January 26, 2022

Interesting use for old tires

https://twitter.com/Lid05/status/1484285603584032770

January 26, 2022

Malaysian landslide after rain caught on video

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/video-captures-terrifying-landslide-crumbling-street-and-engulfing-cars/vi-AATaw1j

January 26, 2022

71-year-old DoorDash driver struggled up steps to deliver food. $60K raised for him on gofundme

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/idaho-woman-21-raises-60-000-for-71-year-old-doordash-driver/ar-AAT8Kbd

Ayoung woman in Idaho had raised almost $60,000 for an elderly DoorDash delivery driver after she watched him struggle on her front steps.

Anabelle Grace Stephens, 21, captured the 71-year-old man, Kerry Judd, on her doorbell camera last week.

The video shows him moving slowly up and down her front stoop to deliver the food she ordered.

Touched, Stephens shared the clip on TikTok and launched a GoFundMe for Judd in hopes to help him finally retire — and donations have quickly poured in.

On Tuesday night, the total was $58,945, with more than 2,500 people donating to help Judd.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/idaho-woman-21-raises-60-000-for-71-year-old-doordash-driver/ar-AAT8Kbd?ocid=msedgntp

He walked slowly up and down her front stairs, leaning on the railing for support, while dropping off her food delivery
Commenters were heartbroken by the clip and said the US needs to take better care of its elderly so they don't have to work
Stephens launched a GoFundMe so that Judd can give up one of his two jobs, and has raised thousands of dollars so far
After speaking to DoorDash, she connected with her driver who said he works to 'make ends meet' - despite 'dealing with some health issues'
Judd added that his wife died in 2011 and he has 'two sons under his care' so works two jobs

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10441003/Woman-raises-40-000-elderly-delivery-driver-watched-struggle-steps.html

January 26, 2022

Twitter Is Having Too Much Fun After Seeing Penguins With Afros

Black people in particular felt like they were looking at mirror images of themselves when they saw the images.

https://twitter.com/CheesierKarma70/status/1483810458683551745

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/celebrity/twitter-is-having-too-much-fun-after-seeing-penguins-with-afros/ar-AASWzGp

January 26, 2022

It 'Went Downhill Extremely Fast': Nurse Dies 12 Hours After Testing Positive for COVID

During a shift at work, a co-worker told Jeff Sales that he didn't "look great," so he got tested for COVID-19. Twelve hours after the positive diagnosis, he died at the hospital where he worked.

Sales worked as a nurse at a Florida hospital throughout the pandemic and on Friday, another nurse working the same shift expressed concern about how he looked, according to a GoFundMe. Decades earlier, he had open-heart surgery while serving in Korea and hours after he tested positive for COVID-19, he went into heart failure, leaving behind a wife and four children.

"We were all talking to him that morning, and it just all went downhill extremely fast," Sales' son, Austin, told KUTV, noting that his dad tested positive at six in the morning and died at six that night.

The Sales' moved to Florida in 2020 and the 47-year-old worked at Blake Medical Center throughout the pandemic. Described as a nurse who was always willing to pick up the extra slack, Sales would work overnights and extra shifts because of the nursing shortage and uptick in patients, according to the GoFundMe.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/it-went-downhill-extremely-fast-nurse-dies-12-hours-after-testing-positive-for-covid/ar-AAT8hd4

January 26, 2022

2 out of 3 Kroger workers struggle to afford food and housing, survey finds. 14% are homeless

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-01-11/2-out-of-3-kroger-workers-struggle-to-afford-food-housing-survey-finds

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Fourteen percent of Kroger workers are homeless now or have been during the last year, according to the report.

Three-quarters are food insecure, meaning they lack access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life, according to the definition set forth by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That’s seven times the rate of food insecurity in the general population. Fourteen percent of workers report getting food stamps or food from a food bank or community donation program.

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Jeanne Olsen, a service deli employee, takes the bus from her home in La Crescenta to the Ralphs where she works in La Cañada Flintridge. Then, at 9 p.m. after her shift ends, she walks four miles home because she can’t afford a car, she said.

Olsen, who is supporting an 18-year-old son, supplements her income through recycling, which earns her an extra $100 to $150 in a good month.

“I pick up every can, every plastic bottle that I find and I have my family, extended family save for me and friends too,” Olsen, 59, said. “And I have to devote part of my apartment to that recycling … But without that I would not be able to be eat.”


Olsen works six hours a day, six days a week, and made $14.90 an hour last year. Her pay rose to $15.90 at the start of the year.

January 24, 2022

Trump mocked over video that shows him ordering applause at Mar-A-Lago brunch

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-mocked-over-video-that-shows-him-ordering-applause-at-mar-a-lago-brunch/ar-AAT4F5V
https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1485378521333649411

January 24, 2022

French fashion icon Thierry Mugler who has dressed Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian and Beyonc, dies

French fashion icon Thierry Mugler who has dressed Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian and Beyoncé, dies at age 73

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10433573/Fashion-icon-Thierry-Mugler-dressed-Lady-Gaga-Kim-Kardashian-Beyonc-dies-age-73.html

January 24, 2022

4 killed, 1 hurt in 'ambush' shooting at house party near LA (near superbowl location)

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Four people were killed and one was wounded when multiple shooters opened fire at a house party near Los Angeles early Sunday, authorities said.

Police responded around 1:30 a.m. to reports of shots fired at a home in the city of Inglewood, Mayor James Butts told reporters.


Two women and two men were shot and killed and another man was hospitalized in critical condition and expected to survive, CBS2 reported.

Butts called the shooting an “ambush” involving multiple weapons including a rifle and a handgun. The mayor described the incident as the worst single shooting crime in Inglewood since the 1990s.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/4-killed-1-hurt-in-ambush-shooting-at-house-16797918.php

Inglewood is a city of about 100,000 people 10 miles (16 km) southwest of downtown Los Angeles. It's home to SoFi Stadium, where the Super Bowl will be played next month.

January 23, 2022

check in you if received your four free covid tests!

friend in Los Angeles received their tests today. they signed up immediately the first day of availability (Tuesday, January 18th) as did I. I have not received my free tests.

I'm thinking LA is a mail out hub for the tests.