Police are asking people playing the new pokemon game to stop walking out into traffic.
what the fucking fuck
aerdil posted:so far i've seen about a dozen groups of three people wandering around near my apartment, ranging in age from their teens to thirty-somethings. last night i saw a trio of fairly normal looking adult yuppie types darting their eyes all over the place with their phones out and at first i thought they were tourists who were lost or something, but then i heard the sounds of pokemon coming out of their phone.
apparently thieves are setting up pokemon beacons in isolated areas and robbing the nerds that venture out in a thematically appropriate reversal of roles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efxm8IOd0xg
littlegreenpills posted:they dont have pokemon go in canada so people are playing a knockoff called Awesome Monster Quest or something. that's some very impressive reverse engineering
lol canada sucks
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/13/us-food-waste-ugly-fruit-vegetables-perfect
MarxUltor posted:I just saw a list of important survival equipment to carry with you if you want to play a pokemon game where you walk around outside. Like people are being told to carry emergency contact info and epipens to walk outside and play a phone game.
Police are asking people playing the new pokemon game to stop walking out into traffic.
what the fucking fuck
from what i can tell from when i talk to everyday americans the idea of being downtown, or taking the bus, or being around other people they don't know is all terrifying and they might be murdered at any moment by desperate homeless people who are all constantly on seven kinds of drugs and will rape and murder anyone they see. i just assumed that was taught inside the elementary schools that are surrounded by chain-link fences and metal detectors and giant signs that say doubled sentences for using drugs or weapons on school property. truly the land of the free
drwhat posted:from what i can tell from when i talk to everyday americans the idea of being downtown, or taking the bus, or being around other people they don't know is all terrifying
which ones, where
Writing for the court, the chief justice said that provisions in the sexual battery statute that apply to teachers, ministers, and mental health providers are fine because they require "exploiting their victims through established authoritarian relationships" with the minor. Banning police officers from raping children, however, required no such professional relationship and so was "arbitrarily disparate treatment of peace officers," and so violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution. The section of the sexual battery law which bans police officers from committing sexual battery against children, "represents a classification of persons for its own sake, something the equal protection clause does not permit," and 57% of Ohio judges couldn't come up with any other legitimate reason why the state would have any real interest in banning the sexual battery of children by police officers or find any indication under the law that a police officer may have some form of exploitable authoritarian relationship with minors.
roseweird posted:Critics of a newly approved weight loss device that uses a tube inserted into the stomach to drain food after a meal say it could lead to dangerous eating disorders. Advocates argue it's a less invasive option to bariatric surgery and a powerful new weapon in the global fight against obesity. Ben Gruber reports.
that's rad
MarxUltor posted:In a 4-3 decision, the Ohio supreme Court has struck down a law barring police from committing sex acts with minors, and overturned the conviction of a police officer caught having sex with a 14 yr old boy by the child's mother in 2012.
Writing for the court, the chief justice said that provisions in the sexual battery statute that apply to teachers, ministers, and mental health providers are fine because they require "exploiting their victims through established authoritarian relationships" with the minor. Banning police officers from raping children, however, required no such professional relationship and so was "arbitrarily disparate treatment of peace officers," and so violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution. The section of the sexual battery law which bans police officers from committing sexual battery against children, "represents a classification of persons for its own sake, something the equal protection clause does not permit," and 57% of Ohio judges couldn't come up with any other legitimate reason why the state would have any real interest in banning the sexual battery of children by police officers or find any indication under the law that a police officer may have some form of exploitable authoritarian relationship with minors.
lmao
Me: (infinitely calm, evaluating arguments on merit of reason alone) Actually, thats discrimination
White people: "Black people should protest peacefully!"
— Charlotte. (@charlotteirene8) August 31, 2016
*Black person sits quietly during national anthem*
White people: "No not like that."
After buying a bench near the library with his name on it, the university will spend $1 million on a new scoreboard for the football stadium.
It's justified and sensible, you see, because the guy who spent 50 years as a librarian and donated his life savings to a school spent a few months while he was dying in a nursing home watching football. That's definitely a reflection of his true life's interest and not because every other shuffling corpse in the joint would start burbling furiously and knock their sippy cups over if The Big Game wasnt on. There's simply no other way to honor a librarian who donated millions of dollars to a school in America.
http://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2016/08/librarians-gift