Demovictory9
Demovictory9's JournalNFT prices then and now
sold last year for $2.9Million, last auction bid $280
1st sold for $1Million, resold for $138,000
sold for $520,000. lost half its value in 10 days
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/they-spent-a-fortune-on-pictures-of-apes-and-cats-do-they-regret-it/ar-AAXHTUa
They spent a fortune on pictures of apes and cats. Do they regret it?
Deepak Thapliyal, the chief executive of the cryptocurrency company Chain, who purchased a rare NFT of a pixelated alien in February for $23.7 million, isn’t afraid. “My decision to purchase a rare Alien Crypto Punk remains the same as it is today,” he said in a statement to The Washington Post. “It is a rare piece of digital art which will have a lifetime of value to the beholder.”
Meanwhile, Frank Chaparro, an NFT collector who works for the crypto news firm The Block, said he has paid more than $20,000 for his collection of NFT’s, which includes tokens like Froyo Kittens, which are images of cats in bowls.
https://twitter.com/JessieMorii/status/1439635636269424640/photo/1
Nowadays, they probably have very little value, he said. But Chaparro added that he isn’t worried because what drove him to purchase these NFTs wasn’t a desire to make money, but an attraction to the characteristics of the image and the community they created.
“Does it hurt? Of course,” Chaparro said. “You want what you have to go up, but think about all the things you enjoy having that really don’t have value but they say something about yourself.”
Search for teens who stabbed man to death in LA
California Republican tweets 'thoughts and prayers' Democrat replies "Fuck your prayers"
https://twitter.com/RubenGallego/status/1529242990736199682https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Calif-Republican-tweets-thoughts-prayers-17198304.php
https://twitter.com/darrellissa/status/1529242225430999041
A Latino on Latino mass shooting. What now?
When I heard that a gunman had killed multiple schoolchildren in a predominantly Latino town in Texas, I immediately thought: white supremacist.
How could I not?
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We live in an America where millions view us as the enemy simply for being Latinos. So I girded myself to deal with yet another murderous cretin purposefully inflicting chaos on my community.
When I found out that the person who killed 19 fourth-graders and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday was named Salvador Rolando Ramos, my stomach dropped.
The mass shooting is already among the 10 worst in U.S. history. In four, most of the victims were Latino: the 1984 San Ysidro massacre in a McDonald’s, the 2017 Orlando Pulse nightclub massacre, the El Paso massacre three years ago, and now Uvalde, a town where nearly three-quarters of residents are Latino and the school district is more than 90% Latino.
Yet a Latino had never been the killer in any those or any of the other 10 worst mass shootings — until Ramos.
But the sun hadn’t even set on the bloodshed in Uvalde, and online speculation had already tried to tie Ramos’ actions to who he was.
Some saw his Hispanic name and invoked illegal immigration despite law enforcement officials quickly stating that Ramos was born in North Dakota. After reading news accounts that Ramos wore eyeliner and endured homophobic slurs, others claimed that his supposed sexual identity pushed him to kill kids.
Communities of color have always have to deal with this essentialism when one of our own commits a massacre.
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What Ramos did — stemming from a pathology found almost nowhere else on Earth — is as American as apple pie.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-25/uvalde-texas-mass-school-shooting-latinos
victim list and ages
Irma Garcia, 46 - fourth grade teacher
Eva Mireles, 44 - fourth grade teacher
Amerie Jo Garza, 10
Uziyah Garcia, 8
Makenna Elrod, 10
Xavier Lopez, 10
Eliahana Torres, 10
Ellie Lugo, 10
Nevaeh Bravo
Tess Marie Mata
Rojelio Torres, 10
Jayce Carmelo Luevanos, 10
Jailah Nicole Silguero, 10
Alithia Ramirez, 10
Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez, 10
Miranda Mathis, 11
Alexandria 'Lexi' Aniyah Rubio, 10
Maite Yuleana
Jose Flores Jr, 10
shooters family speaks
The mother of the sick school shooter who shot dead 19 children and two teachers in Texas has claimed he 'wasn't a violent person'.
Adriana Reyes said she was 'surprised' Salvador Ramos opened fire in a horrific killing spree at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde yesterday.
She admitted her son was a loner who 'kept to himself and didn't have many friends' but shot down reports she had a toxic relationship with him.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com she did not address claims she was a drug addict who saw the boy ditch her and go to live with his grandmother Celia Gonzalez.
Reyes was speaking from the bedside of Gonzalez, 66, as she recovers from being blasted in the face by her vile grandson before he went on a rampage and shot dead 19 children and two teachers.
He had bought two AR-15 assault rifles, bragged about them on social media and suggested he would commit an atrocity before the deadly attack.
But earlier today Ramos' grandfather revealed the family had no idea he legally purchased the two weapons last week.
Rolando Reyes, 74, Gonzalez's husband, also claimed his grandson had been a quiet teenager who spent most of his time alone in his room.
Ramos was shot dead after his shooting spree left 19 children and two teachers dead as well as his grandmother Celia Gonzalez (pictured) fighting for her life after he blasted her in the face
Rolando Reyes, 74, says he had no idea his grandson bought two AR-15s last week. Salvador Ramos bought the guns last week a day after celebrating his 18th birthday with his grandmother at Applebee's
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10854615/Mother-Texas-elementary-school-shooter-claims-son-18-NOT-violent-person.html
9 guns seized from Bay Area man charged with stalking his former co-workers
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Police seized an arsenal of guns and ammunition from a Northern California man charged with cyberstalking his former co-workers after being fired from his job, it was announced Tuesday.
Bryan Velasquez, 43, of Morgan Hill was charged last week with felony stalking and was released on $50,000 bail. He could face further charges involving illegal weapons, authorities said.
“There’s an individual that has animosity, hatred, anger toward others and that was averted. A mass shooting, I believe, was averted,” Police Chief Anthony Mata said.
Velasquez was fired from a construction company in January. In April, the company called police to say that he had been “engaging in stalking behavior," a police statement said.
The behavior escalated, police said, and included posting online photos of himself pointing guns and sending threatening, profanity-laced emails to his former supervisors and co-workers.
Some of the emails suggested he was watching the alleged victims and described details about their homes and family members.
One recent email that was sent out “had statements like, I know where you live, I see you installed a pool, I know what your wife is driving,” Marisa McKeown, a supervising attorney for the Crime Strategies Unit of the Santa Clara County County district attorney's office, told the Bay Area News Group.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/9-guns-seized-from-California-man-charged-with-17196714.php#photo-22518676
On Venezuelan roads, old cars prevail, break down everywhere, becoming like Cuba
Economic Collapse Has Venezuela’s Cars Looking a Lot Like Cuba’sThe collapse of Venezuela’s middle class and car manufacturing sectors mean the country’s cars are just getting older and older.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/economic-collapse-has-venezuelas-cars-looking-a-lot-like-cubas
Decades ago Cuba found itself effectively isolated by international sanctions, forced into desperate resourcefulness to keep its automobiles on the road. In the new millennium, the process is repeating itself in another Latin American country now, Venezuela, where people are barely able to hold their cars together as a result of sanctions and economic downturn. Some of the causes of Venezuela's car crisis echo those facing U.S. drivers, raising the question as to whether Venezuelans' difficulties foreshadow hard times for U.S. drivers.
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He's philosophical about the need to keep repairing his vintage truck: “It’s not like the current cars that have a computer and have a lot of things at the system level. I say that (old trucks) are trustworthy and more reliable because they use nothing but gasoline and water.”
People like Ron are keeping Caracas' street-corner mechanics increasingly busy these days as they try to coax a little more life out of aging vehicles in a country whose new car market collapsed and where few can afford to trade up for a better used one.
Venezuela's vehicle industry produced only eight trucks last year – and nary a single car – according to the Chamber of Venezuelan Manufacturers of Automotive Products. At the century's peak, in 2006-2007, some 172,000 vehicles rolled out of plants operated by Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Chrysler and others.
Imports haven't filled the gap. In 2021, only 1,886 new light vehicles were sold in Venezuela, according to estimates from LMC Automotive, an auto industry consulting firm. That was about double the number in 2020, but less than 1% of what was sold in 2007, when new light vehicle sales peaked at 437,675.
A man tries to repair his car, parked on the side of the road that connects La Guaira with Caracas.
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Venezuela's roads are full of high-mileage, money-sucking vehicles, many that predate the socialist transformation ushered in by the late President Hugo Chavez at the turn of the century.
Ramon Arellano repairs the brakes of a customer's car on a street of the Catia neighbourhood in Caracas, Venezuela.
A cat rests inside an abandoned, burned-out car in the El Paraiso neighbourhood of Caracas, Venezuela.
A derelict car with "For spare parts," written in Spanish on its windshield sits parked in the San Juan neighbourhood.
Carlos Valero repairs his car's exhaust system, in the San Agustin neighbourhood of Caracas.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/300594582/on-venezuelan-roads-old-cars-prevail-break-down-everywhere
shooter bullied over poverty, appearance, clothing, called gay slurs, was aggressive towards women
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10851937/Texas-school-shooter-bullied-clothes-wore-family-poor.html
While the motive for the massacre is not yet known, one neighbor told local news channel Newsy that he witnessed Ramos, who worked at a Wendy's, arguing with his grandmother, claiming he was 'angry that he did not graduate'.
He said the grandmother then screamed: 'He shot me, he shot me', before Ramos 'zoomed down the street' and crashed his car before embarking on his killing spree, which also counted two much-loved teachers, bringing the death toll to at least 21.
According to the Post, the shooting took place the day after his classmates had graduated. State police said his grandmother had died from her injuries.
Meanwhile, his Wendy's co-workers told the Daily Beast that he had an 'aggressive streak' and would send inappropriate messages to female employees. They also branded him 'quiet' and 'anti-social'.
One said: 'He would be very rude towards the girls sometimes, and one of the cooks, threatening them by asking, 'Do you know who I am?'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10851937/Texas-school-shooter-bullied-clothes-wore-family-poor.html
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