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- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 2 days ago:
Most criminal laws are at the state level so it would be a CA law.
UNATTENDED CHILD IN MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY ACT
There is no need for a seperate law in the event of harm or death since that would just fall under existing harm/death of a child laws.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 2 days ago:
I can barely handle being in a car that has been sitting in the sun for the 5 minutes it takes for the AC to get up to speed.
- Comment on Why don't Americans use electric kettles? 4 days ago:
The conditions for that to happen are quiet rare. Not worth worrying about.
- Comment on Why don't Americans use electric kettles? 4 days ago:
My wife does. I have a thing for using a kettle on the oven.
- Comment on Why don't Americans use electric kettles? 4 days ago:
Too much clutter on my counters already. I can just leave the kettle on the oven.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Slapping on tariffs at a time with inflation, high consumer anxiety, and wage stagnation is going to be looked on as one of the worst moves a president has made.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
I remember during the big housing bubble in the early 2000s people were telling me “Oh you better buy now” even though down payments were insanely high and I kept thinking “The cost of housing is totally out of whack with incomes. There is no way this can keep going up.” Surprise, surprise the whole thing blew up and lots of people were then left with mortgages that cost more than their homes so they were stuck. On top of that the prices were still out of whack with incomes and I still couldn’t afford a house unless it was a wreck. I eventually just moved out of the state.
I was just reading how the normal “escape cities”, like Miami, for people fleeing high cost areas like San Francisco and Boston/NYC are now almost as expensive. Guess people will have to go to St Louis and Des Moines.
- Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media 4 days ago:
You need three prongs, infrastructure, training and enforcement. No one wants to spend the large amount of $ it would take to redesign thousands of miles of roads in each city. There is also the issue of how ridiculously low the bar is set for getting a license and how basic safety inspections are. In my state I can count on one hand how many times I’ve seen highway patrols enforcing traffic laws.
- Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media 4 days ago:
That is a pretty high number of shootings then. Practically everyone drives so that is a lot of miles/person. You have to drive, you don’t have to be shot, that is why it draws media attention.
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 1 week ago:
Maybe it can AFK my character in games for me
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 1 week ago:
Just pop some health potions
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 1 week ago:
Have you tried just eating food? Every time I do that in games it heals me. :P
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 1 week ago:
What healthcare?
- Comment on 98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen so many HVAC repair trucks on the roads this week.
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 2 weeks ago:
This drives me nuts with the news cycle. “The US won’t get involved in X”. The media shows how awful fighting/revolt/etc are in X. “Why won’t the US do something about the horror in X!?” The US gets involved and, of course, some civilians die. This is guaranteed in war. The media then goes “The US is awful for killing civilians in X!” The US pulls out of X. The media goes “Why has the US abandoned X!?”
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 2 weeks ago:
After WW2 the US became addicted to being the world police and many other countries were happy to have the US cover the cost of their defense or income from hosting US bases.
- Comment on The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete. People are outraged 3 weeks ago:
He is the white trash of presidents
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 3 weeks ago:
Wait until they get kidney stones from being chronically dehydrated
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 4 weeks ago:
Send in Newman, he can make a room full of muffin stumps disappear.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 4 weeks ago:
NC here and I haven’t found one this didn’t work on. Maybe the button is broken from people rage pushing it? :D
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 4 weeks ago:
The 2nd button down on the right side of the screen mutes it. I always hit it when pumping gas.
- Comment on The road they drove to dump this trash literally takes to the landfill 1 month ago:
It never stays pristine but the worst of it took decades to accumulate. We found over a dozen tires, a safe, a beaten up rowboat, tons of old clothes piled up at an old campsite and of course the every present cans and plastic bottles. We also worked on removing invasives. As time went on most of the trash was what got carried by the streams feeding it from drains. There was one time I found a car had been dumped off of the bike path and set on fire.
Thanks for cleaning things up. It is very satisfying if a bit frustrating too. It is one of the few things in life where the result is obvious and clearly positive. I’m always picking trash up on hikes. Maybe the owner of the land would be willing to assist you by providing a place you can deposit the bags of trash and they could truck it out weekly or so. We did something similar with the state (it was public land) and had a storage shed with tools a local business let us use.
- Comment on The road they drove to dump this trash literally takes to the landfill 1 month ago:
I worked on regular cleanups of a wetlands near my old apt and the bike path that ran by. We’d pull literally tons of crap out of there but over time it got less and less.
I remember the 70s-80s and the trash but that doesn’t excuse littering even less now.
- Comment on The road they drove to dump this trash literally takes to the landfill 1 month ago:
If. Old bottles, pizza boxes, etc aren’t going to identify you.
- Comment on The road they drove to dump this trash literally takes to the landfill 1 month ago:
What you do when no one is looking is your true character.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 2 months ago:
It is like a game designed by a bitter English teacher.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 2 months ago:
The old text adventures where being able to solve a puzzle required hitting the right words. “Oh, twist, not pull.”
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 2 months ago:
Size 3? You have peg legs.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I used to work with a guy from Syria who had US/Canadian citizenship. He said every time he crossed the border he budgeted in 3 extra hours while he was detained.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
People in border towns are always on alert for people walking remote roads, hitchhikers, etc. The border strip itself is cleared and monitored with remote cameras, drones, patrols on horseback and ATVs, etc.