Theft part 2
This is from Oakland County MI. Not only all of the electrical wire locked up, but the electric snowblowers at the bottom of the image are cabled, INSIDE THE STORE.
Links 11/18/2023
Wind Turbine Dump
But it is right wing conspiracy theory that gas stoves will be banned!
The great electric vehicle revolution in one video.
NYers face skyrocketing costs to switch to electric heat under new âgreenâ policies: study
The results imply that the effect of man-made CO2 emissions does not appear to be sufficiently strong to cause systematic changes in the pattern of the temperature fluctuations. In other words, our analysis indicates that with the current level of knowledge, it seems impossible to determine how much of the temperature increase is due to emissions of CO2.
Viagra could slash alzheimer’s risk (wait, wasn’t it just last year that off label drug use was bad??)
Expired drug research, more, more, more
Belgium plans temporary ban on use of Ozempic for weight loss
UK: using the wrong gender pronouns will land you in jail
Swim competition allows a 50-year-old biological male to swim with 13 year-old girls
Jiu Jitsu Tournament Features All-Male Womenâs Podiums in Georgia
Lawmakers probe VAâs failure to compensate vaccine-injured veterans
Pfizer press release: adolescent males at risk of heart problems from covid vax
Covid shots may slightly increase risk of stroke in older adults, particularly when administered with certain flu vaccines
The Justice Department has just posted a new jobs ad â itâs looking for eight new attorneys to defend the federal government in vaccine injury cases.Â
D.C. Council Repeals COVID Vaccine Mandate For Public School Students
A new study found child care centers are an unlikely source for spreading COVID-19, leading researchers to suggest the current testing and isolation recommendations can be revised to align with those for other serious respiratory viruses
Why Did the New York City Medical Examiner Process 11,000 Deaths in Three Days
FDA’s Peter Marks admits current vaccines don’t reduce transmission in a meaningful way.
The House Energy & Commerce Committee sent a letter to the CDC Director yesterday, looking for answers about how the CDC has counted pediatric Covid deaths
Our findings suggest that lockdowns and other restrictions we experienced during the pandemic have had a real lasting impact on brain health in people aged 50 or over, even after the lockdowns ended
Pfizer study on the safety of the vax during pregnancy reduced in size and then results delayed
Totally Covid’s fault
Report finds FDA keeps both a private and an incomplete public version of VAERS reporting system for vaccine injuries.
2018: Among children there was an increase in the hazard of ARI caused by non-influenza respiratory pathogens post-influenza vaccination compared to unvaccinated children during the same period
The flu doesn’t do that!!!!…..(twitter thread)
ACIP voted last week to add the JYNNEOS Mpox vaccine to the child/adolescent schedule and to the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program for “persons aged 18 years and older at risk for mpox”
Flesh-Eating Parasite Fatal in up to 95% Of Cases Now Endemic in US, CDC Warns
Is boosting bone mass through pharmacotherapy really the best way to prevent fractures in the elderly?
The American Heart Association sabotages its own predictive algorithm by no longer including race of the patient in order to to affirm the trendy dogma that race does not exist biologically
How many times has the UK done this now? Life support removed from child even though another country is willing to pay for medical care.
If you had a procedure done at Salem Hospital in MA between June 2021 and April 2023 you need to go find a good lawyer
FBI’s Washington Field Office explicitly made the decision to let a child pornographer go free to focus on January 6 defendants, they admitted in court docs.
All 44,000 hours of footage from January 6th has been publicly released by House Speaker Mike Johnson.
The federal government has mandated that all vehicles sold after 2026 must have a kill switch that can disable your vehicle based on your driving performance. Amendment to stop this failed.
Did the Entire Media Industry Misquote a Hamas Spokesperson?
Kathy Hochul announced that New York is “collecting data” from “surveillance efforts” on social media Hochul says the social media analysis unit will contact people who commit “hate speech”
Its Ok To Be White is a hate message
NY Governor signs âClean Slate Actâ, sealing criminal records for employment, housing applications
Protestors block Bay Bridge, organs for transplant delayed
FCC ADOPTS RULES TO PREVENT AND ELIMINATE ‘DIGITAL DISCRIMINATION’
Dozens of bird names honoring enslavers and racists will be changed (web archive link, be patient with it loading)
I guess this is one way to wipe the internet of evidence
How long before they start requiring armed guards on shipping transports?
Teachers will now be able to live and work under one roof at school
Study Shows We are Born Creative Geniuses but the “Education” System Dumbs Us Down
Investigation is underway at a New Jersey high school after reports surfaced of students using artificial intelligence to manipulate real photos to create pornographic images of classmates
Trump has 34 felony charges pending while Biden walks just like Hillary for doing mostly the same thing
Voting machines have been shut down in several Pennsylvania districts due to votes getting flipped.
Truck dashcam footage shows farmer dodging bullets as he saved 120 from music festival
Signal would leave UK if forced by privacy bill
A Personal Flying Vehicle Prototype Can Fly You at 160 MPH
Ohio Auto Shop Employees Use Forklift to Stop a Car Thief in Mid-Air
Humans who look alike also act alike
The correlation between adopted brothers and sisters (genetically unrelated people raised together) shows that the IQ correlation between them falls to zero in adulthood â suggesting shared childhood environment has no impact on intelligence in adulthood.
Significant Neuroanatomical Variation Among Domestic Dog Breeds
Bulletproof vest clad volunteers try to get Israeli dairy farms functioning again
Links 10/29/23
Cyber attacks on businesses continue. Medical. Transport, more. Manufacturing, more.
NIH-Funded Study Just Vaccinated A Human Using Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
The FDA’s approval of Pfizer’s maternal RSV vaccine has omitted key data and is problematic
The Annual COVID19 Booster
Covid Vaccine Makers’ Stocks Crash To Multiyear Lows Monday As Sales Keep Sliding
Covid infection correlates with a lower subsequent rate of hospitalization for other infectious diseases.
School Closures and Student Health
N95 Covid masks may expose wearers to dangerous level of toxic compounds linked to seizures and cancer
CDC Data: COVID “Deaths” Plummeted Once Federal Money for Hospitals Ran Out
Was SARS-CoV-2 or Pneumonia the primary cause of respiratory Covid-19 deaths
COVID19 Therapeutics & Boosters all need new studies
Trudeau regime puts Canadian detective on trial for investigating link between infant deaths and mRNA vaccines
A Series of posts on the supposed death toll in NYC in spring of 2020
Remember when the FDA tweeted to tell people to stop taking ivermectin because “you are not a horse”? (twitter thread)
The Vice of Spice
US suicides hit an all-time high last year
Our thesis is that a primary cause of the rise in mental disorders is a decline over decades in opportunities for children and teens to play, roam, and engage in other activities independent of direct oversight and control by adults.
Oregon removes writing, reading, and math mastery from high school graduation requirements
Grand Canyon tourists exposed for years to radiation in museum building, safety manager says
D.C. to pay $5.1 million settlement after judge finds Second Amendment violations
Adderall Shortages Are Dragging OnâCan Video Games Help (excuse me while I laugh out loud)
Ethical boundaries in medical decision-making can be blurred by circumstances
Won’t that remove oxygen? (article is behind a paywall, link is to twitter thread)
Your ceiling fan is a threat to the environment
Man forced to ditch Ford EV truck during family road trip to Chicago
‘Eco-Friendly’ Paper Straws Contain Harmful PFAS Chemicals
Brazen bandit uses blowtorch to steal $448 in skin care products from NYC Walgreens: video
Retailers Lost Billions of Dollars to Shoplifters in 2022
Thieves steal $300k worth of gift cards from GenCon
41% of French population is in favour of a proposal to limit everyone to 4 flights in their entire life.
Zoom wanted to use your calls to train AI, but the backlash made them change their minds (supposedly)
Tom Hanks says AI version of him used in dental plan ad without his consent
Louisiana Man Cleared to Sue Cops After SWAT Raid Over Facebook Joke
The Revolt of Religious Parents in Montgomery County
(Male) Teacher refuses to supervise nude girl in lockerroom.
California to prioritize missing children by color
How a teenager survived a plane crash and 11 day trek out of the Amazon.
(Video) How puppies might save Mongolia.
Maine dairy farmer places in top 15 in worldâs longest horse race
Meet Wallace the first mule to win the British dressage competition
Researchers successfully potty train cows
The American marten reappears in Vermont and intrigues researchers
Theft
Last week my mom mentioned she’d seen an article about how Home Depot and Lowes are dealing with a growing theft problem. My response shocked her more than a bit, so I thought I’d share (and expand on) it.
I’ve shared some articles here, in my links posts, about the theft problem, but it can be hard to really picture unless you’re actually working it.
The first thing you need to understand is that most companies have a policy in place that forbids the average employee from physically stopping a thief. We’re allowed, and encouraged, to be that annoying employee who won’t take “I don’t need help” as an answer. But anything more aggressive than that is forbidden. If we spot someone walking out the door with a cart we can ask for a receipt, but we can’t try to stop the cart, or grab their arm, or even really say anything more than “can I see your receipt”. Doing more than “customer service” can actually get you fired. Managers are allowed to be more aggressive, and Loss Prevention (or Asset Protection) employees are allowed to grab/stop/apprehend thieves. But the average cashier or sales person? Nope.
Now I have mixed thoughts on that. On the one hand, I’m glad I’m not expected to actually stop thieves, that’s dangerous and I agree that it’s not my job to put my life on the line for my employer. On the other hand: thieves KNOW this. They know they can load up a cart and not get stopped. So on more than one occasion I’ve wished I could do a BIT more.
HD, Lowes, and similar stores have been dealing with excessive theft for years. It only increased during the Covid lockdowns, and never decreased after everyone was let loose.
In garden: any power tool from Echo, Makita, Milwaukee, or Dewalt must be spider wrapped. Any tool from Milwaukee and Dewalt must also be cabled or behind bars. All other brands must be spider wrapped if they’re $150 or more. All power tool batteries must be cabled. All generators, and all power washers over $150 must be behind gates or bars. Anything locked up must be hand carried to the register by an associate. Oh, and BTW, with everything being forced to switch to battery power instead of gas you can guess how THATS going.
In Electrical they’re not allowed to stock out more than 2 at a time of the expensive breakers, and 90% of the smart home stuff has to be locked up. A huge selection of the speciality electrical tools are high theft risks.
Plumbing has to lock up many of the thermostats and some of the fancier water heaters. The smaller copper pipe fittings are also a huge theft risk.
Many of the vacuum cleaners have to be locked up.
Some 3/4 of the power tools in hardware have to be locked up or at least spider wrapped. Saw blades, from tiny to large, are also at high risk of theft. Power tool batteries again, anywhere in the store, require extra lockup.
Theres some variation between stores/regions in the specifics of whats locked up and how, but I’ll bet that even in higher end areas you’re going to see a larger number of spider wraps and cables than you did even 10yrs ago.
Links 9/14/2023
THE FBI GROOMED A 16-YEAR-OLD WITH âBRAIN DEVELOPMENT ISSUESâ TO BECOME A TERRORIST
Was the COVID Vaccine Safe for Pregnant Women
There Was No Pandemic
Another Misleading Long Covid Study
NYCâs rising graduation rates bucked national trends. A little-known grading policy may hold clues.
Christians Arrested For Outdoor Church Service During COVID-19 Win $300,000 Lawsuit
Did you live in NYC during the illegal & immoral âstay homeâ/quarantine-for-healthy-people orders? Many of the ambulance sirens you heard in an otherwise-quiet city were NOT going to hospital.
Retail health company has Chase accounts suddenly terminated, owner critical of COVID vaccines, FDA
even the NY Times admits that Covid deaths were massively overcounted as a result of absurd statistical methods â i.e. classifying as a Covid death any deceased, for whatever reason, who had recently tested positive.
Dismantling The Covid Pandemic & mRNA âVaccineâ Narratives
FDA has changed the status of Pfizer’s subclinical myocarditis study of a 3rd dose of Comirnaty in 16-30 year olds from ongoing to delayed. The original projected completion date was Dec 2022. Moderna’s study of Spikevax in 18+ is still listed as ongoing, even though its due date was Jun 2023.
“Depressive symptoms at the beginning of the pandemic were the strongest predictor of incident persistent [covid] symptoms in both infected and non-infected participants”
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases
A school snowboarding coach sues after being fired for saying males have athletic advantages over females.
New Zealand has been using a “race-based” surgery waitlist since 2020, and people are only now finding out about it
Harvard behavior scientist who studied honesty accused of fabricating data
Tufts’ Food Compass...It’s Worse Than You Thought
Auto Technology that Stops Drunk Driving Now Required by Law
Cardiovascular Safety of Testosterone Replacement Therapy
thousands of birth control pills recalled because they may not work
London measles warning: Outbreak could hit tens of thousands
Homeowner Sues Game Wardens Who Snuck onto His Property and Swiped a Camera
Celebrity forensic scientist Henry Lee liable for fabricating evidence that sent men to prison
US cannot ban people convicted of non-violent crimes from owning guns-appeals court
you need a wiretap order if you want real-time Facebook snooping
Unsolicited Smartwatches Received by Mail
Two workers rescued from Omaha drain system; one traveled about a mile in sewer pipes
interstate credit card skimming scheme
Humans will trade pain for useless information
Many do not fully understand that, upon retirement from the military, you are not really âretiredâ. You just go into âready reserveâ status. They can call you back to active duty.
Light Bulb Ban
Supreme court justices & health services researchers cite bad science in Affirmative Action debate
Teen Stranded in Florida After American Airlines Cancels His Ticket for Planning to Leave the Airport at Layover
Are School Libraries Banning Thousands of Books? Hereâs Why You Shouldnât Trust the Leftâs Narrative
NASA Data Show Volcanic Eruption, Not Man-Made Climate Change, Likely Cause of Record Heat Wave
Toxic Foaming Watermelons
Local Indian tribes are now squabbling over who should get the “stolen land” at Ben & Jerry’s headquarters
THE LEGEND OF LACHHIMAN GURUNG: STOPPED 200 JAPANESE SOLDIERS AFTER LOSING HIS ARM
Aging candlepin bowling alley held together with gum and heart
Been busy
I’m sorry for the silence.
On 8/9/2023 my Tibetan Mastiff Apollo crossed the rainbow bridge. He was 12.5yrs old. His health had been struggling for the last year, but the vet visit was supposed to be a routine check. Instead we walked out carrying his collar and harness and leaving him behind. His ashes are home, we haven’t decided where to scatter them yet.
I took a weekend off to visit my parents for their 50th wedding anniversary.
And I’m still trying to take my chainmaille to as many craft fairs as I can.
Back in May we added two new cats to the household. Siblings, barely a year old. So basically kittens in adult sized bodies. Its been, interesting, having two kittens at the same time.
So free time has been at a premium even when I’ve had an interest in blogging.