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[sovereignstar v2]

We have an administrative tasks time bucket for that. One of our goals this year is to charge less time to it. I’m not sure why someone would be charging excessive time to i, but yeah

[dubb93]

TV went out. Went and bought a new one. Mounted it after testing it and it went out on day 2. They really don’t make TVs like they used to anymore. Two of the last three I’ve purchased have either been dead out of the box or dead on day 2. The other one lasted 8 years(the one DOA out of the box was purchased just a few days before this one) but considering I have other flat screens in the house that are 15 and 12 years old I guess I’m just not impressed with the new crop of TVs.

Maybe brand has something to do with it. 15 year old TV is a LG. 12 year old is Samsung. Dead out of the box was a RCA. Dead day 2 and the one that lasted 8 years were both Vizios.

[miami_fan]

Originally Posted by dubb93

TV went out. Went and bought a new one. Mounted it after testing it and it went out on day 2. They really don’t make TVs like they used to anymore. Two of the last three I’ve purchased have either been dead out of the box or dead on day 2. The other one lasted 8 years(the one DOA out of the box was purchased just a few days before this one) but considering I have other flat screens in the house that are 15 and 12 years old I guess I’m just not impressed with the new crop of TVs.

Maybe brand has something to do with it. 15 year old TV is a LG. 12 year old is Samsung. Dead out of the box was a RCA. Dead day 2 and the one that lasted 8 years were both Vizios.

It is hilarious you posted this today. I have a Hitachi brand Euro plugged TV that we bought in Germany in 2008 in the office. It is the only one of the eight television spots in the house that has not needed replacement.

[bhlloy]

I think all the big premium electronics brands have taken the Apple approach recently, which is build brand loyalty based on actual or perceived awesomeness, and then build planned physical obsolescence into everything. New sales will outweigh the any negative sentiment and there aren’t that many players in the space anyway.

Maybe that sounds like a crazy tin foil hat theory, but having owned multiple LG, Sony and Samsung TVs in the last 10-15 years they sure do seem to have some critical function die easily some point after all the warranties expire.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by dubb93

TV went out. Went and bought a new one. Mounted it after testing it and it went out on day 2. They really don’t make TVs like they used to anymore. Two of the last three I’ve purchased have either been dead out of the box or dead on day 2. The other one lasted 8 years(the one DOA out of the box was purchased just a few days before this one) but considering I have other flat screens in the house that are 15 and 12 years old I guess I’m just not impressed with the new crop of TVs.

Maybe brand has something to do with it. 15 year old TV is a LG. 12 year old is Samsung. Dead out of the box was a RCA. Dead day 2 and the one that lasted 8 years were both Vizios.

I bought the LG in our living room over 8 years ago. Other than the occasional software issue, where I just need to unplug it and then plug it back in, it still works great.

[albionmoonlight]

Got our LG TV in 2011 before they starting making them to break on purpose. 14 years later, and it's never had a problem

[BishopMVP]

Originally Posted by HerRealName

I never get caught up watching big court cases but this Karen Read trial has been fascinating. It seems strange that Massachusetts brought this case to trial once, let alone this second time after a mistrial. The entire police investigation and expert testing for the state was somewhere between half-assed or outright corrupt.

Well yeah, it seems pretty likely he was killed by another cop inside the house (even if semi unintentionally from a fight where he hit his head while falling) and they knew the whole time. How many times do the cops investigate a dead body on someone's lawn and never talk to to the homeowners unless you did over the phone? If the police and EMT's are outside your house for hours because someone you invited to a party was dead on the lawn why wouldn't you ever come outside to talk to them unless you know what happened? Definitely unbelievable it got to a 2nd trial though, you've even got jurors from the first one saying they rendered a Not Guilty verdict and the Judge just didn't allow it just like she won't allow in the fact that ARCCA was hired by the FBI not the defense, and now the DA is attacking the credibility of the (neighboring) state pathologist he's used as an expert witness on the same topic, I can't even imagine how many other cases that is opening up grounds for appeal on. The prosecution's star expert witness after 2 years they could have found someone better was lying about having a college degree on the stand and his own company marked him on their website as Not For Expert Testimony as he was in the middle of it, I'm not expecting the actual cops to go down for manslaughter or the cover up but this is a complete clown show and waste of taxpayer dollars.

Shoot check in on Twitter and we got this today, what is the state doing at this point? https://twitter.com/OliviaLambo_/sta...78198401900895

[HerRealName]

Originally Posted by BishopMVP

Well yeah, it seems pretty likely he was killed by another cop inside the house (even if semi unintentionally from a fight where he hit his head while falling) and they knew the whole time. How many times do the cops investigate a dead body on someone's lawn and never talk to to the homeowners unless you did over the phone? If the police and EMT's are outside your house for hours because someone you invited to a party was dead on the lawn why wouldn't you ever come outside to talk to them unless you know what happened? Definitely unbelievable it got to a 2nd trial though, you've even got jurors from the first one saying they rendered a Not Guilty verdict and the Judge just didn't allow it just like she won't allow in the fact that ARCCA was hired by the FBI not the defense, and now the DA is attacking the credibility of the (neighboring) state pathologist he's used as an expert witness on the same topic, I can't even imagine how many other cases that is opening up grounds for appeal on. The prosecution's star expert witness after 2 years they could have found someone better was lying about having a college degree on the stand and his own company marked him on their website as Not For Expert Testimony as he was in the middle of it, I'm not expecting the actual cops to go down for manslaughter or the cover up but this is a complete clown show and waste of taxpayer dollars.

Shoot check in on Twitter and we got this today, what is the state doing at this point? https://twitter.com/OliviaLambo_/sta...78198401900895

The State isn't even calling their crash expert for rebuttal because it seems they never told him that there were X-rays of the decedent's arms showing there were no fractures. The case was flimsy to begin with and it has totally fallen apart.

My theory is that the decedent went into the garage by accident. The garage door is next to the side door and he just got mixed up. The dog jumped on him and he fell back and hit his head. The problem with that theory is that it seems strange that there would be a cover up in that situation. Maybe there was a fight that caused the dog to jump on him.

[RainMaker]

I have no knowledge of this case besides seeing it on social media and the news. Am I right to assume we'll likely end up getting a 10 part Netflix series about this someday?

[miami_fan]

What are the sport specific equivalents to the feeling a fan gets when your team brings a relief pitcher into a game where his team has muti run lead. The pitcher walks the bases loaded and then gets hooked from the game?

The only thing I can thing of is a soccer player getting subbed in with a similar lead, scoring an own goal and then getting a red card.

[BishopMVP]

Originally Posted by HerRealName

The State isn't even calling their crash expert for rebuttal because it seems they never told him that there were X-rays of the decedent's arms showing there were no fractures. The case was flimsy to begin with and it has totally fallen apart.

My theory is that the decedent went into the garage by accident. The garage door is next to the side door and he just got mixed up. The dog jumped on him and he fell back and hit his head. The problem with that theory is that it seems strange that there would be a cover up in that situation. Maybe there was a fight that caused the dog to jump on him.

My theory is it was the ATF agent (Brian Higgins) that was hitting on Officer O'Keefe's girlfriend (the defendant with a "leaky balloon knot" they were looking for selfie noods of on the phone according to the police officer text chain discovered by the FBI when they were investigating all of them for ties to the Sandra Birchmore case - she's an underage girl who was groomed and used for sex by multiple police officers in the neighboring town until she was murdered in Canton, initially ruled a suicide by locals until the feds got involved and now that police detective has been indicted...) Anyways O'Keefe came into the Alberts house after they were all drinking at the townie Waterfall bar and Read dropped him off, got sucker punched or just punched, fell backwards and hit his head, at some point Chloe the dog also bit his arm during that struggle, they dragged the body outside and initially planned to blame it on the tow truck driver Lucky until they realized Read was blackout drunk when she dropped him off (and I think she probably did say oh my god I hit him that morning thinking she may have hit him the night before, but none of the science backs up him lying in the snow dying of hypothermia), expecting she'd plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter or commit suicide quickly enough.

The dog has been "rehomed to a nice farm in upstate Vermont", the basement had a new cement foundation poured before it was sold, the State Police's lead investigator from the first one Michael Proctor had blatant conflicts of interest due to his relationship with the Alberts and has been fired with cause for his actions in the case and wasn't called in this trial (wasn't allowed to be called?), the DOJ and FBI confirmed they had an open investigation into this and the Norfolk County DA office (the jury is not allowed to know that this trial), the Alberts kids have rented a beach home from "Aunt Bev" who is the presiding Judge in both trials and the brother of the officer is the head Town Selectman (basically the Mayor), the police officer from another neighboring town who watched her vehicle get towed has testified the tail light was not broken then and the dispatcher who testified initially the officers involved and the town police captain were in the garage with the vehicle for a very long time has been promoted and given massive raises with the Boston PD since then, members of the initial jury have said they found her Not Guilty of Murder (but were hung on Manslaughter) before Aunt Bev declared a mistrial on all charges in the first one, everyone involved on the Albert side has consistently lied and withheld information about texts and phone calls with multiple police officers destroying their phones by throwing them in separate places of a decommissioned Air Force base the day before they received a subpoena ordering them to hand them over, and all this happened before the first trial was even over and doesn't get into all the blatant lying and incredibly bad science happening from the Prosecution's side as the corrupt Judge rules in their favor for every motion and continues allowing them to withhold material evidence from the jurors. That's the tl;dr version

[Draft Dodger]

I work with someone named Brad and occasionally have to email him, and every single email to him I start with "Hey Brad" and it always makes me chuckle.

[HerRealName]

Originally Posted by BishopMVP

My theory is it was the ATF agent (Brian Higgins) that was hitting on Officer O'Keefe's girlfriend (the defendant with a "leaky balloon knot" they were looking for selfie noods of on the phone according to the police officer text chain discovered by the FBI when they were investigating all of them for ties to the Sandra Birchmore case - she's an underage girl who was groomed and used for sex by multiple police officers in the neighboring town until she was murdered in Canton, initially ruled a suicide by locals until the feds got involved and now that police detective has been indicted...) Anyways O'Keefe came into the Alberts house after they were all drinking at the townie Waterfall bar and Read dropped him off, got sucker punched or just punched, fell backwards and hit his head, at some point Chloe the dog also bit his arm during that struggle, they dragged the body outside and initially planned to blame it on the tow truck driver Lucky until they realized Read was blackout drunk when she dropped him off (and I think she probably did say oh my god I hit him that morning thinking she may have hit him the night before, but none of the science backs up him lying in the snow dying of hypothermia), expecting she'd plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter or commit suicide quickly enough.

The dog has been "rehomed to a nice farm in upstate Vermont", the basement had a new cement foundation poured before it was sold, the State Police's lead investigator from the first one Michael Proctor had blatant conflicts of interest due to his relationship with the Alberts and has been fired with cause for his actions in the case and wasn't called in this trial (wasn't allowed to be called?), the DOJ and FBI confirmed they had an open investigation into this and the Norfolk County DA office (the jury is not allowed to know that this trial), the Alberts kids have rented a beach home from "Aunt Bev" who is the presiding Judge in both trials and the brother of the officer is the head Town Selectman (basically the Mayor), the police officer from another neighboring town who watched her vehicle get towed has testified the tail light was not broken then and the dispatcher who testified initially the officers involved and the town police captain were in the garage with the vehicle for a very long time has been promoted and given massive raises with the Boston PD since then, members of the initial jury have said they found her Not Guilty of Murder (but were hung on Manslaughter) before Aunt Bev declared a mistrial on all charges in the first one, everyone involved on the Albert side has consistently lied and withheld information about texts and phone calls with multiple police officers destroying their phones by throwing them in separate places of a decommissioned Air Force base the day before they received a subpoena ordering them to hand them over, and all this happened before the first trial was even over and doesn't get into all the blatant lying and incredibly bad science happening from the Prosecution's side as the corrupt Judge rules in their favor for every motion and continues allowing them to withhold material evidence from the jurors. That's the tl;dr version

Holy cow. It sounds like the whole PD needs to be rebuilt from the ground. And some of these guys are state police. Thanks for the recap! I want to go back and watch the first part of the prosecution's case this weekend since I came after the first couple witnesses.

[GrantDawg]

Hey Brad. I miss that.

[BishopMVP]

Originally Posted by HerRealName

Holy cow. It sounds like the whole PD needs to be rebuilt from the ground. And some of these guys are state police. Thanks for the recap! I want to go back and watch the first part of the prosecution's case this weekend since I came after the first couple witnesses.

Some of the most damning witnesses haven't even been allowed to be called (or weren't in Proctor's case). The state has literally not called the lead detective in the case, they have not attacked the expertise of a state medical examiner this exact DA has used in other cases, they have gone and paid hundreds of thousands to unqualified "experts" who did not perform the accident reconstruction tests they said they did because nobody in the state's own accident reconstruction team would touch any of this, they have gotten the judge to ban mention of names of family members who were in the house that night and have evidence of injuries on their knuckles from that night. You've got federal investigations into it and most of this stuff only came out in the Tuohy stuff the prosecution tried to suppress, even the fact that ARCCA who is testifying in the defense's favor was hired by the FBI and the US Attorney's Office is not being allowed in at trial, truth is not the goal. But honestly I get why the officers at that house or in the immediate aftermath tried to cover it up and thought they could, I don't know why the state and feds have continued to allow this to happen into a 2nd trial wasting millions of dollars now.
https://x.com/OliviaLambo_/status/1800248311560970624 (watch the video before reading, funnier to see an MSP Detective forced to read them, and by the way his supervisor was on this text chain and the one asking if he'd found any noodz yet...)

https://x.com/OliviaLambo_/status/1911525076568359321

[NobodyHere]

I've been following the Karen Read trial a bit too.

I don't think the prosecutors ever adequately explain the John's injuries on his arm. I don't see how that could be caused by a tail light.

On the other hand if it were caused by a dog, then shouldn't there have been some doggy DNA or something in the wounds?

I have no idea what happened and I wouldn't vote to convict.

Another point is that didn't an officer or two get rid of information on their phones despite being court ordered not to? Shouldn't these guys get charged with something or be in contempt of court?

[RainMaker]

lol
Tourist sits on and shatters Van Gogh chair adorned with hundreds of Swarovski crystals

[PilotMan]

Clearly Americans.

[Lathum]

I get it is the NY Post, but the amount of people in the comments blaming the museum are everything that is wrong in our culture.

[Ksyrup]

I'm shocked it wasn't roped off.

[dubb93]

Ordered two new TVs last night. Hoping atleast one of them works. If they both work I'll just keep them both and put my oldest TV I have in storage.

Interestingly enough I learned that if you buy a TV from Best Buy they charge you $50 to deliver it. If you buy that same TV off Amazon for the exact same price shipping is free even though the TV ships from and is sold by Bust Buy.

[Lathum]

My best friend in my town is a smoking hot single mom. Her and my wife are also really close and our daughters as well. Her and I go to the gym, walks, have started playing pickle ball and of course we are part of the same group of friends. My wife has zero issues with this

Other than a few off color jokes nothing even remotely sexual has ever passed between us (despite what I am sure some people think). I love my wife and would never be unfaithful to her.

My friend mentioned she is going to try a place called The Stretch Lab, which is just what it sounds like, and asked if I wanted to go.

This feels a bit too close to a couples massage to me and I declined. Thoughts?

[Ghost Econ]

Stretch Lab is what my wife and I call our bed.

[albionmoonlight]

I'm a big fan of spider sense here. If there was a part of you that felt . . . off with the offer, then it is smart to decline it, IMO.

[albionmoonlight]

Originally Posted by Ghost Econ

Stretch Lab is what my wife and I call our bed.

When we let our lab onto our bed, he stretches and takes up all the space.

[GrantDawg]

For some reason I read that and "Highway to the Danger Zone" started playing in my head.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by albionmoonlight

I'm a big fan of spider sense here. If there was a part of you that felt . . . off with the offer, then it is smart to decline it, IMO.

Nothing off about it per se, my friend adores my wife and would never, ever try anything. There has been plenty of opportunity for that over the years where lots of booze has been involved. It just feels a bridges too far for friends of the opposite sex to do together.

[Passacaglia]

One of GrantDawg and Ghost Econ need to change their name

[GrantDawg]

We actually take turns logging in as each other.

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[PilotMan]

Originally Posted by GrantDawg

..... "Highway to the Danger Zone" started playing in my head.

Identical reaction when a woman has a little landing strip.

[flere-imsaho]

Originally Posted by albionmoonlight

When we let our lab onto our bed, he stretches and takes up all the space.

That's 100% what came to mind for me as well.

Originally Posted by Lathum

My friend mentioned she is going to try a place called The Stretch Lab, which is just what it sounds like, and asked if I wanted to go.

There's one in my town, and it looks more like an Orange Theory fitness place than a couples massage place. To me, it would be akin to going to a group yoga or pilates class.

[Ghost Econ]

Originally Posted by GrantDawg

We actually take turns logging in as each other.

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That's not all we take turns doing...

[dubb93]

This thread is worthless without pics.

[sovereignstar v2]

My very friendly Chinese neighbors decided to one-up me and get one of the newly redesigned more rugged-looking Honda Passports. Thing looks fucking sweet. Makes my ‘24 look like a Subaru.

The response is I buy a set of new tires (needed to replace OEMs anyways) and a new set of alloy wheels dubbed Warlord. That’ll fucking show them. But yeah, nice neighbors. Had to back out the mom’s Audi past a workers truck that was in the driveway the other week. Sweet lady.

Warlord

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by sovereignstar v2

My very friendly Chinese neighbors decided to one-up me and get one of the newly redesigned more rugged-looking Honda Passports. Thing looks fucking sweet. Makes my ‘24 look like a Subaru.

The response is I buy a set of new tires (needed to replace OEMs anyways) and a new set of alloy wheels dubbed Warlord. That’ll fucking show them. But yeah, nice neighbors. Had to back out the mom’s Audi past a workers truck that was in the driveway the other week. Sweet lady.

Warlord

You could move to the PNW where the Subaru would be more respected.

[sovereignstar v2]

Originally Posted by Atocep

You could move to the PNW where the Subaru would be more respected.

I thought Warlord would be sufficient, but I like your line of thinking. Perhaps that is the more appropriate level of 'uh uhh no you di'int'. I could turn my current place into an annoyingly cheap VRBO too.

[Ghost Econ]

Originally Posted by dubb93

This thread is worthless without pics.

http://image.inkfrog.com/pix/mizuke/bigmanphoto.jpg

RIP Skydog's Patriotic Undies

[Ksyrup]

I have no clue who Karen Read is, but the level of "BREAKING NEWS" alerts I've received is ridiculous. And I watch a ton of true crime.

[GrantDawg]

Lawyers, how bad is this?


https://bsky.app/profile/clapifyouli.../3lrwj3zsxdk2k

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by GrantDawg

Lawyers, how bad is this?

Bwahahaha, that's amazing.

That said, the judge was magnificent (unless it went south in the final few seconds I didn't watch, I bailed once the mortification appeared complete)

[GrantDawg]

A local school system is making kids put their phones in locked pouches during the school day. It will only unlock at the end of the day. That's sounds like a pretty good idea.

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[Lathum]

That is becoming increasingly common. My kids schools make you put them in a bin at the start of each class, so very similar.

[Ghost Econ]

Who decides which water bottles are going to be popular each year? Before it was yetis, then Stanleys, now I see Owala's everywhere.

[CrimsonFox]

...and we're back!

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Ghost Econ

Who decides which water bottles are going to be popular each year? Before it was yetis, then Stanleys, now I see Owala's everywhere.

I'm pretty sure that's TikTok.

[Edward64]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Bwahahaha, that's amazing.

That said, the judge was magnificent (unless it went south in the final few seconds I didn't watch, I bailed once the mortification appeared complete)

The obvious question is does his wife look like the judge or maybe in tone/speech?

[Ksyrup]

If that lawyer was me, I would have simply stopped, turned around, and found the nearest/highest cliff to walk straight off of.

In fine social media form, that video has sparked comments that seem to align with gender, ranging from "this is a guy losing an argument with a woman naturally going into mansplaining and being condescending to a female without realizing/remembering who he was talking to," to "this guy obviously argues a lot with his wife/GF and simply went into auto-defense without thinking."

I guess because I'm a man, I tend to see this more like the latter circumstance, but I can also see the other side, I guess. My first thought when watching this is that it reminded me of those times in school when a classmate would accidentally call the teacher "mom." Embarrassing, yes, but not necessarily mean-spirited or with any ill will behind it.

[albionmoonlight]

Our office is large enough that we have standard rules for e-file storage. Naming conventions, consistent folder structures and the like.

I was in a hearing-prep meeting the other day, and we were trying to find some files on the network, and one of the lawyers said "Oh yeah. I don't understand our filing system, so I just put all my stuff in a folder under my name."

And I was able to glance at our IT person in the meeting quickly enough to see the look of pure hatred and disgust wash across her face before she put her professional mask back on.

[Ghost Econ]

I've been sitting in the library for 35 minutes while this guy tests this laptop I'm trying to sell. I get you want to make sure it works, but come on man.

I have to assume he's looking at porn or something and I'm going to have to super wipe it if he doesn't buy it.

[Passacaglia]

Maybe he's testing the battery life?