Yeah I saw that story like a week ago, the article I read had amusing details from similar stories:

How great is telling your tens of thousands of followers to follow a diet while walking around with the knowledge that it's making you sick?

This is almost as shocking as when breatharian founder Wiley Brooks--who claimed hadn't eaten in 19 years--was caught ordering chicken pot pie and biscuits.

'I have taught yoga for 15 years and I have been to India, where people survive without eating, so I know the breatharian concept is true,' Miss Lefler said. 'When I first met Wiley I believed in him so much I gave him my own phone and office to serve as headquarters for the institute.'

About a month and a half later, she said, 'I saw him eat an INElette [sic]. I was so shocked, I didn't react.'

Cult that shuns food shaken by reports leader is eating

Cricket is the reason to prefer new year's eve in Sydney

It ain't hard. Xmas in Melbourne, New year in Sydney.

For real. They had a few of them in Spain and the only people in them were tourists who were afraid to order something in Spanish. Don't think any local would be caught dead in one.

April Fools!

Right?

Unsurprising. Most YouTubers have zero talent and few employment prospects that can make them a living wage. So it's either live in poverty or lie your ass off.

Think of the winrate


Whoops, sorry about that.
You never know, maybe they make a comeback.

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Ah the Fox News model

https://twitter.com/BillGates/status...96606975787008


All billionaires are geniuses.

On a related note, I'm switching from playing softball to base jumping. Way more safe.

LOL, so good. Really glad this guy has a trillion dollars at his disposal to back his data driven agenda setting.

Thanks for all the advice. That boxing day race sounds awesome, although we may be in Melbourne then if we do Sydney for New Year's. We will definitely avoid anything resembling Times Square like the plague.

You are PURE EVIL SIR

I think Sharknado proved that we would not actually want that.

Just burn it all down. Capitalism had a good run. But it's ovahhh.

The anti-golfers should appreciate this...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/golfer-at...ed-authorities

Shouldn't have euthanized it, though, should have just relocated it... to other golf courses... in certain areas.

Bobcats are super wary of people. Probably rabid.

Here's another Bobcat story of an attack. Older lady "grandma" killed it with her bare hands after being bitten and scratched pretty badly (broke her finger biting it).

https://www.cbs46.com/news/grandma-a...c06dab125.html

And for her troubles, tell her what she's won...

TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS IN MEDICAL BILLS!!!!!!!!!!!

So back on the topic of companies screwing us... My insurance company totaled my car from the accident I was in last week, and they're only giving me about 75% of the fair market value. I can argue with them, I suppose, but the difference amounts to about $2,500 so there is no way I can profitably sue them.

I had a client do that to me when I was in web design, they made me take about half of what they owed me and sign away my right's to sue them for the rest, and told me they knew they'd lose if I sued, but I'd lose money too on legal fees, so I could take it or leave it and go **** myself. I consulted a lawyer, they said that was about the size of it and suggested I take the offer.

Humans suck.

Trump's SOP as a developer, pay half and tell them to sue if they don't like it.

Thing about the aforementioned late-stage capitalism is that this is what insurance companies do, not because they are directed by a selfish, amoral individual. They are that way as the inevitable consequence of the design of the system regardless of, or in spite of, any decency or humanity of any of the people doing this. We have a system in which most of the power in the world is held by entities (publicly traded corporations bound by fiduciary responsibility) which are absolutely sociopathic.

Cuse - you can't negotiate? I'd definitely call them and raise hell. Come armed with any kind of research you can find to support your case.

In Britain, loser pays legal fees in litigation. I can't think of a single reason not to have this rule.

Yup, agreed.

I'll be calling them tomorrow and raising hell, but I have very little leverage, if any. Ultimately they can tell me to sue them or take it, and at that point I have to take it. My hope is that they always lowball and I can get a few hundred more just by default by calling and complaining.

I do have a photo of the area they claim there was prior damage - it's from last August, but I can also have multiple people attest that there was no prior damage to that part of the car. That may be enough for a couple hundred in and of itself. The rest of it basically comes down to whether different parts of the car were in "good" or "very good" condition...

I've also got a buddy who's father owns a small car insurance company or something, so I'm going to call him for advice.

Because I can afford to sue Jeff Bezos if he defames me, but not if I'm liable for all his legal expenses if he hires a team of the most expensive lawyers and I lose because my ****ty contingency lawyer can't compete.

dearest lawbros,

would it be legal to secretly mix my ashes into the dinner for the guests at my funeral and then have a cackling old man reveal the horrifying truth to them?

sincerely,
your friend,
SA

i want to get a phone call in 10 years from my lawyer saying, "hey listen, pete retired so we need to cast a new cackling old man"