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Lindholm explained that he used a heat pack to try to thaw out his appendage once the race was over. "When the body parts started to warm up after the finish, the pain was unbearable," he added.

One of my good friends who is in the Boston area has had a six-figure salary (granted a "low" six-figure salary) for years, and he is completely priced out of not just Boston proper but suburbs such as Cambridge (which was always expensive) and Somerville (which used to be totally affordable)! Condos are millions of dollars...

https://time.com/6149784/rent-u-s/ In the 50 largest U.S. metro areas, median rent rose an astounding 19.3% from December 2020 to December 2021, according to a Realtor.com analysis of properties with two or fewer bedrooms. And nowhere was the jump bigger than in the Miami metro area, where the median rent exploded to $2,850, 49.8% higher than the previous year. Things have gotten so bad in Boston, which has nearly overtaken San Francisco as the nation’s second-most expensive rental market, that one resident went viral for jokingly putting an igloo on the market for $2,700 a month. “Heat/ hot water not included,” Jonathan Berk tweeted. Yup, Boston is absolutely bat-shit crazy. Honestly, due to the very limited housing market, I would NOT recommend anyone to move to that disaster zone. A record 18.2% of U.S home purchases in the third quarter of 2021 were made by businesses or institutions, according to Redfin, as investors targeted Atlanta, Phoenix, Miami, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Jacksonville, Florida — popular destinations for people relocating from pricier cities. Yup, these huge companies with lots of investment money are purchasing houses and just sitting on them. They're screwing everyone over... except for the politicians of course.

Las Vegas woman gets prison in death of elderly man she shoved off bus https://www.yahoo.com/news/las-vegas-woman-gets-prison-075757981.html A Las Vegas woman was sentenced to eight to 20 years in prison Friday in the death of a 74-year-old man she shoved out the door of a bus in 2019. "I’m sorry for the way that I was portrayed in my lowest and weakest moment of my life," she said. "The way that I’ve been portrayed, it’s just not fair for somebody who’s never been in trouble before." Typical narcissistic bullshit from entitled worthless shit! She killed a man, and then says what's not fair is how she is portrayed! I hope she rots, she deserves far far worse than the tiny jail sentence handed to this disgusting excuse for a human.

“The scene was extremely chaotic, and a number of witnesses were uncooperative with responding officers,” Homicides in Portland last year surpassed more populous cities such as San Francisco and Boston — and was more than double the number of slayings in its larger Pacific Northwest neighbor Seattle. Yeah... so who's surprised. Bueller? Bueller?

I would love to hear your opinion on Eyra

I really wonder if some sellers think they're being clever? or marketing correctly? or...? In my mind, this seller is pure douchebag! How much are these games worth? $50, $75 - something like that. I personally avoid any and all business with people that inflate their prices to truly bat-shite crazy levels.

Olympic figure skater Kamila Valieva was failed by the system, adults https://sports.yahoo.com/olympic-figure-skater-kamila-valieva-was-failed-by-the-system-adults-170245056.html Well written article. To Valieva, you'd imagine, this kid who, no matter the laughable defense of Russian lawyers, didn't get hopped up on heart pills by accident via her grandpa's stash. And she sure didn't, all by her sheltered self, acquire, concoct and then ingest a sophisticated cardiac cocktail of three separate medications — one of them banned by the World Anti Doping Agency. Russian coaches. Russian doctors. Russian officials. That's who put this kind of stuff together. That's who administers it, not some naive teen who's lived nearly her entire life inside the cocoon of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia, built, by all means necessary, to be a champion. The IOC is proud that it outsourced all discipline, doping or otherwise. It would rather just wash its hands and cash the checks. What is left behind is left behind, like some useless, dilapidated bobsled track in Sarajevo. It's just the cost of the Games, the cost of doing business.

Great game! Classic LucasArts back when they made games... sigh available at iam8bit

The only way to stop trolls is to stop feeding them...

Rescuers spot a head sticking out of frozen Indiana lake Kudos to them for doing the right thing! Sadly, the rescuee did not even say "thank you"... what a dummy!

During a clemency hearing in December, Postelle did not deny his involvement in the Memorial Day 2005 shooting deaths of James Alderson, Terry Smith, Donnie Swindle and Amy Wright. But Postelle’s attorney, Robert Nance, argued that his client suffered from a learning disability, the abandonment of his mother at a young age and had begun abusing methamphetamine on a nearly daily basis beginning at age 12. “He’s a different man than he was,” Nance told the Pardon and Parole Board. “I think he needs a certain amount of forgiveness because he grew up in an environment that was almost exclusively negative.” It's easy for an attorney who is getting paid lots of $$$ to say things such as "forgiveness...different person" but I wonder how this attorney would react if it was HIS wife or brother or family member that was brutally killed! I do not see this person as having any chance at all at rehabilitation. I do not see such a person as ever contributing anything to society.

I personally think it's a cool footnote in video game history

Just when you think this tool couldn't get any more useless... he opens his mouth.

Skier Valentyna Kaminska Suspended From Beijing Olympics After Testing Positive for Doping https://news.yahoo.com/skier-valentyna-kaminska-suspended-beijing-181400854.html Ukrainian cross-country skier ...oh, I see the problem. She's not Russian, the IOC can't let this one slide.

Which reminds me, if anyone is interested, both are available for trade

@MrWunderful called it - although most of the money is Canadian in origin Hackers Just Leaked the Names of 92,000 ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donors https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7wpax/freedom-convoy-givesendgo-donors-leaked While some of the donors did not provide their names—such as the person behind the current top donation of $215,000—the vast majority did provide them, including American software billionaire Thomas Siebel, who donated $90,000 to the “freedom convoy.” Analysis of the leaked data by extremism researcher Amarnath Amarasingam shows that while the majority of donors come from the U.S. (56%) and Canada (29%), there are also thousands of donations from overseas, including the U.K., Australia, and Ireland. Despite over 15,000 more donations flooding in from the U.S., Canadian donors out-raised Americans by almost $1 million, bringing in $4.3 million compared to $3.6 million, Amarasingam reported.

Russia cheating? NO... not Putin's country, can't be

I remember hearing about this... what a travesty that it took EIGHT freakin' years to bring this trigger-happy ass to trial! Lawyers for Reeves, meanwhile, will argue that their client felt threatened by Oulson, who they say was angry and obstructive, and threw what Reeves believed was a cellphone at his head. In an appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America in 2014, shortly after the shooting, Nicole Oulson said her husband was checking for messages from their babysitter before the movie started, and planned to put the phone away when Reeves confronted them. I hope this piece of trash rots!

This movie (based on a short story) needs a reboot!! Death Race 2050

Looking for Turbo Duo games for trade And, well, many other games too! See first post.

Pedestrian Deaths Spike in U.S. as Reckless Driving Surges https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/us/pedestrian-deaths-pandemic.html Going into the pandemic, some traffic specialists were optimistic that pedestrian deaths would decline. After all, millions of motorists were slashing their driving time and hewing to social distancing measures. The opposite happened. Crashes killed more than 6,700 pedestrians in 2020, up about 5 percent from the estimated 6,412 the year before, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association. Based on another commonly used road safety metric — vehicle miles traveled — the group projected that the pedestrian fatality rate spiked about 21 percent in 2020 as deaths climbed sharply even though people drove much less that year, the largest ever year-over-year increase. And preliminary data from 2021 indicates yet another increase in the number of pedestrian deaths. Angie Schmitt, who describes pedestrian deaths as a “silent epidemic” in a new book, said the reasons included an aging population, in which older pedestrians are more vulnerable, and the growth of the Sun Belt region, where cities were designed after World War II to prioritize speed over safety. And ballooning sizes of S.U.V.s and trucks, which have grown heavier with higher front ends, strike people on foot with greater force than before. AND, people - especially young people, feel they can get away with this. Sadly, too often they do.