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General Discussion / Re: Hunters encounter blue bellied screeching Karen in the wild
« Last post by DLR Pyro on January 16, 2026, 06:55:07 PM »let me guess, Trump is not her President.....
Fort Bragg and Mendocino County in general have been in a boom-and-bust cycle, from too much rain to severe drought over the past decade or so. Being California, no one in state government has done a thing to alleviate any of that distress by building the reservoirs they need or implementing the plans they've had on the books for decades to capture the runoff they do get in copious amounts when it comes. This system sounded worth pursuing.QuoteFort Bragg Public Works Director John Smith told the gathering, “Obviously, we are here for water. It has been a challenge for us in the 1970s. [Then] 2014 was the first wake-up call for us, pretty much we had no water in the river and only one reservoir. 2021 was also a bad year for us, extreme drought, and if you were living in town, you knew what the consequences of that were.”
So it seems locals are thinking outside the box, and a Canadian company called 'Oneka' (their site here) has been testing its desalination buoys off the coasts of places like Chile and Nova Scotia for almost 10 years now.
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The pilot project was awarded a $1.5M grant from the state to secure the go-ahead. The buoy, which will be stationed a half a mile offshore, requires no fuel or power other than wave action.
I've not looked into reports of MLK Jr.'s or JFK's womanizing and/or affairs. Libs and Pros wouldn't care, and wrt MLK Jr., if true, it still doesn't undo what he did wrt civil rights.
All heroes have warts, the main difference is where and how large.
After the George Floyd riots, Minneapolis lost hundreds of police officers due to resignations and even disability. The department went from over 900 officers to as few as 560.
According to the city charter and a court order based on it, the absolute minimum staffing level of the department is 731, but the department has been struggling to fill the slots despite a significant increase in pay in order to attract more officers.
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Now, reports indicate that more officers are leaving due to the department's horrific morale. The fact that morale is in the toilet is not in dispute; the number of officers leaving or claiming family leave is only rumored, although the source of the rumors is good. Consider the numbers unverified but realistic.
Jurors in San Francisco delivered a mixed verdict Thursday in the trial of a man accused of killing an elderly man in 2021, finding him guilty of involuntary manslaughter but not guilty of murder.
Defendant Antoine Watson was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of 84-year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee. The jury's mixed verdict found Watson not guilty of first- and second-degree murder.
Watson, 24, was also charged with assault and elder abuse. The jury found him guilty of assault but not guilty of elder abuse.
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Monthanus Ratanapakdee, the daughter of the victim, discussed the outcome with reporters after court convened for the day.
"Our family is grieving and even disappointed and painful," she said. "But me, as a daughter, I can speak for my father. And I'm going to commit to working for our community for dignity and for public safety in San Francisco."
I'm sure the comparative percentages are not knowable, though I'm sure neither is 0%. And there probably are some crazies with no coherent political ideology mixed in. Being crazy is a human, not a partisan phenomenon.