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Teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg said on Monday that talking to Trump at a UN summit on global warming would have been a waste of time since he would not have paid any attention.
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Ireland: New laws to ban sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030
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'Risk is just too high': Deputy Premier backs calls to cancel Sydney NYE fireworks
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Authorities use stun gun three times on Florida grandmother on her 70th birthday
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Hong Kong to end year with multiple protests, kick off 2020 with big march
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(WV) Gov. Justice approves firing of all involved in Nazi-like salute
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Reddit Science

The North Atlantic Current may cease temporarily in the next century. It transports warm water from the Gulf of Mexico towards Europe, providing north-western Europe with a relatively mild climate. There is a 15% likelihood that there will be a temporary change in the current in the next 100 years.
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Men who strongly believe manhood must be earned and can be lost exhibit more pronounced cortisol reactivity when masculinity is threatened, suggests new study (n=212), indicating that men’s beliefs about masculinity can influence their physiological stress reactivity and potentially their health.
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The Eternal Nile Is Even More Ancient Than We Thought: A large mantle convection cell beneath the Nile region has helped maintain the river’s steady course over the last 30 million years
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/Technology

‘Facebook is the new cigarettes for our society,’ Marc Benioff says, calling for regulation
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When Will We Stop Screwing Poor and Rural Americans on Broadband?
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Chinese scientists jailed over 'world's first gene-edited babies.'
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Sadly, this is not the Onion.

Ohio doctor charged with 25 murders sues hospital for defamation
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Illegally dumped garbage returned to 'rightful owner' on Christmas: OPP
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Cancer patient set on fire during operation in Romania
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Ask Reddit...

Hey Reddit, When did your “Somethings not right here” gut Feeling ever save you?
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What do people waste money on that amazes you?
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What’s your most wanted sexual fantasy?
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Sysadmin

Had to turn down serious cash offer today
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Inventory management
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Is RDP over Internet still an unrecommended/insecure thing?
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Microsoft SQL Server

AlwaysOn, Full Backup and Growing Log
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PowerShell

Module for storing passwords/secrets in Azure Key Vault along with meta data in an Azure Table
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Auto-start a Powerpoint slideshow in Presentation Mode
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PowerShell wrapper for Azure DevOps REST API
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Functional 3D Printing

Old dog poop bins around my area were missing handles and I got tired of lifting the flap without... 2 handles replaced so far!
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Functional Print found in the wild!
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Am somewhat proud of this one. Card reader mount
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Data Is Beautiful

[OC] Chance of ending your turn on each space in a 40 turn game of Monopoly. (Jail is 2-3 times more likely than any other space, so it isn't shown.)
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[OC] My Reading Stats from the past 2 years
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[OC] Top 10 IMDb Movies Over The Years
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Today I Learned (TIL)

TIL while Apple was buying rural land for a new building, one couple refused to sell their 1 acre plot of land they had originally purchased for $6,000. After rejecting every single offer, Apple just told them to name a price. They sold it for $1.7 million.
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TIL Vanna White has never repeated wearing a single dress during her entire career on “Wheel Of Fortune”. She has worn over 6500 Dresses and been on the show for almost 37 years (Since 1982)
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TIL Thomas Jefferson described the miracles in the Bible, including Jesus coming back from the dead, as "contrary to reason". When it came to the Bible, he was only interested in the moral teachings of Jesus and nothing else.
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So many books, so little time

First world problem: I like having physical books but I prefer reading off a Kindle
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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
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so i just finished Ready Player One
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OldSchoolCool: History's cool kids, looking fantastic

Jonas Salk didn’t patent his 1955 polio vaccine so that it would be affordable for all people. As a result, he lost an estimated 7 billion dollars. Saying in an interview: “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”
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Bill Watterson showing is what good dads do. 1980s.
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My grandma was the Underwood Typewriter girl. It’s one of her favorite stories that she tells everyone within 10 minutes of meeting her. She got her hands on one recently and took it for a spin. Original picture from 1945.
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aviation

Side-by-side comparison of 737-100 and 737-MAX 10 (shortest and longest 737's, respectively)
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Quite rare approach into Barcelona’s runway 02 and some interesting weather / A320 jump seat
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My custom lego Constellation, DC-3, fuel trucks, airstairs and luggage truck
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Reddit Pics

I used to make tiny houses and furniture and left them around for my little sister to find so she would think little people lived in the house. Eventually I got kinda good at it.
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Genius cosplay
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My sister will die from cancer today. A room full of exhausted loves ones fighting with her!
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.gifs - funny, animated gifs for your viewing pleasure

Gibbon gets a piggy back
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Baby tiger sneaks up on its mom
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Clean swipe
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A subreddit for cute and cuddly pictures

Ever since my niece saw Toy Story, she shouts “I’m leaving!” and then peeks at her room like this
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Hey everyone! Back in July I posted our sweet little rescue, Kyra. Everyone asked to see her progress, well Reddit...Here she is in all of her glory!
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Hey everyone! Reddit asked me to recreate the little girl looking for her toys to come to life as a painting. So I stayed up last night...and here it is ☺️
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On Monday, April 5, 2010, an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Raleigh County, W.Va., killed 29 coal miners. Fast-forward to Tuesday, June 7, 2016: the night was clear and cool, the mine entrances had long been sealed off, and David Lee Adkins had snuck into the mine to steal copper abandoned after operations ceased.
He didn’t go alone. On Wednesday, June 8, police charged William Bennett with breaking into and entering the mine alongside him. On Friday, June 10, they brought charges against Everett Adkins as well. (Note: I have not been able to find out if Everett and David were related.) They did not bring charges against David, whom they never found. According to William and Everett, David was with them inside the mine until about 2:30 a.m., when he got separated from them.
A mine rescue team conducted a two-day, underground search for David, covering every accessible area of the mine, but turned up nothing.
On Sunday, June 12, the Beckley, W.Va., "Register-Herald" reported that police “[knew] he was in the […] mine at some point, but he may have exited with the other two men [William and Everett].”
Complicating matters, David’s wife told police that at least three other men went with David to steal the copper, implying that someone besides William and Everett was also involved but never charged with a crime.
David’s mother, however, didn’t seem to trust his wife:

In an interview with WVVA on Friday [June 10, 2016], Adkins’ mother, Nancy, said she believes there is more to the story. She said her son and his wife had a troubled history, parting ways just days before her son disappeared.
“He disappeared. He and his wife got into an argument. She wanted him to go out in the mountains and steal copper. He said he didn’t want to and he didn’t like it and he left,” said Adkins. “My heart feels like it’s just breaking in two. I’ve never experienced anything like this except when my grandson died last year. That was the worst part. But this, this is killing me … not knowing if he’s alive or anything.”

The Fairmont, W.Va., "Times West Virginian" reported that “low oxygen levels are one of the serious threats copper thieves face when entering abandoned mine shafts.” Assuming that David got lost in the mine, died of suffocation, dehydration, or an injury, and simply went undiscovered, it would not be the only time a copper thief met such a fate. In September 2016, just three months after David’s disappearance, a copper thief in McDowell County, W.Va., was never found in the mine shaft he entered, even though his three partners were successfully rescued. The mine was sealed up again—with, presumably, the missing man’s body still inside.
The Upper Big Branch Mine was, likewise, resealed.
As a West Virginian who followed coverage of the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster—and the resulting litigation—as it unfolded, I’m fascinated by David’s disappearance.
Do you believe, as I do, that David is still somewhere in that mine?
Do you believe he escaped the mine, avoided police detection, and is now living off the grid or under an assumed identify?
Do you believe the third, unnamed thief played a special role in his disappearance?
And what, if anything, should we make of his apparent marital problems?
I’d love to read your thoughts on this case.
Sources:
Charleston, W.Va., "Gazette-Mail" coverage of Adkins’ disappearance (June 8, 2016)
WVVA coverage of the suspended search for Adkins (June 10, 2016)
WSAZ coverage of the suspended search for Adkins (June 11, 2016)
Beckley, W.Va., "Register-Herald" coverage of the suspended search for Adkins (June 12, 2016)
Charley Project page (updated June 9, 2017)
Fairmont, W.Va., "Times West Virginian" coverage of a subsequent, similar disappearance (September 9, 2016)