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General Discussion / Some just can't learn like this MILF for example

« on: December 02, 2024, 11:35:53 PM »

Grade 8 teacher accused of sex crimes against students granted bail again
Kelly-Anne Jennings, 40, rearrested on Oct. 24 for allegedly breaching bail conditions

An Ontario school teacher accused of multiple sexual offences involving students has been again released on bail after she was rearrested for allegedly breaching her bail conditions, CBC News has learned.

Kelly-Anne Jennings is on unpaid leave from her job as a Grade 8 teacher at St. Anthony Catholic Elementary School in Port Hope, Ont., as she faces 18 sex crime charges, including sexual assault on a boy under 14.

Jennings, 40, is accused of both making child pornography and distributing sexually explicit material to a minor, according to court records seen by CBC. All offences are alleged to have occurred between June 2022 and April 2024 in Port Hope, part of Northumberland County, east of Toronto.

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Marriage & Family Life / If it was me, I would raise the kids this way too as it's not their fault

« on: December 02, 2024, 11:14:18 PM »

Two California couples raised each other’s kids after IVF mix-up - then swapped back
The girls are now five years old and the families have turned their once-nightmarish situation into a blended family

Five years after two couples discovered they were raising the other’s children as the result of a mishap at an IVF clinic in California, their lives have become one.

“There’s no person to give you advice. So we ended up just sort of huddling together, the four of us, and it’s a blessing that we all are on the same page,” Alexander Cardinale told the Daily Mail about the uniqueness of the couples’ situation. “We’ve spent every holiday together since then. We’ve spent every birthday together since then — and we’ve just kind of blended the families.”

In 2019, Daphna and Alexander Cardinale ordered a DNA test to confirm what they were already quietly suspecting: that their months-old daughter May wasn’t theirs. The DNA test confirmed their suspicions; the Los Angeles couple was raising someone else’s baby.

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General Discussion / Good time to buy used? But this 100k rule is still good to follow if you don't

« on: December 02, 2024, 11:10:46 PM »

..know much about cars:

There is now a $20,000 price gap between new and used cars in America — the largest on record

That's the record gap between the average transaction price for a new car and a used car, according to Edmunds analysis of third-quarter sales, with the average new car price hovering around $47,000 and used cars averaging $27,000. Edmunds says it's the largest price difference since it began tracking new vs. used pricing in January 2004.

Today’s most reliable vehicles can rack up sky-high mileage that would have been unheard of a few generations ago and still keep plugging along. But an old benchmark still stands as the most practical answer for how many miles are too many miles when buying a used car.

“Many auto experts agree that 100,000 miles is the upper limit for considering the purchase of a used car,” said Dillan. “Beyond this point, the likelihood of significant maintenance and repairs increases substantially.

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General Discussion / I've seen the huge wealth gap that divided these two White groups personally

« on: December 02, 2024, 10:59:59 PM »

High house prices in Wyoming town highlights tense divide between newcomers, longtime residents
For most people, real estate in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is unaffordable. The county's median income is $108,000 per year. However, the average listing price for a single-family home is more than $7 million.

Took these photos when I was there:

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General Discussion / The island is sold but hopefully not the plantation as they grow the best

« on: December 02, 2024, 10:51:42 PM »

..pineapple there IMO:

Dole Fruit Founder Sells The Last Of His Lanai Property To Oracle's Larry Ellison

When he sold the tiny Hawaii Island of Lanai to Oracle owner Larry Ellison for $300 million twelve years ago, he did so with one proviso – that he keep the 1-acre parcel where he had built an oceanfront vacation home, expecting to live out the remainder of his life in paradise

Took these photos when I was at his plantation:

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General Discussion / Live in the Great Lakes area is a no go for me because I can lose half a year

« on: December 02, 2024, 10:44:16 PM »

...of my time not being able to do the things I enjoy:

5-plus feet of snow and counting: More snow is coming to the already buried Great Lakes

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General Discussion / Trump's good friend is looking out for him since he knows something??

« on: December 02, 2024, 10:40:20 PM »

Putin Offers Bizarre Warning to Trump: You’re ‘Not Safe’

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General Discussion / Looks like our Hmong Lee girl is still going strong

« on: December 02, 2024, 02:09:24 PM »

Gymnast Suni Lee was told kidney disease would end her career. 3 Olympic medals later, she shares the lessons she's learned along the way.


As a member of the U.S. women’s gymnastics team, Sunisa “Suni” Lee came home from the 2024 Paris Olympics this summer with three new medals — one gold and two bronze — to add to her collection. That’s a remarkable achievement for any athlete. For someone who had received what she considered at the time to be a career-ending health diagnosis just a year and a half before, it’s nothing short of a miracle.

In February 2023, doctors told Lee that she had two incurable kidney diseases after she experienced mysterious symptoms that limited her ability to train. “I was swollen in my face, my whole body. I gained like 45 pounds. I couldn’t fit into my clothes, and I couldn’t do any gymnastics,” the 21-year-old tells Yahoo Life.

While Lee hasn’t publicly specified which conditions she’s been diagnosed with, she has been candid about how they’ve disrupted her life — including prompting her decision to retire from college gymnastics a few months later in order to focus on her “health and recovery.” Says Lee: “It was really scary, because getting told that you’re never going to be able to do gymnastics again was heartbreaking.”


But as Lee’s performance in Paris shows, she’s not only returned to gymnastics but continued to excel despite her health setback. “I’m doing really good right now,” she says. “I have been on such a great routine and also have just matured so much to the point where I’ve learned to be OK with [her diagnosis].”

She’s also working with the American Kidney Fund on the Know Your Kidneys initiative, empowering people to learn more about their own kidney health. Here, she shares five lessons she’s learned over the course of her health journey.

You are your best advocate
“I really want to put an emphasis on how important it is to advocate for yourself and seek the right diagnosis,” she says. “I’m the only person that can really feel everything that I’m going through and I notice the changes, even when other people don’t.”

When Lee first sought medical advice about the swelling she was experiencing, a doctor chalked it up to an allergic reaction. But swelling is common when kidneys are malfunctioning and unable to properly filter out wastes, toxins and excess water, according to Cleveland Clinic.

LaVarne Burton, president and CEO of the American Kidney Fund, tells Yahoo Life that Lee’s persistence in finding a diagnosis is admirable.

“You really want to advocate for yourself, because we’re the only ones who really know and understand our bodies,” she says. “You want to be calm, but persistent. You want to get to the underlying cause of this. And once you know that underlying cause, you want to work with your health care team, as Suni did, to make changes in your exercise or your diet, or medications, if needed. Whatever that treatment plan is, that’s what you want to do.”

Adjusting her approach to gymnastics training was necessary
Although Lee was cleared for some physical activity by April 2023, her health continued to impact her training. “That’s the part where it gets a little bit frustrating. But I’ve learned to adjust, especially when it comes to my diet, my training habits,” she says. “I always just listen to my body because that’s the most important thing. I get very tired easily. Some days I’m more nauseous than others. It just really depends.”

Gaining weight also made it difficult for her to execute certain routines.

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“With gymnastics, it’s all muscle memory. I’ve been doing it for almost 17 years now, so I pretty much have everything remembered,” she says. “My body knows exactly how to do it and I knew I wasn’t gonna forget how to do gymnastics. I just knew that I was gonna have to relearn how to do it when adding extra pounds every single day. There were just so many different changes.”

She previously told Sports Illustrated that she was able to complete full uneven bar routines on some days but only felt up to bouncing on a trampoline on others. Luckily, she had the full support of her coaches.

“My coaches have never done this before, so we were all kind of relearning because they didn’t know how to coach me at times when I would come in and I was feeling off. But they just told me that if I was able to do something, then I can do it. And if I wasn’t, then I shouldn’t do it,” says Lee. “It wasn’t going to be the end of the world. ... They didn’t love me for my gymnastics, they loved me for me. That was the most important thing.”

You need to love the new version of yourself
Lee admits that dealing with the physical changes to her body — including a swollen appearance and fluctuations in weight — hasn’t always been easy.

“You just wake up, look at yourself and notice you’re just a little bit different. And that’s the part where it gets a little bit frustrating,” says Lee. “It was an adjustment because, obviously, [people] could tell the difference when [they] looked at me.” Her teammates at Auburn University, for example, knew just from looking at Lee that something was wrong, even before she opened up about her health concerns.

Being a public figure also set Lee up for more scrutiny, she says.

“Being a gymnast and having to wear a leotard every single day on TV in front of thousands of people where they just try and put you down ... you know how social media can get. It’s really hard, especially knowing I couldn’t control this,” she says. “That was the hardest part about it, because I had to relearn to love myself, basically ... I had to realize that I wasn’t going to be the same Suni.”

You have to look after your mental health
Dealing with the mental repercussions of her health setback “was a lot harder than it was physically,” she says, “because gymnastics was my safe place. So not being able to do that and having to just sit in my bed and just really think about what was going on was the hardest.”

She recalls being “in such a dark place at that time,” and relying on family, friends, doctors and gymnastics coaches to get her through it. Lee also established tools that still help her manage her mental health to this day, including journaling, reciting words of affirmation and visualizing her routines.

“Also I go to therapy a lot,” she says. “I talk about my feelings just because it’s not good for me to hold it in. And also just going through so much stuff, it’s so nice to just be able to actually talk to somebody about it. That was probably the one thing that had the biggest impact on me.”

Sharing your story can help others
Lee still has boundaries when it comes to what she shares about her health. But sharing what she’s comfortable with can help others feel less alone.

“I know when I was first struggling, I didn’t really know how to talk about it. So thinking about how my words can affect others and just the way that my story can help another person has been my biggest motivation,” she says. “Getting involved with the American Kidney Fund has been such an amazing experience. Getting to share more about my journey and also just learning more along the way.”

“I can’t even quantify the impact of this,” says Burton, noting that there are more than 35 million people in the United States who have some stage of kidney disease. “You’re seeing a very young lady who has achieved such great success in one arena now step into another. And I know just in talking with her that she has come out on the really good end of this, a much stronger person. Regardless of where you are in your journey with kidney disease, you’re not alone.”

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General Discussion / 94 y.o. ate at the same steakhouse I ate at, he plans to give away $147 Billion

« on: December 02, 2024, 01:14:08 AM »

I say good for him, hopefully that money can help better society...

94-Year-Old Warren Buffett Announces Plans to Give Away $147 Billion When He Dies

On Monday, the Berkshire Hathaway CEO announced that he had donated over $1.1 billion in Berkshire Hathaway stock to four family foundations, continuing a Thanksgiving tradition of generosity. Buffett, now 94, also detailed his plans for distributing the remainder of his $147.4 billion fortune after his death.

Took these photos when I was there:

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General Discussion / President Joe Biden proved my point!

« on: December 02, 2024, 01:07:28 AM »

My point:

Politicians = LYING HYPOCRITE cancer for the most part...No moral, values, character nor sense of responsibility at all, just the usual selfish way.

Biden pardons his son Hunter despite previous pledges not to

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General Discussion / When others say it, it's bad but when it's your own mommy, it must be horrible

« on: December 02, 2024, 01:00:40 AM »

Pete Hegseth’s mother called son ‘abuser of women’ in email blow to Trump’s defence pick
Thrice-married Fox News presenter accused of ‘lying, cheating and sleeping around’ in 2018 attack

The man chosen to be Donald Trump’s defence secretary has come under further pressure over his private life after the emergence of an email from his mother calling him an “abuser” of women.

In the email to Pete Hegseth from his mother Penelope, she accused him of “lying, cheating, sleeping around and using women for his own power and ego”.

The email, sent at the time of Mr Hegseth’s divorce from his second wife in 2018, also describes the father of seven as “despicable and abusive” in his treatment of women.

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General Discussion / Wow, Viet guy finally knocked out Korean woman that married a White guy

« on: November 27, 2024, 11:15:36 PM »

Democrat Derek Tran unseats GOP Michelle Steel in razor-thin Orange County House race
Tran's victory over Steel flips the 45th Congressional District blue, after a heated race in which candidates took jabs at each other's identities and stances on China.

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General Discussion / FRIGGEN LYING FRAUD, IT'S NOT EVEN A VERT!!!

« on: November 27, 2024, 01:12:44 PM »

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General Discussion / Like the LYING HYPOCRITE closet MAGA idiot on here, this MAGA is also a HYPOCRIT

« on: November 27, 2024, 12:27:03 PM »

Fox News Guest Who Criticized San Francisco Crime Now Accused Of Committing A Crime
MAGA content creator Ricci Lee Wynne, 39, also known as Raw Ricci, garnered thousands of followers on social media criticizing crime in San Francisco.

A MAGA influencer who appeared multiple times on Fox News criticizing crime and homelessness in San Francisco was booked into jail on Monday on suspicion of pimping a woman for sex work.

Ricci Lee Wynne, 39, also known as Raw Ricci, was taken into custody shortly after he arrived at San Francisco International Airport on Sunday night, according to an emailed police statement. Wynne was charged with pimping and pandering following a search of his apartment.

According to police reports cited by the San Francisco Standard, Wynne’s arrest came after he was investigated in the sexual assault of a 15-year-old. At the time of his arrest, Wynne was traveling with an adult woman, whom police believe he was pimping out for sex work.

It’s unclear if Wynne has an attorney representing him. Jail records show he remained in custody on Tuesday.

During their search, detectives found three cell phones that allegedly belonged to Wynne and that revealed evidence that he was involved in sex work, including rates and services, according to the Standard. Police said Wynne denied owning the cell phones and being a pimp, the Standard reported.

In 2019, Wynne was arrested and accused of possessing weapons and advertising a “cocaine buffet” on Snapchat, the Mercury News reported. He pleaded guilty and was released in 2021 on time served and ordered into a drug treatment program after his attorney called for compassion and detailed his struggles with substance abuse.

Wynne has garnered more than 100,000 followers on Instagram and over 29,000 followers on X with content showing him harassing homeless people and people using drugs in the streets of San Francisco’s SoMa and Tenderloin districts. One video shows Wynne opening the door of a woman’s car without her permission as he jokes about its disrepair.

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“Can you get the duck away from me, please?” she responds.

Wynne then asks a man lying on the sidewalk if he realizes the car is parked in a tow-away zone, then in a separate clip goes on a monologue about how he believes parking enforcement is giving special treatment to people who are homeless.

Last year, Wynne appeared on Fox News as a guest on “Jesse Watters Primetime” and “Tucker Carlson Tonight” criticizing crime rates in the city.

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Wynne’s case remains open and active, according to the police statement. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the San Francisco Police Department.

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General Discussion / Bought some plates from a Trumper, yes he still celebrating the election victory

« on: November 27, 2024, 02:33:39 AM »

...by continuing to proudly displayed his support for Trump. He seemed like a nice enough guy though and the business transaction went smoothly...