That's what I thought sex was when I was like 8. Congrats, Mormons.

Alec Baldwin kills woman by firing prop gun on film set of Rust

I really can't believe this news story. Apparently the American film industry needs help in solving this unsolvable problem of people getting killed by live rounds on set so I'm offering my advice for free:

Whenever you have to use a prop gun that may or may not be filled with live rounds, instead of simply using it and trusting that most probably it doesn't have live rounds, shoot it into something other than a human being to check first. Every single time.

There. Hundreds of lives saved.

You're welcome.

Bet Alec snuck the live round in there. He's like now watch me get away with murder.

Propmaster is in charge of such things. Essentially they hire a professional to make sure these things don't happen and occasionally they suck at their job so hard that somebody gets killed. The crazy part of the story is that the set was already made aware of a few incidents of mishandling and there were complaints that the set was unsafe but they just rolled with it anyway.

Btw this is me anytime I have one too many beers and call you a name you don't appreciate.

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021...isable=upscale

Yo if that photo is real...that's f*cking sad man. That poor dude.

This may be a stupid question but why would they use a loaded gun on a movie set to begin with anyway?

They're not supposed to.

There are usually two kinds of rounds used on a movie set, blanks and dummy rounds.

Blanks are rounds that have no projectile (the bullet) but still have gunpowder to produce the bang but nothing propelled forward.

Dummies are rounds that have the projectile but have had either the primer struck, or no gunpowder, usually both. These are rounds made to "look" real say in a chamber of a revolver during a close up of the gun.

Mistakes are made when somebody mixes up these methods. That's what happened with Brandon Lee. They accidentally left a bullet in the chamber and inserted blanks and when they fired the blank, the bullet that was lodged in the barrel shot out and killed Lee.

They don't know for sure what happened with Baldwin yet, but it's mostly something careless like described above.

Or, they brought real live rounds on set. That isn't impossible either.

It is and I almost feel bad trying to convince my friend via text that he went on a shooting spree shouting "SANDY HOOK!" with his dick out his pants.

Nah bruh Alec did the **** on purpose he's a stone cold killer...

I had my friend going till I rickroll'd him too.

They usually do just that by firing at an intern, but the film crew walked off the set in protest before this happened.

Your friend sounds dumb lol

What I'm saying is meant more for the final person using the gun because there is apparently a lot of incompetency going around in the chain of handling before that so it can never be trusted again. There should simply be a rule, strictly 100% followed, that if you are pointing and about to shoot a gun at a person, you shoot it somewhere else first. The end.

I don't even think they need prop guns on major budget sets anymore. CGI that sh*t.

Exactly! Wtf! Granted, this was apparently super low budget.

All right, admittedly I'm thick as ****e, but I don't get it with Batty's picture. Seems to be a guy maybe getting sick at the side of the road (bending over, looking down, something anyway) while a car flies by. What's so sick about that. Explain to the oldie please and use small words you can still find in the OED.

He's throwing up because he got a glance of what's on your hard drive TH

That's literally Alec Baldwin after he killed that guy.

*Woman.

Corpses don't have genders.

Omg I forgot about the Space Force. Why on earth has Biden not just disbanded the ****ing thing? Now they're talking about a Space Guard?

Battle brews over creating Space National Guard

"Our existing space units" Omfg I'm dying.

The prototype uniform for "Our Existing Space Units" is currently undergoing trials:

https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/91...ebp&width=1092

I found the photo in an article with an inspired title:

Amazing the tee shirt slogans....can never forget this one I got made up for Husband..hey 3 babies in one year...OMG he deserved that one..
https://i.ibb.co/4jb2NCM/arne-and-gerry.jpg

Just like we can never forget Arne the crazy Danishman...cut his main toe off in a works accident and became a millionaire back in the 60's, when that was a hell of a payout..He's still crazy though..

Ah sure that's nothing. Tony Iommi cut part of his finger off in a works accident and ended up creating heavy metal!

Is this ****ing serious???

News Alert: Facebook changes its company name to Meta


Facebook is changing its company name to Meta as it confronts wide-ranging scrutiny of the real-world harms from its various platforms after a whistleblower leaked hundreds of internal documents.

The change will demote Facebook's namesake service to being just one of the company's subsidiaries, alongside Instagram and WhatsApp, rather than the overarching brand.

A rebranding could be part of an effort to overhaul Facebook's reputation and turn the page following a series of PR nightmares, including misinformation on its platforms, content moderation failures and revelations about the negative effect its products have on some users' mental health.



They think that by changing their name everyone is going to be fooled and forget all the **** they've been accused of? Un-****ing-believable!

Tbh most people are so glazed over by their society not caring whether they live or die this sounds like an overreaction.

I dunno, the right seems to think that Facebook censors too much and the left seems to think they don't censor enough. In my eyes, this would mean that they're right on the money in terms of how they handle content control and censorship.

As for their scandals and misuse of personal data though, I can't defend that. They are delving deep into the VR space and I think they're betting on that being a big financial success but I suppose we'll see. It certainly seems like a smart move to me.

That is some absolute dip**** logic that only works if you're too lazy to have actual standards. I mean Facebook has literally contributed to genocide and actively refrains from stopping conspiracy theories for the sake of upping engagement. If you think that's just right then you're a ****ing moron.

Sources needed

Facebook Ordered To Disclose Evidence In The Myanmar Genocide Case

How Facebook neglected the rest of the world, fueling hate speech and violence in India

Internal Alarm, Public Shrugs: Facebook’s Employees Dissect Its Election Role

And here's a whole big dumb list of articles exploring the Facebook Papers by such leftist rags as the Wall Street Journal and AP, all basically saying that Facebook is trash and Mark Zuckerberg should die alone and in pain.

Here are all the Facebook Papers stories

Next up: Mark Zuckerberg changes his name to Abagail McGillicuddy.

Thanks Bat. My initial hot take of their censorship being a comfortable middle-ground for me may need some revision and nuance injected into it based on this.