RIP

[eddy]

RIP Larry Cohen. Man, did I love his movies.

[DigitalGypsy66]

An acquaintance of ours killed himself at home yesterday and his eighth grade daughter found the body. He was a combat veteran of Afghanistan and struggled PTSD over the last few years.

I am really incensed that he did it, of course, but that he did it at home where potentially one of his daughters or wife could find him. You can’t unsee something like that.

Being that we live in a small town, we got some gory details. Bud Dwyer type incident, with large caliber handgun.

[shafnutz05]

I am really incensed that he did it, of course, but that he did it at home where potentially one of his daughters or wife could find him. You can’t unsee something like that.

Yeah...I feel awful for people going through that kind of mental anguish, but there is absolutely zero excuse for subjecting your children (or any children) to the horror of that. The lasting legacy this father will leave his daughter is PTSD and nightmares for the rest of her life. I'm sorry for your loss DG, but that kind of stuff is fcked.

[tifosi77]

I know two people who have been in that position of coming home to a dead family member. One was natural causes, the other was a drug OD that involved CPR and an ambulance. It is a...... formative experience. I'll leave it at that.







Edited to make this post significantly less creepy/gross.

[Factorial]

I am really incensed that he did it, of course, but that he did it at home where potentially one of his daughters or wife could find him. You can’t unsee something like that.

Yeah...I feel awful for people going through that kind of mental anguish, but there is absolutely zero excuse for subjecting your children (or any children) to the horror of that. The lasting legacy this father will leave his daughter is PTSD and nightmares for the rest of her life. I'm sorry for your loss DG, but that kind of stuff is fcked.

My ex's uncle did this at his brother's house who had three kids. Luckily the kids didn't find him.

[Gaucho]

[AuthorTony]

RIP Joe Pilato

[eddy]

RIP Joe Pilato

RIP Captain

[AuthorTony]

RIP Captain

My other favorite line:

[RonnieFranchise]

RIP Ranking Roger of The (English) Beat and General Public.

Just bought a copy of “I Just Can’t Stop It” for a buck a couple weeks ago

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/eng ... 56806.html

[llipgh2]

RIP Ranking Roger of The (English) Beat and General Public.

Just bought a copy of “I Just Can’t Stop It” for a buck a couple weeks ago

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/eng ... 56806.html

This stinks.

[Factorial]

I had never heard of him. Too much crooning for me.

[Gaucho]

You had never heard of Scott Walker? That is hard to believe, tbh. I figured Tilt would be an album you revered.

[shafnutz05]

I was browsing Wiki deaths today. I found this death interesting, if only because I didn't even know this position in government existed let alone that someone had been serving in this role for over 40 years! Andrew Marshall, Director of the DOD's Office of Net Assessment from the time he was appointed by Nixon until 2014, passed away at 97 this week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ma ... trategist)

In an interview in 2012 the main author of four of the Chinese defence white papers General Chen Zhou stated that Marshall was one of the most important and influential figures in changing Chinese defence thinking in the 1990s and 2000s.

Andrew Marshall funded and published three best selling books by Michael Pillsbury: Chinese Views of Future Warfare in 1998, China Debates the Future Security Environment, and in 2015 an international bestseller, The Hundred-Year Marathon - China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America.

Foreign Policy named Marshall one of its 2012 Top 100 Global Thinkers, "for thinking way, way outside the Pentagon box".

The United States Department of Defense's Office of Net Assessment (ONA) was created in 1973 by Richard Nixon to serve as the Pentagon's "internal think tank" that "looks 20 to 30 years into the military's future, often with the assistance of outside contractors, and produces reports on the results of its research".

[dodint]

I think I read their white paper on how by 2035 we'll be warring over clean water instead of oil.

[tifosi77]

It seems bizarre to me that a planet whose surface is like 80% H20 would ever face that kind of shortage.

[dodint]

Desalination is expensive af.

[tifosi77]

But that goes to my point. It's expensive and environmentally costly, as well..... but we are approaching the 50th anniversary landing human peoples on the goddamn moon (and bringing them back). That's a hurdle I would've expected to come much much later after sorting out the how-to-get-salt-out-of-ocean-water problem. I mean, on the scale of potentially solvable problems that mankind has tackled, they aren't even on the same end imo.

[shafnutz05]

Desalination is expensive af.

My first taste of desalination was in Sim City 2000.

[DigitalGypsy66]

Desalination is expensive af.

My first taste of desalination was in Sim City 2000.

Same.

[Gaucho]

RIP Agnès Varda

[eddy]

RIP Agnès Varda

I don't know why I laughed at this, but I did. sorry

[Shyster]

RIP the 60th yokozuna Futahaguro (real name Kitao Kōji) at age 55 due to complications from kidney disease. Futahaguro had a short tenure at yokozuna and was the first and to date only yokozuna in history to not win a top-division championship at any rank. In 1986, while ranked at ōzeki, Futahaguro had won 36 bouts over three tournaments and was runner-up in two, so the Sumo Association decided to interpret the de facto yokozuna promotion standard of "two tournament championships or the equivalent" rather loosely and promote him to yokozuna even though he had never won. The decision backfired. Futahaguro put in mediocre performances at yokozuna, and he lasted only eight tournaments at the rank. He was expelled from the sumo association after getting into an argument with his stablemaster, during which Futahaguro's supposedly hit the stablemaster's wife. After sumo, he turned to a career in Japanese professional wrestling. He was pretty much persona non grata with the sumo association for the next 30 years, although he was invited back on a couple occasions in recent years once his health began failing.

[blackjack68]

RIP Rapper Nipsey Hussle.

Wait. Who?

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/gra ... rc=fauxdal

[Gaucho]

RIP Tania Mallet