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https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-24-22-intl/h_ad7e103d301f349a5c88f77627e20317 The only thing I find "funny" is the people who thought this wasn't going to happen or that the Cold War ended!

Hey big boy - is that a crossbow in your trousers or...nope, it's a crossbow! https://www.yahoo.com/news/shopper-recorded-shoving-crossbow-sweatpants-215730364.html “You just can’t make this stuff up!” the sheriff added.

It's time to admit it: Mitt Romney was right about Russia https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/22/politics/mitt-romney-russia-ukraine/index.html "Russia, this is, without question, our number one geopolitical foe," Romney, who would be the Republican presidential nominee in the 2012 race against President Barack Obama, told Wolf Blitzer in March of that year. "They — they fight every cause for the world's worst actors." ...Obama went directly after Romney for that remark. "When you were asked, 'What's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America,' you said 'Russia.' Not al Qaeda; you said Russia," Obama said. "And, the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back, because the Cold War's been over for 20 years." I think China is actually not just the United States, but the West's #1 geopolitical foe. Russia is a close second, and Putin is a petty dictator. Bet Ukraine is sorry they gave up all their nuclear weapons...

I wish I could purchase games and say it was "only" $1000

Man gets probation for failing to return $55,000 rental vehicle https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-gets-probation-failing-return-050100423.html A Chippewa Falls man will spend three years on probation for renting a vehicle valued at $55,000 from an Eau Claire business and never returning it... A second misdemeanor count of bail jumping and a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct were dismissed but considered at sentencing. That will show him! I'm sure next time he thinks about stealing something valued at around or over $50,000 he'll say "oh no! what if I get probation again?!"

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.