Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (1/23/24) #NeverNimarata Edition

Quote I

“Out of the $1.3 [million], half a million dollars went to the IRS, and a few hundred thousand dollars went to a home remodel the Lord told us to do," Rev. Eli Regalado

Quote II

“There’s a level of prestige in parts of conservative America with service that has degraded,” A senior army official told Military.com

The joyless scolds of PETA are in the news again. Oh FFS.

The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants to eliminate the groundhog from Groundhog Day celebrations in Pennsylvania. The group sent a letter to Punxsutawney Groundhog Club's president, Tom Dunkel, asking him to replace the iconic Punxsutawney Phil, who will decide if we will have six more weeks of winter or an early spring, with a giant coin.

"Groundhogs can't make heads or tails of the weather forecast and shouldn't be jostled around by large members of a different species and thrust in front of noisy crowds for a photo op," PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said in a statement. "PETA is urging The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club to send Phil to a reputable sanctuary that will give him the care he needs and not to treat him as a wildlife prop."

We don't need no stinkin' Constitution.

Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It
Police around the US say they're justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea.

In 2017, detectives working a cold case at the East Bay Regional Park District Police Department got an idea, one that might help them finally get a lead on the murder of Maria Jane Weidhofer. Officers had found Weidhofer, dead and sexually assaulted, at Berkeley, California’s Tilden Regional Park in 1990. Nearly 30 years later, the department sent genetic information collected at the crime scene to Parabon NanoLabs—a company that says it can turn DNA into a face.

Parabon NanoLabs ran the suspect’s DNA through its proprietary machine learning model. Soon, it provided the police department with something the detectives had never seen before: the face of a potential suspect, generated using only crime scene evidence.

The image Parabon NanoLabs produced, called a Snapshot Phenotype Report, wasn’t a photograph. It was a 3D rendering that bridges the uncanny valley between reality and science fiction; a representation of how the company’s algorithm predicted a person could look given genetic attributes found in the DNA sample.

It certainly seems that pro-athletes are asses for the most part. Not Top Ranked tennis pro Novak Djokovic.

Journalist Who Mocked Unvaccinated Tennis Champion Collapses and Dies Suddenly at Australian Open

The contentious questions that swirled around the vaccine mandates of 2021 have merited fresh scrutiny following a journalist’s shocking death at the Australian Open last week.

The journalist in question was Mike Dickson, a veteran tennis reporter for the U.K. Daily Mail. According to People magazine, Dickson had been a sports reporter for 38 years and would have celebrated his 60th birthday this month.

The U.K. Daily Mail noted his passing with an article headlined “Goodbye Mr Wimbledon: Legendary Mail Sport tennis correspondent Mike Dickson dies aged 59.” The report did not include a cause of death.

The Sackler family owners of Purdue Pharma were blamed for the opioid crisis the country faced with Oxycontin. No word if that family, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump and rascally Republicans are to blame for the latest fad of illegal drugs.

These new synthetic opioids could make fentanyl crisis look like 'the good old days'
When the nitazene crisis debuts, will they finally place the blame on drug prohibition, where it has always belonged?

In 2020, the World Health Organization reported that isotonitazene (which drug users call “iso” or “tony”) began appearing in forensic toxicology reports in six European countries, Canada and the United States. In 2022, the Tennessee Department of Health reported that overdose deaths from synthetic opioids classified as nitazeneshave increased fourfold in just two years.

Just recently, the British news media reported that the United Kingdom has experienced a “big influx” of nitazenes. London’s Metropolitan Police seized more than 150,000 nitazene tablets in a single drug haul last fall.

Top ranked dog? No. It is not Nimarata Nikki Randhawa Haley. I blame Hrothgar and his trusty sidekick and companion, ***** (Didn't want to ID the pooch. If Hrothgar wishes to tell us *****'* name that's fine)

The sweet-faced, loveable Labrador Retriever is no longer America’s favorite dog breed. The breed best known for having a heart of gold has been replaced by the smaller, more urban-friendly French Bulldog.

According to the American Kennel Club, for the past 31 years, the Labrador Retriever was America’s favorite dog, but it was eclipsed in 2022 by the Frenchie. The rankings are based on nearly 716,500 dogs newly registered in 2022, of which about 1 in 7 were Frenchies. Around 108,000 French Bulldogs were recorded in the U.S. in 2022, surpassing Labrador Retrievers by over 21,000.

Diversity, embrace it.

He could have had a job at the circus. Instead he is our Genius Award Winner.

Police Find Drug Suspect Hiding Inside Dryer
Louisiana contortionist, 26, jailed on felony cocaine sale raps

JANUARY 22--A suspected cocaine dealer was found hiding “INSIDE the dryer in the kitchen area” when police Saturday raided a Louisiana residence, according to court filings.

Armed with search and arrest warrants, cops arrived at a Monroe home seeking to collar Darren Pittman, 26, who allegedly had been selling crack from the two-bedroom apartment.

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