USCE 2023: Please let them shove a camera up your butt

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marshmonkey: Dec 5, 2003; I was sick of looking
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/nashville-school-shooting-covenant-live-updates-rcna76861

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The suspect in Monday's deadly school shooting was a former student who had maps of The Covenant School, Nashville Police Chief John Drake said.

Audrey Hale, 28, who police said was a transgender woman, had conducted surveillance and prepared for the attack with detailed maps, officials said. Police said the shooter had a manifesto, the contents of which were not released.

Hale had attended the school as a child but police did not detail which grades.

Hale shot through a door to gain access to the school, Drake said.

The shooter, Drake said, was �prepared for a confrontation with law enforcement� and �prepared to do more harm."

The shooter was armed with two semiautomatic AR-15-style rifles as well as a handgun. At least two of the three guns had been lawfully purchased, Drake said.

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 07:07

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https://www.businessinsider.com/jane-roberts-chief-justice-wife-10-million-commissions-2023-4

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Jane Roberts, who is married to Chief Justice John Roberts, made $10.3 million in commissions from elite law firms, whistleblower documents show

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Jane Roberts was paid more than $10 million by a host of elite law firms, a whistleblower alleges.

At least one of those firms argued a case before Chief Justice Roberts after paying his wife hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Details of Jane Roberts' work come as Congress struggles to reform the Court's self-policed ethics.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2023 21:39

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So what time is the actual debt limit stuff going to get voted on? Is this poo poo finally going to be in the rearview for two years after tonight?

# ¿ May 31, 2023 23:18

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Debt ceiling raised until 2025.

# ¿ Jun 2, 2023 06:08

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Not America (Canada) but it might as well be:

https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/431500/Girl-9-accused-of-being-trans-at-Kelowna-track-meet

Girl, 9, accused of being trans at Kelowna track meet

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Two Kelowna moms are speaking out after their 9-year-old daughter was verbally assaulted at a track and field event on Thursday at Kelowna's Apple Bowl.

The mothers, who choose not to identify their daughter, say she was competing in a shot-put event when a grandfather of one of the other participants started yelling at her.

"She went to step up to compete for the grade four shot-put final, and right before she went to throw, a grandfather of a student said, 'Hey, this is supposed to be a girls' event, and why are you letting boys compete.' My daughter is cisgender, born female, uses she/her pronouns. She has a pixie haircut," said mom Heidi Star.

Star says the man then carried on to demand certification to prove that her daughter was born female.

"He stopped the entire event. He also pointed at another girl who also had short hair. He then piped in and said, 'Well, if she is not a boy, then she is obviously trans.'"

Star said the man's wife then started calling her "a genital mutilator, a groomer, and a pedophile."

Central Okanagan School District superintendent Kevin Kaardal confirmed with Castanet that steps are being taken to ban the man from all school-related events.

"Staff intervened and actually moved the shot-put away from where he was. The gentleman was not a part of our school district. We are taking steps to ensure he is not able to be on our school property or attend events in the future."

Kaardal said the incident was "totally unacceptable."

"Adults need to govern themselves and behave appropriately," he added.

Kari Starr, the girl's other mother, says Thursday's events have rocked their daughter's confidence.

"This has destroyed our beautiful daughter's confidence, and she was inconsolably crying during this whole event and continued once it was over and we were leaving. Not to mention, she was unable to concentrate on her track and field finals and the shot-put throw for which she had qualified," Kari said.

The parents posted a photo and identity of the man on local Facebook groups, but Castanet is not publishing that information because the man's identity has not been confirmed by the school district.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2023 15:51

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Mellow Seas posted:

Banned from school sports events? Fuckin� bullshit. Canada doesn�t have a first amendment equivalent as far as I know, isn�t this something somebody could be arrested for? Holy poo poo.

It's a miracle the guy didn't lose any teeth, Canadians are too polite.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2023 15:58

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Close the light truck loophole

# ¿ Jun 23, 2023 15:37

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Keyser_Soze posted:

I would assume that new drivers are not trained very well anymore compared to the 80's when I learned.

Although I still occasionally see "Driver in Training" vehicles when someone is getting private training.

Also, people absolutely do not give a crap anymore it's all "gently caress you, This is MY ROAD" 100% of the time.

Some people put those stickers on their cars so that people get them room on the road.

# ¿ Jun 23, 2023 22:15

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Discendo Vox posted:

Cannabis legalization and regulation is not as simple as conservatives and out of touch old pols trying to block the devil lettuce, and it hasn't been for decades. The entire ongoing clusterfuck, including the various state legalization efforts, are the product of billions upon billions of dollars from some of the filthiest money and interests out there, all looking to profit from different legalization models. The incredibly long and winding process by which this has occurred is for two primary reasons:

1) Burns-like, these competing interests each are looking for different regulatory structures that will benefit them and close out the market to others. The tobacco companies trying to create a sideline through e-cigs want different laws from the OTC drug companies, who want different laws from the prescription drug companies with existing IP, who want different laws from the "legacy market" (read: organized crime), who want different laws from the alt-med and supplement companies, who want different laws from the pure VC groups and techlords. Each of these sets have cross-funding and pollination, all feeding through several dozen lobbying and trade association and "consumer advocate" groups.

2) There's actual public health concern. Cannabis isn't as addictive as other stuff on schedule 1, but it still hits a lot of addiction markers and qualifies as carrying abuse potential (including under the frameworks applied by DEA and HHS, which is why this is getting recommended at Schedule 3 and not for full descheduling). The really, really unpleasant elephant in the room, though, is data showing cannabis having a causal role in the development of schizophrenia. At this point (particularly with cohort data from countries with broader legal use, such as this study), it's clear that while the mechanism isnt well-characterized (and it doesn't hit everyone equally), it's pretty clear it's causal and not correlational (so it's not, for example, people having a tendency to self-medicate for early symptoms of development). Most of the industry groups under 1) aren't very interested in a regulatory setting that addresses that side of the equation. Regulations that would address it are made much messier because so far every indication is the mechanism is way worse in men than women.

FDA's seeking a whole new harm reduction framework and authority to try to handle cannabis and related products; it's unclear that it would work versus creating a new avenue for industry capture.

what a buzzkill

# ¿ Sep 2, 2023 00:30

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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

What happens when they can't agree on a new speaker? Did they just defacto shut down the government because nothing can happen without a speaker?

By default congress becomes a Spirit Halloween store

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 07:07

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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

I'm going to put my money on the shift to taller and larger vehicles with enormous human sized blind spots in the front so bad that they install cameras.

There needs to be some law regarding the minimum angle and distance you can see the ground in front of the vehicle.

The problem is designing a road for the wrong speed. We make every road look like a freeway but just trusted that people wont go fast because we put a sign up.

We should also have speed cameras in problem areas.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2023 06:16

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