Today In The News

[Dice]

Jeesus Christ that was insane.  Never knew explosions are that damned quick (Hollywood's slow-mo has ruined me).

[MeshGearFox]

And now, Chicago is underwater.

Fuck this week!

[Monsoon]

Campus police officer shot in MIT.  Too much death.  Also, anniversary of Virginia Tech shooting was a few days ago.  I've had enough of this week. 

[Dice]

Campus police officer shot in MIT.  Too much death.  Also, anniversary of Virginia Tech shooting was a few days ago.  I've had enough of this week. 

*nudge nudge*

[MeshGearFox]

http://livewire.wcvb.com/Event/117th_Running_of_Boston_Marathon

Hey it's getting worse.

All things considered, the fertilizer plant explosion was almost certainly an accident, because that shit just happens, but...

(Does anyone feel like reality's kind of breaking?

I have this feeling that stuff'll peak on Cinco de Mayo. I attribute a weird spiritual significance to that date.)

[Dice]

the fertilizer plant explosion ... shit just happens, but...

Pun intended?

This just seems to be a bad week for the news all in all.
I joked earlier with the Boston Explosion, then the Waco one that "third time's a charm", but I wasn't hoping to be right.

[MeshGearFox]

Pun intended?

No, because it was an ammonia nitrate afaik. Not even an unintentional pun.

Oh and

http://inagist.com/all/325126047278436353/ Hospital in the area is either under a bomb threat or there might be another dead guy, depending on what code black means.

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1cnwms/mods_removed_thread_live_updates_of_boston/ What the shit

https://twitter.com/AKitz/status/325132600161234944/photo/1 <- Oh for fuck's sake.

[Fadedsun]

Holy shit, you guys. I live in the area where all this is going down right now.

[Dice]

http://americanlivewire.com/nestle-ceo-says-water-is-food-that-should-be-privatized-not-a-human-right/
Hey kids!  Today Im gonna teach you a lesson about $GREED$!!

[Agent D.]

People have put dollar values on every other natural resource, including water. As much of a douche as he sounds like, is it really that surprising to hear it?

[Dice]

People have put dollar values on every other natural resource, including water. As much of a douche as he sounds like, is it really that surprising to hear it?

Im more amazed he's got a camera crew to document it.

[Desert Walker]

People have put dollar values on every other natural resource, including water. As much of a douche as he sounds like, is it really that surprising to hear it?

Im more amazed he's got a camera crew to document it.

If you mean surprised that he was stupid enough to allow himself to be quoted saying that on camera, then I completely agree.

RE: Boston stuff, I'm glad that one is down (and thus not going to hurt any more people) but I can hope they can take the second one alive and get some information out of him about the bombing.  Also, between politicians already rushing to leverage this situation for political gain and the conservative sites my father reads picking apart every quote they can from the bombers and/or family members to get an "HOMG MUSLIMS ARE TEH EVIL" reaction I'm getting really sick of people--across the political spectrum--using this tragedy as an excuse to push their shit.

[Akanbe-]

http://americanlivewire.com/nestle-ceo-says-water-is-food-that-should-be-privatized-not-a-human-right/
Hey kids!  Today Im gonna teach you a lesson about $GREED$!!

As far as I can remember water is, in a global sense, becoming more scarce as the population of Earth rises.  However, that's an issue for us as Human beings to rise up and figure out a solution so as many people as possible can have free, clean water.  Not hoard/privatize so only the privileged can have it.

I'm getting really sick of people--across the political spectrum--using... tragedy as an excuse to push their shit.

Kind of like how a few hollywood people got their twitter acct hacked and some congressional douchenozzle was all like, "Hey this is why we need cispa gaiz!"  cuz fuck constituents, right?

[Agent D.]

2/3 of earth is comprised of water....you'd think some environmentalists would figure out how to make it drinkable instead of converting our own piss back to drinkable water. Priorities...

[Desert Walker]

Unfortunately, while doable, desalting water is quite expensive.  They're working on engineering solutions to make it cheaper, but these things take time.