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Dropped today on MAX. They used to call it HBO but that was too popular. Worthy of it's own thread. Behold the defiler!
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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/26/facebook-on-pace-for-biggest-one-day-loss-in-value-for-any-company-sin.html Facebook on Thursday posted the largest one-day loss in market value by any company in U.S. stock market history after releasing a disastrous quarterly report. The social media giant's market capitalization plummeted by $119 billion to $510 billion as its stock price plummeted by 19 percent. At Wednesday's close, Facebook's market cap had totaled nearly $630 billion, according to FactSet. No company in the history of the U.S. stock market has ever lost $100 billion in market value in just one day, but two came close. https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/facebook-market-cap-120-billion-user-growth-slow-1202886792/ The stock drop, to its lowest levels in nearly three months, wiped out nearly $120 billion in market capitalization for Facebook and dragged down other internet and tech stocks including Twitter and Snap. Facebook’s market cap was $629 billion at market close Wednesday, and ended the day Thursday at around $510 billion. The massive drop in market value represented the biggest single-day decline in history for any publicly held company, according to Thomson Reuters data. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth plummeted more than $15 billion with the stock dive, although it’s still around $67 billion, according to Forbes’ real-time net worth tracker. What drove the selloff: Investor concern about Facebook’s growth cooling down. Facebook’s daily active users for the second quarter of 2018 were effectively flat in the U.S. sequentially, and even declined in Europe compared with Q1 — marking the first time the company has seen such a decline in recent quarters. The big story from the earnings report was the forecast that revenue will decelerate in the second half of 2018, Pivotal Research analyst Brian Wieser wrote in a research note. “[W]hile the company is still growing at a fast clip, the days of 30%+ [revenue] growth are numbered,” he wrote.
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South Africa didn’t want to be left out of the protest and riot games. The new president arrested the old president and kicked off widespread unrest. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_South_Africa_unrest Civilians have taken up arms against the rioters as the police have told them they are on their own Videos are all over Twitter and YouTube Lady rocking the gauge Wild times
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Didn't see a thread about this and think this is a topic worth discussing. Widespread violence in that country related to the midterms. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/man-tosses-severed-head-at-voting-station-as-mexicos-midterm-election-violence-rages/ar-AAKLGdD?ocid=uxbndlbing
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I won’t claim to know anything of substance about their politics or culture but looks like gas price hikes have caused some unrest.
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I was trying to cut over from Dean Keaton to MLK on San Jacinto then tried Robert Deadman around 10:30 this morning Both streets are blocked off by DPS, Fire and EMS etc.....
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Prenote: Anyone can use this thread to provide random information about the misc goings on in their life I'll go back to last Thursday to start, before I jump to today, soon after I woke up I realized that I couldn't pee. I felt like I wanted to pee, but nothing came out. A few hours into this I called my Urologist, and the office said I could get an appointment the first week of December, which didn't seem like it would really be helpful but they could have a nurse call me back and so I went onto that list. By about 10:30 I was in Urgent Care, and they really couldn't tell me anything, so I got an anti-biotic prescription called and they said go to the ER if you are still in pain (actually more like pressure, a lot of pressure). Thankfully the nurse called back and they could see me just after 3pm, now this is about 10 hours after I had woken up and still no more than 2-3 drips at a time, and I try to pee like every 10 minutes. So we get to the Urologist office (short sidebar - at least I wasn't in manacles and leg chains, like 2 older guys who were there with Corrections officers - and the nurse ultrasounds by bladder and says it is over 1 liter and they will put in a catheter. Well she can't get the first catheter past the blockage to my bladder, so she goes off for the 2nd catheter and to let the doctor in the office know we are having problems. Thankfully the 2nd catheter gets almost all of the way in, not far enough to inflate the balloon, but enough to start to drain the urine. And that was almost instant relief, and with the lessor stress on the bladder she and her aide are able to get the balloon inflated and a successful insertion of my new best friend - Mr Catheter. Total urine that they were able to drain (yes they measured) was just over 1200 milliliters (1.2 liters or just over 40 ozs for those of you non-metric centric types) Jump to today, after seeing my Urologist on Monday, they finally got back to me this morning and I am now scheduled to have a prostate resection on Tuesday afternoon. I've been diagnosed with an enlarged prostate for about 10 year, had 3 biopsies (all cancer free), and been on medicine for almost 2 years (FloMax). My Dr said if it all goes well it will take 2-3 days to recover and be back to peeing by myself, and if there are complications it can be 2-3 weeks and include getting a new Mr. Catheter. Things to know - if you are of an older age (and really you will know when it is you), then you need to have a urologist, so there is someone to call when you have a problem. Otherwise, I'd have had to talk to someone I'd never met about having this procedure. I'm not going to lie, having a prostate biopsy is no walk in the park - they are shooting a needle into your prostate with a device that they shove up your ass. No anesthesia, no drinks, no bullet; maybe just a mild numbing agent. And then you piss & shit (and cum) blood for a day or more. But then you will, maybe, know if you have prostate cancer. - it hurts when you pee then you have a problem; what I found out is that it can hurt to not pee. - a catheter is by no means a modern device, and the elastic straps with little buttons that are supposed to keep in place must have been invented in the 1930's. If you need a cath, look at buying some velco straps to hold it into place or a sleeve for you leg as a bag holder (I don't know how well this work, as I don't have the ones I ordered yet) But most importantly #GoGreen beat Michigan (I mean let's keep thing in perspective tl:dr - Wally is old, can't pee right, is having surgery but had 2 young women working on his junk last week
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https://news.yahoo.com/black-lives-matter-suspends-online-185305692.html Black Lives Matter suspended online fundraising on Wednesday after attorneys general in California and Washington state asked the group to submit delinquent financial disclosures for 2020, according to a report. A Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) spokesperson told the Washington Examiner, which first reported the move, that the group takes “these matters seriously” and has “taken immediate action.” “We have immediately engaged compliance counsel to address any issues related to state fundraising compliance,” the spokesperson said. “In the interim, we have shut down online fundraising as we work quickly to ensure we are meeting all compliance requirements.” The group shut down its fundraising one day after the Washington Examiner published a letter from California Attorney General Rob Bonta telling BLMGNF that it was prohibited from soliciting or disbursing funds because of its failure to submit an annual report for the 2020 tax year. In the letter, which was dated January 31, Bonta threatened to hold individual leaders personally liable for late fees. Washington demanded BLM “immediately cease” all fundraising activities there on January 5. The group said at the close of 2020 that after raising $90 million, spending $8.4 million in operating expenses and distributing $21.7 million in grants to 33 other organizations, it closed the year with $60 million. The group was not officially registered as a charity with the IRS until late 2020, according to the report. It has previously funneled donations through other liberal charities. Meanwhile, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has sounded alarms over BLM’s refusal to answer basic questions about its finances and operations. “It appears that the house of cards may be falling, and this happens eventually with nearly every scam, scheme, or illegal enterprise,” the Republican attorney general told the Washington Examiner. “I see patterns that scams kind of universally take: failure to provide board members, failure to provide even executive directors, failure to make your filings available. It all leads to suspicion.” Rokita did not confirm or deny that his office is investigating BLM but said the paper’s reporting on the group has “certainly” caused his office to be concerned. The group’s charity registration is also out of compliance in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Virginia, according to the report. BLM has not publicly named anyone to oversee its estimated $60 million bankroll since co-founder Patrisse Cullors resigned in May, the Washington Examiner reported. No one Cullors named to replace her ever came to an agreement with the internal leadership council, making it unclear who is in charge. Cullors resigned from her post as executive director of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, a role she has held for more than five years, amid questions about her finances, according to Fox News. She faced backlash after the revelation that she bought four homes for more than $3 million in recent years. However, she told the Associated Press at the time that she was leaving her post to focus on other projects, including the release of her second book and a television deal with Warner Bros. She said that her departure was planned for more than a year and was unrelated to any controversies over her personal finances. “Those were right-wing attacks that tried to discredit my character, and I don’t operate off of what the right thinks of me,” Cullors said. The organization has received criticism for its extremist views, including Cullors’s 2015 admission that she and her fellow co-founders are “trained Marxists.” “I actually do think we have an ideological frame. We are trained Marxists,” Cullors said.
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So, what's going on here? Seems like it's rising everywhere, but Austin is especially hard hit. This year seems to be trending with last year. There have already been seven murders in January, including a guy who allegedly shot two people around noon in the West Anderson area: https://mailchi.mp/austintexas.gov/apd-news-releasehomicide-investigation-at-7797-burnet-rd "On Saturday, January 22, 2022, at approximately 11:47 a.m., 9-1-1 received a call of a double shooting that had just occurred in the parking lot of 7797 Burnet Rd. APD officers, along with Austin-Travis County EMS, arrived on the scene and discovered two men with life-threatening injuries. Despite lifesaving measures, both men succumbed to their injuries and were pronounced deceased at 11:55 a.m. by Dr. Escott." "Through investigation, homicide detectives came into contact with Yong Yoon Kim. Kim called 9-1-1 and advised that he had gotten into an altercation with two men and shot them in self-defense. Multiple eyewitnesses on scene gave contrary accounts of the shooting. Kim was charged with Capital Murder, arrested, and booked into the Travis County jail. He is currently being held with no bond." Obviously something has to be going on regarding the upheaval and stress of the pandemic. But is that it? Even accounting for population, the rate is still much, much higher.
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Some kinda coup. Where is Guinea? The Caribbean? The fate of Guinea's President Alpha Condé is unclear after an unverified video showed him surrounded by soldiers, who said they had seized power. They appeared on national TV claiming to have dissolved the government. However, the defence ministry said the attempted takeover had been thwarted by the presidential guard. This follows hours of heavy gunfire near the presidential palace in the capital, Conakry. UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres and the African Union have condemned the apparent coup and demanded the immediate release of President Condé. The West African country of Guinea is rich in natural resources but years of unrest and mismanagement mean it is one of the world's poorest countries. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58453778 ETA They're in Africa. Did not know that.
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https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/33826453/tennis-great-boris-becker-sentenced-2-1-2-years-prison-bankruptcy-offenses
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Posting this in DT because it maybe won't get ate up with political pissbagging? Maybe? Anyway, Peru impeached their president and some people are upset. The protests were sparked by Monday’s dramatic and unexpected vote to impeach Mr Vizcarra, who stood accused of corruption relating to his time as a regional governor. He denied the charges but, using a vaguely-worded clause in the constitution, members of congress voted overwhelmingly to remove him on the grounds of “permanent moral incapacity”. Hours later, Mr Vizcarra quit. Usually, his job would go to the vice-president, but Mr Vizcarra had no deputy, the consequence of previous battles between the executive and congress. The post instead passed to the house speaker, Mr Merino, a relatively unknown and unremarkable career politician, who was sworn in as Peru’s unlikely president the next day. https://www.ft.com/content/8b933864-f7fb-4f0e-9f40-dc0ff522ea45
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I've done tons of traveling but have never cruised. Leaving from Miami for a week in the Eastern Caribbean at the end of May. Going with others who cruise regularly. Already have our shore excursions booked. Got the soft drink package but not getting the alcohol one. I love a glass of wine and a cocktail occasionally, but won't drink enough to warrant the almost $60 a day. Any tips from cruising veterans would be appreciated.
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Starting this thread to keep the F35 thread free for bashing the F35 and quoting Top Gun. Starting it here and not the CR so it hopefully doesn't get ate up with stupid. https://ahvalnews.com/nato/turkey-nato-stand-coming-head-times Erdoğan’s insistence on buying Russian-made S-400 air defence missiles and the country’s pivot towards the east is an obvious problem for NATO, which was founded to counter Russian power, the Times said. Turkey signed a contract with Moscow worth a reported $2.5 billion in December 2017 for the purchase of the S-400s despite objections from its NATO allies, who are concerned that the system could collect data on NATO jets and undermine their defences. “We can’t have the F-35 and S-400 in the same place,” the Times quoted Hodges as saying. “I would want to know more about what Turkey is asking for with the Patriot that industry is not willing to give them.” Choose your bedfellow, Turkey. Choose it wisely.
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Didn't see a thread and couldn't resist with the title. Just had Pho Envy - not a big Pho guy but it was amazing. Sitting here drinking the remnants of the broth at the bottom of my bowl. Got it from Uber Eats and the way they packaged it to go was great. Noodles and raw filet mignon in the bowl - broth and fixings on the side - so you can dump it in and have it be just as fresh had you sat down at the restaraunt. Sliced fresh japs were killer. They have a lot more on the menu besides pho, too (couldn't resist getting some cream cheese wontons). Will definitely be eating this again. Other good spots?
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Reports of SWAT standoff at KXAN.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/after-morales-resignation-a-question-for-bolivia-was-this-the-democratic-will-or-a-coup/2019/11/11/ff36ce9a-040c-11ea-9118-25d6bd37dfb1_story.html
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http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/what-the-hell-is-going-on-in-chile-a-protester-explains.html using lasers to screw up drones and sensors:
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Not sure why during a cold spell, I get a hankering for a Dairy Queen Blizzard. My go to is the Cookie Jar blizzard. It's a combo of Oreo and Cookie dough.
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Where we are today: good thread outlining what we know with thoughts on the decision tree that led to where we are today: VVV First, and perhaps most importantly, at the time of the Mueller testimony to Congress we KNOW there was an ACTIVE counterintelligence investigation into Trump. Mueller testified to this fact. Trump would spare nothing to root this out and shut it down. It took less than a month after the Mueller testimony for the crosshairs to find DNI Coats leading to his departure. This suggests the CI investigation was not being run through the FBI as Barr presumably would would have known enough to shut it down. It appears the CI investigation into Trump was in the hands of the DNI, potentially initiated by one Andrew MCabe, who Trump apparently has pressured DOJ to indict. Could be that former DNI Coats and/or the Deputy DNI Trump refused to appoint are ready to speak.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/08/prince-harry-and-meghan-say-they-are-stepping-back-from-royal-family Apparently it's a big deal across the pond. I don't know why the Brits care so much what a guy 6th in line to the crown does with his life and his hot wife.
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at the hands of these devils... fuck that den of destruction on a stick.
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First off. This isn't a complaint. I'm genuinely curious. Kick the PAT, and it's a 2 TD lead. You miss it, they can score a TD, 2-pt, and field goal. You make it, and it's still a 2 TD lead. I know the coaches have the chart. Can someone set me straight?
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This shit has me laughing so hard but couldn't find the JPP thread(if one was even created here).
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