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PenguinWrangler

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Billy Graham just died at 99.

Also... wow. I thought he had died a few years ago, lol.

My Grandfather got to meet him years ago, I believe it was in the 1970s. They were about the same age. Billy Graham has not been doing well, healthwise, for a while.

dbeato

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Billy Graham just died at 99.

https://www.npr.org/2018/02/21/136224476/americas-pastor-billy-graham-dies-at-99?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180221

Fredtx

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Billy Graham just died at 99.

A great servant who made a huge impact to the world.

scottalanmiller

Explosion, likely a grenade, just thrown into the US embassy grounds in Podgorica Montenegro.

Obsolesce

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Explosion, likely a grenade, just thrown into the US embassy grounds in Podgorica Montenegro.

https://www.rferl.org/a/montenegro-confirms-suicide-attack-us-embassy-podgorica-/29055917.html

JaredBusch

@fredtx said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Billy Graham just died at 99.

A great servant who made a huge impact to the world.

Made a huge impact, yes. The type of impact is debatable.
A great Servant? Fuck no.

PenguinWrangler

@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

@fredtx said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Billy Graham just died at 99.

A great servant who made a huge impact to the world.

Made a huge impact, yes. The type of impact is debatable.
A great Servant? Fuck no.

Starting hospitals in impoverished countries that accept people of all faiths, running orphanages, helping in refugee camps, helping subsistence farmers learn how to start growing enough food to actually start making income, rescuing children and women from the sex slave industry, just to name a few things. That isn't being a servant at all. Of course, people will hear a religious message through these but they don't have to convert to take advantage of these ministries. So yes I do believe he was a great servant. Was he perfect, no. But I will most likely say that we will just have to agree to disagree on this.

black3dynamite

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nra-lashes-out-at-boycott-movement-as-united-delta-and-other-corporations-cut-ties/ar-BBJx07h?ocid=spartandhp

scottalanmiller

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/26/entertainment/kevin-smith-heart-attack/index.html

StrongBad

Interesting NPR article on Peer Review in the scientific community.

Obsolesce

Amsterdam supermarket opens world's 1st plastic-free aisle

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.4555711/amsterdam-supermarket-opens-world-s-1st-plastic-free-aisle-1.4555714

momurda

@tim_g This is good. I hate plastic containers(all, but especially for food) and avoid them when possible. Sometimes though when i go to the butcher shop and ask for no plastic the clerk refuses to give me stuff wrapped just in paper and will always wrap in a plastic bag then in butcher paper.
Luckily though i live in an area where recycling is taken seriously and most plastics with a number can be recycled. And plant based plastics that are biodegradable are a thing now for food containers, which is great.

Obsolesce

@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

@tim_g This is good. I hate plastic containers(all, but especially for food) and avoid them when possible. Sometimes though when i go to the butcher shop and ask for no plastic the clerk refuses to give me stuff wrapped just in paper and will always wrap in a plastic bag then in butcher paper.
Luckily though i live in an area where recycling is taken seriously and most plastics with a number can be recycled. And plant based plastics that are biodegradable are a thing now for food containers, which is great.

You still have to be careful with paper. Much of it is still coated in the same crap that makes plastic so bad! For example, common kitchen papertowels, napkins, paper plates, etc...