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In the Russian town of Oymyakon is so cold electronics basically don't work and it takes days of hard work just to bury someone who has died.

As Harrisen Howes, the uploader of this video puts it, "Two months ago my roommate drunkenly lost my small drone on a neighbors roof... after upgrading to a larger drone I attempted a rescue of the smaller drone using hooks I made from coat hangers. Here is the result."

If you have a terrible memory, lose things a lot, often black out from drinking or some combination thereof, Google is about to become your new savior. If you like the idea of keeping your data private, however, you may want to prepare yourself.

Amazon’s bet on cloud computing almost a decade ago continues to look brilliant.

Amazon Web Services generated $1.8 billion in revenue during the second quarter, Amazon revealed this afternoon. It has now generated almost $6 billion in sales over the past four quarters.

Growth in the division accelerated during the quarter to 82% year-over-year, up from 49% growth in the first quarter. That reflects that it’s now been more than a year since Amazon had to dramatically cut its AWS pricing, following a major price cut by rival Google.

AWS generated almost $400 million in operating income during the quarter, and almost $1 billion over the past four quarters. It represented almost 40% of Amazon’s consolidated-segment operating income for the second quarter in a row—despite only generating about 8% of the company’s sales.

In short: AWS is one of Amazon’s most valuable assets.

A gunman opened fire at a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, on Thursday night (July 23), killing two and injuring seven.

According to Louisiana’s KLFY, the shooter was a 58-year-old white male whose name has been withheld from the public. Police report the perpetrator has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. None of the victims have been identified, but one of the murdered was female.

Conditions of the injured range from non-critical to life-threatening, according to local police.

The shooting took place around 7:30pm during a screening of the Amy Schumer comedy Trainwreck.

According to KLFY, the theater went into a state of emergency after a teacher who was shot in the leg pulled the fire alarm. Authorities are also investigating a suspicious package that was spotted on the movie theater’s premises.

The incident marks the eighth mass shooting to take place in Louisiana in 2015, according to Shooting Tracker, a crowd-sourced wiki. Governer Bobby Jindal arrived at the scene and expressed his condolences and support for the community and local authorities.

I'm on my way to Lafayette right now. Please say a prayer for the victims at Grand Theatre and their families.

— Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) July 24, 2015

Jindal has an A+ rating from US gun lobby the National Rifle Association, and has passed at least seven pieces of gun-related legislation since 2013, including a law last year that lets gun owners carry concealed firearms in restaurants that serve alcohol.

Everyone still thinks the Seahawks losing was funny. Except the Seahawks, probably.

You may not have heard, but the Seattle Seahawks were one yard away from winning the Super Bowl. Except, instead of running the ball with Marshawn Lynch, Seattle chose to throw it and Russell Wilson's pass was intercepted. It was a pretty big deal when it happened more than five months ago.

The jokes about it are never, ever going to die.

Just last week, the ESPYS opened with a joke at Seattle's expense. On Wednesday, the Madden video game Twitter got in on the act too and the Seahawks walked right into it. Madden 2016 ratings were released recently which led the Seahawks to tweet this.

C'mon @EAMaddenNFL! What's a Beast got to do to get a 99 TRUCKING? [http://t.co/fxhgqQcdYX] #Madden16 pic.twitter.com/MWB3dYuPZ8

— Seattle Seahawks (@Seahawks) July 22, 2015

Seemingly harmless enough. Except all it really did was put a ball on a tee for Madden to launch this dinger.

.@Seahawks one more of these probably could've helped... pic.twitter.com/T1rHpVW5NF

— EA SPORTS Madden NFL (@EAMaddenNFL) July 22, 2015

Ouuuuuuuch.

At least Seattle took it in stride.

@EAMaddenNFL #WeGotGot https://t.co/IPkKXAAgkM

— Seattle Seahawks (@Seahawks) July 22, 2015

It was bad enough the Seahawks lost the Super Bowl. They've now had to spend the entire offseason hearing about it everyday. At this point, @Seahawks should just tweet out a "Stop, stop, he's already dead" meme and hope for a truce until next season starts.

LSU living mascot Mike, a Bengali-Siberian tiger, turned ten today, and was given a birthday meat cake topped with hard-boiled eggs.

Happy Birthday to me. Happy Birthday to me! Meat cake with goats milk letters and hard boiled eggs. Jealous?

A photo posted by Mike VI, LSU's Live Mascot (@miketigervi) on Jul 23, 2015 at 5:57am PDT

Mike the tiger has a history of lavish birthday celebrations, including last year's turkey bacon cake.

Mike is no fool, so surely he will notice that there are only nine (9) hard-boiled eggs on top of this year's cake.

Where is the tenth egg? Is it buried in the meat cake? Was it hand-delivered to Mike? Did someone at the meat bakery get hungry?

You can send Mike a birthday e-card here.

This baseball player is taking the game to a whole new level.

LOOK. AT. THESE. DOPE. BAT. MOVES.

噂の代打やばい たくさん種類あるwww pic.twitter.com/w6uGXzN5LP

— KIWAMI 動画 (@kiwami_douga) July 23, 2015

Look at that swagger. He jumps like he's about to have a freeze frame moment. He swings his bat like he's fighting off an army of Agent Smiths in The Matrix Reloaded. He points his finger at the pitcher, like he's ready for a fight.

We should all feel blessed to live in the same world as this man.

(h/t @calcaterra at HardballTalk)

★★★

SB Nation video archives: Baseball's unwritten rules (2013)

Here is Cardale Jones expressing some thoughtful, nuanced sentiments on Twitter after the death of Sandra Bland:

Retweet if you agree with me #BlackLivesMatter

— Cardale Jones (@CJ12_) July 23, 2015

#AllLivesMatter why is it that the only ones getting beaten, killed when unarmed, & mysteriously dien in custody are African American

— Cardale Jones (@CJ12_) July 23, 2015

You tell me that #AllLivesMatter well I say how do you define "All" ?

— Cardale Jones (@CJ12_) July 23, 2015

Here is an Ohio State fan stepping out of line in response and getting tweet-slapped right back into place:

You'll note that the above is a screenshot, because the individual here deleted his whole damn Twitter account after Cardale taught him a lesson.

That lesson, by the way: Athletes are people and they reserve the right to express their opinions, just like all people do.

(via LGHL)

Yes, you can assume that it is a crime. It also seems like something that should be worked out within your group. We're really not comfortable facilitating a conversation where it's possible that this could turn into a debate on paizo.com, so we'll be locking this one.

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In a newly released episode of Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, Daily Show alum Wyatt Cenac recounted his troubled relationship with host Jon Stewart, which culminated in a blow up over an impression the former correspondent found racially insensitive.

Cenac says Stewart screamed at him after he admitted cringing at an impression of Herman Cain he found reminiscent of the Amos ‘n’ Andy character Kingfish.

“He got incredibly defensive,” Cenac told Maron:

“I remember he was like, ‘What are you trying to say? There’s a tone in your voice.’ I was like, ‘There’s no tone. It bothered me.’ And then he got upset. He stood up and he was just like, ‘Fuck off. I’m done with you.’ And he just started screaming that to me, and he screamed it a few times. ‘Fuck off! I’m done with you.’ And he stormed out. I didn’t know if I had been fired.”

Cenac said he had an emotional breakdown after the confrontation but stayed on the show for another miserable year before quitting.

“I was shaking, and I just sat there by myself on the bleachers and fucking cried. And it’s a sad thing,” Cenac told Maron. “That’s how I feel. That’s how I feel in this job: I feel alone.”

“I represent my community,” added Cenac. “I represent my people, and I try to represent them the best that I can. I gotta be honest if something seems questionable, because if not, then I don’t want to be in a position where I am being untrue not just to myself but to my culture, because that’s exploitative.”

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TSA Supervisor Calls Police on Teen for Filming Dad’s Pat-Down

A 16-year-old boy has caused a stir after releasing a video showing himself being denied the right to film a checkpoint pat-down — something the TSA officially allows.

YouTube user Apple Lucas claims that he was denied the right to film while being patted down by a TSA supervisor at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. He then tried to film his father getting patted down, only to have the TSA agent call a police officer to the scene.

“I explained to him that it clearly states on the TSA website that you are allowed to film the TSA agents as long as you don’t film their monitors and are not interfering with their process,” Apple Lucas writes.

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This TSA Supervisor should be fired, and of course that won’t happen, because TSA is unaccountable to anyone.

Two people, including the gunman, were killed and eight others were injured in a shooting Thursday night at a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, authorities told NBC News.

In a first-of-its-kind study, the nation’s largest law enforcement arm takes the next step in implementing body cameras.

Two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether Hillary Rodham Clinton mishandled sensitive government information on a private email account she used as secretary of state, senior government officials said Thursday.

A new hotel that is staffed with robots has opened in Japan. The Henn-na Hotel (which translates as "Strange Hotel"), is part of the Huis Ten Bosch theme park complex in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. Guests can also access their rooms via face-recognition, and are able to control room amenities via tablets.

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anakin skywalker does not use jedi mind tricks 

not once in the films 

do you think that’s a coincidence 

not on your life buddy 

anakin skywalker does not have it in him to overrule another being’s free will

he murders a bunch of children with a laser sword

• India Clarke, 25, died due to blunt force trauma, investigators say
  
• Local media misgendered black trans woman, calling her a ‘man in a dress’

A 25-year-old transgender woman, was found beaten to death on Tuesday morning outside of the University Area Community Center in Tampa Bay, Florida, an incident officials are calling a murder.

The young woman, India Clarke, who was described by family as a “very loving person” is the 10th transgender homicide in the US this year, according to the National Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP), and is being seen as more evidence of what many are calling an “epidemic of violence”.

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People have written a lot of touchy-feely pieces on this subject but I thought I’d get right to the heart of the matter

This is 1000% more motivating than every preachy “real writers write every day” post on all of Tumblr.

it’s one of my favorite posts because the guy in the second panel is so happy to see two cakes and this post makes me hungry

“Pregnancy is becoming so expensive that, costs of actually raising a child aside, it’s a serious economic barrier to having children. And it shouldn’t be. I reject the argument that people who can’t afford the expenses of having a pregnancy that’s managed as safely and respectfully as possible shouldn’t have children. When you’re looking at costs that rival those of a full year at an Ivy League college — and all four years of education at many excellent schools — you have to challenge these kinds of attitudes and get to the deeper root of the problems with labour, delivery, and pregnancy culture in the United States.”

- Pregnancy costs are out of control | this ain’t livin’ (via feministlibrarian)

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WATCH: Matt Bomer Has No Time For Gay Stereotypes In New Interview

Entertainment news “journalists” are like the human equivalent of that one chihuahua at the dog park that won’t stop humping everyone else’s dogs and yapping.