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7 days ago
Comment manixNot this again. September has been rough enough.
Posted in: Maria an 'Extremely Dangerous' Hurricane
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11 days ago
This also takes some serious balls to just let it ride so many times. I'd probably cash out once I hit a few thousand.
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12 days ago
Current Event manix
A Pizza Hut told Irma-fleeing employees they could be punished for skipping shifts
A manager of one Pizza Hut in the path of Hurricane Irma threatened to discipline workers who evacuated for the storm outside of a designated time frame — and the brand has come under fire on social media for the “shameful” policy. A photo began circulating on Twitter of a memo posted for employees in one Jacksonville Pizza Hut location, with an explicit list of instructions for employees.
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13 days ago
Current Event manix
How did Tesla make some of its cars travel further during Hurricane Irma?
Tesla drivers who fled Hurricane Irma last weekend received an unexpected lesson in modern consumer economics along the way. As they sat on choked highways, some of the electric-car giant’s more keenly priced models suddenly gained an extra 30 or so miles in range thanks to a silent free upgrade.
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2 weeks ago
Comment manix
Cloudy here so I doubt I'll get to see it
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3 weeks ago
Current Event manix
Study shows ‘disastrous’ damage in brains of retired CFL players
Luciano Minuzzi had finished his very precise and very complicated analyses of brain scans from dozens of retired CFL football players and healthy volunteer subjects. Now it was time to look at the results. As Minuzzi performed his calculations, he was blind to the subject’s identity — a key part of the scientific process. He didn’t know if he was examining the brain of a retired player or a control subject.
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3 weeks ago
Current Event manix
Best Buy will now send a salesperson to your house to sell you things
Best Buy is introducing a new free service next month where salespeople will come to your house to make recommendations about gadgets and services; or, as it’s also known: try to sell you more...
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1 month ago
Current Event manix
Billionaire Paul Allen Finds Lost World War II Cruiser USS Indianapolis in Philippine Sea
Seventy-two years after two torpedoes fired from a Japanese submarine sunk cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35), the ship’s wreckage was found resting on the seafloor on Saturday – more than 18,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean’s surface. Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist, led a search team, assisted by historians from the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) in Washington, D.C., to accomplish what past searches had failed to do – find Indianapolis...
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1 month ago
Current Event manix
Racist Daily Stormer moves to Russian domain after losing .com address
Earlier this week, the infamous hate site the Daily Stormer lost control of the "dailystormer.com" domain after two domain registrars—first GoDaddy, then Google's domain service—refused service to the company. The companies were responding to a social media campaign against the Daily Stormer after a post on the site attacking Heather Heyer, who died in protest-related violence in Charlottesville this weekend.
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1 month ago
Current Event manix
Florida man gets 6 years for firing gun while taking selfie
A Florida man has been sentenced to six years and five months in prison for accidentally shooting a gun while taking a selfie in a strip club restroom. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tampa announced 34-year-old Rorn Sorn’s sentencing Monday. The Asian Pride Gang member pleaded guilty in April to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
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1 month ago
Video/Audio manix
Paralyzed To Bmx Bike Riding In 10 Months!
In honor of this milestone I said that I would get back on my BMX bike and ride at my skate park for the first time since my accident 10 months ago when I broke my neck, smashed my skull, had three brain bleeds, and was expected to be paralyzed from the neck down! I have been so lucky throughout my recovery but this video proves that there is light at the end of every dark tunnel you just need the will and determination to find it.
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1 month ago
Current Event manix
Scientists Fear Trump Will Dismiss Blunt Climate Report
The average temperature in the United States has risen rapidly and drastically since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a sweeping federal climate change report awaiting approval by the Trump administration. The draft report by scientists from 13 federal agencies, which has not yet been made public, concludes that Americans are feeling the effects of climate change right now.
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1 month ago
Current Event manix
Venezuelan officials killed as voting starts
A candidate in Sunday's assembly elections and an opposition activist have been killed in Venezuela. The killings took place before voting started to elect a new assembly with powers to rewrite the constitution. The opposition says it is a power grab by President Nicolás Maduro and is boycotting the vote.
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2 months ago
Maybe a little.. But he's temporarily #1 again
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2 months ago
I'm sure his 91 billion dollars will make him feel a little better
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2 months ago
Current Event manix
FCC Denies Claim It Didn't Document Cyberattack that Crashed Electronic Comment Filing System
The Federal Communications Commission is pushing back on a report claiming the agency didn’t document a May cyberattack it credited with knocking its website offline while users tried to file comments on a plan to repeal net neutrality rules. Gizmodo published a story Thursday that claims the FCC “holds no records” or “analysis” of multiple distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks the agency says crashed its electronic comment filing system in May. The attacks followed a “Last We...
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2 months ago
Current Event manix
John McCain to return Tuesday for crucial health care vote
With a razor-thin margin for success in the balance, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. — recently diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor — will return to Washington Tuesday to take a critical vote on health care.