what the fuck is happening - is there about to be a major disaster/war

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you;ve probably heard about intense al qaeda chatter being intercepted that seems to imply a major attack is being planned or already in place. saw this just now, apparently FEMA is trying to buy tons of food ASAP.....maybe its BS but i'm fucking FREAKED OUT......

http://intellihub.com/2013/08/03/war-likely-imminent-survival-food-company-urgently-contacted-by-fema/

i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Monday, 5 August 2013 02:17 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY

markers, Monday, 5 August 2013 02:19 (eleven years ago)

JESUS IS ALREADY CRYING

Autumn Almanac, Monday, 5 August 2013 02:19 (eleven years ago)

the trustworthy, esteemed news agency "Intellihub"

Neanderthal, Monday, 5 August 2013 02:20 (eleven years ago)

PLANNED ATTACK 'BIG,' 'STRATEGICALLY SIGNIFICANT'
Authorities Boost Security Inside Homeland...
Senator: 'Most serious threat I've seen in a number of years'...
'Chatter' beyond anything heard since before 9/11...
Kristol: Year ago Obama said al-Qaida on run and now WE are on run...

i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Monday, 5 August 2013 02:22 (eleven years ago)

Yes, we are aware, but one has nothing to do with the other. the latter happened. the first article you posted is absurdist conspiracy theory bloggery.

Neanderthal, Monday, 5 August 2013 02:24 (eleven years ago)

when they say before 9/11 do they mean all of before 9/11

szarkasm (schlump), Monday, 5 August 2013 02:25 (eleven years ago)

BREAKING: fema undercatered its agm

Autumn Almanac, Monday, 5 August 2013 02:25 (eleven years ago)

Yes, we are aware, but one has nothing to do with the other. the latter happened. the first article you posted is absurdist conspiracy theory bloggery.

i think so too, but with all this fckkn 'chatter' i'm really scared. another 9/11 would be pretty fuckin not chill

i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Monday, 5 August 2013 02:28 (eleven years ago)

especially if they have ground operatives already in the country jesus christ

i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Monday, 5 August 2013 02:29 (eleven years ago)

I'm not saying don't take it serious, but this isn't exactly the first time something like this has happened, y'know? Haven't had a report like this in a while, but in the years following 9/11 we had reports like this every other month, with messages from the White House like "there is a 100% chance of a terrorist attack" and "we will have many on-shore casualties".

Neanderthal, Monday, 5 August 2013 02:30 (eleven years ago)

it's cool guys, on Saturday I was supposed to go bowling for what I realised was the first time since the 11th of September 2001 (UK early afternoon, I'm not a maniac), but in the end I couldn't make it. The world can breathe a sigh of relief.

Merdeyeux, Monday, 5 August 2013 02:32 (eleven years ago)

so is this a tabloid thread?

Neanderthal, Monday, 5 August 2013 02:33 (eleven years ago)

I remember. it was awful. i lived in lower manhattan before-during-after 9/11, as a little kid. shit like this triggers a lot of latent shit.....yeah bc for like five years after the fact, even after i moved, it was like, 'o, yea we could all die horribly any day any time. it's not a matter of if but when.' fuck this planet

i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Monday, 5 August 2013 02:34 (eleven years ago)

lol at that first link but we're already in an implausible G.I. Joe sequel

Interpol Asks Nations to Help Track Terror Suspects Freed in Prison Breaks
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/world/interpol-issues-alert-on-prison-breaks-in-9-nations.html

spammatazz (los blue jeans), Monday, 5 August 2013 03:19 (eleven years ago)

other hard hitting articles by Intellihub:

http://intellihub.com/2013/08/01/did-rap-superstar-tupac-shakur-fake-his-own-death-to-avoid-fbi-targeting-and-prison-time/

Neanderthal, Monday, 5 August 2013 03:53 (eleven years ago)

Interpol Asks Nations to Help Track Terror Suspects Freed in Prison Breaks
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/world/interpol-issues-alert-on-prison-breaks-in-9-nations.html

― spammatazz (los blue jeans), Sunday, August 4, 2013 11:19 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damn!

Neanderthal, Monday, 5 August 2013 03:54 (eleven years ago)

i'm sure this definitely 100% has nothing to do w/ all the heat the NSA is taking atm

Mordy , Monday, 5 August 2013 03:56 (eleven years ago)

lol

Neanderthal, Monday, 5 August 2013 03:57 (eleven years ago)

http://i42.tinypic.com/j67ekg.jpg

underground louvres (haitch), Monday, 5 August 2013 04:08 (eleven years ago)

Surprised storming Abu Grahib and freeing hundreds isn't a bigger front-page story.

only dogg forgives (Eazy), Monday, 5 August 2013 04:15 (eleven years ago)

2Pac totally faked his death.

Kissin' Cloacas (Viceroy), Monday, 5 August 2013 04:19 (eleven years ago)

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4413249,00.html

Mordy , Monday, 5 August 2013 04:49 (eleven years ago)

The use of the systems was criticized in the US and around the world for their invasion of privacy, but it is clear that these systems, which are used not only by the US and Britain, save lives.

ok, lol

StanM, Monday, 5 August 2013 05:50 (eleven years ago)

Fuck you Bureaucracy for being so untrustworthy to make me think that this is all post-Snowden/post-Congressional vote salesmanship

Elvis Telecom, Monday, 5 August 2013 08:18 (eleven years ago)

I wish the NYT would start articles with the phrase "My friend Matt"... maybe the new standard for OpEds?

"Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 5 August 2013 17:38 (eleven years ago)

Fuck you Bureaucracy for being so untrustworthy to make me think that this is all post-Snowden/post-Congressional vote salesmanship

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, August 5, 2013 3:18 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this.

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 5 August 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago)

although honestly aside from shuttering some embassies how is this information useful even if we could trust it?

seems like it's mostly a way for bureaucracies/ politicians to cover their ass if something happens. "don't say we didn't warn you."

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 5 August 2013 19:40 (eleven years ago)

http://www.karenfreberg.com/Bat%20Boy%20Saves%20the%20day.JPG

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 August 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago)

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/05/dont_go_anywhere_government_warns/

Unlike similar vague warnings in the past, this one is not suspiciously close to Election Day. There is likely some genuine intelligence about some sort of attack that led to this. But that raises questions posed by Philip Bump this weekend: If the American intelligence community was crippled by the recent leaks about its operations and tools, as so many have claimed, how did it manage to collect the intelligence that led to this alert? The head of the National Security Agency told us that the terrorists read all those Guardian stories and immediately took action. Presumably they now no longer use “telephones” or “the Internet,” whereas before they were all blissfully unaware that the United States had the ability to spy on them at all.

Your Own Personal El Guapo (kingfish), Monday, 5 August 2013 22:00 (eleven years ago)

Yes, the terrorists have diverted an asteroid the size of Texas and it will strike D.C. in a matter of hours.

Oh wait, no, they're just trying to divert attention from / or rationalize the NSA spying programs.

Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Monday, 5 August 2013 22:06 (eleven years ago)

some doofus posted this exact article yesterday like around the moment this thread started. when I called it a hoax, he demanded a source to 'refute' this story.

man I wish I had sources as airtight as "this dude Matt who is a friend of a friend sez this happened"

Neanderthal, Monday, 5 August 2013 23:08 (eleven years ago)

The Obama administration’s decision last week to close nearly two dozen diplomatic missions and issue a worldwide travel alert resulted from intercepted electronic communications in which the head of Al Qaeda in Pakistan ordered the leader of its affiliate in Yemen, the terrorist organization’s most lethal branch, to carry out an attack as early as this past Sunday, according to my friend Matt.

"Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 5 August 2013 23:26 (eleven years ago)

i dont want to die in a terrorist attack

i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 00:37 (eleven years ago)

most of us aren't signing up to do that either iirc

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 00:38 (eleven years ago)

someone really needs to invite that friend Matt to this board so we can get the inside scoop on that FEMA shiz.

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 00:38 (eleven years ago)

luckily, your odds of dying in a terrorist attack are 20,000,000 to 1. You're 150 times more likely to die from lightning.

Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 00:48 (eleven years ago)

Cutout Bin's right. If you look at the re-

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 00:50 (eleven years ago)

Yeah well they warn you when lightning's coming too tbf

Dr Peter Who? (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 00:51 (eleven years ago)

There's the equivalent of a 9/11 nearly every month on our nation's roads and highways. Chill the fuck out and promote driving safety.

Here's the storify, of a lovely ladify (Phil D.), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago)

Ain't no one gonna tell me how to drive my car. Commie.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 01:19 (eleven years ago)

The government has not sufficiently proven that reckless driving and vehicular accidents/deaths are even remotely correlated. IMO its yet another lib dog whistle.

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 01:20 (eleven years ago)

FIGHT THE REAL ENEMY

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/MaterCars.jpg

Here's the storify, of a lovely ladify (Phil D.), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 01:35 (eleven years ago)

Phony scandal, imo. Like the "death" of Twinkies.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 12:21 (eleven years ago)

my biggest lol itt is that first link and seeing all the commenters thank Matt for not "feeding the beast". its like, where do these people think "help" is going to come from when they get hit with a disaster? oh that's right, they're all Randians that can handle everything their goddamn selves and don't need no gubmint help.

JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 14:00 (eleven years ago)

It's not about help, it's about waiting it out in a bunker.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago)

I remember talking to one of these folks on DALnet (lol 2002) once, he kept talking about needing his 'vast array of guns' to protect himself from 'them' when 'they' came to the door. I kept asking "from who?", and he'd say "the government". I'd say "why are they coming to your door?", and he'd say "because they want to take our freedoms!". He also started threatening to use said weapons on me if I kept 'mouthing off'.

the worst part though, is I was posting as <HANDLE REDACTED>, and I said "you're making this sh!t up, troll. there's no way you have this vast array of guns". He sends me a .jpg of a SHITLOAD of guns, and on top of it was a note, written in dark red ink "Real. AND MINE, <HANDLE REDACTED>".

sure glad he didn't live anywhere near me, or know my name. yeesh.

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 14:51 (eleven years ago)

and it was red ink, not blood - not going for 'dramatic effect' here, guy clearly owned ballpoints and/or a marker

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 14:52 (eleven years ago)

the freedom to live holed up in a bunker assuming the rest of society, and especially everyone in power, is hostile to your existence

Treeship, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 14:54 (eleven years ago)

i don't really get how these gun-nut, anarcho-fascist people don't understand that "freedom" can only exist in the context of civil society, where people have freedom of movement, access to education and healthcare, and a relative sense that they can be safe when they leave the house.

Treeship, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 14:55 (eleven years ago)

that's the main thing that annoys me about them. their sense of freedom is purely negative: it's not about being free to move around in a society that one would actually want to live in, but just this abstract idea of being able to hoard property and not have people "tell you what to do"

Treeship, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 14:57 (eleven years ago)

the dream of living in a bunker is very appealing to me, especially in this age of accessible internet and eventually door-delivered/teleported groceries. but yeah, i dislike the hate and fear is wrapped up in these things.

Nhex, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 15:14 (eleven years ago)

i don't think it's appealing. i am on the internet all day but in the library.

Treeship, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 15:16 (eleven years ago)

yeah, the idea of freedom portrayed in that image is closer to my ideal of freedom than that proposed by gun-nut bunker dwellers

Treeship, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago)

Those lil kids are all packing to defend their giant letters. Hands off!

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago)

"you are free to FUCK OFF and leave me and my friends be"

Treeship, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 16:13 (eleven years ago)

TREE TO BE
YOU AND ME

waterface, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago)

;-)

Treeship, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 16:16 (eleven years ago)

assuming the rest of society, and especially everyone in power, is hostile to your existence

to be fair, i am quite hostile to the existence of these arseholes

ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 00:34 (eleven years ago)

oh yeah guys, the war started a few minutes ago. al-queda and snowden broke manning out of jail and loki blew up mount rushmore

President Keyes, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago)

i never trusted loki

Nhex, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 02:30 (eleven years ago)

another 9/11 would be pretty fuckin not chill

another 9/11 would be pretty fuckin not chill

I knew you New Yorkers were unshakeable but "unchill"

carlos danger zone (mh), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 02:34 (eleven years ago)

Neanderthal, dalnet was always the worst of the irc networks

carlos danger zone (mh), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 02:35 (eleven years ago)

twas, but it had the metal channel I liked in it!

Neanderthal, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 04:09 (eleven years ago)

xp JM fair enough, that might have been phrased poorly. it's more like, the bunkerdwellers just seem to take the corruption of the government as a matter of course and have no interest in helping to create a just society. the dream of civil society is just totally dead to these people and it's not clear that they ever would have cared about it.

Treeship, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 04:17 (eleven years ago)

productive movements like the civil rights movement of the 60s held society up to a high standard, and insisted on this standard even though it was obvious that society was falling way far short of it. i think this is a different sort of politics than the conspiracy theorist, who always retreats into a safe position of cynicism. it's unchill.

Treeship, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 04:23 (eleven years ago)

Freedom is a fig leaf for gun nuts. Their motivation is closer to malignant narcissism.

29 facepalms, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 09:05 (eleven years ago)

EFnet > IRCnet > DALnet > Undernet

(actually Undernet was probably really good but it just confused me by having nick registration and no nick length restrictions. or was that a different network?)

and now my head is so full of nerd minutiae from 1996 that nobody cares about any more, I guess retreating to a bunker forever seems like a p. good deal to me too

slippery kelp on the tide (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 10:22 (eleven years ago)

Undernet wasn't too bad. I never used IRCnet, but it split off of EFnet around the time I was still new to irc and mostly european?

carlos danger zone (mh), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 13:48 (eleven years ago)

Yeah, I think you're right that it was mostly European. It definitely had a lot more UK servers than the other big networks. Not sure when it split off as it was already separate the first time I used it in 1996-7.

I wonder if any of my former IRC channels are a) still populated b) still ever talked on c) still talked on by anyone I knew d) still talked on by anyone who isn't a raging asshat

slippery kelp on the tide (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago)

what the fuck is happening itt

BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 17:46 (eleven years ago)

EFnet > IRCnet > DALnet > Undernet

(actually Undernet was probably really good but it just confused me by having nick registration and no nick length restrictions. or was that a different network?)

and now my head is so full of nerd minutiae from 1996 that nobody cares about any more, I guess retreating to a bunker forever seems like a p. good deal to me too

― slippery kelp on the tide (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, August 7, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink


I only ever used Undernet. I never liked the other ones.

What IRC client did you use?

c21m50nh3x460n, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 17:57 (eleven years ago)

bitchx

carlos danger zone (mh), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 17:59 (eleven years ago)

and irssi later

carlos danger zone (mh), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 18:00 (eleven years ago)

LOL thats this has turned into an IRC thread (EFNet ftw)

It is like ganging up on Enya (Trayce), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago)

I hated that while on DALnet, they let you reg your nicks without a character limit, I'd go elsewhere and it'd be an 8-10 character limit, so my nick would get cut off.

as far as which proggie, I was lame, I used mIRC before finally getting pIRCh

Neanderthal, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 22:45 (eleven years ago)

On windows I was using virc as I was part of its scripting community then used xircon

carlos danger zone (mh), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago)

I know some programmer types who've had the same channel on Freenode for like 10+ years running

Your Own Personal El Guapo (kingfish), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 23:01 (eleven years ago)

#metal was the shit on DALnet. The channel still exists (it's been around since the mid 90s I'd guess), but it's dying slowly. In its heyday, it was full of folks from various countries all talking, arguing, and verbally threatening each other about metal. lots of regulars, lots of cool memes.

However, there was bad blood between the Americans and Swedes in the channel. The Swede AOPs were ban-happy, and would kick people out for saying they didn't like Mayhem, or not getting a boner when they heard power metal. One of our fellow Americans had been given the channel's password by the channel owner, and we conspired to get him to give us the password to seize control from the Swedes in an attempted coup.

He finally rebuffed us angrily, and 90% of the American population of the #metal board abruptly left for another IRC server, forming their own private channel. In its heyday, you could find heated arguments about Metal Church's best album at 3 am. Nowadays, all you get are repetitious posts of "a/s/l?" and "NP: Arsvrtr - Norway is Cold".

Neanderthal, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago)

it's pretty great that the major disaster/war revealed in this thread is about ban-happy swedish metalheads

brio, Thursday, 8 August 2013 01:00 (eleven years ago)

waitin for my friend Matt to tell me if the Swedes come out of dormancy and attempt to annex new channels

Neanderthal, Thursday, 8 August 2013 01:02 (eleven years ago)

You aren't worth the trouble.

_Rudipherous_, Thursday, 8 August 2013 03:38 (eleven years ago)

dude the real metal channel was elsewhere feebs

carlos danger zone (mh), Thursday, 8 August 2013 03:39 (eleven years ago)

Eating my eggiwegs and lomticks of toast with the droogs and my nicks on my proggie

touch. zing touch. you've almost convinced me I'm real (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 August 2013 05:43 (eleven years ago)

On the 90s Internet for a bit o the ole ultraslowness

touch. zing touch. you've almost convinced me I'm real (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 August 2013 05:45 (eleven years ago)

swift tolchock in the yarbles for all us newsies wewsies

blinded by aggro (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 8 August 2013 05:57 (eleven years ago)

#ansi

panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 8 August 2013 07:00 (eleven years ago)


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