TIL that in the 1950s, with infinite wisdom, the County of San Mateo built a landfill on Mussel Rock Beach in Daly City. At the exact spot where the San Andreas Fault intersects the shoreline. And they’re surprised, seventy years later, to find that the “buried” garbage is emerging into the ocean
Three Bay Area mothers tell the police that their runaway daughters are at risk, two are with predatory groomers.
One is found and returned, and the man is in jail.
One is located by the mother, but police don’t find her hiding under a bed, and arrest the mother.
One is found dead in a nearby driveway three days later.
For maximum security, your passwords should always be long strings of the characters "l" and "I" exclusively. That way, any attacker who gets hold of your password will be so confused trying to type it in they will not be able to gain access. For additional security, add an occasional numeral 1
Student protestors are willing to leave Siemens Hall if Cal Poly Humboldt administrators meet the following demands.
Descalate: The students would like the police and the threat of police violence to be removed. As a part of that, they want to ensure there are no academic penalties.
Disinvest: The students are asking the university to disinvest from all interests connected to Israel.
Declare: The students want the university and CSU leadership to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
After faculty voted 170-3 on a no-confidence resolution, the president of Cal Poly Humboldt has stepped down. No, he hasn’t, ha ha. He’s given the protestors occupying the administration building two hours to vacate before he sends in police to arrest them all.
In New York, a judge rejected his motion to vacate the civil verdict against him for sexually assaulting and repeatedly defaming E. Jean Carroll.
Also in New York, his old pal David Pecker testified that he knew that using corporate funds to catch and kill a story during a campaign could be a Federal crime.
In Washington, his attorney conceded he has no immunity for crimes he committed in his capacity as a candidate.
Some Justice (probably Sotomayor) is going to straight-up ask the appellant’s counsel tomorrow whether overturning the Circuit means that President Biden can immediately commit any crimes he wants. Even in his personal capacity as a candidate, even in order to steal the election. And if the Senate doesn’t convict, he can’t be prosecuted. Ask counsel if that’s what he means, what he wants, what he thinks the Constitution demands.
@drahardja In this Election Day 1996 puzzle, 39 Across would be answered either “CLINTON” or “BOBDOLE” and the seven crossing down clues would still read correctly:
Prosecution will show:
• There was a conspiracy to manipulate news to influence the 2016 election
• Voice recordings show the intent and plans
• Payments via Cohen were falsely recorded
• False payments furthering a crime are felonies
Defense will show:
• Influencing an election is not a crime
• The “catch and kill” was to protect Trump’s marriage, not his candidacy
• Payments to Cohen were for actual legal work
• He’s a convicted perjurer, don’t trust him
California judge backs Attorney General’s decision to change name proposed ballot initiative from “Protect California’s Kids” to “Restricting Rights of Transgender Children” because it will, ahem, not protect any kids but restrict the rights of transgender children https://apple.news/Ahovjm-NaR6GhK1xqGkY0eQ
The upper/lowercase font in the Hi-Res Character Generator routine for the Apple II (Contributed Software No. 3) came from the character generator chip of a Commodore PET, which was just a 2716-format ROM. The Apple II had an empty $D000-$D7FF socket that was pin-compatible. I pulled the chip from the PET, plugged it into the Apple II, wrote it to a disk file, and voila.
This is now my all-time favorite response to an inane legal threat. (Backstory: The Los Angeles Police Foundation, who raises additional money for LA’s $1.99B police force, claims it owns the acronym “LAPD” and takes offense at one of Cola Corp’s tee shirts)
@mcc ah so it’s an anti-shovelware sentiment, not a walled-garden sentiment. I can appreciate that. But what if something posted to /r/funny goes viral and BECOMES a meme? Does it have to be taken down?
Influential conservatives this week:
• jockeyed to scuttle funding for two hot foreign wars
• questioned the constitutionality of a Federal statute for fear that it would criminalize protests and sit-ins
• used absurdist theater to try to derail a criminal trial
• argued for free love, or at least that sleeping with a sex worker is at worst excusable and actually kind of impressive
• continued to portray their jailed supporters as hostages and political prisoners
