https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/03/health/toilet-time-hemorrhoid-risk-wellness

Using the phone while you poop greatly raises hemorrhoid risk, new study says

 

Forcing people to press buttons to view a website gives me hemorrhoids.

 

Back in the 70s, my Swedish expat buddy Bengt Ostlund told me one of the big problems in Sweden was the Polish. The Poles would come to Sweden on Holiday and commit serious crimes in order to be incarcerated. They said that living in prison in Sweden was preferable and much better than living conditions in Poland at that time.

 

The decoy truck worked perfectly.

The real drug truck.

 

Indianapolis bankruptcy lawyer Mark S. Zuckerberg — no relation to Meta’s CEO — has filed a lawsuit against Meta after his Facebook accounts were repeatedly disabled for "impersonating a celebrity." Over the last 15 years, his verified personal account has been suspended five times, and his firm’s page removed four times, costing him around $11,000 in lost ad spend. Each time, he had to provide ID, credit cards, and appeal details to prove his identity. Meta reinstated his account and acknowledged the error, stating they’re working on preventing future mishaps. Now he's seeking damages, legal fees, and a formal apology.

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Hard to feel sorry about a lawyer.

 

Hard to feel sorry about a lawyer.

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In 1962, A Boy Found A Radioactive Capsule And Brought It Inside His House — With Tragic Results

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Blackening of glass has been described in other reports of radiation exposure. However odd it might have been, it did not alert any of the family as to what was happening.

 

Why the Harvard Bridge is measured in "Smoots"

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https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/famed...sted-string-bank-robberies/story?id=125600915
Bay Area celebrity chef robs 3 banks in one day, police say
Valentino Luchin faced similar charges in 2018 after robbing a bank in Orinda.

 

https://arstechnica.com/culture/202...ie-chan-movie-on-a-samsung-streaming-service/
Oklahoma’s big “TV nudes” scandal was… a Jackie Chan movie on a Samsung streaming service

 

 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/killed-sq...-california-town-sending-2/story?id=125847569
A California squirrel has gone nuts, and neighbors in one town are on the alert.

Residents in the town of San Rafael have reported a series of attacks from a vicious brown squirrel that sent at least two people to the emergency room, according to the local humane society.

 

Strange big robbery:

 

Strange big robbery:

Police chased the suspects until it became a danger to the public. Later, the drone video and nearby law enforcement helped arrest seven of the suspects.
Police say they are all linked to similar crimes across the Bay Area. They have recovered some of the jewelry and two of the guns used in the crime, nearly $1 million worth of goods is unaccounted for.

Here we have an idiot making excuses. These 'kids' are just cheap criminals making a quick buck for the heist masters.

One hell of a heist, well organized. I wonder who the fence is for that haul?

 

"Up in Smoke"

 

Strange big robbery:

These types of robberies, known as "flash mob smash and grabs" have become pretty common place in a number of cities. Another term is "flash rob". Often, a car is used to crash through the doors/windows of a shop (jewelry stores are common targets) and then a dozen or more people flood in and smash the place up, grabbing everything they can quickly and then fleeing. It's not a case of a bunch of individuals just happening to rob the same place at the same time, it's preplanned with one mastermind recruiting a bunch of thugs, often teenage gang member wannabies, to carry out a coordinated robbery. They are often coordinated via social media in such a way that none of the people participating in the robbery know who anyone else is, including the person that recruited them. They can get in and out with a huge haul in under a minute and then they usually run in separate directions and drop of their part of the haul in exchange for payment (in either cash or drugs) in an anonymous way. If some of them get caught, that's okay. They can't finger any of the others.

I don't know when this craziness started, but it's been at least a decade. But I think they shot up significantly with the pandemic for a host of reasons.

 

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11849

Can LIGO Detect Daylight Savings Time?

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gw0wyjxxno
Police home working ban amid 'key jamming' probe

One constable told a hearing that a police detective working from home had made it look like his computer was in use on 38 different occasions over 12 days, according to an earlier BBC article. The evidence "showed lengthy periods where the only activity is single keystrokes, pressing the 'H' key about 30 times, between 10:28 and 11:56 GMT on 3 December, and then the 'I' key more than 16,000 times." The detective "used key jamming for 45 hours out of a total of 85 he was logged in for and was frequently away from the keyboard for half of his working day."

 

These types of robberies, known as "flash mob smash and grabs" have become pretty common place in a number of cities. Another term is "flash rob". Often, a car is used to crash through the doors/windows of a shop (jewelry stores are common targets) and then a dozen or more people flood in and smash the place up, grabbing everything they can quickly and then fleeing. It's not a case of a bunch of individuals just happening to rob the same place at the same time, it's preplanned with one mastermind recruiting a bunch of thugs, often teenage gang member wannabies, to carry out a coordinated robbery. They are often coordinated via social media in such a way that none of the people participating in the robbery know who anyone else is, including the person that recruited them. They can get in and out with a huge haul in under a minute and then they usually run in separate directions and drop of their part of the haul in exchange for payment (in either cash or drugs) in an anonymous way. If some of them get caught, that's okay. They can't finger any of the others.

I don't know when this craziness started, but it's been at least a decade. But I think they shot up significantly with the pandemic for a host of reasons.