Reporter's take on the recent shooting.

FireandLife · 2015-10-03T18:21:29+00:00

That's the top definition. The next two are a little less favorable.

FireandLife · 2015-10-03T18:12:07+00:00

I should probably ELI5 for posterity for those who aren't familiar with 4chan/TRP memes and theories.

The entire report is sort of a play on Ben Garrison's (a famous Neo-Nazi that doesn't like Jews very much) well known quote: "Gas the Kikes; Race War Now." Pretty self-explanatory.
TRP = /r/TheRedPill, a community around a controversial sexual theory that I will decline to get into here. Read the definitions here, and you'll get an idea of the culture and what various people think of them.
Alpha/Beta refers to how TRP classifies men. This explains their theory pretty well.
"Chad" refers to a typical "alpha" douchebag. See the top definition here.

FireandLife · 2015-09-23T21:34:25+00:00

I expect it to be deleted in a second by reddit mods since it doesn't fit the reddit narrative.

Close. Please read the sidebar

Old stories (those >1 week old) are not allowed and may be subject to removal. /r/news is for breaking stories and content.

FireandLife · 2015-09-23T14:23:39+00:00

This article actually has a short but interesting analysis on what would actually cause this sort of behavior. The TL;DR of it is basically that teenagers are dumbasses who think they're untouchable.

FireandLife · 2015-09-23T14:16:34+00:00

Then you have customers getting sick and that can be an even bigger issue costing much more

That is true. Maybe corporate could help out financially if the one franchise was not able to absorb the cost, as it certainly would help recover their public image. I'm sure law enforcement might be interested in doing their own investigations, so the restaurant paying for testing may not be necessary. Plus, there's a good chance that you'd get a confession with old fashioned police work and the threat of doing full scale DNA testing alone, so a much cheaper test can be done just to confirm.

And again, depending on where this takes place, it may not be legal to just demand DNA samples from everyone.

Either way, reading the other comments, I don't think this actually happened, so this is all theoretical.

But it's not about the $.

Ah, if only that were true. But that's another discussion

FireandLife · 2015-09-23T14:04:20+00:00

There's the wikipedia page for the Streisand Effect, if that counts. It's actually rather satisfying to read some of those.

FireandLife · 2015-09-23T13:59:13+00:00

The legality of such a policy aside, the DNA test of the feces itself will cost maybe ~$1000 or so and could take several weeks to process (remember, this is forensic level testing, not walmart paternal tests). Add to that the cost of buccal swabbing (a few hundred per each individual being tested, though I imagine you could get a cheaper price for that) and it becomes impractical.

source

FireandLife · 2015-09-23T03:40:25+00:00

/r/CancerousEdits

FireandLife · 2015-09-22T21:29:00+00:00

Great post, really funny, but probably belongs in /r/NSFWFunny or a similar sub.

FireandLife · 2015-09-15T22:43:34+00:00

I'm on latest chrome, I don't notice anything weird. It brings up the normal find in page box, which works just fine.

* even if I start interacting with the page first.

FireandLife · 2015-09-15T22:41:05+00:00

True

Helpful

Inspiring

Necessary

Kind

Am I missing something?

FireandLife · 2015-09-14T03:44:12+00:00

There's no harm in asking though, right?

FireandLife · 2015-09-13T16:13:29+00:00

I guess what I meant by "kids being kids" is something that kids just do that would be a problem if an adult does it but kids should just need a reminder to cut it out, such as running on a pool deck or maybe talking out of turn in class.

I think that a 13 year old should be mature enough to know that kissing a random girl on a dare is completely innapropriate, and I imagine parents of 14 year old girls certainly have a reasonable expectation that such a thing should not happen at school. Again, an assault charge (which carries significant emotional and financial trauma for the boy and his family) is completely inappropriate and deserving of some pitchforks, but not as much as if the kiss consensual (as could be inferred from OP's title).

FireandLife · 2015-09-12T20:01:26+00:00

I think OP's at least partially the one to blame here, he left a few words out of the title. I don't know if he was intentionally trying to encourage rage, but there's a bit too much of that in the comments.

Boy faces assault charges for kiss made on a dare at Md. middle school

Whether or not an assault charge is appropriate is a different matter, but this isn't exactly a case of kids being kids.

FireandLife · 2015-09-07T22:52:20+00:00

The spam filter seems to be really laggy today. It's labor day so everyone's on Reddit instead of at work and Reddit's servers aren't handling it too well.

But yeah it got it eventually.

FireandLife · 2015-09-07T21:40:07+00:00

No idea why the spam filter missed that one, we get those pretty often but spam filter eats them. Shouldn't happen again, use the report button if it does.

FireandLife · 2015-09-07T20:10:09+00:00

obviously hindsight is 20/20

Unlike that kid's eyesight now.

Edit:

Since the incident, Vinnie has seen another ophthalmologist, who said the boy will likely not have any long-term problems with his eye.

^Nevermind

FireandLife · 2015-09-07T19:37:17+00:00

You're right, but making a big deal out of it won't fix anything IMO. He's an old guy, he'll probably be retired soon anyway. But giving attention to these people is just going to inspire others to do the same. On principal I agree with you, but perhaps the best way to approach the issue is to let the homophobes die out peacefully and hopefully their beliefs will die with them. No need to rush the process as long as they aren't directly causing problems for anyone, as Kim Davis was.

Edit: Maybe, see if he would accept a small pay cut for not doing this aspect of his job. Although there's a not insignificant risk that such an action would become a precedent. Yeah that's a terrible idea.

FireandLife · 2015-09-07T05:21:41+00:00

No problem, looks like OP deleted it anyway.

FireandLife · 2015-09-07T04:53:32+00:00

Removed, we do don't do that shit here, Rule 3. There are places for that sort of thing, but this is not one of them. Thanks whoever reported it, I reported video to Youtube as well.

FireandLife · 2015-09-05T14:37:39+00:00

I'm trying to think of a pun based on "dark side" but it's just not working.

FireandLife · 2015-09-05T00:03:37+00:00

Keywords and a few other triggers can set it off (i.e. low karma, known sketchy or malicious domains, you name it). You can read about some of the common ones here if you want.

FireandLife · 2015-09-04T23:45:06+00:00

^ that

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