thoughts from a stoned startup founder
Officials said the message “smoke weed every day” on an LED display sign at the side of a road in India’s largest city was the result of a “technical glitch.”
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/12/21/india-smoke-weed-every-day-road-sign-mumbai/1991671644013/
Banning Ranch, considered the biggest undeveloped expanse of private land along the Southern California coast, will be preserved.
A group of conservation organizations announced on Monday that the 387-acre parcel in coastal Orange County has been purchased for the public. It is now known as the Randall Preserve, in recognition of a Newport Beach couple who were instrumental in the land’s purchase.
#banningranch #randallpreserve #orangecounty #newportbeach #conservation #landtrust
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/banning-ranch-orange-county-preserved-public-land
bbc posits on who will be the new #twitterceo
#ElonMusk is considering his next steps after a #Twitter poll asking if he should step down as chief executive.
we’ll see what happens after it simmers a bit, i haven’t even read the article yet.
“F1 drivers barred from political statements unless approved
“Formula One drivers will need prior written permission from the sport’s governing body to make ‘political statements’ from next season following an update of the International Sporting Code.”
Vancouver city councillor defends wearing controversial thin blue line police patch
Former police officer Brian Montague was pictured wearing the patch during a walking tour in Gastown
“Third air bag death confirmed, owners urged to get repairs
“Stellantis and U.S. safety regulators have confirmed that an exploding Takata air bag inflator has killed another driver.
“The company and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reiterated warnings to owners of 274,000 older Dodge and Chrysler vehicles to stop driving them until faulty inflators are replaced.”
https://apnews.com/article/business-b617f24b8ef78ec78aa5393417499ab2
Officer allegedly used law enforcement system to get woman’s name after he saw her shopping
A Connecticut police officer is out on bond Wednesday after allegedly accessing the Connecticut On-Line Law Enforcement Teleprocessing System to illegally obtain information on a woman he saw while on an assignment, KTLA sister station WTNH reports.
the USA has been the biggest contributor, we need to take the charge in helping to make things right. we’ve already proven that we can cut usage greatly.
remember the beginning of the covid pandemic when pollution levels were historically low around the world? here’s a reminder.
“MacKenzie Scott’s Unrestricted Gifts Transform the Organizations That Receive Them, Study Finds
“As of last spring, MacKenzie Scott had donated nearly US$13 billion in unrestricted gifts to 277 nonprofit organizations, transforming the ways the grantees function and reshaping philanthropy in the process, a new study shows.”
“A teenage girl’s incurable cancer has been cleared from her body in the first use of a revolutionary new type of medicine.”