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  1. It'll prob be taken down soon. Crazy how one bad chip can lead to a train wreck.
  2. I guess the moral of the story is, if you are going to fake rob someone in public, maybe expect to get real shot.
  3. "Bike lanes house the homeless." That makes no got damned sense but hits all the feels and will get him re-elected for sure.
  4. China deserves all the shit they get. But one thing is for sure, China mass manufacturing keeps prices low, except when asshole corporations inflate the fuck out of prices because some assholes need their $40M annual bonus. I've never purchased anything from Temu. I see their ads all over the net, especially on Instagram. I've perused the site every now and then. They offer fantastically cheap prices for shit that most people don't need but will buy just because it's so cheap. Hence this article... https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/temu-victims-parents-kids-bargain-shopping-ca25ef93?st=tmpfgz0vuohmywu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink LaTonya Mullins-Mobley was surfing the web for Arizona Cardinals gear when she stumbled across an ad for Temu, the Chinese online-marketplace app known for ultra-discounts. She couldn’t believe the low prices. These days, Mullins-Mobley, who is 53 and works for a cellphone carrier, jokes that she’s “having an affair” with the app. She buys clothing, including T-shirts with Bible quotes for her daughter. She started a sunglasses company, picking up pairs from Temu for $3 and selling them for around $15. Her 19-year-old-daughter, Angeline Mobley, isn’t impressed. Angeline recently made a TikTok in which she begged viewers to take the Temu app away from her mother, actually, any mother, “expeditiously. ASAP. Stat.” She hit a chord. “My mom bought 57 of the same spatulas bc they were .03,” one commenter commiserated. The app is a particular hit with older shoppers—a development that is spawning a new genre of family friction. Gen Z’ers are roasting their moms, dads, grandmothers and uncles as “Temu victims,” saying they are buying cheap and sometimes useless stuff from the site. In March, Temu’s fastest-growing demographic was the 55 to 64 set. Sales attributed to that age group grew 271% since last March, according to Earnest Analytics. Temu is expected to spend nearly $3 billion on advertising this year, according to JPMorgan. As in most bargain shopping, Temu regulars say part of the appeal is stumbling across items they—or anyone—could probably do just fine without. “You’ve lived your life without that pasta spoon rest, but then you see it and you’re like, ‘Wow, that’s genius and it’s only 98 cents, and it’s cute,’ so you need it,” says Chaunda Thompson, a 44-year-old marine shipyard painter in Newport News, Va.
  5. Wife: What do you need from Costco? Me: $10,000 in gold and silver, please. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/costco-gold-bar-sales-inflation-silver-coins-2024/ The warehouse club has seen a spike in sales ever since it began selling 1-ounce bars of 24-karat gold last September. With the gold bullion selling out faster than the store could replenish its stock, the discount giant in January added silver coins to its offerings of precious metals. According to a recent estimate from Wells Fargo, the members-only retailer now sells $100 million to $200 million worth of gold and silver a month. The burgeoning business comes as the price of gold is reaching new heights. Sales have climbed partly because of "Costco's aggressive pricing and high level of customer trust," Edward Kelly, a Wells Fargo equity analyst, said in a research note. "The accelerating frequency of Reddit posts, quick online sell-outs of product, and Costco's robust monthly eCommerce sales suggests a sharp uptick in momentum since the launch."
  6. YOLO! Yes, you do only live once. https://abcnews.go.com/US/21-year-skier-dies-high-risk-stunt-jump/story?id=109123538 21-year-old skier dies in 'high-risk' stunt trying to jump over US highway Investigators say he 'unfortunately lacked the necessary speed and distance.' A 21-year-old man has died while attempting to perform a “high-risk skiing stunt” trying to jump the width of a U.S. highway in Colorado, authorities say. The incident occurred on Tuesday at approximately 3 p.m. when the Grand County Communications Center in Colorado received a 911 call regarding a skiing accident on Highway 40, just west of Berthoud Pass Summit about reports of a 21-year-old male skier who was found “unconscious and not breathing,” according to a statement from the Grand County Sheriff’s Office released on Wednesday. “The preliminary investigation revealed that the victim was attempting to perform a high-risk skiing stunt by trying to clear the width of Highway 40 and unfortunately lacked the necessary speed and distance and subsequently landed on the highway pavement,” authorities said. “The victim had been wearing a helmet and other protective gear.”
  7. The families got no justice. Not sure if they ever saw a penny from the civil suit. He looked like he lived his years carefree and with plenty of money.
  8. Good news. Watson is running for re-election. I can't name one fucking thing that was accomplished from his current tenure. I guess the good news is that he didn't open the city to become a giant homeless camping free for all. Our expectations are real low at this point. Campaign slogan: "I haven't done shit. Please re-elect me!" https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/get-things-done-austin-mayor-kirk-watson-officially-announces-run-for-reelection/ AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin Mayor Kirk Watson is officially running for reelection, he announced Wednesday. The mayor had previously told KXAN that was his intent. “It was always the plan to run for reelection. It’s just that I also wanted to get some things done that needed to be done — in my view — to keep up our momentum at city hall,” Watson said in an interview with KXAN prior to the announcement. One of those things, finding a permanent city manager. “We landed that plane and taxied it to the gate last week and so it’s now time to move on to other things.”
  9. When they ban Pop Tarts, only criminals will have Pop Tarts. https://www.fox7austin.com/news/man-assaults-employee-with-pop-tarts-austin-texas.amp According to arrest documents, a store employee accused Steele of shoplifting, leading to an argument between the two in the parking lot. Police said video captured the moment the altercation escalated and Steele threw Pop-Tarts at the employee, hitting them in the collar bone and causing minor injury. Steele remains in jail on a $1,500 bond.
  10. Great post! If our benchmark is Brooks, it would be interesting to Brook's breakdown of the same stats and then compare all three.
  11. Are these fake fucksticks doing this bullshit for free school lunch bills? What about health care bills? Party of life my fucking ass.
  12. The last 3 or 4 hurricanes which rolled through Texas haven't produced shit in the way of significant rain for the Hill Country. The bands lose energy this far inland.
  13. When your customer base is on the low end of the income bracket, you're gonna get some poor people antics.
  14. https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/sierra-leone-declares-emergency-after-addicts-dig-up-graves-to-get-high-on-drug-made-from-human-bones-5403843 A psychoactive drug crafted from human bones is leaving addicts in the West African country of Sierra Leone digging up graves in order to get their fix. According to the BBC, this haunting menace has forced Sierra Leone to declare a national emergency. Police officers in Freetown are guarding cemeteries to thwart the disturbing practice of exhuming skeletons for the "Zombie" drug production. Notably, the drug, dubbed "kush", is made from a variety of toxic substances, with one of its main ingredients being ground-up human bone. The narcotic first emerged in the West African country around six years ago. According to the outlet, it induces a hypnotic high which can last several hours. The drug has become a widespread problem and dealers have reportedly turned into grave robbers, breaking into thousands of tombs to steal skeletons to keep up with the demands.
  15. Well, I guess he found out. Sucks that the pigs can't talk to tell us the answer.
  16. GOP is pro-life is the biggest crock of shit ever. They vote against everything which would make people's lives easier. They don't care about babies after they are born. They don't care about providing extra benefits to new mothers and families like health care or child care. They just want to push their bullshit fake christian agenda to make women baby factories. After they mom's give birth, fuck them.
  17. Didn't the Texas State kid disappear during the Icestorm or an inclement weather thing? Fog? Theory is he got lost/stuck in his car on his way back home in Luling, got out of the car, and wandered off road, got lost in some field, and died somewhere. The car was found just a block from the turn onto 183.
  18. Isn't Baker Mayfield is an alumni of that high school? I guess that program produces douchebags. Must be in the water there.
  19. Don't only bring a nerf gun to a nerf gun flight. This is a real America, Fuck Yeah! story. Fucking tragic except stupid shit with guns happens pretty much everyday. In what other country would a teenager 1. have free access to a hand gun and 2. pull it out during nerf gun fight to "look cool". Porn corrupts the mind and must be banned but guns are symbols of mah freedum. Fucking pathetic. https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/13-year-old-dies-phoenix-teen-pulls-out-real-gun-during-nerf-gun-fight/75-34106ecc-afef-479e-af3b-790a2f2ab357 PHOENIX — A 13-year-old boy was fatally shot Sunday in Phoenix after a young man pulled out a firearm while playing with toy guns, police said. Earlric Reynolds sustained a fatal gunshot wound while he and Adolfo Villalva, 18, were playing with Nerf guns yesterday afternoon near 7th Avenue and Hatcher Road. Villalva allegedly told police he pulled out a real gun during the game and mistakenly fired the weapon at the 13-year-old, police said. Villalva and others then moved Reynolds to the apartment complex's parking lot and Villalva hid the firearm before officers arrived on scene. Reynolds later died at the hospital. Court records show Villalva allegedly told investigators his mother keeps a gun under the seat of her car. The teenager allegedly took the gun and placed it in his pocket because it "looked cool." Villalva indicated he was handling the Nerf toy gun and the real gun at the same time while playing around with Reynolds. While pointing both objects at the 13-year-old, Villalva said he pulled what he thought was the toy's trigger but actually pulled the firearm's trigger. Police have taken Villalva into custody and he's facing charges of manslaughter and evidence tampering.
  20. Benjamin Franklin: 'Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.' Mei Huang Wolfe: 'Guests, like fish, need to die after three days.' https://www.ibtimes.sg/texas-judges-wife-allegedly-shoots-nephew-dead-overstaying-his-welcome-their-home-74168#google_vignette The wife of a Texas judge has been charged with murder after allegedly fatally shooting her nephew. Mei Huang Wolfe, the 48-year-old wife of Harris County Justice of the Peace Bob Wolfe, was arrested and charged with murder on April 5, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez shared on X (formerly Twitter). The fatal shooting happened at the Wolfes' home on April 4 around 10 p.m., a spokesperson for the Harris County Sheriff's Office revealed to People. Officers responded to the scene after Bob called 911 to alert authorities that his wife had shot his nephew during a dispute, police said. Medical personnel attempted to treat the nephew, identified by police as 40-year-old James Wolfe II, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. Bob was home when the incident occurred, along with the nephew and Mei Huang's adult daughter, police confirmed to ABC affiliate KTRK-TV. According to the sheriff's office, the argument was part of "ongoing feud" between the nephew and Mei Huang while both of them lived in the house. "The ongoing issues between the two concluded this evening after the suspect retrieved a weapon and pointed it at the complainant and fired one shot striking him in the upper torso," police told People in a statement. "Her husband had attempted to stop her and to get the gun away from her but was unsuccessful." Shortly after James' death, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez used preliminary information to determine that the dispute had occurred because Mei Huang felt he had overstayed his welcome in her and Bob's home. "It may have been a situation where the female homeowner felt that he wasn't welcome anymore and a disturbance broke out over that," the sheriff said, according to CBS affiliate KHOU.
  21. So basically a Tuesday in New Orleans...
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