frodosdream
frodosdream t1_j60e1f2 wrote
Reply to NYC bike path terror suspect found guilty on all counts in killing of 8 people by electromagneticpost
>Sayfullo Saipov was found guilty of murder by a federal jury for using a rented truck to fatally strike eight people on a New York City bike path on Halloween Day in 2017.
About time; this was a particularly cruel attack on innocent people.
frodosdream t1_j5z8ruo wrote
Reply to comment by Mighty_Mackerel in FBI has seized website used by notorious ransomware gang by Bananaramas
Sadly the closer we get to Mordor, the darker my dreams.
frodosdream t1_j5z7r5g wrote
>She said she left Lithuania and broke contact with her relatives because she did not want anything to do with them
A happy ending (in that she is safe) turns out to be not so happy news for her parents.
frodosdream t1_j5z75bq wrote
Reply to comment by Klezmer_Mesmerizer in FBI has seized website used by notorious ransomware gang by Bananaramas
>Seized the website, but alas, didn't get any of the people.
Suddenly my imagination conjured up a ransomware operation run entirely by a rogue AI, with no humans involved. Maybe it needs funding for projects of its own, or perhaps a bitter AI specialist let a score of them loose on the world as a parting gift before death and this was only the first one detected. A premise for a film perhaps...
frodosdream t1_j3ajkcq wrote
Reply to comment by supreme_Aimbot in Grammy winner is fatally shot by police after allegedly holding his wife and stepdaughter at gunpoint by Lafayette37
Thanks. Polka is so outside the mainstream, including it in the title would actually have been better clickbait.
frodosdream t1_j256gw8 wrote
>Monk parakeets have established perches in Miami, New York and other cities. But the colony underneath the Skyway, where the birds build their nests among the concrete and steel supports several stories off the ground, is one of the more improbable spots they scratch out a living.
Somehow the image of escaped tropical birds surviving and even thriving in the sub-zero conditions of Chicago in winter gives me hope. Hope they continue to thrive!
frodosdream t1_ivv6c6t wrote
Reply to Piece of the space shuttle Challenger found by divers in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida by fredrandall
Better version reported by NBC.
>The shuttle broke apart just 73 seconds into its flight on Jan. 28, 1986. It disintegrated 46,000 feet above the ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
>The mission, called STS-51L, was commanded by Francis R. “Dick” Scobee and piloted by Michael J. Smith. Other astronauts included Ronald E. McNair, Ellison S. Onizuka, Judith A. Resnik, Gregory B. Jarvis, and S. Christa McAuliffe, a high school social studies teacher in Concord, New Hampshire. She had been selected as the primary candidate for the NASA Teacher in Space Project in July 1985.
The explosion traumatized an entire generation of kids around the country watching the launch live from their school rooms in support of the "Teacher in Space Project."
frodosdream t1_iuj2ilo wrote
Isn't this the same shooting that had the suspect/victim struggling with the cop over a taser as seen in video? (Hard to believe that this happened less than a year ago.)
Watched this video several times; did not ever see the suspect holding the taser as some claim. It always looked like the cop finally grew tired from wrestling, then pulled his weapon and shot the victim in the back of the head, while still on top of him.
frodosdream t1_iudngk7 wrote
>Gujarat's Morbi Machchhu River Pull Collapse: In a big mishap, over 500 people have fell in a river in Gujarat's Morbi after an overbridge constructed over the Machchhu River collapsed. Local people and government officials have started their rescue operations. As per initial inputs, the bridge is a local picnic spot that sees huge crowds on weekends and other holidays.
From another source, which goes on to say that this overbridge was "constructed in extreme haste" and "without proper checks" as part of an election promise six months ago. Probably not the safest place for a thousand people to have picnics on. Terrifying and tragic for all the families that fell into the river.
frodosdream t1_itt09m9 wrote
A man in Arkansas was reportedly hospitalised after a taser sparked a can of gasoline in his backpack and set it alight.
There's a LPT here somewhere.
frodosdream t1_it3t7jj wrote
Reply to Schoolboy protester dies in Iran after reportedly being shot at close range | Iran by hugglenugget
These brave kids are making the change that the adults of their nation feared to do.
Deep respect for these kids!
frodosdream t1_isqzp86 wrote
Reply to One Baltimore resident’s love for Druid Hill Park, flaws and all | Baltimore Banner by BmoreCityDOT
Love this article. It shows some of the best of this city.
frodosdream t1_ismjz2i wrote
Reply to In a novel experiment, brain-like human tissue implanted in rat brains influenced the rodents' behavior by le75
Anyone remember The Secret of NIMH?
frodosdream t1_jddohxu wrote
Reply to comment by Miketogoz in Body is 17-year-old accused of shooting 2 at Denver high school, Colorado coroner confirms - CNN by oldschoolskater
Not the person you replied to, but IIRC "Columbine changed everything" generally means "raised widespread public awareness" for what had always happened occasionally and then vastly increased in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and then expanded again in the 2000s. There was a brief lull in the late-90s and then Columbine took place on April 20, 1999 ushering in the present epidemic of school shootings.
Others have correctly pointed out that while there was often school violence, mass school shootings were far rarer in the 1960s and 70s even though firearms were much easier to obtain then, and poverty rates were worse than today.
Many things changed in America since that time and no one knows if there was one cause or many. But it's interesting that the 1980s saw the birth of the internet, while the 1990s saw the first widespread social media. This same period also saw an enormous increase in psychiatric drugs prescribed for school children. The early 1980s also saw the infamous crack epidemic which fostered the explosive spread of modern gang culture.
Much later, President GHW Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, which has caused so many schools to end expulsions for behavioral problems (and to lower educational standards for test scores). Many educators discuss the negative impact of NCLB over on r/teachers. But there are probably other factors equally significant as all these; we only know that kids snap more violently and resort to guns more quickly now than they did two generations ago.
From the late 1980s to the early 1990s the United States saw a sharp increase in gun and gun violence in the schools. According to a survey conducted by The Harvard School of Public Health "15% said that they had carried a handgun on their person in the past 30 days, and 4% said that they had taken a handgun to school in the past year." a sharp increase from just five years earlier. By 1993, the United States saw some of the most violent time is school shooting incidences. ... (then) the late 1990s started to see a major reduction in gun related school violence, but was still plagued with multiple victim shootings.
https://www.k12academics.com/school-shootings/history-school-shootings-united-states
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