Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (10/2/19)

Quote I

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. Khalil Gibran

Quote II

"All Americans should be free to live out their faith and serve their neighbors — especially homeless women who have suffered sexual abuse or domestic violence — without being targeted or harassed by the government," Kate Anderson

Quote III

“Tortellini are made in a certain way. If the recipe changes, they are no longer tortellini. If the choice is based on religious motives, then, in order not to betray the tradition, why not use another of our stuffed pasta, such as tortellone, with ricotta, parsley and parmesan?”Anna Maria Silvi

Quote IV

“They shine lights — not just to people in San Francisco but to thousands of people in the country — that the housing crisis is a serious problem, if people are fighting over rocks,” Danielle Baskin

Thanks Michigan.

Paul Joseph Watson

Crazy shit that's been happening.

Technology keeps on marching. Your pizza may be made by a robot someday soon.

After three years of quietly toiling away on a robotic food system, Seattle startup Picnic has emerged from stealth mode with a system that assembles custom pizzas with little human intervention.

Picnic — previously known as Otto Robotics and Vivid Robotics — is the latest entrant in a cohort of startups and industry giants trying to find ways to automate restaurant kitchens in the face of slim margins and labor shortages. And its journey here wasn’t easy.

“Food is hard. It’s highly variable,” said Picnic CEO Clayton Wood. “We learned a lot about food science in the process of developing the system.”

The British justice system is as f*cked up as ours is.

‘Posh turf war’ teens spared jail because they wouldn’t cope in prison

A group of friends who beat up a teenager in a turf war between two towns in Oxfordshire have been spared jail. Kieran Clifton, 19, dragged his victim, 17, out of his car and beat him while shouting ‘you’re going to be unrecognisable after this’ and ‘do you want to stab me?’ He was joined in the attack by Se Smith, 18, Daniel Clifford, 22, and Joshua Campbell, 19. The group had been drinking Amaretto together throughout the day at the Fat Fox in Watlington.

Is Michigan State Rep. Gary Eisen, R-St. Clair Township, pissing in the wind?

A Republican state representative has introduced legislation that would hold government offices and private businesses liable if anyone is injured during a shooting in a gun-free zone on their premises.

State Rep. Gary Eisen, R-St. Clair Township, introduced House Bill 4975, which would revoke governmental immunity from lawsuits arising from injuries sustained on government property where guns are banned. Eisen is also the sponsor of House Bill 4976, which would make a government, business or individual that designates a property a gun-free zone responsible for the safety of individuals who enter it.

Your nightly outrage. Fairfax County cop relieved of all duties after helping out ICE.

A Fairfax County Police Department (FCPD) officer has been “relieved of all law enforcement duties” after turning over a driver without a Virginia Operator’s license to an ICE agent on Saturday.

The FCPD officer was handling a traffic accident in the city of Alexandria and learned one of the driver’s involved didn’t possess a license. The officer obtained the driver’s information and checked the DMV record to verify the driver’s identity. During the verification process the officer was notified that the driver was wanted by ICE “for an administrative violation warrant on file for the failure to appear for a deportation hearing.”

After contacting the ICE agent that was listed as the point of contact for the confirmation of the warrant, the officer was told by the agent that they were close to the location of the traffic accident.

Sounds like civil war to me. And that "they" started it.

However, the State of Florida is doing it's very best to curb sanctuary municipalities.

A law requiring police in Florida to cooperate with Immigration agents takes effect today. The new law requires local law enforcement to hold prisoners up to 48-hours beyond their release date so they can be picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

Under the law, local police departments will be required to hold undocumented immigrants who have been detained for an additional 48 hours, until ICE arrives and transports them to a federal detention center. People who have fully served their local sentence or posted bond will also be detained for the extra two days…

The law allows the governor or attorney general to take action on elected officials who don’t comply with the law, including removing them from office…

Not only is our civil law system goofed up. So is China's.

One of the weirdest questions you can find on law forums is “can I sue for a broken condom?” (don’t ask me how I know that). Well, a woman in China went even further than that, suing the man who delivered the condoms she ordered too late, thus causing her unwanted pregnancy.

Chinese media recently reported the somewhat funny case of a young woman from Xuzhou, in Jiangsu province, who allegedly sued a deliveryman for bringing the box of condos she ordered online eight minutes late, and thus indirectly causing her to become pregnant. Apparently, the woman, referred to as Su (pseudonym), had her boyfriend over one evening in August, to watch a movie together. The movie lasted longer than expected, so the young man ended up spending the night. And that’s how the trouble started.

Too good to save until Saturday's almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Time for the old Bull Penises jokes.

Be on the lookout for the couple photographed above. According to a Facebook post published by Pet Zone, a pet store in St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada, they stole hundreds of dollars of bull penises and ran off. They then tried to pull a similar robbery at another Pet Zone, but failed.

Why does a pet store sell bull penises? I'm disappointed that you have to ask. But here it is: these are "pizzles," which is a slang term for rawhide chews that dogs use. The word originally comes from the Old English word for penis.

How do you fight a bully? Do what the NRA does, stand up to them.

Derangement is in the air as progressives, driven to distraction by not just Trump’s election and successes but their own failures, act out their rage with no consideration of the downsides. An excellent example of Non-Trump Progressive Derangement Syndrome (NTPDS) is offered by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, embarrassed by their city’s descent into filth and squalor, lashed out of the National Rifle Association instead of doing anything about the homeless population that is making sidewalks dangerous to traverse and spreading disease and crime.

Time marches on and stops for no one, not even heroes.

The San Diego chapter of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, once believed to be the largest chapter of the organization and possibly the last still in operation, held its final meeting on September 21, 2019.

At its peak, the chapter had 586 members. They are now down to seven. Because their bylaws require at least two members to serve on the board, they must cease official business.

President Stuart Hedley plans to continue speaking at schools and showing up at parades and memorial ceremonies. But no one else in the group is mobile enough to serve in an official capacity since the vice president, Jack Evans, passed away at the age of 95 years old in February

On this day: 2 Oct 1967
All six members of The Grateful Dead were busted by California narcotics agents for possession of marijuana at the groups' 710 Ashbury Street House in San Francisco, California. via thisdayinmusic.com

On this day: 2 Oct 1998
America's singing cowboy Gene Autry died aged 91. During his career he scored 25 successive Top 10 Country hits. In 1995 it was estimated he was worth $320 million. via thisdayinmusic.com

Gymnastics while being interviewed by the cops? Genius Award Winner.

When Sterling Heights police pulled over Michael Axelson, they expected to see if he was driving under the influence, not see him show off his inner gymnast.

Police attempted to conduct a field sobriety test on the 53-year-old Madison Heights resident, but to prove he was not intoxicated, he did the splits.

Lt. Mario Bastianelli said the incident began when officers pulled over a white van at 1:15 a.m. Sept. 19 in the area of Ryan and 15 Mile roads.

In a dashcam video from police, one of officers greets Axelson at the driver's side window and asks him if he has a license or an ID. The man admits he has neither.

Unlike certain cashiers at Kroger's, this cashier is Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

An elderly man was trying to pay for his groceries at a Lidl in Belfast but his bank card declined mulitple times.

What the cashier did next moved another customer to reach out to the store and praise the man's generosity and kindness.

This is what the customer posted on Lidl's Facebook page.

"Today I watched one of your till staff pay for an elderly man's shopping from his own wallet. I don't think the man was aware that his card kept declining and didn't seem to understand that the staff member had paid for it as he didn't say thank you, he just walked on with not a word.

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