April 2011
“Pilots, who often end up killing the most number of people, are less likely to suffer from PTSD compared to combat troops who deal with the “enemy” at a very close and personal level…. Ironically, it turns out drone operators do suffer from increased rates of PTSD because unlike pilots of jets or even artillery operators, they spend a lot of time viewing high-resolution pictures of their targets before and after bombing.”
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Twitter and the Anti-Playstation Effect on War Coverage | technosociology (via nickdouglas)
Yeah, I know a fighter pilot who’s also conservative Palinite blogger. The guy has the most flippant disregard for humanity in regard to the war. Every combat veteran I know that set foot in Iraq has come back with a more realistic perspective than that colossal ass-hat.
“Last year a blogger at the website Urlesque used data from Google to find out if, 44 years later, the Beatles were still bigger than Jesus. After comparing the volume of search terms for 23 of the biggest celebrities and the word “cat” over the preceding 12 months, he found that “as expected, cats are more popular than Jesus on the internet. But not even cats can touch Lady Gaga.”
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knock, knock, knocking@heaven.org - In The Paper - Mail & Guardian Online
That awkward moment where your work is so notorious that people who make reference to it dare not speak your name.
(thanks to Nick for giving me the heads-up!)
LET'S MAKE SOMETHING POPULAR ON THE INTERNET
Things to include:
-zombies
-8bit something
-unnecessary diagram
-cat
-.gif format
-boobs
-star wars something OR portal/tf2 something
-a joke about republicans and/or creationists and/or christians
-chuck norris and/or nic cage and/or bill murray and/or keanu reeves and/or steve jobs
-rainbows, unicorns, or my little pony
-hitler
what else?????
-mebula background
-mustache
-bacon
-Harry Potter
-Lady Gaga
