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Gil Bang

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  1. 22 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    I had one recently and have to go back soon.  I got there early and did some meditation/breathing exercises.  And then put together a quick playlist of soothing songs I had on my phone to have playing nearby.  Of course, nurse says the cell signal could interfere with the machine's whatever.  So I said, "I'll put it on airplane mode."  And she was just baffled, like "Oh, I've never thought of that before.  Okay, go ahead sir."  I thought, "You can see from the imaging, I'm fucking brain-damaged and I came up with an idea for keeping patients calm, instead of you the expert?"   And serious tip-bring a sleep mask or something similar.  The light isn't blinding, but it literally masks whatever "closed-in" feeling you may perceive even with your eyes shut.  

    who the fuck allowed a metallic device to be near a giant magnet?

  2. 6 hours ago, HiggyBaby said:

    Anyone with MRI anxiety knows the dread of 20+ minutes in the tube. I need to go in and get my shoulder done.
    Short of popping a xanax or valium before going in and endangering my career (random drug tests), what are some good options to relax? I'm thinking a couple Benadryl. Any herbal stuff that works and won't pop on a drug panel?

    Tell you doctor that you're nervous and get a RX for the valium/Xanax.  Your work can't do shit about a prescription drug. 

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  3. rumors are flying that Ippei is negotiating a plea deal...that he was able to turn off notifications so Shoehei wouldn't see the wire transfers from his account.  

  4. so there's a video out of Benji's old girlfriend Alissa Jordano, and she's smacking a guy around for money.  He's got some humiliation kink or some weird shit, and he gets pissed and fights back. 

  5. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I'm not gonna take the time to catch up on this thread, but regarding John Lennon:  he was a helluva rock singer.  Guitar?  Eh.  Songwriting?  Great, but topped by Paul and George.  No shame there.

    He deserves guitar props just for "All my Loving".  That strum is a motherfucker. 

  6. 6 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    La Jolla is one of my and my wife's favorite places. But man. Best have a net worth of 20 million to sniff anything around there. Condo's cost several million, plus the HOA fees. Woof. 

    That's some straight-up bullshit.   The most expensive condo in La Jolla right now is 6.2.   The next most expensive is 2.78.   There are several that can be had in the 1,000,000 to 1.5 range. 

    I'm not saying that it's not a shitload of money, but "several million" is just inaccurate.   But i'm just a San Diego Realtor.  What the fuck do I know?

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  7. necro bump

     

    I don't know shit about fuck about VPN's.

    In the last year, I switched my ISP from the cable company to T-Mobile.  It's a lot cheaper, and works just as well if not better. 

    Since the MLB season started, I've been frustrated that the MLB network has blacked out all Angels and Dodgers games.  I called the MLB network, and they said it's because T mobile shows my location as Los Angeles (I'm close to San Diego). 

    I called T mobile and they said that they can't do shit to fix it.  It connects where ever it connects.   The T mobile dude told me to get a VPN.   

    This thread is old, so can somebody recommend a good, affordable VPN and explain to this idiot how to change my location to San Diego (or Wichita, or Amarillo, or wherever?   Wait, not Amarillo...I like porn.  

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  8. CNN — 

    Conservative activists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman have agreed to pay $1 million to the New York attorney general’s office and others for running a voter suppression campaign targeting Black voters during the 2020 election.

    The deal announced Tuesday by state Attorney General Letitia James represents the latest punishment the pair will face for orchestrating a broad voter suppression campaign four years ago that used robocalls to spread election-related misinformation to Black voters and others in an effort to discourage voting.

    A federal judge found the two men liable last year for targeting Black voters in New York, saying in a lengthy ruling that they “set into motion a full-scale voter suppression operation during the summer of 2020 to discourage eligible voters from voting by targeting mail-in voting in the 2020 Election.”

    Under the deal reached by Wohl and Burkman with James’ office, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and several individual plaintiffs, the two men have agreed to pay a $1 million judgment to those parties, according to the attorney general. If the pair “fail to pay at least $105,000 by December 31, 2024, and do not address the failure to pay within 30 days, the amount will increase to $1.25 million,” James’ office said.

    “Wohl and Burkman orchestrated a depraved and disinformation-ridden campaign to intimidate Black voters in an attempt to sway the election in favor of their preferred candidate,” James said in a statement. “My office will always defend the right to vote.”

    A judge must still approve the agreement.

    David Schwartz, an attorney for Wohl and Burkman, said his clients are satisfied with the settlement and are “pleased to put this case behind them, so they can focus on their families and careers.”

    As part of their voter suppression campaign in New York, Wohl and Burkman targeted Black voters in the state through robocalls “falsely claiming that voting by mail would cause the voter to be tracked for outstanding warrants, credit card debt, and mandatory vaccines,” James’ office said. An estimated 5,500 people received the calls.

    According to James’ office, the script of one such call told recipients in part: “Mail-in voting sounds great, but did you know that if you vote by mail, your personal information will be part of a public database that will be used by police departments to track down old warrants and be used by credit card companies to collect outstanding debts?”

    Wohl and Burkman have previously faced penalties for running similar schemes elsewhere during the 2020 election. In 2022, an Ohio judge ordered the two men to spend 500 hours registering low- and middle-income voters in the Washington, DC, area after authorities in Ohio accused them of running a voter suppression campaign in multiple states.

    And in 2021, the Federal Communications Commission proposed a record $5 million fine against them after an investigation found they appeared to have violated US robocalling laws.

    Other criminal charges against Wohl and Burkman are pending in Michigan.

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