Non-IT News Thread
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 Trapped Nebraska farmer cuts off leg with pen knifeA Nebraska farmer has sawed off his own leg with a pen knife after becoming trapped in farming equipment. Kurt Kaser, 63, was moving grain from one silo to another when he was pulled into an auger - a tube with an interior shaped like a screw. 
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 @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread: Trapped Nebraska farmer cuts off leg with pen knifeA Nebraska farmer has sawed off his own leg with a pen knife after becoming trapped in farming equipment. Kurt Kaser, 63, was moving grain from one silo to another when he was pulled into an auger - a tube with an interior shaped like a screw. Damn!!! 
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 McDonald's in Austria offers hotline to embassyUS citizens who need help in Austria can now head to their nearest branch of McDonald's, because of an agreement signed by the fast-food giant. The embassy says any American "in distress" or whose passport has been lost or stolen can get assistance from one Austria's 194 McDonald's joints. 
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 @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread: McDonald's in Austria offers hotline to embassyUS citizens who need help in Austria can now head to their nearest branch of McDonald's, because of an agreement signed by the fast-food giant. The embassy says any American "in distress" or whose passport has been lost or stolen can get assistance from one Austria's 194 McDonald's joints. that's kinda awesome 
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 @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread: McDonald's in Austria offers hotline to embassyUS citizens who need help in Austria can now head to their nearest branch of McDonald's, because of an agreement signed by the fast-food giant. The embassy says any American "in distress" or whose passport has been lost or stolen can get assistance from one Austria's 194 McDonald's joints. really - joints? lol 
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 @Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread: @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread: McDonald's in Austria offers hotline to embassyUS citizens who need help in Austria can now head to their nearest branch of McDonald's, because of an agreement signed by the fast-food giant. The embassy says any American "in distress" or whose passport has been lost or stolen can get assistance from one Austria's 194 McDonald's joints. really - joints? lol I still here the term used that way around St Louis 
 Also BBC article. No idea their usage of it.
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 @JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread: @Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread: @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread: McDonald's in Austria offers hotline to embassyUS citizens who need help in Austria can now head to their nearest branch of McDonald's, because of an agreement signed by the fast-food giant. The embassy says any American "in distress" or whose passport has been lost or stolen can get assistance from one Austria's 194 McDonald's joints. really - joints? lol I still here the term used that way around St Louis 
 Also BBC article. No idea their usage of it.I use the term joint all the time. I just wouldn't ever use it to describe McD's... that just seemed odd to me. joints are (to me at least) generally more of a divy like place, think low rent. 
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 @Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread: @JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread: @Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread: @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread: McDonald's in Austria offers hotline to embassyUS citizens who need help in Austria can now head to their nearest branch of McDonald's, because of an agreement signed by the fast-food giant. The embassy says any American "in distress" or whose passport has been lost or stolen can get assistance from one Austria's 194 McDonald's joints. really - joints? lol I still here the term used that way around St Louis 
 Also BBC article. No idea their usage of it.I use the term joint all the time. I just wouldn't ever use it to describe McD's... that just seemed odd to me. joints are (to me at least) generally more of a divy like place, think low rent. Or pizza joint. 
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 BBC News - Trump-branded properties 'underperforming' 
 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48275796
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 @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread: BBC News - Trump-branded properties 'underperforming' 
 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48275796:astonished_face: 
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 BBC News - The rapes haunting a community that shuns 21st Century 
 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-48265703
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 Ohio school closes after radioactive chemicals detectedA US middle school has closed for the remainder of the school year after authorities found it was contaminated with radioactive chemicals. Officials say a nearby air monitor detected enriched uranium and neptunium-237 at Zahn's Corner Middle School in Piketon, southern Ohio. 
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 @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread: Ohio school closes after radioactive chemicals detectedA US middle school has closed for the remainder of the school year after authorities found it was contaminated with radioactive chemicals. Officials say a nearby air monitor detected enriched uranium and neptunium-237 at Zahn's Corner Middle School in Piketon, southern Ohio. Somebody's been teaching the kids to make nuclear bombs, maybe? 
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 @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread: US Fears Attack by Space PiratesAny space pirates would be immune to any defense we could muster up... there's really no point until we are technologically able to visit other life-bearing planets too. 
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 @Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread: @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread: US Fears Attack by Space PiratesAny space pirates would be immune to any defense we could muster up... there's really no point until we are technologically able to visit other life-bearing planets too. I fear that other life-bearing plantets are too scared to visit us. Humans are too stupid still. 
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 @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread: @Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread: @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread: US Fears Attack by Space PiratesAny space pirates would be immune to any defense we could muster up... there's really no point until we are technologically able to visit other life-bearing planets too. I fear that other life-bearing plants are too scared to visit us. Humans are too stupid still. Life bearing plants, like plants that create civilizations? 
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 @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread: @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread: @Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread: @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread: US Fears Attack by Space PiratesAny space pirates would be immune to any defense we could muster up... there's really no point until we are technologically able to visit other life-bearing planets too. I fear that other life-bearing plants are too scared to visit us. Humans are too stupid still. Life bearing plants, like plants that create civilizations? Those too. NB: Other post fixed. 
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 @Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread: @JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread: @Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread: @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread: McDonald's in Austria offers hotline to embassyUS citizens who need help in Austria can now head to their nearest branch of McDonald's, because of an agreement signed by the fast-food giant. The embassy says any American "in distress" or whose passport has been lost or stolen can get assistance from one Austria's 194 McDonald's joints. really - joints? lol I still here the term used that way around St Louis 
 Also BBC article. No idea their usage of it.I use the term joint all the time. I just wouldn't ever use it to describe McD's... that just seemed odd to me. joints are (to me at least) generally more of a divy like place, think low rent. Joints can be reefer cigarettes, hip hop songs, or restaurants. Or those bendy bits on people. 
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 @RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread: @Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread: @JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread: @Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread: @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread: McDonald's in Austria offers hotline to embassyUS citizens who need help in Austria can now head to their nearest branch of McDonald's, because of an agreement signed by the fast-food giant. The embassy says any American "in distress" or whose passport has been lost or stolen can get assistance from one Austria's 194 McDonald's joints. really - joints? lol I still here the term used that way around St Louis 
 Also BBC article. No idea their usage of it.I use the term joint all the time. I just wouldn't ever use it to describe McD's... that just seemed odd to me. joints are (to me at least) generally more of a divy like place, think low rent. Joints can be reefer cigarettes, hip hop songs, or restaurants. Or those bendy bits on people. And Spike Lee movies. 







