http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38669347

>Senegal has amassed troops on the border
>Given a midnight deadline for the Gambian President to step down
>Nigeria is sending troops as well

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/01/10/clock-boy-loses-in-court-dads-defamation-lawsuit-dismissed/

TL;DR: The dad of the boy who filed the defamation lawsuit loses the hearing as their lawyer couldn't provide any evidence of defamation.

REMINDER: He did NOT build the clock. He took it out of a casing and put it a pencil box and said he """"built"""" it.

Are they any good? I finished season 2 back when it still aired on the Nickelodian channel but then they appeared to have hid seasons 3 and 4 from under my nose so for the longest time I had no idea it actually existed until both were out on DVD and BD. Now I have both seasons coming in the mail and I'm getting mixed reception of both of them.

For the record I liked season 2 and didn't really see the issues people had with Korra in it or the pacing of the story (although anything not involving Korra tended to drag on).

So does Sep7 have any views on Seasons 3 & 4?

Someone asked the Wendy's Twitter for a meme, only to have Wendy's respond by posting Pepe dressed up as their mascot. They of course removed it because of PR backlash, but not before salt mining the most butthurt new journalists.



You'll never guess what I picked up on the way home from work tonight to show appreciation.

Keyword: THINK, as in I MIGHT HAVE.

>Grocery shopping at Publix literally an hour ago
>Get to check out
>Girl bagging my items is a total qt
>She's wearing a Kitsune hair piece
>Mention I think it was cute
>She thanks me then starts asking me about Okami, sluggishly answering because I'm also trying to pay attention to the cashier and I haven't played Okami in almost eight years
>After paying she asks to walk to my car with me like all the bag workers do
>Instinctively say no, but give thanks for offering like I always do
>"Oh....okay, well thanks for coming!"
>Leave the parking lot, she's grabbing carts and waves to me as I'm driving off

I only noticed something was off because she asked another lady in front of me if she needed help to her car and when she said no she had a more optimistic "Okay, thank you!" whereas I got a quick "Oh...." first.

How badly did I fuck up?

I got Code Geass on Bluray for Christmas so I'm rewatching it and I don't know if it's just because I already know the plot so I'm nitpicky or I just didn't notice before when huge bullshit stuck out in anime. But half an episode I'll just spend cringing and pointing out the crap they try to pull.

>There is literally no reason for Kallen to not know who Zero is ahead of time.
>Suzaku is an irrational tool that would never disagree with Zero if he didn't only see half of any situation they're in.
>Zero and the Black Knights are legitimate terrorists that try to justify killing innocents.
>The Empire is supposed to be the bad guys but The Emperor is the only one saying shit that makes sense.

It's not just this show too, it's every anime I try to watch.

Fate series:
>RUUUUUEEEEEE BBBRRRREEEEEAAAAKKKKAAAAHHHHH
>Kerry just doesn't assassinate the other masters before the war officially starts, even when he knows who they are
>Why doesn't Kirei summon EMIYA?

SAO:
>Literally everything that appears in this fucking shit pile

Eva:
>Why didn't Kaworu at any point just yell at Shinji what the problem with the two spears was?
>Why does Asuka want Shinji to listen to her and then relentlessly attack him?
>Why didn't WILLE just smash the Wundar into New-NERV HQ and just fire their lasers at everything?

I just can't have a suspension of disbelief anymore with half this shit. It feels like the writers just don't take any time to think everything through and write it off as whatever title's version of space magic is.

Twas The Night Before Christmas, when all through the house,
One asshole was stirring, Ol' Ricky The Louse.

Ricky broke in, and not for a snack....
But to steal presents, that he could then sell for crack.

The Smith family slept, all tucked in their bed.
Too cheap for alarms, that would alert them to dread.

Mommy and Daddy passed out from the 'nog,
And Timmy hotboxed his room, he's asleep in a fog.

So Ricky opened gifts, when what did he see?
A Tiffany ring, with a diamond....or three.

"Holy fuck" whispered Ricky, "What a hell of a score!"
Ricky pocketed the box, and kept looking for more.

When all of a sudden, a sound on the lawn!
"What the fuck was that?", Ricky said, his shiv was now drawn.

Carefully to the window, he snuck just a peek.
"A sleigh? And some deer? Fuck, I'm startin' to tweak!"

"No you're not, little Ricky, I can assure you of that!"
"Now return that gift or you'll wear you ass as a hat!"

Ricky spun and slashed, but hit nothing but air.
"You'll have to be faster to cut ol' St Nick's hair!"

Before him stood Santa, as fat as he's tall.
"Fuck you old man, you don't scare me at all!"

"You're just some guy in a suit, you think you're a hero?"
"I'll slice out your heart, you fat fucking queer'bo!"

Santa just laughed, and assumed a fighting stance.
"Come on motherfucker, you want some? Let's dance!"

Ricky dove with his shiv, but was caught by surprise,
Santa sidestepped and landed a fist to the eyes.

Ricky was mad, he jumped up in a hurry,
He swung and he swung, his blade just a flurry.

But Santa was calm, he waited for him to slash,
He grabbed Ricky's wrist, and broke his right arm in a flash.

"Jesus Christ!" Ricky cried as he dropped to one knee,
"What in the fuck do you want from me?!"

"I fucking hate thieves, and on Christmas, you prick?"
"Stealing presents is like taking direct from St Nick."

Santa leaned down to grab the ring from his coat,
And that's when Ricky swung for the throat.

Using his left, he'd recovered the blade,
And dug it in deep...Santa couldn't evade.

"Take that you old bitch, guess Christmas is canceled!"
"The legendary Santa Claus...fucking dismantled!"

But Ricky's gloating soon turned to shock,
As Santa removed the blade, laughed and said "Suck my cock."

"You can't kill me, I'm fucking immortal!"
"Now say goodnight Ricky, this B&E was your downfall!"

Santa grabbed Ricky, and like he was nothing,
And tossed his ass through the window...now this next part's disgusting.

"Ricky, this is a situation I could have diffused,"
"But you had to stab Santa, and that wont be excused."

Into his sleigh for some rope he did reach,
And he tied Ricky's limbs to a reindeer each.

Ricky begged and he pleaded one last time not to die.
"I promise I'll change! No word of a lie!"

"This is one Naughty List that I will not revise!"
"Now pray to your God...you'll be seeing him nigh!"

"On Dancer, On Dasher, On Prancer, On Cupid!"
"Let's Quarter this Fucker for being so stupid!"

The Reindeer, they ran in opposing directions,
Until Ricky was torn into four separate sections.

The ring was rewrapped and placed under the tree,
And Santa was off, but not before one last decree:

"This could all have been avoided if you'd just dropped the knife..."
"Merry Christmas you Cunt...I just ended your life!"

Fin

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35059488


My ancestors are rolling in their graves. If this keeps up, I will only acknowledge my forebears of Scotland and Norway.

This is a rant.

I understand that UPS makes most of its revenue off business deliveries which require strict "Before X:00 AM/PM" deliveries, and in that regard residential deliveries aren't their major concern. But not giving paying customers access to an ETA during the day and making them sit by the door for up 14+ hours because signatures are required on some packages is not a reasonable request.

A few months ago, I had the window open but where I was sitting in the room was behind some bushes so I could see out well but the deliverer couldn't see me. The man had the audacity to come to my door with a "Missed You" slip and gave three really quiet knocks before I quickly opened the door and made him get my package. That is absolutely terrible service.

So, a friendly word of warning if you're given the option: Always go FedEx over UPS.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/gop-gov-snyders-office-says-detroit-school-kids-have-no-right-to-literacy/

The state of Michigan is being sued because several schools in Detroit are failing to teach children how to read, and Gov. Rick Snyder’s team of lawyers has come up with a novel defense.

According to local news station CBS Detroit, Gov. Snyder’s attorneys are claiming that children who are taught within the state’s school systems have no fundamental right to literacy, which means that the state isn’t liable if its schools fail to educate them.

The lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of Detroit students’ families by a California public interest firm, argues that children in Detroit have been fundamentally deprived of their rightful education thanks to neglect by Michigan’s state government.

“Decades of State disinvestment in and deliberate indifference to Detroit schools have denied Plaintiff schoolchildren access to the most basic building block of education: literacy,” the suit alleges, while also claiming that the schools’ “slum-like conditions” render them “functionally incapable of delivering access to literacy.”

CBS Detroit notes that a report from five years ago found that nearly half of all students in Detroit schools were functionally illiterate.

So don't blame the Dindus for murdering in Detroit, they can't read the law so they didn't know!

I've argued before on here about why no one should ever bother buying an Apple product that isn't a tablet, phone, or small media player of some variety (and even then I always argued they are not the best at these types either), and there have been some that always gave comments against what I've been preaching. Comments such as "Non-Apple notebooks don't have what I need" or that "PCs don't offer that much more of an improvement for what I'm doing." however if at any point you find yourself doing more than just writing essays/papers on a computer, indeed a PC objectively WILL perform better in every regard and at a much lower price point too.

This video goes on to explain more problems with Apple as of late. For those too lazy to watch, the point is that Apple refuses to add more than 16GB of RAM to their new Notebook series, stating that it would draw too much power and that the audience they're advertising for "Doesn't need any more". Some takeaway points from this video is:

-If you are doing anything that would require 16GB of RAM (Video editing, image manipulating, etc.), than having more would only be a benefit to the consumer as it allows them to tackle bigger projects for the same price.
-Every test on other notebooks which allows for switching out different RAMs showed the difference in power usage is insignificant to non-existent.

The biggest issue in the third point which I drew out from the other two because of how major it is and shows how bad of a company Apple is.

-Apple literally GLUES their battery and hardware onto the Notebook board, preventing replacement hardware for a failing Notebook.

The tester in this video along with colleagues developed a few theories as to why this was the case, but the last theory is the only logical choice, to force obsolescence and require consumers to purchase a new notebook when their current one fails in any regard. This is hardly news coming from Apple, not being able to get the new OS on an older product has always been an issue that has stuck with them, only now it's going to both software side AND hardware side. Even with the vehement responses against MS with Windows 10, you could always swap out your older OS on an older computer for the new one provided its hardware could handle it, which the previous generation almost always could (Vista was an issue where people were trying to install on computers that were released back in the W95 days).

This entire problem Apple has created all of course boils down to another issue altogether: Who the fuck doesn't take their charger with them just in case?

TL;DR: Apple limits their hardware and intentionally manipulates it so that consumers are left with an overpriced limited computer that requires them to buy a brand new one as soon as it fails.

Disney just put up a six month internship to be an Animal Keeper Trainee. It's entry level and no previous experience required. Current Cast Members get first dibs and I've been refreshing the careers page every four hours waiting for the position to open.

I'm desperate for even just this six months because working with animals would be a dream but I just can't stomach college anymore.

I already applied, please pray for me ;-;

Despite the obvious flaws I mentioned in the other thread, I still am enjoying Halo 5 when I'm not getting royally fucked by way better players. If anyone is available/interested just post in the thread, if I can get at least five other people I'll make it a thing.

It would be around 6pm-8pm but depending on people's schedules I have the whole night to play since I don't have to be at work the next day till 2pm.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SbN7QGpeURU

You're welcome.

EDIT: Sorry for the bad link guys.