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TulsaWorld long form on the Tulsa Race Riot
I recommend reading it. I've talked about this event before. It happened before my people moved to the area, but it still impacts me quite a lot. Oklahoma State University's Tulsa Campus is in the Greenwood district, it's where I finished my degree. It's still a blasted area of town with no grocery stores and almost no modern commerce. It's an absolute tragedy. At the time it was known as the Black Wall Street and it flourished. I cannot help but wonder what my hometown might have been like if the greenwood district had been allowed to grow.
Talk about your crimes against humanity.
I recommend reading it. I've talked about this event before. It happened before my people moved to the area, but it still impacts me quite a lot. Oklahoma State University's Tulsa Campus is in the Greenwood district, it's where I finished my degree. It's still a blasted area of town with no grocery stores and almost no modern commerce. It's an absolute tragedy. At the time it was known as the Black Wall Street and it flourished. I cannot help but wonder what my hometown might have been like if the greenwood district had been allowed to grow.
Talk about your crimes against humanity.
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The Watchmen TV show depicted the Tulsa massacre -- that's the only depiction of it on screen that I know of
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Yep. I plan on watching the show just because of that.
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Sickening
& here we are 100 years later...
Thanks for sharing, Dantes.
& here we are 100 years later...
Thanks for sharing, Dantes.
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Subject: crippled masters
Bring on the kung-fu amputees - no arms vs. no legs anyone? A bit of high-speed underground ninja-tunneling is always good as well. I wanna see some shit like that. Crazy monks with gnarly special powers can make any film good. FACT.
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An article about third wave ska music, and the nineties. Kind of more the latter, which is interesting in a few ways. It's neat to have the 90s be so far gone that we're actually fucking discussing the thing / looking back on the thing like some long gone golden age, but then I guess it actually fucking is. That was *coughing up blood* years ago!
Obviously time has dulled the edge. I'm sure the nineties weren't that great, and if it was spectacular it was because I was too young to actually be aware of anything going on -- but then it was a time before social media so everyone was probably just way happier
so when people do look back i am always assuming that it is with rose tinted, nostalgia glasses, but, man, maybe the 90s weren't really that bad. ska, the subject of the article, obviously wasn't an incarnation of the good times, and a representation of the 90s and it being good, and with ska passing, seemingly overnight, so went all of that, and into the bland and miserable 00s we went, only for it to somehow get even worse in the 10s, but, like... eh...
and you probably don't want to say, like, well, the 90s were pretty rad because we had good movies, practical effects, tv was ok, the music was scene was great (country was at its best), let's just not glance at any of these violent crime charts, uh, aids, etc.., so then, ok, how about if just the 90s were at least an optimistic time to exist, even if just looking back on it. computers and the web coming into existence. consoles being at their best, surging back into popularity. social media didnt exist.
it'll be cool anyway to read articles like this about how, like, great the 10s were or something when those guys are around our age. yeah the web was shrinking and arguably getting worse. social media existed, but that connected people. youtube was only kind of a nightmare, it certainly made a lot things more accessible. everything then being designed for phones did suck, but we all used phones, so it was actually good. i dunno
anyway, the article:
https://wastelandandsky.blogspot.com/20 ... it-up.html
Obviously time has dulled the edge. I'm sure the nineties weren't that great, and if it was spectacular it was because I was too young to actually be aware of anything going on -- but then it was a time before social media so everyone was probably just way happier
so when people do look back i am always assuming that it is with rose tinted, nostalgia glasses, but, man, maybe the 90s weren't really that bad. ska, the subject of the article, obviously wasn't an incarnation of the good times, and a representation of the 90s and it being good, and with ska passing, seemingly overnight, so went all of that, and into the bland and miserable 00s we went, only for it to somehow get even worse in the 10s, but, like... eh...
and you probably don't want to say, like, well, the 90s were pretty rad because we had good movies, practical effects, tv was ok, the music was scene was great (country was at its best), let's just not glance at any of these violent crime charts, uh, aids, etc.., so then, ok, how about if just the 90s were at least an optimistic time to exist, even if just looking back on it. computers and the web coming into existence. consoles being at their best, surging back into popularity. social media didnt exist.
it'll be cool anyway to read articles like this about how, like, great the 10s were or something when those guys are around our age. yeah the web was shrinking and arguably getting worse. social media existed, but that connected people. youtube was only kind of a nightmare, it certainly made a lot things more accessible. everything then being designed for phones did suck, but we all used phones, so it was actually good. i dunno
anyway, the article:
https://wastelandandsky.blogspot.com/20 ... it-up.html
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the computer web thing is probably only the non superficial thing but how do you separate a rad time to exist from all the dumb superficial stuff that made it rad to exist then. it was good to exist when there was good movies and musics and games and the future actually looked promising
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Wait, this isn't the MODO Mia Culpa tweet thread
27/50 states of cats on keyboards
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Reminds me of Boeing
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Actually only I can prevent forest fires
wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you
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if that thread doesn't trip your 'engineer talking outside their field' detection i don't know what to say
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here are detailed analyses of stress markings on this c-hook. now let me tell you what that means for organizational structure and why management is stupid
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not me. this failure is bad but could have been caused by a tree being blown over. they're kinda expected failures although you just hope they dont cause a huge wildfire
boeing just fucked up their design on day 1. this lasted a very long time before failing
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that photo also makes it hard to figure out whats wrong because of the weird angle
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also im no transmission line engineer but are there no shield wires on that structure? maybe thats typical for older ones?
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Yeah in neither case was it really a reliability issue. Boeing had a safety problem baked into their design. And in this case it sounds like PG&E was just straight up negligent on long term maintenance. Possibly there is another side to the story but I don't usually require a high threshold of evidence when someone tells me "large company skimps on recurring costs."
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Right but in both cases there's a lack of commitment to safety
In both cases there's no failure mode analysis worth anything
In both cases there's no failure mode analysis worth anything
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Judging solely by that Twitter thread, the Camp B Fire (a tree fell on a distribution line) was a freak accident, but the C hook being slowly sawed through over a hundred years was both predictable and avoidable.
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rylinks >:3Rylinks wrote:if that thread doesn't trip your 'engineer talking outside their field' detection i don't know what to say
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I'm not sure what that question is asking exactly, but it sure looks like nobody determined the expected failure rate of these metal hooks, or analyzed what their failure would cause
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My analysis says it will cause a parade! PG&E, you know where to send my check toDoug wrote:I'm not sure what that question is asking exactly, but it sure looks like nobody determined the expected failure rate of these metal hooks, or analyzed what their failure would cause
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Pour like Hemingway's last call.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUhEaMApykEDantes wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 9:12 pm Atlantic long format about the guy who started the daily stormer.
It is disturbing as fuck.
but for racism
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Rolling Stone long form about the fall of Jerry Falwell Jr.
The tone is surprisingly not condescending. I think it makes for a good cautionary tale.
The tone is surprisingly not condescending. I think it makes for a good cautionary tale.
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This is a good piece.Dantes wrote:Rolling Stone long form about the fall of Jerry Falwell Jr.
The tone is surprisingly not condescending. I think it makes for a good cautionary tale.
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Right?Monty wrote: ↑Mon Oct 19, 2020 8:27 pmThis is a good piece.Dantes wrote:Rolling Stone long form about the fall of Jerry Falwell Jr.
The tone is surprisingly not condescending. I think it makes for a good cautionary tale.
When I see a Rolling Stone article about the leader of a Christian University, I don't really have any positive expectations about the tone and viewpoint. It was definitely critical, and it should be, but if anything it was most sympathetic towards the students and faculty who are having their credentials and resumes diminished by Falwell.
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Yeah, it's not saying "Christians are bad" or even "Christianity-based institutes of learning are bad." It's almost entirely about this one particular dude, and this one particular school. And there is plenty there to talk about!
I do think Jerry Falwell, Jr. he wouldn't have gotten as much attention if he had a different name, but that works in more than one direction. I don't have much standing to say this, but he doesn't seem like a very good Christian.
I do think Jerry Falwell, Jr. he wouldn't have gotten as much attention if he had a different name, but that works in more than one direction. I don't have much standing to say this, but he doesn't seem like a very good Christian.
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Also, let's face it, any article that contains the phrase "In a secretly taped conversation with comedian Tom Arnold" is going to be at least okay.
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Yeah, I had to read that twice. I mean, if you're going to Trump's fixer for help...of course Tom Arnold is going to get involved. I feel like there were some flashing red warning signs here that were clearly ignored.
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