I've been following some of the aftermath. The restaurant owner with the DUI who's been driving without a license for 15 years, and wasn't eligible for a liquor license because of it? She got her liquor license, and there's been no reports of her either getting her driver's license back, or getting stopped for driving without a license, or her no longer driving. The County Attorney who should've reviewed the illegal search warrant before it went to the judge, and the judge who signed off on the illegal search warrant? Slap on the wrist; I think they both got admonitory letters or something similar. The sheriff who arranged the illegal raid? He hung on in office for a couple months before abruptly resigning with no further comment; the county has resisted firing him because they were afraid they'd have to pay out his severance package, which I suspect they ended up doing just to make the corrupt, sexist asshole go away.
The raid broke the spirit of the journalist who was working on the story about the sheriff; she retired, and I hope her finger healed okay. The deputy mayor who was trying to discretely find out whether it was legal for the DUI restaurant owner to have a liquor license; she was voted out of office in November. I believe the reporter who was working on the story about the DUI restaurant owner, I think she's still with the paper but she had to take some time off to get over the stress. And the newspaper owner/editor is still there, of course, but the stress literally killed his mother and I'm not sure what that's done to his spirit, either.
In the end, I can't help but feel that all the corrupt people in this story got something close to what they wanted, while all the actually moral people each lost something important to them. :(
While that's true, they're also the only ones with an entire nationwide media ecosystem - broadcast tv (Sinclair), cable (Fox, OAN, Newsmax), radio (conservative talk radio), newspapers, etc - that's entirely willing to back up whatever the conservative narrative of the day is. I mean, we laugh at them for having such a distorted view of reality, but they're very media-captured.
Well, everytime I see an article saying "we've found a [mushroom | bacteria | whatever] that eats plastic, yay!", I always think: well, yeah, that's great, but what about all the plastic we don't want eaten just yet?
A woman with a lengthy criminal history including theft, assault and prostitution got into a truck with a man who had picked her up for a “date” near downtown Anchorage. When he left her alone in the vehicle, she stole a digital memory card from the center console.
And designated safe corridors and then bombed the corridors.
Oh! And cut off electricity and the internet, yet somehow everyone was magically supposed to know where they were going to attack and where was "safe" despite having no way to actually hear that information.
when state Sen. Richard Briggs co-sponsored legislation that would codify some of the country’s most austere abortion restrictions in Tennessee – it seemed to him like little more than political theater. “The truth was I thought it would never come to be,” he says.
Maybe you should spend more time thinking about the implications of a law instead of political grandstanding.
in this case, Briggs acknowledges, changing the law to restore a woman’s right to end a dangerous pregnancy has been difficult. “It’s been proven to be very stubborn,” he says.
Maybe you should think about the people your laws are going to effect (especially when they'll never affect you, rich elderly white man), and actually listen when they try to tell you how your laws will affect them.
If you want to look up an image, go to tineye.com and paste in the URL, then explore the results. (Google and I think Yandex both also have reverse image search.) The older an image is, the less likely it is to be AI. Similarly, at least at the moment, there aren't any AI images that I know of in the major repositories like Alamy. Then if you follow the links off the reverse image search page, you can usually find something that's been written about it; someplace like Alamy will give (as best they know) the caption, year, photographer, location, etc, of an image.
Why are so many showing up that you've never seen? There are hundreds of millions of paintings and likely tens of billions of photos - how could you possibly have seen and remembered every one of them? There's also more museums and collections that have put part of their works online, even before the pandemic; and some places put additional works online during the pandemic as a way to continue or increase patron engagement during the pandemic. Some places have also reached a slight critical mass of data when combining in the photos of previous exhibitions and such that they've put online.
Finally, there's been the whole digitizing-books effort over the past decade or so. We usually think of just the text that's come online, but they include millions of images as well, many of which might have seen limited release previously.
Special counsel Jack Smith's team has questioned several witnesses about a closet and a so-called "hidden room" inside former President Donald Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago that the FBI didn't check while searching the estate in August 2022. [...] when agents reached the locked closet near the front of Trump's residence, they couldn't locate a key for it and were told the space behind the door -- an old stairwell turned into a closet with shelves -- went nowhere, so they decided not to break it open, sources said [...] some investigators involved in the case came to later believe that the closet, which was locked on the day of the search, should have been opened and checked.
As investigators would later learn, Trump allegedly had the closet's lock changed while his attorney was in Mar-a-Lago's basement, searching for classified documents in a storage room that he was told would have all such documents. Special counsel Jack Smith's team has questioned several witnesses about a closet and a so-called "hidden room" inside former President Donald Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago that the FBI didn't check while searching the estate in August 2022 [...] the FBI didn't even know the so-called "hidden room" existed until after they left Mar-a-Lago [...] Though agents searched Trump's bedroom, a small door in one of the walls was concealed behind a large dresser and a big TV, sources said. The space behind the wall was the "hidden room," which maintenance workers sporadically entered to access cables running through it.
I use TMSoft's White Noise which runs on most platforms, or stream. It has plain white noise, yes, but it also has a wide range of other sounds that you can use (brown noise, railroad, city street, stream, etc). You can also upload your own sound, get sounds/mixes from other users, or make your own mix.
My personal mix has a mild background of pink noise, with both a thunderstorm and some rain mixed in: the pink noise filters out common background, the rain helps with masking as well, and the thunder helps me sleep through bass sounds like lawn mowers and trucks.
From 2016: Cash-Strapped Towns Are Un-Paving Roads They Can't Afford to Fix.