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Zorro's JournalSocial media influencer arrested after filming herself getting ready to steal from store using fake barcodes: Police
A 22-year-old social media influencer on TikTok with nearly 300,000 followers has been arrested after using fake barcodes to steal from Target and filming herself getting ready before the alleged theft, police say.
The Cape Coral Police Department in Florida responded to a Target branch located at 1890 NE Pine Island Road in Cape Coral last Wednesday regarding a past retail theft that occurred on Oct. 30, according to a statement from the Cape Coral Police Department.
“Loss Prevention at Target stated that on October 30, 2024, an unknown female entered the store and selected items listed for sale,” police said. “Once at the self-checkout register, the female suspect did not scan the items’ barcodes, instead scanning a false barcode with cheaper prices.”
In total, 16 items of miscellaneous household goods and clothing were stolen with a total retail value of $500.32, which was verified by officers via Target’s security cameras.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/social-media-influencer-arrested-filming-093601227.html
Your daily reminder that there are a lot of lowlife ignoramuses in this country...
Top NATO official calls on business leaders to prepare for 'wartime scenario'
Source: Reuters via Yahoo News
A top NATO military official on Monday urged businesses to be prepared for a wartime scenario and adjust their production and distribution lines accordingly, in order to be less vulnerable to blackmail from countries such as Russia and China.
"If we can make sure that all crucial services and goods can be delivered no matter what, then that is a key part of our deterrence," the chair of NATO's military committee, Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, said in Brussels.
Speaking at an event of the European Policy Centre think tank, he described deterrence as going far beyond military capability alone, since all available instruments could and would be used in war.
"We're seeing that with the growing number of sabotage acts, and Europe has seen that with energy supply," Bauer said.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-nato-official-calls-business-112939965.html
Trump's 'Border Czar' Makes Big Promise if States Don't Cooperate
President-elect Donald Trump’s “border czar” nominee Tom Homan guaranteed to slash federal funding to states who don’t work with his new immigration policies while admitting he has received death threats.
Homan appeared on Mark Levin’s show, Life, Liberty and Levin, on Sunday for an interview discussing the “border crisis.”
Levin, a Trump supporter, told Homan he has a “powerful weapon” to use against governors–notably from sanctuary cities–who refuse to cooperate with the Trump administrations plans. “If you have a governor who says, ‘I’m not going to cooperate’...then federal funds should be slashed to that state, and I mean hugely so, so that the people of that state understand that the governor is the responsible party,” Levin said.
Homan replied in the positive. “And that’s going to happen,. Guaranteed, President Trump is going to do that,” he said.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-border-czar-makes-big-promise-if-states-dont-cooperate/
The Republican art of persuasion...
More than 240,000 Hyundai, Genesis and Kia cars recalled for safety
More than 240,000 cars from South Korean automakers Hyundai, Genesis and Kia are being recalled in the United States and Canada over various safety concerns, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a series of announcements.
In one of two separate notices, NHTSA announced the recall of certain electrical vehicles from Hyundai, Kia and Genesis, citing a loss of drive power from damaged charging units that “increases the risk of a crash.”
The recalls potentially affect more than 62,872 units from Kia and 145,235 units from Hyundai and Genesis, a luxury division owned by Hyundai Motor Group. Most of the recalled units from Hyundai and Genesis were produced for sale in the United States, but about 34,529 were produced for sale in Canada, Ira Gabriel, senior group manager for corporate and marketing PR at Hyundai, said in an email.
The vehicle models listed under the recalls include 2022-2024 models of the Kia EV6, 2023-2024 models of the Genesis G80 EV, 2023-2025 models of the Genesis GV60, 2023-2025 models of the Genesis GV70 EV, 2022-2024 models of the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and 2023-2025 models of the Hyundai Ioniq 6.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2024/11/24/safety-recall-hyundai-kia-genesis-ev/
Hundreds More Nazca Lines Emerge in Peru's Desert
Gouged into a barren stretch of pampa in southern Peru, the Nazca Lines are one of archaeology’s most perplexing mysteries. On the floor of the coastal desert, the shallow markings look like simple furrows. But from the air, hundreds of feet up, they morph into trapezoids, spirals and zigzags in some locations, and stylized hummingbirds and spiders in others. There is even a cat with the tail of a fish. Thousands of lines jump cliffs and traverse ravines without changing course; the longest is bullet-straight and extends for more than 15 miles.
The vast incisions were brought to the world’s attention in the mid-1920s by a Peruvian scientist who spotted them while hiking through the Nazca foothills. Over the next decade, commercial pilots passing over the region revealed the enormousness of the artwork, which is believed to have been created from 200 B.C. to 700 A.D. by a civilization that predated the Inca.
“It took nearly a century to discover a total of 430 figurative geoglyphs,” said Masato Sakai, an archaeologist at Yamagata University in Japan who has studied the lines for 30 years.
Dr. Sakai is the lead author of a survey published in September in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that found 303 previously uncharted geoglyphs in only six months, almost doubling the number that had been mapped as of 2020. The researchers used artificial intelligence in tandem with low-flying drones that covered some 243 square miles. Their conclusions also provided insights into the symbols’ enigmatic purpose.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/science/nazca-lines-peru-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cU4.B7EO.wA19VeMUR7o0&smid=url-share
Solar power glut boosts California electric bills. Other states reap the benefits
California is making so much solar energy that large commercial operators are increasingly forced to stop production, raising questions about the state’s costly plan to shift entirely to carbon-free sources of electricity.
In the last 12 months, California’s solar farms have curtailed production of more than 3 million megawatt hours of solar energy, either on the orders of the state’s grid operator or because prices had plummeted because of the glut, according to an analysis of data by The Times.
That’s enough to power 518,000 California homes for a year, based on average electricity usage.
To avoid overloading the power grid, California sometimes must stop producing solar and wind power. So far in 2024, the state has curtailed generation by 3.2 million megawatt hours — enough to power more than half a million homes for a year.
The amount of curtailed solar power has more than doubled from 1.5 million megawatt hours in 2021, state records show, and is up eight times from levels in 2017.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-11-24/california-has-so-much-solar-power-that-increasingly-it-goes-to-waste
An unintended consequence of excess solar power production is that the state sells the excess to neighboring states, which effectively lowers the cost of electricity to their customers. So California residents are actually subsidizing those lower rates to non-Californians.
'Not trivial': EV sales could drop nearly 30% if Trump repeals tax credit
Auto industry execs, fasten your seatbelts. If President-elect Donald Trump and his team repeal the $7,500 federal tax credit for EVs, as reported, the fallout will be massive.
The Biden administration’s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, introduced the $7,500 EV tax credit for consumer vehicles and numerous others for commercial EVs and battery production, among other things.
Since the law’s inception in 2022, EV sales have taken off. In 2023, the first full year of the credit, EV sales jumped 46% year over year to 1.19 million, compared to 813,000 in 2022, according to Cox’s Kelly Blue Book.
Last month in a new report dubbed “The Effects of ‘Buy American’: Electric Vehicles and the Inflation Reduction Act, researchers Joseph Shapiro, Hunt Allcott, and Felix Tintelnot quantified the tax credit effect.
After constructing a model and running a simulation, the report found that EV sales in the US would drop 27% if the federal EV tax credit were removed, compared to a scenario with the EV tax credit in place. The report found this would lead to EV registrations falling to 867,000 EVs from 1.184 million with the tax credit in place — or 317,000 fewer EVs.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/not-trivial-ev-sales-could-drop-nearly-30-if-trump-repeals-tax-credit-194135070.html
That'll show them commie UAW members who didn't vote for me! And who cares if it surrenders EV technology leadership to China!
Climate change goosed hurricane wind strength by 18 mph since 2019, study says
Human-caused climate change made Atlantic hurricanes about 18 miles per hour (29 kilometers per hour) stronger in the last six years, a new scientific study found Wednesday.
For most of the storms — 40 of them — the extra oomph from warmer oceans made the storms jump an entire hurricane category, according to the study published in the journal, Environmental Research: Climate. A Category 5 storm causes more than 400 times the damage of a minimal Category 1 hurricane, more than 140 times the damage of a minimal Category 3 hurricane and more than five times the damage of a minimal Category 4 storm, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
For three storms, including this month’s Rafael, the climate change factor goosed wind speed so much that the winds increased by two storm categories.
This isn’t about more storms, but increasing power from the worst ones, authors said.
https://apnews.com/article/hurricanes-climate-change-helene-beryl-milton-florida-24c2cbbb58d85903c22f40b9690e28f6
The fluoride fights are a decades-old cultural war America can't quit
Folks reported strange things in a New York town in 1945, right after the government announced an experiment adding tiny amounts of fluoride to the municipal drinking water.
“Dozens of Newburgh residents called the water department to complain that the water was discoloring their saucepans, hurting the flavor of carbonated beverages and causing digestive upsets,” the Washington Evening Star reported on Feb. 22, 1951.
One Newburgh resident demanded restitution from the city, claiming her false teeth dissolved overnight in a glass of tap water.
The same thing happened in North Carolina, where residents of Charlotte flooded the city water department with complaints of illness not long after the water fluoridation program was announced there in 1949.
All of these complaints? They came before the fluoride had actually been added to the water.
https://wapo.st/4eNkVjl
'I have no money': Thousands of Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis
For 15 years, former Texas schoolteacher Kayla Morris put every dollar she could save into a home for her growing family.
When she and her husband sold the house last year, they stowed away the proceeds, $282,153.87, in what they thought of as a safe place — an account at the savings startup Yotta held at a real bank.
Morris, like thousands of other customers, was snared in the collapse of a behind-the-scenes fintech firm called Synapse and has been locked out of her account for six months as of November. She held out hope that her money was still secure. Then she learned how much Evolve Bank & Trust, the lender where her funds were supposed to be held, was prepared to return to her.
“We were informed last Monday that Evolve was only going to pay us $500 out of that $280,000,” Morris said during a court hearing last week, her voice wavering. “It’s just devastating.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/no-money-thousands-americans-see-223556135.html
Deposit over a quarter million in a "savings startup" when there's a regular bank on about every street corner? A fool and their money are soon parted.
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