We're raising a kitten. I've told him to get down so many times now, I'm surprised he hasn't taken up bass.
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Pregnant homeless woman's rights abused by state protective services. Too bad she's not in one of those better states, like Verm-- oh dear.
https://vtdigger.org/2025/01/16/vermont-aclu-claims-state-conducts-surveillance-and-brazen-intervention-into-vermonters-pregnancies
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In recent months, Wikipedia has developed a very annoying habit on my desktop of repeatedly launching mouseover boxes that I happened to glide over a bit earlier. I don't know how to stop this. Any tips?
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To my fellow Nutmeggers: It's pączki season again, and you'll be seeing these Polish-style pastries in a lot of places, including big-name supermarkets, as we approach Fat Thursday (27 Feb.) and Fat Tuesday (4 Mar.) In large stores, you may see pączki branded CT Bakery. This is NOT a Connecticut brand; they're based in Ontario, and have about half the No. Am. market in 'thaw and serve' goods.
There are several good independent Polish bakeries in Connecticut that sell pączki.
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This turd has a history of douchey, stupid, and ignorant bills, and now he wants to ban chemtrails, because he believes that's a thing.
https://ballotpedia.org/Robert_C._Sampson
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I know a bit about New Canaan. For example, that their Parking Enforcement unit has a 4-wheeler. They're a little, shall we say, tight. Also really, really white. Not bad people. But I can totally understand why their first instinct is, "We need to lock up this strange Black dude."
https://www.wfsb.com/2025/01/14/man-arrested-impersonating-police-officer/
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"Thanking God for sparing you in a natural disaster is a bit like sending a thank-you note to a serial killer for stabbing the family next door." ~ Betty Bowers
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A couple whose home burned down in the LA fires calls it a 'miracle' that their Virgin Mary statue survived -- apparently surprised that stone doesn't burn as well as what their house was made of. (Though the brick façade of their foundation also survived.) So God apparently loved that brickwork, too. But, apparently hated at least two dozen people who have died in those fires, along with hundreds of homes, and probably a lot of pets.
I fucking hate stupid religious people.
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This week's Photo That Effectively Summarizes The Times We're In:
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Just in case you might still be tempted to visit Florida: Independent police review boards are now banned by state law. Police corruption and misconduct are now regulated only by police themselves. So you'll need to decide how lucky you feel travelling there. Because if you get UNlucky, there's not a lot to protect you.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2025/01/11/civilian-police-oversight-florida-crumbles-after-new-law-kicks/
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What bothers me so much about a lot of gun nuts is how childish they can be. Immature people are already tiresome. But immature people with deadly weapons are worrisome.
https://www.wcax.com/2025/01/09/students-yearbook-photo-with-firearm-sparks-controversy/
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Most slang is very ephemeral -- here today, gone tomorrow. Some of it offers some convenience, but most of it doesn't. After it's no longer ripe, in most people's mouths or pens it's some kind of stale signalling that I find more cringeworthy than cool, unless it's used with enough (justifiable) irony.
When I hear someone use "on the daily", what I hear is, "How do you do, fellow kids?"
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You don't need to go far to find examples of Republicans being stupid these days, but even by those already very low standards, Charlie Smallface Kirk manages to scrape the bottom of the barrel.
https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-calls-eliminating-sign-language-interpreters-during-emergency-briefings
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The world's richest man may also be "going mad", "deeply unwell", "[a danger to] us all", "a thin-skinned, drug-addled Bond villain", "deranged and creepy".
“For 14 days more the administration is in a position to take urgent action to protect America from Elon Musk. That could include ending all U.S. contracts with him, filing lawsuits to block his unconstitutional DOGE initiative, and launching new federal and natsec investigations."
https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/harvardeducated-elon-musk-biographer-says-billionaire-is-going-mad-i-legitimately-believe-101736230468084.html
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ProTip for stupid kids planning to commit crimes: Airborne thermal imaging isn't new. Blue Thunder came out in 1983, and even those audiences knew that technology was already in use by then.
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/thermal-drone-used-to-find-suspects-after-gunshots-heard-in-brookline-nh/3592664/
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Corollary: Being stupid, ignorant, or obstinate does not create liability on someone else's part. If you believe raw milk is healthy, then you're at least one of those three things, and you and you alone own the consequences of your choice to consume it or feed it to someone else. Even if the person who sold it to you is stupid, too.
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/san-bernardino-county-man-says-his-cats-died-after-drinking-raw-milk-contaminated-with-bird-flu/
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Law is ultimately a formalization of generally accepted principles of a society. Pretty much every legal system everywhere respects the doctrine of accepted risk: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
If a reasonable person would understand the risk of some choice, then you're unlikely to get legal relief for undesired consequences of making that choice, unless you can prove someone else's fault that you couldn't have known about and wouldn't have reasonably expected.
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Around half a century ago, hysterical eggheads warned that a warming climate would lead to more invasive species, warm-climate pests coming to what were then cooler climes, and an increase in pathogens threatening humans. Anyone notice anything like that since that time?
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In 1900, Viennese surgical technician and tinkerer Erwin Perzy was asked to devise a way to increase light in operating rooms. He based his approach on water-filled globes used by cobblers for magnifiers. He didn't fulfill the original request, but he did hit on a good way to make snow globes, which his family is still making today.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-an-experiment-to-amplify-light-in-hospital-operating-rooms-led-to-the-accidental-invention-of-the-snow-globe-180985742/
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Unless the FCC appeals -- and wins -- net neutrality died today.
https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/25a0002p-06.pdf
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