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After clearing up the insurance stuff, I went down to CarMax because I thought there would be less chance of a new problem than if I had gone with home delivery as originally planned.Comments
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In March 1997, a local pastor brought the two illiterate nine-year-olds to the local military chief and said the Lord had spoken to them and they would save the Karen people. According to the legend among followers, the twins then rallied defenders of their village by shouting "God's Army!", leading them to a victory over Burmese troops.[3] Various legends claimed that the brothers had numerous magical powers, including invulnerability to bullets and mines, and that they could hand out magical bullets. Supposedly, they could kill by pointing a rifle at the ground and concentrating. One tale claims that Johnny turned himself into an old man and back when bathing in a river. The legend of the boys was embraced by locals who viewed the existing Karen National Union as corrupt and ineffective. A new rebel group called God's Army of the Holy Mountain, or God's Army for short, was thus formed under the nominal leadership of the Htoo twins.
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In 2009, Luther Htoo sought status as a refugee in Sweden and settled in Götene[8] while Johnny Htoo moved to a Thai refugee camp while attempting to go to New Zealand to join his mother and sister.[9] Luther married another Karen refugee in Sweden and fathered a child with her before divorcing.[8] In 2018, Luther Htoo returned to Myanmar after meeting a woman online; as of 2020 both are reportedly unemployed and struggle with alcoholism. - Comments
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10-4-2-4-2-4-3-3-5. I’ve done a lot of small sets of pull-ups tonight. It’s burning off my anger at being passed between two corporations’ compartments for half a workday. I hope I’m not somehow messed up tomorrow.Comments
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There’s no car dealers in the state with a used Leaf Plus. Behold this amazing free market full of choiceComments
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Fuck it. Maybe we should buy a new car direct from a manufacturer.Comments
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I've spent a total of three hours on the phone with CarMax now. There is just no good way to buy a used car.Comments
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1.5 hours on the phone with CarMax and auto insurance company so far.Comments
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Buying a car through CarMax is advertised as simple. While it’s simpler than buying from a dealer, I had to do the last parts of the transaction over then phone last night, and then today I found out they cancelled the order for reasons they’re still researching.Comments
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Quincy resident who used his car to twice ram a Vietnamese man and push him into a ditch while yelling at him to go back to China only gets 18 months because he's old and remorsefulComments
Sullivan started driving and hit G.N. [the victim], forcing G.N. onto the hood of Sullivan's car. Sullivan drove about 200 feet down the street with G.N. on the hood of his car, keeping pace with traffic. G.N. was holding on to the hood and windshield wipers while screaming for help. Sullivan then slammed on his breaks, stopping abruptly, and G.N. fell off the hood. G.N. slapped the hood of Sullivan's vehicle in apparent anger while trying to regain his balance. Sullivan admitted that he then accelerated and drove his vehicle into G.N. a second time, causing him to fall face first into a 10-foot-deep construction ditch. A construction worker on the scene heard Sullivan say, "go back to China!" as Sullivan slammed his car door shut. Sullivan drove away and was arrested two miles from where he had hit G.N. the second time.
An important civil right is freedom from a persistent threat of violence. Asian people in Quincy don’t have this now. They have to be careful around White people in cars because who knows which White driver is willing to take the eighteen months in order to satisfy their anger?
The way to do that is not to convince adults to not be racist (because we don’t actually know how to do that), but to convince people that it’s not worth it to act on their racism. Do you think employers actually give a shit about blatantly discriminating based on race or gender? Some maybe, but a whole lot don’t. They all care about their company taking a huge financial hit, though, so they at least have to be secretly racist.
The case of a 78-year-old guy trying to kill someone is kind of tough, but the prosecutors made the wrong call by going for a lenient sentence. Someone still able to drive a car has the ability to decide how they want to spend their remaining years. My dad, for example, is nearly that age, and he does know what it means to deliberately hit someone with a car. So does the president. (Though if the president did this, thanks to the SCOTUS, he would be immune to prosecution.) Given that, having to spend his final years away from society as a result of trying to kill someone with a car would be fair, even if they were his last years.
Conversely, imagine you hate some politician and believe they’re going to ruin the country and that they’re going to win high office. That politician is crossing the street in front of you. You’re 78. You know you’re only going to take eighteen months if you hit the gas. Do you?
Some people would for 1.5 years in prison; some would still do it even if it cost five. But more people would do it for 1.5.
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The guy has developed an effective uchimata. When he said he wanted to train it up for the tournament, I was like, have you ever made it work? He has! I was gonna be like, that throw is for tall guys, my dude.Comments
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Got back to the back workout. Ten pull-ups. The guy works out so much in judo, and Katt works out consistently, so I felt a little peer pressure to get back in the game.Comments
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Wily has figured out that poking me with a wet nose is more effective than yelling or pawing for the purposes of waking me up at 6 AM. Sometimes, it's cool when cats learn things, but often it's not!Comments
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Strange things are afoot in Germany. (As they seem to be in most places.Comments
Once cast as a leftist demagogue, she and her party, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), are now seen as potential saviours of east German democracy and the only way to halt the AfD’s rise.
AfD is the pro-Nazi party.
The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance also sounds right wing, though?Apart from its well-known opposition to immigration and sympathy for Russia, little is known about what her party really stands for.
This reminds of me Democrats’ “coalition” with Kyrsten Sinema. They thought they had a majority with her and Manchin, but they really didn’t in important situations.
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The guy's school puts up lists of students in each class using ids for each student so they can't be identified except by parents of each student, which is good.Comments
With some basic analysis, though, you can see how the kids move through the classes over time since the ids are the same every year.
There's five kids from the guy's class last year in his class this year. (Another class that has three of his friends has eight kids from his class last year.) There's seven kids in his class this year that were in his class two years ago.
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