If he's retired, the police's attorneys may not have to defend him, where in retirement he'll have to pay for his own attorneys.

There aren't enough teachers or good intentions in the world to fix all the kids coming up with serious behavior problems. You have no idea how bad it has gotten.

Kids talk about other kids mamas in school all the time. Sometimes they are just trying to craft a good "yo momma" joke, but sometimes they are seriously insulting their parentage. Maybe that or other insults, boyfriends/girlfriends, past fights, theft.

I worked at a middle school in an expensive DC suburb (Virginia) recently. These brawls were everyday occurrences. Security would break them up again and again, and kids would walk down the hall crying or bloody. Rarely did anyone get in trouble. Shocking, actually.

Our local drug dealers used the nail salons. Those nail salon owners had the nicest cars- and never any customers.

When you give your dark money to someone, you might expect them to skim a little fee off the top, instead the exchanges are keeping it all and spending it, lol.

At the end of 2019, foreign investors own 35 million acres of farmland, 192,000 of which was individually Chinese owned. There were 890 million acres of farmland in the US in 2019. The push for China to buy has been large since then, one reason is the belt/road project, but others are for purely agricultural supply in China and development. For example, Indiana has a large chip plant on the horizon. Indiana actually put a limit of 320 acres per foreign individual or company for ownership in mid 2022. Here's a Politico article about the Chinese investment in agricultural acreage. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/19/china-buying-us-farms-foreign-purchase-499893

Chinese investors are buying up land in Indiana for some reason, particularly farmland. Don't know if that was motivation. Probably just a homeless guy with mental health/addiction problems. Lots of those in Bloomington. They will sometimes randoms ride the student bus for warmth in the winter.

US should have one as well, instead of just silly threats.

People with three or more cats are much more likely to have toxoplasmosis. I always wondered if that then made them want to collect more cats (toxo mites grow in cat stomachs). Crazy cat ladies may just be toxo bots.

It's just like the US drug Aduhelm. It's $56000 per year, and Medicare doesn't cover it yet. Plaque reduction has implications for CTE, Parkinson's, maybe long-term covid, etc. I talked to one of the Aduhelm researchers at a dinner party recently who said other similar drugs are close on the horizon. Exciting times for this area of neuro research for sure.

Also, Iran is a team of divers and floppers.

Used to be you were required to vote in Brazil. Has that changed?