Catch and release Los Angeles police recently arrested 14 suspects in connection with 11 "smash and grab" robberies in the city in late November – but all 14 suspects are back on the street, the city’s police chief says. The reason? The state of California’s "zero bail" policy, Chief Michel Moore told reporters at a Thursday evening news conference, according to FOX 11 of Los Angeles. "All the suspects taken into custody are out of custody, either as a result of one juvenile, or the others as a result of bailing out or zero-bail criteria," Moore said. Liberal Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon, who backs ending bail for many crimes, insisted that smash-and-grab offenders would be held accountable, The Associated Press reported. "Our office has been collaborating with multiple law enforcement agencies and once all the evidence has been gathered, we will review the cases to determine what criminal charges should be filed," Alex Bastian, special adviser to Gascón, said in a statement. "These brazen acts hurt all of us: retailers, employees and customers alike." Back in March, the California Supreme Court ruled that judges in the state must consider a suspect’s ability to pay when setting bail prices – in effect allowing indigent defendants to go free, pending further legal action, unless they are deemed too dangerous, according to the AP. The court’s decision came despite California voters’ November 2020 rejection of a proposed end to the state’s cash-bail system, the AP reported. Since then, the ramifications of "zero bail" have come up in numerous cases.

I wonder who the first person was to snort it off a woman’s ass.

Canadians are nice.

Praise the Lord!

That's also a good way to rejuvenate a day old steak. Sous vide to desired temperature and sear over hot-as-possible pan for 30 seconds each side.

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@aqua-letifer said in Agility Dog Fail: Left his fucks in the car, that dog did. (cheap) Scotch all over my keyboard.

“She is in constant conflict with the Cabal — a shadowy global organization determined to keep humanity in a ‘low vibrational state.’ In her most recent life — the one that just ended — the Cabal tried to assassinate Amy nearly 600 times, but she foiled each attempt. The Cabal is described as a group of minions of reptilians and the Annunaki, ancient extraterrestrials and/or Sumerian deities, depending on whom you ask. They are the global elite, tied to the Illuminati, and they pull the world’s sinister strings, orchestrating the dark sham that is modern life, in which everything from wars to mass shootings and pandemics are all illusory, engineered to keep humanity mired in a state of fear.”

That trampoline? D1 got if for G1. Annoyed the HELL out of me. [image: 1638536461994-screen-shot-2021-12-03-at-6.55.55-am.png] [image: 1638536462066-screen-shot-2021-12-03-at-6.59.30-am.png]

@horace said in I for one, welcome....: Just a matter of time before they make them hot. Then we are all doomed screwed. FIFY

@bachophile I rode the New York Central "Pacemaker" from New York to Chicago. I don't remember eating - it was an overnight train, with some significant delays.

If I HAD to pick, probably Mayor Pete (I think he could be the future of the dem party... ridiculous resume) or RGB.

Personally, I can't wait for the year 80085

TV manufacturer Vizio makes more money selling data than TVs Early this year, electronics company Vizio filed an IPO, and their newly-released third quarter earnings reveal an interesting business success: they made more than twice as much profit from their "Platform Plus" service, which includes advertising and data farming, than they did from actual TVs. As The Verge explains: When Vizio filed to go public, it described the difference between the two divisions. While Devices is easy to understand — 4K TVs, soundbars, etc. — Platform Plus is a little more complicated. It counts money made from selling ad placements on its TV homescreens, deals for the buttons on remotes, ads that run on streaming channels, its cut from subscriptions, and viewer data that it tracks and sells as part of the InScape program... Where the numbers keep growing is in its number of active SmartCast accounts, which are now over 14 million, and how much money it makes from each user on average. That number has nearly doubled from last year, going from $10.44 to $19.89. On the call with investors and analysts, Vizio execs said 77 percent of that money comes directly from advertising, like the kind that runs on its WatchFree Plus package of streaming channels, a group that recently expanded with content targeting. The next biggest contributor is the money it makes selling Inscape data about what people are watching. To be fair, television manufacturing also has a much higher overhead — as the company's earning reports note, they netted $502.5M from devices, compared to $85.9M from Platform Plus. In terms of profit, however, this translated to $25.6M from devices … and $57.3M from Platform Plus.

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