On March 22nd, I presented my thoughts on “Escaping the Gun Debate Trap” at TEDxWakeForestU.
My idea worth spreading: The gun debate traps us in a false choice between rights and safety. We escape this trap the same way we escape a finger trap: we release tension by moving toward each other. Curiosity makes this possible. Democracy makes it worth doing.
DO NOT Trust AI. Do. Not. Trust. Artificial Intelligence
If you're paying someone else to manage data, are you sure they are managing it correctly?
The founder of PocketOS has penned a social media post to warn others about the “systemic failures” of flagship AI and digital services providers. Jer Crane was inspired to write a public response after an AI coding agent deleted his firm’s entire production database. The AI agent’s misdemeanors were then hugely amplified by a cloud infrastructure provider’s API wiping all backups after the main database was zapped.
Anthropic's Claude is one of the handful of AIs that are everywhere. Like ChatGPT and Grok, it just doesn't usually get as much press.
A copy of data on the cloud is not necessarily the same as a backup. A backup that has not been tested for recovery, is not a backup. It is Schrodinger's Data. It might be there when you need it, and it might not. In this case, it was not.
In the meantime, please follow a thorough backup regimen and be careful out there. This isn't the first time we've seen an AI go rogue and start deleting important databases.
A council plans to replace its “ageing” bin lorries with a new fleet of diesel vehicles after attempts to go electric were unsuccessful.
In 2022, senior councillors agreed to spend £4.9m to introduce zero-emission battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and an additional £1m on charging infrastructure.
This is a (relatively) rural part of the UK. Wakefield is about a 75 mile drive east of Liverpool, or about 185 mile drive north of London. The problem seems to be mainly around charging infrastructure. They were not able to get grid connections for enough charging stations for the required fleet.
Not only are electric heavy vehicles vastly more expensive to purchase in the first place, but they also have poor range, requiring more frequent charging stops, and those charging stops can take hours rather than the minutes it takes to fill up a diesel tank.
And then there is the base cost for the charging infrastructure... The video is about 8 and a half minutes.
Sometimes when a musician tries to recapture the feeling of his youth, he succeeds. I think Joe Satriani has done just that. It might not be exactly right for Metal for Mondays, but since I make the rules... And he is a phenomenal guitarist.
"The year that American Gigolo, The Shining, Raging Bull and Caddyshack came out, I just wanted to rock," Satriani said. "‘Nineteen Eighty’ is my high-energy, throwback instrumental soundtrack to that year."
Satriani previously said he wrote "Nineteen Eighty" to sound like his first band, the Squares. That group "dialed back the guitar solos and histrionics to try to create a cooler New Wave vibe.” [Ref. Ultimate Classic Rock]
As I spent the evening scouring the internet for information on the assassination attempt last night, I ran across a ton of posts from lefties claiming that it was either staged—a fan favorite—or that the motive might never be known.
Hasan Piker was quite angry that people pointed out that he, just the other day, talked about harnessing the left's assassination fantasies as a way to organize followers.
But then Hasan Piker...
The Democratic Party is now a hate group. I don't say that lightly, but as even a few social scientists have noted, there is an assassination culture on the left. And it's not just Trump. The anti-Israel movement celebrates Hamas, talks about #resistance and the necessity of violence to achieve social change, and the Democrats embrace these people as their next generation of voters.
Bartholomew, 38, who had been with the police department for a decade, was identified by the Cook County medical examiner’s office as the officer fatally shot Saturday morning at a North Side hospital.
He was shot alongside a 57-year-old officer who was in critical condition as of Saturday afternoon.
This is the reaction to the 2021 Climate & Equitable Jobs Act, which the Chicago Tribune called “one of Gov. JB Pritzker’s signature accomplishments, requires Illinois to phase out the burning of fossil fuels for electricity by 2045 and sets an earlier 2030 deadline for closing certain gas-fired plants.”
Instead of waiting for 2030, an energy generation plant in Elwood, Illinois, was sold off. Six of the nine gas turbines are moving to Texas. (Just load them up on a flatbed truck and off they go.) The other three will continue to run for a while. Those three have been purchased by a non-profit out of Wisconsin. (There is a carve out in the CEJA law for non-profits that own gas turbines.)
The underlying article is actually an editorial from the Chicago Tribune. The Tribune seems surprised that passing silly laws could have detrimental impacts on the local economy.
The 1983 movie War Games is still one of my favorites. This video is a bit nerdy, even by my standards. But I don't care.
A lot of the details are nonsense, but it got the smell right. It understood what computer culture felt like in the early 1980s. a smart kid in a bedroom, a modem, a pile of obscure hardware, weird blinking lights, late night modem dialing, and the sense that if you knew just a little more than everybody else, you might accidentally open a door that you were never supposed to find. And that is why this movie still works on computer people.
Of course most of it is Hollywood cheating. If you ever used a dialup modem from the 1980s you know that the screens didn't work that quickly. And that's just one part of it.
When I discovered computers were a giant mathematical puzzle, I wanted one. My parents were convinced that they were just expensive toys, so I didn't get one. (They were expensive.) The IMSAI 8080 was one of the premiere computers of the day that you could hope to have in your home. That was the home computer in the movie.
The question is not was the computer real, because it was. The question is where did the movie actually cheat? And in reality, War Games cheats all over the place. It cheats on what the front panel is doing. It cheats on what the monitor is doing. It cheats on the modem. It cheats on the voice. It cheats on the AI. And yet somehow by cheating in exactly the right places, it winds up feeling more authentic than a lot of movies that were technically more careful.
A jury acquitted a Barstow military veteran of murder and manslaughter Wednesday following the fatal shooting of another man two years ago, records show.
Patrick Dull, 52, was found not guilty of both charges in the Victorville branch of San Bernardino County Superior Court on April 22, according to court records and documents.
He showed up at one o'clock in the morning and threw a rock through a window. The guy he had a beef with was not at home, but his family was. He came back at 2:15 a.m. while the homeowner was boarding up the window.
Dazzi approached Dull from behind, made threatening statements and then charged toward Dull on the front porch of Dull's home, the attorney said.
The homeowner made one shot to the torso, and called police. The DA really wanted self-defense to be illegal. (The DA was not available for comment.)
Barstow, Califronia is about a 115 mile northeast of Los Angeles, on the way to Las Vegas.
Self-defense is a human right, but DAs in blue states don't want it to be a legal right. (Hat tip to USA Carry)
According to a criminal complaint, a person who works at the Influenza Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin‑Madison noticed an odd smell coming from his water bottle on April 4 and said it tasted strange.
He also reported an odd smell coming from his shoes and a grocery bag, and told another employee, who then called police.
A lab test of the water bottle revealed a high level of chloroform.
41‑year‑old Makoto Kuroda confessed to that, and putting paraformaldehyde - an extremely toxic substance - in the victim’s drink.
Why? Because the victim didn't follow all the rules.
Kuroda also allegedly became upset when the employee was promoted and Kuroda was not.
What that 24% represents is the number of Teslas registered in California, in the first quarter of 2026 compared to the first quarter of 2025.
The state’s overall zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) market share has plunged to just 13.7% — the lowest level since Q4 2021.
Tesla's sales crash of 24% is not the dig that the folks at Electrek want you to believe. It isn't good, but as Nerdrotic says, this makes Tesla the tallest midget in the room.
The broader picture is even more alarming. Total ZEV registrations in California dropped 40.2% year-over-year in Q1 2026, falling from 95,520 to just 57,111 units. ZEV market share plunged from around 21% in 2025 to just 13.7% — a level the state hasn’t seen in over four years.
The carnage was widespread among EV brands. Mercedes-Benz ZEV registrations collapsed 81.9%, Chevrolet dropped 59.6%, BMW fell 58.9%, Ford declined 58.8%, Kia dropped 48.2%, and Rivian plunged 35.9%. Even Hyundai, which has been gaining ground in the EV market, saw a 30.4% decline in ZEV registrations.
So what are people registering? Hybrids and gas vehicles. Hybrids had a 20.9% market share, as measured by registrations, and gas vehicles were 61.1%.
The Pentagon wants $54 billion for drones. (Ars Technica)
Shockingly, even Ars Technica doesn't claim this is an outrageous idea, merely an expensive one. I can't speak for the commenters. I haven't read the comments, and won't.
At Althouse, "'If the Democratic Party is to flourish in the future,' Mr. Platner told me, 'it needs to be an antiwar party.'" The guy with the Nazi tattoo. The Persian Jewess @persianjewess, "Over 70% of the East Village voted for Mamdani"
The Democratic Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – Trump’s toughest battle and Trump changed the rules. One giant fraud.
Stores You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: No infidels allowed. The lynching of Melanie Gill.
Sadly I have a feeling that I’m not the only Catholic out there who thinks that Trump is more Catholic than the Pope. And no, that’s not because I think Trump is a saint – it’s more of an indictment of the church’s current leadership..
Brussels Scrambles as Fuel Shortages Hit Europe
The European Commission is set to unveil an emergency energy package on Wednesday, in an arguably late attempt to confront a rapidly evolving energy crisis.
The Iran war remains mostly in suspended animation. The blockade is still in place, and the IRCG tried to attack a couple of ships in the Strait of Hormuz, without notable effect.
1. RFK Jr offers a few words on Canadian death care
2. Rural land owners react to the high speed rail scam
3. Is the actual system in effect in Canada becoming clear yet?
Suicide hotlines and other such resources have traditionally been about preventing suicide. Now, Scotland is looking to prohibit preventing assisted suicide.
Good analysis of Virginia election anomalies here, which discusses disappearing votes, and there is a list of counties where thousands of votes just disappeared here.
How would you respond to an uninvited guest breaking into your home, shortly after midnight?
A homeowner who was awakened by the man’s attempts to get into the home told him to leave. When the suspect continued to try to break in, the homeowner opened fire, hitting the man at least once, police. He died at a local hospital.
Kenwood is a neighborhood in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is about 2 miles east-northeast of downtown.
There were three adults and a child home at the time.
So the shooter was, I take it, protecting his family.
The shooter has not been charged, because self-defense is legal in Florida. It is also a human right.
The April 17 NPRM Establishes a Single Earnings Test for Every Postsecondary Program in America — From Culinary Certificates to Law Degrees — With Federal Student Loans at Stake for Programs Whose Graduates Don't Earn Enough
This is, if memory serves, basically the same test given for for-profit schools. It was instituted because some administration (Obama?) decided that some programs were just scams. The usual suspects got a carve out. If you were a "regular university" you got a free pass. This facilitated stuff like the various studies majors, and the other insane degrees.
Hat tip to Clayton Cramer, who sums up my take on degrees that don't pay for themselves.
Is there value in programs that do not contribute to a decent paycheck? Certainly. But the government need not subsidize a program that satisfies your desire to learn about Victim Studies.
There used to be a lot of talk about how Germany (and maybe a few other European countries) pay for college educations. I'm not sure what the current situation is, but 30 years ago, Germany didn't pay for everyone to go to college.
If you scored high enough on test taken, basically at the end of high school, AND you were going to major in something the Germans felt was worthwhile, (i.e. engineering, pre-med, etc.) then they would pay for your education. If you didn't score high enough, or you wanted to major in something they didn't care about, you didn't get free tuition.
Of course that was before Germany decided to destroy their industrial base by making electricity expensive and unreliable at the same time.
Very seldom do I use the same headline twice in one week, but seldom does an idea as monstrously bad as Samuel Monyn’s attract my attention. To summarize as succinctly as possible, Moyn’s argument is this: “Old people have too much stuff. We should kill them and steal their stuff.”
Is that overstated? Not so much.
The title of Monyn's book is Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It. McCain asks, how would that title sound if you substituted a different demographic?
The headline “Jews Are Hoarding America’s Potential” would probably not be published by the New York Times, nor would the author of such a piece have a book deal with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, let alone a tenured faculty position at Yale Law School.
I have to wonder: how many Mexicans actually celebrate this? It actually seems more of a holiday adopted by Americans as a reason to drink, as pushed by beer manufacturers
After I called it “Spanberger’s lobster” last week, many others have taken up that phrase to describe the crustacean-like shape of the district that Democrats would inflict on Virginia if today’s referendum passes.
In any rational society, the focus of government — and the concern of the public — would be on the people actually committing violence. The goal would be simple: stop the criminals.
I headed out to the hunting property on Tuesday afternoon to pull down my treestands. Logging started on Monday, and there was heavy equipment parked everywhere. They’d cut right up to my first stand, opening the canopy in a place that’s always been thick, dark, and dank. The naked stumps and the harsh light cut wrong. It felt like walking into my house and finding someone moved all the furniture.
Chip Brownlee’s recent story about Emergency Risk Protection Orders, known as ERPOs, which was published online by the Trace is actually well written. It’s completely wrong and chock-full of anti-gun propaganda, but it is well written.
Guntubers — firearms influencers on YouTube and other social media platforms — are reshaping who gets into guns and how. That’s the story Danish journalist Anders Tornsø Jørgensen was chasing when he contacted me recently. It’s one I’d been thinking about already in my Substack post and video, “Did the New York Times Accidentally Discover Gun Culture 3.0?”
The NGRST is heading for the L2 Lagrange Point, currently the home of the James Webb Space Telescope, the European Union's Euclid infrared space telescope and a place for passing visitors, such as the Escapade mission on the way to Mars (bottom of that post).
A 15-year-old was shot and wounded after he allegedly pointed a gun at a man and opened fire at a south St. Louis gas station, according to police. The man returned fire, striking the teen, and remained at the scene to cooperate with investigators.
Based on the reporting done, and the summary of Missouri law that is given, this appears to be legal self-defense.
Based on the facts reported by police, the man appears to have acted in lawful self-defense. Missouri law recognizes the right of a person to use force, including deadly force, when facing an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm. A person who has a gun pointed at them and is being shot at is facing exactly that kind of threat.
Gas stations are becoming, or are, a problem area. You're distracted by doing something. Your car is unlocked. You have your keys handy. It seems to be a place that carjackers and other bad guys are targeting. Maybe that has always been the case, and I am just noticing.
Self-defense is a human right. Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0.
Or maybe they just want you to hate Elon Musk even more; that is the photo they used on X. (Musk worked with Orange Man Bad!)
Thirteen federal workers who were laid off during the DOGE cuts told NBC News they struggled to find work, had to move or took major pay cuts after their agencies were gutted.
Gee. That sounds normal to someone who worked in the private sector.
Here is a typical "you should feel bad for this guy" story. A guy with a decade in government, and apparently no transferable skills.
One year, one massive spreadsheet of job leads and only a handful of interviews later, Burg has returned to the job he had in college, doing carpentry work in his Takoma Park, Maryland, neighborhood, just outside of Washington.
What was it they told coal miners???? "Learn to Code." I forget... Or was that declared to be a hate statement when it was applied to out-of-work journalists?
Here is another "boo hoo" statement."
WellFed, an organization that supports former federal workers, estimates just 25% of its members have found new jobs. OneAID, an organization of former USAID workers and their implementing partners, estimates at least 50% of its membership is still unemployed.
They went to work for the federal government, and thought that it meant life-long feeding at the taxpayer-funded trough.
Many of the former federal employees who spoke to NBC News said working in public service felt like a calling. Months of unsuccessful job applications have chipped away at their mental health.
Oh No. They can't follow their bliss. Or something.
In the latest in THR's series about life after Hollywood, a former TV and film scribe undergoes a gut renovation as he settles into a second career as a construction worker.
That was probably the result of straight white men being told to get lost.
A Chicago Public Schools teacher is accused of beating and choking a 12-year-old student inside a South Side classroom, making her at least the sixth CPS employee charged this school year with physically or sexually assaulting students.
Alayne Pierce-Collins, 37, faces felony counts of aggravated battery of a child causing great bodily harm and aggravated battery of a child by strangulation causing great bodily harm.
Click thru for details on the other 5 cases.
Poor people in Chicago are trapped into sending their children to public schools, and the public schools in Chicago are terrible, in every way you can imagine.
Liberals had a weird nostalgia for the “heroic struggle” narrative in which they taught a lesson to those benighted bigots down in Dixie, and they’d pay big money if you could keep that narrative alive, which is what Dees and the SPLC were really all about. Sometimes you’ll hear conservative critics of the SPLC contend that the SPLC originally did worthwhile things, but then strayed from their noble mission. No — it was a scam from the outset, an elaborate fraud to collect money from gullible liberals.
Houston police said a man crashed his car near Truman Street and Old Yale Street just before 2 a.m. Sunday.
He allegedly jumped over a fence and broke into a home by smashing a window in the door.
The homeowner took exception to that, and shot the guy.
Cops showed up and and the guy taken to a local hospital where he was listed as stable.
They don't say anything, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that drugs were probably involved. Or why do you break into a random house after crashing your car?
Self-defense is a human right. Good guys 1, bad guys 0.
I see a lot of punditries missing the forest as they peer intently at the trees.
The CIA tried to remove a sitting President.
We now know the real reason CIA whistleblower Eric Ciaramella’s name was never ¹permitted to be mentioned. It’s not the name Eric Ciaramella that presented the issue, it’s the organization where he was working, the CIA – That’s what needed to be protected.
Click through for the details. There are a fair number of links.
This would be funny if it wasn't happening all the time. The client in the case should sue for every dollar they've spent with S&C in the past 3 years. And then some.
April 21 (Reuters) - Sullivan & Cromwell, a premier Wall Street law firm, apologized to a federal judge for submitting a court filing with inaccurate citations and other errors generated by artificial intelligence.
The unstated undercurrent... "Please don't disbar us for being stupid!"
This is from X. (The NYT article is behind a paywall - as they all are)
Fictitious Case Names: The filing included names of legal cases that do not exist
Fabricated Quotes: The document contained direct quotes that were never actually spoken or written
Non-existent Statutes: The AI incorrectly analyzed or entirely invented provisions within the U.S. Bankruptcy Code
Are you using AI to do your work? God help you, because the AI will not.
I don't actually know if the partners charge that $2000 per hour, but I wouldn't be surprised. This is how S&C describe themselves:
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP provides the highest quality legal advice and representation to clients around the world. The results the Firm achieves have set it apart for more than 140 years and have become a model for the modern practice of law.
They might need to rethink that "modern practice of law" part.
Large Language Models are NOT Truth models. They do not know what is true. They know what sounds good.
Bioethicists Argue That an Unborn Baby Is Merely a ‘Gestator’s’ Body Part
Anyone paying attention knows that the medical establishment does not believe in any restriction on abortion, and moreover, that it should be provided free anytime
Global electricity demand rose by 3% in 2025, with growth nearly triple compared to the 1.3% increase in total energy consumption, as data centers and electric vehicles continued to push power use higher
Ars Technica shocked Trump picks qualified, normal health leader to head CDC; experts still cautious. Hat Hair's Salena Zito is pleased to reports Kash Patel and Sen. David McCormick Team Up to Fight Fentanyl in Pennsylvania.
2. The switch of Great Britain into a totalitarian police state must not be dismissed. Much like once Texas is Islamic, the rest of the US will fall like dominoes, once the US is Commu-slamic then so goes the commonwealth.
ITEM 8: The Moscow Times reported, “Putin Demands Answers as Russia’s Economy Undershoots Expectations.”
Invading Ukraine became the biggest mistake in Europe since Hitler invaded Poland.
Women feel profoundly unhappy, distrust men, loathe their country, and view motherhood as optional at best.
Young, Angry Leftist Women are Destroying Britain and America
• Schadenfreude Of The Week: Majority Of New York's Pending Wind And Solar Projects Getting Canceled Francis Menton
• Looks Like Commerce Raiding is Back on the Menu CDR Salamander
Investigators say homeowner Antonio Davis, 49, reported seeing three masked individuals targeting his black 2019 Mercedes-Benz. Davis told deputies he retrieved a firearm and opened fire as the suspects fled, striking Mosley in the leg.
The key part of that statement is, "as the suspects fled."
In most places in the US, you can only use deadly force to defend against imminent threat of death or grave bodily injury. You cannot use deadly force if people are running away.
The homeowner was charged with aggravated assault.
Ninety-six million dollars’ worth of electric buses sit idle across South Florida, some parked in a landfill, others lined up at the Homestead Air Reserve Base.
n Miami-Dade County, commissioners are demanding answers.
In Broward County, officials are working with the federal government on a plan to get rid of them.
That is a lot of money.
Miami-Dade Transit confirms 69 Proterra buses were purchased at a cost of $61.8 million, including federal, state, and local surtax funding.
The electric fleet was "unveiled" in 2023. If you spent that much on diesel buses, you could have gotten about 3 times as many, and they would have lasted 10 years. Or more.
The buses had repeated problems, broke down all the time, and the Proterra went out of business.
Now the problem is how to scrap them, because they represent a toxic waste problem. This bit is from Broward County, Florida, just north of Miami-Dade, County.
Thirty-one electric buses are currently sitting in a remote section of a landfill off U.S. 27, each one costing roughly $1.1 million.
And Proterra buses are not the only ones giving Broward County, problems. They bought from 2 other manufacturers, and those buses don't work either.
In Miami-Dade, County, the buses are parked at the Homestead Air Reserve Base.
And because your tax dollars paid for part of all those buses, by way of federal grants, scraping them before the "approved lifespan" is over is a bureaucratic nightmare.
I'm old enough to remember when we were told electric vehicles were simpler than internal combustion, and would last longer and be cheaper to maintain.
There are not many songs in what you would call Popular Music that are in 5/4 time. A few. Today's song is one of them. This was pointed out on social media recently.
Zimmerman has located the exact source of the problem, i.e., that the Left now dominates higher education so completely that those inside the campus bubble can’t even see what the problems are, much less think constructively about possible solutions.
People can only listen to doom and gloom for so long before they mostly check out, especially when the doom doesn’t ever seem to materialize. And, also, when they see the people pushing it the hardest are complete hypocrites.
“Gee, Stacy, is it really fair to post a picture of the deceased performer brandishing illegal firearms?” Perhaps, but good luck finding any pictures of Jalen Carpenter in which he is not brandishing firearms.
think we should seriously consider whether there would be time to use such in the worrisomely likely war of Taiwanese Independence. Imagine the resale value to privateers of capturing a VLCC (very large crude carrier): about $100 million worth of oil.
You would think that six games in the Launching Pad and Wrigley Field would have seen Dave Winfield, Jim Northrup, and Dave Kingman jacking homers in all directions, but unfortunately the Bravos and Cubs have some tough pitchers, and we finished the week 1-5.
Frum has never abandoned his #NeverTrump stance, and his criticism of Vance is for “going with the flow” of grassroots Republicans — siding with the actual voters, rather than with the Aspen Institute elites.
Somebody I know who is credentialed in the art of surveying people (pharma, for drug trials) was unimpressed by then quality of the question on the ballot tomorrow in Virginia.
Well here we all are, dancing on the bonfire of the vanities, and what a fire it is. NetZero, Open Borders, Diversity is our Strength, Islam is a religion of peace, debt is wealth, Gender's a "construct," ffs, and on. We live, dear friends, in a world of lies and they're evaporating as lies always do.
I'm sure a lot of people will be upset by this because they are not rational about dog attacks.
The driver reported the dog was off its runner when it approached and attempted to bite him. Deputies said the driver then shot and killed the dog, according to the Coweta County Sheriff's Office.
The cops are treating it like self-defense.
Coweta County, Georgia, is about a 35 mile drive southwest of downtown Atlanta.
I know that Amazon drivers don't actually work for Amazon. They work for a contracting firm, or maybe it is multiple contracting firms. Does anyone know if Amazon has a policy about drivers being disarmed?
Yeah, so, once the United States gains control of the Strait and eliminates all naval and land dangers from Iran, which we mostly have, these weenies think they can waltz in and provide security? Hell, they can barely project sea power now, despite the size of their navies, France ranked 8, UK 9. Most EU navies are for defense of nation only, not for deploying power. Italy, Germany, and Spain are the only other top 20, and they cannot project power. France with 1 aircraft carrier and Britain with 2 aren’t exactly powers. They, like Canada, pretty much rely on the United States.
Euphemisms are amazing, aren’t they? Perhaps you can think of some other phrases that would be more helpful in describing the likely participants in the situation that “escalated” into a mass shooting Monday morning at Leinbach Park in Winston-Salem, North Carolina:
The AP is calling it a "Mass shooting" because several people were shot, which I suppose makes the term technically correct. When most people think of "Mass Shooting" they think of targeted attacks on schools, malls, or other soft targets. What is often described as terror. What most people don't think of is gang activity.
So what happened?
Police said the shooting escalated from a planned fight between “two young individuals.” During the brawl, several people “began shooting at each other,” resulting in “multiple victims,” according to officers.
Maybe I'm being harsh, and these two upstanding members of the choir were not associated with a gang, and none of the other people, who were armed, were associated with a gang. Maybe I'm being harsh, but I don't think so.
You can't fix a problem, if you cannot describe the problem accurately.
A late-night encounter inside a South Deering home ended with a 62-year-old man shot dead after he entered the residence and charged at the homeowner, Chicago police said.
South Deering, which is located on Chicago's far South Side, is the largest of the 77 official neighborhoods community areas in the city. It is only a mile from the Indiana state line. It isn't clear how the guy got from Harvey, Illinois, to South Deering, Chicago, as that is about 10 miles by car.
A family is demanding justice after they say a Harvey man who has Alzheimer's disease was shot and killed this week when he mistakenly went into the wrong residence on the South Side.
He presented as a threat, and was dealt with. I realize that this is a tragedy, but your feelings are not a basis for a legal proceeding.
No one wins in a situation like this, as Luke McCoy at USA Carry points out:
The tragedy here is real on both sides. A family lost a loved one who may not have been acting with criminal intent. A homeowner made a split-second decision he will likely carry for the rest of his life. Alzheimer’s and other cognitive conditions can cause a person to believe they are in their own home, and in some cases to act as though they are confronting an intruder themselves. That possibility cannot change the calculus for a homeowner who has no way of knowing what is happening in the moment.
The Chicago Police have not arrested the homeowner, and the Cook County State's Attorney is not calling for charges. It is early in the investigation.
Someone described dropping off a swollen lithium-ion battery at that collection facility and staff told them just to throw it in with all the other batteries. When they pushed back and asked if they're sure, all they got was a frustrated look and the staff turned their back on them. Not a great situation. A swollen lithium-ion battery is one of the clearest visible warning signs you could get.
The video is just a bit over 5 minutes. Stache is a fire fighter, and a trainer. His videos concentrate on the issues firefighters face today, and a lot of them today deal with lithium-ion batteries, and what happens when things goe wrong.
The Department of Fire and Emergency Services warned people in the area to remain inside with windows and doors closed and air conditioners off due to potentially hazardous smoke in the area.
You can click thru for the details, but really StacheD does a better job explaining the situation.
Welcome to this Q&A with Margaret Kelley, author of the new book, A Gun of Her Own: The Everyday Lives of Women Who Shoot.
As you will see in the course of this hour-long discussion, this is a very special book and Professor Kelley is a special author.
While it is an hour long, you don't really need to watch it, as it is just a conversation/conference call. I keep these kinds of things on in the background, while I am doing other things. As I said, I found it interesting. Most of it anyway.
One of the statements that Margaret Kelley made, which I appreciated, is that she is tired of people dismissing others whenever they have a different opinion. Both sides do it, and both sides accuse the other side of doing it, though I will readily admit that the main push of Cancel Culture is currently coming from the Left. I'm old enough to know that it hasn't always been that way. Or why was there a Free Speech movement on UC Berkley's campus, back in the day? ("How the turntables, have ...")
The video is an hour, but there isn't much to see. I do recommend listening.
On May 19th, 2020, during a storm, the Edenville dam in Michigan failed. It was a Tuesday evening. The flood waters caused the Sanford Dam to fail on the 20th.
After a lot of finger pointing, and at least one lawsuit, it was decided to rebuild those 2 dams, and repair/upgrade two more that were also impacted by the storm but did not fail.
When the plans were first announced to rebuild the dams, I was disappointed that they would not be hydroelectric generators, but that would have made permitting more complicated. They are only for flood control, and creating recreational lakes.
Audiences who have grown used to films rushing from theaters to PVOD may be in for a surprise. Project Hail Mary is not going to be streaming anytime soon. The surprise blockbuster’s theatrical performance has apparently encouraged Amazon MGM Studios to extend its theatrical exclusivity.
The ailing theater industry is happy, and MGM is even putting the film back in IMAX this week.
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Theaters have been crushed by the insanity of the past 5 or 10 years. Woke movies that half the population won't see. COVID lockdowns. Strikes. Even more movies that no one wants to see.
But the current lineup in cinemas proves that people will go to the theater, if you give them a reason. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie movie isn't for me, but it is on its way to making a billion dollars at the box office. Project Hail Mary has made over $500 million and will probably make over $600 when all is done. Even the Creepy Pasta movie, Exit 8 is making money, and it isn't even in wide release. The fact that it is in Japanese isn't helping.
It is at this point I always feel it necessary to mention that studios don't get all of the box office. It turns out that movie theaters don't show movies for free. Theaters get roughly half the gate. The exact figures are different in North America, than in Europe and Asia, and China has its own deal, where studios only get about 25% of the Chinese box office.
If you want details on that, for any movie you're interested in, I suggest this article from a few years ago by Odin of OMB Reviews, that was published at Geeks & Gamers: How to Break Down Box Office. He covers everything from budgets, estimated marketing spend, split between theaters and studios, accounting for the differences across markets, etc.
The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office on Tuesday, April 14 said the shooting was an act of self-defense during an attempted robbery. The DA’s office said two people who were not students at Natomas High went onto campus looking for a specific student. One of them was wearing a ski mask and carrying a handgun. Prosecutors said the pair approached a student and tried to rob him. During that encounter, the targeted student, who was also carrying a handgun, shot and killed one of them. Prosecutors said there is not enough evidence and have declined to file homicide charges, though the shooter will be charged with various weapons charges. They said the third person involved will be charged in juvenile court with attempted robbery.
Several years ago, I discovered that I needed to remove gluten from my diet. That is harder than it sounds, as gluten is added to everything. The local supermarket chain adds it to their house-brand coleslaw and potato salad in the form of "modified food starch." I guess it is even cheaper than corn starch as a thickening agent.
As you can imagine, this created a problem when it came to beer, which is a wheat or barley product. The early brands available convinced me to drink hard cider, and whisky on those occasions when people were drinking.
This week I'm back on the Stone Delicious Double IPA. The regular Stone Delicious IPA is easy to find, but of the 3 they are still producing, it is my least favorite. Their gluten free gluten reduced‡Hazy IPA is my favorite. Which ever one you try, the one thing Stone gets right, is the head on GF beer and ale. Some of it comes out of the can or bottle looking like apple cider. Stone holds a proper head. (Though the image I picked from the website doesn't show that.)
‡ Some of the beer and ale are brewed with gluten free ingredients. Quite of few of them add an enzyme to remove gluten at some point during the whole process. That 2nd option is what Stone does, but they can't claim to be gluten free, even though they meet the Celiac organization's metrics.
Downtown Seattle Falters as Jobs and Businesses Exit City: Report
A new economic snapshot from the Downtown Seattle Association (DSA) is being framed as a story of recovery, but a closer look reveals a city on the brink of economic collapse.
At Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog Two Slimeballs Depart Congress. the Victory Girls are happy about Tony Gonzales – Trash Finally Takes Itself Out. The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "With Swalwell Resigning, Just 534 Perverts Left In Congress "
Biden’s Save student loan plan is dead. Borrowers will have to quickly pivot.
It took a few years to catch up, but it’s time to start obeying the law again.
The Democratic Party’s America: Savanah Hernandez. Moderate Muslims in NYC. The next Obama.
China Carney’s Canada: A Yukon garage. Panel shames college.
Trump says to Maria Bartiromo, Iran war is ‘over’ as Vance prepares for second round of peace talks in Pakistan.
If they had not kicked him out of Congress he’d have kept his mouth shut
