Starker on 11/5/2024 at 10:44
I had not even heard about the goat, but it does fit the pattern:
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But South Dakota Democratic Senate Minority Leader Reynold Nesiba considered the disclosure more calculated than stupid. He said the story has circulated for years among lawmakers that Noem killed a dog in a “fit of anger” and that there were witnesses. He speculated that it was coming out now because Noem is being vetted as a candidate for vice president.
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Nicker on 11/5/2024 at 17:04
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The only way you could make this sound worse is if she skinned and cooked Cricket then the child found out they were eating him.
'Don't cry, Honey. Cricket's a part of you now. Forever.'
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She included the story to try and prove she's a "do the tough stuff that needs to be done" kind of leader but she misread the room, because she is a sociopath.
This.
Normal, socialized humans have a dangerous weakness for sociopaths. Every historical leader with The Great in their title was a sociopath/psychopath, responsible for the unnecessary deaths of tens of millions of people and yet they are celebrated as heroes. Unlike clueless twats such as Crusty Gnome, many are cunning and charming, disguising their sickness until they are on the throne. And if there isn't a throne for them to assume, they will destroy a country to create one.
DuatDweller on 12/5/2024 at 22:20
This reminds me of a certain African dictator having a dinner with several foreigner personalities, after dinner the dictator tells to the French minister "did you liked the meat, it was human flesh!". Eeww.
It was Bokassa I think.
heywood on 14/5/2024 at 11:46
Same governor is now banned by 6 out of 9 native tribes in S Dakota and can't set foot in 20% of her state. She's been picking fights with them since before Covid. She says Biden"s dog should be shot too. Real nice lady. Would love to see Trump pick her but he's not THAT stupid. She'd probably have to crawl in bed with him to save her political career at this point.
Starker on 21/5/2024 at 05:38
Jon Stewart on cancel culture:
[video=youtube;WwyyttqvE04]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwyyttqvE04[/video]
Azaran on 23/5/2024 at 23:35
This is blowing up. Man claims to have photographed a thylacine, which has been officially extinct for 100 years.
[video=youtube;bfSzlgRZ-Xg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfSzlgRZ-Xg[/video]
A couple of the clearer pics. The second looks suspicious, the jaw is open too far to be natural, so might be AI generated
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https://i.postimg.cc/W4NgckW9/56532111117.pngInline Image:
https://i.postimg.cc/wxy471Hf/6765875833.pngPersonally, I believe the thylacine is probably still out there (there's been too many claimed sightings), but this one's a hoax. Even the way the guy tells his story is fishy, he hesitates a lot, sounds like he's trying to make it up as he goes along
DuatDweller on 24/5/2024 at 05:32
You will never know, sometimes supposed extinct animals appear on surveillance cameras out in the wild, might be real, who knows.
Cipheron on 24/5/2024 at 16:16
Yesterday I was reading someone's comments speculating that Musk is just a con-man due to how often he'd claimed that fully self-driving Tesla cars were only a year away. Basically he's claimed that every year for almost 10 years.
Then there's his hyperloop thing, which went from Star Trek looking pods in a vacuum tube, to normal Tesla cars driving through a tunnel. The whole thing was pushed as "just around the corner" when Musk was trying to get plans scrapped for a high-speed coastal rail link in California - which is actually cost-effective because it uses existing technology from Europe and Asia, and the population density in California is high enough. But ... it would impact his car business so he had to come up with some snake oil to confuse the issue.
The of course, the cybertruck smacks of someone with too much money and control surrounded by yes men who won't tell you the idea sucks. 100% Musk was relying on his personal brand to sell the thing, and probably thinks people are stupid enough to buy it.
And on Cody's last Some More News, i found this gem:
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Elon Musk unveiled plans for a human-like robot — but the first prototype was just a guy dancing in a bodysuit
He announced he's going to make robots to take on companies like Boston Dynamics but all they could show was a person in a rubber suit, as the proof of concept. Like, at that point he's not even trying to hide how little substance there is to his claims.
Mind you all these things were back when he was the media's golden boy, before the Twitter shitstorm.
Starker on 24/5/2024 at 21:31
900k does not sound like nearly enough for what these apples did:
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A California city has agreed to pay $900,000 to a man who was subjected to a 17-hour police interrogation in which officers pressured him to falsely confess to murdering his father, who was alive.
During the 2018 interrogation of Thomas Perez Jr by police in Fontana, a city east of Los Angeles, officers suggested they would have Perez's dog euthanized as a result of his actions, according to a complaint and footage of the encounter. A judge said the questioning appeared to be “unconstitutional psychological torture”, and the city agreed to settle Perez's lawsuit for $898,000, his lawyer announced this week.
The extraordinary case of a coerced false confession has sparked widespread outrage, with footage showing Perez in extreme emotional and physical distress, including as officers brought his dog in and said the animal would need to be put down due to “depression” from witnessing a murder that had not actually occurred.
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During the interrogation, Perez Jr started pulling out his hair, hitting himself and tearing off his shirt, nearly falling to the floor, at which point the officers laughed at him and told him he was stressing his dog, the judge summarized. The footage showed him at one point lying on the floor holding on to his dog. Officers also said he would be “charged” $1m in restitution if he did not lead them to his father's body.
Eventually, detectives falsely told Perez his father's body had been located, that he was in the morgue with stab marks, Perez's complaint says. Perez then falsely confessed and was left alone in the room, where video captured him trying to hang himself.
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Perez was then transported to a hospital on an involuntary psychiatric hold and, for the first time, read his Miranda rights indicating he had a right to remain silent, the judge said. That night, one of the detectives received a call from Perez Sr's daughter, who confirmed that her father had been located and was alive.
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Steering said police did not, however, inform Perez Jr that his father was alive and instead kept him isolated in a psychiatric hold for three days while he believed both his dog and father had been killed.
Steering said detectives took the dog to a pound, but that Perez Jr was eventually able to track him down due to the dog's chip and rescue him.
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heywood on 25/5/2024 at 00:09
The cops who conducted the torture have not been prosecuted. They don't have to pay for this judgment. And as far as I can tell, so far they have not faced any disciplinary action. That is a real crime.
