Non-IT News Thread
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@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Robert Pattinson is officially the next Batman
https://nypost.com/2019/05/31/robert-pattinson-is-officially-the-next-batman/Okay. . . enough of this guy already.
Not a fan of Robert?
Not really no. He's not at all a good actor.
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Just tired of seeing another Batman again.
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@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Just tired of seeing another Batman again.
This is true, there have been a lot of Batman movies within the last few years.
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@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Just tired of seeing another Batman again.
Now THAT I can get behind. I've not seen the last few and I still am burned out on it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Just tired of seeing another Batman again.
Now THAT I can get behind. I've not seen the last few and I still am burned out on it.
Batman & Batman Returns are still my favorites.
Christian Bale did alright with Batman Begins, but I didn't care for the other two he did.
I say if Pattinson wants to give it a shot, let him... just hope the director has a good story to go with it.
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BBC News - Virginia Beach: 11 killed in government building shooting, police say
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Freedom Gas - Come Get Some!
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Donald Trump meets Queen at start of UK state visit
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are meeting the Queen on the first day of their state visit to the UK.
The pair are at Buckingham Palace for a private lunch and welcome ceremony.
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Nanda Devi: Bodies spotted in hunt for climbers missing in India
A helicopter crew searching for eight climbers who went missing in the Indian Himalayas has spotted five bodies, Indian sources say.
Four Britons, two Americans, an Australian and an Indian made up the missing group who disappeared on India's second highest-peak.
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Pentagon tells White House not to politicise the military
The Pentagon has warned the White House not to politicise the military, amid a row over a ship bearing the same name as late Senator John McCain.
Last week, the White House asked for the USS John S McCain to be hidden during his speech in Japan.
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Avengers: Endgame Directors Are Adapting Magic: The Gathering For Netflix
Avengers: Endgame directors Anthony and Joe Russo are working on a new project: they are adapting the popular 26-year-old collectible card game Magic: The Gathering for Netflix.
On Monday, Netflix has announced that the Russos are teaming up with Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro for an animated series based on the mythology of the fantasy-themed card game. The Russo brothers will “oversee the creation of an all-new storyline and expand on the stories of the Planeswalkers” and will see the heroes and villains of Magic's multiverse “contend with stakes larger than any one world can hold.”
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Canada 'complicit in race-based genocide' of indigenous women
Canada is complicit in a "race-based genocide" against indigenous women, a government report has concluded.
The report cited research finding indigenous women were 12 times more likely to be killed or to disappear than other women in Canada.
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US dad 'punched shark five times' to save daughter
A North Carolina teenager is recovering in hospital after a shark attack left her with severe injuries from bites to her legs and hands, officials say..
According to Paige Winter's family, her father had to punch the shark five times before it let the 17-year-old go. -
Tiananmen: China rebukes Pompeo on 30th anniversary of protests
China has rebuked US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for remarks he made on the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protest.
Mr Pompeo criticised China's human rights record and called for it to reveal how many died in the crackdown.
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Ajit Pai works to cap funding for rural and poor people, gets GOP backing
FCC vote paves way for budget cap on all universal-service broadband programs.
The Federal Communications Commission has preliminarily voted to cap spending on the FCC's Universal Service programs, which deploy broadband to poor people and to rural and other underserved areas. -
Mexico-US tariffs will harm both countries, warn officials
Mexico has warned US President Donald Trump that tariffs on Mexican goods could worsen illegal immigration to the US and end up hurting both countries.
The warning came as Mr Trump tweeted that Mexico could "stop the flow of people and drugs" across the border "if they want".
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Tiananmen 30th anniversary: Thousands hold huge vigil in Hong Kong
Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Hong Kong to mark the 30th anniversary of the crackdown on protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
Hong Kong and Macau are the only places in China where people can commemorate the activists killed in 1989.
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Sudan crisis: Dozens of bodies pulled from Nile, opposition says
Forty bodies have been pulled from the River Nile in the Sudanese capital Khartoum following a violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests, opposition activists said on Wednesday.
Doctors linked to the opposition said the bodies were among 100 people believed killed since security forces attacked a protest camp on Monday.
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Republicans clash with Trump over Mexico tariffs
Republican senators have expressed deep opposition to US President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs on goods coming to the US from Mexico.
In a closed meeting with White House officials, senators said they were considering moves to block the tariffs.
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Trump says 'climate change goes both ways'
President Donald Trump has said he believes climate change "goes both ways" following a 90-minute discussion with environmentalist Prince Charles.
"I believe that there's a change in weather and I think it changes both ways," Mr Trump told Piers Morgan in an interview that aired on Wednesday.
