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Post by elle on Jan 1, 2024 12:06:19 GMT -6
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all enjoyed the holidays and were able to ring in '24 just how you wanted whether it was celebrating or sleeping.
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Post by elle on Jan 1, 2024 12:11:18 GMT -6
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Post by dc2london on Jan 1, 2024 12:18:54 GMT -6
Yikes, not a good way to start the year
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Post by origami on Jan 1, 2024 12:19:18 GMT -6
I definitely saw the breaking news and immediately thought that maybe dc2london is an Oracle. On the first day of the year even
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Post by dc2london on Jan 1, 2024 12:20:27 GMT -6
I definitely saw the breaking news and immediately thought that maybe dc2london is an Oracle. On the first day of the year even I had better not say anything else for fear of manifesting natural disasters
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Post by origami on Jan 1, 2024 12:21:35 GMT -6
I definitely saw the breaking news and immediately thought that maybe dc2london is an Oracle. On the first day of the year even I had better not say anything else for fear of manifesting natural disasters Just say good things? Or maybe aspirational things? 😉
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Post by origami on Jan 1, 2024 12:22:33 GMT -6
Also, I'll be honest living in the PNW were always scared of the big one coming so I was a little nervous about your potential prescience
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Post by elle on Jan 1, 2024 12:23:50 GMT -6
Some good news, although I'm not sure of how much of an impact, immediate or otherwise, this will have, but I will take it nonetheless.
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Post by elle on Jan 1, 2024 13:01:37 GMT -6
Omg why. Who would want to go on a 9 month cruise?
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Post by blurnette989 on Jan 1, 2024 13:53:26 GMT -6
Omg why. Who would want to go on a 9 month cruise? I'm following several of these people on TikTok. It's incredibly bizarre to me. But I'm sucked in. It's like my stories.
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Post by klw on Jan 1, 2024 16:39:54 GMT -6
Omg why. Who would want to go on a 9 month cruise? I'm following several of these people on TikTok. It's incredibly bizarre to me. But I'm sucked in. It's like my stories. Haha, same here.
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Post by hugsfordrugs on Jan 1, 2024 17:26:22 GMT -6
Los Angeles had a 4.1 (decent size) earthquake this morning too (8:27am PT)
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Post by jaygee on Jan 1, 2024 19:49:54 GMT -6
I’ve heard some people talking about those long cruises as more affordable living for retired people. I think that’s probably a stretch other than VHCOL areas. But aside from that - yeah, it sounds like my worst nightmare/ favorite reality show tied in to one.
Have these people never seen the Real World or Road Rules?!?!?
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Post by dc2london on Jan 2, 2024 9:31:58 GMT -6
What a horrible start to the new year for the people of Japan. It's an absolute miracle that the passenger plane was safely evacuated, but such a tragedy for Japan's Coast Guard and the families of those killed. 'A Japan Airlines plane collided with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft while landing in Tokyo on Tuesday, causing the passenger jet to burst into flames and killing Coast Guard members on the other plane bound for earthquake relief efforts. The airline said that all 367 passengers and 12 crew members on its plane were safely evacuated at Haneda Airport, according to NHK, the public broadcaster. Five crew members on the Coast Guard plane were killed, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said during a news conference. The Coast Guard members had been en route to deliver supplies to the region affected by the powerful earthquake that struck western Japan on Monday, Mr. Kishida said.' Plane Explodes in Flames While Landing at Airport in Tokyo www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/world/asia/tokyo-haneda-plane-fire.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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Post by trueblue on Jan 2, 2024 13:54:51 GMT -6
The video footage out of the Japan plane crash is absolutely horrifying.
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Post by elle on Jan 2, 2024 14:08:34 GMT -6
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Post by athn64 on Jan 2, 2024 14:43:18 GMT -6
They can't even wait until the actual election to flip the house... Who do we think will retire next?
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Post by cnf on Jan 2, 2024 16:18:13 GMT -6
We had a horrible incident right after midnight on new year. A man spent a few days going around to gas stations and buying up gas cans and filling them up. Then he went to a big event center out here and when a concert let out he sped up to try and run down pedestrians, but ended up hitting an Uber pulling out of the parking lot. The car exploded because he had all the gas in his rental. Two of the three people in the Uber died and the man who did it died last night. Many others are injured, but had he not hit the Uber more would be dead since he tried to hit all people coming out of the building. The footage is so horrific. They've searched his home, his hotel room he had been holed up in, the car, they can't find anything to provide a motive but the FBI is involved and it's been determined to be intentional. It just guts me. This happened about 15 minutes from my house and I drive past this venue every day to work. I can't wrap my head around it. Completely horrible and heartbreaking. 13wham.com/news/local/driver-in-deadly-crash-outside-kodak-center-diesOn a positive note, today is the one year anniversary of Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest. I can't believe he's been on the field playing this season. He's done SO MUCH locally to increase CPR awareness and certification as well as getting AEDs into more places. Such an important skill, one everyone should know but hope to never use.
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Post by kbw on Jan 2, 2024 21:39:55 GMT -6
cnf I saw the news this morning and it looked awful. The last update I saw was that his family thought he was having an undiagnosed mental health crisis.
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Post by cnf on Jan 3, 2024 4:32:45 GMT -6
cnf I saw the news this morning and it looked awful. The last update I saw was that his family thought he was having an undiagnosed mental health crisis. That's their only theory at this point. He died and they can't find anything else that might provide a motive. It's basically all our news is showing and it's so awful
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Post by byjove on Jan 3, 2024 7:57:08 GMT -6
When I started my thread yesterday, I didn't see this one. Sorry elle!
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Post by elle on Jan 3, 2024 9:35:22 GMT -6
When I started my thread yesterday, I didn't see this one. Sorry elle! Ha, no worries.
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Post by mrsweasley on Jan 3, 2024 13:28:28 GMT -6
We had a lovely time at my cousin's wedding, it was a fun way to ring in the new year! Everyone is also enamored with the kitten. She's definitely a little nervous but warming up nicely. We have her corralled in DD's room for now and she slept next to her on the bed 🥰 Attachments:
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Post by AmyG on Jan 3, 2024 14:22:07 GMT -6
When I started my thread yesterday, I didn't see this one. Sorry elle! Ha, no worries. Just rename 1 as random and other one for news maybe?
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Post by trueblue on Jan 3, 2024 17:59:59 GMT -6
The redacted/John Doe portion of the Epstein list has been apparently been released …
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Post by dc2london on Jan 3, 2024 19:23:50 GMT -6
cnf I saw the news this morning and it looked awful. The last update I saw was that his family thought he was having an undiagnosed mental health crisis. That's their only theory at this point. He died and they can't find anything else that might provide a motive. It's basically all our news is showing and it's so awful I am so sorry this happened in your community.
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Post by dc2london on Jan 4, 2024 7:57:09 GMT -6
Good lord we are in trouble 'https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/04/fbi-conspiracy-jan-6-attack-misinformation/ Twenty-five percent of Americans say it is “probably” or “definitely” true that the FBI instigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, a false concept promoted by right-wing media and repeatedly denied by federal law enforcement, according to a new Washington Post-University of Maryland poll. The Post-UMD poll finds a smaller 11 percent of the public overall thinks there is “solid evidence” that FBI operatives organized and encouraged the attack, while 13 percent say this is their “suspicion only.” Among Republicans, 34 percent say the FBI organized and encouraged the insurrection, compared with 30 percent of independents and 13 percent of Democrats.' www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/04/fbi-conspiracy-jan-6-attack-misinformation/
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Post by elle on Jan 4, 2024 9:58:48 GMT -6
Just awful. It doesn't have to be this way.
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Post by byjove on Jan 4, 2024 10:07:39 GMT -6
Just awful. It doesn't have to be this way. That is all extremely YIKES. And of course just absolutely devastating. Ugh.
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Post by dc2london on Jan 4, 2024 10:16:48 GMT -6
Quelle surprise Donald J. Trump’s businesses received at least $7.8 million from 20 foreign governments during his presidency, according to new documents released by House Democrats on Thursday that show how much he received from overseas transactions while he was in the White House, most of it from China. The transactions, detailed in a 156-page report called “White House For Sale” that was produced by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, offer concrete evidence that the former president engaged in the kind of conduct that House Republicans have labored, so far unsuccessfully, to prove that President Biden did as they work to build an impeachment case against him. Trump Received Millions From Foreign Governments as President, Report Finds www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/us/politics/trump-hotels-foreign-business-report.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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