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tonyshowoff

@Kelly said in Non-IT News Thread:

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/global-index/

Looks like the US lost three places in a year.

It is difficult to trust a site that rates Saudi Arabia so highly.

It does? Maybe in comparison to other countries that have a smaller GDP but compared to other countries in its bracket it performs very poorly.

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/countries/sau/

Having been there myself I can tell you there's a huge wealth gap, essentially absolute bottom or fairly high toward the top, much like Russia. They're just really good at pretending the bottom doesn't exist. There are huge slums though.

coliver

@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Kelly said in Non-IT News Thread:

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/global-index/

Looks like the US lost three places in a year.

It is difficult to trust a site that rates Saudi Arabia so highly.

It does? Maybe in comparison to other countries that have a smaller GDP but compared to other countries in its bracket it performs very poorly.

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/countries/sau/

Having been there myself I can tell you there's a huge wealth gap, essentially absolute bottom or fairly high toward the top, much like Russia. They're just really good at pretending the bottom doesn't exist. There are huge slums though.

I don't doubt that. Just from looking at the data presented on this website it looks like there is a massive issue.

Kelly

Hmm, perhaps I'm misinterpreting the graphs. They just had SAU as a pretty dark color in all three categories.

coliver

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/07/vladimir_putin_has_a_plan_for_destroying_the_west_and_it_looks_a_lot_like.html

Interesting perspective.

coliver

http://satwcomic.com/art/brexit-to-the-right.png

Haha. The last panel.

scottalanmiller

Dallas police officer has been killed in the protest going on in Dallas just now.

scottalanmiller

I'm in bed but my news alerts keep going off. Five Dallas police now killed by snipers.

scottalanmiller

Dallas police shooting: Four officers killed, seven hurt by snipers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36742835

scottalanmiller

At least five dead and two more shot by snipers.

scottalanmiller

At least one shooter says that there are bombs planted in downtown Dallas

scottalanmiller

Food chain Wendy's hit by massive hack
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36742599

scottalanmiller

Up to 11 shot now. Still only five dead. Cops and snipers still exchanging fire.

scottalanmiller

http://www.ktvq.com/story/32403198/wyoming-teen-playing-new-pokemon-game-on-phone-discovers-body

dafyre

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

http://www.ktvq.com/story/32403198/wyoming-teen-playing-new-pokemon-game-on-phone-discovers-body

Is this why your wife was wandering around a field today?

scottalanmiller

@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

http://www.ktvq.com/story/32403198/wyoming-teen-playing-new-pokemon-game-on-phone-discovers-body

Is this why your wife was wandering around a field today?

Yup. The game, not because of the bodies out there.

dafyre

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

http://www.ktvq.com/story/32403198/wyoming-teen-playing-new-pokemon-game-on-phone-discovers-body

Is this why your wife was wandering around a field today?

Yup. The game, not because of the bodies out there.

Well...At least she hasn't found any yet.

thwr

@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

http://www.ktvq.com/story/32403198/wyoming-teen-playing-new-pokemon-game-on-phone-discovers-body

Is this why your wife was wandering around a field today?

Yup. The game, not because of the bodies out there.

Well...At least she hasn't found any yet.

Bodies or Pokemons?

Joy

A Pokemaster's journey is dangerous: Australian police issue warning about Pokemon Go
This makes me giggle

http://www.cnet.com/news/the-pokemasters-journey-is-dangerous-australian-police-issue-warning-about-pokemon-go/

thwr

If I could just laugh about this... There are strange things going on over in Turkey:

PS: MPs means "Member/s of the (German) Parliament"

tonyshowoff

@thwr said in Non-IT News Thread:

If I could just laugh about this... There are strange things going on over in Turkey:

http://www.dw.com/en/merkel-erdogan-meet-cant-mend-fences/a-19390316

http://www.dw.com/en/mps-threaten-to-block-military-cooperation-with-turkey/a-19389205

PS: MPs means "Member/s of the (German) Parliament"

They hate Kurds more than they hate ISIS, so they bomb Kurdish positions in Syria that are fighting ISIS, and at the same time Erdogan claims that "Kurdish independence [in a difference country] is more dangerous to Turkey than ISIS," meanwhile ISIS has killed hundreds and hundreds of people in Turkey. The biggest joke of all is the US doesn't call them out on this and in fact kisses their butts to an insane and disgusting degree.

Even now, every US president since Truman has promised to recognise the Armenian genocide, but suddenly when Turkey says "no," the US president bows. It's all disgusting, Turkey bullies ethnic minorities in other countries meanwhile claims they don't do this at all, and it's everyone else who is trying to kill Turks.

Merkel should tell Turkey to go to hell, why should Germany help a country which helps ISIS on a daily basis? Glad to see at least for once Germans aren't on the side of evil, am I right