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General Discussion / This SF case makes no sense
« on: Today at 02:04:17 PM »
Just stab the criminal when he's least expected, let him die slowly and call it a day. Why waste all these public resources?:

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Outrage in SF over probation sentence in 94-year-old woman's assault

Outraged community members in San Francisco rallied Friday morning outside the Hall of Justice to oppose the probation sentence of a man who pleaded guilty to assaulting a 94-year-old woman in 2021.

The case of Anh "Peng" Taylor's stabbing got a lot of attention as it was one of many unprovoked attacks on Asian American Pacific Islander seniors during the pandemic.

The suspect, 35-year-old Daniel Cauich, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to probation. But the sentence cannot be imposed until both parties sign an agreement as to the details of the sentence.

District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, and those gathered to rally for the victim, say this isn't justice.

"When we see our seniors being violently attacked and there be no actual consequences for it,” said Jenkins. “Yes we are going to come together and we are going to stand together against what is happening."

Taylor survived the attack in front of her Post Street apartment in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood.

Friday's rally, which also included two mayoral candidates -- Mark Farrell and Daniel Laurie -- as well as supervisor Matt Dorsey, became heated when counter protesters showed up, saying the case was being politicized. The counter protesters called themselves an ad hoc group of lawyers.

The back and forth between the two groups got so intense, law enforcement had to step in to break it up.

"And the fact that these people's pain and suffering is being weaponized against judges who are doing such a hard job in such a hard climate is very inappropriate and Brooke Jenkins should be ashamed of herself."

The DA notes this case never went to trial, and the prosecutors were not involved in negotiating the sentence handed down by the judge.

According to the district attorney's office, this was a plea that was made in open court, that they object to.

In a lengthy phone conversation, Lisa Dewberry, the attorney for Cauich, applauded the judge for taking his mental state at the time of the attack into consideration.

She also said she appreciated the sentence the judge imposed, especially the intensive supervision provision, which would provide treatment for mental health, substance abuse and ankle monitoring.

Saying in part, “The court's imposed sentence protects the public and it provides my client the necessary services he needs."

Cauich also pleaded guilty to a prior charge for burglary. It's a crime he was waiting to be tried for when he attacked Taylor.

The DA’s office has now filed a formal opposition to the judge's sentence and Friday’s hearing was postponed till April 12, followed by a meeting between lawyers on April 16.

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Stopped by there for Thanksgiving a few months ago:










The casino area was kind of dead:








The Turkey Day Brunch:




















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Fast food workers are losing their jobs in California as new minimum wage law takes effect
Among the chains announcing cuts ahead of a $4 increase to the minimum wage in California are Pizza Hut and Round Table Pizza. The state's minimum wage will rise to $20 on April 1.


Fast food workers are losing their jobs in California as more restaurant chains prepare to meet a new $20 minimum wage set to go into effect next week.

Restaurants making cuts are mostly pizzerias, according to a report published by The Wall Street Journal. Multiple businesses have plans to axe hundreds of jobs, as well as cut back hours and freeze hiring, the report shows.

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Fast Act back in September to require fast food chains with 60 or more locations nationwide to meet that wage increase after labor unions fought for it alongside the healthcare industry, which will also see a boost to earnings in June.

"This is a big deal," Newsom said alongside union members in September. "That's 80% of the workforce."

Pizza Hut announced cuts to more than 1,200 delivery jobs in December, previous reporting by USA TODAY shows. Some Pizza Hut franchises in California also filed notices with the state saying they were discontinuing their delivery services entirely, according to Fox Business.

"The franchisee is transferring their delivery services to third-party. While it is unfortunate, we look at this as a transfer of jobs," Pizza Hut told Fox. "As you know, many California restaurant operators are following the same approach due to rising operating costs."

Round Table Pizza will lay off around 1,280 delivery drivers this year in the Golden State, and Excalibur Pizza has plans to cut 73 driver jobs, as well as 21% of its workforce in April, a state filling obtained by The Wall Street Journal shows.

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..the way I prepare and cook those dishes as it doesn't taste quiet as good as hers. Might have to spend a day with her and copy her step by step..

I mean it's good but not great like hers:










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..this time around  ???:

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Why Are Women Getting Punched In The Face On The Streets Of NYC?

Many are wondering what's going on in New York City and why so many women are getting randomly punched in the face while just walking down the street?

If you happened to be scrolling on TikTok on Monday, you may have come across a video of a woman telling her story about being punched in the face as she walked down the street. And then scrolling further, you may have come across another. And then another. So just what's going on in the city all of a sudden that women are being punched in the face for no reason?

Content creator and influencer, Halley shared a video on Monday morning telling her disturbing story of how she was just punched in the face while walking down the street. The evidence, a large egg on the right side of her forehead, told just as much of the story as she did.

"You guys. I was literally just walking and a man came up and punched me in the face," she began the video that quickly went viral with more than 21.3 million views. "It hurts so bad. I can't even talk. Literally, I fell to the ground, and now this giant goose egg is forming, and I'm like, oh my God. So crazy."

More than 10,000 comments quickly flooded the comment section of the video. While many wanted to know if the police were called and if she's okay, others shared that they also had a similar issue happen recently.

"It happened to me as well, a whole slap because he didn't like my hat," one person shared. Another added, "OMG I saw someone else post the same thing happened to them last week."

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 ;) ;D:

Dear Abby: I just turned 40 — and I can’t find a woman to date who isn’t divorced or has kids

DEAR ABBY: I am a single man who recently turned 40. I am looking to find a wife who, like myself, has never been married and has no kids. I joined several dating websites, but most of the women are divorced or widowed or have kids.

I just discovered a new dating website for single, never married people. I’m not sure if I should join it, but having a website designed for people like me is a great idea. I have read that 25% of all Americans have never been married. Pew Research just reported a brand-new poll and millions of Americans have never been married, so I am not losing hope. Should I join? — CONTEMPLATING IN FLORIDA

DEAR CONTEMPLATING: By all means, explore that new dating site. When you do, expect to meet women who are considerably younger than you. Remember, however, that once you connect, you will have to take all of the precautions that people on other sites do to ensure that you do not get misled. Dating, regardless of how you meet someone, can be risky. I wish you luck.

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...it comes to their own wallets and pockets like some of the MAGA farmers in California's central valley or LYING hypocrite politicians that talk all big about migrants/undocumented immigrants and border crisis but secretly hired them for their cheap labor:

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Republicans would rather boycott Tyson Foods than acknowledge how essential immigrant workers are

Tyson Foods quickly responded, telling Salon Food “any insinuation that we would cut American jobs to hire immigrant workers is completely false.” However, that hasn't stopped Republicans from continuing to call for a boycott of the company — and a conservative investment firm to split from Tyson.

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A Texas man is running for president after changing his name to 'Literally Anybody Else'

A Texas man says he believes anybody else should be president instead of the current Democratic and GOP frontrunners. And he's taking things into his own hands and running a long shot race to prove a point — by changing his name to "Literally Anybody Else."




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A South Korean mailman got a prison sentence for throwing out 16,000 pieces of mail. He said he was 'overworked.'

A South Korean mailman was sentenced to six months in prison for discarding 16,000 pieces of mail. He said being "overworked" during the COVID-19 pandemic was the reason behind his actions. The mailman said he was picking up the slack for colleagues isolating with the coronavirus.

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..eloping method  ???:

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Rural men in China say they're too poor to afford the massive dowries expected of them. People on social media say it's just an excuse.

A Chinese state media report about rural men struggling to afford exorbitant dowries has triggered backlash online from people who say the bachelors are missing the point.

State-run outlet Legal Daily published an article on Monday covering the dating lives of three rural men in their early 30s, who said they can no longer keep up with rising "betrothal prices."

The story of one man from Jiangxi province, whom Legal Daily gave the pseudonym Cheng Wei, went viral on Weibo, China's version of X.

According to state media, the man "lamented" that dowries in his home region had grown to about 500,000 RMB, or $70,000 — a nearly impossible cost for a rural worker.

"500,000 RMB is a very unrealistic expectation. To put things in perspective, the annual disposable per capita income among rural residents in China is about 20,000 RMB," Mu Zheng, a professor of sociology and anthropology at the National University of Singapore, told Business Insider.

Such a dowry would likely cost rural families years of savings or could sink them in debt, Mu said.

But instead of drawing sympathy, the report received a harsh response on Weibo. Many accounts, who listed themselves as female on their profiles, say men are using the unattainable dowries as an excuse for their undesirability as partners.

"Always discussing the dowry, and not discussing what the man is like, or what the bride's family must pay," one top comment said.

"Then don't get married. No one wants to marry you if you have no money," a blogger, who listed themselves as female, wrote.

As of Monday afternoon Beijing time, the topic received some 32 million views on Weibo, per data seen by BI.

In China, grooms typically pay for dowries to the bride's family and can sometimes be expected to fork up the cash for huge expenses like cars or houses as a prerequisite.

Some urban couples in China are now going for what is often dubbed a "naked marriage," where people get hitched without the man first securing the dowry, car, apartment, or perhaps even a diamond ring. But the traditional practice of paying for your bride is still strong in rural areas, Mu said.

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We sold everything to live on a cruise ship — now people cook and clean for us and we feel like we’re rich

Life’s been mostly smooth sailing for Monica Brzoska and her husband, Jorell Conley.

Since selling all their worldly possessions, ditching the daily 9-to-5 grind and becoming full-time cruisers, the toughest decision the seafaring sweeties have had to face each day is whether to luxuriate around an oceanliner’s pools or its spas.

“All my meals are cooked by chefs, and staff change my bedding,” bragged Brzoska, 32, an ex-teacher from Memphis, Tennessee, to The Sun. “I haven’t stepped into a kitchen or used a washing machine for a year.”

“I’m not a millionaire,” she added. “I just live full-time on cruise ships.”

Brzoska did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

However, while floating to exotic sandy locations as staffers supply her every need seems like a dream, she admits that life on the water can sometimes be a drip.

“There are challenges, of course,” conceded the blond. “We miss our families but know we can fly home if there’s an emergency.”

In fact, a family crisis inspired the voyaging lovers to set permanent sail two years ago.

“I was desperate to see the world,” said Brzoska. “When my dad Andrzej, now 68, needed a liver transplant in August 2022, my mom Lucyna, 60, said to me: ‘Don’t wait for retirement to follow your dreams. Do it now.’”

With her parents’ blessing, the holiday-making millennials — who met during a teaching gig in July 2015 and tied the knot in July 2020 — said “bye-bye” to the rat race and “aye-aye” to luxury boating.

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General Discussion / Well, my daughter is an Alpha so we shall see
« on: March 26, 2024, 01:52:06 PM »
Millennials gave birth to ‘Generation Alpha.’ Are these kids already doomed?

Zoomers fear them. Boomers want more of them. Millennials will keep making them for the rest of the year.

Born between roughly 2010 and the end of 2024, "Generation Alpha" is the demographic successor to Gen Z. Its oldest members are not quite ready for a quinceańera, while its youngest will be conceived in the coming weeks.

When the last of them arrive this December, they'll close the largest cohort of children ever to exist on Earth. There are already concerns that the kids aren't "alright." The overwhelming majority have yet to graduate elementary school, and 1 in 5 are still in diapers, yet they are widely being called "feral," "illiterate" and "doomed" on YouTube and TikTok — where alphas themselves make up a large and growing share of users.

Blame bad parenting by millennials or tech companies or both — but many of those responsible for setting the discourse online agree we should be worried for them.

"Everyone on the internet is really scared of Gen Alpha," said Gen Z influencer Rivata Dutta, aka Riv, whose content is popular with alphas on TikTok. "They're like, oh my God, Gen Alpha is so weird."

Despite decades of declining birth rates and years of hand-wringing over a pandemic baby bust, there are now more than 2 billion alpha children worldwide — more than a quarter of the population of the planet — and some 6 million in California alone.

And some aspects of their culture are sparking backlash.

Baby decor in "sad beige"? That's Gen Alpha.

Screen-obsessed iPad kids? Alphas again.

Beauty-store barbarian Sephora tweens stampeding through skin-care aisles and slathering their baby faces in retinol? Alphas, allegedly.

Read more: As teen suicide surges, school policies may be making things worse

In recent months, the alphas have emerged as TikTok's newest supervillain, a designation that has followed them into mainstream media. If zoomers are delicate snowflakes, alphas are the opposite — a horde of marauders chasing Drunk Elephant beauty products.


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...wasting my time:

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I'm not voting for Trump or Biden. You want my vote? Choose better candidates.

Shortly after Nikki Haley dropped out of the GOP presidential primary on March 6, I wrote a column stating that though I'm a conservative, I won’t vote for either Donald Trump or Joe Biden.

Despite dozens of furious emails proclaiming that I am not a real conservative, that I am some secret Democrat, or encouraging me to vote Biden, I have not changed my mind.

However, I think that one argument is worth addressing. Many people read the column and told me that every vote is valuable and my choice to not vote is throwing away my right to have my voice heard.

We are unbelievably lucky in America to have a vote that actually matters. That is something I do not take for granted. As much as people like to incorrectly claim that our elections are somehow rigged, we do not live in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, where he recently received a staggering 87% of the vote in an election devoid of any meaningful opposition.

Why would I vote for somebody I do not believe should lead us?
I understand why my willingness to discard that voting right is off-putting to many. It's something I wrestled with for years as a hypothetical scenario that has become a dreadful reality.

My thought process is simple: I cannot in good conscience vote for Biden, who has entirely neglected his duty as president to secure the border and has weaponized the Department of Justice against pro-lifers, alongside countless other abuses of power and failed policies.

At the same time, Trump is an unacceptable candidate due to his actions in the fallout of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, his refusal to debate other GOP candidates in this primary cycle and his self-admitted history of abusing women.

Why would anybody vote for these candidates?

My generation is up for grabs. Don't believe the narrative that Gen Z will vote Biden.

Rather than choose to vote for someone I think is entirely unfit for office, I would prefer to use my vote to tell the major political parties that they have failed. I hope other conservatives join me. Our choice to vote in other 2024 races while ignoring the presidency would send a clear message that earning the White House requires a candidate worthy of it. We can still vote in state elections that matter.

We criticize Democrats for voting for the "Weekend-At-Bernie’s"-esque candidate: Biden. But we also need to have standards, even if that means potentially losing an election to prove that point.

Gen Z has a chance to voice our dissatisfactio n
One quarter of Generation Z is reluctant to vote for either Trump or Biden. People from my age crave normalcy when it comes to candidate selection and had a chance to capitalize on that desire.

While Gen Z does skew heavily toward the left, such a significant portion of us not being sold on Biden shows a missed opportunity by Republicans who only had to nominate a candidate capable of capturing moderate voters.

Pence won't endorse Trump. Here's why that doesn't actually matter.

Our best course of action as a generation is to not choose the lesser of two evils, but rather show the two major parties that our votes could have been won had they chosen different candidates. While I personally would be very unlikely to vote for anyone the Democrats could nominate for president, much of my generation is ready to jump on board, especially when the alternative is Trump.

Republican voters need to realize this is bigger than winning one election
As for Republicans, we should not fall victim to the lie that the fate of the country is at stake with this election. That rhetoric is helpful for rallying voters to your side but is dishonest. Our country will survive Biden’s first disastrous presidency, and it can survive another four years.

Our country survived Trump’s fruitless attempts to retain power after he lost the presidency in 2020, and it would survive a second term of his as well. Presidents do not determine the fate of our country, as much as doomsayers on both sides like to forecast.

The fate of America is not at stake in this specific election, but rather in all future elections. If America's two major political parties continue to offer disastrous candidates, then America will remain in political distress.

My choice to not vote for Trump or Biden is one that is rooted in concern for the future, not the tales of imminent doomsday the pundits forecast.

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...changed party. Regardless of party, bet he'll still be a compulsive serial LIAR:

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George Santos says he’s leaving the Republican Party and will run for Congress as an independent

“I in good conscience cannot affiliate myself with a party that stands for nothing and falls for everything,” he wrote on X. “I am officially suspending my petitioning in #NY01 to access the ballot as a Republican and will be filling to run as an independent.”

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Eric Trump says he was laughed at while attempting to secure his dad's $454 million bond

On Monday, Donald Trump will be called upon to make good on the $454 million judgment in his New York fraud case or post bond in order to appeal the ruling. And if this doesn't happen, AG Letitia James is prepared to seize his assets in an effort to ensure that gets paid one way or another.

In an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, Eric Trump re-circulated the story initiated by Trump's team that they've been turned down by every lender they've reached out to regarding the bond, saying that they basically laughed in his face.

"This is 'lawfare,'” the younger Trump said. "They want to hurt my father, who’s winning the presidential race right now. He’s beating Biden in every single poll in every single swing state. He came out and said he wants to put hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money into his campaign. And, how do they deprive him of that? They have (Judge Arthur Engoron) come up with an astronomical number, give you zero time to post a bond, a bond that’s not even commercially available in the United States. It’s not — no one’s ever seen a bond this size. Every single person when I came to them saying, 'Hey, can I get a half-billion-dollar bond?' Maria, they were laughing. They were laughing. Top executives of the largest surety companies had never seen anything of this size. What, they’re going to start seizing assets if he can’t put up something that’s not available in the United States?"

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