Sunday Overnight Open Thread (9/3/23) Laboring To Be Kinder & Gentler Edition

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“I think it’s fair to say, it’s going to be risky and dangerous,” Journalist Jonathan Choe

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"He lived his entire life in the service of others. The world has lost a champion for those held unjustly abroad and I have lost a mentor and a dear friend." Mickey Bergman, vice president of the Richardson Center

Our first Comment I believe is a long distance dedication to Pixy.

Over the years I have lived in tiny homes and apartments. Never because I desired "tiny".

What Ever Happened to the Tiny House Movement?
Tiny houses started as a minimalist revolution. They ended up as an Instagram aesthetic.

In 1997, Jay Shafer built his first tiny house: a miniature country chapel with tastefully weathered wood, a high-pitched roof, and tall, crimson-trimmed windows. The exercise was part design challenge, part architectural rebellion. Shafer’s abode measured roughly 12 feet tall and 8 feet wide, less than the minimum size requirements for a house dictated by most building codes.

“Once I learned it was illegal to live in a house that small, I decided I had to,” he said, “just to show that it was actually a safe and efficient and reasonable thing to do.

As I grow older mature I look for ways to improve my life. This is not one of those ways. At least for me, it might do others good.

I Talked To One Stranger Per Day For 100 Days, It Changed My Life Forever

This can help you massively improve your social skills— the more you suck at something, the quicker you improve.

Some decisions change you forever.

I used to be a nerdy gamer kid. Instead of shaking my ass at the club like a fish out of water, I stayed up until sunrise to slay Nofriends, Tormentor of Introverts in my mum’s basement. But at one point, I realized life is more fun in reality than behind a screen.

Ah Labor Day weekend. What would it be without a disgruntled workforce?

It’s been a strike-heavy couple of months, and now video game actors may get brought into the mix.

Per Deadline, SAG-AFTRA’s board has unanimously voted to authorize a strike in case its upcoming bargaining meeting with the games industry falls through. The voting process will take place from Tuesday, September 5 and last all the way to Monday, September 25. According to the outlet, the negotiation will include companies such as Activision, EA, Insomniac Games, and WB Games.

Give-A-Fuck-Meter? Broken.

You have to fight for your right to party. Or to hold it where "The Man" can't spy on you.

New York City – The New York City Police Department announced plans to fly surveillance drones over the city this Labor Day weekend to monitor outdoor parties or barbecues following complaints about large gatherings according to Fox News.

The decision was revealed during a security briefing addressing J’ouvert, an annual Caribbean festival marking the end of slavery in which thousands of people take to the streets of Brooklyn.

Assistant NYPD Commissioner Kaz Daughtry said at a press conference Thursday that the drones will respond to “non-priority and priority calls.”

He's really not that bad. There is a slight period of acclimation that he needs to be the immigrant we all want.

A man who entered New York City just two months ago after living in Venezuela has become a poster boy for the migrant crisis after he was arrested six separate times, often for violent attacks. He arrived in the city just about two months ago, first coming in on June 27.

Mamma don't let your babies grow up to be journalism students.

Study Shows Journalism Is ‘Most Regretted’ College Major As Trust In Corporate Media Sinks

At a time when the majority of Americans recognize the corporate media are dishonest, journalism tops the list of the 10 most regretted college majors, according to a ZipRecruiter survey from last November that CNBC republicized on Sunday. A whopping 87 percent of journalism graduates regret their degree choice, with sociology, liberal arts, communications, and education next on the regret list. Of job seekers with college degrees overall, 44 percent regret their chosen major.

We need more blue collar workers than white collar workers. Which leads us into our ONT Musical Interlude warm up video................

It's been in the 90s this weekend. I'll take it. On average, our first snow is less than 45 days away.

Born on this day: 3 Sep 1942
American musician, singer and songwriter Al Jardine, who co-founded The Beach Boys. He is best known as the band's rhythm guitarist, and for occasionally singing lead vocals, on singles such as 'Help Me, Rhonda' (1965), 'Then I Kissed Her' (1965) and 'Come Go with Me' (1978).via thisdayinmusic.com

He was at the local Indian Native American Casino earlier this summer. I hope when I'm that age I still love producing The ONT's. Cuz it aint the Dental Plan.

Born on this day: 3 Sep 1947
Eric Bell, guitarist, Thin Lizzy, (1973 UK No.6 single 'Whisky In The Jar'). via thisdayinmusic.com

I wonder if his drink of choice is valu-rite. Genius Award Winner.

A man spotted driving a Power Wheels Jeep on an Indiana roadway was arrested for piloting the toy car while under the influence, police report.

John McKee, 51, was pulled over around 9 PM Wednesday when an Indiana State Police trooper noticed him driving a blue Power Wheels without lights or reflectors.

McKee was stopped near his home in Vincennes, a central Indiana city near the border with Illinois

A Good Samaritan. Lawyers, guns, money and Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

“He saved our lives": Iowa man cleared of charges after shooting man armed with knife

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