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[ugotmale]

A woman stole $680,000 and spent it on a gambling game that doesn't pay out real money​

A woman stole $680,000 and spent it on a gambling game that doesn't pay out real money

ABC reports that Tasmania, Australia, resident Rachel Naomi Perri pleaded guilty to 25 charges of computer-related fraud and one count of fraud in court this week. Prosecutor...

www.techspot.com

 

[CANtalk]

Don't know if this is the same article but:...

Fixed the link.

.... Getting a weird hijacked link when I paste it in with the Media tab. Managed to hyperlink it here. Video...
www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/r39ph3/found_this_video_in_a_group_chat/

 

[florduh]

Don't know if this is the same article but:

Why Is It So Hard to Buy a Graphics Card in 2021?

Here's why a global shortage of graphics cards is making it difficult for consumers to get their hands on a GPU at a fair price.

www.howtogeek.com

It's pretty infuriating. My personal solution is to ban cryptocurrency mining. Come up with some new way to make fake money that doesn't involve running GPU's 24/7. Here's another great reason to get rid of the whole scam:

Why Bitcoin Is Bad for the Environment

Cryptocurrency mining uses huge amounts of power—and can be as destructive as the real thing.

www.newyorker.com

According to the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, bitcoin-mining operations worldwide now use energy at the rate of nearly a hundred and twenty terawatt-hours per year. This is about the annual domestic electricity consumption of the entire nation of Sweden. According to the Web site Digiconomist, a single bitcoin transaction uses the same amount of power that the average American household consumes in a month, and is responsible for roughly a million times more carbon emissions than a single Visa transaction.

 

[CANtalk]

I came across that conspiracy guide and thought people would find it interesting (on the previous page).



On another note, things escalated quickly here

https://v.redd.it/ywfg6ph585281/DASH_720.mp4

 

[ugotmale]

US Customs officials seize nearly 4,000 bongs at DC airport​

US Customs officials seize nearly 4,000 bongs at DC airport | CNN

US Customs and Border Protection officials seized a shipment of almost 4,000 bongs at Washington Dulles International Airport, the agency said.

www.cnn.com

 

[florduh]

I came across that conspiracy guide and thought people would find it interesting (on the previous page).

Yeah, I think I was too harsh on it. The author accepts things like MK Ultra and Operation Paperclip as unquestionably real. And I take their point. There's a range of conspiracy theorizing that ranges from reality based to totally unhinged from reality.

I guess I just know too much about the atrocious history of the CIA to put "We're living in a simulation" and Area 51 in the same category as the JFK assassination. Like, if you catch your kid stealing cookies from the cookie jar multiple times, and you come home one day to an empty cookie jar...you have no definitive proof your kid took the cookies. There's no "smoking gun". But, you're pretty fucking sure who took the cookies.

 

[Robert-in-YEG]

Sappy ending: Canada digs deep into strategic reserves to cover maple syrup shortage​

Sappy ending: Canada digs deep into strategic reserves to cover maple syrup shortage

A poor harvest season and booming demand has prompted Quebec’s syrup ‘cartel’ to release around 22,000 tonnes of the luscious liquid

www.theguardian.com

 

[macbill]

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles Honor Stephen Sondheim at ‘Sunday’ Performance in Times Square

On Sunday in New York City, the Broadway community gathered to honor, mourn and celebrate the late composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who passed away at the age of 91 on Friday. On the red sta…

variety.com

 

[JOHN GALT]

Top Federal Drug Official Says There’s ‘No Evidence’ That Occasional Marijuana Use Is Harmful For Adults​

“There’s no evidence to my knowledge that occasional [adult] marijuana use has harmful effects. I don’t know of any scientific evidence of that,” Volkow said. “I don’t think it has been evaluated. We need to test it.”

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Director Nora Volkow made the remarks in an interview with FiveThirtyEight that was published on Tuesday. It’s a notable admission given that the agency has historically gone to great lengths to highlight the potential risks of cannabis consumption.

Top Federal Drug Official Says There’s ‘No Evidence’ That Occasional Marijuana Use Is Harmful For Adults

The head of the nation’s top federal drug research agency says that she’s yet to see evidence that occasional marijuana use by adults is harmful. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Director Nora Volkow made the remarks in an interview with FiveThirtyEight that was published on Tuesday. It’s...

www.marijuanamoment.net

 

[florduh]

Top Federal Drug Official Says There’s ‘No Evidence’ That Occasional Marijuana Use Is Harmful For Adults​

“There’s no evidence to my knowledge that occasional [adult] marijuana use has harmful effects. I don’t know of any scientific evidence of that,” Volkow said. “I don’t think it has been evaluated. We need to test it.”

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Director Nora Volkow made the remarks in an interview with FiveThirtyEight that was published on Tuesday. It’s a notable admission given that the agency has historically gone to great lengths to highlight the potential risks of cannabis consumption.

Top Federal Drug Official Says There’s ‘No Evidence’ That Occasional Marijuana Use Is Harmful For Adults

The head of the nation’s top federal drug research agency says that she’s yet to see evidence that occasional marijuana use by adults is harmful. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Director Nora Volkow made the remarks in an interview with FiveThirtyEight that was published on Tuesday. It’s...

www.marijuanamoment.net

The Feds have known this for decades. The Shafer Commission determined back in the 70's that cannabis is no more dangerous than alcohol and should be decriminalized. Nixon ignored the findings of his own experts though, because he thought cracking down on weed would put more of his political enemies in prison.

 

[Robert-in-YEG]

Top Federal Drug Official Says There’s ‘No Evidence’ That Occasional Marijuana Use Is Harmful For Adults​

“There’s no evidence to my knowledge that occasional [adult] marijuana use has harmful effects. I don’t know of any scientific evidence of that,” Volkow said. “I don’t think it has been evaluated. We need to test it.”

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Director Nora Volkow made the remarks in an interview with FiveThirtyEight that was published on Tuesday. It’s a notable admission given that the agency has historically gone to great lengths to highlight the potential risks of cannabis consumption.

Top Federal Drug Official Says There’s ‘No Evidence’ That Occasional Marijuana Use Is Harmful For Adults

The head of the nation’s top federal drug research agency says that she’s yet to see evidence that occasional marijuana use by adults is harmful. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Director Nora Volkow made the remarks in an interview with FiveThirtyEight that was published on Tuesday. It’s...

www.marijuanamoment.net

It is funny that society accepts alcohol with no need for testing or evaluating the long term damage. When I see people on the street, or those struggling with 'addiction', I know from experience that alcohol is the most likely cause. Alcohol is the gateway drug.

A couple of years ago I lost a daughter who was struggling with opiates. In that time, I saw way more people struggling with alcohol, than opiates. There was no one in the detox centre struggling with 'cannabis' addictions. Most of the people in detox centres are struggling with alcohol, opiates come a distant second, and benzodiazepines number third. Most of the people dealing with opiates or benzos started off with medical prescriptions.

Robert-in-YEG

 

[florduh]

It is funny that society accepts alcohol with no need for testing or evaluating the long term damage. When I see people on the street, or those struggling with 'addiction', I know from experience that alcohol is the most likely cause. Alcohol is the gateway drug.

A couple of years ago I lost a daughter who was struggling with opiates. In that time, I saw way more people struggling with alcohol, than opiates. There was no one in the detox centre struggling with 'cannabis' addictions. Most of the people in detox centres are struggling with alcohol, opiates come a distant second, and benzodiazepines number third. Most of the people dealing with opiates or benzos started off with medical prescriptions.

Robert-in-YEG

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If there is a "gateway drug", it's alcohol. But the biggest problem is that we have created an unhealthy, deranging, sick society.

There was a pretty famous rat study on drug addiction. When rats were kept in a sterile cage with two water bottles, one with only water and one with cocaine laced water, they drank the coke water until they OD'd and died. Scientists repeated the same experiment again, only created "Rat Disneyland" for the test subjects. Rats were provided with a variety of healthy food, toys, friends, lovers, in an aesthetically pleasing environment. Rats in this cage tried the cocaine once or twice, and then never again.

I believe a huge swath of the human population basically lives in the first "rat cage". We've created an anti-human, totally alienating society. We're alienated from our neighbors, and the fruits of our labor. Every human relationship is commoditized. Every year, it's a little harder to make ends meet. And all there is to salve our anxieties is empty consumerism.

Even the luckiest among us in the upper middle class are aware of how precarious our positions are. We know that despite our comfortable conditions, we're always a few really unlucky months away from being homeless. We're still basically in the first rat cage, always aware that powerful forces totally beyond our control can bring the party to an end at any time.

Drug addiction is a symptom, not a cause.

 

[JOHN GALT]

Jamaican Government Launches ‘Good Ganja Sense’ Campaign To Debunk Marijuana Myths​

“We are in a digital world where people are finding information for themselves, and the information may be false or it very well may be true, depending on where they go,” Cuthbert-Flynn said. “Ganja will no longer be underpinned by what has been passed down through oral traditions and old tales, but fact-based information that is now available at the fingertips.”


https://www.marijuanamoment.net/jam...nja-sense-campaign-to-debunk-marijuana-myths/

video

 

[Robert-in-YEG]

Plumber discovers money, checks in wall of Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church years after $600K burglary​

Plumber discovers money, checks in wall of Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church years after $600K burglary

Lakewood Church via a representative has acknowledged cash and checks were found at the facility during repairs, years after a burglary of $600,000, in 2014.

www.click2houston.com

 

[JOHN GALT]

Woman arrested after preparing to smoke marijuana live on Facebook in NC​

A woman was arrested on several drugs charges after authorities received an anonymous tip she was preparing to smoke marijuana during a Facebook Live.

Around 9:15 a.m. Thursday morning, the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office was notified that Candace Keene, 33, was preparing marijuana to be smoked in a live stream on Facebook, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.

“Investigators reviewed the social media account and was able to observe the video,” a spokesperson for the department wrote in the release. “Investigators and H.E.A.T. Deputies went to the home of Candace Keene and spoke to her about the narcotics seen in the video which see did not deny.”

Investigators found and collected unspecified amounts of marijuana and a controlled prescription medicine not prescribed to Keene during a search of the home.

Woman arrested after preparing to smoke marijuana live on Facebook

A woman was arrested on several drugs charges after authorities received an anonymous tip she was preparing to smoke marijuana during a Facebook Live.

www.wect.com

 

[florduh]

Woman arrested after preparing to smoke marijuana live on Facebook in NC​

A woman was arrested on several drugs charges after authorities received an anonymous tip she was preparing to smoke marijuana during a Facebook Live.

Around 9:15 a.m. Thursday morning, the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office was notified that Candace Keene, 33, was preparing marijuana to be smoked in a live stream on Facebook, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.

“Investigators reviewed the social media account and was able to observe the video,” a spokesperson for the department wrote in the release. “Investigators and H.E.A.T. Deputies went to the home of Candace Keene and spoke to her about the narcotics seen in the video which see did not deny.”

Investigators found and collected unspecified amounts of marijuana and a controlled prescription medicine not prescribed to Keene during a search of the home.

Woman arrested after preparing to smoke marijuana live on Facebook

A woman was arrested on several drugs charges after authorities received an anonymous tip she was preparing to smoke marijuana during a Facebook Live.

www.wect.com

I take it this means every real crime in that county has been solved already, huh?

"wHy dOeS EveRyBOdy HatE uS????"- Cops

 

[BrianTL]

I take it this means every real crime in that county has been solved already, huh?

"wHy dOeS EveRyBOdy HatE uS????"- Cops

As much as I agree with you... you gotta know your local laws and realize you shouldn't be advertising "criminal activity" on the internet too

 

[florduh]

As much as I agree with you... you gotta know your local laws and realize you shouldn't be advertising "criminal activity" on the internet too

The lady was very stupid, yes. But the community is in no way any safer after her arrest. This was a waste of resources.

I guess I'm just pissy after I went down a rabbit hole about the opioid crisis. The Sackler Family murdered 500,000 Americans, and never got their door kicked down. Never got cuffed. And got to keep almost all of their blood money. They're still one of the richest families on earth.

But hey, at least we got the Facebook weed smoking dummy.

Edit: Just googled that county's crime rate:

With a crime rate of 48 per one thousand residents, Columbus has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 21.

Twice as much crime as NYC. So it's not like the cops were wanting for productive shit to do with that county's tax dollars.

 

[His_Highness]

The lady was very stupid, yes. But the community is in no way any safer after her arrest. This was a waste of resources.

Low hanging fruit.....made it impossible to ignore her crime or her stupidity.

 

[florduh]

Low hanging fruit.....made it impossible to ignore her crime or her stupidity.

See I think they absolutely could have. With a violent crime rate twice that of New York City, I imagine resources are pretty tight. Also I'm pretty sure the national solve rate on crimes is like 30-35%. They let bad guys go all the time.

I do agree it was a low hanging fruit situation. You get to rack one up for your arrest quota, with zero work needed. My guess is that's why every police union, and almost every Sheriff in this country is against legalization. Busting potheads is an easy, low risk way to meet quotas and rack up fines/court fees.

I can't feel too bad for her though. Basically dangling cop-cat-nip in front of them like that. Whoever ratted her out is a piece of shit though.

 

[macbill]

Meet Ameca, the remarkable (and not at all creepy) human-like robot - National | Globalnews.ca

"The reason for making a robot that looks like a person is to interact with people," said Engineered Arts founder Will Jackson about Ameca's design.

globalnews.ca

 

[unsorted]

The lady was very stupid, yes. But the community is in no way any safer after her arrest. This was a waste of resources.

I guess I'm just pissy after I went down a rabbit hole about the opioid crisis. The Sackler Family murdered 500,000 Americans, and never got their door kicked down. Never got cuffed. And got to keep almost all of their blood money. They're still one of the richest families on earth.

But hey, at least we got the Facebook weed smoking dummy.

Edit: Just googled that county's crime rate:



Twice as much crime as NYC. So it's not like the cops were wanting for productive shit to do with that county's tax dollars.

Maybe the crime rate would be a little lower if they stopped arresting the potheads, wherever they are.

 

[cybrguy]

Twice as much crime as NYC. So it's not like the cops were wanting for productive shit to do with that county's tax dollars.

Ah, but this was no risk for them. They didn't even have to pull out their guns, unless she was black of course...

 

[Planck]

Or in a wheelchair.

 

[macbill]

CNN fires Chris Cuomo

CNN said Saturday that anchor Chris Cuomo has been "terminated" by the network, "effective immediately." The announcement came after an outside law firm was retained to review exactly how Cuomo aided his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

www.cnn.com