Monday Overnight Open Thread (10/23/23)

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“Residents have expressed loud and clear to me in every venue you can imagine across this city that they are looking for solutions to help fill the gaps in our public safety ecosystem,” Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser

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"Other than that we want law enforcement as soon as we get on the ground and parked.” Unnamed Alaska Airlines pilot

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"'You grew up in a gated community your whole life,' but he's rapping 'my life' because we romanticize and fantasize about that old thug life, ghetto life, and all that stuff." Former NFL player Michael Irvin

A certain generation digs living in Mommy & Daddy's basement. Now Mommy can pick your date after she makes your bed.

Tinder now lets mom pick your next date
/ Matchmaker allows Tinder users to invite up to 15 loved ones to play cupid and recommend potential partners directly within the dating app.

Paul Joseph Watson and diversity.......

If ditching fossil fuels made sense. These companies wouldn't have to plead like a 10 year old girl.

LONDON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Companies including Nestle (NESN.S), Unilever (ULVR.L), Mahindra Group and Volvo Cars are urging political leaders to agree a timeline at the upcoming U.N. climate summit to phase out fossil fuels.

The 131 companies, which have nearly $1 trillion in global annual revenues, wrote in a letter published on Monday that attendees at the COP28 summit must commit to reach 100% decarbonised power systems by 2035 for richer economies, and help developing countries financially so they can ditch fossil fuels by 2040 at the latest

When they have us living the "Caveman Life", I wonder what we will use for toilets?

There Are Better Ways to Build a Toilet
Designs at the Venice Architecture Biennale are rethinking the modern flush for a water-strained world.

Visitors to the Finnish pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale are greeted with an unlikely sight at a festival typically devoted to the avant-garde and newfangled: a no-flush outhouse toilet.

While the structure, known as a Huussi, may seem a bit primitive to some, it’s long been a popular toilet design in rural parts of Finland because it requires no connection to water supplies: It processes waste not by flushing it away, but by converting it to compost in a hay-filled container. It’s a design that’s making a comeback because it saves water and recirculates waste back into the ecosystem — both essential goals in a world where many areas are drying out thanks to climate change, and where as much as 30% of urban water supplies are used to flush human waste. Our modern toilet practices are likely to become unsustainable within the next few decades; by 2050 it’s estimated that up to five billion people could be facing water shortages.

MN has legal CCW. It is sad that no one used that right in Minneapolis.

Pro-Palestinian agitators blocked traffic near downtown Minneapolis on Sunday, harassing drivers and waving pro-Hamas flags for several hours.

Videos posted online show demonstrators riding an ATV down Hennepin Avenue and flying the Hamas terrorist flag while demonstrators are heard shouting “freedom for Palestine,” and “up, up with liberation,” and “down, down with occupation.”

How dirty is is this guy? Preach it NJ Moron Brothers.

Embattled New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez pleaded not guilty Monday at an arraignment hearing at the federal courthouse in Manhattan on a new charge of conspiring to act as a foreign agent to the government of Egypt while serving in Congress.

The additional charge came in the form of a new indictment against Mr. Menendez and his wife, Nadine Menendez, after the couple pleaded not guilty to public corruption and bribery charges.

Manhattan prosecutors say the pair “provided sensitive U.S. government information and took other steps that secretly aided the government of Egypt.” They also said Mr. Menendez, his wife and co-defendant Wael Hana “worked to introduce Egyptian intelligence and military officials to Menendez for the purpose of establishing and solidifying a corrupt agreement.”

Sure puppies are cute. But there are rules about them on planes for a reason. Or are the rules ridiculous?

Southwest passenger removed from flight for petting puppy: ‘Ridiculous’

They deemed it a pet-ty crime.

A passenger is up in arms after getting booted from a flight for allegedly petting her dog, as documented in a TikTok clip with 1.1 million views.

“Everyone around us was like, what’s going on here!?” wrote Sara Price, who uploaded a series of clips detailing her fellow passenger’s predicament, in the caption.

According to the video, the pet-tisoning occurred while the unnamed passenger was flying on a Southwest Airlines plane from Colorado back home to California with her 8-week-old puppy Sitka in tow.

Things went south after the pooch started to whine a little while she was waiting to take her seat.

Leading into The ONT Musical Interlude & Applesauce Emporium, 64 facts on Weird Al's 64th birthday.

On this day: 23 Oct 2020
American country music singer and songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker died of throat cancer age 78. He wrote 'Mr Bojangles' a hit for The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1970. Since then Walker's song has been recorded by many popular artists, including Garth Brooks, Chet Atkins, Jim Croce, Jamie Cullum, John Denver, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Elton John, Don McLean and Dolly Parton. via thisdayinmusic.com

On this day: 23 Oct 1962
12 year old Little Stevie Wonder recorded his first single for Motown Records, 'Thank You For Loving Me All The Way' backed by the Funk Brothers. via thisdayinmusic.com

I'm not sure if this moron is a Weekend Hobby Thread reader. But I do know he is a Genius Award Winner.

Santa Clara deputies arrest man illegally building table in parking lot on firearm, drug charges

(KRON) — A man who police say was illegally building a table in the parking lot of a San Jose light rail station was arrested on weapons and drug charges, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. Santa Clara Sheriff’s Deputy Mohamed was conducting a patrol check of the Snell Light Rail Station when he encountered a man who was illegally parked and building a table, police said.

Who is afraid of the big bad AI? Certainly not Riley Reid.

Adult film star Riley Reid isn't afraid of artificial intelligence — so instead of allowing others to leverage her likeness without her consent, she's getting in on the ground floor.

As recently launched independent media company 404 Media reports, Reid has cofounded a new company called Clona.ai that allows personalities like herself to create AI chatbot versions of themselves — and instead of shying away from sexting like other companies, the venture is leaning into it.

That makes it stand out against other competing platforms that have tended to forbid their customers from discussing taboo subjects like sex or pornography. So far, Reid and fellow adult performer Lena the Plug have signed up, and more are to follow on an invite basis, according to her interview with 404.


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Corporal punishment FTW. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

May The Lord Bless Her
A French nun lashed out and tackled environmentalist morons who were attempting to stop the construction of a church.

No really, she tackled one of these environmental jackasses.

If you are Catholic, you know that — at least at one point in time — nuns were not to be trifled with. They wielded authority in the classroom and in hospitals and commanded respect. Sometimes with a ruler, but usually with a stern look.

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