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Being a legal drug dealer is still dangerous.

John Monteleone, owner of Fidius PDX, says the store was robbed at gunpoint on Aug. 21. He says lost about $250,000 in cash and in products.

https://www.kptv.com/owner-of-sw-po...deo_9d518bf8-fc35-5c72-84c3-87ef367bc2ff.html

"My partner let them in, and checking their IDs, they sucker punched him and subdued him for about 15 minutes. They beat him and really put a number to him to try to get him to open up the safes. Eventually when they gave him his last chance, he gave them the safe combination and they cleaned us out," Monteleone said.

Don't these guys know anything about physical security?
NSFW language

Spoiler

 

Colonel Kirk?

https://www.militarytimes.com/opini.../what-the-heck-is-wrong-with-you-space-force/

So wrapping this up, I’m going to say that if you want the public to believe in heroes, that you should adopt the Navy ranks as they are the ones the public is most used to being heroes.

So please reconsider and name the Space Force ranks after the U.S. Navy.

https://spacenews.com/starfleet-amendment-puts-space-force-in-a-political-bind/

The Starfleet amendment has turned into a polarizing issue inside the Space Force, sources said. Some view the prospect of using naval ranks as an insult that would permanently turn the service into a Star Trek punchline. But the debate has been welcome by many in the space community who worry that the Space Force leadership is not doing enough to break away from the Air Force.

According to sources, Space Force leaders have developed a proposal to use Air Force ranks with a slight change to the chevrons in the uniform and the re-naming of junior enlisted personnel as specialists instead of airmen.

If Navy ranks were adopted, Space Force officers would be ensigns, lieutenants, commanders, captains and admirals. Enlisted personnel would be petty officers and warrant officers.

Air Force officers are second and first lieutenants, captains, majors, lieutenant colonels, colonels and generals. Enlisted leaders are staff sergeants and master sergeants.

 

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A solution for removing moon dust:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200831124202.htm

In the new study, the team aimed such a tool at a range of dirty surfaces inside of a vacuum chamber. And, they discovered, the dust just flew away.

 

Thanks @nsaspook. I just spent entirely way too long looking up clips from the movie. It's been a long time... might have to find it somewhere to watch again.

 

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HE’S NOW GETTING 100S ON EVERY ASSIGNMENT

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/2/2...ing-students-school-cheating-algorithm-glitch

Now, for every short-answer question, Lazare writes two long sentences followed by a disjointed list of keywords — anything that seems relevant to the question. “The questions are things like... ‘What was the advantage of Constantinople’s location for the power of the Byzantine empire,’” Simmons says. “So you go through, okay, what are the possible keywords that are associated with this? Wealth, caravan, ship, India, China, Middle East, he just threw all of those words in.”


“I wanted to game it because I felt like it was an easy way to get a good grade,” Lazare told The Verge. He usually digs the keywords out of the article or video the question is based on.

Apparently, that “word salad” is enough to get a perfect grade on any short-answer question in an Edgenuity test.

 

Ha! They just realized they're not polling well.

The sad thing is that Portland has become a garbage dump and a place to avoid even if the riots never happened.

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/po...e-84/283-2405d778-499e-439e-a112-5e747370deb2

 

Very interesting article about our ability to change, and grow, for the better:

https://www.ft.com/content/fd3e920e-0f7d-11ea-a7e6-62bf4f9e548a

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Dweck may not be a household name, but her research into what she came to call “growth mindset” and “fixed mindset” has profoundly influenced education, parenting and coaching.

 

See what your part of the world looked like, many millions of years ago, period selectable.
Use the left/right arrow keys to step through the time period
https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#240
Max.

 

See what your part of the world looked like, many millions of years ago

Very entertaining thank you for that but this is how I imagined it in my head.

 

I wonder what supposed to have occurred 10,000yrs ago??
Max.

 

I wonder what supposed to have occurred 10,000yrs ago??
Max.

Yeah. I thought the world was happy until about 100 years ago.

 

https://www.kptv.com/news/wildfire-...cle_46f717e6-f3ed-11ea-97f1-2b4460dbf96b.html

‘grab the toys, you don’t want to burn.’

 

https://www.kptv.com/news/wildfire-...cle_46f717e6-f3ed-11ea-97f1-2b4460dbf96b.html

‘grab the toys, you don’t want to burn.’

I assume all that 'mud' running off the left coast is smoke from all the fires?

 

BTW: Nice site for world-wide live satellite imagery...

 

I assume all that 'mud' running off the left coast is smoke from all the fires?

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That nasty mud is in our lungs too. My wife had (non-critical) surgery yesterday, inside the hospital, with smoke cleaning partitions running full blast it still smelled like smoke while outside there was a constant ash fall from the classic orange sky.