Monday Overnight Open Thread (5/15/23)

Quote I

“It wouldn’t leave me alone, so I had to use my arm and use my hand too, so it got my arm and my finger,” Ella Reed

Quote II

"However, I’m not sure how much of the audience really understood that context." Unnamed SFGATE website blogger

Quote III

"Many Islamic centres do not accept transgender people. Here, we are free... free to come as a male or female, whatever we feel most comfortable as." Nur Ayu

Uncle Sam went after Big Tobacco. Currently it has set its sight on Big Oil. Just wait until they go after Big Snack.

America Is Binging on Snacks, and Food Companies Are Eating It Up
The ‘snack-ification’ of U.S. diets has cookie and candy giants drooling

U.S. consumers are gorging on snacks, fueling boom times for cookie and candy giants while other packaged-food companies vie for bigger shares of the snack aisle.

Nearly half of U.S. consumers are eating three or more snacks a day, up 8% in the past two years, according to Circana Group, a market-research firm. U.S. snack sales rose to $181 billion last year, up 11% from the year prior, the firm said.

TikTok rant. It is called inflation. Businesses need to make a profit to stay open.

‘I just don’t go anymore’: Customer shows $3.19 for one hash brown and $4.99 for a Filet-O-Fish at McDonald’s

'It gets worse.'

A TikToker is going viral for calling out McDonald’s for its “insane” pricing after noticing that some sides cost nearly as much as the sandwiches.

Besides if you like Filet o Fish your taste in seafood lacks.

Who would have thunk?

Streaming sadness: Binging on YouTube leads to loneliness, depression

QUEENSLAND, Australia — Since launching in 2005, YouTube has revolutionized the way people watch videos online. Offering users endless content on virtually any topic, there’s no denying YouTube’s convenience. Now, however, researchers from Griffith University suggest spending too much time on the platform can be detrimental to mental health. A team from the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention (AISRAP) report frequent, habitual YouTube users exhibit higher levels of loneliness, anxiety, and depression.

Dr. Luke Balcombe, and Emeritus Professor Diego De Leo from Griffith University’s School of Applied Psychology and AISRAP, originally set out to better understand both the positive and negative mental health implications associated with the world’s busiest streaming platform. Notably, individuals experiencing the most negative affects were young people under 29 years of age and those regularly watching content about other people’s lives.

Time to create a new threat. Adios Black History month.

MSNBC host Symone Sanders gave a dire warning to her followers on Saturday, claiming that the Supreme Court was poised to make a series of radical decisions — ranging from outlawing Black History to allowing daycares to refuse Jewish children.

I'm old and this swimsuit model is old enough to be my mother. Who is next, Whoopi Goldberg?

Martha Stewart Lands Cover Of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue At 81; Oldest Woman Ever To Do So

This sounds like a threat to you and I. Bring it on motherfucker Senator.

Dem Senator threatens ‘popular revolt’ if SCOTUS acts to protect Second Amendment rights

“If the Supreme Court eventually says that states or the Congress can’t pass universal background checks or can’t take these assault weapons off the streets, I think there’s going to be a popular revolt over that policy,” Murphy said, a suggestion that the mobs could once again be unleashed.

Basically Senator you are looking for a national registry and taking firearms off the streets that have magazines over 7 rounds. Good luck with that. This isn't "Sensible gun control" this is the first wave of confiscation.

Why do we organizations any money. The WHO does nothing for the health of the world. Money grubbing grifters who are sick.

Massive outrage has been ignited after the World Health Organization (WHO) issued “disturbing” guidance to schools recommending “sexuality education” for children under four years old that includes masturbation and the exploration of gender identities.

The policy was mentioned in connection to Wales and is aimed at all of Europe, according to the Daily Mail. Welsh leaders are angrily calling for the organization to withdraw the guidelines described as a “framework for policymakers, educational and health authorities and specialists.”

Good on you Ferrari.

Legendary Italian car maker Ferrari has no intention of phasing out combustion engines and going fully electric or hybrid anytime soon, promising Sunday to keep making the eight and 12-cylinder engines it has made its trademark at least until the end of the 2030s.

The chief of the Italian manufacturer told the BBC in an interview it would be “arrogant” to dictate to customers what they can buy while at the same time walking away from the company’s heritage.

So you aren't drinking Bud Light anymore. You probably shouldn't be drinking Miller Lite either.

A months-old Miller Lite video with a feminist message is going viral as Bud Light continues to hurt from the fallout it received from its partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

Anheuser-Busch and Bud Light have been subject to a crusade from figures on the Right who have led a financially crippling boycott of the iconic beer brand since Mulvaney, dressed as Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast at Tiffany's, appeared with a custom Bud Light can on April 1.

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin: Too little too late you big dummy. You were set up like a bowling pin by the MushHead.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is becoming a bigger problem for President Biden and Democrats in the Senate as he faces an uphill reelection battle in West Virginia, a state where former President Trump won one of his biggest victories in 2020.

Manchin has criticized Biden and Democrats publicly, opposed various nominees and, this week, said he would oppose every one of the president’s nominations to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Before an election in which Biden is casting himself as a centrist and stable choice for the country, Manchin accused his EPA nominees of pursuing an “extreme ideology” and panned the administration’s plan to limit greenhouse pollution from existing power plants.

Previously The ONT covered the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee. The murder happened in San Francisco and was thought to be part of the city's current random chaos. Now, the rest of the story.......

Before Cash App founder Bob Lee met his tragic fate, he allegedly frequented underground sex and drug parties for San Francisco’s elite with the sister of his reported killer.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Lee’s death was initially thought to be the result of random violence in a city where crime is on the rise, but his friends later suggested it was most likely the result of the Cash App founder’s opulent lifestyle among the upper class of Bay Area society, where hard drugs and promiscuity are common.

Lee, the now-deceased 43-year-old father of two who was known in affluent circles as being apart of what they referred to as “The Lifestyle,” is said to have delighted in the city’s underground party scene, as did Khazar Momeni, the sister of alleged killer Nima Momeni.

Sources who were familiar with the group reported that Khazar Momeni, 37, and Lee were intimate. Many close friends reportedly worried that Khazar had developed a risky lifestyle by associating with the “wrong people.”

On this day: 15 May 1981
Former Sex Pistol John Lydon's band Public Image Ltd performed a show at New York's Ritz Club posing behind a video screen while the music was played from tapes. They were showered with missiles and eventually booed off stage. via thisdayinmusic.com

On this day: 15 May 1974
Frank Zappa and his wife announced the birth of their third child, a boy named Ahmet Rodan, after the Japanese movie monster that lived off a steady diet of 707 planes. via thisdayinmusic.com

Ankle monitor no longer attached. Geez, could it be? Yes. Genius Award Winner.

A Las Vegas, Nevada, woman with seven DUI arrests wanted for allegedly cutting off her ankle monitor was taken back into custody after commenting on a news article posted to Facebook.

Marion Reyes, 36, turned herself in to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's Traffic Bureau on Friday, the day after a post from the Bureau asked the public for help locating her and purported that she cut off her ankle monitor.

"I never cut it off!!! An officer cut it off when I turned myself in. They continued to release me," Reyes commented on Facebook under a news post from News 8 saying police need help finding her.

Genius Award Winner also wins a Feel Good Story of The Day award as well.

A man is dead after he was struck by fire from his own gun during a struggle with police in a traffic stop in the Florence-Firestone neighborhood of South Los Angeles Friday night, officials said.

The unidentified man was pulled over by the Los Angeles Police Department near East 74th Street and South Central Avenue at about 10:30 p.m., according to Officer Jader Chavez.

During the traffic stop, officers spotted a gun in the vehicle, Chavez said.

A youngster gets dream fullfilled. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

LOGAN — Most people would not consider getting arrested a top item on their bucket list, but for a young 12-year-old Hyrum boy it’s been a life-long dream. Phippin “Phip” Tingey has always had a special place in his heart for law enforcement, and on Wednesday he worked his way into the hearts of several troopers and deputies.

Tingey, who suffers from a neurological disease, had his wish come true when he got to experience what it is like to be arrested and booked into the Cache County Jail. He said he loves to meet those who wear the badge and used to dress up like police while telling his neighbors to follow the law.


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