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Lokarin posted...

makes sense to me, insurance will cover the car and if insurance felt like their profits were threatened they'd hire their own hatchet men to fix crime.

No they wouldn't, they'll just raise premiums on everyone. Like they have been doing the past 2 years at massive rates.
When the law straight up requires your business to be purchased in order to drive a car legally, you can charge whatever you like!

The police were ridiculous here, they should be focused on locking these violent thieves up, instead they want residents to roll out the red carpet for them to avoid violent encounters.
I saw someone claim the same department also advertised their response time (22 min) publicly to "deter crime" and it basically just gave the criminals a precise timetable for burglaries instead.

https://nypost.com/2024/03/15/world-news/toronto-police-slammed-for-advising-residents-to-leave-car-keys-within-easy-reach-for-thieves/

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/26/more-women-may-be-psychopaths-than-previously-thought-says-expert

Al Bundy: Told you so

slacker03150 posted...

I wonder how much assassins make per job.

I'm glad they put quotes are "self-inflicted" as it should be. Fuck Boeing...

Revelation34 posted...

"Mistakenly"

Parents go to jail for leaving their kids in hot cars in the summer, which at least is a place you'd reasonably place a child (car).
There is never any fucking reason to place a child in an oven unless you live in the woods and are expecting Hansel and Gretel any minute now.
Should be fucking murder charges.

Lokarin posted...

hol'up, i just realized it's not 2023 anymore... i should make this a new topic

Nah, let it ride till it's 500

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4398223-trump-team-argues-assassination-of-rivals-is-covered-by-presidential-immunity/

"Armed robbers foiled when their stolen car is stolen from them mid-heist"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67752007

https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/instructor-crashes-car-into-lakewood-driving-school

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/8/0/AAOrNoAAEvY4.jpg

In this case, as great as the headline is, the picture is the star of the story

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Oh, look! Someone who doesn't know what THEY'RE talking about and is super proud about it!
The requirements for permanent alimony vary by state in the ones that have it, with some merely requiring being married a certain length, like 10 years.
In the tiny amount cases where someone is fully disabled and unable to work, it should be the state's burden to take care of that person, not the EX-spouse for the rest of that person's life, that's fucking crazy.
But go on embarrassing yourself.

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No, it's not.
Permanent alimony shouldn't fucking exist.
A few years at most for someone who literally spent a decade+ not working, to get back into the job market.

Lokarin posted...

Well, it's behind the scenes. This bill was being pushed by conservative women's groups who wanted to ban alimony in the future... only for their own payments suddenly being cut off

Couldn't happen to a nicer group of people. Awesome!

NYC mayor calls elderly Holocaust survivor a "plantation owner" for complaining to him about rent increases

https://www.rawstory.com/elderly-woman-nyc-holocaust/

Supreme Court rules in favor of Christian web designer who made up a fake LGBT couple that she refused service to, and whose lie had already been proven and resulted in her conviction for perjury.

Sorry for the long title, but...I really can't capture how absolutely fucking mad and infuriating and defying of all common and legal sense this decision is in less words than that. Won by 6-3, 'natch.

https://twitter.com/AngryBlackLady/status/1674411961935863815

https://newrepublic.com/article/173987/mysterious-case-fake-gay-marriage-website-real-straight-man-supreme-court

Maybe "Fake Court gives fake legal victory to perjurer against fake plaintiff"?

Lokarin posted...

There's a follow up!

He's now being charged as a child molestor, too!

When you first posted it, I figured it's a Democrat since RI is fairly blue.
Then when you mentioned the child molestation, I was like, "oh, maybe it is a Republican after all."
And sure enough he (is) was the chairman of the city's Republican party

Once again, living up to that GOP acronym that apparently I can't post w/o getting a moderation no matter how many hundreds of cases proving it true there are.

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https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1664317879527915529

DeltaBladeX posted...

https://i.imgur.com/0HLswAA.png
https://i.imgur.com/LkxzJFz.png

Nice, some Haunting Ground cosplay!

Police officer calls the police on police officers invading his home

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/2-women-charged-in-roseville-home-invasion-were-detroit-police-officers/

"Republican Senator proposes putting armed grandparents on campus to deter school shooters"

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/sen-marsha-blackburn-proposes-armed-111729984.html

Don't support Activision-Blizzard.

And always use the full name. There is no "Blizzard" anymore.

Thanks as usual, Delta.

DeltaBladeX posted...

https://i.imgur.com/6HDcaby.png

Is that Ai Shinozaki?

DeltaBladeX posted...

https://i.imgur.com/8WuomNa.png

https://i.imgur.com/7WIIsXN.png

Who are they?

Alcohol is poison.

Literally no amount of alcohol is "safe" to consume, even light drinking of wine w/ your meal leads to worse health outcomes than abstaining completely.

Also, drunk driving should be an attempted murder charge (unless you do kill someone, then just straight up murder).

Obviously the 1st, but the 4th and 8th are also super important and seem to both a) often be forgotten about and b) are frequent targets of the Supreme Court having the rights we used to have get chipped away.

They need TotK out at least a month before announcing it, so people don't just wait for the new console, even if it's BC.
I would've launched the new console w/ TotK, but whatever. Otherwise, sounds like they're doing exactly what I said they should, especially if the new console is non-portable and more powerful and Switch is kept as the mobile option to replace 3DS.

Just sucks they held off just long enough to force Eiyuden Chronicle onto Switch instead of the new console.

ListerineStrips posted...

Holy crap, that's Reese from Malcolm in the Middle. I never put 2 and 2 together despite watching both when I was younger.

Yup!
Even at a really young age, he did a great job as an actor

https://youtu.be/jerByB7wJxg?t=243

4:03 - 5:38

"South Dakota governor says her two-year-old grandchild has several guns"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/south-dakota-governor-says-her-143317211.html

So this is why I couldn't find any creme eggs on "Easter Monday" this year.
Subway bought them all up.

Hideyoshi Hashiba/Toyotomi and Nene
...oh, you said Dynasty Warriors specifically

Then Zhu Rong, I guess

https://www.gamecity.ne.jp/smusou8/images/characters/other/zoom/shukuyu.jpg

Dikitain posted...

Considering I only drive like 5000 miles per year, and my current 10 year old car only has 65K on it, getting a new vehicle doesn't really make sense. Maybe in another 10-15 years.

I hate driving, so yeah... lack of miles to "make back" the added cost is a major hurdle to me. I'd just go for a cheap model w/ less range, but...those don't exist.

SinisterSlay posted...

I would be willing to stretch for a proper full size car with electric. But no one makes full size cars anymore. Just SUVs. Even compacts are going away. Every time i get in one of those SUVs, i can't believe how tight and poorly laid out they feel. With terrible trunk space and very few seats, and usually terrible safety and terrible anti roll. I don't get why everyone fell for these scams.

Another gripe of mine. Why are they all SUVs, trucks, and hatchbacks? Where's the sedan models?

faramir77 posted...

The technology needs to get cheaper, and soon. Buying a vehicle in 10 years when EVs are required for new vehicles in North America is going to be very tough for the average person. The increased demand this will put on "cheaper" gas vehicles will likely increase the value of used gas cars, too, unfortunately.

Prices aren't going down by sheer manufacturer malicious intent at this point. "Material/battery costs!" has been a bs excuse for a long time. Battery costs have dropped sharply.
So long as they can make huge windfalls selling "luxury" models to those willing to buy them, they don't seem to particularly be interested in switching to low margin, high volume sales of EVs.

https://qz.com/2161731/why-electric-cars-are-getting-pricier-while-batteries-get-cheaper

I'll finally have an outdoor plug to charge w/ and our older car is literally 2 decades old at this point.
So I was going to get an EV this year.
But now the tax incentive is temporarily going away, literally right around the time I'll be moving to a place where I could have one. :(
Guess I'll wait it out till this mineral/lithium sourcing crap is resolved.

DarkMinun posted... I have a feeling that mosteople killed by "deer" were actually killed by driving drunk, excessive speeding and/or not wearing a seatbelt in an otherwise surviveable wreck.

https://www.vwvortex.com/threads/hunter-s-thompson-on-driving.1945320/

From the May 2005 Playboy
"The only way to drive is at top speed, with a car full of whiskey. It takes commitment, especially with so many deer and elk around. Car lights paralyze deer. You've got to lean on the horn, brace on the wheel and stomp on the accelerator. When you hit the brakes the front of the car dips down-that will put the beast into your windshield. Now, the significant impact will still occur if you step on the gas, but you're not helpless. It's still destroy your grille and lights, but-unless it's a bull elk-it will kick the animal out of the way. Hitting the beast head-on will move it instead of popping it up onto the windshield.
It's the swerving that gets people killed.

An amusing take on the matter that I still remember...

Other: SmarterChild

People hated the "weapon durability" and Nintendo instead of removing it basically doubled down on it even harder. Put all that effort into that "combine" system instead of just...removing breakable weapons. I'm sure you can do all sorts of wonderfully stupid things w/ it that will be entertaining for youtubers to discover. But as a player, I'd rather give up the entire system for just...not having my weapons break.

RevolutionZeal posted...

I like it! Looks really good imo ...but it does look like an expansion/DLC haha

That part I don't really care about. It's a direct sequel, honestly don't get why they wouldn't just re-use the map from BotW. As long as they add a bunch of new areas to it -- which is what the floating islands do -- you're still getting new content like you would w/ a totally new map. Except now they can re-populate the old map areas and maybe add some dungeons or shuffle things around, and you end up w/ way more area to explore.

I still see demotivational posters used a fair bit, I think the cynicism behind them has a timeless quality, and they'll continue to be popular for at least as long as companies continue to use those insipid "motivational" posters.

Yes.
Raw, cooked, and canned (if you're cooking them anyway, raw ones will end up like canned ones anyway).
I like adding them to any stir fry or pasta I make, plus a lot of other dishes.
When I make steak, the sauteed mushrooms are always the best part of the dish.
Raw mushrooms are great on salad, and sometimes I'll just pour some Greek vinaigrette in one (pull the stem out and eat it) and call it "mushroom bowls" as a snack.

Anyway, I came here to complain about "fake-flation" (ie, corporate greed). While it's been bad across the board, in the case of mushrooms, both raw and canned, the prices have literally DOUBLED since 2019!
Aldi: 4 oz. (dry) $0.55 to $1.19
Walmart: 8 oz. $1.20 to $2.49
Local grocer: 8 oz. $1.50 to $3

With the fresh mushroom prices similarly ballooning. Used to go on sale for $1 or so for 8 oz., now the lowest it goes is like $2.
It's horrible. The only thing I can think of that went up in price even worse was fig bar cookies.

Indie and mid-level games, and Nintendo 1st party are all pretty strong, arguably about as great as they've ever been in any prior generation.
AAA and Sony/MS 1st party is an unmitigated dumpster fire of the same boring open worlds and littered with all kinds of abusive MTX, loot boxes, "live service" scams, etc....

Hard to give one overall rating. Former group I'd give a 9/10.
Latter a 1/10.
do I just like...average it?

dragon504 posted...

Whichever one has the worst prison they can send him to.

Have to counter-balance that with states that have governors most likely to pardon him, and not send him to those.
He'd go to white collar prison anyway, not "real prison". So "worst" basically amounts to "less comforts".

https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/newark-enters-sister-city-relationship-with-country-that-doesnt-exist/2RUYGXBPIVCMVNLAWAUILMCFS4/#

KalloFox34 posted...

Autumn, though I like them all except for summer.

14 days
New record?
How was this topic still open?

Krazy_Kirby posted...

that's cake

So you think Boston Cream Pie is a pie?

Krazy_Kirby posted...

(btw, most key lime pies are actually just lime pies)

True. I'll change my post to say "actual key lime pie"
I've had the real deal, it's much better than the stuff widely sold as "key lime pie".

The best pies, in order:

Cheesecake
Banana Cream
Dutch Apple (crumbles; cinnamon)
(Authentic) Key Lime
Chocolate Cream
Regular Apple
Blueberry
The rest

https://youtu.be/aPvSRBUKNxM?t=17

This, except imagine they're saying "Pesto!" instead
It's great.

https://deadstate.org/man-who-spray-painted-groomer-on-libraries-is-arrested-and-charged-with-possessing-child-porn/

It's nice when the words in the link do all of the explanation for you

I'd agree.
It always seemed like a stupid and pointless distinction to me. But that's because I took it literally: RPG made in Japan.
But then people try to say Dark Souls isn't a JRPG b/c it doesn't fit in some dumb little box (that many other JRPGs don't either, like being turn-based). Or Pokemon isn't a JRPG (because it's widely popular), and you realize it's basically used as a racist denigration to dismiss an entire swath of games. It's basically, "this narrow pigeonholed set of things in a game that I don't like, so I'm going to call it Japanese".
So yeah, fuck the "JRPG" and "WRPG" dichotomy. It was always made in bad faith by bad people.

Jim's video on this is ok, but this one's even better, including more detail on that Phil Fish panel Q&A. What a fucking scum bag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTJ3Ddx5YwE

Yes, because we'll be returning to the time zone we should be in.

Congress passed a unanimous resolution last year to make this the last time we ever change the clocks. So of course, after literal perfect harmony in the Senate, which never happens, it's basically stalling out in the House.

:(

kind9 posted...

No and if I ever felt the need for such a security system that shit will record to my own hard drives, thanks. I imagine being connected to the internet those things are vulnerable to hacking as well. gtfo

On the one hand, this.
On the other hand, police have plenty of experience wiping their own hard drives of surveillance footage when what is recorded would contradict their statements.
If I get a security system, it'd be to protect myself from both criminals and cops. Way too many wrong address no-knock raids in this country, not to mention "SWATing" incidents, like that poor victim in Kansas.
And if you have physical hard drives, it's a lot easier for them to get rid of the evidence after the fact, while as uploaded to the internet, they can't.

adjl posted...

That's been a major component of it. Being more expensive to transport stuff has downstream effects on the price of everything. That, in turn, was entirely a matter of oil companies deciding to jack up their prices using the war in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia as an excuse (which had some effect on oil prices, but nothing that remotely justifies the full price increase).

Beyond that, though, so many companies are reporting record profits, then turning around and saying that they "need to increase prices because of inflation." People expect price increases, so companies can get away with increasing prices, so companies increase their prices while pretending there's nothing they can do.

In a competitive market, someone would lower their prices a bit b/c they could do so and still make plenty of profit, drawing more sales. Which in turn would start a chain reaction of companies lowering prices to stay competitive.
But thanks to 40 years of mergers and acquisitions that have almost always been allowed, we now have giant corporate conglomerates and oligopolies that control each sector and freely collude with each other.
We need some damn trust busting, but Biden won't do it and Republicans are the ones that engineered this mess.

sveksii posted...

Because death changes the dynamics. If you died you presumably have no chance of returning to your original life and for better or worse you're stuck with your new life. Something like teleportation otoh leaves a possibility that you could be able to return to your old life.

I always was annoyed how in most of the "old" isekai where it was teleportation, they'd just go back at the end.
But I also dislike how in the "you died" version, they generally stay because...they have to.

My favorite situation is one where they end up in the strange world, initially want to go back home (obviously), but over time learn to love their new world as their home and decide to stay there, of their own volition.

Not every isekai involves dying to get there.
That's a far more modern (like 2010 or so onwards) thing. And even then, not always, like Rising of the Shield Hero.

A lot of the earlier isekai stories just involved going through a portal or something, and since the main character never died, getting back home is still hoped for or expected.
Examples: Urashima Taro, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Fushigi Yuugi, El Hazard: The Magnificent World, Spirited Away, etc...

That's a shame, he was one of the good ones. Unlike that Error guy.