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>>150806
>Divergent star

oh please, he's more like 'the whiplash dude'

>>150718
>and the Huffpost makes this about white privilege
Huffpost is op-ed, not news.
You might as well complain about bias in the "Letters to the Editor" section of your local newspaper.
sage

>>150722
"HuffPost is a politically liberal news website..."

"Huffpost: News, Politics, and..."

"HuffPost is the worlds most progressive news platform..."

>>150729
"North Korea: DPRK is the most humane and tolerant country in the world"

"North Korea: We are the only country in the world where we respect human rights while imperialist dogs want to destroy our country"

You shouldn't take someone's word for being something anon. Huffpost is exactly what that guy said it is.

The curbed metal frame to which the mirrors are attached concentrate sunlight onto a rotating row of marinated chickens. In just a few minutes, the meat and skin starts to sizzle. Suthrat claims that his invention can generate up to 312 degrees Celsius, which is why he always wears a welder’s mask instead of a cook’s hat, when operating it.

Sila’s solar roaster is an unusual sight that has attracted quite a few curious clients eager to taste Sila’s sun-cooked chicken. He’s been using this sustainable cooking method for two decades now, and claims it’s much better than traditional roasting methods. It’s virtually free, cooks the chicken evenly, and best of all, it’s 100% clean.

> implying solar cooking is a new idea

>>149923
I did this shit in elementary school with a sausage and tinfoil

>>150785
The article itself says no, it is from a recent episode. Hell, the animation quality alone should prove it is not an earlier simpsons. The digital style was not used until a years after the supposed date this image came from.

I suppose this just shows how few people still watch the Simpsons if they actually believed this was real.

>Moreover, the right-wing press has routinely gone after Republican politicians with fury if they walk back hardline conservative positions -- particularly in regards to immigration. But such outlets chose not to call Trump out on Friday for his breaking his campaign promise to eliminate DACA.

>The Times said in its story that Trump's decision to break his campaign pledge would "disappoint some of the president's most ardent supporters." But if his supporters are getting their news from outlets friendly to the president, there is a good chance they aren't even aware of the news.

>>150424
>"If we're not covering it, we deserve to be hammered," one Breitbart staffer told CNN on Friday afternoon.
>"Seriously. We're like, the biggest doo doo heads ever. EVER. CNN is awesome and not fake news and we literally eat poop. None of this is verifiable and I'm really a Breitbart staffer." The unnamed Breitbart staffer added.

>>150435
would it have been less damning if the response was literally anything else?

>>150086
Wew

>>150086
... What

>>150086
This is ridiculous, CNN is a celebrated and critically acclaimed. They've won countless Emmy awards and Faux news can't even compete with their level of coverage. If you can't trust the amounts of awards they've received, which are a fact and not made up, then you're probably an idiot Trump supporter who can't go a day without bashing Muslims.

http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2016/09/22/cnn-wins-four-news-and-documentary-emmy-awards/

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Who would damage one of Wichita’s newest blessing boxes?

“Sad. I mean it’s just nonsense,” said Villa Boxing Coach Rene Montes.

That was Rene Montes’ reaction on Monday morning when he found out the blessing box, a little pantry serving the Planeview community, had been vandalized.

“It was just all the way down. The bottom board broke away like they pulled it down like this,” Montes explained.

The blessing box was donated by creators Maggie Ballard and her son Paxton on Friday. The boxing gym even held a grand opening ceremony for the box.

“Maggie and her son, they have an awesome, amazing idea. Once I seen it, I said we have to have one in front of the boxing gym,” said Villa Boxing Coach Jacob Villa. “This is one of the things that we teach the kids and show them that no matter what, no matter how bad you think you have it, somebody else got it worse.”

“It’s for a good cause, to help people out and. you know, that’s why we did it,” Montes said.

That’s also why the men at the gym fixed the box, the same day they realized it had been vandalized.

“Some people look at it as a bad thing, but it’s a box. It can be rebuilt, you know, they can’t stop what we are trying to do. It doesn’t work that way,” Villa said.

Montes said when got the news the box had been damaged, he immediately dropped what he was doing, drove to the gym and put the box back together. While Montes said he hopes he doesn’t have to do it again, he’s ready for a rematch should there be one.

“Hopefully they don’t come back and do it again. If they do, I will fix it again,” he said.

The first blessing box was installed in Wichita’s Riverside neighborhood in October of 2016. Maggie Ballard said she expects there to be a total of 19 blessing boxes throughout Wichita and a couple of other states by the end of the summer.

>Its a box where you leave food/household items and people in need can stop by and grab something.

Probably some drunk teens or aut-rightists who think charity goes against nature or some bullshit

>150772
Are you really that desperate for /pol/ yous?

>The file names and directories indicated that the data was meant to be used by influential Republican political organisations. The idea was to try to create a profile on as many voters as possible using all available data, so some of the fields in the spreadsheets were left left empty if an answer could not be found.

>"That such an enormous national database could be created and hosted online, missing even the simplest of protections against the data being publicly accessible, is troubling," Dan O'Sullivan wrote in a blog post on Upguard's website.

>"The ability to collect such information and store it insecurely further calls into question the responsibilities owed by private corporations and political campaigns to those citizens targeted by increasingly high-powered data analytics operations."
Privacy concerns

>Although it is known that political parties routinely gather data on voters, this is the largest breach of electoral data in the US to date and privacy experts are concerned about the sheer scale of the data gathered.

>"This is deeply troubling. This is not just sensitive, it's intimate information, predictions about people's behaviour, opinions and beliefs that people have never decided to disclose to anyone," Privacy International's policy officer Frederike Kaltheuner told the BBC News website.

>However, the issue of data collection and using computer models to predict voter behaviour is not just limited to marketing firms - Privacy International says that the entire online advertising ecosystem operates in the same way.

>"It is a threat to the way democracy works. The GOP [Republican Party] relied on publicly-collected, commercially-provided information. Nobody would have realised that the data they entrusted to one organisation would end up in a database used to target them politically.

>"You should be in charge of what is happening to your data, who can use it and for what purposes," Ms Kaltheuner added.

>There are fears that leaked data can easily be used for nefarious purposes, from identity fraud to harassment of people under protection orders, or to intimidate people who hold an opposing political view.

>"The potential for this type of data being made available publicly and on the dark web is extremely high," Paul Fletcher, a cyber-security evangelist at security firm Alert Logic told the BBC.

>>150668
inb4 nothing to hide

>>149723
I didn't give a shit, then they insulted Arnie

>>149723
The Confederacy will not stand for such degeneracy of our great holiday. Those liberal bastards will pay!

>>149725
>If approved by the city council, Los Angeles would join such cities as Seattle, Minneapolis, Berkeley and Santa Cruz in replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day.

Little late to the party, kid.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement that the moves are designed to shed a light on the bill because the secretive process shows Republicans are "ashamed of it, plain and simple."

"These are merely the first steps we’re prepared to take in order to shine a light on this shameful Trumpcare bill and reveal to the public the GOP’s true intentions: to give the uber-wealthy a tax break while making middle class Americans pay more for less healthcare coverage," Schumer said. "If Republicans won’t relent and debate their health care bill in the open for the American people to see, then they shouldn’t expect business as usual in the Senate."

While a good number of Senate GOP members have also expressed frustration about the closed-door process being used to pass the bill, none have publicly rejected the tactic. In a statement, the Republican National Committee called the move a "a pure partisan game aimed at placating the far-left."

>>150445
How do Dems support Obamacare, it litterally sucks for everyone

>>150461
This, it's absolute trash. Almost $200/month and insane deductibles - $150 for Dr visit, $200 for ER, full price for scrips - for me as a single, perfectly healthy 24yo nonsmoker. All so some POS hoodrat single mother of 6 can save $100/yr

For years, other scientists have referred to the pale branches of albino redwoods as parasites, but it didn’t make sense to Moore that a tree that ruthlessly gets rid of any unproductive branches would just tolerate such a peculiar parasite for years. There had to be more to this mystery than simple parasitic relationship, so the young scientists teamed up with arborist Tom Stapleton to document the locations of the trees, in search for clues.

What they found was very interesting: all of the albino trees were found on the outer reaches of Humboldt Redwoods State Park. Due to specific soil and environmental conditions, redwood trees don’t grow beyond a certain point, and it was near these edges that most of the albinos were located. After analyzing the soil in these areas, Moor and Stapleton stumbled upon another interesting aspect – it contained higher levels of heavy metals, such as nickel, copper, and cadmium. And testing clippings from albino redwoods and normal ones, they found that the former had double the levels of heavy metals than the latter, on average.

Interestingly, these levels of heavy metals would be deadly for a normal, green redwood, but not for the “ghosts”. Heavy metals poison the pathways making chlorophyll, making it impossible for the tree to photosynthesize, but that’s not a problem for the white, chlorophyll-free branches. “It’s kind of like heavy metal poisoning, a human example would be lead poisoning,” Moore says.

The 22-year-old albino redwood expert believe that the white branches have a symbiotic relationship with the green ones. They suck up all the dangerous heavy metals, keeping the green parts healthy, and in return, the regular branches supply it with the chlorophyll needed to survive.

“It’s like an investment, that’s a good way to look at it,” Moore told VICE.

“If you think about it from a plant perspective, if the plant invests a little bit of its sugars into creating this white useless structure, and that useless structure actually worked, actually allows the plant to grow quicker, then the plant would want to do that again. And year after year grow that out and that’s how you get these big albino branches.”

That still wouldn’t explain how completely white redwood trees survive, but apparently, as long as they are close enough to a healthy redwood – usually their parent tree – they can graft their roots onto theirs and receive enough nutrients to survive. Most albino trees, especially those that are completely white, look weak and malnourished, because they only receive a small quantity of chlorophyll, definitely not enough to thrive.

Redwood chimeras, those trees that are half green and half white, are even more fascinating, because they have two different sets of DNA, which is like having two different people living in one body. Such specimens are very rare. Zane Moore has only found 10 specimens in the giant redwood forest.

His theory regarding the symbiotic relationship between albino and healthy redwood trees is only that, a theory, at least for the time being. He and other researchers are conducting experiments to test out this hypothesis, and even if it turns out to be wrong, it will at least offer some information to eventually crack the mystery. “It’s literally a matter of time before we have a good idea of what’s happening,” Moore said.

As a former plant biologist, this article bothers me. Albino plants are pretty cool, visually, but certainly not a complete mystery.

The article itself points out, barely, that redwood trees are interconnected. A stand-alone albino tree would die of course, but redwood "trees" are colony organisms. The roots of a number of trunks link them into a single organism, and any given "tree" that you see is effectively a single branch of a larger being. So having one or two be albino is very do-able.

The article says the supporting plants send chlorophyll to the albinos to keep them survive - one, this isn't possible in any plant to my knowledge, and two, if they had chlorophyll they wouldn't be white. The supporting plants would just send the raw sugars and nutrients needed to keep the cells running - no chlorophyll necessary.

In terms of absorbing heavy metals, plenty of plants do this. It is very common to have a "sacrificial leaf" on a plant that will accumulate unwanted chemicals, and when it gets too toxic the plant will intentionally drop that leaf.

It doesn't mention that a very plausible additional reason that the albinos are all near the edge of the forest is because the center of the forest has only strong, green plants that will crowd out and outcompete plants with albino parts.

Lastly, the "chimera" aspect sounds more interesting than it is. It isn't an entirely additional set of DNA, almost certainly, rather just a sprinkling of common mutations. Many houseplants have patches of the plant with different or no colors. It's referred to as variegation. The albino plants of the article are just a "large scale" version of this very mundane effect.

All this being said, I would love to see one of these.

>>149773
Where does Huffpost get money?

It was decent of them to go that far as to remove an article that made no mention of vigilante justice but as a liberal I'm kinda tired of the few truly far left outlets constantly being held to higher standards while the right wing writes whatever they want about foreigners and sticks their head in the sand after white supremacists kill people or questions whether Obama may be the next Stalin and acts indignant when one of their guys shoots a congresswoman in the face.

Threats made in the abstract aren't threats. Opining for folks guilty of treason to be found guilty of that in a court of law is perfectly OK and they should stand up for that. I don't think we should have a death penalty but I still agree it's important that folks guilty of treason as defined under current law should face justice. They've nothing to apologise for.

>>149786
It called for the state sanctioned execution of the president and several cabinet members

Idk about vigilante but the article was fucking toxic garbage and Huffpost should be ashamed of themselves for running it at all

>The administration, while so far silent, has made statements on other attacks earlier this month. Trump’s team releases a statement following the shooting at the Congressional baseball practice last Wednesday, the Iran attack, and Egypt attacks earlier this month.

>While the hours tick by, many are calling for a response from the President on Monday’s event on social media.

>White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said “our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families,” during a press briefing on Monday.

>The president himself, however, has yet to express those feelings.

It's not a tragedy if one person dies

>>150573

An attorney for the Redskins football team, Lisa Blatt, said the ruling amounts to an outright victory for the team's battle to hang onto its trademarks.

"The Team is thrilled with today’s unanimous decision as it resolves the Redskins’ long-standing dispute with the government," Blatt said. "The Supreme Court vindicated the Team’s position that the First Amendment blocks the government from denying or canceling a trademark registration based on the government’s opinion."

Alito had the full support of the justices for the conclusion that trademarks are private speech, not government speech.

"It is far-fetched to suggest that the content of a registered mark is government speech. If the federal registration of a trademark makes the mark government speech, the Federal Government is babbling prodigiously and incoherently," Alito wrote. "It is saying many unseemly things.... It is expressing contradictory views. It is unashamedly endorsing a vast array of commercial products and services. And it is providing Delphic advice to the consuming public."

However, no majority of the court agreed on precisely what legal standard to apply in the case.

Three of the court's liberal justices and Republican-appointed Justice Anthony Kennedy filed a concurring opinion that suggested their colleagues were going too far in seeking to protect commercial speech. They appeared concerned that giving too much protection to businesses could undercut legitimate government regulation against false advertising and misleading marketing.

cont.

>>150574

"It is well settled, for instance, that to the extent a trademark is confusing or misleading the law can protect consumers and trademark owners," Kennedy wrote, in an opinion joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. "This case does not involve laws related to product labeling or otherwise designed to protect consumers....These considerations, however, do not alter the speech principles that bar the viewpoint discrimination embodied in the statutory provision at issue here."

Kennedy said the courts have only permitted viewpoint discrimination where the government is seeking to endorse a particular message.

"The Government has provided the benefits of federal registration to millions of marks identifying every type of product and cause," Kennedy wrote. "Registered trademarks do so by means of a wide diversity of words, symbols, and messages. Whether a mark is disparaging bears no plausible relation to that goal."

Justice Steven Breyer parted company with his liberal colleagues by joining with the court's most conservative justices in a portion of Alito's opinion that warned of the dangers of trying to regulate commercial speech.

"There is...a deeper problem with the argument that commercial speech may be cleansed of any expression likely to cause offense," Alito wrote, joined by Breyer as well as Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas. "The commercial market is well stocked with merchandise that disparages prominent figures and groups, and the line between commercial and non-commercial speech is not always clear, as this case illustrates. If affixing the commercial label permits the suppression of any speech that may lead to political or social 'volatility,' free speech would be endangered."

cont.

>>150575

Alito also noted that the clause seems to ban disparaging anyone about anything, so doesn't seem to be particularly useful at protecting minorities.

"It applies to trademarks like the following: 'Down with racists,' 'Down with sexists,' 'Down with homophobes.' It is not an anti-discrimination clause; it is a happy-talk clause," he wrote.

The decision did not address other parts of trademark law that ban registration of "immoral" or "scandalous" marks.

A spokesman for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Paul Fucito, said his agency is studying the ruling and will update its policies as appropriate.

“We are currently reviewing the decision," Fucito said in a statement. "As always, we will continue to follow the trademark laws in examining applications. We plan to issue further guidance following a careful review of the Court’s decision.”

Justice Neil Gorsuch, who joined the court in April, did not take part in the ruling.

FIN

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Thanks slowpoke.

>>150352
>read a manga about a perfect 2D loli
>start molesting 3DPD disgusting brats
Serves him right for having shit taste and being retarded.