The players submit a song for various categories and the judge ranks them. I think there have been two different ways of deciding who wins the whole thing.
From that article:
It remains unclear why the family of deer ended up on the ice. “I’m not entirely sure how they walked all the way out there,” Peterson said. “But they definitely walked out there.”
After way more research than I’d thought necessary I figured out what happened.
They were running through the woods, probably at top speed, and mistook the ice for a normal clearing. So as soon as they put hoof to ice they realized what was wrong but it was too late. They hit the brakes but, with the cold snap having just froze everything resulting in even less friction, they ended up sliding halfway across the lake.
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It’s like the fucking To Build A Fire for hooved creatures.
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But you also get to abuse their crap decisions without punishment.
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Yeah, originally the system was only engineered to “major failure” specification, which means a malfunction in normal flight might cause distress to passengers, but not death. It’s OK for those systems to rely on one sensor. Then MCAS was expanded to take a greater role in normal flight and have more expansive capabilities and nobody altered the standard it needed to be engineered to. They were incentivised not to, because MCAS had to be a system which did not require retraining of pilots. This is all in the context of Boeing losing market share to Airbus because their planes had more fuel-efficient engines. Boeing had to re-engineer the 737 to have those engines and they had to get approval quickly. It’s pretty obvious corners were cut in order to get the certification. There’s a good article here that goes into it.
A related catalyst for frozen lake strandings is being chased by a predator. The deer will attempt the ice because it’s better than getting mauled by coyote teeth.
Also:
http://lakeice.squarespace.com/ice-formation/
Lake Ice
Lake Ice from a recreational perspective
Ice Science
Ice Behavior
An Approximate View of Initial Ice Formation
Liquid to Solid, close up:
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Here’s a coyote on Lake Michigan, which is apparently rare. Only arctic creatures feel comfortable fucking with ice like this:
Finally caught up on the LC thread again. At least I didn’t wait until I was a couple of thousand posts behind to catch up this time around.
What a country we live in to allow churches to be tax exempt.
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Purdue Pharma audit reveals the Sacklers, shocker, took $10 billion out of the company and put it in foreign havens and trusts.
Of course they’re going to pay $3 billion and get away with literally murdering tens of thousands of people.
… this is why I’m in favor of these particular human beings having state sanctioned violence done unto them. This exact situation is definitely a con in the analysis of the ‘no cruel and unusual punishment’ rule.
There is no acceptable monetary remedy to what various drug companies did during the opiate epidemic. You could take every dollar they ever made, every dollar they ever could make, and exile them to North Korea and it wouldn’t be nearly enough. This is one of those rare situations where only the death penalty for every single person in any kind of decision making capacity is remotely acceptable.
You think I’m being too extreme? We’re probably close to HALF A MILLION deaths by now. The scale is just mind boggling. We could kill them all and it wouldn’t match their own body count for the previous week and a half. Kill merely 200x as many people and you’re literally Hitler. Kill merely 12x as many people and you’ve got the Jewish portion of the holocaust.
But of course this is America in 2019 so they’ll get to stay rich and free. If only there really was a hell… but there isn’t even that.
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Nah, just take away all their money and their liberty for the rest of their lives. They should die in prison.
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Come to think of it, since solitary confinement apparently isn’t cruel and unusual punishment I’m fine with them all spending the rest of their lives at Red River subsisting on nutraloaf. (definitely a hell that exists here on Earth)
Seriously the things we do to people in this country for being poor and desperate… but we can’t seem to find the power or even the will to punish people for an actual honest to goodness atrocity. Probably because if we were honest with ourselves about how the system enabled them we would have to actually confront some of the worse aspects of our nearly totally captured regulatory system.
Just their money would do. If they were forced to live life like a poor person for a while that would be way worse for them than prison. In white collar prison they can stew in solitude and feel persecuted.
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What’s actually going to happen is that they’ll keep about $10 billion and live in unimaginable luxury with, ironically, world class health care, insulating themselves from anyone or anything that would make them feel even a little uncomfortable.
The heirs with a conscience will live tortured, difficult lives, and the stone cold sociopaths will perpetuate the wealth and further destroy the world.
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The one problem I have with this is that if they are free they will have a chance to rebuild their wealth because they have connections and have proven that they are soulless and willing to do horrible shit to make a buck. There are plenty of people out there that are willing to give them money. They don’t deserve that luxury.
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Flint water is where they should reside
Food stamps
No employment—make them the new federal criminal who no one can employ.
Lifetime ban from driving… No transport expect public services, etc…
Help them out = You get the same treatment by moving in beside them in to Flint Town water.
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You may have missed this post, but like a week ago I saw a coyote run through six lanes of traffic on Crenshaw. Way more badass.
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No. Just no. These people have to be punished extremely forcefully so the other rich people know that doing this kind of thing has consequences. We’re looking at a 40,000-50,000 a year body count on the back of their actions.