Nobody Cares: PRS

[WolfEyes]

A deaf woman expressed frustration about a waitress ignoring her due to her disability. TikTok told her to get over it. (msn.com)

“kids are faster, I got six tables bye,” a user, who’s presumably a server, commented.

“I wouldn't be able to communicate with you. So I'm gonna ask your kid. Get over it,” another comment with 2,000 likes read.

Others pointed out that Williams herself was not accommodating to the waitress, instead of the other way around.

“Why didn't you let the kids order, or write it down? Why make it harder on the waitress?,” a user wrote.

Though most of the comments shared similar sentiments on rationalizing the server’s actions, some viewers were disappointed at the ableist comments toward Williams.

“Y’all are acting like she was telling the server to learn ASL, some of y’all are acting like simple eye contact is rocket science,” one user said.

“Not you guys ACTUALLY digging on this woman for wanting to be treated like a human being,” another wrote.

“The comments missed the entire point,” another viewer responded. “Y’all need to do better and really think about what it means to treat people with ALL abilities with dignity.”

Williams managed to reply to a few comments debunking myths about deaf people. She explained while many deaf people are mute, there still are some that can speak. The creator also posted a follow-up video claiming her initial TikTok was not meant to be negative. Still, the comments accused her of being negative for asking hearing people to “do better.”

“I’m just showing hearing people that it’s not hard to interact with deaf people,” she wrote in the video. “That’s it, love y’all!”

 

[bubblesort]

Alex Jones' Infowars files for bankruptcy in wake of defamation suits over his assertions that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax

Jones was found liable in at least two defamation suits over his assertions that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.

www.cbsnews.com

I'm glad to see this, because Jones is a terrible person... but at the same time, I'm kinda sad at the prospect of no more Alex Jones mashups. Alex Jones mashups are a surprisingly big subgenre of novelty music on YouTube. Search for "Alex Jones mashup" some time, you will see what I mean. We all know the Turn The Frogs Gay mashup, but my favorite is Alex Jones Will Eat Your Leftist Ass (remix).

 

[bubblesort]

There were BBS, gopher, and FTP servers WAY before the Internet!

I wouldn't be surprised at all if some people were still using/ressurecting them out of privacy concerns. You could even have a pretty decent underground network made up of TRS-80's, Amigas, and Radio Shack C-100's.

The Well is still very much alive. Also, there are something like a thousand BBSes indexed here, but I haven't tried to dial into any of them. I use telnet.

Somebody could probably hack around this, but I don't think the old dial up modems that are designed to run over analog phone networks will still work on modern VoIP telephone networks, because VoIP networks are digital. Maybe they make dial up modems that work on digital lines?

 

[Free]

There were BBS, gopher, and FTP servers WAY before the Internet!

BBS, sure, but there'd be no gopher or ftp without an internet.

 

[Khamon]

Internet denotes dedicated connections between servers for users to access through a (formerly) dialup provider rather than having to connect to each server individually. It's convenient, and I'm glad that TCP/IP won the protocol wars, but we do now live with gaping security holes and a complete lack of privacy for the bargain. Unless you're using independent signaling equipment, and a revolutionary protocol, your stuff will be following established IP routes through the net wrapped in TCP packets and that's not private at all encryption notwithstanding.

 

[WolfEyes]

Before the internet there was ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

I graduated high school in 77. lol

 

[WolfEyes]

Autopsy shows Patrick Lyoya shot in head by Michigan cop (msn.com)

DETROIT (AP) — An independent autopsy confirms that Patrick Lyoya was shot in the back of the head by a Michigan police officer while facedown on the ground, lawyers for the Black man's family said Tuesday.

The finding by a former Detroit-area medical examiner matches what was seen last week on video released by the Grand Rapids police chief. The official autopsy report hasn’t been released to the public.

“There's no question what killed this young man. ... It was a powerful bullet,” said Dr. Werner Spitz, holding a skull at a news conference to show where the bullet entered the head.

Spitz said he believes the gun was pressed against Lyoya's head when the officer fired.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

There were BBS, gopher, and FTP servers WAY before the Internet!

You're thinking of the Web.

 

[Free]

 

[WolfEyes]

They did blank out the actual shooting but it's still pretty horrifying to hear. Lyoya was executed at point blank range.

Police shooting death of Patrick Lyoya analyzed by experts | Watch (msn.com)

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[WolfEyes]

It took two years to make the arrest.

Connecticut trooper arrested in 2020 killing of motorist who led police on high-speed chase (msn.com)

A Connecticut state trooper was arrested Tuesday more than two years after he fatally shot a motorist who was boxed in by police after a high-speed chase.

Trooper Brian North has been charged with first-degree manslaughter in the death of Mubarak Soulemane, 19, in West Haven on Jan.15, 2020, the state's inspector general said in a news release.

North was released on bond, and he has since been placed on paid administrative leave and his police powers were suspended while the criminal proceedings continue, state police said in a statement.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Turkey launches new military offensive in northern Iraq

Turkish jets and artillery struck targets belonging to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, while commandos - supported by helicopters and drones - crossed into Iraqi territory.

www.euronews.com

 

[Free]

WWII era plane makes emergency landing near Florida beach

A World War II-era plane was forced to land off the coast of Cocoa Beach, Florida, Saturday afternoon after it experienced engine failure.

edition.cnn.com

Maglink

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Hey, Flight 19 finally made it back. Told you they were just lost.

 

[Essence Lumin]

WWII era plane makes emergency landing near Florida beach

A World War II-era plane was forced to land off the coast of Cocoa Beach, Florida, Saturday afternoon after it experienced engine failure.

edition.cnn.com

Maglink

My first thought was it might be Jeannie and her husband. They lived in Cocoa Beach but he did rockets, not airplanes.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Some dude in the water nearly got a haircut.

 

[WolfEyes]

WWII era plane makes emergency landing near Florida beach

A World War II-era plane was forced to land off the coast of Cocoa Beach, Florida, Saturday afternoon after it experienced engine failure.

edition.cnn.com

Maglink

That plane will fly again and so will the pilot.

Beautiful emergency landing. As close to perfect as a human can get since perfect doesn't exist.

Wish my dad could have seen that.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

On that note, here is a story about a pilot that will NOT fly again.

There is a man named Trevor Jacob, a former Olympic snowboarder and self-styled social media influencer who operates a YouTube channel in which he does things like snowboard, hang-glide, four-wheel, and other EXTREME! Adventure Stunt Bro type content, including a lot of aviation-centered things like flying various airplanes, owing to the fact that he is a pilot. I can't really say more than that about his channel generally because it's not my type of content.

Near the end of last year, Jacob posted a video in which he takes a solo cross-country flight from Santa Barbara to Mammoth Lakes in southern California, supposedly to take his late friend's ashes to spread on top of some mountain they liked to snowboard at (long story, I guess). While high above the mountains of Los Padres National Forest in a small prop plane, Jacob (who is holding a camera) announces that his engine has stopped! After doing some unclear random control movements, Jacobs in a panicked voice says that he has to ditch. A camera mounted on the exterior of the plane aimed at the pilot-side door catches the movement when he pushes it open and dives, selfie-stick in hand, out of the airplane. The video then cuts to his selfie footage in which, after tumbling a little, he takes care to frame a shot of himself and the abandoned airplane in the sky behind him, before eventually pulling his parachute that he happened to be wearing. Finally, other exterior cameras mounted on the plane itself capture its dramatic eventual crash after some time into the mountainside. The rest of the video has Jacob having hiked to the crashed airplane to retrieve his cameras, and finally selfie-vidding himself flagging down a passing motorist on a nearby road who took him back into town.

Almost as soon as this video went live, other actual pilots on YouTube and elsewhere who watched it were immediately suspicious that the "engine failure" had been staged for a whole litany of reasons, including things like the actions Jacob took (or didn't take) to address the engine failure before just bailing out, the fact that the footage seems to carefully avoid showing the state of the engine controls or instruments, the fact that Jacob was conveniently wearing a parachute and that the door was clearly unlatched before the "engine failure", and that the selfie footage that Jacob took while free-falling and then parachuting happened to catch an enormous flat valley very close by where he easily could've glided and landed the plane safely.

Jacob didn't do much to try to respond to any of these criticisms, except to claim that he "always wears a parachute when flying", a weird claim to make when he has a channel full of content showing him never wearing a parachute when just flying, including other videos where he is flying that same airplane. He did, however, quietly hire a helicopter operator a couple of days later to fly out to the crash site and retrieve the wrecked plane and convey it to some undisclosed location for storage or disposal - an act which just basically gave away his guilt in the eyes of many, who considered it an obvious attempt to prevent any potential investigation from examining the wreckage itself, because those guys really can tell whether even a wrecked engine stopped due to some actual mechanical failure, or ran out of gas, or was just - y'know - turned off mid-flight by the pilot.

In the end though it wasn't enough. After a few months of investigation, the FAA had enough evidence to announce that it was convinced the entire accident was staged for views and revoked his pilot license.

“You demonstrated a lack of care, judgment and responsibility by choosing to jump out of an aircraft solely so you could record the footage of the crash,” the agency said. “Your egregious and intentional actions on these dates indicate that you presently lack the degree of care, judgment and responsibility required of a certificate holder.”

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Cancel culture? This ain’t it, chief.