What's in the news?

[TheGlyphstone]

His crime (The one he's really being punished for) was publicly embarrassing China in the scientific community. If his research had any successful results, they'll be able to replicate them the way Callie mentioned  - but the government won't forgive him for that. At best he might end up in prison for a very long time, which is probably the more likely result in the end.

[Callie Del Noire]

His crime (The one he's really being punished for) was publicly embarrassing China in the scientific community. If his research had any successful results, they'll be able to replicate them the way Callie mentioned  - but the government won't forgive him for that. At best he might end up in prison for a very long time, which is probably the more likely result in the end.

Even if they don’t shoot him outright, I doubt he’d last long in whatever prison they stick him in. This ain’t club fed we are talking about, it’s going to be break big rocks into Little Rocks hard work.

And they won’t care a damn about his health and the international community, aside from human rights groups, will consider him a criminal too..

[Tolvo]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/proud-boy-member-accused-of-murdering-his-brother-with-a-sword-4

A Qanon follower and Proud Boy has murdered his brother with a sword because according to him he was a lizard disguising as a human. They believe mental illness is at play(I hate jumps to call someone mentally ill, but this is a possible serious level of delusion if the lizard statement is true and isn't his way to hide true motivation. Though someone can believe someone else is secretly a lizard without being mentally ill based on their working perceptions of the world being twisted by their own thinking and words of others).

[Oniya]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/proud-boy-member-accused-of-murdering-his-brother-with-a-sword-4

A Qanon follower and Proud Boy has murdered his brother with a sword because according to him he was a lizard disguising as a human. They believe mental illness is at play(I hate jumps to call someone mentally ill, but this is a possible serious level of delusion if the lizard statement is true and isn't his way to hide true motivation. Though someone can believe someone else is secretly a lizard without being mentally ill based on their working perceptions of the world being twisted by their own thinking and words of others).

That reminds me Diazien Hossencofft - who convinced a woman that his wife was a lizard queen that needed to be killed.  He was a straight-up sociopath - and not in the mass-media sense of the word.

[Skynet]

TW Sexual Assault, Transphobia

I recall when TERFs and conservatives were saying how inclusive bathrooms in Charlotte, NC would legalize child rape and thus spawned that dumb genital-based bathroom bill.

Well, the opposite of their fears have happened. Two cis women kidnapped and sexually assaulted a transgender woman in a Raleigh bathroom.

[Sara Nilsson]

TW Sexual Assault, Transphobia

I recall when TERFs and conservatives were saying how inclusive bathrooms in Charlotte, NC would legalize child rape and thus spawned that dumb genital-based bathroom bill.

Well, the opposite of their fears have happened. Two cis women kidnapped and sexually assaulted a transgender woman in a Raleigh bathroom.

sighs.

But yeah us trans people are the real danger here.. *so tired*

[RedPhoenix]

TW Sexual Assault, Transphobia

I recall when TERFs and conservatives were saying how inclusive bathrooms in Charlotte, NC would legalize child rape and thus spawned that dumb genital-based bathroom bill.

Well, the opposite of their fears have happened. Two cis women kidnapped and sexually assaulted a transgender woman in a Raleigh bathroom.

47% of trans people will be sexually assaulted in their lifetimes. But you have to have it happen to you in public or get murdered afterwards for a chance for anyone to get arrested. Even then it's iffy.

[Lustful Bride]

Puerto Rico continues to suffer as gang violence reaches a level never seen before. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/top-fbi-official-says-theres-a-crisis-of-violence-in-puerto-rico/ar-BBS16Lx?ocid=spartandhp

[Skynet]

Washington state Governor is setting up a system to pardon all misdemeanor marjuana offenses, six years after legalization of said drug within the state.

[Lustful Bride]

Just....wow....Tsunami of Sewage. That paints the worst picture imaginable.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tsunami-of-sewage-from-human-error-caused-michigan-sinkhole-dollar70-million-in-damage/ar-BBS29iC?ocid=spartandhp

[Skynet]

We no longer live in the age of dog whistle politics.

Having traded in an air horn, Congressman Steve King admitted that he does not view white supremacy as a bad thing.

[TheVillain]

I suppose technically it's true. It's not a "dog whistle" if they just come out and say it.

[Tolvo]

To be fair Trump has been dropping a lot of dog whistles as well, such as openly identifying as a nationalist.

[TheVillain]

I don't see how including that makes it fair.

It's true, obviously. I just don't see how it improves the fairness.

[Beguile's Mistress]

Saudi woman who fled her family and used social media to appeal for refugee status granted asylum in Canada, Thai official says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2019/01/11/saudi-woman-who-fled-her-family-and-used-social-media-to-appeal-for-refugee-status-granted-asylum-in-canada-thai-official-says/?utm_term=.25df8de590c2&wpisrc=al_world__alert-world&wpmk=1

[TheGlyphstone]

Praise Canada!

[Sara Nilsson]

She is clearly a terrorist, this is why we have to have a wall! (/s)

But in all seriousness, go Canada!

[Tolvo]

https://kotaku.com/former-gearbox-lawyer-accuses-ceo-randy-pitchford-of-ta-1831679539

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/01/gearbox-ceo-allegedly-kept-underage-porn-on-usb-stick-new-lawsuit-alleges/

Content warning for mention of pedophilia above(Though that part of the story is currently just hearsay).

So Randy Pitchford is being accused of embezzling millions of dollars from Gearbox. This wouldn't be entirely surprising as Gearbox has had a lot of similar things go on surrounding licensed games and taking funds from license holders and pouring them into Borderlands games. But this one is specifically for Randy himself having a fund for himself that gets paid millions by the company that would otherwise go to their employees. It is very messy at the moment, there's a lot of accusations(The pedophilia Randy has said was of barely legal porn he was watching as research for magic tricks in a game, and that he lost the drive containing it at Medieval Times, and says the accusation of underage sex parties is completely untrue). The USB drive incident though Randy has admitted did happen and that a lot of secrets about Gearbox got out that way(On top of his research porn there was a lot of information on in development games and projects).

https://twitter.com/davideddings/status/1083827429704118273

But Former VP of business development at Gearbox (2005-2017) also tweeted this after seeing the news story. "Yes, it's true."

[Oniya]

'It's only research' only gets you so far. 

[Tolvo]

I just hope he wasn't getting far at Medieval Times. It's perhaps fitting his name is Randy Pitchford.

Also I'm not sure what game he was working on that required study of the physics of a cis woman ejaculating profusely. The time makes it seem like Borderlands the Pre-Sequel though it could be a later or unreleased project. It would fit Duke Nukem Forever since there are lots of alien sex fluid bursts but that was 3 years prior.

This is why people need to separate their work life and their home life more. Keep the research porn at the workplace and the for leisure porn at home. And don't cross the two.

[Skynet]

I just hope he wasn't getting far at Medieval Times. It's perhaps fitting his name is Randy Pitchford.

Also I'm not sure what game he was working on that required study of the physics of a cis woman ejaculating profusely. The time makes it seem like Borderlands the Pre-Sequel though it could be a later or unreleased project. It would fit Duke Nukem Forever since there are lots of alien sex fluid bursts but that was 3 years prior.

This is why people need to separate their work life and their home life more. Keep the research porn at the workplace and the for leisure porn at home. And don't cross the two.

Errrr, maybe he's branching out into hentai games?

[Lustful Bride]

Measles outbreak in New York. 109 people in total have been infected so far but it is expected to rise.

If you haven't gotten yourself or your children vaccinated, do it right now.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/08/health/measles-outbreak-ny-bn/index.html

[Skynet]

After a second man died of mysterious circumstances in Democratic campaign donor Ed Buck's house, a writer in Los Angeles had been talking about warning signs for quite some time.

One of the allegations include the 2017 journal of the first man claiming that Ed tried to hook him on meth against his will.

[Beorning]

Mayor of Gdańsk stabbed on stage during a country-wide charity event:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/13/gdansk-mayor-stabbed-on-stage-during-charity-event-in-poland

It's still not known whether he'll make it...

   

[TheGlyphstone]

Well crap. He sounds like a good guy from the article, I hope he pulls through.