I’ll kill you if you say India’s not safe one more time, Raj Thackeray warns Aamir Khan:

Senior Shiv Sena leader today dismissed allegations levelled by Bollywood star Aamir Khan who alleged that his wife had even suggested leaving India considering the growing intolerance. Khan had also said he felt that a sense of insecurity and fear had been growing in the past six or eight months.

“I will kill anyone who says India isn’t secure,” Thackeray said while addressing the conference. “Whether it’s Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Aamir Khan or Chingez Khan, I don’t care! The next Khan that whines about safety, security or tolerance in India, will be killed,” he added.

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briannathestrange:

Like mother, like daughter {x}

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US ends the era of medical research on chimpanzees

Britain: Couple Found Guilty of Keeping a Nigerian Man Captive Since 1989:

A British couple was found guilty Tuesday of keeping a Nigerian immigrant enslaved for more than two decades, forcing him to work for no pay and threatening him with deportation if he tried to escape. They were convicted at Harrow Crown Court in northwest London on charges of child cruelty, slavery and assisting in illegal immigration.

Slavery? Really? That’s so eighteenth century.

tastefullyoffensive:

Donald and Hobbes (via eucalyptusfire)

Facebook to Make Breaking Up Easier to Do:

In a nod to the awkward new wrinkle that social media has added to ending a relationship, Facebook announced Thursday it was testing a set of new tools to make breaking up easier to do.

The new tool essentially wipes memories from your news feed and blocks most updates from the person you are trying to forget.

They should also make it so that when you change your relationshp status, it should ask you, “Have you told X you’re breaking up with him/her?” If you answer “No”, it should say, “Would you like us to do it for you?” Then it would automatically generate a message sent to your new ex letting them know you’re no longer in a relationship.

No more calling a locksmith for you!

Piranha Plant Earrings – Mind if I nibble on your earlobe?

Baby Tortoises Show Up In The Galapagos Islands For The First Time In 100 Years!:

After 100 years of dwindling birth populations, attacks by invasive species, and heavy casualties from fishing and whaling, baby tortoises were found born in the Galapagos Islands. This is huge news for a species that has been struggling to survive for a century, relying on humans raising young tortoises bred in captivity until they are large enough to not fall prey to rats and predators. Finding naturally born young is evidence that conservation efforts are helping rebuild the islands ecosystem, which has been damaged, possibly irrevocably, since the 17th century.

assassinationtipsforladies:

There is much wisdom here

Cloned Animals Will Soon Be the Source of Much of China's Meat:

The new facility will focus on cloning cattle to feed China’s burgeoning population, which likes its meat.

Xu Xiaochun, the chief executive of BoyaLife, the company behind the new operation, told The Guardian, “We are going [down] a path that no one has ever travelled. We are building something that has not existed in the past.” The company intends to produce 100,000 cow embryos per year and hopes to provide 5 percent of the meat eaten in China.

In addition to cattle, BoyaLife will be cloning champion racehorses and dogs used to sniff out victims of natural disasters or stashes of illegal drugs. Xu told The Guardian that the new clone factory would also rescue endangered species from extinction.

This is kind of awesome.

wiseoldbatman:

Me every morning.

Why Texas has its own power grid.:

There has been relatively little agitation to integrate ERCOT into the national systems, primarily because Texas doesn’t really need the help. The state uses more electricity than any other, 44 percent more than runner-up California. Much of this is used by industrial customers such as petrochemical plants and oil refineries. Despite Texas’ massive thirst for electricity, ERCOT has been able to provide cheap power with few service hiccups. In fact, Texas electricity is cheaper, per kilowatt hour, than the national average.

Yep. Texas is great.

grelliamblaum:

My dad found this couch on Craigslist but our mom won’t let him get it. Reblog if you support the pig couch

How to Slow Climate Change With a Fake Volcano:

There’s a cheap, quick, dirty, and controversial way to combat global warming that isn’t on the agenda of the United Nations climate summit in Paris, which runs from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11. It involves replicating the planet-cooling effect of a volcanic eruption. When Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines blew in 1991, its emissions briefly reversed most of the global warming that had occurred since the start of the Industrial Revolution. The idea is to mimic Pinatubo by using a fleet of modified business jets to inject fine droplets of sulfuric acid into the stratosphere, where they would combine with water vapor to form fine sulfate particles that reflect sunlight away from the earth.

Cat can't get his advent calendar from the Post Office because he doesn't have ID - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk:

So my mum posted the cat an advent calendar. Unfortunately, we missed the delivery and the post office won’t give it me as the cat does not have ID.

I’ve got to ring up the Post Office Head Office and explain that my mother has sent the cat an advent calendar, addressed to the cat, and he can’t pop in to pick it up himself or lend me his ID to do it for him.

There is no internet censorship in China, says China's top censor | Hong Kong Free Press:

“It is a misuse of words if you say ‘content censorship.’ But no censorship does not mean there is no management. The Chinese government learnt how to manage the internet from Western developed countries, we have not learnt enough yet,” Lu said, according to scripts published by Xinhua news agency.

Lu went on to say the Chinese government blocks some foreign websites because it “has the right to choose friends.”

“As for who comes to my home, indeed I have to choose [to make sure] those who come are friends. We don’t welcome those who earn China’s money, take China’s market, and then slander China.”

Let's Encrypt:

This is very cool. They’re creating a service that automates (and greatly simplifies) the creation of valid certificates for use on encrypted websites.

I’ve never really gotten around to serving my sites with HTTPS because the process of getting certificates, installing them, renewing them, and so on, is cumbersome (and not cheap). Once this service becomes available, I’ll definitely be using them and start serving my sites over HTTPS.

tastefullyoffensive:

This kid gets it. (photo via patsfan94)

tastefullyoffensive:

(via theblessedone)

Google Play Music started to offer a new family plan: $14.99/month for up to 6 family members, just like Apple Music. You and 5 other family members can subscribe to Google Play Music All Access and keep your own playlists, radio stations, ratings and recommendations. The new family plans are available in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, France and Germany, while also requiring regular Google accounts (no Google Apps, for now). You can only sign up from the Google Play Music app for Android, but everything else works for all the platforms supported by Google Play Music.

Google says you can "share a payment method on Google Play so your family can purchase apps, movies, books and music." It looks like Google will add a family sharing feature for Google Play, so that purchases are shared between family members, just like in iOS. Hopefully, sharing the payment method will be optional.

tastefullyoffensive:

Freedom has spoken.

Eagle: Bad Trump. Stay away from my country.