holy shit
McBride said over the last 20 years, sheās been let go from several jobs without being given a reason why, and said it now all makes sense.
āThis is why. Because when they ran my criminal background check, all theyāre seeing is those two words: felony embezzlement,ā McBride said.
On Wednesday, the DAās office said it decided to dismiss the case against McBride, but Blau said she still needs to have the case expunged in order to clear her record.
I love how the article just skips the most important part - how does a non-returned VCR tape EVER turn into a felony embezzlement charge? Lawbros? Someone should be in jail, or at least be sued into oblivion, for making that happen and/or not stopping it.
Though the case was dismissed and expunged Wednesday, Caron McBride is looking into legal options.
āItās hurt me tremendously, and my family,ā she told USA TODAY. āIt makes me madder and madder the more I think about it.ā
Sounds like sheās looking for someone to sue. Good.
hahahah what a fucking pussy, showboating like heās picking it up if someone is looking. OWN IT YOU COWARD
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yes Iām sure in this world where prosecutors literally get away with railroading suspects they know are innocent by suppressing evidence and all sorts of other malicious prosecution that this woman will surely, definitely, absolutely get satisfaction in this quest.
I have nearly zero knowledge of dogs. Never had one, never wanted one, donāt really like them or hanging around them. So, Iām sure this is a dumb question. Whatās the etiquette on dog piss? Can they just piss anywhere and is that OK? Specifically when Iām walking around downtown, I see people letting their dogs just piss on the sidewalk. Standard?
yes, absolutely standard, though there are some fucking dipshits who will complain about it on nextdoor etc
Another dumb one: Is it odorless?
downtown itās a little different, dogs peeing on the sidewalk are (usually) a people problem - the human needs to take the dog to a patch of grass or flowerbed or whatever. Thereās SOMETHING nearby most of the time and most dogs would prefer it.
A lot of condos/lofts/townhouses downtown here have dumb little ākeep your dog out of hereā signs, fuck off, the dog is peeing where she wants to, thatās part of the deal if you canāt handle it donāt move downtown.
FWIW I am absolutely yelling at anyone I see not picking up their dog shit. Usually a loud āHEY DO YOU NEED TO BORROW A BAGGIEā gets the job done
Dog pee can be a bit hard on grass so I try to get my dog to go on my lawn before we head out for a walk in the city. Some performative Mega Dads are super serious about their lawns.
Nope, dog piss still smells like piss. Doesnāt normally matter except in places where it never rains. There are some stinky dog parks in California.
anyway, hereās a great remix of everyoneās favorite WSJ cartoon
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Yup, seems some think that way too 
Reddit post below from someone else, not meā¦
Yeahā¦ I live here and literally no one gave a shit.
Howās this?
Iām a dog walker. I implemented new restrictions and best safe practice for me and the owners whose pups I look after. Stay big distance, no group walks etc etc.
Thereās a dog agility park which is great for the dogs to exercise I sometimes go to. Everytime i went there, there were people using it as their own outdoor gym. The actual outdoor gym had been roped up so no one could use itā¦ so they used the dog park. Particularly a group of people doing yoga. In the centre. On the grass. In a cluster. No distancing. No masks nothing.
They complained that I shouldnāt be exercising the dog thereā¦
I said its a dog park. The hoops are shaped like a dogs face. i said fine, but i hope you wash your yoga mats when you go home, because its not just dogs who piss and shit aā¦ll over this park, thereās rats too! Enjoy a healthy dose of salmonella along with your covid!
This is theoretically true but in practice, the āfull self driveā beta testers reported that it improved during the beta test period, which would seem to contradict the idea that Teslas just logging data while driving has been super helpful. How much data is actually sent back to home base? I canāt believe Teslas are uploading hours of high-def camera recordings.
Waymo reported only 21 disengagements over those 625K miles, while it seems like virtually everyone who has been beta testing Teslas has a disengagement story. Teslaās disengagement rate must be through the fucking roof, but we donāt know because they donāt do any autonomous testing. Because theyāre not actually making autonomous cars. The self-drive feature is a toy.
Also, a hearty LOL APPLE:
Apple, which has been working on its own secretive car project for years, reported driving 18,805 miles, more than doubling its mileage in 2019. The tech giant also reported 130 disengagements, up from 64 the previous year.
NextDoor is a great way to know who not to talk to in your area.
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next wave of fascism is definitely going to occur on nextdoor.
Hereās some discussion of how Tesla uses the fleet to get data. Itās a lot more targeted than I would have guessed:
I feel like the relative disengagement rates are a bit of a double-edged sword. OTOH, it definitely seems like their technology works better right now, but how fast can it really improve if their entire training program is only identifying 21 anomalies a year? 1 crash per 30k VMT is way too high to be safe, but low enough to make the trouble spots slow and expensive to sample. Paradoxically, itās better in some ways to not be an AV company, because then you can sell your AVs before you figure out the software. Itās a bit reminiscent of Google and machine translation. An AI translation start-up could never have been successful in the early 2000s for lack of training data, but if you were in the business of just collecting and indexing loads and loads of text for other reasons, eventually translation just kind of falls out of that as a side effect.
Amazing.
Iāve studied and thought about this image for maybe 20 hours total. But still I never noticed - Momās holding two kids. Dadās holding one. And the kid behind dad is somehow just clinging on to Dadās arms and holding on for dear life?
Obama you heartless fucking bastard. How could you raise taxes on their $600k family income by $7800? Those poor children.
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It looks to me like she is sitting with one child in her lap and the kid in purple is standing.
That would mean Dad is an amputee below the knees. Or heās actually 7ā tall and sitting down.