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BWAHAHAHAHA this is what happens when one blindly follows a trending ad or entertainment/financial ploy on social media and elsewhere on the Internet without first doing their research and looking into the history of the people or organizations behind the event, product, or 'get rich quick' scheme. Same goes for those who impulse buy "1 million lumen declassified military flashlights" or "14 mile zoom declassified Special Forces monoculars" on Amazon.

Fans of the TV show Bridgerton (UK royal family drama) enraged after paying $300 to attend a cringe filled zero-effort flop in Detroit.

 
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i know some folks don't have much sympathy for addicts, but it is still sad.
like a deadly virus, it will eventually kill itself off when it runs out of victims.

 
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BWAHAHAHAHA this is what happens when one blindly follows a trending ad or entertainment/financial ploy on social media and elsewhere on the Internet without first doing their research and looking into the history of the people or organizations behind the event, product, or 'get rich quick' scheme. Same goes for those who impulse buy "1 million lumen declassified military flashlights" or "14 mile zoom declassified Special Forces monoculars" on Amazon.

Fans of the TV show Bridgerton enraged after paying $300 to attend a cringe filled zero-effort flop in Detroit.


lol, i have no idea about anything dude is talking about and assumes i know...i don't have a tiktok or instagram or twitter account *that works.
 
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lol, i have no idea about anything dude is talking about and assumes i know...i don't have a tiktok or instagram or twitter account *that works.


Fyre Festival and the Willy Wonka Experience (Scotland) were both grand, "unforgettable family fun" theme park style extravaganzas planned and organized by shadowy companies that formed overnight, rented a small room in an office building, and started collecting money. But knowing in this age they cannot just wrap up and flee after taking the money without being digitally tracked down by Internet sleuths, they put on bare minimum, almost zero effort events in some rented warehouse space, leading to even more outrage among the clients who realized that they had gotten conned. The Bridgerton Ball was the latest one.
 
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Fyre Festival and the Willy Wonka Experience (Scotland) were both grand, "unforgettable family fun" theme park style extravaganzas planned and organized by shadowy companies that formed overnight, rented a small room in an office building, and started collecting money. But knowing in this age they cannot just wrap up and flee after taking the money without being digitally tracked down by Internet sleuths, they put on bare minimum, almost zero effort events in some rented warehouse space, leading to even more outrage among the clients who realized that they had gotten conned. The Bridgerton Ball was the latest one.
ah. sucks to be a "fan" of something, only to get suckered into a scam like that.
reminds me of an episode of the big bang theory when sheldon tries to create his own comicon.
james earl jones was hilarious. rip jej.

edit: one can only hope at least one victim has the wherewithal to locate the scumbags and exact some kind of revenge.
 
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ah. sucks to be a "fan" of something, only to get suckered into a scam like that.
reminds me of an episode of the big bang theory when sheldon tries to create his own comicon.
james earl jones was hilarious. rip jej.

edit: one can only hope at least one victim has the wherewithal to locate the scumbags and exact some kind of revenge.


Scammers are some of the most cowardly and shitty of bottom feeders out there, and the first line of defense against one is that you MUST be sharp and have a fast reaction to anything that is questionable in the slightest. Both this Bridgerton thing and the Willy Wonka "theme park" were organized by "companies" that had virtually no digital or professional footprint. An Internet search would have revealed that the entities behind them had just been registered with the business bureaus in their respective countries a few weeks to a month prior to them advertising their event. They had no professional records, reports detailing their net worths, or other established and solid credentials that set them as an honest business. These should have been an IMMEDIATE red flag if someone had taken the time to do some digging.

Same thing with these "1 million lumen" Amazon "Special Forces" flashlights. A simple search would reveal that the MOST powerful flashlight in current existence is the Imalent MS32 at 180,000 lumens, utilizing Luminus SFT70 HO-LEDS, the only type of emitter at the present day capable of handling the currents/heat for producing such raw power. These units have to have specialized heat dissipation systems built in for safe operation and they retail for the same price as an AR-15 rifle from a name brand manufacturer. Then you have this Amazon product showing something the size of a toothpaste tube claiming "1 million lumens" and selling for $50-110. That is the ultimate BS detector tripper right there, immediate, nanosecond. In order to avoid legal troubles, they DO send you an item, and those who were unfortunate to have been duped received a very cheap Chinese second-hand factory black plastic replica of popular tactical flashlights that do not not even feature a reflector housing, but a flat disk in the front containing an array of 9-12 very old style "raindrop bulb" white LEDs that produced a spot of weak light that barely allows you to find your keys on a nightstand table. These things would have been 'hi tech'........ in 1996. And the even more hilarious thing is that the Chinese factories that make the junker lights for these scammer LLCs are most likely the very same facilities that produce the cutting edge Fenix, Nitecore, Acebeam, and Imalent lights, but the allure of making even more money on the side has them opening other locations piecing together discarded and outdated components into units with no branding or serial numbers specifically for these scam retailers to peddle.
 
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i know some folks don't have much sympathy for addicts, but it is still sad.
like a deadly virus, it will eventually kill itself off when it runs out of victims.

It’s why I vote for full legalization.

The shit we have now is to grow govt and create dependency, growing govt.

Go full legalization with personal responsibility.

It will level off in a year.

There will be clean, dead, and a small population of functional users.

That first year will require special street sweepers to remove the Soylent green.
 
i have agreed with this take for years. take away all Rx power. think you have cancer? treat it yourself or go to a onc doc and follow his plan if it seems reasonable. with the info available anyone can make informed decisions and take action as they see fit. actually,i believe in eliminating licensing. need a lawyer? find 1 in practice you find good references for and go forward.
addicts are sad people but it is a self acquired disease.
 

Well, it could be over folks....I mean really over. This Bullshit can get out of hand super fast. One of those two lights off a "Big Boy" clone and then all fucking hell is going to break loose.

There will be a guy that negotiates a treaty.
He will be the Walking Dude.
 
The GREATEST episode of the show Forged In Fire aired TONIGHT. The Vance/Walz debate. Vance showed the world that he is indeed forged in the fire of the hardships he grew up in as recounted in his book Hillbilly Elegy, and he absolutely cut through the sedimentary rock of fossilized bullshit that Walz's camp is entirely made of.
 
all this mea culpa 4 years after the fact is just amazing. you wonder if they are just doing CYA in the unlikely event trump gets in,lives and takes the revenge for him self and the american people that he should. AKA multiple life sentences and multiple capital punishments.
Who in the DOJ is going to prosecute?
 

orly?
On the same day that President Joe Biden said he’d reduced illegal border crossings by 60% at the southwest border, he announced Monday a sweeping extension of refugee admissions for foreign nationals and “habitual residents” of countries in multiple continents.

The authorization is two-fold.
The first expands a refugee admission process to 125,000 foreign nationals from countries around the world.
The second opens a refugee admission process to foreign nationals and those with “habitual residence in” Cuba, Iraq, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, Eurasia, the Baltics, among others, with no numerical limitation.
Biden issued the sweeping measure through a memo issued to the Secretary of State (Presidential Determination No. 2024-13 on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal 2025), saying he was authorized to do so “by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, in accordance with section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act … and after appropriate consultations with Congress.
 

The funny thing is I look at leftist websites and they don't see it this way. Waltz beat Vance in their minds. Just goes to show the debates don't change the minds of the Ds or the Rs because both sides are dug in. Hopefully it help the independents with their decision.
 

The white guilt in Minnesota runs very deep. People here act like this was a slave state! Like slavery happened ten years ago. Its absolutely stunning to hear white people self loath over how evil whitey has been to POC. 🤮.
Personally, I have never suffered from that mental illness and I never will!
 
The white guilt in Minnesota runs very deep. People here act like this was a slave state! Like slavery happened ten years ago. Its absolutely stunning to hear white people self loath over how evil whitey has been to POC. 🤮.
Personally, I have never suffered from that mental illness and I never will!
Is that why there are so many Somalians running around the twin cities area? I used to go every year for work and it seemed like they multiplied along with the mosques and secret mosques.
 
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The white guilt in Minnesota runs very deep. People here act like this was a slave state! Like slavery happened ten years ago. Its absolutely stunning to hear white people self loath over how evil whitey has been to POC. 🤮.
Personally, I have never suffered from that mental illness and I never will!
i have wondered about that. seeing newsome,waltz,harris,etc "elected" on the lt coast,mass,ny would be no surprise. but minn? how did that evolve? just a real mystery to me.