News related stuff that doesn't really deserve it's own thread

[Daemon]

How about the protests in HK. Staggering turnout. You join in zorax?

 

[zorax]

How about the protests in HK. Staggering turnout. You join in zorax?

Yup. There's another one happening Wednesday afternoon - dunnow if I can join that. That's potentially a riskier one too, right outside govt building while they're discussing and potentially signing in the bill. The extremists will be there so the protests could turn violent again, even tho it would be midday and have a lot of civilians.

 

[MrPrez]

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-48580157

Please do it.

 

[harsh.ag]

Yup. There's another one happening Wednesday afternoon - dunnow if I can join that. That's potentially a riskier one too, right outside govt building while they're discussing and potentially signing in the bill. The extremists will be there so the protests could turn violent again, even tho it would be midday and have a lot of civilians.

Yeah, could get ugly if they have made up their minds already.

 

[zorax]

****'s pretty crazy out in HK now

Some of the overreactions from the locals tho...calling it a war scene, saying this would be the end of HK as we know it, that the police's attitude is akin to those of the Nazi's during the holocaust...

 

[Daemon]

Some of the scenes from my friends out there are insane. The entire highway is just covered in a sea of people.

Market is picking up real fast.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

so that's what a tipping point looks like (yes, yes, I know 'surface melt' just means the melting process has started, it's still ****ing scary)

 

[andmark]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48663289

What can be said of that?

 

[sledger]

It's an improvement.

 

[Burgey]

https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/...-child-charges-against-shooter-dismissed.html

 

[vcs]

https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/...-child-charges-against-shooter-dismissed.html

I thought at first that it was an Onion-style parody news article. Jesus Christ.

 

[Spark]

Oh I didn't see this before I posted about it in the other thread, oops

 

[Spark]

Another day, another Saudi/GCC client slaughtering civilians for no good reason:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48849595

 

[Uppercut]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-48865336

the auction house response. Why wouldn't a German aristocrat be the rightful owner of an ancient Egyptian artefact that mysteriously disappeared from a temple?

 

[Daemon]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-48865336

the auction house response. Why wouldn't a German aristocrat be the rightful owner of an ancient Egyptian artefact that mysteriously disappeared from a temple?

Egypt thinks it "may" have been stolen from a temple though. They don't really know unfortunately which doesn't help their case.

 

[Uppercut]

Egypt thinks it "may" have been stolen from a temple though. They don't really know unfortunately which doesn't help their case.

What would be a legitimate way to obtain the contents of a grave? Pay in bitcoin?

 

[Prince EWS]

What would be a legitimate way to obtain the contents of a grave?

Wait for it to be legitimately abandoned and then go take it, I suppose. I see no reason to assume the Egyptian government is a legitimate owner of it more than anyone else.

 

[Spark]

Wait for it to be legitimately abandoned and then go take it, I suppose. I see no reason to assume the Egyptian government is a legitimate owner of it more than anyone else.

This is quite literally the starting argument for like 95% of colonialism.

 

[Burgey]

Fortunately the market has decided it belongs in a European auction house.

 

[Flem274*]

Wait for it to be legitimately abandoned and then go take it, I suppose. I see no reason to assume the Egyptian government is a legitimate owner of it more than anyone else.

you aren't callous