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Guy embezzled $1.2 million worth of fajitas.

http://www.krgv.com/story/36610783/f...ita-theft-case
     
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Yoga pants?
     
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seeing them makes him uncomfortable.
     
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That makes me uncomfortable.

Is that a bieber?
     
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Googling that, I noticed that Bieber actually has
I IX VII V tattooed on his shoulder, which, I take it, is the moron's way of writing MCMLXXV?

Talk about random ridiculousness.
     
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Originally Posted by subego View Post
reading that as Cardiff not calif made that 1000% weirder for a moment.
This space for Hire! Reasonable rates. Reach an audience of literally dozens!
     
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Are you a Trump supporter, looking for a good time?

Ecstasy pills seized in Indiana. With Trump on one side, and "Great Again" on the other. Let the good great times roll.
     
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There goes the neighborhood!
     
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Gotta admit I've never heard of Amazon delivering on a Sunday (I selected their basic Free Shipping, non-Prime).

Also got a steal on an ANKER wireless charger w/adapter included, so I'll check that out later.
It's annoying to me that they'll deliver on a Sunday, but if I order something "Prime" on a Thursday morning they think it's okay to deliver it the following Tuesday and that still counts as Prime.
     
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Sunday rolled out here about 4 or 5 years ago. It was a bit of a mess.

I was using one of those places where you send all your packages and they deliver to you when you’re home in the evening.

They were open on Sunday, in the sense they would deliver to you, but weren’t expecting to need someone there at 9 in the morning to receive packages.

No more places that deliver to me anymore, so I use a PO box at the UPS store. Since I have to actually drag my ass out there to get stuff, that adds enough of a delay I’ve lost track of how prompt Prime is.
     
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Yes people, this great wisdom comes straight out of the ass of the World Health Organization...
Get ready for this:
Internet gaming is a mental disorder

Er, yeah — it can be qualified as a mental disorder in exactly the same way that drinking beer may qualify as a mental disorder.

You may not be aware of it, but: Addictions are kinda real, and addictive behaviour patterns aren’t a function of the particular substance/tool used to execute them.

Starbucks and American Airlines are getting rid of plastic straws.
Corporations finally banning plastic straws seems “ridiculous” to you? Have you had your head stuck in a dead sea tortoise’s shell for the past few years to be so out of the loop?
     
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The fact that you are not addicted to video games does not mean others cannot be.

It's ok to start new threads for new topics. It might get more attention that way. I'd be interested in a recycling thread, lots of buzz about these straws.
     
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Video gaming as a classified addiction IS ridiculous. I played tons of video games growing up (Tetris, Super Mario, Zelda, various racing games), and I built A LOT of 3D spatial reasonability ability from it to help me visualize and understand complex problems.



I never said that. It was just something random and interesting to post.

You assumed (FALSELY) that everything that I posted in much of this thread fell under the general scope of ridiculous. Did you ever take a moment to question your assumption that maybe some of the stuff that I post is just random, or cool, or interesting, but doesn't really need its own huge thread?
As per the thread title: no, it did not occur to me.

Apologies for assuming that you were being on-topic.



And as for your direct personal insult, and reoccurring negative attitude at me, I've had enough of it.
Again: given the context of this thread, it seemed like an exceedingly stupid thing to post.
     
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That is both random AND ridiculous.

Well done.
     
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How do you get a cat to sit still, to put something back there? And how to avoid the claws?
     
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If that’s a serious question, I’d imagine it’s similar to taking a cat’s temperature. You double-team it.
     
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Remake of the Robocop dick shooting scene, with added, gratuitous, realistic, point blank exposed dick shooting.

https://vimeo.com/86014703
     
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Remake of the Robocop dick shooting scene, with added, gratuitous, realistic, point blank exposed dick shooting.

https://vimeo.com/86014703
     
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Beat me by 10 minutes.

     
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Judging by Reddit, the entire internet flipped on him over the last two days.

I mean, he already had detractors, but it suddenly became everyone.
     
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I've been seeing a steady bleed for months. I knew I should have dumped by Tesla stock at $350 last week.
     
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This was the red flag two months ago: https://nypost.com/2018/05/24/elon-m...ist-newspaper/
     
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Just another rich guy needing people to grovel at his genius or else his feelings get hurt.
     
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I've been seeing a steady bleed for months. I knew I should have dumped by Tesla stock at $350 last week.
Haven’t been looking at stock prices, but I’d say early this year was when people started to put his “unbridled optimism” about Tesla’s manufacturing capacity into the “lies” category.

However, that was business. The last couple days have been personal.
     
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Haven’t been looking at stock prices, but I’d say early this year was when people started to put his “unbridled optimism” about Tesla’s manufacturing capacity into the “lies” category.

However, that was business. The last couple days have been personal.
Yes, I'm mixing categories.
     
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Just another rich guy needing people to grovel at his genius or else his feelings get hurt.
See: Dunning-Kruger Effect
     
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar View Post
See: Dunning-Kruger Effect
How so? It seems that he’s pretty good at (eventually) achieving what he announces, no?

I see no issues with unawareness of incompetence.
     
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I figured this would rub most of his crowd the wrong way too:

Elon Musk donated nearly $40K to Republican PAC, filings show
     
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perhaps he was on ambien
     
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Both SpaceX and Tesla are based in California. As of a month or two ago, recreational weed is fully legal.
     
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Originally Posted by Jawbone54 View Post
I figured this would rub most of his crowd the wrong way too:

Elon Musk donated nearly $40K to Republican PAC, filings show
He's donating to everyone. Unless the balance is lopsided, it's not noteworthy to me.
     
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Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot View Post
How so? It seems that he’s pretty good at (eventually) achieving what he announces, no?

I see no issues with unawareness of incompetence.
It's about him condescending to journalists and scuba specialists. Thinking because he's so great at his field he knows more than professionals in other fields.
     
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MGM is suing the people who got shot at their casino is some kind of pre-emptive lawsuit
     
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IIUC, it’s not for damages, which is certainly what I think of when I hear “sue”.

Not exactly the best optics though.
     
 
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