Idk maybe she just left Dunkin and paid by scanning the app in the drive thru and now her cupholder is full and it’s the safest place to put down the phone.

I don’t know.

I do know what they say about assuming, though. And the state is assuming, and thus accusing, her of a dangerous activity on nothing but the thinnest of evidence.

An accusation that is based upon a presumption of guilt, which our system shouldn’t be based upon.

And so now this person has to choose between taking time off work, and possibly lawyering up, to fight this and maybe just pay a few hundred in court fees…or just pay it.

This is Vexatious litigation and an abuse of the judicial system on the part of the state.

The other day my car told me to pull over and take a nap because I was driving out of dense tree cover into a really bright street and my eyes were squinty.

This is like putting a camera right there in the sun and issuing DUIs because you look high.

I see at least a few tokens.

It’s a party of Karen’s. What do you expect?

Pull a McCain?

Is this why RI was denied $19M in federal aid from the February Blizzard response, while nearly $900M went out to like 8 red states checks notes yesterday?

Is this a loophole in law?

Like, you can publicly accuse someone of sexual assault without filing a police report…

But then what? That person could respond with slander…but now instead of the state having to prove he did do it, he has to prove that he didn’t?

How do you prove you didn’t do something?

I really don’t like the precedent this is setting…

Make him confirm his identity with an app that 3d scans his face and retains a copy of his driver’s license. Only way to be sure that he’s alive and over 21.

quietly hums “Game of Thrones” intro music…

I wonder if anybody asked her to move.

Translation: they’ve found the intersection of MSRP and units-sold to maximize profit.

As a father of two boys under 10, this is, and has been, terrifying me. I know they are going to be exposed to it. I know they are great, caring, open-minded, loving kids, and I hope I’ve thus far raised them right…but I’ve also had a few friends fall into the incel path along the way.

Like, I already know that Trump’s 2016 popularity was almost entirely driven by through 4chan, getting him popular enough to hold through the primaries while everyone else dropped out was almost completely meme-driven and aimed at impressionable young men. And by then I had already known 4chan as being a decades-long toxic dump of the internet. Shit…remember 2016 r/the_donald? Was practically 4chan-lite.

And don’t get me started on 2008, Ron Paul, and early reddit. Holy shit, man, having fallen into his fandom then and now looking at it from the outside…2008 Ron Paul feels like it was a goddamn psyop aimed at young men. Like a proof-of-concept for leveraging social-media for 2016 Trump.

3.8 Billion Dollars doesn’t disappear. Saying that the buyers “lost” 3.8 Billion Dollars is only telling half the story, and IMO the least important half.

Buyers spent 3.8 billion dollars on a coin that is worthless. So who received the 3.8 billion dollars? Most of it went to the people who sold the coin originally.

In other words, Trump fleeced his base. Again.

You want President Mike Johnson? Because that’s how you get President Mike Johnson.

Though it’s probably the only way they’d get impeached. I don’t see Republicans allowing a democratic SotH to become president.

That’s what the antichrist that’s secretly running the world looks like?

Jesus fucking Christ. Like, I’m not usually one to mock or judge someone for their appearance…but…like…wow. Dude has all the time and money in the world and he chooses to look like the bastard child of Herman Munster and Gollum, stricken with fetal alcohol syndrome?

Man I had hoped that the guy running the world would be a little more handsome. Isn’t he supposed to be gay?

Geoffrey Rush quote.

Jeffrey Lebowski stare.

This • 1000.

People gotta start getting Socratic about everything, but especially their news and politicians.

Like in a bowling alley, when the ball doesn’t trip the sensor and the pins don’t reset…canada has that for government?

I want one!

I don’t work for Google. I’m but a voluntary product customer. But if they could offer me a way to get away from them, I’d gladly take it.

Right now I’m moving my personal domain over to cloudflare and email to mxroute. Considering setting up some calendar and similar groupware stuff on kubernetes on Oracles free tier as well.

That’s the other rub…if I want to cloud host anything, I get to choose between Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and Alibaba. Wonderful selection we have there.

(I recognize there are smaller players out there like linode and ovh and a trillion VPS providers…only reason I’m considering Oracle is because they give so much free “forever”. And kubernetes is fun for me in like a jigsaw kind of way. Not like the puzzle but the guy from Saw)