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The government is disrespecting us once again. FEMA has turned the Hawaii tragedy into a vacation. According to a report and photos obtained by the Daily Mail, FEMA officials booked themselves into 5-star luxury Hawaiian resorts, where they relaxed at cocktail bars, 45 minutes away from Lahaina. They’re shacking up beachfront at hotels that go …
by KnowledgeAndFaith 80 years ago American men were selflessly storming the beaches in the Pacific, dodging flak in bombers over Germany, hunting U-Boats in the Atlantic, and racing armor across the deserts of North Africa. And women were working 12-hour shifts in factories, doing manual labor without complaint, to make the weapons the men …
by Opposite_Captain_156 How the hell is a pedophile advocacy group even allowed to be a thing? That’s just absolutely insane to me.
via mishtalk: Nonrevolving credit posted its first negative reading since April of 2020. The net change is the lowest since November 2020. The Fed will be pleased with this report. Consumer credit data from the Fed, chart by Mish The Bloomberg Econoday consensus was for credit to rise by $20.0 billion. Instead, the rise was …
A university janitor allegedly turned off a super cold laboratory freezer after repeated “annoying alarms,” resulting in the destruction of $1 million worth of scientific research, according to a lawsuit filed in the New York. The laboratory contained a freezer which housed numerous cell cultures and samples that had to be stored at a temperature …
by Chris Black Part and parcel of owning a ‘smart’ home, I guess. Imagine being so lazy that you can’t even press a light switch but instead you talk to the computer that sends your voice to a remote server to decipher what you said and then send a command to turn of the light. …
by Chris Black A bag of rocks. My Sides! They should have gone with magic beans instead – so much funnier. UK is literally Charlie Brown. The London Metal Exchange finds bags of stones instead of the nickel that underpinned a handful of its contracts at a warehouse in Rotterdam https://t.co/xu9JD5tQ5H — Bloomberg (@business) March …