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Cake day: March 13th, 2023
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1·7 days ago“smash”! Ooh ooh, exciting word, boom boom bang must clicky!
TACO time again.
So what’s he looking for, some kind of DEI preferences from the SBA?
What a clickbait piece.
“the pest control guy leading the charge” is the main figure in the article about alleged “pests”. I wonder what he thinks about them? Oh, what do you know, he has nothing good to say about the critter, who’d have thought?
The school system guy is quoted as saying the squirrel issue has been “a continuous battle for them for the last 75 years.” So this has been going on for (human) generations and is just a part of life in that region. Nothing new except the clickbait.
“Minot Air Force Base, which houses bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles” is in their backyard and if the article is to be believed, the citizenry is focused on the risks and evils of a native squirrel. If so I’d say it’s the citizenry that has their heads in the sand.
$4 off per bag seems like a fantastic deal to me. Over $12 saved on three bags, money you can plow into something else dull now, like cans of tuna or index funds. When the stores sell at such discounts, while still not losing money (I assume) on the transaction, it shows how high retail markups are.
5·14 days agoMy only interaction with UW in Spokane has been through their volunteer portal. https://www.volunteerspokane.org/ This UW portal offers a one-stop dashboard for people who want to volunteer (anywhere in the region, not with UW specifically) to hook up with nonprofits/charities that need volunteers. A lot of local orgs use this portal for outreach and volunteer communications.
I’ve no idea if the local orgs are now going to get cut off from that service or if the national UW will keep it running and maintained. If the local orgs lose access it’s going to cause a lot of pain I think - not many of them are going to have the IT skills available to replicate it or to migrate to a different volunteer platform and even if they did it will cost them money.
Desperate laborers, and, I’m guessing, no union troubles.
The approach the defense attorney seems to be taking is interesting. Seems to be leaning heavily on a “she’s just a kid, doesn’t have an adult brain yet” assertion.
Ian Bleu, who was inside the spa with his dog and a friend at the time of the incident, said Hernandez mentioned having children but never disclosed they were in the vehicle outside. Bleu described a calm atmosphere inside the business until an employee discovered one of the children in distress.
“The kid, it was like, sweating — red, purple — like, it was real bad,” Bleu said. “And then Maya walked in with the other kid and he was just, like, limp.”
Bleu told police and emergency responders that he had walked his dog near Maya’s vehicle and saw no signs that the air conditioning was running or that the windows were down, contradicting statements Hernandez reportedly made to authorities.
He also said she appeared emotionally detached as emergency crews attempted to revive the children. “She didn’t even look like she cared,” Bleu said. “We were about to cry, and the cops thought we were the parents.”
Hernandez’s defense attorney Teryl D. Wakeman urged the public not to rush to judgment, emphasizing that her client is only 20 and that the legal process is still in its early stages.
“She’s barely 20. And a charge is not a fact — it’s a charge,” the attorney said. “You would want someone to look into all the aspects of the case — medical, mental health, background — before deciding.”
Wakeman also suggested the case reflects a broader issue with how young adults are treated in the justice system, arguing that brain development continues into a person’s mid-20s.
Suicides, every one of them.
And those countries won’t accept you if they think you might be a “burden” on their social services budget/infrastructure. Young, in the prime of career, in-demand skills, maybe a job offer, or just filthy rich? OK, maybe you can get in. Maybe. But if you’re older or just a regular schmuck without any family in those countries to depend on, then probably not.
This is the first “mugshot” I’ve seen of the perp.
She killed one of her kids (and would have killed a second) to get a friggin’ anus on her face.
I hope a decent caregiver can be found for the surviving kid. That is, if he’s not brain-damaged from the heat and doesn’t have to be institutionalized for the rest of his life.
“The car was parked in a space facing west during the hottest part of the day.”
Hernandez was getting a lip filler procedure at the Always Beautiful Med Spa Sunday, according to reports. Those same reports say she didn’t check on her children until two and a half hours later.
“In a normal person, it’s not gonna happen,” said Gricelda Anaya.
Anaya works next door and saw people scrambling into the building to try to save the boys.
“What we see on the camera is that they’re trying to put cold water right here on the reception, and it was something very sad that never had to happen.”
Those scrambling people are probably going to have some kind of PTSD now too.
Oh and Dad’s in prison for some other unspecified reason.
Leaving your baby children alone in a running car … you parents out there … clue me in, but isn’t this the pinnacle of irresponsibility, even on a cool day? I thought “you don’t leave kids alone in a running car” was a widely-known and accepted principle, probably since cars were invented. Fold into that the fact that the kids would be in a hazardous environment (protected only by the integrity of the A/C system) as well as in an unprotected environment (car break ins maybe, kidnapping, crashes (even in a parking lot), battery fires …), why would anyone think it would be preferable to leave one’s kids in such a situation, when
Earlier in the day, Hernandez had texted the nurse performing her treatment to ask whether she could bring her children, to which the nurse responded, “Sure if you don’t mind them waiting in the waiting room,” according to the police report.
No, no, much more convenient to leave them in SoCal sun in a parking lot in your car, for hours. And all this just to get your duck lips. FFS.
I leave a couple of feet between the front of my Miata or Wrangler and the next car ahead. I’ve been driving since the late 70s and this is the first I’ve heard of the “botton of the tires” rule of thumb. It wasn’t taught back in the day (is it, widely, now?) and it doesn’t make much sense to me since it’s a function of the size and the shape and height of one’s vehicle, which can vary greatly, whereas I know where my front bumper is and I can (usually) clearly see where the rear of the car in front of me is, and hence create the appropriate gap. Sure, I might leave more space if I’m on a steep hill and think the person in front might have a manual (another Miata for example) but that’s rare.
Up until very recently people seemed to always keep just a couple of feet between cars at stops like I did. This business of “a car length or two” seems like a very new thing - the past 5 years mostly - and that led me to think it’s some kind of stupid new internet cancer. Probably some “influencer” telling his/her audience that you should put your dominance on display at stoplights by pissing people off and preventing them from getting through intersections. Or putting your dominance and alpha-hood on display by blocking them from getting into the turn lane at all. Anything to get attention, anything to show that you’re not (truly) a nobody, even when you are, because you have power!
I’ve only been rear-ended once in 45 years of driving. Being a d*ck on the road in order to (allegedly) absolutely f-ing MAXIMIZE your own self-perceived “safety” (from highly unlikely events) at the expense of everyone else is a totally modern-American sort of thing to do I guess. But I’m not doing it.
Though, of course, don’t use them until you’re already halfway through the turn or lane change. It’s not like the signal is to show your intention, it’s to assert that You Had The Right Goddamn It to have just made that abrupt and dangerous maneuver that you just made. You signaled, so all’s OK, you’re in the right, no matter what happens.
Me, no. Corpo Amerika absolutely if it’s profitable and low-risk. So which Lemmy “community” is the one where these corps are being ID’d (with all crowdsourced supporting evidence) and named and shamed?
senior vice president of environmental health at the Natural Resources Defense Council, blasted the Trump administration
“Blasted”. Not criticized. Not denounced. Big 'splosions boom boom fire click here.
Here in Spokane we’re showing off our second-ratedness again. Can’t even have a proper mass shooting: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/jul/04/false-report-of-shooting-scatters-crowd-of-thousan/ .
Flocks of panicked people fled Riverfront Park late Friday after false reports of an active shooter quickly spread through the crowd.
The fear in the crowd apparently was sparked by a misunderstanding of an “altercation” near the Clocktower, Spokane police said in a news release. Officers initially were told a gun may have been seen but no shots were fired. When they contacted a male believed to be involved, he was unarmed and “no victim came forward.” No arrests were made. And police found no evidence a shot was fired.
By the time fireworks restarted before 10:30 p.m., there was only a scattering of people left. Even many of those still in the park who knew the report was false were no longer in the mood for patriotic revelry and continued to leave.
Spokanistanians are clearly dying for a world-class patriotic mass shooting with all the panic and fallout, but no deal, just disappointment. Idaho is currently stealing all the attention with the recent ambush and murders of wildlands firefighters.
1·22 days agoThat little image of the bald, earless, eyeless head talking into a bullhorn is hilarious.
What’s all this about buying now and paying later?
Don’t do that.
I haven’t given a thought to my “credit score” in decades. I hope that means that it’s tanked due to the unimaginable, unearthly, inhuman crime of not routinely borrowing money.