smh @ Florida

Thx for video, mashup of Mandy and Gummo was unexpected but inspired

He makes good videos.

Health officials in Florida have sounded the alarm over the discovery of a rare, brain-eating amoeba in the county that encompasses Tampa and several other cities.

The Florida Department of Health announced the news Friday that a person in Hillsborough County had suffered a confirmed infection of naegleria fowleri, a single-celled living amoeba that can lead to a dangerous infection of the brain called primary amebic meningoencephalitis.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/deadly-brain-eating-amoeba-confirmed-in-florida?ref=home

This bacteria pops up every few years; it's why I don't get swimming in lakes (ours are warmer, of course, and have gators).

yeah, everybody panicked about it a few years ago when it happened then. I was taught about amoeba in 7th grade and I was terrified of swimming in a lake even though I'd never done it before anyway

everybody on my timeline is wigging out saying "omg this is so 2020" when it's like, we had a case of it in 2016, we had multiple in 2013, and NOBODY I know that lives here in Orlando that is freaked out regularly swims in warm freshwater and gets it up their nose, sooooooo

Four prison guards threw a man in a shower, turned up the water to 180 degrees, and left him there for 2 hours, until he died with burns covering 90 percent of his body.

Fernandez Rundle didn't charge any of them with a crime. https://t.co/RuFbgR0oJY

But experience, amiright? https://t.co/9IGUmVNHcj

— Taniel (@Taniel) August 9, 2020

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/08/12/901756223/florida-sheriff-orders-deputies-and-staff-not-to-wear-face-masks

I've done my best to spread the story on social media to force the sheriff to take a syringeful of bleach.

Good man.

Is this even legal?

Florida prosecutors at their finest

https://reason.com/2020/09/25/florida-drops-prostitution-case-against-robert-kraft-still-pursues-charges-against-the-women-he-paid/

https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2020/11/17/florida-man-with-sovereign-citizen-views-shot-to-death-by-woman-police-say/

xp :(

Linked at the bottom of that^ Tampa Bay News page:

Up next: Man arrested after I-4 power pole is found strapped to his car roof

is "power pole" a euphemism

this is Orange County, defined:

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2021/04/28/oops-misspelled-word-painted-in-orange-county-school-zone/?

so Florida is *mostly* unaffected by the pipeline hack, other than the Panhandle. however, idiot rumormongers started a rumor that gas shortages would occur here, so now pumps in unaffected TAMPA and other cities are empty. fucking idiots

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/florida-gov-ron-desantis-declares-state-emergency-sunshine-state-doesnt-need-panic

Two stories counts as trend, right?

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/485132-john-kuczwanski-killed-in-road-rage-incident/
https://wgntv.com/news/pregnant-hit-and-run-driver-fatally-shot-after-instigating-road-rage-incident-police-say/

1.) Florida state Republican official ends up dead after a.) causing a traffic accident and then b.) trying to shoot the person he hit — who turns out to be carrying too (yes, even the Prius drivers are armed). "He was a quiet fellow," a coworker says — a quiet fellow with a previous conviction for threatening someone with a gun during a road rage incident.

2.) Pregnant Florida woman hits a motorcyclist and speeds off. Motorcyclist follows her to her house, she comes out armed and shooting, motorcyclist (also armed, of course) shoots and kills her.

In both cases, I wonder what would have happened if the road rager had been successful in killing the other motorist. My guess is they would have gotten off on "stand your ground" or similar defense.

The second article doesn’t say she fired?

Ah, you're right. I guess brandishing was sufficient cause for the other guy to shoot her.

It really does seem like we're coming to a point where whoever survives a gunfight gets to claim self-defense. At least in "stand your ground" states.

Further feeding my working assumption that every driver on the road is armed and ready to shoot, so I never so much as even honk aggressively at shitty and dangerous drivers.

I have cut way back on honking for the same reason. We had a road rage shooting death in our neighborhood last year. I honked at a guy the other week who zoomed across two lanes of traffic to get on an interstate ramp. My wife yelled, "Don't honk, he'll shoot you!"

This is our great 2A society.

Not to worry, I'm sure they're all good guys with guns.

we are just going to go back to dueling to solve disputes aren't we?

An armed society is a polite society.

Florida is breeding grounds for road rage. I completely abstain from antagonism now (save for a dude I flipped off for holding up the line at my apt complex entrance, then telling him to get the fuck back in his car when he got out - I was in a mood that day).

have had too many friends be the victim of road rage. there was a colleague that worked for my company once who was a perpetrator of it here - like ten years ago or so. he I guess got in a road rage incident with a dude and they must have hit each other so he got out of his car and punched the guy in the car in the face, and that guy was packing and shot him. he didn't die, but he was in bad shape for a while.

i am thankful I live in a much bluer area of Florida, just sayin'.

I call drivers assholes and tell them to go fuck themselves on my bicycle all the time. At a certain point, I know I'm being reckless, but the options are yelling and maybe getting shot or not yelling and definitely getting hit by some shithead driver.

I mean in that case, it's survivalist instincts!

So in an actuarial sense, would hunting down the person that hit your car and winning a gun fight raise or lower your insurance rates?

Republican politicians wife is a piece of work, claiming he was "assassinated"

In my fucking backyard

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/30/2077621/-A-Neo-Nazi-rally-has-taken-place-in-the-suburban-streets-of-Orlando

Livid

I wonder if they got permits for this protest, and if so, how they did so.

In Sacramento, they would always hide behind these group names like "South Africa Survivors" and stuff, then the people who would show up would be identifiable members of various skinhead/fash groups.

If permits were issued to the NSM, then Orlando has some bigger problems than we knew.

I'm going with the latter given our Governor

Why wouldn't they get permits? Not getting one would violate the First Amendment, no? It's the Skokie argument.

(I uh am not defending them; it's the law)

Oh I know you wouldn't defend them, but I couldn't really tell from where they were standing whether that was just some random stripmall or a place of power— in Sac, they would always be at one end of the capitol building.

As in, if it was just some random dudes at a stripmall, then it might not actually be protected— if it was the stripmall's property. But whatever, I know it's Florida.

Waterford Lakes is a strip mall, basically with Chili's, a Regal, Best Buy, etc.

Very busy area where they knew they'd have a lot of visibility

It's near the University of Central Florida

Also a much bluer area than the rest of FL so they knew they'd get a rise. Pieces of shit.

lol typical

today is the day Floridians freak out because the weather dipped below 70 (it's 55).

Ima enjoy it.

Lucky you. I "only" got 71.

dat's a bummer, though I like the 70s as well.

It was 37 when I took my son to school this morning.

40s here. It's a damp cold. I have just pushed the sleeves of my long-sleeved t-shirt (all you really need right now) up over my elbows.

Damp cool here too.

for a second I read jon's post as "i was 37 when I took my son to school this morning" and I was going to volunteer to give his kid's ride to school so I can relive my 30s

https://i.ibb.co/ysY5rHV/FB-IMG-1682124902922.jpg

Are they making a baby car?