This instructor is cool and Awesome.

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2024/10/cannabis-dispensary-employee-arrested-accused-of-fatally-shooting-2-suspected-of-attempted-robbery-at-store.html

An employee at a cannabis dispensary in North Portland is accused of fatally shooting two people who attempted to rob the business last week.

Jason Steiner, 34, turned himself in to Portland police Wednesday and was booked into Multnomah County's downtown jail on allegations of two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of unlawful use of a weapon. Steiner worked at the St. Johns branch of the La Mota dispensary, police said.

Officials identified the people who died as 18-year-old King Lawrence and 20-year-old Tahir Burley. Both are from Milwaukie, police said.

Police are seeking a third person in connection with the robbery, but they did not give a name or a description.

Last week's shooting happened just after 9:30 p.m. on Thursday,

The North Portland store had been targeted by at least four previous armed robberies since 2022, state records show. Two took place close to 10 p.m. A sign outside the business last week said it stopped letting customers in after 9 p.m. as a result. Instead they directed customers to a drive-through window until closing time at 10 p.m., unless they could provide an ID.

In June of this year, one employee was working when five people allegedly entered the store with guns and stole about $11,000 worth of marijuana products and cash, according to the reports. All of the individuals wore masks and filled up trash bags of money and products in the store before taking off, according to records from the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission.

Marijuana dispensaries have been frequent robbery targets in Portland, which industry individuals attribute to the fact they primarily conduct business with cash. In 2020, an employee at Cured Green, 44-year-old Michael Arthur, was shot and killed during a robbery.

Data from the Police Bureau showed 33 robberies were reported at cannabis businesses in the first half of 2023, a number higher than annual totals each year from 2016 to 2022.

At a Wednesday meeting of the Portland City Council, employees with the city of Portland's cannabis program recommended instituting proactive video monitoring security systems at cannabis businesses, so police may be able to respond while crimes are unfolding.

Lawrence and Burley are the city's 57th and 58th homicide victims this year.

Burley graduated from Reynolds Learning Academy in 2022. An obituary said his first name, Tahir, means pure in Arabic. He played football and basketball growing up and enjoyed playing video games and making music, his family wrote.

In 2022, KATU-TV posted a video of Burley sharing encouraging words to graduating seniors. "We are all a flower just waiting to be watered and blossom into the sunlight to be something amazing," Burley said in the video.

Police are asking anyone with information to contact Detective Brent Christensen at brent.christensen@police.portlandoregon.gov or Detective J.D. McGuire at jeff.mcguire@police.portlandoregon.gov and reference case No. 24-253852.

Imagine getting killed over weed. Imagine killing someone over weed.

Got a notification about this literally halfway thru a burrito containing chicken from this company.

!goyslopenjoyers it appears that red's frozen burritos are made with this stuff so the chicken varieties are gonna be un-buyable for the foreseeable future

https://thepostmillennial.com/porn-industry-backs-kamala-with-new-100000-ad-campaign

The porn industry has come out in support of Kamala Harris, launching a $100,000 ad campaign claiming that a Donald Trump victory would lead to a crackdown.

Ads will run on porn sites in seven swing states (Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada) and claim that conservatives will ban pornography and imprison those who are involved in the production of adult content.

The "hands off my porn campaign" is hoping that its efforts will sway the voting intentions of young men voters.

Data from the Survey Centre on American Life found that 44 percent of men aged 18-29 and 57 percent of men aged 30-49 had watched pornography in the last month.

The website for the campaign states boldly that conservatives are working to "criminalize porn."

"We must fight back against this ultra-conservative agenda that is rooted in religious conservatism, fearmongering, and the suppression of women's rights. Don't let these zealots destroy my career and your right to enjoy adult entertainment," one statement from director Casey Calvert reads.

Another statement, this one from pornographic actor Holly Randall, says, "I have been in this industry for over 25 years and have witnessed many attacks on our industry, but Project 2025's ban on pornography is the most extreme proposal I have ever seen, and voters have to take that threat seriously."

"We cannot simply rely on precedent that consuming pornography is legal and has been legal for a long time."

Republican nominee President Donald Trump has said on several occasions that he knows nothing about Project 2025.

Considering that most hardcore porn addicts in the US are conservative Christians (Utah consumes more porn than any other state by far), I'm not really sure how effective this ad campaign will be.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/swedish-police-probing-report-of-shooting-outside-israeli-embassy-in-stockholm/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/swedish-police-investigating-shooting-near-israeli-target-in-gothenburg/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/new-blast-near-israeli-embassy-in-denmark/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/blasts-near-israeli-embassy-rock-copenhagen-nobody-hurt-police-probing-incident/

I think the Israelis still have some learning to do regarding multiculturalism in Europe

https://www.reuters.com/technology/turkey-blocks-instant-messaging-platform-groomercord-2024-10-09/

Turkey has blocked access to instant messaging platform Groomercord in line with a court decision after the platform refused to share information demanded by Ankara, Turkish authorities said on Wednesday.

"We are aware of reports of Groomercord being unreachable in Russia and Turkey. Our team is investigating these reports at this time," the San Francisco-based company said in a status update.

Turkey's Information Technologies and Communication Authority published the access ban decision on its website.

Justice minister Yilmaz Tunc said an Ankara court decided to block access to Groomercord from Turkey due to sufficient suspicion that crimes of "child sexual abuse and obscenity" had been committed by some using the platform.

The block comes after public outrage in Turkey caused by the murder of two women by a 19-year-old man in Istanbul this month. Content on social media showed Groomercord users subsequently praising the killing.

Transport and infrastructure minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said the nature of the Groomercord platform made it difficult for authorities to monitor and intervene when illegal or criminal content is shared.

"Security personnel cannot go through the content. We can only intervene when users complain to us about content shared there," he told reporters in parliament.

"Since Groomercord refuses to share its own information, including IP addresses and content, with our security units, we were forced to block access."

On Tuesday, Russia's communications regulator blocked Groomercord for violating Russian law, after previously fining the company for failing to remove banned content, the TASS news agency reported.

Thank God the government is telling people what software they're allowed to use. For their own good, of course.

https://archive.is/Frath

■ Russia is considering fines for those promoting a child-free lifestyle, a Putin ally said.

■ He said the proposed law would target media and online content that encourages not having children.

■ Russia faces a demographic crisis with a 25-year-low birth rate, worsened by the Ukraine war.

Russia's parliament is working on a new law that would fine people the equivalent of thousands of dollars for promoting a child-free lifestyle, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Vyacheslav Volodin, the chairman of the State Duma, Russia's lower house, said on Telegram that Russian legislators have begun to consider legislation that would outlaw "childlessness" propaganda.

The proposed law would ban the dissemination of material on the internet, in movies, and in advertising that encourages "a conscious refusal to have children," Volodin said, per Reuters.

It would also impose fines of up to 400,000 rubles, about $4,319, for individuals found guilty of sharing such content, 800,000 rubles for state officials who do so, and up to 5 million rubles for companies that share it.

Volodin said the fines would be similar to those put in place as part of a Russian anti-LGBTQ+ law passed in 2022, which criminalized the promotion of what Russia considers "non-traditional sexual relations," The Guardian reported.

He said the so-called "child-free movement" undermined the institution of family, which may be contributing to Russia's low birth rate.

Russia has been in a demographic crisis for years, and the war in Ukraine has made the situation worse. Russia's birth rate hit a 25-year low in the first half of this year.

In an effort to combat this, Russia has tried a variety of incentives to boost the number of babies being born, including one-off payments for Russian mothers who have 10 or more children.

"A friendly and large family is the basis of a strong state," Volodin said in his Telegram post.

Per Reuters, he wrote: "Groups and communities on social networks often show disrespect for motherhood and fatherhood and aggression towards pregnant women and children, as well as members of large families."

Earlier this month, Nina Ostanina, the head of Russia's Committee for the Protection of Families, told a state news agency that Russia needed to conduct another operation to counter falling birth rates, Reuters reported.

She likened it to the war in Ukraine, describing it as, "Just like a special military operation — a special demographic operation."

Reminder to all Russia-worshiping chudtards:

!nonchuds

I am willing to fight for this hole. I will show up in my suit with two pairs of gloves and a spare mouthpiece. We will have to do this in a state where mutual combat is legal. I swear to god I will show.

The steps you will need to take:

• Designate a champion who will fight for the current regime of /h/mnn

• Have them prove they are in a state with mutual combat and provide us with a suitable location for us to do battle. Preferably a place with few civilians so no innocents are harmed. (For example, spokane washington riverfront park is a decent spot)

• If your champion is a male under 200 pounds they may bring an ally provided that ally is also under 200 pounds. I would not recommend sending a champion who is female. I am not in a mood to hold back.

• Next we will engage in honorable single combat. (or a 2v1 if you are victim weight) When I win the hole is given back to its rightful owner.

@Count_Sprpr @X

I am holding you two most accountable for this incident. You attacked @Spiderman after he has been through so much. And you attacked him when he wasn't even here to defend his home. I won't let this happen. I am serious about this. Name the time and the place.

You should also think long and hard about what your options are.

• You can send your champion to an unwinnable fight.

• You can avoid it and put your cowardice on display for all to see.

• Or you can avoid all this and give the hole back to @Spiderman

Make. Your. Choice.