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October 23, 2018

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (10/23/18 )

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The Quotes of The Day


Quote I

Do white people dominate the outdoors?

Let that question sink in for a moment. If you consider every advertisement you’ve ever seen for skiing, hiking, climbing and camping, you might think that’s the case. It isn’t true at all, and it’s part of a bigger problem. White athletes hold the spotlight in advertising, while the diversity that exists and continues to grow in outdoor spaces isn’t represented in the images we produce and promote. The truth is that we haven’t represented the diversity of Canadians or of our 5 million members. David Labistour


Quote II

The Saudis never would have dreamt of committing such a heinous crime against a journalist with an American publication under prior U.S. administrations. Trump’s dehumanizing, violent rhetoric against the press has signaled to despots an open season for such abuses. Failed Presidential candidate, Evan McMullin


Quote III

“It was this small break-even operation. Like a lot of small businesses, you hit that fork in the road where the business either has to grow or stop… and so Hoka closed the doors because it just wasn’t growing.” Sharice Davids


Quote IV

“Steve Wilson is no longer an employee of SEI. His behavior does not represent the values of our organization or the high expectations that we have for our employees.” Self Enhancement Inc


For every action.........


Quote V

But love him or loathe him, there is no denying that he’s winning.

So once again, I can only advise the Democrats to stop their ridiculously self-defeating state of perpetual Trump outrage and work out how they’re actually going to beat him.

Because right now, Trump’s kicking your a**Piers Morgan


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As we approach Halloween, here is an idea for you.

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Talk about thinking on your feet. Cop goes pew-pew-pew when his revolver failed.

A cop of the Uttar Pradesh Police was left with no other option but to mimic the sound of a gunshot after his pistol got jammed during an encounter with criminals in Sambhal district.

The video of the incident, that took place on October 12, has recently surfaced on social media.

In the video, a police officer can be heard shouting ‘maaro, maaro, ghero ,thain, thain’ with the intention of scaring the criminals.


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The Trump administration does care after all. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says no to a self driving school bus program.

The Trump administration has taken a hands-off approach to regulating self-driving cars, but on Friday, federal regulators decided that one self-driving car project had gone too far. In a sharply worded statement, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it has ordered the French transportation company Transdev to stop transporting schoolchildren in a self-driving vehicle in Florida.

Transdev's pilot project in Babcock Ranch, a planned community, was quite modest. On Fridays, Transdev's electric shuttle would take a group of elementary-aged children to school, then take them home later in the day. The vehicle had a safety driver on board. The route was short enough that kids walked or rode their bikes to school the other four days of the week, according to a spokeswoman for Babcock Ranch.

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On one hand, increasing the minimum wage is bad. But, on the other hand raising the minimum wage is good.

A research team including economists from the University of Washington has put out a paper showing that Seattle’s recent minimum-wage increases brought benefits to many workers employed at the time, while leaving few employed workers worse off.

On their own, these results appear unremarkable. Large stacks of academic papers have shown that, for the average worker, a minimum-wage increase does more good in raising pay than it hurts by prompting some employers to cut back on hiring or hours.

But this new paper, issued Monday, has a unique pedigree: Last summer, the same authors released a paper showing that Seattle’s minimum-wage increases had large costs for workers. Because employers reduced hours in response to the city’s rising minimum wage in 2016, the researchers found, average pay fell by an eye-popping $125 a month, or about 6.6 percent. (They did not observe such effects for a minimum-wage increase the year before.)


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Oh no. Could the globes that house Special Snowflakes be cracking? Could "Trigger Warnings" become a thing of the past?

Several professors are arguing for a compromise to the “trigger warning” debate on campus: Offer it to students once, when they first begin their college careers.

“Trigger warnings,” a contentious concept that has drawn scorn from commentators in recent years, are proposed notifications applied to course materials that students consider “triggering.” A trigger warning might, for instance, be affixed to a book that features depictions of American slavery, under the impression that a student reading such an account might be greatly upset or even traumatized by reading it.

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The ONT Musical Interlude


October 23, 1956, Born on this day, Dwight Yoakam, country singer, actor and film director, who is most famous for his pioneering country music which has sold over 25 million records with 5 Billboard No.1 Albums, 12 Gold Albums, and 9 Platinum Albums. Yoakam is the most frequent musical guest in the history of The Tonight Show and has also starred in many films, most notably in critically acclaimed performances as an ill-tempered, abusive, live-in boyfriend in Sling Blade. via thisdayinmusic.com

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October 23, 2002, A federal judge in St. Louis dismissed a lawsuit against Chuck Berry by Johnnie Johnson, a piano player and former collaborator who wanted royalties for more than 30 songs written between 1955 and 1966. The songs in question included ‘No Particular Place To Go’, ‘Roll Over Beethoven’, and ‘Sweet Little Sixteen’. Johnson's lawsuit argued that he and Berry were co-writers on many of the songs, but because Berry copyrighted them in his name alone, Johnson got none of the royalties. The judge ruled that too many years had passed to bring about a royalties suit. via thisdayinmusic.com

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Bradley, you're still a traitor and a man. A dickless one, but still a man.

“After almost a decade of fighting — thru prison, the courts, a hunger strike, and thru the insurance company — I finally got surgery this week,” Manning wrote on Instagram.

The 30-year-old whistle-blower was sentenced to 35 years in prison after helping publicize sensitive info about U.S. military activity in Iraq and Afghanistan, but had her service commuted by former President Barack Obama in January 2017, after serving seven years.


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Bull Shit Embellishment or the truth? If the truth, Genius Award Winner?

I was about two dozen margaritas deep at this point, having drank more than 50 margaritas over the past couple days.

The reason I was indulging in this particular brand of madness? Personal glory. While planning an upcoming trip to Cancun a few weeks ago, I found out there was a hotel premiering a menu of 150 margaritas, each made with its own kind of tequila. I vowed right then and there that I’d try to drink ‘em all, tasting 150 over the course of my trip.


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Rapping and sky walking do not go hand in hand. Posthumous Genius Award Winner Award.

A man has died after falling from an airplane while filming a video in B.C.’s Interior on Saturday.

The man has been identified as 34-year-old Jon James McMurray, a well-known musician from Alberta.

“He was a stunt rapper, so his music and his background in extreme sports, he married the two,” McMurray’s manager Ryan Desrochers said.

h/t Anonosaurus Wrecks


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Rodney Smith is a pretty good guy, what he does in this video clip is Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day. h/t ibguy


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