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  • The are all great, but tawdry is fantastic!

    Rolls of the tongue, and we all come across several tawdry things/people in a given day.

  • If I'm not mistaken, residents can vote in local elections in many places.

  • I hate that "feature" so much. For a while it has used the speed of other's phones for your ETA. As in, if everyone is doing 10-15 over the speed limit, you're expected to go with the flow.
    I don't want a more accurate ETA. I want to arrive when it says I will if I follow all speed limits, and shave off a couple minutes if I am going faster than that.

  • Yes, technically it could have come from anyone.
    So let's give the wannabe fascist republicans the benefit of the doubt, because that has historically been a very double plus good idea to do for authoritarians, and only good things will come from doing so...

  • Doesn't even have to be the case. A 2min task done every (work)day, takes up a bit over 7 hours/year. After 2½ years it will be a benefit to have automated it!

  • Likely some form of secure/encrypted phone. There are special versions of phones made, not available to the general public.

  • Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. Frank Wilhoit

  • Well, the top 25 wealth hoarding dragons paid 13.6 billion in federal income taxes in a span of 5 years. https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax
    So you were likely only very mildly exaggerating that claim.
    And before some class traitorboot-licker squeaks up about * the article looks at wealth which isn't taxed, only income is taxed.* 1 that wasn't the point & 2 you don't need income when you have that kind of assets. But they built their wealth by massively benefiting from the society they pay so very little back to.

  • No, they were (presumably instructed to be) really weird about orders, after they changed the menu. There's a subway at work, I go 1-2/week, had been the same staff for long over a year when it happened. I asked for some chicken sub with a different cheese than the one on the menu, or something to that effect; was told I needed to get the 'build your own' to substitute.
    After that silly nonsense, I realized you could do whatever customizations you want when ordering in the app +use coupon codes repeatedly.

  • What democracy? The will of US citizens have practically no factor in which laws pass, big money on the other hand...

    That being said, congressmen & president are somewhat democratically elected - and voting is thrice as influential if you're in a low population state!.
    So you can influence if big money A's laws get passed, or big money C's (big money B gets their way regardless).

  • A massive heart attack, the man child eats like an unrestrained 5 year old.

  • This 3 foot pipe is also considered a storm drain. Unclear in the article if he was sucked down a street drain with unnecessarily large opening, or a drain for a creek.

  • Where do you think illegally acquired firearms are sourced from?

    PDF: ATF NFCTA vol2 part3, Crime Guns Recovered and Traced
    ATF traced 70.2% (1 million firearms) of submitted 'crime guns' to having originally been purchased from a dealer. An additional 22.6% (⅓ million) were from pawnbrokes. [page 7]
    In 12.2% of the cases [page 26] purchaser and possessor was the same.
    One or more guns are stolen in 63% of household burglaries.

    From conclusion page 41:

    Traced crime guns typically originate from the legal supply chain of manufacture (or import), distribution, and retail sale. Crime guns may change hands a number of times after that first retail sale, and some of those transactions may be a theft or violate one or more regulations on firearm commerce.

  • Throwing a handful of mods on, can give it a much less dated vibe. The pacing in Goodsprings is quite slow, if you can't stand it, head onwards as soon as you have a semi decent weapon.

  • Smaller kids still love playgrounds, even if they also want/love screentime. Heck, it is not infrequent there are a group of younger teenagers at the playgrounds we frequent.

  • Yes, but Boost makes an interesting looking preview (when set to fixed height):

  • Well they did get their data from geotagged tweets, which I imagine skews the results just a bit towards nationalism.