@ray_ban@Meta hands down worst customer service experience of my life. Be mindful if you have a warranty issue you will have a nightmare and possibly be forced to except an inferior product. I ordered a unit with transition lenses and can’t even have that as an option
@MizzyMogs There was a game out same time as DOOM. Dude also killed monsters and said funny shit like “man who stand on toilet high on pot”. One of his weapons was an alien head that did different attacks based on what finger was in it and I can’t remember its name to save my life
🚨#BREAKING: A father in Amarillo, Texas says he had to MOVE WHERE HIS KIDS SLEEP because a police officer used the city's Flock cameras to STALK him 76 TIMES over a woman the officer wanted for himself...
...prosecutors only gave the cop a MISDEMEANOR and a $4,500 bond.
This is Amarillo, Texas, the officer's name is Christian Eder.
Eder had a thing for a female officer. That officer had once dated a local dad. So Eder went hunting.
From February to June, he ran that father's license plate through the city's FLOCK cameras 76 times. Every gas station. Every school pickup. Every daycare run.
Police confirm there was NO case at all, no assignment.
When the system asked him why, he typed "city planning." and dozens of times, just one word: "want."
The victim's words: "I'm a creature of habit. I pick my kids up from the same school, the same daycare. It hit me: this guy knows exactly which way I go."
The father said he knew something was wrong when he walked out to his car at 1 a.m. and saw a MARKED PATROL UNIT crawling through his parking lot behind him.
He texted Eder and asked him to stop and here's the reply, word for word:
"lol, tough guy. Whatever y'all got going on is between y'all. Keep it that way. Have fun, my dude." 😉
He says Eder used his department phone to pull up the female officer's LIVE body camera feed to track her and the county attorney told him the department said that wasn't unusual.
So this man did everything right. He went to Internal Affairs. The department investigated and to their credit, they fired Eder.
Then the system took over, and it protected the cop.
Prosecutors REFUSED to file felony stalking charges.
Instead: 78 counts of "tampering with a government record." A misdemeanor.
One $4,500 bond for all of it.
Think that's not enough? Here's the part that will make you sick.
Under Texas law, the "victim" of that charge is... the City of Amarillo. Not the father. Not his kids.
He was told he might not even qualify for victim services.
"How, all of a sudden, am I not the victim?"
He asked police for a description of Eder's personal vehicles so he could watch for him. They said no.
The stalker has every piece of his information, but the dad... he isn't allowed to know what car to look for.
"I've had to change where my kids sleep in my house. I've had to change everything."
The chief admitted to City Council that officers could run these cameras off-duty on their WORK PHONES, with no alerts for high-volume searches, and the department's audit never flagged 76 hits on one plate.
The only reason we know about this one is that the target found out.
THIS IS PURE INSANITY!!!!!!!
Everyone says “tax the rich” but look at the actual numbers.
Someone earning $150,000 pays around $30,600 in federal tax.
Someone earning $25,000 pays about $1,200.
It takes 25 people at that lower income to contribute what one high earner pays alone.
So why keep pushing high earners to leave when they’re already carrying most of the load?
The real problem was never how much tax gets collected.
It’s how much gets wasted once it’s in the government’s hands.
Stop blaming the rich.
Start asking where the money actually goes.
@aldotcom This is misleading. It would create TEMPORARY construction and infrastructure work. After that the manpower needed would fall to a fraction of a percent and all that would be left is bad water, shaky electrical service, and god know what else
@aldotcom What’s the point?
You want data centers everywhere
Texas like weed laws
And possibly a wall on the gulf
Vote Tommy
If you’re against that stuff vote Doug
I said goodbye to an American family at eight o'clock.
I left at 9:40.
Nothing went wrong. Nobody stopped me. I stood up, I said thank you, and then a ritual began, and I did not know it was a ritual until I was already inside it.
The first goodbye happens sitting down. This one is false. You say "well" and then you do not move. I moved. That was my first error.
The second goodbye happens standing. There is new conversation here. Better conversation. The finest stories of the entire evening are told after everyone has agreed to leave.
They save their best material for the retreat. This is a nation that fights hardest on the way out the door.
The third goodbye happens at the door. The door is open. Cold air is entering the house and nobody acknowledges the cold air. A woman named Deb told me about her sister's kitchen for eleven minutes with a screen door tapping against her shoulder the entire time.
Then the porch. Then the driveway.
At the driveway the husband got involved. He had barely spoken at dinner. In the driveway he became a different man entirely and told me about a tree.
I don't remember anything about the tree. I remember that he was happy.
Then leftovers arrived. At the car. Which means someone went back inside and made a plate while I stood in the dark, and nobody asked that person to do it.
Nobody ordered that. The supply train left on its own.
I got in the car. I believed I had won. My window was down because it was warm out. That was my final error.
Deb remembered one more thing.
Here is what I have learned since. You do not say goodbye. You say "I should get going," which starts a clock nobody looks at. Then, some time later, the host says "well, I'll let you go."
That is the permission. Only the host can grant it. I had been trying to leave without it, like a man walking out of a castle without being dismissed.
I now announce that I should get going one hour before I intend to get going.
An American friend confirmed this is correct procedure.
He also told me his grandmother once said "I'll let you go" and then talked for twenty more minutes, and he wanted me to understand that this is not a failure of the system.
That is the system.
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