https://boingboing.net/2018/12/08/flipping-a-bird.html

Now, with hundreds of these scooters abandoned and rotting in impound lots, likely never to be recovered, maybe now is a good time to invest in a $30 scooter "conversion kit", which ships direct from China, and plugs-and-plays to convert one of these scooters to a "personal scooter," with all recovery and payment components permanently disabled.
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You’ve got batteries and electronics and motors just sitting there, ready for the taking (and yes, through these auctions you can do this legally).

 

A moron and her money are soon parted.

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/11/19/paypal-scammers-email-scam-stolen-sneakers/

The woman sells $3,000 woth of tennis shoes and she is too greedy to pay the service she used to sell the shoes. Don't feel sorry for her one bit.

The article goes into long detail of how to check the email Here is a hint, just log into paypal (not through the email link) and check your freaking balance!

 

https://www.billboard.com/articles/...18-britney-spears-guardians-twenty-one-pilots

According to Nielsen Music, cassette album sales climbed from 178,000 in 2017 to 219,000 copies in 2018. While that’s a small number compared to the overall album market (141 million copies sold in 2018), that’s a sizable number for a once-dead format. In 2014, for example, cassette album sales numbered just 50,000. But, 20 years before that, back in 1994, when cassettes were still very much a hot-selling format, there were 246 million cassette albums sold that year, of an overall 615 million albums.

U.S. Cassette Album Sales Grew 23% in 2018, Aided by Britney Spears, 'Guardians,' Twenty One Pilots & More

 

https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news...n-hits-stump-it-s-built-on-instead/1707827306

 

Thought of the day - I should be doing more productive things that writing down my thought of the day....

 

https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news...n-hits-stump-it-s-built-on-instead/1707827306

When I was in middle school (IIRC), we had a really deep snow that drifted next to houses to about six or seven feet. My neighbor's garage had a roof that you could get on top of pretty easily and so a bunch of neighborhood kids climbed up and were about to jump off into the snow bank. Fortunately, I went out to shovel just as they were getting ready to jump and I hollered at them, trudged over, and scooped off enough snow to reveal the jagged and torn metal of their car that had been totaled in an accident about a week earlier and that they were stripping some stuff off of before having it hauled away. Had I not known it was there, I would have been tempted to join them; so I learned a very valuable lesson that day, too, and to this day I never assume I know what's under the snow.

 

Remember kids, it's OK to edit your code, unless it's genetic code:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/21/health/china-gene-editing-babies-intl/index.html

 

An anti-vaccination 'hotspot'

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/An-anti-vaccination-hotspot-near-Portland-13554351.php

The high rate of nonmedical exemption for vaccines is what makes the Portland area, which sits across the Columbia River from Clark County, a "hot spot" for outbreaks, according to Peter J. Hotez, a professor of pediatrics and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

"This is something I've predicted for a while now," he said of the public health emergency in Clark County. "It's really awful and really tragic and totally preventable."

Of the confirmed cases, 18 patients are between the ages of 1 to 10 years old. Twenty of the people who have fallen ill had not been immunized against measles, while the vaccination history of the other three remained unverified. One person has been hospitalized.

Experts advised that the outbreak could still be in its infancy. The incubation period of the virus averages two weeks, and it can be spread four days before a rash makes its onset obvious.

"Portland is a total train wreck when it comes to vaccine rates," Hotez said in an interview with The Post.

 

As tragic as this is, if the deaths of those few children serve to remind the rest of the country why we vaccinate, they will not have died in vain.

 

As tragic as this is, if the deaths of those few children serve to remind the rest of the country why we vaccinate, they will not have died in vain.

I cannot begin to imagine their parents' pain when they're confronted by the consequences of their own stupidity....

 

I cannot begin to imagine their parents' pain when they're confronted by the consequences of their own stupidity....

Anti-vaxxers are so stupid, they'll likely assume some government conspiracy killed their kids -- not there own stupidity.

 

Anti-vaxxers are so stupid, they'll likely assume some government conspiracy killed their kids -- not there own stupidity.

Human nature is to avoid responsibility. And all lovers of conspiracy theories are like that. I bet you that in the future, when tourism to the moon becomes normal, they're going to say that the remains of the Apollo 11 (and others) equipment and flags were planted there afterwards just to maintain the illusion that the U.S. did indeed land on the moon.

 

https://www.kptv.com/man-invited-to...cle_aba1ab91-14f8-5fcc-832c-e6a61fb4702a.html

(KTVK) - An Arizona man who was accidentally invited to a bachelor party in Vermont, decided to fly cross country to celebrate with the men over the weekend.

Will Novak received the online invitation by mistake because of a one-letter typo the sender had in the email address. Novak didn't know the groom-to-be, Angelo, but he responded: “Count me in!”

"They then sent me an email saying, 'If you're serious we're serious. Get on that plane and get here!’” Novak said.

 

Even the evil ones can have artistic talents:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46991969

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Three watercolour paintings attributed to the former German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler are being auctioned in Berlin. ... Before World War One, in which he fought, Hitler worked in Vienna as a casual labourer and an artist, drawing postcards and paintings. He was twice rejected from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.

 

...Hitler worked in Vienna as a casual labourer and an artist...

That's a hoot! I didn't know that's what a male prostitute is called in Vienna but there it is.

 

Things are getting hot in Venezuela. They want the US Embassy out but we intend to stay. Setting up for a possible Operation NEW NORMAL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin...-terrorism_Security_Team_.28FAST.29_Companies

 

Things are getting hot in Venezuela. They want the US Embassy out but we intend to stay. Setting up for a possible Operation NEW NORMAL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin...-terrorism_Security_Team_.28FAST.29_Companies

And the Russians are backing Maduro.

Sometimes you gotta wonder: will they ever align with the white hats?

 

Things are getting hot in Venezuela. They want the US Embassy out but we intend to stay. Setting up for a possible Operation NEW NORMAL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin...-terrorism_Security_Team_.28FAST.29_Companies

I sincerely hope that tyrant is toppled ... those people made a huge mistake two decades ago, but definitely deserve a second chance.

 

I sincerely hope that tyrant is toppled ... those people made a huge mistake two decades ago, but definitely deserve a second chance.

You don't get a second chance when you make a pact with the devil.

 

Its the end of the world!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech...x-how-protect-yourself-such-hacks/2659890002/