Salamendacious @ Salamendacious @lemmy.world

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Exactly.

Another commentor said that it's very difficult to drive around this town and it'll add a lot of time to your commute. For people who have tight schedules (e.g. pick up or drop off children) it might not be possible to add an hour or more to their drive time.

There's a book called the collector that had inspired a couple serial rapist/killers. I consider myself a curious person and I truly love learning but there are some books that I would love to see only in libraries and very dusty because I don't know how they add constructively to society.

You had a paywall? I didn't or I wouldn't have used the link. Thanks for the alternate.

Set phasers to stunning!

Geez that's insane

Twelve years would pass before the sexual assault kit was tested in 2018

It took 12 years to test the rape kit!

Can you elaborate?

Does this town have a reputation?

All I'm saying is I don't think we'd be better off if more people started reading books like the Turner diaries. I'm not making a censorship argument here

I think it would depend on the books.

From the article:

For those who miss court and don’t pay, the consequences can be severe. Fenton sent the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles about 750 requests to suspend driver’s licenses

I found this telling (emphasis mine):

Mayor’s courts operate in a gray area of Louisiana law. Like municipal courts, they handle violations of local ordinances. Municipal judges must hold a law degree and pass the bar; a mayor can preside over court without meeting any qualifications. Yet, like a municipal judge, a mayor can impose fines or sentence people to jail.

Mayor’s courts must ensure defendants have fair trials. But unlike other courts in the state, they aren’t subject to rules like the Code of Criminal Procedure that are supposed to ensure courts are run fairly and properly.

To be fair you're making an assumption here that may or may not be true

I agree with you 100%

And now to Skip Johnson with sports

This feels like there's something going on behind the scenes that the citizens of that village aren't privy to. They mayor resigned to spend more time with his family and then takes a new job that pays more with the village. The optics are bad in my opinion.

So I didn't make the comment that you initially replied to. I was only offering some data that showed there are a lot of national elections where voter turnout was less than half. It's true that presidential elections have a higher turnout than midterm but all of the house and ⅓ of the Senate are voted on in every midterm. They're incredibly important and it's a fact that less than half of eligible Americans turn out for those elections.

2022 turnout was 46%. The last time a midterm election was over 50% was in the 1910s.

Ideas like this is why I'm excited for AI. An animation like that will probably be easy to make in the near future and it would be hilarious.