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PitPat said:
Huh. They've been kind of legal here at certain busy intersections, for awhile. Maybe a state thing.
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Yep, a state thing. The last time we had red light cameras they were taken down after Missouri state court ruled them unconstitutional. There has been no change in that ruling, nor any new rulings to the opposite. So St Louis is going to spend the money (from Covid relief funds, or course) repeating a thing that failed before, knowing it's going to fail again.
 
New Hampshire daycare workers sprinkled melatonin in children’s food unbeknownst to parents, police say

The owner and three workers at a New Hampshire daycare are facing charges after they sprinkled melatonin in the food of children they were responsible for.

Sally Dreckmann, 52, the day care owner; and her employees Traci Innie, 51; Kaitlin Filardo, 23; and Jessica Foster, 23, all of Manchester, were charged with 10 counts of endangering the welfare of a child, the Manchester Police Department said.

Authorities said that children’s food that was provided by the in-house daycare was being sprinkled with melatonin without their parent’s knowledge or consent.
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Well, that's one way to keep the little bastards quiet, but I wouldn't recommend it.
 
catsmate said:
One of our local rightist god-botherers, a sort-of journalist, is being sued for libel by one of his former colleagues.

Irish Times journalist Kitty Holland, winner of several awards and breaker of the Savita Halappanaver story back in '12 is suing John Waters for damages of up to €75k for defamation of character.

Waters spoke at a conference of a right-wing "political party" then called Renua in '17 and made a number of factually untrue statements regarding the Halappanavar case and accusing an unnamed journalist of lying. The statements were made in the context of the '18 referendum on legalising termination of pregnancy in Ireland. Renua opposed this (and had been wiped out in the '16 Dáil election). The referendum passed in '18 by 2-to-1.



Waters is an associate of former journalist and current conspiracy whackjob Gemma O'Doherty.

The libel case has been adjourned, presumably for Waters' lagal team to cobble together a defense.

Links.
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-la...n-waters-opens-in-dublin-circuit-civil-court/
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland...ation-action-against-john-waters-1617522.html
https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-tim...-halappanavar-report-comment-6363377-Apr2024/
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A little bit of info about Renua (aka Scam Nua), it was a political party set up by Lucind Loose Lips Creighton after she left Fine Gael over not receiving a senior portfolio in Cabinet (despite extensive grooming the party realised she wasn't capable) which started out some monumental gaffes (including but not limited to not registering any domains, twitter handles etc online allowing a comedian to set them up as parody accounts, and Linda herself rebranding as conservative catholic despite running in the most socially liberal constituency in the country and losing her TD seat humiliatingly) and descending rapidly into far right conspiracy theory nonsenense so that these days they share platforms with sov cit groups.
 
I have no idea if this is common everywhere, or even if it's old stuff but just receiving more attention here lately, but St Louis doesn't seem to be able to go a whole day without someone driving a car into a building. Accidentally, or drunkenly, I mean, not on purpose for terrorism or whatever. But it just keeps happening! Sometimes it makes the local news, sometimes it's just people posting "here we go again" photos to Reddit. But what the heck? Is there something about St Louis?!
 
Canberra was second in "Quality of Life", after Grenoble, on the Oxford Economics Global Cities Index.

Quality of life encapsulates the wellbeing and satisfaction of a city’s residents, reflecting the intersection of various socioeconomic factors. This category provides insights into the liveability and attractiveness of a city, which can play a role in migration patterns, talent retention and the overall happiness of residents.
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TragicMonkey said:
You just had to post that right after my post complaining how in St Louis we're constantly driving cars into buildings, didn't you? Sigh. Whatever, my civic pride is unbent. Unlike many of the cars and buildings around here.
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I've actually been sitting on that story for a couple of days, just waiting for you to post about driving cars into buildings.
 
arthwollipot said:
I've actually been sitting on that story for a couple of days, just waiting for you to post about driving cars into buildings.
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I'd post a snarky response but I have to go outside to check what that very loud banging sound was. I hope it was just a gunshot.
 
TragicMonkey said:
I have no idea if this is common everywhere, or even if it's old stuff but just receiving more attention here lately, but St Louis doesn't seem to be able to go a whole day without someone driving a car into a building. Accidentally, or drunkenly, I mean, not on purpose for terrorism or whatever. But it just keeps happening! Sometimes it makes the local news, sometimes it's just people posting "here we go again" photos to Reddit. But what the heck? Is there something about St Louis?!
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How do you know that the buildings aren't being driven into the cars?
 
Well I think I have finally lost it.

You're not going to believe this, but I've been outside for a while, and I believe that it is true.

There is water falling out of the sky!!!
 
novaphile said:
Well I think I have finally lost it.

You're not going to believe this, but I've been outside for a while, and I believe that it is true.

There is water falling out of the sky!!!
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It's threatening here, but there's little sign on the radar as yet. Forecast says tomorrow, then Sunday and into the week.
 
Today's and yesterday's local news, though unrelated, could be said to have a common theme, like "only in America..."

Today, it's the burning legal question of whether a man breaking the conditions of his release and drunkenly making death threats to the local constabulary in unprintable language is guilty of obscenity or mere profanity, because it's more important to parse the implication of "**** you" than "I'm going to kill you."

Yesterday it was a feel good story about a ten year old who is fundraising...to pay off his fellow students' school lunch debts. Good kid. Pity about the hellscape.
 
Judging by the local news, everyone in the county is irritated by the plagues of cicadas while everyone inside city limits is sad they haven't seen a single one. I'm in the city and while I appreciate how neat nature is and all I'm perfectly fine with not encountering giganto noise bugs.
 
bruto said:
Today, it's the burning legal question of whether a man breaking the conditions of his release and drunkenly making death threats to the local constabulary in unprintable language is guilty of obscenity or mere profanity, because it's more important to parse the implication of "**** you" than "I'm going to kill you."
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Not sure I can parse that, but I thought I’d mention that here, it’s illegal to make threats to kill someone.
 
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