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TIRM
9m ago
Credible threats are 5th degree assault. He may have engaged in hard talk that's technically hypothetically assault.
celluloid_dream
13m ago
Dictionary? Translation? I guess, but in the current year, if you're not running every page through Claude to see what you missed, what are you doing?
Muninn
"Dick Laurant is dead."
19m ago
Thanks for the write-up! That was indeed long but I still read every word of it and found it highly enjoyable. I appreciate how immersive your travelogues are as well as your appreciation of the places you visit!
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
26m ago
You probably do see cars pulled over but don't notice people peeing.
I typically aim for a space of at least 30-50 feet to walk off the road into nature to pee, and prefer the kind of cover where even a sharp eyed passerby would be unlikely to see my penis. This is an adult male consideration.
I do have friends who said they have never and would never pull over to the side of the road to pee so opinions differ. I've never in my life gotten into trouble over it. I laughed that my friends are very very occupied with setting up driving routes and times in order to manage bathroom breaks, where I am unconcerned.
yofuckreddit
38m ago
You say UI doesn't matter, but Amazon's enshittification of the Kindle OS is a crime. My library is buried beneath ads.
As others have said I only read pirated books now. I don't trust publishers as license holders/DRM so being able to easily side load is key.
aaa
39m ago
I don't recall, good point! But if they were never going to use them as a carrot, I don't understand why they are still "frozen" – the "give the frozen assets to Ukraine" idea has been floating around for a bit but as far as I know hasn't even partially materialized
It's illegal, there's articles about this. Russia would sue and win and get the assets back. The current idea is to give profits from those assets to Ukraine but AFAIK that idea hasn't gone anywhere either (and it is also legally dubious).
yofuckreddit
42m ago
My personal belief is that one of the main advantages of being a man is the right to pee pretty much anywhere as long as you're discreet. It hurts nobody and I actually think it's enjoyable. I wouldn't pee on a stranger's lawn but that's about my only limitation.
That said I am perplexed that you have an emergency every trip. My children regularly handle 10+ hour road trips with no issues, and they have their own water bottles. It's also never a 20 minute detour for a gas station for me, maybe 3 minutes.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
55m ago
The latest Kindles have very dim amber backlight settings, which are very useful when I wake up in the middle of the night and can't fall asleep but don't want to wake up my wife.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1hr ago
For using or for mentioning?
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
1hr ago
then reducing the staff issuing those permits
This is probably true, but many of those same sorts of staff are the ones writing regulations requiring new types of permits. You can go to regulations.gov and see all of the new proposed rules as they're available for comment. I'm not going to, at the moment, say that any particular rule there up for comment is "make work", but I will observe that the ensemble of all of them has definitely increased workload and doesn't seem to always actually improve things efficiently: see the Ezra Klein/Jon Stewart discussion of rural broadband spending. I could be convinced (but don't have evidence on-hand) that pausing new regulations might be a temporary win over the exponentially expanding administrative state, despite some or even most of those regulations being reasonable and well-meaning.
grognard
Intel Pentium III 450 / Nvidia Riva TNT2 Ultra / Corsair 128MB PC133 / ABIT BH6
1hr ago
Where did you see this? Is there documentation on this? I could believe it.
When is it acceptable to pee on the side of the road?
I've got 4 small kids (3 boys + 1 girl; only the girls is in diapers). We do a 2 hour road trip down to the grandparents about every other weekend. We always make them go to the bathroom before we leave, but we still have pee emergencies pretty much every trip.
For us, peeing on the side of the freeway is basically a must. If we try to find a proper bathroom, that's easily a 20+ minute detour. Driving to the bathroom is maybe 5 minutes, but then wrangling the problematic kid(s) is much more difficult in a dirty garage bathroom than on the side of the road. (I can't count the number of times I've had a kid wipe their junk on a public restroom toilet and then I have to do a serious disinfection...)
So my policy for side-of-road peeing is:
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It has to be safe to stop.
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There shouldn't be pedestrians around that can see us. (So this means no peeing on non-freeway type streets, and certain sections of freeway are also off limits.)
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There has to be "nature" to pee on. Some amount of grass/dirt is okay, but a tree is best. If we're on the stretch of the I5 in Irvine, where there's concrete everywhere, we won't stop. (This is partly related to pts 1+2.)
I realized on this week's roadtrip that I've never seen another car parked with the kids out peeing. Am I breaking some sort of major taboo here?
I'm also not sure what I'll do once the girl isn't wearing diapers, and whether I'll allow / force her to pee on the side of the road.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
1hr ago
Not that it answers your question, but technically the Night's Watch doesn't take a vow of celibacy. They promise to take no wife and father no children, not to abstain from sex.
The George Floyd one is pretty good. There's something inherently hilarious about the juxtaposition of chuddery and heart icons.
But darn, I didn't even realize GiveSendGo usually allows comments to go with donations. It was already only usernames by the time I got to take a peek at Shiloh's donation history, largely motivated by the amount of pearl-clutching and Streisand Effect'ing over it.
I remember seeing a username based around "Nate Higgers," one about whites in South Africa, one with "White Pride" in it, and one or two about Jews, but for the most part the donations were just innocuous or anonymous. No TNDs, "DESPITE..."s, 13/52s, or attempts at N-trains, but I also didn't scroll for very long (it got kind of boring quickly).
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
1hr ago
This is my read too. There is an anti-SJW undercurrent, but it can't be accessed by apeing Trumpism. Someone in Australian politics may eventually figure out how to tap that vein and I hope they do.
Sloot
2hr ago
first_time.jpg? A black-on-white homicide is a statistic to be forgotten ASAP; a white person calling a black person a "nigger" is a tragedy and a scandal.
Even Austin Metcalf's own father has taken the route of "that's what upsets me most about a black youth stabbing my son to death, people saying mean things about blacks." He has publicly forgiven Karmelo, but has denounced so-called white supremacists for doing some Noticing. He'd likely sooner donate to Karmelo than Shiloh.
Sloot
2hr ago
Mildly interesting how, originally, the phrase referring to PewDiePie's utterance of "nigger" was "heated gaming moment" and only later was "gamer word" derived from it, but the latter is now far more entrenched in internet memelore and consciousness. It reminds me of "Beam Me Up, Scotty!"
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
2hr ago
Are their any non-religious organizations whose members take vows of celibacy, a la the Night's Watch or the Maesters from ASOIAF?
(I'm pretty sure the answer is "no," but I'd like to double-check my bases so I can be more certain in replying as such the next time someone "advises" me to "go join the Night's Watch" or similar.)
Rov_Scam
2hr ago
If you believe Trump is trying to dismantle the government and you think that’s a bad thing, why would you make it easier for him to do it?
Because a brief shock is much better than a gradual erosion, and temporary furloughs aren't as damaging long-term as permanent layoffs. Trump with the power a shutdown would give him gives America a sneak preview of how his political philosophy would play out if he had the unfettered power he seems to be looking for. He isn't going to be scrambling to do whatever he can to preserve the status quo; you're exactly right that he's going to use it as a blank check. America operating a shutdown with Trump at the helm isn't like a shutdown under Obama where it's a temporary setback while a budget is in the works—it's the ultimate destination of a Trump government. It's what America looks like if Trump gets everything he wants, and it's what America will ultimately look like if they keep passing Republican budgets that legitimize Trump's illegal impoundments. The only chance we have of getting out of this mess is if congress is willing to make a stand, and Democrats and a few Republicans would be the only ones willing to make that stand.
birb_cromble
2hr ago
The train system is usually OK in my experience.
I watched a woman stand up and beat the ever-loving shit out of an old man on the bus near Columbia heights, though.
2rafa
2hr ago
I took the DC subway ~5 times a few months ago and it seemed fine around the center.
birb_cromble
2hr ago
I've used transit systems in New York, DC, and Chicago various times in the last 25 years, and my experience was no different, though it's been a while so this may have change
Pittsburgh is one of the better ones I've ridden. The worst I've dealt with there is a serial urinator on the north shore, but that's the north shore. I think inappropriate pissing is some kind of regional pastime up there.
DC, Philly, Richmond, Baltimore, and Knoxville are all pretty ugly these days.
2rafa
2hr ago
That’s because most people outside of the progressive left are in strong agreement that African-Americans have a strong ethnic identity and that widespread low to medium intensity ethnic resentment toward whites is common in that demographic group. Nothing about this case is really interesting, it’s been 30 years since this happened on a much greater scale with the OJ Simpson case.
It is reasonable to say that the motivations of donors in both cases is likely ethnic hostility and that that is what is being discussed, not the actual acts the recipients of the funds (a largely secondary matter) did.
Rov_Scam
2hr ago
It depends on the city. I agree that some transit authorities have problems with lawlessness and crime. But just because some transit systems have crime doesn't mean that all do. I've been riding Pittsburgh's transit system off and on all my life, and I never once experienced anything remotely untoward, even in bad areas. I've never heard anyone, including the most insulated suburbanites, express any apprehension whatsoever about using transit. And this is a system where anyone boarding an outbound bus or train pays upon egress, and that has a free zone, meaning bums can board pretty much without restriction, and we still don't have problems. I've used transit systems in New York, DC, and Chicago various times in the last 25 years, and my experience was no different, though it's been a while so this may have changed. I know that complaints about transit in New York are a relatively recent problem, and circa 2010 the idea that subways were dangerous was seen as a relic of the '80s.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS. I have a huge Kindle library that I read through, and I personally find that Fire tablets are cheap and serviceable enough to serve as my readers but even with the ability to cut out the ads the experience has steadily declined. I still love to buy books to support the "independent" authors that I like rather than subscribing to Kindle Unlimited but even so, Amazon seems to have their fingers in every piece of that pie as well, be it books from 47 North or serials from Royal Road curated into Kindle books, and the bookstore itself is utter shite to browse now that every. Single. Damn. Page. Consists of about 25% of the same four "sponsored" books at the top and bottom of each page.
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