Defenestration.

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-musician-death-police-raid-stroikin/33308478.html
Russian Musician's Fatal Plunge During Police Raid Triggers Doubt About Suicide

Russian authorities say police began searching singer-songwriter Vadim Stroikin's apartment in central St. Petersburg on the morning of February 5, reportedly in connection with a terrorism case linked to financial support for Ukraine's military.
Precisely what happened next remains unclear. But shortly thereafter, the 59-year-old musician and guitar tutor lay dead on the pavement below following a fatal plunge from his 10th-story window.

 

After you hit, rock bottom. No place to go but up.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...-an-urban-model-is-seeing-signs-of-a-comeback

“There’s sentiment that we’re still in a bad spot but not the intensity of six or ten months ago,” says John Horvick, vice president of DHM Research, a local polling firm. “People are looking for wins.”

 

The horrors of human trafficking.

 

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Damn Banks. Giving some random criminal her money and then, even when the bank was on to the criminal acts of stealing this person's money, directly as a consequence of the banks lack of basic and simple security, the suits says it's the innocents person's fault the bank was stupid.

Deny Delay Defraud.

 

Damn Banks. Giving some random criminal her money and then, even when the bank was on to the criminal acts of stealing this person's money, directly as a consequence of the banks lack of basic and simple security, the suits says it's the innocents person's fault the bank was stupid.
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Deny Delay Defraud.

I wish there was a banking server in Linux that would let me run my own bank.

 

I wish there was a banking server in Linux that would let me run my own bank.

I don't want to join that Mafia clan.

I've been a NFCU member just about forever. They've handled every loan I've ever had (outside of business expenses).
https://www.navyfederal.org/membership/eligibility.html?intcmp=hp|mbrsp|elig|mbrsp|elig||01212025|||

 

I remember when Berzerkeley was a party town. Sad.

 

No wonder I feel more refreshed and have more clarity of mind after taking a nap:

Afternoon Naps Boost Your Problem-Solving, Study Finds

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"The current results indicate that when a problem seems unsolvable, the phrase 'just sleep on it' may carry some merit, especially if sleep includes REM," write the researchers in their published paper.

 

"If it's on the shelf, it's being stolen"

 

"If it's on the shelf, it's being stolen"

So unfair. Those cops should be arrested for racism. Or something.

 

So unfair. Those cops should be arrested for racism. Or something.

Those cops need to suffer.

 

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Heading towards ‘urban doom loop’? Portland has been in one for years. The DOOMbies are everywhere there. It's just unsafe for decent people to walk in broad daylight.


https://www.wweek.com/news/county/2...rts-upcoming-budget-shortfall-of-104-million/
Joint Office Warns of Upcoming Budget Shortfall of $104 Million

 

Tofu-Dreg to Temu-dreg

 

Tofu-Dreg to Temu-dreg

Maybe the cameraman really never does die, but I wouldn't have been standing there picking the "mud" off those structural posts, camera in hand or not.

Something is holding that building up, and I wouldn't want to be the one to find out what.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/tec...to-change-farming-has-been-a-bust/ar-AA1zDBe7
Larry Ellison’s Half-Billion-Dollar Quest to Change Farming Has Been a Bust

Agus, a medical doctor with no previous agricultural experience, said that when Ellison approached him on the project, the billionaire’s lofty goals of returning Lanai to its farming roots—after decades of destructive pineapple farming—while also setting the blueprints to feed the world were too good to pass up. “We have an island that we can’t grow things on, that we need food for. Let’s do it. But at the same time let’s change agriculture,” he said he thought.

Farming without real farmers.

 

Farming without real farmers.

I'm all for billionaires wasting their own money on vanity projects. It's a much better way of spreading the wealth around than letting the government do it.

And, hopefully, no governments had anything to do with this, right?

 

I'm all for billionaires wasting their own money on vanity projects. It's a much better way of spreading the wealth around than letting the government do it.

And, hopefully, no governments had anything to do with this, right?

No government involvement other than likely some tax incentives.

https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-indoor-farming-company-sensei-ag-photos-2021-6

Inside Larry Ellison's futuristic indoor farming company, whose massive, Tesla solar-powered Hawaii greenhouses are the first step toward an ambitious goal of feeding the world


At least it has a nice spa.

She added: "If it works on an island in the middle of the Pacific, it will work anywhere."

 

At least it has a nice spa.

She added: "If it works on an island in the middle of the Pacific, it will work anywhere."

What? The spa?