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It is uncommon for Beijing to arrest a US citizen on national security allegations, and the case comes just a month after Donald Trump met the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, in Beijing as the two countries aim to reset their tumultuous relationship.

It’s also a month after a mayor in California was charged with “acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China.”.

It’s crazy that they mention a Trump trip and not an extremely similar thing that happened in the same month.

Konnan is diabetic. It’s not horribly uncommon for older diabetic people who are struggling to require amputation.

Buff Bagwell was in a car accident in 2020 while under the influence of drugs. It injured his kneecap so badly that he’s had several surgeries to try and get it fixed. So he finally had it amputated (according to the linked article).

Marty Jannetty had sepsis in his foot for three years, and the doctors said amputating it might help. Not sure what caused the sepsis, but it seems like a leap to me that he’d be injecting anything into his one foot.

Kerry Von Erich famously wrestled with a false leg for years without telling anyone. He injured his foot in a motorcycle accident (probably while under the influence of drugs) and then re-injured it by trying to wrestle on it too early. So they had to remove it.

So no, in these cases there isn’t any correlation between injecting things and leg amputation.

To me it’s the most obvious joke.

The traditionally tough-guy Vikings are actually running away from a spider on the boat.

Classic PBF!

That’s genius, and I appreciated the hint.

“Lucha Libro” is also really clever, since “libro” is book.

Almost all of these are graffiti tag stickers, other than the Gaza stickers and the Trump sticker, which took me too long to decipher.

They’re mostly people’s tags and/or the groups they belong to. So something that identifies them.

His family had even started planning his funeral.

Sherpas die on Everest pretty much every year, so they just assumed.

His hand being right above a firing, shortened shotgun is an interesting choice.

Of course! And you can’t forget the classic casino or arcade games.

There’s a coin-pusher roguelike and a claw game roguelike as well.

I can personally remember seeing “Gonads and Strife” in 2001, and “Winnie the Pooh: Satan Worship” in 2000!

Just to add to the list of ancient internet videos.

I definitely believe it, especially because I thought “it looks kinda young to me” in the previous photo and this one looks just as young!

The feathers are more messed up than I’m used to seeing, so I’m taking that to mean “juvenile molting” but I might be over-generalizing.

It’s so adorable!!

See also: Honey trapping

Honey trapping is a practice involving the use of romantic or sexual relationships for interpersonal, political (including state espionage), or monetary purpose.

I don’t think I really get this one. The Disqus link provided some clues (new-age songs talking about turning and circles?) but I didn’t realize circles were a trope of the 60s.

This guy’s so crazy he holds the peeler by the blade!

Excite Bike 95

What a lovely variety!

I believe these are the birds in order:

• White-Breasted nuthatch
• Tufted Titmouse
• House sparrow (I think?)
• Cardinal
• Downy Woodpecker (based on its size, and it looks like it has a little beak)

You, like me, probably get the Downy and Hairy woodpecker, which look pretty much identical except a few minor differences.

It will look terrible, because everything Trump approves looks terrible.

He has bad taste.

I deleted it because I realized it was programming.dev, and I didn’t want to have a silly argument on a toxic instance.

You’re not proving me wrong, which is really impressive.

Can you afford the extra hours? Comfort-wise, time-wise, or job-wise?

If I can help it, I’m avoiding the brutal plains route, as someone who has driven across the country more times than I would like to admit for things other than fun. I’ll spend a decent few hours of my life to avoid driving through the Nebraska or Kansas plains again.

The efficient route is most likely going to be the most boring and desolate, kind of by definition. It will have straight roads and slow elevation builds for efficiency’s sake.

If I had the option to drive southwest through Missouri or southwest through Kansas, I am picking Missouri.

I also find Oklahoma to be a bit more interesting than Kansas, but the Texas panhandle can’t really be helped.

One of the most interesting road trips I’ve ever taken was through New Mexico! From Amarillo, Texas I went southwest to Roswell, then went west. I’m not sure if it was the time of year I went or what, but it was absolutely amazing. Way more interesting than the slow build of a lot of the other plains areas.

Did it add time to my trip? Yes. But it’s been over ten years and I still think about some of the interesting scenery I saw.

Haha ok! Really not worth arguing

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