you can't make this stuff up

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  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 15,661 ✭✭✭✭✭

    They owe me a Brazilian dollars already.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 33,937 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Father's day gift at 🎯

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  • WolfHunter909_
    WolfHunter909_ Posts: 392 ✭✭✭✭
    edited June 14

    Hey we had a local girl that drove drunk to the police station demanding they sell her cigarettes..

    Post edited by WolfHunter909_ on
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 25,577 ✭✭✭✭✭

    https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-paying-almost-25000-month-store-unusable-contraceptives-stuck-belgium-2026-06-15/

    LONDON/NAIROBI, June 15 (Reuters) - The United ​States is spending almost $25,000 every month to store contraceptives in Belgium that were originally bought for ‌use in poorer nations but are now mainly unusable, according to a report from officials reviewed by Reuters.
    Around $9.7 million worth of contraceptives, including implants and pills, have been stuck in a Belgian warehouse since January last year, when the U.S. first froze foreign aid. The stock could ​have helped prevent millions of unwanted pregnancies and saved lives, aid sources have said.

    Between January 2025 and March ​of this year, storing and transporting the stock has cost $360,667

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 25,577 ✭✭✭✭✭

    AI strikes again

    “It was pretty cool to see a ticket that’s $4,000, and I could just hit a button and issue as many as I wanted,” says Carroll, who runs the startup Seats.aero but also does independent security research. “I could go to every single event with no limitations or restrictions: I could get the backstage pass or whatever they sell to the super VIPs—even if it’s sold out.”
    https://www.wired.com/story/claude-helped-a-hacker-find-a-way-to-issue-tickets-to-almost-every-us-music-festival/

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 25,577 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dicky Pride became a two-time winner of the Professional Golfers’ Association Tour Champions after winning ****’s Open.

  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,741 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 25,577 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I can't understand how a chicken farmer can turn a profit selling eggs for $ 2.00/dozen

  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,741 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    I can't understand how a chicken farmer can turn a profit selling eggs for $ 2.00/dozen

    On an industrial scale, the actual chicken is the main source of income. Eggs are a byproduct that add to the profit.

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • CharlieHeis
    CharlieHeis Posts: 9,172 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    I can't understand how a chicken farmer can turn a profit selling eggs for $ 2.00/dozen

    They'd rather break even than hear everyone **** and complain about $3 eggs. Oh no, my dozen eggs that can make two or three or four or up to twelve meals cost nearly half of what I spend on a gotdamn cup of coffee twice a day!

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 15,661 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well, if you have 500,000 chicken and each lays an egg every day..... lots of eggs.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 25,577 ✭✭✭✭✭

    An AI just carried out a cyber attack without any human oversight for the first time | The Independent https://share.google/owQvxVkj8qHbBSmL6

    The fully automated campaign involved an AI carrying out a ransomware attack, where victims are forced to pay a ransom in order to regain access to their data.

    A team from cloud security firm Sysdig said the AI attacker, which they named Jadepuffer, broke into a vulnerable server, discovered passwords and login credentials, and then encrypted a production database before demanding a bitcoin ransom.

  • CharlieHeis
    CharlieHeis Posts: 9,172 ✭✭✭✭✭

    AI may inadvertently end the internet as we know it if nothing can be secured anymore. Good job, reet hards.

  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,741 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭✭

    ^^ I have no idea how to respond to that. ^^

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 15,661 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I bet he'll never do that again. :D

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 19,061 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I call b.s. With the pain and blood loss, it would be nigh impossible to be that coherent and walking away from the scene. How high would he have to be?

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • Vision
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    @Stubble said:
    I hope the charges against him are stiff.

    Think they'll erect a statue of him?

    That took balls.

    What a dïck thing to do...

    I think it’s a total load… never happened.

    It’s very hard to believe as Peter said.

    You really do only get one shot at that though.

    Just……Totally nuts.

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 15,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 10

    He got shafted in the end.

    @peter4jc maybe he applied a tourndiquet before lopping it off.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 25,577 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 10

    "How have authorities justified the killing? The ICE agents who stopped Salgado Araujo claimed he “weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer” who then fired his weapon “in self-defense”, but did not provide evidence to corroborate that account. It is a defense the agency has used in other high-profile incidents, including when Renee Good was killed in Minneapolis, when video evidence later contradicted the description. The officers involved in shooting Salgado Araujo were not wearing body cameras, DHS said." I think it is time to mandate body cameras and prosecute Ice agents when there is a fatality.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 25,577 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Multiple law enforcement officers across Georgia have been arrested and terminated after internal audits revealed they misused Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) databases for personal, non-law enforcement reasons. The sweeping discovery of misconduct follows the recent rollout of Flock Safety’s new AI-powered "Audit Assistance" tool, which flags suspicious search patterns that fall outside normal agency protocol.Key Incidents and ArrestsThe Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) and local sheriff departments have taken direct action against offending personnel across multiple jurisdictions:Albany Police Department: Following an internal audit, five officers were terminated and booked into the Dougherty County Jail on July 6, 2026. They are facing varying counts of Misuse of License Plate Data and Violation of Oath of Office.Nicholas Richardson (30): 11 counts of misuse; 1 count of violation of oath.Tytianna Davis (27): 5 counts of misuse; 1 count of violation of oath.Jade Jackson (32): 2 counts of misuse; 1 count of violation of oath.Issac Whitus (24): 2 counts of misuse; 1 count of violation of oath.Brittney Smith (23): 1 count of misuse; 1 count of violation of oath.Greene County Sheriff's Office: Deputy Quinsha Goss was fired and arrested on July 7, 2026, after an audit revealed she routinely monitored at least one specific license plate over a three-month period for personal reasons.Cherokee County Sheriff's Office: In late June 2026, three agency personnel—including supervisor-level Lieutenant Chris Ryan, Sergeant Mike Cedon, and Deputy Cynthia Jodicy—were fired and arrested for improperly accessing the county's ALPR system for non-investigative reasons.

  • silvermouse
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    Phoebe Gates’ shopping app claimed credit for sales it didn’t drive
    Phia claimed unearned affiliate sales through fake clicks. (Bloomberg $)

    • Cofounder Gates is the daughter of Microsoft cofounder Bill. (Engadget)
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 25,577 ✭✭✭✭✭

    CONCORD, N.H. — A New Hampshire state lawmaker who was caught driving 107 mph in 2024 and accused of driving 92 mph on the same highway in 2025 has been making an audacious argument to avoid legal consequences for her speeding.

    Ellen Read, a Democratic state representative from Newmarket running for reelection, claims the sheriff’s deputies who stopped her on Interstate 93 had no authority to detain or charge her, since the state’s Constitution says lawmakers cannot be arrested while traveling to or from the Legislature.

    Court records show Read has repeatedly asserted “legislative privilege” to ask that charges stemming from the two traffic stops be dismissed on account of the office she holds. She pressed her case all the way to the New Hampshire Supreme Court, which declined in June to hear her appeal at this stage

    .https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/13/metro/nh-legislative-privilege-speed-arrest/?s_campaign=breakingnews:newsletter