I'm a typically dumb American, i.e. I know very little about the realities of other countries: is anybody actually licensed to shoot people on that side of the pond? That's certainly not how it works here on a State level; the reality in the U.S. is that States make their own laws and the Federal government pretty much picks up anything that falls through the cracks or crosses borders (or requires more expertise than a local department has), criminally speaking. Nobody's licensed to shoot anybody here, they're just licensed to carry and/or conceal guns.
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You might want to think about why you consider the lethality of their weaponry a defining characteristic of a police officer. Is that for the protecting or the serving?
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Cursive handwriting to be taught in California schools
Children in first through sixth grade will now be required to learn cursive handwriting after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 446 into law on Oct. 13. The bill turned law was introduced by A…
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Hillhater
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…..And basic multiplication tables.…
….and ball games instead of computer games !
etc
But everybody has digital watches these days, right?
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Human skull found in Florida thrift store's Halloween section
For one shopper at a thrift store in North Fort Myers, Florida, the creepiness of a skull on display became a little too real.
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Giant tumbleweed seen blowing across Southern California road
An enormous tumbleweed was captured on video rolling across a road in Southern California last week. Video circulating on X, formerly Twitter, shows the massive tumbleweed rolling over one sp…
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Tumble weeds can get big. I was on a train in Mexico once and a very strong wind was blowing tumble weeds the height of the train along our route. They were just rolling along like wheels.Giant tumbleweed seen blowing across Southern California road
An enormous tumbleweed was captured on video rolling across a road in Southern California last week. Video circulating on X, formerly Twitter, shows the massive tumbleweed rolling over one sp…
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Similar to what happened to us on the way to Las Vegas for our honeymoon. Fortunately a guy in a Jeep saw us and winched us out.
Guess what our first new car later turned out to be?
That’s right: a Jeep Wrangler.
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Guess what our first new car later turned out to be?
That’s right: a Jeep Wrangler.
Driver blasts Google Maps for desert road detour on trip to L.A.
Google Maps is being blamed for leading a number of drivers on their way back to Los Angeles from Las Vegas down a dirt road to nowhere during a dust storm in the Mojave Desert earlier this month. …
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Snow White's arm hilariously 'stolen' by Dopey in apparent Magic Kingdom ride mishap at Walt Disney World
Magic Kingdom is known for its happy and, well, magical, atmosphere, but a recent viral video from one if its popular rides has left guests scratching their heads.
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Taylor Swift is named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ | CNN Business
Pop megastar Taylor Swift was named Time magazine’s 2023 person of the year on Wednesday.
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Woman who threw order at Chipotle worker sentenced to fast food job
“You didn’t get your burrito bowl the way you like it and this is how you respond?" the judge said. “This is not real housewives of Parma. This behavior is not acceptable."
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WATCH: LA man shoots French fries from $250,000 Lamborghini Huracán exhaust system
A man was caught on camera in Los Angeles filling the exhaust pipe of a $250,000 Lamborghini Huracán with McDonald's French fries.
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Why would one leave a tip at an automated food establishment, and who gets the money?
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CaliExpress in Pasadena touted as world's first fully autonomous, AI-powered restaurant
If you're wondering what the future of fast food is, a Pasadena-based company says it's robots, and its installed several of them in a soon-to-open restaurant in Pasadena's Old Town.
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Tesla Cybertruck owners get warning from US Forest Service
The warning comes after a video showing a Tesla Cybertruck struggling to go up a snowy off-road hill in Stanislaus National Forest went viral.
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6600 pounds. Owners should receive one stroke of the cane for every pound above 2500.Tesla Cybertruck owners get warning from US Forest Service
The warning comes after a video showing a Tesla Cybertruck struggling to go up a snowy off-road hill in Stanislaus National Forest went viral.www.foxla.com
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California sewage water will become drinking water: Here's how
California becomes the second state in the U.S. to let water agencies recycle wastewater and turn it into pure drinking water for homes, schools, and businesses.
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Eh, we already are drinking water with fish poop, bear poop, bird poop etc in it.California sewage water will become drinking water: Here's how
California becomes the second state in the U.S. to let water agencies recycle wastewater and turn it into pure drinking water for homes, schools, and businesses.
Hillhater
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Yep !…. All water is recycled, most by natural processes, but many major communities have been recycling their own water for generations.
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No more humor, those signs are too funny.
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Laughter could cause an accident, I mean it is possible to die from laughing.
Federal officials are banning humorous electronic messages on highways
It’s no joke. Humorous and quirky messages on electronic signs will soon disappear from highways and freeways across the country. The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has given states two years …
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That's too bad as the humorous messages are the ones that are most effective!
Are you sure that you're not thinking about commercials and marketing? Or am I misunderstanding the headline, and they're talking about any signs -- not just Department of Transportation ones?
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Farting passenger delays American Airlines flight to Austin, redditor says
A flight from Phoenix to Austin was delayed after a passenger purposely passed gas and was removed from the flight, according to a person who posted in the Austin subreddit.
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Purposely?