Steve (Shrek) Schaeffer

[Morbid Knowledge @MorbidKnowledge]

Luis Alvarez spent three months at Ground Zero searching through rubble for survivors after 9/11. Eighteen years later, he spent his final days fighting for the people who had done the same.

He testified before Congress while dying, went into hospice the next day, and was dead within weeks.

Alvarez was born in Cuba, grew up in Queens, served in the Marines, and then spent two decades as a detective with the NYPD.

After the towers fell he spent three months working in the rubble, searching for survivors and human remains.

In 2016 he was diagnosed with colorectal cancer that spread to his liver. He underwent 69 rounds of chemotherapy. He never stopped working.

On June 11, 2019, he testified before Congress alongside Jon Stewart in support of permanently reauthorising the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, which was running out of money.

The day after his testimony, his doctors told him there was nothing more they could do. He entered hospice care shortly afterwards.

His final words to Congress: "You all said you would never forget. Well, I'm here to make sure that you don't."

He died on June 29, 2019, aged 53, survived by his wife and three sons aged 14, 19, and 29.

As of the time of his testimony, more than 12,500 cases of cancer had been linked to Ground Zero exposure.

The fund he fought for was permanently reauthorised through 2090, three weeks after his passing. He never saw it pass.

[Ryan Dally @Ryandally08]

#BREAKING The father of slain Australian soldier Robert Poate says his son’s killer still roams free while Australia hunts its own.

Private Robert Poate, a young Australian soldier, was riddled with 11 bullets by an Afghan Army “friendly”

Hugh Poate said it’s hard to stomach the fact the Albanese Government has dropped the ball on that case while splashing millions of dollars investigating Ben Roberts-Smith.

An allied ANA soldier known as “Hekmatullah” who was being mentored by Australian soldiers, murdered three Aussies and wounded two others in an insider attack.

Within 20 minutes of that attack, a small team of SAS soldiers led by Roberts-Smith was tasked with a capture/kill mission of Hekmatullah.

It was on this mission that 5 “war crime murders” allegedly occurred.

Hekmatullah was later captured in Pakistan where, with chilling defiance, he proudly confessed to all 4 charges – murdering 3 Australian Soldiers, wounding two, treason and being a member of a terrorist organisation.

He was sentenced to death.

It was later revealed that DFAT was unbelievably opposed to the death sentence being carried out & Hekmatullah was subsequently released.

Today, he roams free in the mountains of Afghanistan, while Ben Roberts Smith is persecuted by Anthony Albanese.

[Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 @TruthFairy131]

What Aussies really heard during PM Albo’s National Broadcast 🤡

[Lemma the Optimist @DoctorLemma]

For eleven years, a 68-year-old retired forklift truck driver from Mirfield, England began each day by listening to his late wife's voice on their home answering machine message.

She had passed away from cancer in 2003. He never changed phone companies. Every time a new provider offered him a better deal, he asked the same question: if I switch, will her voice be kept? The answer was always no. So he stayed.

Then in December 2014, Virgin Media, his telephone provider, deleted the message during routine technical work.

Stan Beaton described the moment he found out as one of the worst of his life. "I just could not tell people how it affected me," he told BBC Radio Leeds. "It really did devastate me."

He contacted Virgin Media and told them what had happened. The executive director of engineering later described the task of finding it as searching for a needle in a haystack. The chances of recovery, he said, were slim.

A team of engineers spent three days searching through archived servers anyway.

They found it.

Virgin Media sent Stan a CD with the recording. He broke down in tears the moment he heard her voice again.

Is there a voice you would do anything to hear one more time?

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Repairing a road in Germany.

British local councils could learn a thing or two from this.

[Morbid Knowledge @MorbidKnowledge]

During the aftermath of 9/11, Search and Rescue dogs found so few living people, that it caused them great stress because they believed they had failed, Handlers and rescue workers had to regularly hide in the rubble in order to give the rescue dogs a successful find, and keep their spirits up.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The math on this image is insane.

New Horizons transmitted at 2,000 bits per second from 3 billion miles away. Slower than a 1990s dial-up modem. It took 16 months to download all the flyby data.

The spacecraft had to hit a target box 100km wide, arriving within 150 seconds of schedule, after 9 years of flight. Miss it and the preloaded observation commands point at empty space.

Ten days before arrival, the spacecraft crashed and went into safe mode. Engineers had 72 hours to restore everything.

The probe is now 5 billion miles out, still whispering data back to Earth. We got 50 gigabits of Pluto photos using technology slower than your phone’s bluetooth.

[Steve (Shrek) Schaeffer @schaeffs]

@hell_let_loose I can't login with Xbox - stuck on "connecting to online services"........ is the game down currently 2100hrs 22nd Dec Australian Central Time

[Steve (Shrek) Schaeffer @schaeffs]

@SmokeTV "All the chick's love my sword" and you didn't crack up. Well done 👏 - that should be in your bio somewhere.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Difference between a Border Collie and a Husky.. 😂

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Bull smells dude and decides he's a righteous dude.

[Steve (Shrek) Schaeffer @schaeffs]

@Skype @Skype You should be refunding any credit paid into the app back to the respective users/account owners.

[Steve (Shrek) Schaeffer @schaeffs]

Hello Mr @Schwarzenegger - watching Last Action Hero (about once a year since 1993 and I am 53) - just wondering if you kept any gear from filming this movie? Because I love the boots you wear. I would have kept them! All the best from Australia 👍

[Steve (Shrek) Schaeffer @schaeffs]

but it detracts from what you're saying.

[XBOX ANZ @XBOXANZ]

Wouldn’t it be SO CRAZY if we were back with ONE MORE console giveaway? An Xbox Series X 2TB Galaxy Black Special Edition Console and two more Cipher Series Elite controllers?!? 😱

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[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

Here is what a 15 foot hurricane storm surge looks like folks.

[Steve (Shrek) Schaeffer @schaeffs]

@7NewsAdelaide Don't follow football, but did see your Sundays' news report. Is the Hawthorn Coach going to be investigated for property damage by hitting a hole in the wall in the coaches box? Clearly visible in your vision.
Or going to be swept under the carpet?

[Steve (Shrek) Schaeffer @schaeffs]

@Telstra If I change it back to my TelstraTV box that had everything, how long is this going to stay operating for?

[Steve (Shrek) Schaeffer @schaeffs]

@Telstra Have been using your TelstraTV box for ages in my bedroom - worked great with all my subscription services. I was convinced by yr company to change to FetchTV. I have now lost my access to Foxtel, which is available on TelstraTV. Didn't need 2 upgrade! Disappointed.

[Steve (Shrek) Schaeffer @schaeffs]

@TopsKnives It's great, but expensive ($500-600) and difficult to source in Australia. I particularly liked the acid etched blade and rocky mountain tread combo a few years ago.
I would love to add it to my numerous TOPS knives I own.