(snatch is a euphemism for vagina)

IME this is largely the stance that the LA Metro buses* take, as long as you’re not causing trouble. A lot of the time I get waved on for the card not reading quick enough (resulting in a free ride), and I’ve literally never seen a driver tell someone to leave because their card won’t scan or they don’t have the money for it.

Which, when you think about it makes sense. The $1.75 or so they’re ‘losing’ from the passenger not paying (the bus will be going that route anyway, regardless of whether they board or not) will be FAR exceeded by the cost of paying a bus driver to sit there with a bus out of commission for however long it takes cops to get there and force someone out, PLUS a literal bus full of now pissed off people who may be missing connections because some bus driver had a stick up his ass. It absolutely doesn’t make sense unless the fare-evader in question is either a chronic problem causer or an immediate threat.

* trains/subways are a different matter, they have cops checking randomly onboard there to fine people

Maybe some crimes should be punishable by public flogging.

Another great one is seitan aka wheat meat, and it’s really cheap if you make it from flour rather than vital wheat gluten. Still pretty cheap if made from vital wheat gluten too.

Open to investigation: no

Open to sucking up your work and personal information: absolutely!

We need a catchy name for it… maybe Older Male Sibling?

lol, 10 bucks says he heard a car backfire and freaked out.

Do you actually think the watermelon racist trope is because black people just happened to like watermelon a lot? Because if you do you need to go read up on it, and if you don’t then you need to stop trivializing the history of racist oppression by equating it with a joke about a snack purchase.

I’ve been hearing that exact argument since Columbine.

The people who were shitting blood over how anyone who wants Biden to step down is a Russian agent will unfortunately learn absolutely nothing from these events.

My phone alert woke me up after the quake happened, lol. “DROP, COVER, AND HOLD ON!” So I wait a few seconds, wait a few more seconds, and finally figure out it already happened. My husband said the quake woke him up, though.

Out of all the types of American political voters that exist (as defined and studied by Pew), the progressive left has the highest voting rate of any group. Including ‘Faith and Flag Conservatives.’

If you’re super worried about criticism from someone further left than you killing support for your candidate, it’s not because leftists don’t show up to vote.

‘Transgendered’ is best left in the 2000s btw.

The heat wave has broken and I was practically frolicking outside today. It’s so incredibly pleasant, other than the air quality warning from the nearby fires. 😬

Yes

I wonder if there’s a word for punishing everyone in a group for actions taken by only some members of a group, and if it’s considered ethical?

Station Eleven from… Station Eleven is probably there only one that’s been as interesting to me as the story itself, I guess because it’s such a big part of the story and character motivations. The book and show are both good in their own ways, but I particularly like the passage repeated throughout the show:

I remember damage, then escape

Then adrift in a stranger’s galaxy for a long time

But I’m safe now

I found it again, my home

Lmao, did the AI think the end of Trump’s gun was a burnt out cigarette?

14 states require an excuse, like disability or being out of the country, to vote by mail.

Your “presentation” not matching your ID is not an issue.

Should it be? No. But it’s an issue in some places for some people every election, because some poll workers hopped up on Fox News think the gender section in the ID not saying what they think it should say means voter fraud is happening.

As the article goes on to say, trans people vote at a higher rate than cis people, and that’s in spite of potential access issues at the poll.

If you would like to hate the history of Europe even more: This insane desecration of human corpses only began after the use of mummies for medicinal cannibalism fell out of fashion when it was discovered to be based on a mistranslation of Arabic texts.