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Cake day: December 30th, 2023

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  • Not necessarily. Could be a stolen car. Balance of probabilities says you’re right and they know exactly who they’re looking for. Maybe they’re bad actors, maybe they’re trying not to have another Reddit “Mission Accomplished” moment, or maybe they’re incompetent.

    But they saw him, they have a car, and presumably they caught him on body cam so they can compare his image to the image on the driver’s license the car is registered to. Maybe they’re taking those steps, but I doubt it. But it’s funny that they had descriptions of who they believe to be Luigi up pretty quickly but this remains a mystery man and they’re urging people not to go to the No Kings protest. A cynical person would say it’s a cop that did the shootings under orders to get rid of the one seat majority and quell the protest all in one blow.

    Good thing I’m just a drunk and have never had thoughts like that.

    ETA: they’ve released an identity. Cynics (definitely not harmless drunks like me) may have jumped the gun. But I’m sure that if they were here they would not apologize for what totally doesn’t look like a two birds with one stone issue.




  • I feel like it is glowing orange something has gone terribly wrong.

    ETA: I looked up some reasons it might glow orange. There are legitimate reasons. I thought it meant it was glowing while charging which is what the article makes it sound like. Maybe it got too hot and started glowing? Possible and probably unsafe or something wrong in the design. But I wouldn’t think that would be as bright as it seems like the article means.

    However, if it’s releasing plasma and sodium vapor it could give a bright orange glow. So it’s possible that it charged up, fired, released plasma plus something that turned bright orange (there are a couple of other things, but I’m sticking with sodium in this example), then shot a lightning like ray when the plasma found a path to ground. Similar to how a Tesla coil in a plasma ball works but with something that turns orange (sodium vapor) instead of purple (xenon and neon or whatever).

    But I could be misunderstanding.





  • I did it but it took a lot of work. Step one is that I filled disputes on anything past due. I knocked several off that my ex had taken out in my name because it literally wasn’t me. Step two was a secured credit card. Step three was a “loan” where all I really did was pop money into an account that I got back (minus a small fee) at the end of the loan term. There are a few companies that do this. Then came letters and emails for anyone who showed even one late payment with a sob story about how I was trying to buy a house and only had that one spot on my record and could they please remove it. I got all of them removed eventually, but it did take multiple emails (not just disputes) but all you need is one yes. Once your score improves get a couple of cards that you use and pay off every month. Not too many, just one more than the secured one (which you can eventually flip). Once your credit starts going up, get higher limit cards with good perks and game their system. Then stop getting cards. It’ll crawl up.

    I was cleaned up in just about 3 years from the high 400s-low 500s up to 800ish depending on the bureau.

    Don’t take out any consumer loans (affirm, klarna, afterpay) because sometimes they report and they look bad even with a pristine payment history because historically the people getting them weren’t reliable enough for a real loan.

    Alternatively you could wait 7 years. Most of it just disappears at that point.




  • I’m not so sure about number 3. He gets made fun of a lot. Well, he got made fun of a lot then everyone seemed to forget him. Even people with ridiculous accents made fun of his accent (of which I am one).

    The people who believe him are obviously out there. But I’d like to think that most people realize that his show was (is? I don’t know) just Jerry Springer with fewer chairs being thrown and less honesty about what they’re there for.

    On the other hand, I have no good explanation about why they think it would work at all without what you said. So maybe?



  • We were both terrible people. We were 19 when we got married and enjoyed playing house for a while. We instigated each other at every opportunity. She cheated, we decided to make it work. Then we found out she was pregnant. I told her if she has it and it’s not mine then I wasn’t interested in taking care of her and the kid. She chose to have it (I was mad at the time, but in hindsight and with a lot of therapy behind me I realize that’s not really why I was mad, but I still made the right decision) so I made good on that promise.

    She would hit me almost daily. I was severely emotionally abusive. I’ve grown since then and so has she. We’re not friends exactly, but we do periodically email each other to say hello or laugh about the actual good times if something reminds one of us of the other. Because there were plenty of good times.

    We were 19 and in love with the idea of being in love. We both came from broken families and fucked up situations. And I think if we met today instead of back then we would be really good friends.