Things that make you go hmmm

Chicago.
Sad story :(
Suspect has three previous arrests and one previous conviction for unlawful use of a weapon

A couple of innocent, seemingly good young men in their teens were killed in cold blood for asking a guy how tall he was.

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A Chicago man is accused of killing two teenagers at a convenience store this month after they asked how tall he was, authorities said on Thursday.

Laroy Battle, 19, reportedly opened fire on Jasean Francis, 17, and Charles Riley, 16, in a back ally around 5 p.m. on June 20 after they and a friend walked home from buying candy at the store -- following a brief encounter with the suspect.

"The victims commented, because, since Battle is quite tall, and they asked him how tall he was and you know, hoped to be that tall someday," Deputy Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan told Chicago's WLS-TV. "And unfortunately, obviously we'll never see the full growth of these poor children."

Laroy Battle, 19, is accused of killing two teenagers at a convenience store this month after they asked how tall he was, authorities said on Thursday.

The teenagers, described as “very good kids from really excellent families,” were reportedly asked by their mothers to buy candy at the store. They didn't know Battle, but after asking about his 6-foot-3 height, he reportedly followed them out and fired nine rounds at the teenagers, police said.

Francis was shot in the back, chest and left hand, while Riley was shot in the back and left leg. Both were taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where they were pronounced dead, according to the station. The third teenager was not struck

"He was a kid," said Latonya Pettit, Francis' aunt. "Liked video games, snacks. That was his thing. He would walk into this hospital gift shop daily and purchase snacks."

Battle was arrested after members of the community identified surveillance video of the suspect that had been released by police, Deenihan said.

"To the community members who stepped forward with information - thank you. Detectives were able to quickly identify Battle, but it was the help we received from the community that led to his arrest," Chicago Police wrote on Twitter.

The suspect -- who has three previous arrests and one previous conviction for unlawful use of a weapon -- admitted that he was the person seen on camera but failed to offer a motive in the fatal shooting, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Riley and Francis were reportedly among 12 minors struck by gunfire during a violent Father's Day weekend that reportedly saw 104 people shot in the city, the paper reported.

Violence in Chicago last weekend also saw 13 people killed in shootings – including a 1-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl, reports say.
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Ahhh haaaaa - here is what is coming to towns near you - suck that. Cops need to start telling the lib/dem gov more of this -

"Hey, we aren't going to do your dirty shit - suck it"

Sheriff won't enforce Los Angeles County order to close beaches on Fourth of July: report

Los Angeles County beaches will close to the public during the Fourth of July weekend to limit the spread of COVID-19, but the county sheriff announced Monday his department won't enforce the closure order, according to a report.

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced the order on Monday which will close the beaches for all recreational activities -- as well as prohibit fireworks displays to deter large crowds. L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said his department wasn't consulted on that order and they will only enforce parking lots and traffic on the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH).

"We were not consulted on the beach closure, and will only assist our beach cities in closing parking lots and traffic enforcement on PCH," Villanueva told Fox 11. "In regards to enforcing the beach closure, we will not be enforcing it because we are 'Care First, Jail Last.'"
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Minnesota Gov. Walz asks Trump for disaster declaration after George Floyd riots trigger over $500M in damages
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So - the climate that these states and cities created, the crimes they let happen, the blame they have tried to deflect - now they want the rest of the nation to pay for it. Riiiiight.

They will pocket the funds, do nothing and complete the cycle of profit. Fuuuucccccck that.
This is your issue, MN. Not the fed.
 
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I'm impressed that you actually posted news from outside the US, I didn't know u guys actually got any international stuff through the great firewall of red white & blue

Happy 4th you Yankee buggers
 
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I'm impressed that you actually posted news from outside the US, I didn't know u guys actually got any international stuff through the great firewall of red white & blue

Happy 4th you Yankee buggers
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we dont. We have to actively look for it on the internet. Another condemnation of our media.
 
Left wants to cancel cancel culture creating a cancel culture

Liberal writers, activists sign open letter calling to end 'cancel culture'
Signatures include J.K. Rowling, Bari Weiss, Noam Chomsky and Gloria Steinem
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https://www.foxnews.com/media/liberal-writers-activists-open-letter-call-to-end-cancel-culture

Liberal writers, professors and activists have come together and signed an open letter in the hopes of ending "cancel culture."

"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling, New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss and political activist Noam Chomsky are a few of more than 100 names attached to the piece titled "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate" that was published Tuesday in Harper's Magazine.

"Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial," the letter begins. "Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts."

"But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity. As we applaud the first development, we also raise our voices against the second."

While the letter calls President Trump a "real threat to democracy," it also warns that the resistance should not "harden into its own brand of dogma or coercion," insisting that an "intolerant climate" has plagued both sides of the aisle.

"The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted," the letter explains. "While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture: an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty. We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters. But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought."

"More troubling still, institutional leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms. [...] We are already paying the price in greater risk aversion among writers, artists, and journalists who fear for their livelihoods if they depart from the consensus, or even lack sufficient zeal in agreement."

The letter goes on to say that the "stifling atmosphere" that restricts public debate "invariably hurts those who lack power and makes everyone less capable of democratic participation."

"We need to preserve the possibility of good-faith disagreement without dire professional consequences," the letter says. "If we won’t defend the very thing on which our work depends, we shouldn’t expect the public or the state to defend it for us."
Left-wing rage mob targets author J.K. Rowling for believing there are two biological sexesVideo

Other signatures attached to the letter include New York Times columnists David Brooks and Michelle Goldberg, CNN host Fareed Zakaria, The Atlantic writer David Frum, "The Handmaid's Tale" author Margaret Atwood and feminist icon Gloria Steinem.

Rowling has been under fire by the viral mob in recent weeks for defending the concept of biological sex, which critics have deemed transphobic.

Meanwhile, Weiss drew ire among her colleagues after she claimed that a "civil war" has taken place within The New York Times following the uproar sparked after the newspaper published an op-ed written by Sen. Tom Cotton that led to the removal of its editorial page editor James Bennet. It was also reported that during an internal town hall meeting, a Times employee had asked if Weiss was going to be fired over the incident.
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What do you think the top results would be if you google or duck-duck q-tip?
If you thought something like this:
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You would be wrong.

No. The internet tells us that a q-tip is one of these:
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I wonder if I went and found a dumb ass, unknown white who was too dumb to figure out a new name if that would show up.

How about Coke?

Guess what? No results in the top buzillion pages for this guy
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I know that the product is called q-tips and not q-tip so don't go all apeshit. I am just pointing out that over the years the search results have become more and more opinionated. The geography, political climate, etc have all been used to manipulate the results. All of these things need to be quantified and therefore are racist or bigoted in some fashion. To assign a sort, there must be a criteria. Assigning criteria is supposed to be bigoted. You see the paradox.

Perhaps when we search for anything, the first result should always be:

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