A number of Chinese parking lots connecting Zhejiang province to Jiangxi province in China’s southeast have sparked outrage after introducing “female only” parking spaces that happen to be much larger than those not assigned to a particular gender.
The spaces, designated by pink paint lines and the international symbol for woman, are 50 per cent wider than other spaces in the service centres. The reason – because women are allegedly bad at parking.
According to China’s Qianjiang Evening News, Pan Zhuren, director of the service area, said he decided to include the girls-only spaces after noticing that some female drivers were having trouble reversing into parking spots, or “parking carelessly.”
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http://globalnews.ca/news/2729472/chinese-parking-lot-creates-female-only-spaces-citing-concerns-women-have-trouble-parking/?sf27511046=1
>>47226
Does 'cot' not mean anything....
It must be for women with prams
>>47226
>help women
SEXIST
>don't help women
MISOGINY
>>47253
>oh look a free spot finally
> fuck, it's women only, I can't park there
counts as sexism
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/31/facebook-youtube-twitter-microsoft-eu-hate-speech-code
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/libe/dv/11_revframework_statute_/11_revframework_statute_en.pdf
>>47436
It's just some companies, they have a legal right to do this. Freedom of speech doesn't extend to private enterprise.
>>47441
while that may be true, it is the EU legislation they are conforming to. the water begins to boil.
>>47441
A libertarian paradise!
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/05/zombie-archaeology/483195/
>Twenty-seven thousand years ago, in a stone-age village fenced in by mammoth bones, three young people were buried together, their bodies covered by burnt spruce logs and branches. A woman, disfigured perhaps by some congenital abnormality, was placed in the middle. To her left, a man was laid prone, his face in the dirt. To her right, another man had his hands angled awkwardly onto her groin, where red ochre, a pigment with ceremonial significance, was sprinkled. A thick wooden pole was driven through this man’s own groin and thigh, pinning him to the ground.
>For archaeologists, including the researchers who exhumed this trio in the 1980s at Dolní Věstonice, a prominent excavation site in the Czech Republic, such burials are like prehistoric murder-mystery puzzles. The trio’s internment is one of the oldest examples of a “deviant burial”—a term in archaeology for graves that are atypical, unexpected, or just downright weird. Is the prone man’s position a mark of disrespect? Did the woman’s disfigurement change the way she was treated? And is the other man’s “staking” evidence (as some have suggested) of an ancient fear of the “dangerous dead”—the belief that corpses would rise from their graves to cause mayhem?
...
>In Eastern Europe, for instance—where Bram Stoker drew inspiration for Dracula—there have been numerous discoveries of corpses that have been “staked.” Bulgaria has had multiple cases of 700-year-old skeletons with ploughshares—the hefty blade of a plough—thrust through them into the ground. Recent Polish excavations unearthed skeletons with sickles placed around their waists or the necks. Other techniques—such as “stoning” (weighing the corpse down with heavy objects)—have been found all over the world, from 4,000-year-old Bronze Age burials pinned down with huge rocks, to graves from Ancient Greece weighted down with amphora fragments, to medieval English skeletons buried under grinding stones. The approach of ramming something firmly in a corpse’s open jaw has been observed both in 8th-century Irish “zombie burials” and the grave of the “Vampire of Venice,” a 16th-century skeleton disinterred from a plague cemetery with a large sized brick wedged between the teeth.
>Abundant media coverage has followed these discoveries, which has fueled public fascination, but often frustrated archaeologists, because many of the stories are based on unpublished findings that have yet to be thoroughly scrutinized. When further Polish excavations found decapitated skeletons with skulls placed neatly between the feet, for instance, tabloids screamed “vampire burials.” But the local Polish press pointed out that there were medieval gallows nearby, which suggested that the bodies simply were executed prisoners. Some scientists worry that media biases could be influencing archaeology itself. Simona Minozzi—a paleopathologist at the University of Pisa—argued that the media hype surrounding the Vampire of Venice was backed up by only a single publication that lacked “adequate scientific evidence.” It “cannot be excluded that the brick slid accidentally into the mouth,” she wrote.
...
>To actually get to the bottom of these strange practices and resist misdirection, archaeologists have begun to develop new systematic approaches by collating deviant burials into datasets. The most comprehensive analysis was performed by Andrew Reynolds, a medieval archaeologist at University College London’s Institute of Archaeology, for a book he published in 2009. He tracked down obscure references from the musty basements of university libraries, eventually compiling practically every known burial from Anglo-Saxon Britain: a staggering 25,000 burials. Reynolds plugged the data into a vast spreadsheet, which allowed him to organize the information into categories like “position of decapitated heads” (most commonly “missing”).
>Thanks to this approach, Reynolds was able to draw broad inferences into deviant burials in Britain that up until his project could only have been guessed at. The most common deviant burial type, for instance, was a prone burial, which Reynolds says in fact was a superstitious measure “to prevent the corpse returning to haunt the living.” (“Burying people face down means they will only dig themselves deeper if they reanimate,” he points out.) Post-mortem decapitation similarly seems to have been used to lay “a suspect corpse to rest.” The dataset allowed Reynolds to probe for historical influences on mortuary practices, revealing, for example, that the introduction of Christianity led towns to exile the “dangerous dead” from the new church graveyards and bury them at the margins of society. (Distant crossroads were a particular favorite for this, as they give the “re-animated corpse lots of options in terms of direction of travel—hopefully not in your direction!” Reynolds says.)
...
>Last year, a similar systematic study was published by Marco Milella, an anthropologist at the University of Zurich. His project covered the whole of Western Europe from the first to fifth centuries, confirming that deviant burials can be discovered well beyond Britain. While Milella warns that applying “concepts derived from later times and completely different cultural contexts (e.g. vampires) is a risky exercise,” his data is powerful evidence that a fear of the undead wasn’t just isolated to the “vampires” of Eastern Europe. There were some cross-cultural, systematic forces at work.
>In folkloric sources as diverse as Babylonian literature, the shroud-eating Nachzehrer of Germanic tradition, and the Chiang-Shih “hopping vampires” of Chinese legend, notions of corpses rising from the grave have long been documented. But what these new archaeological datasets reveal is that these ancient accounts weren’t just stories that our ancestors told to each other on dark and stormy nights. Many of our forefathers were genuinely scared, taking time and trouble to ensure that the dead stayed where they belong.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3606210/Teenage-boy-blinded-one-eye-four-suffered-burns-strangers-threw-acid-waited-train.html#article-3606210
Police have released a CCTV still of a man wanted in connection with an acid attack on five teenagers as they waited for a train.
He is alleged to have been part of a group that squirted corrosive liquid over the boys before jumping on a train and making his getaway.
The man is described as black, with dark hair and wearing a jet black North Face gilet.
The terrifying incident took place shortly after 12.40am on Sunday, when the man dismounted a train travelling towards Barking at Ockendon station, Essex
He approached the five victims who were waiting on the platform where he held one of his hands behind his back. After a brief dialog with them, he removed his hand from behind his back exposing a bottle. He then squirted an unknown liquid over the victims.
The man re-joined his group of roughly nine friends on the 11.44pm Southend to Barking service.
Investigating officer Detective Sergeant Gail McKemmie said: 'This was a particularly vicious and alarming assault which has left some of the victims with potentially life changing injuries.
'This was an unprovoked and violent incident and it is essential that those responsible are identified and brought to justice.
'Although our investigation is in its early stages, it would appear that this was a random and isolated incident.
'If you think you recognise the man in the CCTV image, I'd urge you to get in touch as we think he has vital information that could assist this investigation.'
The five teenage victims were all rushed to hospital with burns injuries following the attack.
It was confirmed this afternoon that two of them suffered injuries described as 'potentially life changing'.
One 17-year-old suffered burns to his eyes whilst another, also 17, was left with burns to his mouth and tongue,.
http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2016/03/30/sadiq-khan-there-are-too-many-white-men-on-transport-for-lon
>London's transport authority is far too dominated by white men, Labour's mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan said today.
>There are currently 13 white men on the Transport for London board and just three women. Khan said he would ensure the board better reflected the "diversity" of Londoners if he becomes mayor.
>"I will reshape TfL's board," he said during a speech in Brixton this morning.
>He suggested the needs of women and ethnic minorities were being neglected as a result.
>"Women face specific challenges on our transport network that are not currently being addressed. I was appalled about the recent decision by British transport police to scrap the sexual violence unit. Reports of sexual offences on the London Underground almost tripled over the past five years.
kill whitey
>>43193
this
put them in camps and burn them in ovens
>>43190
>Reports of sexual offences on the London Underground almost tripled over the past five years.
Gee, I wonder what rapidly growing ethno-religious group could be responsible for that?
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/31/politics/stephen-hawking-donald-trump-demagogue/
How can you be a spacefag and not be a Nazi?
>>47060
I am waiting for 4chan to tell me what to think about this.
I really don't understand the big deal about Stephen Hawking saying he doesn't understand why Trump is popular. He's a scientist, not a political annalist. His job has nothing to do with studying politics.
>>47088
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2556
literally Hawking
At least he's not as bad as Nye or Tyson, and he's actually made some contributions to his field
https://www.everipedia.com/william-scott/
Good.
dindu
yea be friend with a 2 digit iq black and get raped by his friends. i dont think girl was next einstein.
way to go girl, u get raped regularly with that brain.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2016/0531/Pokemon-protests-what-they-tell-us-about-Hong-Kong-China-relations-video
>Protesters in Hong Kong have marched on the Japanese consulate to decry video game maker Nintendo's decision to streamline its Pokémon franchise, choosing to unify character names across China and refer to them using only Mandarin pronunciations.
>The complaints go beyond Pikachu, the fuzzy yellow mouse-like creation who has become the franchise's poster-child. To some, Nintendo's launching of a "Greater China" version of the game symbolizes another small step of China's ambitions around the cultural and political absorption of Hong Kong.
>Most native Hong Kongers speak Cantonese, a major language in southern China spoken by more than 60 million. But Mandarin has become more common since the former British colony's handover back to mainland China in 1997 – a point of contention with many Hong Kongers who are fearful of growing Chinese influence.
>Cantonese and Mandarin use similar written characters, although the mainland uses "simplified" forms promoted in the mid-twentieth century to boost literacy. The two languages also have different grammar and pronunciation.
>Pokémon protestors say the name shifts are about more than video games, movies, and stuffed animals. That Pikachu's name can provoke such anger, "seemingly over something so marginal, simply indicates the breadth and depth of distrust and unease felt by many in Hong Kong at what they see as the erosion of their cultural identity," says Kerry Brown, director of the Lau China Institute at King's College, London.
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>It is hard to say how deep the concerns run in Hong Kong society over the renaming of Pikachu and comrades, but the number of protesters was only in the dozens, according to the BBC. As Richard Bush of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., tells The Christian Science Monitor in a phone interview, this represents the "views of very committed Pokémon players and collectors."
>Yet Dr. Bush, who is director of the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at Brookings, concedes that concerns about Hong Kong's autonomy could be "lurking in the background."
>When the British Crown colony of Hong Kong became a specially administered part of China in 1997, the Basic Law enshrined political and economic autonomy for the island, with responsibility for defense and foreign affairs residing in Beijing. The agreement was supposed to last for 50 years.
>But in the years following, there have been periodic bouts of protest as Chinese actions have inflamed passions in Hong Kong, stoking fears that Beijing would interfere in a meaningful way far sooner than 2047.
>Perhaps the most significant of these confrontations arose in the form of the 2014 "Occupy Central" movement, which aimed to ensure that Hong Kongers could freely elect their leader. China, concerned about the precedent this could set for other regions on the mainland, prevaricated, insisting instead that Beijing nominate the candidates. Approved nominees are then selected by an Election Committee of about 1,200 people, a majority of whom are viewed as pro-Beijing. The Basic Law, however, stipulates that the "ultimate aim" is universal suffrage.
...
>Yet some see progress since the "Umbrella Revolution" of 2014, when protestors pushed back against Beijing's plans to have a mainland-friendly committee nominate 2017 candidates for Chief Executive, Hong Kong's top post.
>"A year ago, before [and] during the Occupy Central campaigns, the Beijing government was unequivocal and uncompromising in its approach to Hong Kong and had a 'take no hostages' approach," Dr. Brown, who is also a senior fellow at Chatham House, London, tells the Monitor in an email interview. "In the last few months, it has become far less willing to wade into local issues, even despite the visit by politburo member Zhang Dejiang to the city earlier this month."
>That visit prompted further protests in Hong Kong, as activists sought to demonstrate to the Chinese visitors that all was not well, even if the authorities were trying to paint a picture of peace and harmony.
>Hong Kong is not a hotbed of revolutionary fervor, say most observers. Rather, it is a "pluralistic" society embodying a diversity of views, with a decent proportion willing to acknowledge that "China has taken a number of steps to improve Hong Kong's economy."
>But cultural tensions remain high-pitched, with Cantonese Hong Kongers fearing that Mandarin and mainland Chinese will overwhelm their language, culture, and political autonomy.
>A large segment of the Hong Kong population does focus on political issues, says Bush. And some pro-democracy parties have proven just as uncooperative as Beijing when it comes to seeking compromise. "The more radical wing seems to be in a dominant position," he says, "so even if a reasonable compromise [with Beijing] were to emerge, it's not clear that more moderate members would feel able to vote according to their conscience."
...
>Yet there is an onus on Beijing, as well, to engage more constructively with the pro-democracy camp in Hong Kong. That, says Bush, is a "necessary condition" for an outcome palatable to all.
>"At the moment, both sides have proved very poor at communicating with each other," says Brown. "Beijing needs to communicate better with the people of Hong Kong. And the opposition parties in Hong Kong need to be more pragmatic, more coherent, and have a clearer sense of what they are striving for and how to get there."
>But first, Cantonese Pokémon fans have to wrestle with saying "Goodbye, 'Bei-Ka-Ciu,'" and "Hello, 'Pi-Ka-Qiu.'"
>"Pikachu has been in Hong Kong for more than 20 years," protestor Sing Leung told The Telegraph. "It is not simply a game or comic book, it is the collective memory of a generation."Yet there is an onus on Beijing, as well, to engage more constructively with the pro-democracy camp in Hong Kong. That, says Bush, is a "necessary condition" for an outcome palatable to all.
>"At the moment, both sides have proved very poor at communicating with each other," says Brown. "Beijing needs to communicate better with the people of Hong Kong. And the opposition parties in Hong Kong need to be more pragmatic, more coherent, and have a clearer sense of what they are striving for and how to get there."
>But first, Cantonese Pokémon fans have to wrestle with saying "Goodbye, 'Bei-Ka-Ciu,'" and "Hello, 'Pi-Ka-Qiu.'"
>"Pikachu has been in Hong Kong for more than 20 years," protestor Sing Leung told The Telegraph. "It is not simply a game or comic book, it is the collective memory of a generation."
Other coverage:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/05/31/in-hong-kong-protest-over-pokemon-name-change-reflects-fear-of-chinese-encroachment/
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/pokemon-sparks-protests-hong-kong-article-1.2656333
>Louisiana's hate crime law already protects vulnerable minorities from attacks based on their race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation, but state lawmakers want to add another group to the mix: cops.
>The state's House and Senate have already approved the measure — dubbed the the "Blue Lives Matter bill" — and it just needs the signature of Governor John Bel Edwards in order to become law. Edwards is expected to approve the bill, which also covers firefighters, paramedics, and other first responders.
>The phrase "Blue Lives Matter" became a counter-slogan to the Black Lives Matter movement, which grew out of the officer-involved killings of Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Ferguson in the summer of 2014. The incidents — and subsequent grand jury decisions not to indict the police officers responsible — sparked outrage and protests across the US.
>Some police advocates assert that the Black Lives Matter movement has fostered an anti-law enforcement climate, though the evidence used to support that claim is murky. The number of "ambush killings" of police officers has declined in recent years — the Washington Post found that about 9.5 such incidents have occurred each year across the country since 2000 — but by March of 2016 there had already been five.
>According to the National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund, a total of 124 officers died in the line of duty in 2015, a 4 percent increase from 2014. But only 42 of those were shot and killed, and fatal shootings of officers actually fell 14 percent between 2014 and 2015. The overall rate of officers being killed in the line of duty remains far lower than it has been in previous decades.
https://archive.is/iAPHb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7gjXIjmTIU
>thread theme
All violent crime is a hate crime.
PIGS are the most disgusting class traitors imaginable
Look at this bullshit
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/12/is-it-time-for-the-democrats-to-admit-bernie-sanders-is-their-be/
>>44147
>The British tabloid is telling Americans what to do with their vote
Are you fucking kidding me?
Bernie is the best democratic candidate.
>>44154
Most countries suggest we vote Samders instead of Clinton or Trump. Problems are easy to see when you're watching from far away.
http://thegrio.com/2016/05/07/family-gets-1-5m-after-little-rock-cops-enters-mans-home-without-warrant-fatally-shoots-him/
>>43218
I'm surprised they got anything. I have seen countless cases of the same story and the cops got off scot free.
>>43218
>http://thegrio.com/2016/05/07/family-gets-1-5m-after-little-rock-cops-enters-mans-home-without-warrant-fatally-shoots-him/
not really sure what would make two off duty cops enter a dwelling unless there was some perceived emergent reason, like domestic violence.
That would explain why they weren't charged.
Some people have to work jobs where an honest mistake results in big problems.
>>43218
also; they didn't need the money clearly. But it's just a nice few million. Yeh right. America's civil suite system is out of control
Laux says that’s the largest settlement in Little Rock history for such a case, and likely the state.
Laux says the apology from the city is more important to Ellison’s sons,
http://mobile.diario.mx/Internacional/2016-05-30_ad8e7421/foto-de-otro-bebe-ahogado-conmueve-al-mundo/
>Roma— La organización humanitaria Sea-Watch publicó ayer una fotografía en la que uno de sus rescatistas sostiene en brazos a un bebé ahogado en las costas de Libia.
English
>Rome- The humanitarian organization sea-watch, published a photo where one of its rescuers holds in his arms a drowned baby in the Libyan cost.
When will this ever end?
>when will it end?
do you mean the drowning refugees?
if yes: i hope never.
or do you mean all this fake-care about nothing?
if yes: i hope soon. like other stupid trends.
the ultimate photo op. what couldn't a pic like this accomplish?
>>47063
I believe the EU should annex Africa to protect the poor refugees.
We require access to international waters outside our jurisdiction.
How awful the world was rid of another future MENSA genius engineer
Imagine all those drowned doctors that could've cured cancer,right guys?
The refugees only want to bring us progress,civilization,wealth
And what do we do?We let them drown while they "risk" their lives in a calm ocean for european handouts.
A Walmart shopper arrested Saturday night for stealing a sex toy, lubricant, and a “vibrating penis ring” told police that she was “too lazy” to pay for the items, which she had stashed in her purse.
Therasa Prine, 25, was collared after exiting a Walmart in St. Petersburg, according to an arrest affidavit.
While Prine paid for some items, she allegedly sought to boost other goods, including a Trojan Ultra Touch personal massager, K-Y Intense Arousal Gel, and a LifeStyles vibrating ring.
In addition to a shoplifting count, Prine is facing narcotics charges since cops found marijuana and the painkiller Dilaudid in her purse.
Prine, pictured above, bonded out of jail Sunday after posting $4250.
Prine’s rap sheet includes collars for grand theft, domestic battery, marijuana possession, resisting arrest, morphine possession, driving with a suspended or revoked license, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/florida/walmart-thief-too-lazy-648392
>>45384
>Florida
Every fuckin time
>>45384
We Trump state
>>45384
she'd probably be pretty cute if she got her act together.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/05/26/the-superbug-that-doctors-have-been-dreading-just-reached-the-u-s/
For the first time, researchers have found a person in the United States carrying bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort, an alarming development that the top U.S. public health official says could signal "the end of the road" for antibiotics.
The antibiotic-resistant strain was found last month in the urine of a 49-year-old Pennsylvania woman. Defense Department researchers determined that she carried a strain of E. coli resistant to the antibiotic colistin, according to a study published Thursday in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, a publication of the American Society for Microbiology. The authors wrote that the discovery "heralds the emergence of a truly pan-drug resistant bacteria."
Colistin is the antibiotic of last resort for particularly dangerous types of superbugs, including a family of bacteria known as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, which health officials have dubbed "nightmare bacteria." In some instances, these superbugs kill up to 50 percent of patients who become infected. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called CRE among the country's most urgent public health threats.
Health officials said the case in Pennsylvania, by itself, is not cause for panic. The strain found in the woman is treatable with some other antibiotics. But researchers worry that the antibiotic-resistant gene found in the bacteria, known as mcr-1, could spread to other types of bacteria that can already evade other types of antibiotics.
Is this the year we see the end of the world, or is it just another scare? I've never been one of those doom sayers, like the Mayians or Armageddon and the Horsemen, but this? This is scary.
>>46436
Simply put, we already have alternatives in place of antibiotics, so no one should be worried yet. It may take a few years but soon microphages will be the main treatment for bacterial infections and all will be well.
This is old news really. We found out rather recently that Colistin has been used in China on their livestock to prevent disease. That alone pretty much fucked us. We have been misusing antibiotics so bad that it is inevitable that it's going to bite us in the ass someday soon.
Not sure if it's end of the world material quite yet.
>>46436
>>>46436
>Simply put, we already have alternatives in place of antibiotics, so no one should be worried yet. It may take a few years but soon microphages will be the main treatment for bacterial infections and all will be well.
This, targeted viruses or something to give our natural immune system a fighting chance against serious infections.
Aside from being an annoying ad, the graphic layout conveniently hides the watermark! Hillary can't afford high res stock hipster photos! http://www.dailywire.com/news/6058/hillarys-beardy-mchipster-ad-precisely-why-men-ben-shapiro
>>46382
the news article you linked literally said it's not from them and was "debunked"
He could at least stand up straight and get his hands out of his pockets.
Isn't shuttertstock common grounds?
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