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Jesus told me I’m the only person whose life matters

“A motorcycle can be more dangerous than COVID. Something’s going to get you. You just need to know where you’re going when you die,” [Bikers for Christ member Jenny McKinney] said.

—Health Experts Fear A Spread Of COVID As Motorcyclists Gather In South Dakota

Sliders S1 E9: Luck of the Draw (1995)

English appears to have enrolled the thermostat, operated by the company EnergyHub, in a program known as “Smart Savers Texas” ... [which] allows power companies to remotely adjust thermostats when energy demands are high in exchange for an entry into a sweepstakes. Other power companies have been known to offer customers reduced billing costs for entering similar programs.

—’Woke up sweating’: Texas power companies remotely raise temperatures on people using their smart thermostats

“noncompliant individuals”

Jerome Dix, president of Dayton Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #44, defended the officers’ conduct ... “The officers followed the law, their training and departmental policies and procedures,” Dix said. “Sometimes the arrest of noncompliant individuals is not pretty, but is a necessary part of law enforcement to maintain public safety, which is one of the fundamental ideologies of our society.”

—Police dragged a paraplegic man from his car after he told them he couldn’t get out

Newspaper established in 1849 actually just a third-rate tabloid, it turns out

The Santa Fe New Mexican reported [Alec] Baldwin [who had just accidentally killed two people and was probably having the worst day of his life] was seen Thursday outside the sheriff’s office in tears, but attempts to get a comment from him were unsuccessful.

A prop gun discharged by Alec Baldwin killed a film crew member on set, sheriff says