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Mark Laita runs Soft White Underbelly, where he interviews and photographs people generally from the seedier side of life. Some interviewees are cops, excons, mentally ill people, etc. but he also tends to offer random people on Skid Row a few hundred for their stories. Sometimes/occasionally it's very interesting, often it's just a rambling junkie.

Mark found the Whittaker family in a <1000 pop town called Odd, West Virginia when he asked a cop about interesting local people. Their family tree is a clusterfrick with far too many overlapping lines, with the bulk of the children coming from two cousins of identical twin brothers.

They are severely inbred to the point they look like cartoonish caricatures of inbred hicks, some of them are nonverbal and have the minds of children. Mark's first video of them is here, I won't spoil it but it's worth watching until the end. Ray, who doesn't talk outside of grunts and barks, shows that he understands what people around him are talking about.

As described in the video, when he first tried to photograph them one of their cousins Jason who lived nearby threatened him with a shotgun and told him to stay the frick away from them. Eventually he was able to talk him down and later interviewed him - he's a career criminal and drug addict with sexual assault charges against a minor.

Based on the positive response from the first video, Mark had more follow-up videos with the Whittaker family and they began a very wholesome chungus relationship with him buying them groceries and taking them to the state fair.

The follow-up videos started to include a gofundme link where people could donate to the family as they apparently needed a new home.

With money and attention coming in, some other vulturous soytuber clickbait cute twink took it upon himself to visit Odd, WV and the Whittakers.

Timestamped is when he starts talking about Mark and the Whittakers. He says that over $77k was raised on just one GoFundMe and they should have funds to buy a $139k house in cash. When asked about the house Betty Whittaker squawks that she doesn't know anything about any house and that Mark said there are no more funds available. Their caretaker says she doesn't seem to understand either. This guy creates another gofundme for the Whittakers.

Mark responds and explains that the Whittakers kept asking for money from the GoFundMe. Since it's their money, he couldn't really refuse. He has receipts that he's sent a bit over $100,000 and they've pissed it all away with no house to show for it.

Although Mark was supposed to have washed his hands of the family after this, tragedy struck later in the month when BJ Whittaker reported that her father Larry had died. She called him emotionally sobbing and crying. requesting $800 for help with funeral expenses and a little over $250 for clothing for her and her family. She said the service would be on Facebook Live.

Betty confirmed the death on the phone, but Mark, seeming to smell something was off, flew across the country that day and showed up to the house to attend Larry's funeral. Larry drives up to the house in his truck about 13 minutes in.

Mark confronts BJ and Betty, who despite typically answering any question with something akin to "Ah dunno" was apparently lucid enough to play along with a lie about a family member dying. Apparently Betty also gives cash from the "family funds" to Larry's grandson Brandon (seen here in the back).

Mark had a followup with Jason the other day. Most recently, Larry asked for cash to try to get BJ help and out of state away from the family, being the worst influence. She, of course, didn't go anywhere, and the Whittakers who are capable of communicating in words were all able to stay consistent on another lie that got them money.

The shotgun toting felon chomo who originally threatened Mark agrees that they're actually untrustworthy and he probably should no longer try to help them.

Moral:

DO NOT TRUST WHITE """PEOPLE"""

!chuds !nooticers

Bleach doesn't even feel like a real show but knowing the ending actually makes it a far better show. The premise is weird as frick even for anime. Grim reapers are not only real but they protect humanity from what are basically corrupted spirits. There's a whole illuminati level hierarchy that runs the soul society and just now in the post blood war are the characters finally going to heck, a place alluded to since like episode 1. It's just such a bizarre series where it feels like the lore was invented in the very chapters they debuted in. The first arc even makes it seem like a slice of life show with mysticism but nope it turns into a battle shonen. I feel like if I would explain the plot of bleach I would say "but actually" roughly 25 times. I remember watching this as a kid and being so confused about the plot. It makes a lot more sense just reading summaries online. If you want to know a super short summary, Ichigo was basically created to be the ultimate living weapon. Everyone (good and bad) has their own agenda so they manipulate and lie to him which pushes the plot forward. Imagine an easily manipulated noob controlling a max level mmorpg account with maxed out legendary equipment. The entire show is just him figuring out the controls and mechanics. That's Ichigo in a nutshell. The entire show under this concept makes WAYYYY more sense. Who is your favorite character? I think Grimmjow for me personally. That seems like a cop out but yeah he's cool.

The only cool futuristic pieces of military tech that I know of are the AR glasses and the rail gun on the navy battleships that I hear was then taken off due to how much damage it did to the ships per shot.

We already got drone warfare

Also this terminator machine gun shit:

What else is out there that I do not know about? What are some cool military technologies in development and what are some other cool military technologies already out there?

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!commies I hate these people infinitely more than the most ardent rightoid does.

It is some consolation that the average rightoid is a visibly dysgenic subhuman untermench neets. At it's not just us surrounded by losers.

Sam Bankman-Fried is trading rice in prison, per BI and Puck News. pic.twitter.com/nqIwHg0uQ3

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 10, 2024

the trader in the striped suit

my friend invested in this payday loan company with the ticker "dave" at 6 dollars a share. they became profitable by soliciting tips lmao. the average person tips 5 dollars on a 500 dollar loan.

The current share price is at 62 dollars or something. I'm amazed the media hasn't written anything on this yet.

Hungary-like fertility policies flatly don't work.

Hungary has dedicated major resources to this - no taxes for 3+ kids, debt forgiveness, major subsidies for homes. It's actually equivalent to ~5% of their GDP. The US military is 3.2%, so big spending.

Nothing happened. https://t.co/ICmu43cieu pic.twitter.com/VNWRctggwc

— Hunter!📈🌈 (@StatisticUrban) April 29, 2024

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I get that reference :DEdit: That or your freezer goes colder than  -27°C (-17°F). (330)

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We just set the fridge to a colder setting. It must have changed the freezer. Its a short stay rental apartment (199)

We?The chances are far more likely that a person you live with has a problem they do not want you to know about than for you to have gotten a "bad batch" or have a freezer that goes that cold.I do not mean to insult you or them, I just encourage you to try and think about if that lens could bring sense to otherwise difficult-to-understand actions by your spouse/partner/roommate/friend. If so, I also encourage you to reach out for help from al-anon or other support groups for how you can deal with living with someone who has alcoholism.Signed,A gratefully sober alcoholic (-117)

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Double twist, OP lives alone and has post it notes all around the house from the mysterious stranger whose been stealing their booze… https://old.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/famywa/postit_notes_left_in_apartment/ (1788)

Fun fact :This post might have saved my life during college. I moved into a flat in my second year of college after a bad experience in the dorm I was staying in. A family owned building and they were renting the first story. It was more expensive and I had to do some freelance work on the side to afford it but I was free now right ? My academic success suddenly took a deep dive, my results in freelance projects also went awful and I developed a severe depression with frequent time loss. This lasted around 8 months. I went to several doctors, including psychiatrists. Nothing solved the problem till I read this thread. Got a co meter and surely enough it was the co. Didn't know where it was coming from but I suspected the gas furnace and called the national gas hotline. Turned out the cheap landlord got his relative to install the new furnace. They fricked up and it was leaking exhaust into the basement and my flat. Landlord also got his relative to turn off the co alarm embedded... (1)

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CO poisoning is my worst fear. Every new place I go I bring my co monitor. The worst I've seen was 20ppm and it was from when I tried to over night a fire in my wood burning stove. (1)

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This is how I was able to catch my little brother sneaking alcohol. We had a bottle of Kirkland vodka and the “vodka” seemingly froze. So I waited for him to come home from school one day and chilled with him to play some video games. I pulled the Kirkland bottle out nonchalantly (the entire bottle was defrosted) and took a mighty big chug. His eyes went wide and he had the audacity to say “slow down” and “why are you drinking that?” I looked him dead in his eyes and laughed and told him “I should be saying the same to you” gave him a good ol lesson that liquor doesn't. Freeze. It wasn't water either that he filled it up with but coconut water. With visible signs of coconut pulp in the vodka bottle. He felt pretty dumb that day , got taxed whatever amount a Kirkland bottle costed because if our father found out, he would have gotten an butt beating so I took his money to replace the bottle. And he lost horribly to me in Mortal Kombat that same day. (3)

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Never listen to anyone named “Corky”

A man in the front row continued to make vulgar comments about Skye. Commenting on her body, calling her baby girl, the whole shabang. The whole match. Wouldn't stop when people around him told him to STFU - he just got louder.

Aubrey Edwards finishes reffing the match and screams for him to be kicked out to security. Both AEW security and arena security were involved. More people were called when he put up a fight. He had a child with him.

Skye left the ring quickly and was very upset

Really awful thing to observe in 2024.

Edit to add some of the things the man said

“Get on your knees for daddy”

“Daddy likes when you're on the top rope baby girl”

“Nice butt peaches”

Plus many more awful things

heroes come to her rescue on twitter, such as this guy.

https://twitter.com/Nickorific_Nick/status/1788669250799898632

hole post so i'm putting very little effort in and just don't have it in me to find a bunch of tweets of people raging about this, but i do want to highlight one from wrasslin' podcast degenerate kevin scampoli.

https://twitter.com/kevinscampoli/status/1788717399505817794

she's made having a fat butt part of her gimmick. she's been very open about it and goes out of her way to wear wrasslin' gear that's 3 or 4 sizes too small because she knows her butt is 10/10 and it's what people want. suddenly it's unforgivable to give her the attention she's seeking, i guess? idk. this whole thing is weird. on some podcast or interview or something she said if i was ever gonna turn heel, i'd just come out in long pants. . i really like skye blue as a wrassler and it's only half cause her butt is ALWAYS OUT. she better not change her LOOK AT MY BUTT gimmick or i'm gonna become a WWE fan.

a while back she came out in new gear that was basically just a thong. so much butt was out i was shocked they let her do it. the picture above is her gear getting ate by her butt. this gear was DESIGNED TO BE LIKE THAT. then the next week when she came out she had shorts on under the gear. she definitely didn't get that gear cleared before she walked out that night.

World's 10 best cities in 2024:

1. 🇺🇸 New York City, US
2. 🇿🇦 Cape Town, South Africa
3. 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
4. 🇬🇧 London, UK
5. 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
6. 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
7. 🇬🇧 Liverpool, UK
8. 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
9. 🇮🇹 Rome, Italy
10. 🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal

According to TimeOut

— World of Statistics (@stats_feed) May 10, 2024

1. 🇺🇸 New York City, US

2. 🇿🇦 Cape Town, South Africa

3. 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany

4. 🇬🇧 London, UK

5. 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain

6. 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico

7. 🇬🇧 Liverpool, UK

8. 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan

9. 🇮🇹 Rome, Italy

10. 🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal

Having a kitchen in your home is fascism. pic.twitter.com/1DcYNWoVzU

— Everything Is Fascism (@EverythingXism) May 10, 2024

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