

2:19 PM

Has someone posted about the State Department requesting that Gibraltar/UK turn the Iranian tanker over to US custody?

'Cause I heard about it on the drive to work.

Tim Stone

I saw but I don't think it was posted in here

Stormblessed

Hickenlooper is quitting!!!!!!!

means he might run for Senate

Wipqozn

3:22 PM

Mount Everest: Climbers set to face new rules after deadly season bbc.com/news/world-asia-49348071

> Its report proposes that applicants must already have climbed a Nepali peak of at least 6,500m (21,325ft).

> They should also have to provide a certificate of physical fitness, and employ experienced guides, it adds.

> Earlier this year at least 11 people died or went missing on Mount Everest.

Also a fee hike:

> The panel's report also proposes a fee of at least $35,000 (£29,000) for those wanting to climb Everest, and $20,000 for other mountains higher than 8,000m.

Previous fee was 11k.

Elva

Seems reasonable

puzzlepiece87

3:38 PM

@TimStone Gosh, things are stupid af in 2019!

Tim Stone

> The United States is now, by far, the Biggest, Strongest and Most Powerful Economy in the World, it is not even close! As others falter, we will only get stronger. Consumers are in the best shape ever, plenty of cash. Business Optimism is at an All Time High!

Should probably poll people on that "plenty of cash" part

Elva

@TimStone uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh

Tim Stone

Look during a global recession we'll be fine! Not you, of course, but us.

Narrator: They would not be fine

Unionhawk

I love entering a period of decreased liquidity for the rich and ruined lives for everyone else

it's going to be fine

Tim Stone

I mean this is absolutely not surprising but your insurance companies are a cop

> “It made me really feel like the law is nothing but another racket," said Schmidt

Elva

3:45 PM

HOW ARE THEY PAYING FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT

HOW IS THAT LEGAL

Tim Stone

chuckles in American

puzzlepiece87

joins in the chuckling

Tim Stone

> In an email reviewed by BuzzFeed News, for example, one of State Farm’s star fraud investigators celebrated one such arrest by circulating a stick figure drawing depicting the man — who it later turned out had been wrongly accused — being raped in prison

Ah well I'm sure these folks are above board then

Unionhawk

yeah The Industry is fucked

most companies will do whatever they can to not pay a claim they owe

Tim Stone

@Elva Even better is the part where in PA it's illegal for insurers to not pay into the board that gives the money to cops

> “I have not seen any evidence of criminal charges bolstering a company’s decision not to pay a claim or serve as a disincentive for legitimate claims to be filed.”

"Did I look? Of course not, you can't make me"

Wipqozn

3:57 PM

A&W Tells Anti-Union Conference It Keeps a Secret ‘Watch List’ To Make Sure Workers Don’t Unionize: pressprogress.ca/…

Unionhawk

@TimStone yeah this is pretty standard

Tim Stone

Per the article the legal requirement is actually unique to PA, but the general practice isn't uncommon

Wipqozn

Hoooly fuck work dongle thing stop being trash

Well I can't copy paste that title since the mobile site sucks, and the dongle is eating my mouse, sooo YOLO

Press progress site, not chat

THERE WE GO

Well I need a new work dongle, since my one is officially broken. I blame A&W.

I can't remember if I posted that story yesterday

Unionhawk

@TimStone ah yeah a specific insurance fraud fee/fund/tax/surcharge is unique

Wipqozn

> One thing that could put an A&W franchise on its “watch list,” Atkinson said, is if the “the neighbour next door” is a workplace where “most of the folks are unionized.”

> “Maybe you’re on the watch list because you’re in a really high risk area,” Wuttnnee explained. “It’s not always about what you do, it might be where you are.”

That's one creepy bloody image

Unionhawk

4:02 PM

I imagine, though, for instance, TX auto theft prevention authority also goes to cops but for different reasons

Wipqozn

> Wuttunee also revealed that A&W has a “fire drill,” a rapid-response “crisis management process” for responding to things that “worry us.”

> As one example, Wuttunee recalled a “fire drill” after an “incident” where a customer handed an A&W cashier a union card at an understaffed restaurant.

:51372438 yeah it's grreeeeat.

Tim Stone

Shouldn't A&W be happy it still exists at all? lol

puzzlepiece87

@Wipqozn (I originally misinterpreted the sentence. I thought they were calling the labor practice complaint unfair, like "how unfair our workers are complaining", but the entire complaint itself is called "unfair labor practice". I'm not very smart.)

Wipqozn

@TimStone this is one of those weird situations where the Canadian brand is basically owned and operated completely separate from THe US, and actually does a lot better, it seems.

A&W Restaurants

A&W Restaurants, Inc. is a chain of fast-food restaurants distinguished by its draft root beer, root beer floats and burgers. Its origins date back to 1919 when Roy W. Allen set up a roadside drink stand to offer a new thick and creamy drink, root beer, at a parade honoring returning World War I veterans in Lodi, California. Allen's employee Frank Wright partnered with him in 1922 and they founded their first restaurant in Sacramento, California, in 1923. The company name was taken respectively from the initials of their last names—Allen and Wright. The company became famous in the United States...

A&W (Canada)

A&W Food Services of Canada, Inc. is a Canadian fast food restaurant chain. The chain was originally part of the U.S.-based A&W Restaurants chain, but was sold to Unilever in 1972, and then bought by its management in 1995. It no longer has any corporate connection to A&W operations outside of Canada.The Canadian operation is owned and operated by the privately held A&W Food Services of Canada Inc., based in North Vancouver, British Columbia. In December 2013, A&W was Canada's second-largest quick service restaurant burger chain with 850 outlets after McDonald's 1,400 outlets. == History == The...

Tim Stone

Innnnnnnteresting

Wipqozn

4:06 PM

Our logo is better

Tim Stone

lol the Burger Family

puzzlepiece87

I like the multicolored circle logo better, fight me

Wipqozn

@puzzlepiece87 flagpole at dawn

puzzlepiece87

Slap fight gif too annoying to be on visual repeat

I can't be on Arqade at work but briefly, did anyone else enjoy the Quitting Qatab wargame series on RPS where the commenters each commanded one unit apiece in a roughly turn-based scenario GMed by Tim Stone?

I loved it :)

Wipqozn

4:26 PM

RUSSIA IS ABOUT TO SEND A HUMANOID AI ROBOT TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE Station newsweek.com/russia-space-bot-ai-iss-fedor-roscosmos-1454330

Also it can dual wield pistols

What could possibly go wrong!

user15026

4:37 PM

@Wipqozn "The robot, also known as Fedor, made headlines in 2017 when Dmitry Rogozin, director general of Roscosmos, shared a video of it shooting guns. Shortly after he clarified they "are not creating a Terminator, but artificial intelligence that will be of great practical significance in various fields.""

user15026

Oh yeah,that seems...totally trustworthy.

Yuuki

4:58 PM

@Ash "various fields" (off camera: "... of combat")

Wipqozn

@Ash Well it won't be limited to just one target like the terminator was.

puzzlepiece87

@Yuuki xD well played

user15026

@Wipqozn I....don't think that's better!

user15026

@Yuuki facepalm

Wipqozn

5:15 PM

@Ash It's certainly more advanced

Tim Stone

5:33 PM

> Todd Chrisley is accused of trying to extort his own daughter with a sex tape, just a month before he was charged with federal tax evasion and bank fraud. Lindsie Chrisley told police her dad tried extorting her to get her to lie about his tax issues

Wipqozn

@TimStone What a grade A scumbag

Yuuki

@TimStone :|

Tim Stone

5:57 PM

> Nadler subpoenas Lewandowski, former White House official Rick Dearborn for testimony on Mueller report

Tim Stone

6:18 PM

Trump's USDA in Philly attacks Philly DA Larry Krasner because everyone in the administration is trash

> Biden allies float idea of scaling back events to limit his verbal flubs

🤔

Okay I have a better idea

Nik3141

8:09 PM

Mr. Rogers and the Power of Persuasion

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This isn't news strictly but has to do with the dialogue we see in society today.

More like politics

Yuuki

8:39 PM

So the UN is going to meet to discuss Hong Kong, "especially the use of unethical measures as pepper spray on protesters". On the one hand, I definitely agree. On the other hand, speaking as someone who has been paying attention to protest movements in the US, using pepper spray on protesters is unethical?

Because the US has been doing a helluva lot of pepper spraying protesters.

Unionhawk

The workers of the Carnegie Library System in Pittsburgh have voted to unionize with United Steelworkers

take that andrew carnegie lol

Tim Stone

One of the food plants targeted by the ICE raids went ahead and fired everyone else ICE didn't cart off

Yuuki

@TimStone Not sure if that means "we'll go be racist with ICE" or "well, we might as well shut down anyways".

> Poultry workers arriving for the afternoon shift at PH Food were met by a supervisor with a list of names of those who would be allowed to return to work. A few dozen, at most. Everyone else was fired on the spot.

Never mind, "let's go be racist with ICE".

Frank

@Yuuki That sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Tim Stone

@Yuuki It definitely happens here in cases where it is in no way warranted, but I think the instances they might be referring to in Hong Kong didn't even pretend to not be purely punitive measures

@Frank I mean the one place was already sued and lost which is why they called ICE

Frank

8:48 PM

@TimStone ...That was this one?

Tim Stone

9:30 PM

Well it was this instance at least, I'm not sure which of the three plants it was offhand or if they're just all ultimately owned by the same people

Tim Stone

10:12 PM

dlskjfdkl

> Trump has expressed interest in buying Greenland

Frank

Gotta love it when you get a phone call from a political group to attack their opposition.

Wipqozn

@TimStone I...what...I...what?

No, no wait, what?!

> In meetings, at dinners and in passing conversations, Mr. Trump has asked advisers whether the U.S. can acquire Greenland, listened with interest when they discuss its abundant resources and geopolitical importance, and, according to two of the people, has asked his White House counsel to look into the idea.

> Some of his advisers have supported the concept, saying it was a good economic play, two of the people said, while others dismissed it as a fleeting fascination that will never come to fruition. It is also unclear how the U.S. would go about acquiring Greenland even if the effort were serious.

Tim Stone

10:30 PM

Twitter has suggested that he's both confusing it with Iceland and unaware that its inhabitants are mostly not white

murgatroid99

From the article it looks like the US has actually tried to buy Greenland before, so he might actually mean Greenland

Tim Stone

Yeah, though I assume for different reasons. The article says he wants its resources and the legacy of adding a new state since checks notes there's definitely no preexisting candidates for that

Well, the resource grabbing is not a new reason, tbf. But I assume there was also historically some strategic interest that Trump probably isn't concerned about

> Asked whether he directly told Prime Minister Netanyahu to block the Democratic congresswomen from visiting Israel, Trump says, “I don’t want to comment about who I spoke to, but I think my social media statement speaks for itself...But I did speak to people over there. Yeah.”

GnomeSlice

US feds spent more on marijuana prohibition in 2018 than fighting domestic terrorism

Tim Stone

> Five years ago, Zoe Quinn was chased out of her own home. It wasn't the first time the internet decided to ruin someone's life. But the tactics developed during Gamergate, and the personalities that emerged from it became our national politics

GnomeSlice

> The DEA spent $18 million last year eradicating illegal marijuana grows, though it allegedly doesn’t know where most of the money went.

Hamstare

Tim Stone

10:42 PM

Yeah, that's pretty ridiculous. I guess we should be happy it's only a two figure number, but given that they could at a minimum let states self-regulate as they're doing anyway it seems extra unnecessary

> Trump frames gun violence as a mental illness problem and says "I think we have to start building institutions again."

mmmm this is the bad place

GnomeSlice

@TimStone you mean 8 figure

Tim Stone

11:25 PM

Right, lol

GnomeSlice

If you hack a vibrator, is it a sex crime?

That was surprisingly interesting

Tim Stone

11:42 PM

AMA drops opposition to expanding coverage via Medicare

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