Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

[JohnStOnge]

From Data shows a downward demographic spiral for Republicans at https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/11/data- ... publicans/

[JohnStOnge]

Tisk tisk, BTW. "Data" is a plural term. The headline should be Data show a downward demographic spiral for Republicans

[VictorG]

Trump family breaks with presidential pet tradition

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/21/politics/ ... index.html


I bet it's because they keep committing suicide! Never seen a picture with Trump and a dog together.......Trump probably embarrassed by the dog smelling his fingers all the time!

[Pwns]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-gille ... st-attack/

Virginia gubernatorial advertisement pulled after New York terror attack.
Boy did this backfire.

[BDKJMU]

Proof that millennials are the dumbest generation..

"Millennials: Communism sounds pretty chill

According to the latest survey from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a D.C.-based nonprofit, one in two U.S. millennials say they would rather live in a socialist or communist country than a capitalist democracy.

What’s more, 22% of them have a favorable view of Karl Marx and a surprising number see Joseph Stalin and Kim Jong Un as “heroes.”

Really, that’s what the numbers show...."

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mille ... 2017-11-01

[Col Hogan]

Until White people stop reproducing, white supremacy will exist...says a white sociologist professor..

Jessie Daniels’ specialty at the City University of New York’s Hunter College is “Internet manifestations of racism,” so it’s interesting that she would herself make racist comments on the public Internet.

The professor of sociology posted a series of tweets last week that suggest white people must forgo reproducing if they want to combat white supremacy.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/38463/

Daniels started her thread as a response to a tweet by Crystal Fleming, an associate professor of sociology and Africana studies at the State University of New York-Stony Brook.

Fleming had asked how people cope who have “lost family and friends for challenging white racism.”

Daniels responded she had built “new worlds” of “partner, friends, church” who are engaged in the same work.

“Part of what I’ve learned is that the white-nuclear family is one of the most powerful forces supporting white supremacy,” she wrote.

White people having children facilitates “transfer of wealth” and the “outright worship of ‘the sanctity of the family’ which pervades pop culture,” Daniels continued.

[CID1990]

Until White people stop reproducing, white supremacy will exist...says a white sociologist professor..

Jessie Daniels’ specialty at the City University of New York’s Hunter College is “Internet manifestations of racism,” so it’s interesting that she would herself make racist comments on the public Internet.

The professor of sociology posted a series of tweets last week that suggest white people must forgo reproducing if they want to combat white supremacy.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/38463/

Daniels started her thread as a response to a tweet by Crystal Fleming, an associate professor of sociology and Africana studies at the State University of New York-Stony Brook.

Fleming had asked how people cope who have “lost family and friends for challenging white racism.”

Daniels responded she had built “new worlds” of “partner, friends, church” who are engaged in the same work.

“Part of what I’ve learned is that the white-nuclear family is one of the most powerful forces supporting white supremacy,” she wrote.

White people having children facilitates “transfer of wealth” and the “outright worship of ‘the sanctity of the family’ which pervades pop culture,” Daniels continued.

Well, she's right I guess- from a certain point of view -

Like Hitler's


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[AZGrizFan]

Proof that millennials are the dumbest generation..

"Millennials: Communism sounds pretty chill

According to the latest survey from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a D.C.-based nonprofit, one in two U.S. millennials say they would rather live in a socialist or communist country than a capitalist democracy.

What’s more, 22% of them have a favorable view of Karl Marx and a surprising number see Joseph Stalin and Kim Jong Un as “heroes.”

Really, that’s what the numbers show...."

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mille ... 2017-11-01

What an absolutely ridiculous (and erroneous) conclusion from that data. First of all, Marx only got 18%, not 22, and nowhere does the article show the results of the question regarding living in a socialist country. Article also fails to even mention the top 7 vote getters....

Also of note, NO Obama on the board....

[Pwns]

30%+ of American adults probably don't know who Angela Merkel is, let alone Millenials. Calling shenanigans on that poll.

[grizzaholic]

Proof that millennials are the dumbest generation..

"Millennials: Communism sounds pretty chill

According to the latest survey from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a D.C.-based nonprofit, one in two U.S. millennials say they would rather live in a socialist or communist country than a capitalist democracy.

What’s more, 22% of them have a favorable view of Karl Marx and a surprising number see Joseph Stalin and Kim Jong Un as “heroes.”

Really, that’s what the numbers show...."

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mille ... 2017-11-01

What an absolutely ridiculous (and erroneous) conclusion from that data. First of all, Marx only got 18%, not 22, and nowhere does the article show the results of the question regarding living in a socialist country. Article also fails to even mention the top 7 vote getters....

Also of note, NO Obama on the board....

What is sad is if you put Beiber or some cunty pop star on that same poll they would win.....

[AZGrizFan]

30%+ of American adults probably don't know who Angela Merkel is, let alone Millenials. Calling shenanigans on that poll.

And I'm pretty sure they thought Trudeau was Bieber.

[Ibanez]

Proof that millennials are the dumbest generation..

"Millennials: Communism sounds pretty chill

According to the latest survey from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a D.C.-based nonprofit, one in two U.S. millennials say they would rather live in a socialist or communist country than a capitalist democracy.

What’s more, 22% of them have a favorable view of Karl Marx and a surprising number see Joseph Stalin and Kim Jong Un as “heroes.”

Really, that’s what the numbers show...."

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mille ... 2017-11-01

I wonder what the age/demographic make up of that is? I think the younger millennials, say those that are approx. 20-25 yrs ago (born 1992-97) have a completely different outlook and have experienced life differently than someone like me, born in 1983: someone whose siblings are Gen Xers; someone who vaguely remembers the USSR; remembers life before the internet; who was in college on 9/11 and entered the workforce shortly before the Great Recession.

To be sure, there is no shortage of snowflakes and "Professional Protesters" on my end...but I think the majority of these idiot millennials are on the younger side.

That's just my take by seeing the millennials that I encounter.

Also, who raised millennials to be the way they are?...Mostly Baby Boomers and some Gen Xers.


However, looking at that chart, I would figure you would love them BDK. 60% love Ronnie and even less love the actual socialist/communist/facist rulers. I'm not sure if that's ignorance on their part or what.

[Col Hogan]

TDS...

[Col Hogan]

This is, IMHO, a very cool story...

Passwords can be difficult to generate in these days of hackers, and lots of folks use random number generators to try and foil hackers...

But even RNGs can be beaten...but a company in San Francisco has figured out a hip new way to accomplish digital security, by going back to the hip 60’s and 70’s...

As reported by Popular Mechanics, one San Francisco-based company has turned to a wall of lava lamps to help create truly random encryption keys.

Content delivery network Cloudflare uses the lamps to create unpredictable visual data that is then converted into a genuinely random number. The floating blobs don’t occur based on a prescribed pattern, ensuring that the wall doesn’t display predictable data. Then, that information is captured through a video feed, allowing a number to be created whenever it is needed.

http://tribunist.com/technology/these-a ... source=amn

[VictorG]

Taxpayer piggy bank lets Congress settle sexual harassment cases in secret

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11 ... ecret.html

[VictorG]

New Jersey could become the next legal pot state

http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/10/news/ma ... index.html

[Jjoey52]

Taxpayer piggy bank lets Congress settle sexual harassment cases in secret

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11 ... ecret.html

They do that in all the agencies also, I know of 2 cases in the VA where women were paid out of the slush fund and offenders were re-assigned or transferred.


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[VictorG]

Doctor makes shocking claim, first steps toward world's first 'head transplant'

This sounds like a bad idea already!!!!

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/11/ ... plant.html

[grizzaholic]

Doctor makes shocking claim, first steps toward world's first 'head transplant'

This sounds like a bad idea already!!!!

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/11/ ... plant.html

I wish they would quit all this BS and just get on with it. If there are so many volunteers have them all prepped.

You fuck up one go shit. Spend a day decompressing and looking for ways to improve and jump right back in the next day and do another. It wouldn't be long before you were successful, or would run out of volunteers.

[CAA Flagship]

I don't know what this is about, but holy shit!!!

[VictorG]

I'm sure you all are dying to know the answer to this!

10 reasons why dogs follow you to the bathroom

http://dogs.pawpulous.com/2017/09/16/10 ... 1398&t=syn

[Ibanez]

Android Malware Will Destroy Your Phone. No Ifs and Buts About It
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/s ... -about-it/

Loapi is currently advertised on third-party app stores, masquerading as a mobile antivirus or adult-related app

Make sure the XXX apps on your phone is legit.

[Col Hogan]

If you don’t grow a beard, you might be mistaken for a woman...says a leading Muslim cleric...

A preacher in Turkey has said that men should grow beards to make clear they are not women.
Islamic speaker Murat Bayaral spoke on TV show Fatih Medreseleri this weekend, slamming men without beards.
Bayaral said: 'Men should grow beards. One of the two body parts that separate men from women is the beard,' according to Hurriyet Daily News.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... l-facebook

Apparently the beard also can prevent indecent thoughts....mine must be defective...

[Chizzang]

If you don’t grow a beard, you might be mistaken for a woman...says a leading Muslim cleric...

A preacher in Turkey has said that men should grow beards to make clear they are not women.
Islamic speaker Murat Bayaral spoke on TV show Fatih Medreseleri this weekend, slamming men without beards.
Bayaral said: 'Men should grow beards. One of the two body parts that separate men from women is the beard,' according to Hurriyet Daily News.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... l-facebook

Apparently the beard also can prevent indecent thoughts....mine must be defective...

I don't know Col.... I thought you were pretty sexy (beard and all)

[Col Hogan]

If you don’t grow a beard, you might be mistaken for a woman...says a leading Muslim cleric...



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... l-facebook

Apparently the beard also can prevent indecent thoughts....mine must be defective...

I don't know Col.... I thought you were pretty sexy (beard and all)

And I never had a urge to cop a feel ...