_bcron

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[–] _bcron@midwest.social 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

About weed, funniest shit, republicans didn't understand the language in a bill pushing for hemp-derived edibles and decided to push it through lol https://www.npr.org/2022/07/02/1109576113/minnesota-thc-edibles-accident-delta-8

I think that's a different bill than our smokeable marijuana bill but you gotta appreciate the irony

After an amendment passed unanimously during a Minnesota legislative session in May, state Sen. Abeler jokingly said: "That doesn't legalize marijuana — we just didn't do that, did we?"

[–] _bcron@midwest.social 23 points 6 days ago

And then 2 years later they realize their tax base can't support their infrastructure and this is how Iowa grows a couple gnarly tentacles

[–] _bcron@midwest.social 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A Republican politician circulating photos of underage girls without their knowledge or consent? Color me shocked. Unlike Gaetz, Cruz has the decency to only used clothed images, so at least we gotta give him credit for that

[–] _bcron@midwest.social 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They should stand before a jury of their peers and the jury should be allowed to hear both sides and come to a determination based on what had been presented to them.

There's enough credibility in the claim that they're doing this in order to deprive citizens of their constitutional rights that I think they should stand trial and allow for a conclusion.

Court is often where intent is decided

[–] _bcron@midwest.social 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That's cool but we really need to start looking at shit like this as intent to deprive people of their constitutional rights and charge them for such

[–] _bcron@midwest.social 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

The median driver sure, but the bottom couple percent never miss their exit and tend to do boneheaded shit like swerving into the next lane when there's a stopped car at a crosswalk. >40,000 US fatalities in 2023. There are probably half a dozen fatalities in the US on any given day by the time the clock strikes 12:01AM on the west coast.

Edit: some more food for thought as I've been pondering:

FSD may or may not be better than the median driver (maybe this investigation will add to knowledge), but it's likely better than the worst drivers... But the worst drivers are the most likely to vastly overestimate their competence, which might lead to them actively avoiding the use of any such aids, despite those drivers being the ones who would see the greatest benefit from using them. We might be forever stuck with boneheaded drivers doing boneheaded shit

[–] _bcron@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

It also violates collusion laws and also collusion clauses in their own terms found at
https://sde.ok.gov/ev00000555

Kinda odd that they chose to adbicate any fiduciary responsibility in order to prefer a book with an extremely specific physical design on the basis of durability, despite that design being so specific that it costs >10 times more than less specifically-designed books, when the only people who can acquiesce to such a request are political figures of the same affiliation

[–] _bcron@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

To top it all off the email/text had information redacted not by blurring it with paint, but by using characters in the same font with the same line breaks.

I mean seriously, who does that? Only time I've ever busted out inspector to modify a website or tweet or email is to elaborately troll someone with a sceenshot.

Did they really use inspector to redact info out an legit document about an allegedly widespread thing that no one else can produce, or did they draft the whole thing, used strings of 'x' to mark where to blur, and forget to blur? /shrug

[–] _bcron@midwest.social 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] _bcron@midwest.social 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Be me, postal worker. One of our machines uses a csv file to attach zip codes to bins. See fresh engineer decide to change one zip code in notepad really quick. See file's formatting get wrecked. Spend next 6 hours watching all the mail spit out of the very last bin every time they think they finally fix it as if machine has irritable bowel syndrome. Engineer earns nickname 'boy wonder' first week on job

[–] _bcron@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago

The only people wishing for civil war are too short-sighted to understand how horribly it would go for them. Ports, airports, water treatment plants, data centers, power stations etc etc etc predominantly located in urban areas. Good luck to the AR-15 loving whackjobs when they're instantly landlocked and deprived of foreign trade and means to communicate. They turn on the TV and the only broadcasts they'd see are "this can end now and it all starts with you"

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