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This afternoon I was contacted by a mysterious number saying they were with the Cartel and I needed to pay them money or they would kill me and my family.
They then sent me dozens of horrible, bloody, pictures of dead bodies. Not the movie kind. The Cartel kind.
After the barrage of pictures they then sent my parents address which included their names and the names of my sisters threatening to kill them unless I responded.
Please, please be aware this IS A SCAM and you are not in danger.
A letter purportedly from the Mexican cartel allegedly behind the kidnapping and subsequent kidnapping and killing of 2 Americans last week claimed it has dealt with the members "involved and responsible" for the incident, handing them over for authorities to detain.
Photo by Spencer Selover
There are a lot of misconceptions about mindfulness out there. I know that I believed a few of them when I first started meditating in the fall of 2017. As I’ve explored my meditation practice more deeply over the last couple of years, I’ve come to realize that the public perception of meditation is often inaccurate.
Women Playing Mind Games? How to Identify and Escape Mind Games in Dating and Relationships – Knowledge For Men
Silvergate Bank, which had been a cornerstone in the crypto world, announced it’s closing and returning deposits – The Verge
I freaking love my smart speaker. Its like having a personal assistant at your beck and call. It does everything, sets reminders, turns on the lights, read the news, plays music and so much more – Amazon
Girl Scouts sell 200 million boxes each year, surpassing sales of Oreos, not to mention sales of all Chips Ahoy and Milano cookies combined – Tasting Table
Ranked: Who Are the Richest People in Africa? – Visual Capitalist
Whatever Happened To Michelle Meyrink From Revenge of the Nerds? – Van Life Wanderer
Ex-NBA star Shawn Kemp booked on felony drive-by-shooting charge – ESPN
Aboard the Giant Sand-Sucking Ships That China Uses to Reshape the World – Technology Review
How a Stolen Disc Built the Legend of MF DOOM and Madlib’s ‘Madvillainy’ – The Ringer
Method: How to Dissolve Procrastination – Brent Huras
The Ten Worst Plot Holes in Movie History – Listverse
White-collar workers may soon face the AI disruption everyone’s been panicking about. But the news may be better than you think – Wired
The Top 20 Things You Never Want To Say In Front of a Judge – Linkiest
Woman who went on racist rant against pizzeria owner for having Spanish language TV on is charged with a hate crime – Deadstate
Girl Gets Caught Cheating By Best Man – Leenks
Gym ‘influencer’ gets offended cause someone dared to walk between her and her phone – Reddit
8 classes that should be required for all students before they hit adulthood – Upworthy
350-HP Turbo Hayabusa Go-Kart Will Get a Second Turbo for 800 HP – The Drive
1. When you unexpectedly catch a smell that reminds you of a person or a place that you love.
2. Laying awake with someone, and being so lost in conversation that you talk for hours without even realizing it.
Modernism broadly refers a set of beliefs that became dominant in the late 19th century and continued through most of the 20th century. These beliefs were generally that logic, science, and reason could help us learn from the mistakes of the past, and using what we learned, come to a deeper understanding of ourselves and of the meaning of human life. There is usually some sort of vibrant optimism in modernism, at least as far as the idea that if we just think hard enough and look deeply enough, we can make things better (at least understand things better).
The idea was embedded in popular culture in the West by an advertising drive from the De Beers diamond cartel that started in the lean years of the 1930s. The Depression was a disaster for De Beers, which controlled 60% of rough diamond output. De Beers embarked on what it now describes as a “substantial” campaign, linking diamonds with engagement.
Prior to the 1930s, presenting a woman with a diamond engagement ring was not the norm. Even on the eve of World War Two, a mere 10% of engagement rings contained diamonds. By the end of the 20th Century, 80% did.
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For the majority of my life I made one really big mistake: I under-valued the precious nature of the time I’ve been given to live here on earth, and over-valued the short term gratification that comes from digital pleasure.
Katko v. Briney, was a court case decided by the Iowa Supreme Court, in which two homeowners (Edward and Bertha Briney) were held liable for battery for injuries caused to a trespasser (Marvin Katko) who set off a spring gun set as a mantrap in an abandoned house on the homeowners’ property. The case thereafter received wide attention in legal circles, becoming a staple of tort law casebooks and law school courses.
Bertha Briney inherited an old farmhouse in Mahaska County, Iowa, which the Brineys had left vacant for the last ten years prior to the incident. They had the farmhouse boarded up and placed “No Trespassing” signs around the property. The farmhouse was in poor condition and was subject to frequent burglaries and break-ins.
