Monday Overnight Open Thread (3/11/24)

Quote I

“Members have a right to political beliefs but you don’t have a right to make a job-related ceremony political in nature. We want the members to come forward. They will come to headquarters to be educated why their behavior is unacceptable.” FDNY Chief of Department John Hodges

Good luck reeducating people who despise your guts, Chief.

Quote II

“Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last.” Sir Winston Churchill

Quote III

“If you’re reading the tea leaves and looking at what may happen with our politics in the next year or so, things are pretty good right now – the markets are up,” Finance firm consultant Alan Johnson

All Most politicians are lying fvcking bottom feeding scum suckers. I give you Joe Biden.

Do you hear me bitch about The Fabulous not making me a sammich? No, I don't think so. So why do people go online to discuss their spouse/significant other's faults?

Husband Doesn't Clean Kitchen While His Wife Has COVID — And It's Scarier Than the Virus
"The entire kitchen smells like vinegar," the woman says in her TikTok that reveals a nightmare mess.

By the way, The Fabulous makes top notch sammiches upon my pleasant request.

The Top 10 cities I won't live inThe Top 10 most expensive cities to live in.

Each year, the Economist Intelligence Unit, an offshoot of news magazine The Economist, releases a ranking of the most expensive cities in the world. Researchers dive into the everyday expenses associated with living in each place — groceries, household supplies, personal care, alcohol, tobacco, clothing, domestic help, recreation, transportation, and utilities — to look beyond the basics of international economies. Notably, they leave housing off the list.

With most of these cities, you’re paying a premium for cultural prestige, but it’s not the only factor at work. These cities are centers of high-paying industries or major players on the international stage, and sometimes even have unique problems with international trade that affect everyday expenses. Here are the 10 cities The Economist ranks as the most expensive in the world as of 2023.

And it won't be long before Pittsburgh will be on that list. Pittsburgh? Well when the police are off a good chunk of the post midnight hour, criminals will run and that is an economic disaster waiting to happen. Not to mention injury and loss of life to those folks.

Maybe the changes being made to the Pittsburgh Police Department's rules and hours aren't quite that extreme. But from my vantage point, it looks like city officials saw how organized crime rings had taken shoplifting to entirely new levels in under-policed cities like San Francisco and said, "Hold my donut!"

Under the new rules that went into effect at the end of February and were just given nationwide attention by End Wokeness on Twitter/X, there will be no Pittsburgh police at the city's six police stations between the hours of 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. More ominously, police will no longer respond to calls "that aren't considered in-progress emergencies," according to WPXI-11 News. "That means calls like criminal mischief, theft, harassment, and most burglary alarms will all be handled by an 'enhanced' telephone reporting unit."

When it comes to Aliens (and not the illegal ones) we really are being served by the best.

Interstellar signal linked to aliens was actually just a truck
Reports and Proceedings

Sound waves thought to be from a 2014 meteor fireball north of Papua New Guinea were almost certainly vibrations from a truck rumbling along a nearby road, new Johns Hopkins University–led research shows. The findings raise doubts that materials pulled last year from the ocean are alien materials from that meteor, as was widely reported.

“The signal changed directions over time, exactly matching a road that runs past the seismometer,” said Benjamin Fernando, a planetary seismologist at Johns Hopkins who led the research. “It’s really difficult to take a signal and confirm it is not from something. But what we can do is show that there are lots of signals like this, and show they have all the characteristics we’d expect from a truck and none of the characteristics we'd expect from a meteor.”

The Fabulous and I celebrated a 60 degree day with drinks on ours.

Now, when I run with a Yoko video, there is grumbling, bitching, pissing & moaning.

When I play a Tanya video there is grumbling, bitching, pissing & moaning.

Since you have been nice little boys & girls, you get some other tasty tunes tonight.

Top 10 commenters:
1 [518 comments] 'Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)' [72.82 posts/day]
2 [471 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini'
3 [451 comments] 'Village Idiot's Apprentice'
4 [374 comments] 'Axeman'
5 [336 comments] 'Skip'
6 [333 comments] 'G'rump928(c)'
7 [330 comments] 'Bulgaroctonus'
8 [325 comments] '"Perfessor" Squirrel'
9 [325 comments] 'Don Black'
10 [317 comments] 'Archimedes'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [252 names] 'Ciampino - They might regret that' [35.43 unique names/day]
2 [151 names] 'Gen. Miklos D. Ripper'
3 [84 names] 'Vote Early, Often, and MAGA!'
4 [47 names] 'Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison'
5 [46 names] 'Moron Analyst'
6 [45 names] '18-1'
7 [39 names] 'Axeman'
8 [39 names] 'fd'
9 [32 names] 'Helena Handbasket'
10 [31 names] 'mindful webworker - Okie by birth & choice '

The phrase, "Piss on it" takes on a new meaning. Genius Award Winner.

Man arrested for pouring urine on pachinko machine in Sendai

Police in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, have arrested a 48-year-old man on suspicion of property destruction after he poured urine on a pachinko machine, causing it to malfunction.

According to police, Takahiro Shionuma, who works for the Miyagi Prefecture Labor Bureau, poured urine on the machine at a parlor in Taihaku Ward at around 1:05 p.m. on Saturday, Kyodo News reported. The machine’s alarm went off, prompting parlor staff to report the incident to police.

Faith Snapp's college admittance is Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Today's good news story comes from Canyon, Texas.

In a heartwarming tale of resilience and determination, 22-year-old Faith Snapp has defied the odds by securing a coveted spot at the Texas Tech School of Veterinary Medicine despite being legally blind. With less than 10% field vision and only the ability to detect movement in her right eye, Snapp's indomitable spirit and love for animals have propelled her towards her dream of becoming a mixed-animal veterinarian.

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