GasBandit
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Bring this up the next time some rabid maga guy talks about burdensome regulation on business.
[Other] News stories you wish you never read (Morbid Reality)
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figmentPez
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Coffee shop's disabled employees harassed over viral feet-licking video, director says
"A nonprofit coffee shop that employs students and adults with intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities has received phone threats, angry emails and poor reviews online following a controversial video that went viral last week.
"Tim Herbel, executive director of Not Your Average Joe, told The Oklahoman his six coffee shops in the Oklahoma City metro have been blindsided following a fundraiser by Deer Creek High School students that included licking feet during its Wonderful Week of Fundraising event.
"Herbel said he wasn’t at the event and that the students themselves decide each year to pick a nonprofit as a recipient of the fundraiser.
"After Fox 25 published video from the fundraiser, Herbel said, it went viral and people started calling his coffee shops, which employ about 100 students and adults with various disabilities.
“'They call our stores and our friends with special needs usually answer the phones and they are being cussed out and called pedophiles,' Herbel said. 'One star reviews from all over the country. We’re not this well-funded machine that has all these dollars. We’re getting beat up. The kids are getting beat up.' ”
Article about the feet-licking: Student Toe-Licking Fundraiser Sparks Investigation Into Oklahoma School
"A nonprofit coffee shop that employs students and adults with intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities has received phone threats, angry emails and poor reviews online following a controversial video that went viral last week.
"Tim Herbel, executive director of Not Your Average Joe, told The Oklahoman his six coffee shops in the Oklahoma City metro have been blindsided following a fundraiser by Deer Creek High School students that included licking feet during its Wonderful Week of Fundraising event.
"Herbel said he wasn’t at the event and that the students themselves decide each year to pick a nonprofit as a recipient of the fundraiser.
"After Fox 25 published video from the fundraiser, Herbel said, it went viral and people started calling his coffee shops, which employ about 100 students and adults with various disabilities.
“'They call our stores and our friends with special needs usually answer the phones and they are being cussed out and called pedophiles,' Herbel said. 'One star reviews from all over the country. We’re not this well-funded machine that has all these dollars. We’re getting beat up. The kids are getting beat up.' ”
Article about the feet-licking: Student Toe-Licking Fundraiser Sparks Investigation Into Oklahoma School
Dave
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Major trigger warning for this one. No idea why I clicked on this but holy shit. And the one guy in the article called the Torture King is identified as a nazi MAGA fuckwit. So surprised.
www.bbc.co.uk
Hunting the monkey torturers
A BBC investigation has uncovered a global monkey torture ring. This is the story of the torturers, the amateur sleuths who hunted them, and the fate of Mini, a baby monkey who became a celebrity in their twisted world.
www.bbc.co.uk
Dave
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I guess I missed it there. Or just saw the headline and didn't click anything.
Dave
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Everyone is making fun of the crazies who thought the eclipse was something new and disastrous, ushering in a rapture or an apocalypse or whatever. But some crazy people are dangers to themselves and unfortunately their kids.
apnews.com
Mom who threw 2 kids onto LA freeway, killing her infant, appeared agitated by impending eclipse
A woman who authorities say fatally stabbed her partner at their Los Angeles apartment Monday then threw her two children from a moving SUV onto the freeway, killing her infant daughter, appeared to be agitated by the impending eclipse.
apnews.com
It's far from isolated, even if you just confine yourself to any one country. Every time something like this happens, you get these stories of desperate people who were moved to euthanize their loved ones (family, friends, pets) to spare them the agony of dying in the cataclysm du jour.
--Patrick
--Patrick
Impossible, because America hasn't existed for that long and clearly the world did not have any knowledge or wisdom before the Greatest Nation was created!
FILTHY HEATHEN LIES.
Or "We don't have proof of any former eclipses! LIAR!"
Or "None of those earlier ones eclipsed OUR BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY! This is because of Biden!"
Or just plain schizophrenia, really.
Then there's the other kind:
www.wtvm.com
--Patrick
Woman says ‘God’ told her to go on a shooting spree because of the solar eclipse, officials say
A Georgia woman allegedly checked out of a hotel and told the staff that ‘God’ told her to go on a shooting spree because of the solar eclipse, according to officials.
www.wtvm.com
Louisiana High Court: Priests Have a “Property Right” Not to Be Sued For Sexual Abuse
These are the same people who say they're "protecting children" with revoking trans rights.
ballsandstrikes.org
These are the same people who say they're "protecting children" with revoking trans rights.
Louisiana Supreme Court Makes It Harder For Church Abuse Survivors to Hold Priests Accountable
A new decision from the Louisiana Supreme Court casts down on the ability of survivors to sue the Catholic Church for sexual abuse.
ballsandstrikes.org
Couple paragraphs into the article apparently she was running in some conspiracy circles. And for some reason those circles went insane over this eclipse claiming that the states that declared a state of emergency were just doing a dry run of martial law.
I don’t really understand why they went nuts over this one but they sure did.
figmentPez
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Massive amount of crop fertilizer spills into SW Iowa river
story from 2024-03-13
"An estimated 265,000 gallons of liquid nitrogen fertilizer leaked from a farmers cooperative in Red Oak.... and most of it went into the East Nishnabotna River, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources."
Iowa DNR: Fertilizer spill killed around 750,000 fish in East Nishnabotna River
This spill killed off nearly all the fish in a 50 mile stretch of river.
story from 2024-03-13
"An estimated 265,000 gallons of liquid nitrogen fertilizer leaked from a farmers cooperative in Red Oak.... and most of it went into the East Nishnabotna River, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources."
Iowa DNR: Fertilizer spill killed around 750,000 fish in East Nishnabotna River
This spill killed off nearly all the fish in a 50 mile stretch of river.