I think along your lines too. I can't stand working from home.
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I think along your lines too. I can't stand working from home.
I've seen companies falter just from moving corporate headquarters from the same site as operations to the next town over. Proximity has a HUGE influence on information transfer, decision making, and overall effectiveness.
Also, the jobs that can be done remotely will be among the first to be replaced by AI.
Hadn't thought of this, and it makes sense, but I'm not a fan of AI, so I don't give it much thought. Perhaps if I was younger, I'd care, but I'll be out of the workforce sooner rather than later due to retirement.
As someone who works 90% at home, I agree. In a normal situation I would work in the office every day for all the reasons you describe.
But:
I like the family owned company I've worked for, for 14 of the last 18 in years, and they went the extra mile to hire me back (I gave them a fantasy number I never expected them to meet but they did), understanding I would be a remote worker for the foreseeable future. I've worked in a number of widely varying engineering roles there which has built a skill set tuned perfectly for them, and as a result I wouldn't be as valuable to almost any other employer without taking a VP level position, which I have no interest in.
And:
I'm locked down to my current location because this is where me and my wife grew up and our parents still live, and we have young kids that we want to have relationships with their grandparents. We would be in Colorado if not for family, and hope to return either when the kids get out of school or at retirement.
And the kicker:
Where I live and where I "work" are separated by 150 miles. I go in for a day every 1-2 weeks to get my collaboration and socialization fix and I've thought about pursuing a role that would justify going for 2 days a week, or maybe even something that would justify opening an office down here. There's a precedent for that because we opened an office space in Tulsa just to make recruiting easier. Turns out a lot of young people aren't interested in living in a 10,000 person town 45 miles from anything resembling a night life, though I don't really understand because I thought they mostly lived online anyway. Maybe the Tinder matches are just too far away.
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https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/weird-news/ground-breaking-alien-announcement-happen-33870578
A UK-based academic claims to have uncovered one of the most ground breaking pieces of news in recorded history.
Professor Simon Holland, a documentary producer for NASA-funded projects, including one identifying asteroids threatening Earth, claims that two rival groups of astronomers are racing to publish conclusive evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization.
He told The Mirror: "We have found a non-human extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy, and people don't know about it."
According to Simon, he received information from a contact within Mark Zuckerberg's Breakthrough Listen, a privately-funded initiative searching for civilizations beyond Earth.
A UK-based academic claims to have uncovered one of the most ground breaking pieces of news in recorded history.
Professor Simon Holland, a documentary producer for NASA-funded projects, including one identifying asteroids threatening Earth, claims that two rival groups of astronomers are racing to publish conclusive evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization.
He told The Mirror: "We have found a non-human extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy, and people don't know about it."
According to Simon, he received information from a contact within Mark Zuckerberg's Breakthrough Listen, a privately-funded initiative searching for civilizations beyond Earth.
https://eadaily.com/en/news/2024/10...cted-evidence-will-be-published-in-a-month-dm
Evidence of the existence of an extraterrestrial highly developed civilization has been discovered, the evidence will be published in less than a month. This was stated by director Simon Holland, who has worked on documentaries for the BBC and NASA-funded projects, the Daily Mail reports.
close the likely source.
"They are looking for details, hence the delay in publishing the news," Holland told the Daily Mail.
According to him, the radio signal was first detected on April 29, 2019. He is in the "low-level information zone" — a term coined by the skeptic Mick West to describe cases where minimal data make it almost impossible for science to exclude even the most improbable theories.
"The technical obstacles we have to face are that the signal is very weak," the director stressed.
However, there is more and more evidence in favor of the theory that this signal really came from a highly developed alien civilization, he noted, citing an informed source.
"My contact person is a senior administrator of radio telescopes in the EU [European Union]. "We have discovered a non—human extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy," he said, "and people don't know about it," Holland quoted the source as saying.
In October 2021, Breakthrough Listen announced that the radio signal, which, according to the researchers, came from the Proxima Centauri region, was most likely nothing more than a "false alarm." Holland's source in the group said that since then the opinion of the team has changed, the newspaper writes.
Evidence of the existence of an extraterrestrial highly developed civilization has been discovered, the evidence will be published in less than a month. This was stated by director Simon Holland, who has worked on documentaries for the BBC and NASA-funded projects, the Daily Mail reports.
close the likely source.
"They are looking for details, hence the delay in publishing the news," Holland told the Daily Mail.
According to him, the radio signal was first detected on April 29, 2019. He is in the "low-level information zone" — a term coined by the skeptic Mick West to describe cases where minimal data make it almost impossible for science to exclude even the most improbable theories.
"The technical obstacles we have to face are that the signal is very weak," the director stressed.
However, there is more and more evidence in favor of the theory that this signal really came from a highly developed alien civilization, he noted, citing an informed source.
"My contact person is a senior administrator of radio telescopes in the EU [European Union]. "We have discovered a non—human extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy," he said, "and people don't know about it," Holland quoted the source as saying.
In October 2021, Breakthrough Listen announced that the radio signal, which, according to the researchers, came from the Proxima Centauri region, was most likely nothing more than a "false alarm." Holland's source in the group said that since then the opinion of the team has changed, the newspaper writes.
An east Alabama man has pleaded guilty in the 2021 death of a beloved barrel racer who died after he was “sucker punched” while out with friends in downtown Anniston.
Corey Duran, now 22, pleaded guilty to reckless manslaughter in the death of 23-year-old Colten Farley. The guilty plea was entered Monday in a Calhoun County courtroom, according to court records made public Tuesday.
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Farley died March 25, 2021, five days after police said he was punched while with friends on the city’s popular Noble Street in Anniston’s Arts and Entertainment District.
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Calhoun County Judge Timothy Burgess handed down a 10-year suspended sentence for Duran, with five years to serve on probation. Duran is also prohibited from consuming alcohol for at least six months.
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The assault happened about 12:30 a.m. that Sunday.
According to police and a civil lawsuit in the case, the underaged Duran “had developed a reputation for drinking and fighting” in the entertainment district.
Farley was walking with two friends toward his vehicle which was parked outside the Dark Horse Saloon on Noble Street. The trio was preparing to leave to go home.
While temporarily standing on the sidewalk, Farley was knocked to the ground by a family member of Duran and landed on his buttocks with his hands to his sides bracing his fall.
The family member recognized Farley, documents state, and they were about to peacefully part on good terms when Duran “charged” out of the Dark Horse and “sucker-punched” Farley in the jaw. The blow knocked Farley unconscious.
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“He stiffened and fell backwards, and the back of his cracked against the pavement,’’ according to the civil lawsuit, which is still ongoing.
The incident was caught on surveillance cameras from the downtown area.
Farley did regain consciousness at the scene and was treated by paramedics. He refused to be taken to the hospital, against medical advice, police said.
Later that morning, Farley was found unresponsive and could not be awakened.
He was airlifted to UAB Hospital where he underwent surgery to relieve the pressure on his brain.
He died days later.
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There were multiple social media posts from friends and family claiming Farley was attacked in a hate crime targeting his sexuality, but police said they found no indication Farley’s death was the result of a hate crime.
“There were words exchanged. All of the people involved are loosely associated with each other, they know each other,’’ Police Chief Nick Bowles said at the time. “There was absolutely no bias. There were no sexual epithets or anything like that exchanged.”
https://www.al.com/news/2024/10/man...rel-racer-dies-from-being-sucker-punched.html
No jail time for killing him.
Local alert:
https://medfordalert.com/2024/10/25...oregon-sought-after-eluding-capture-in-idaho/
Drag queen on the run. Wanted for luring minors.
https://medfordalert.com/2024/10/25...oregon-sought-after-eluding-capture-in-idaho/
Drag queen on the run. Wanted for luring minors.
Corinna Kopf Retires From OnlyFans After Earning Reported $67 Million in 3 Years
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment...uUSJlIOqNL4ySmkjkQDOPY3sU98zdxwTkVcbDPiqBclSN
When they say globalize the intifada, this is what they mean. Around the corner from where I went to HighSchool and I still have friends in the area.
The owners of a New Zealand volcano that erupted in 2019, killing 22 people, appeal their conviction
https://apnews.com/article/whakaari...n=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/shes-sti...-user-found-strangulation-marks-boss-custody/
The president of Sarco’s operator The Last Resort, Dr Florian Willet, remains in custody after being arrested along with several other people nearby. Willet was the only person present when the woman died.
The inventor of the Sarco, Philip Nitschke, followed the process by video call but was unable to catch all of it due to technical difficulties.
A 64-year-old American mother-of-two, who has not been named, died inside the capsule in the middle of a forest near a cabin in Merishausen, Switzerland on September 23.
The pod, which prior to this had never been used, allows a person inside the device to push a button that injects nitrogen gas into the sealed chamber.
The person inside is then supposed to fall asleep before dying by suffocation.
Willet remains in police custody in Switzerland nearly five weeks after the incident. He was the only person present when the woman died, describing her death as “peaceful, fast and dignified”.
The Swiss chief prosecutor of the case, Peter Sticher, thinks the death might have gone quite differently, raising suspicions that the woman may have been strangled in a case of ‘intentional homicide’, reports the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant.
The newspaper reports that the pod is opened and closed several times before the woman presses the button which triggers the procedure, to test its closure.
A Forensic doctor present at the scene told the court that the woman had, among other things, severe injuries to her neck.
According to the news outlet, the company president, who was standing beside the woman throughout the event, was heard to tell the pod's designer over video call: "She's still alive, Philip".
The president of Sarco’s operator The Last Resort, Dr Florian Willet, remains in custody after being arrested along with several other people nearby. Willet was the only person present when the woman died.
The inventor of the Sarco, Philip Nitschke, followed the process by video call but was unable to catch all of it due to technical difficulties.
A 64-year-old American mother-of-two, who has not been named, died inside the capsule in the middle of a forest near a cabin in Merishausen, Switzerland on September 23.
The pod, which prior to this had never been used, allows a person inside the device to push a button that injects nitrogen gas into the sealed chamber.
The person inside is then supposed to fall asleep before dying by suffocation.
Willet remains in police custody in Switzerland nearly five weeks after the incident. He was the only person present when the woman died, describing her death as “peaceful, fast and dignified”.
The Swiss chief prosecutor of the case, Peter Sticher, thinks the death might have gone quite differently, raising suspicions that the woman may have been strangled in a case of ‘intentional homicide’, reports the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant.
The newspaper reports that the pod is opened and closed several times before the woman presses the button which triggers the procedure, to test its closure.
A Forensic doctor present at the scene told the court that the woman had, among other things, severe injuries to her neck.
According to the news outlet, the company president, who was standing beside the woman throughout the event, was heard to tell the pod's designer over video call: "She's still alive, Philip".
Mattel Accidentally Lists Adult Film Website on
“It’s true! WTF?!!” one person on X (formerly Twitter) wrote after checking the URL on the doll boxes she purchasedMattel apparently made a wicked mistake!
The toy company behind Barbie and Hot Wheels accidentally listed an adult film website on its doll boxes for the new Wicked movie, according to consumers and photos of the boxes published in Yahoo and The New York Post.
Consumers called out the misprint on social media, with many including photos and videos of their purchase and the URL listed on the doll boxes.
The website seen in the photos of the toy packaging leads to an adult website that is the same name as the movie, rather than the movie’s site.
"LMAO Universal Pictures put the wrong website for @wickedmovie on the back of their dolls for kids. It leads to a p0rn website," wrote an X (formerly Twitter) user.
The consumer shared two photos with their post, one of which shows that they purchased the singing dolls inspired by the movie's main characters Elphaba and Glinda (played by Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande).
The second photo shows the incorrect website printed above the barcode.
Another person shared a similar post, writing, "The official Mattel Wicked dolls link to a p0rn site on the box."
A third user said she checked her doll products after having been alerted about the misprint. “I was just informed that my official Mattel WICKED dolls have a p0rn site printed on them…it’s true! WTF?!!" she wrote.
In a statement obtained by PEOPLE, Mattel wrote, "Mattel was made aware of a misprint on the packaging of the Mattel Wicked collection dolls, primarily sold in the U.S., which intended to direct consumers to the official WickedMovie.com landing page. We deeply regret this unfortunate error and are taking immediate action to remedy this."
The toy company continued: "Parents are advised that the misprinted, incorrect website is not appropriate for children. Consumers who already have the product are advised to discard the product packaging or obscure the link and may contact Mattel Customer Service for further information."
https://people.com/mattel-accidentally-lists-adult-film-website-on-wicked-doll-boxes-8742887
Missing Wisconsin kayaker likely faked his own death, fled to Europe; charges are possible: Sheriff
The sheriff is pleading with Ryan Borgwardt to contact authorities.Authorities believe missing Wisconsin kayaker likely faked his own death
Investigators said they believe Ryan Borgwardt didn’t drown in a lake but instead, faked his own death to run off to Europe with a woman he met online.
A husband and father of three who vanished at a Wisconsin lake this summer may have faked his own death and fled to Eastern Europe, authorities said, and the sheriff is now urging the missing man to come forward.
"Our most important thing, for us, is to know that you're safe," Green Lake County Sheriff Mark Podoll said in his message to Ryan Borgwardt. "We can talk through all this and we can work things out."
The case began on the morning of Aug. 12, when authorities learned Borgwardt, 45, hadn't returned home and was last known to be on Green Lake, according to the Green Lake County Sheriff's Office.
An undated photo of Ryan Borgwardt, who authorities believe faked his own death in a Wisconsin lake and fled to Europe.
Green Lake County Sheriff's Office
Borgwardt last texted his wife on the night of Aug. 11, saying he was turning his kayak around and heading to shore soon, Podoll said.
Officials discovered Borgwardt's overturned kayak and life jacket in the lake, authorities said, and they later found his fishing rod and tackle box.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/delphi-double-murder-trial-jury-reaches-verdict-killing/story?id=114784404
Responders believed the missing dad drowned and they scoured the lake using divers, drones, sonar and cadaver K-9s, officials said.
"The search continued for about 54 days, with no sign of Ryan," the sheriff said during a news conference on Friday. "Near daily drone searches were completed. And Bruce's Legacy [a volunteer search organization] methodically searched approximately 1,500 acres. ... Keith Cormican, [who leads] Bruce's Legacy, sifted through hours and hours of sonar data and images."
"Keith's expertise and equipment led us to believe either something very odd occurred and Ryan was outside the area that had been searched, or something else had occurred," the sheriff said.
Green Lake County authorities and volunteers search for missing kayaker Ryan Borgwardt.
WBAY
The case took a turn in October when investigators discovered Borgwardt's name had been checked by law enforcement in Canada on Aug. 13, the sheriff said.
Authorities also learned Borgwardt had been communicating with a woman from Uzbekistan, the sheriff said.
Other behavior included clearing his browsers the day he disappeared, inquiries about moving funds to foreign banks, getting a new life insurance policy, obtaining a new passport and replacing his laptop hard drive, the sheriff said.
"I was totally shocked," Podoll told ABC News on Monday. "It was just unbelievable that we would have a case like this where some party actually staged his death."
Green Lake County authorities and volunteers search for missing kayaker Ryan Borgwardt.
WBAY
Authorities have stopped searching the lake.
"As far as we know, he's someplace in Eastern Europe," the sheriff told ABC News.
Investigators are "looking into what charges could be filed," Podoll said, adding, "that's a work in progress."
Authorities hope to pursue restitution for the expenses of the search, the sheriff's office said.
"He wasted a lot of my time and it cost me a lot of money," Cormican of Bruce's Legacy said.
Podoll said it's not clear if Borgwardt was given help, and he urged anyone with information to come forward.
Podoll praised Borgwardt's wife, whom he said was not involved, calling her "a very, very strong lady."
"I was there when the sheriff broke the news to the whole family. And it was pretty, pretty heart-wrenching to see," Cormican told ABC News. "I feel horrible for the family. They're the ones that are going to really struggle."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/missing-wisconsin-kayaker-faked-death-fled-europe/story?id=115767037
The Caspian Sea is actually a lake, and doesn't contain any whales. So how did it get there?
Turns out this "whale" is a fake, constructed to elevate awareness of climate change.
"An enormous, rancid-smelling, 52-foot sperm whale has lain beached on the shoreline of the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest lake, since Monday. It’s a jarring sight; no sperm whales live in this vast body of water. Many of the people who gathered to see the giant marine mammal on the coast of Azerbaijan’s capital Baku have never seen a whale like it.
This dead whale, however, is not real. It’s a hyper-realistic model made by an organization called Captain Boomer, a Belgian-based collective of actors, sculptors and scientists, who are trying to raise awareness of global ecological destruction, including the human-caused climate crisis."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/climate/whale-baku-cop29-azerbaijan/index.html
Turns out this "whale" is a fake, constructed to elevate awareness of climate change.
"An enormous, rancid-smelling, 52-foot sperm whale has lain beached on the shoreline of the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest lake, since Monday. It’s a jarring sight; no sperm whales live in this vast body of water. Many of the people who gathered to see the giant marine mammal on the coast of Azerbaijan’s capital Baku have never seen a whale like it.
This dead whale, however, is not real. It’s a hyper-realistic model made by an organization called Captain Boomer, a Belgian-based collective of actors, sculptors and scientists, who are trying to raise awareness of global ecological destruction, including the human-caused climate crisis."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/climate/whale-baku-cop29-azerbaijan/index.html
54 years ago
"All of it stems back to Nov. 12, 1970, when engineers from the Oregon Department of Transportation decided to clear a dead sperm whale from the beach by blowing it up with 20 cases of dynamite, sending huge chunks of blubber flying across the dunes."
https://www.oregonlive.com/travel/2...st-heres-how-to-celebrate.html?outputType=amp
"All of it stems back to Nov. 12, 1970, when engineers from the Oregon Department of Transportation decided to clear a dead sperm whale from the beach by blowing it up with 20 cases of dynamite, sending huge chunks of blubber flying across the dunes."
https://www.oregonlive.com/travel/2...st-heres-how-to-celebrate.html?outputType=amp
It happens...
My wife's great Grandfather left his family in a tent in a snowstorm in the middle of winter in Michigan and ran off to Sweden (where he was from) and married someone there.
My own Grandfather faked his death at the end of WW1 by switching dog tags with a corpse. Taking the dead man's identity, he returned to the states, married my Grandmother, etc, etc. Some shady characters from his past apparently killed him, in any event he ended up dead (long story in itself). His real family caught up with him a couple of years later and contacted my Grandmother - years of interesting correspondence followed. The only reason his real family figured it out was because his brother or cousin or some-such saw him on a train platform in Paris right after the war. How they found out his assumed identity and where he went remains unknown as my FUCKING MOTHER destroyed all the correspondence. Finding where he went was quite the accomplishment in the 1930s (When they found my Grandmother).
Now as far as this guy in the news, they want him to contact them so they "know he's safe", yet at the same time want to file charges. That'll bring him in for sure - not!
They're just SO sure about their religion, aren't they? More True Believers (tm) - there's NOTHING worse.
One of my great, great uncles once ran away. He didn't have a wife or kids to leave behind, so he decided to take the police chief's wife. They hid out in Miami for a year or so while a manhunt was on for him.
He died well before I was around, but I’ve heard some stories about him. We've had some wild-asses in my family, but he might be king. 
That same uncle was in the Florida Keys working on the railroad in 1926 when the hurricane came through. His brother, my great grandpaw, went to find him expecting to identify his body. After a week of looking for him, he randomly ran into him in a bar. As it turned out, my uncle had been paid a few days before the hurricane arrived and decided to head up to Miami. Well, he found whiskey and a hooker and didn't even know a hurricane came through until he ran out of money and tried to go back to work. The gene pool didn't end there.
I struggled with where this one should go
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.co...eastmilk-to-help-over-350000-premature-babies
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.co...eastmilk-to-help-over-350000-premature-babies
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