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From one extreme to another. I'm betting he makes parole on his first hearing, too.
Solid advice, except she seems like the stabby type if he ever gets the gumption to leave.
He's better off Minecrafting her and stashing the remains in the nearest meth house. Fresno's got plenty of those, right?
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The Great Shoplifting Freak-Out
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Something I found on my phone and forgot to post.
The Retail Industry’s ‘Shoplifting Surge’ Claims Are Fuzzy at Best - …
archived 26 Dec 2021 12:44:17 UTC
Something I found on my phone and forgot to post.
PS1gamenwatch
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From an article in Montreal. An attempt at another screw job which that province is known for.
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Manhunt Underway for Suspect in Texas Human Smuggling Plane Crash
Authorities in Presidio, Texas, issued an arrest warrant for the suspected pilot of a single-engine aircraft with five migrants on board.
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Study finds link between celebrity worship, lower intelligence | Health |herald.ng
A study conducted by some Hungarian researchers has linked obsession with celebrities and lower intelligence.
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A study conducted by some Hungarian researchers has linked obsession with celebrities and lower intelligence.
The study, published in BMC Psychology late 2021, asserts that “there is a direct association between celebrity worship and poorer performance on cognitive tests” measuring both literacy and numeracy.
The study asked 1,763 Hungarian adults to undertake a 30-word vocabulary test and a digit symbol substitution test, before completing a “Celebrity Attitude Scale” questionnaire to determine their levels of interest in famous people.
Participants had to answer “yes” or “no” to a series of statements on the Celebrity Attitude Scale, including: “I often feel compelled to learn the personal habits of my favorite celebrity” and “I am obsessed by details of my favorite celebrity’s life.”
Another yes-or-no statement read: “If I were lucky enough to meet my favorite celebrity, and he/she asked me to do something illegal as a favor I would probably do it.”
Researchers found that high scores on the Celebrity Attitude Scale correlated with lower performance on the two cognitive ability tests.
However, the researchers were unable to determine whether celebrity obsessives perform poorly on cognitive tests because they used their brainpower thinking about A-listers, or whether they were fixated on Hollywood gossip because they were already less intelligent to begin with.
The researchers called “future studies” to support “our suggestion that the cognitive effort invested in maintaining the absorption in a favorite celebrity may interfere with the person’s performance in tasks that require attention and other cognitive skills”.
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Baby orphaned after parents, both Florida deputies, take their own lives
St. Lucie County Deputy Clayton Osteen died Jan. 2 and Deputy Victoria Pacheco took her life “in the wake of Deputy Osteen’s death,” Sheriff Ken Mascara said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Two Florida sheriff’s deputies with a newborn baby killed themselves within days of each other, leaving their 1-month old son an orphan, an official said.
St. Lucie County Deputy Clayton Osteen died Jan. 2 and Deputy Victoria Pacheco took her life “in the wake of Deputy Osteen’s death,” Sheriff Ken Mascara said in a statement on Tuesday.
The name of the newborn child has not been shared.Victoria Pacheco/Facebook
Clayton Ostend was a former marine who later served as a deputy in Florida.Ray Tourville/Facebook“As sheriff, I saw these two deputies as young, ambitious, and a great compliment to my already amazing group of professionals,” Mascara said.
“To the general public, and sometimes even myself, it’s easy to view law enforcement as superhuman … but let’s not forget that they’re human just like us.”
The sheriff’s office responded to a call at just before midnight on New Year’s Eve and found that Osteen, who was off-duty, had tried to kill himself. His family removed him from life support Sunday, Mascara said.
Deputy Victoria Pacheco had taken her life days after Ostend was taken off of life support.Stevie Pacheco/FacebookOn Tuesday, the sheriff’s office learned of Pacheco’s suicide, although the sheriff didn’t specify when she died. The name of the child wasn’t shared.
“While it is impossible for us to fully comprehend the private circumstances leading up to this devastating loss, we pray that this tragedy becomes a catalyst for change, a catalyst to help ease the stigma surrounding well-being and normalize the conversation about the challenges so many of us face on a regular basis,” Mascara said.
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Just got done reading this. Posted almost 2 years ago, and people were bitching about "anti-vaxxers" and the spread of misinformation even then. It's kinda surreal.
That bit at the end seriously made me LOL.
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Journoscum at the A.V. Club having a rough week:
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The A.V. Club Tells Staffers They Must Move to L.A. or Lose Their Jobs
The site's editor-in-chief broke the news yesterday, according to a recording obtained by Gawker
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Super-Chevy454
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Some people will have to apologize to Senator Tom Cotton.
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So Sen. Tom Cotton was right all along about the Boston Bomber getting his stimulus check
Sen. Tom Cotton took a lot of opprobrium for bringing up, during this year's stimulus debates in Congress, that some really vile people would get them, too, given the poor construction of the Democrat-led law. Why a killer like Dzhokar Tsarna...
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Well maybe but these terrible people are probably going to spend it in the prison commissary which is often run by some private company that contracts with the state, so whether or not they're scumbags, it actually will go into the economy much like money from anyone else.
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What a mess. On the one hand I understand the wife following the husband (I don't think it's right, but I get it) but at the same time now that baby is all alone and in for a rough life. I hope there's extended family to take it in so it doesn't grow up in foster care.
Trying to round up all the lugenpresse into LA before setting off the big one. Clever, very clever.Journoscum at the A.V. Club having a rough week:
The A.V. Club Tells Staffers They Must Move to L.A. or Lose Their Jobs
The site's editor-in-chief broke the news yesterday, according to a recording obtained by Gawker
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You popped out a kid then abandoned it in the cold cruel insane world. You're both fucking selfish assholes.Baby orphaned after parents, both Florida deputies, take their own lives
St. Lucie County Deputy Clayton Osteen died Jan. 2 and Deputy Victoria Pacheco took her life “in the wake of Deputy Osteen’s death,” Sheriff Ken Mascara said in a statement on Tuesday.
Two Florida sheriff’s deputies with a newborn baby killed themselves within days of each other, leaving their 1-month old son an orphan, an official said.
St. Lucie County Deputy Clayton Osteen died Jan. 2 and Deputy Victoria Pacheco took her life “in the wake of Deputy Osteen’s death,” Sheriff Ken Mascara said in a statement on Tuesday.
The name of the newborn child has not been shared.Victoria Pacheco/Facebook
Clayton Ostend was a former marine who later served as a deputy in Florida.Ray Tourville/Facebook
“As sheriff, I saw these two deputies as young, ambitious, and a great compliment to my already amazing group of professionals,” Mascara said.
“To the general public, and sometimes even myself, it’s easy to view law enforcement as superhuman … but let’s not forget that they’re human just like us.”
The sheriff’s office responded to a call at just before midnight on New Year’s Eve and found that Osteen, who was off-duty, had tried to kill himself. His family removed him from life support Sunday, Mascara said.
Deputy Victoria Pacheco had taken her life days after Ostend was taken off of life support.Stevie Pacheco/Facebook
On Tuesday, the sheriff’s office learned of Pacheco’s suicide, although the sheriff didn’t specify when she died. The name of the child wasn’t shared.
“While it is impossible for us to fully comprehend the private circumstances leading up to this devastating loss, we pray that this tragedy becomes a catalyst for change, a catalyst to help ease the stigma surrounding well-being and normalize the conversation about the challenges so many of us face on a regular basis,” Mascara said.
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From the article--Journoscum at the A.V. Club having a rough week:
The A.V. Club Tells Staffers They Must Move to L.A. or Lose Their Jobs
The site's editor-in-chief broke the news yesterday, according to a recording obtained by Gawker
"Robson framed the relocation casually, almost optional. The team, he said, was “being invited” to join the Los Angeles office, where he is based."
"Robson declined to call the move mandatory. He insisted staff would “have the option to come.” They were “certainly not required,” Robson said. “But the jobs are going to be moving to L.A.”
Not so much fun when the weasel words are being used on you, is it, journoscum?
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A single engine plane has an engine failure and lands on railroad tracks in the Los Angeles suburb of Pacoima. Police try to halt rail traffic but one train is already passing through so they pull the pilot out with literally only seconds to spare.
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This pet project again. https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...ng-senate-rules-to-allow-voting-bills-to-pass
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Bodycam footage.
Officers rescue pilot seconds before train hits crashed airplane on railroad tracks
Officers pulled a pilot to safety moments before a train barreled into the downed aircraft on Sunday in Pacoima, Cal.
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Crashed Pilot Is Pulled to Safety Seconds Before Train Plows Through
Los Angeles police officers pulled the pilot of a small plane away from the tracks moments before a train smashed into it at high speed.
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I was sent this link by a friend who was scared and wanted my opinion - it's from a nice Christian man (who can't help but ramble and has trouble getting to the point) saying that he's heard from two separate US government sources that there's a coordinated deployment of National Guard units in 30 states centered around a planned power outage/loss of internet services for a presumably sinister reason. Does anyone know anything about this?
Timestamp is 6:28, when he finally gets to the general point.
Timestamp is 6:28, when he finally gets to the general point.
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This sort of schizo sperging is nothing new. Q-boomers have been going on about the "7 Days of Darkness" or whatever for like a year now. I first heard about this shit from the exterminator that works with my workplace and he was the kind of guy who was shoving badly photoshopped pictures of Hillary Clinton in black and white striped prison scrubs trying to convince me she's in Gitmo right now.