The waste of skin works for Victor Lucas and EP Media Ltd; people have already passed the classy tweet to his boss. I'll have to ask Victor if the tool is still employed next time I see him at a gaming convention.
If people want to discuss stupid stuff that idiots are saying on social media please start a dedicated thread. We don't need that in this thread or the discussion that follows from it.
So confine it some place else or stop posting it altogether.
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So some dumb dumbs in this thread keep posting nasty tweets and referring to CBC comments, etc. I decided to fire up the ole twitter machine because I felt like foaming at the mouth at the disgustingness of this province, country, terrible godforsaken idon'twanttoliveonthisplanetanymore world. Here are some random, non-cherry picked, somewhat chronological (I don't understand twitter) tweets I found after searching #fortmacwildfire. Put on your outrage hats, because boy, these are bad:
Spoiler!
Graham DeLaetVerified account @GrahamDeLaet 7h7 hours ago
I'll be donating $500 for each birdie I make this week to @redcrosscanada. Help us raise more here: http://www.myevent.com/grahamdelaet #FortMacFire
Kerry just bid $5K for @MAJewellers $2500 gift cerfiticate. And MAJewellers said they'd make it $5000 GC. Money to @RedCrossAB #FortMacFire
We are also encouraging fans to text REDCROSS to 30333 to make a $5 donation.@redcrosscanada #FortMacFire
Help those affected by the #FortMacFire by donating $10 when you text the word FIRES to 45678. It's this easy.
The @FlamesFdn has donated $100,000 to the @redcrosscanada #FortMacFire relief efforts ~ http://cflam.es/1X9ld8R
#Alberta gov't will match dollar-for-dollar donations made @redcrosscanada for #FortMcMurray. #ymmfire #FortMacFire
jann ardenVerified account @jannarden 6h6 hours ago
Just landed from the UK- the #FortMacFire is just horrible. Sending love to all my friends and family who work up there!!
etc etc etc
For every solitary prick that you give your undue attention there are literally THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS of sympathetic onlookers, helping in any way that they can, sick to the stomach at the apocalyptic images that we're seeing on the news.
Seriously, who the hell cares if some random nobody from nowhere thinks this is karma? He is such a small % of the population, he might as well not exist.
If you choose to see some attention seeking morons on Facebook as an indictment of society as a whole, then that's a sad way to view the world, but it's up to you. But don't bring it into this thread for all of us to rubberneck at while we follow the news and otherwise worthwhile discussion. Thanks in advance.
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Is this the second time the Facebook safety check-in thing has been done? Last time I saw one was during the Paris terror attacks... had to have family members check in as "safe" during both now.
It popped up on my fb feed as I was in Myanmar during the recent earthquake.
Back to YMM - sending love from BC. Hoping for the best for everyone involved, wish there was more I could do from here.
to load into Google Earth. There are a whole bunch of layers, but to start with you can turn everything off and select
VIIRS I Band Fire Detections
then just turn on the most recent. It auto refreshes when there is new data(hourly, I think). I'd be interested to ground truth some of this to see how accurate it is. Anyway, it's an interesting way to visualize where the active fires are, and you can play around with the other layers.
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Incredible amount of ads on Kijiji with people offering places to stay for people and pets. Very cool to see. A bit of a helpless feeling being down here in the south, donated some money but hell, I wish we could drive up there and help.
it makes me so proud to see people come together at times like these. All day on CBC radio there were stories about people helping each other out. It's hard some times when people say such heartless things, but they're few and far between. They're either misinformed or hypocrites... or both.
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So some dumb dumbs in this thread keep posting nasty tweets and referring to CBC comments, etc. I decided to fire up the ole twitter machine because I felt like foaming at the mouth at the disgustingness of this province, country, terrible godforsaken idon'twanttoliveonthisplanetanymore world. Here are some random, non-cherry picked, somewhat chronological (I don't understand twitter) tweets I found after searching #fortmacwildfire. Put on your outrage hats, because boy, these are bad:
Spoiler!
Graham DeLaetVerified account @GrahamDeLaet 7h7 hours ago
I'll be donating $500 for each birdie I make this week to @redcrosscanada. Help us raise more here: http://www.myevent.com/grahamdelaet #FortMacFire
Kerry just bid $5K for @MAJewellers $2500 gift cerfiticate. And MAJewellers said they'd make it $5000 GC. Money to @RedCrossAB #FortMacFire
We are also encouraging fans to text REDCROSS to 30333 to make a $5 donation.@redcrosscanada #FortMacFire
Help those affected by the #FortMacFire by donating $10 when you text the word FIRES to 45678. It's this easy.
The @FlamesFdn has donated $100,000 to the @redcrosscanada #FortMacFire relief efforts ~ http://cflam.es/1X9ld8R
#Alberta gov't will match dollar-for-dollar donations made @redcrosscanada for #FortMcMurray. #ymmfire #FortMacFire
jann ardenVerified account @jannarden 6h6 hours ago
Just landed from the UK- the #FortMacFire is just horrible. Sending love to all my friends and family who work up there!!
etc etc etc
For every solitary prick that you give your undue attention there are literally THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS of sympathetic onlookers, helping in any way that they can, sick to the stomach at the apocalyptic images that we're seeing on the news.
Seriously, who the hell cares if some random nobody from nowhere thinks this is karma? He is such a small % of the population, he might as well not exist.
If you choose to see some attention seeking morons on Facebook as an indictment of society as a whole, then that's a sad way to view the world, but it's up to you. But don't bring it into this thread for all of us to rubberneck at while we follow the news and otherwise worthwhile discussion. Thanks in advance.
Very well said, I agree with you. We should all - including yours truly - not post any more silly, inconsiderate tweets.
I'll donate to Fort Mac. We all should too.
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