Rocketpoweredgorilla

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

It’s a clickbait headline designed to anger people who can’t be bothered to actually read past the title. They’re not banning wd-40 and it will still be available after 2024

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Congrats on the new addition to the family.

My daughter found a kitten on the side of the road 3 weeks ago too and brought her to my house, she may be your evil twin lol (Joking of course, this is in Canada)

Edit: well joking about the twin part, maybe not so much the evil bit… she’s presently trying to chew my sock off.

https://i.imgur.com/9hxuJk1.jpg

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

Simple fix. Run around nekkid and eat off the floor. Imagine all the free time you’d have.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

Even better, lots of free time in jail.

I’m hairy enough that if I didn’t get arrested first, someone would probably think I’m a stray critter and shoot at me.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

Politicians need to start having some of all this lawsuit money come out of their personal paychecks, because it’s getting a little tiresome for taxpayers to be footing idiotic legal bills when that money could be going to useful things other than lawyers.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

My question is how did he know what they were planning? Was he monitoring them? Since he has already admitted talking to Putin, what has he shared with him? I’m starting to wonder how many Ukrainian lives may have been lost because of this guy playing both sides of the fence…

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

Does Musk speak Ukrainian now? Or were these soldiers speaking english over plain non encrypted means? There’s a lot of things that are not adding up to me that involve more than just musk.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

One set of foster parents I lived with had a bar in the basement. My foster brother and I used to sneak shots of the hard stuff, then top up the levels with water to make it look like it wasn’t touched. Thankfully they didn’t really drink either so we didn’t get busted for a long time doing that.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

If this one smells anything like the other one that broke, I’d be launching my cookies the second the cap came off.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

If I tried, i probably wouldn’t survive long enough to tell you.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

I like your math. I’m from 72, So I’ll have to agree with you there.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

I’ll save it for…uh… a special occasion. Like the day I meet my maker.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

I have a suspicion that this stuff was probably pretty bad the day it was bottled.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

Mike (my foster dad at the time) had decided to relax one eve and have a drink when he noticed it was looking a lot lighter colored than it should as he was pouring it and commented on it. (It was probably nearly 50% water at that point, as were several other bottles.)

Of course we denied any knowledge of what could have possibly happened but he pretty much figured it out on the first sip. After his screaming rant he ended up grounding us for I think a month(?) (I was in grade 7, this was a long time ago.) not that it mattered to me… I was a bit of a dick back then and just wouldn’t come home after school anyway. I lived there for a couple more months before my foster mom had a nervous breakdown (not entirely related to that particular incident) and I was shipped to a different home outside the city.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

There wasn’t anything in foster care that could surpass the reasons I was in foster care to begin with. I kind of liked it to be honest… I could swap out foster parents/group homes whenever things got rough, and I was kind of a tough kid to deal with. After 7 homes, I ended up living on my own since I was 17.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

I’ve been having the same issue for the last couple days. Sometimes have to reload several times to get it to work.

Even upvoting something doesn’t always take on the first try, I have to click the button several times to register. Normal lemmy works fine though.

(On firefox 117 if that matters)

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

Judging by the looks of it, bacon.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

Not so easy to rip your dashboard apart to wrap things in screening though. Nor should a person have to considering the tens of thousands of dollars they already paid for something.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

Not so easy to rip your dashboard apart to wrap things in screening though. Nor should a person have to considering the tens of thousands of dollars they already paid for something.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

I have a “differently abled” car as well that doesn’t have Onstar (it came out on the next model year after mine.) but even it has most of it’s electronics buried under the dash by the firewall. You’d have to pay me to replace it with all this tracking crap they stuff in there now.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

The ground is too uneven and difficult to work with, otherwise there probably already would be.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

My best friend had the same thing happen to him in high school. A girl didn’t like my friend’s gf, so she made up a story about him raping her. Thankfully she eventually admitted it, but it still put my buddy through a lot of mental anguish in the meantime.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

The only logic I can see with tires is it MAY help deflect/catch some shrapnel, or potentially cushion a dropped charge if hit from above. If its purpose was to mess with image targeting they could just paint shapes on them and not have to toss tires around all the time, or as you say toss some tarps on them.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

General Motors isn’t much better.(This is from 2011) " OnStar, the service started by General Motors to support drivers through a cell phone system in their cars, has now told customers it may collect information on their movements and driving habits – even if they no longer subscribe to the service." abcnews.go.com/Technology/…/story?id=14581571

digitaltrends.com/…/onstar-your-location-and-your…

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

I have a microwave built in 1983. During a lightning storm a few years ago the little buzzer thing crapped out and now it’s so quiet you can only hear it go off if you’re standing right next to it and there’s no other noises in the room.

Imma gonna cry when that thing finally bites the big one.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

Ya I’m super impressed with it. I bought it second hand in 1992, and the only thing I’ve ever done is replace the light once when it burned out in 1998 or so.

Meanwhile my ex mother-in-law goes through a microwave every couple years.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

It shouldn’t surprise me there’s a sub for that here too. I guess maybe I should take a pic of the old nuker and stick it up there, but then I’d have to clean it first… (I’ve been lazy the last little while.)

Edit: ah nevermind, “not for antiques that have survived the ages and can no longer be acquired.” This thing is an old Panasonic “The Genius” microwave that probably hasn’t been sold in 30+ years now. They still sell a “Genius” line of microwave, but they’ve changed a fair bit.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

They don’t always die in the same fashion, one smoked out, one just simply quit responding, one the screen died etc.

Doesn’t help that she buys the cheaper ones though either, but I’ve seen several other people who’ve had theirs die as well even though they’d paid more than hers while mine has been gong strong for years through over 10 moves, 2 kids, and countless lightning storms.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

I’ve done the same as you, switched mostly to proton. I keep my 14+ yr old google account only in case there’s something I’ve forgotten to switch over, but I only access it through a separate browser I specifically use for that purpose.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

Scaroused archeologists searching for remnants of lost tribe discover Amazonian nipple covers hidden in undergrowth.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

I forgot that song even existed until now. yewtu.be/watch?v=9qumxVP8PrE

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

Pretty much the only thing that will stop them is rust. They’ll disintegrate long before the motors give up if taken care of properly.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

www.carcomplaints.com

Take any site with a grain of salt, but I find they’re usually not too bad for a general idea of what you may be in for.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

Yup, the only real gripe I have is a small percentage of the complaints seem to be more user error than design flaw, but that’s to be expected from any review site.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

On an unseasonably warm morning in February 2017, a 75-year-old white motorist was making his way north on Interstate 95 in Westbrook, Conn., when he was pulled over by a state trooper and charged with a traffic violation.

That is, at least, according to a traffic stop report filed by the officer. But no ticket appears to have been issued.

In fact, there may not have been any stop. The driver may not even exist.

State officials believe that the trooper was among more than 100 Connecticut state police officers who may have filed false reports of traffic stops in recent years, possibly to boost the internal statistics used to measure their performance.

A recent audit described “a pattern of record manipulation” and said there was a “high likelihood” that at least 25,966 recorded stops between 2014 and 2021 were false and that as many as 58,553 may have been, at minimum, inaccurate.

“What was the motivation here, really?” asked Ken Barone, a co-author of the audit. Most likely, he said, “the motivation here was to appear productive.”

The idea that Connecticut’s state police officers may have conducted a yearslong scheme of systematic deceit has shocked the public, embarrassed the state’s law enforcement community and enraged its political leadership at a time of national conversations about police accountability.

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating, state officials said. Gov. Ned Lamont, a Democrat, has launched a separate inquiry.

“The trust and the confidence in Connecticut state police is clearly shaken by this,” said State Representative Steve Stafstrom, a Democrat and the co-chairman of the state legislature’s judiciary committee.

The ticket reports under scrutiny may have also irrevocably tainted the racial data that the state collects on traffic stops. That is because the motorists who were purportedly stopped were disproportionately white, said Mr. Barone, who is the manager of the Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project, which seeks to identify and address racial and ethnic disparities in traffic enforcement.

The auditors compiled their research by comparing two sets of data: court records of real tickets issued to real people and internal data from the state police.

“Every time Trooper A said they stopped a car and issued a ticket, I should be able to find said ticket in the court system,” Mr. Barone said.

But the numbers did not add up. Mr. Barone and his team kept finding reported tickets that had no match in the court system — no matter how they tried to account for typos or other mistakes. He said they had used an “extremely conservative” approach.

“The philosophy that we had was: ‘When in doubt, give them credit,’” he said.

But Mr. Barone said he saw almost no way that troopers could have made some of the stops they reported.

In one case, a trooper logged five registration violations over a 30-minute period. Another trooper reported issuing five speeding tickets in 22 minutes. Another reported three speeding tickets in 14 minutes. Still another claimed to have issued three wrong-lane tickets, in a work zone, in nine minutes.

Mr. Barone said that members of the Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project were inspired to begin the audit last summer after Hearst Connecticut Media reported that four troopers were found to have falsified records in 2018. They strongly suspected a much broader pattern, he said.

Now the auditors, who included researchers from the University of Connecticut and Northeastern University, say they believe the problem is widespread.

Their report, released earlier this summer, found 130 former and current officers who had filed suspicious reports. James C. Rovella, the head of the state’s Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, told lawmakers in July that 68 of those officers were still active. He did not respond to a request for comment.

Some troopers have been cleared of wrongdoing in the weeks since the audit was released.

Andrew Matthews, the general counsel and executive director of the state police union, put that number at 27; Mr. Barone said the auditors had cleared only 20, because of duplicate badge numbers. The state police declined to comment, citing an ongoing investigation.

Experts in criminal justice say the ticket scandal has revealed a lack of accountability within the state police.

“If we can’t trust them for traffic tickets, how are we going to trust them for cases like sexual assault, or murder?” said Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, a sociologist at Brown University who studies policing and prosecutors.

“The state troopers sort of view themselves as better than local police officers,” said Mike Lawlor, a criminal justice professor at the University of New Haven, who is also a member of the state’s Police Officer Standards and Training Council, which certifies officers. “But also, over time, they’ve had a culture where there was essentially no real oversight of them.”

The state police union has sued to block the release of the names of the troopers under suspicion until the investigations conclude. Mr. Matthews said they are entitled to due process — and that revealing their identities could put them in danger.

He also cast doubt on the audit’s methodology: He said auditors had not done enough research to understand how the ticket reporting system works.

Although some state troopers had cruisers equipped with electronic ticket recording systems during the period of the audit, others had to write out tickets by hand. Mr. Matthews said that auditors had not appropriately checked electronic court records against the carbon copies of handwritten tickets on file with the state police.

“Why is everyone in such a rush to tarnish the good names of people that did nothing wrong?” he asked.

Mr. Matthews, a former state trooper, was among those whose reports were flagged. He denied any wrongdoing and said one of his cruisers did not have an electronic recording system.

“I did my job with the utmost integrity,” he said.

Instead of widespread dishonesty, Mr. Matthews suggested that there could have been data entry issues.

Maybe, he said, some of the stops resulted in infractions more serious than a ticket, and an officer misreported them as tickets. Perhaps a trooper issued a warning, instead of a ticket, but a dispatcher entered it incorrectly.

Advocates and lawyers said that they need accurate traffic stop data in part to assess whether officers are unfairly targeting Black and Hispanic drivers.

Connecticut outlawed racial profiling of drivers in 1999. The Racial Profiling Prohibition Project has been collecting and analyzing statewide data since 2013.

But the state troopers’ data is now “obsolete,” said Claudine Constant, the public policy and advocacy director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut.

In fact, the audit found that the reports under suspicion were almost 10 percentage points more likely than verified reports to involve white drivers, and about 4.5 percentage points less likely to involve Black or Hispanic drivers.

“This audit reveals a pretty breathtaking disrespect for the states’ racial prohibition law,” Ms. Constant said. “And even worse, the goal of attempting to reduce traffic stops that might be grounded in racism.”

Now, officials are trying to determine whether there was systematic fraud — and, if so, how high up it went.

“If they misused the system intentionally, the question that stems from that is: ‘Why was nobody arrested?’” said State Representative Craig Fishbein, a Republican who is the ranking House member of the legislature’s judiciary committee.

The scandal may also have repercussions across the justice system.

Already, the lawyer for a man accused of murder is arguing that he should be told whether the state police officers involved in the case were flagged in the audit — which would undermine their credibility. Mr. Lawlor, the criminal justice professor, said he expected other defense attorneys across the state to make similar arguments — until the names of troopers under investigation are released.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome are the real heros… I just copy/pasted.

(Page link says chrome, but it’s for firefox as well.)

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

Me when a wasp flies in the window of my car.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

I’ve had that exact same experience once, except with a wasp.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

Obviously, no one is going to offer me 88 million dollars

The best I can do is aboot three fiddy.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

I wonder if there’s a place we can test this trivia of yours.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

I gave up on that crap a few years back and go with Mcdonalds on the rare occasion I hit a drive through…

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

Yup, they use tim’s old supplier, but not the specific blend. Still way better than the swamp water tim tries to sell imo.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

I’d be packed and gone before you finished typing that sentence.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

My fat cat gets insulted if you DON’T pick him up.

“What do you expect me to do here, roll after you? I’ll need three naps just to get to the kitchen!”

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

They know they’d be completely screwed if things were fair, and not stacked in their favor.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

Ouch! That last one hurt my back and I’m 2400 miles away.

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 9 months ago

I mean… it’ll be strong enough and won’t rot out for quite awhile, but the very least they could have done is line it up properly with the edges so you could still use it for storage.

And maybe paint it green to match the house. (Although I’m a bit concerned what may be holding up the house now after seeing that.)