The officer should have asked. That’s when you could tell him you don’t consent to a search. It’s a bad idea to do this for a lot of reasons but that’s not one of them.

If someone is searching through your pockets without your approval and against your wishes, they better hope they are right to do so and are taking all of the necessary precautions.

You’re not under any obligation to make the private contents of your pockets safe for other people to rifle through.

Unfortunately the people making that call are largely people that are on that list or closely connected to people that are.

I think this is, in large part, one of the reasons many of these authoritarian types get out of control.

On some level they know whether or not they consider their actions to be illegal that other people will. At some point they anticipate blowback and a lot of their flailing overreach stems directly from trying to get out ahead of any consequences that may come their way.

Or this is the fall she was brought in for…

Did he delete this I can’t find it?

Butter kept in the freezer can be kept indefinitely.

If camera phones and the internet were available then they absolutely would have hidden their face, in the beginning at least

I worked at a dental lab once and we had a patient who The doctor said wanted bigger teeth.

Having made teeth for a while, this was a first for everyone in the lab. At some point teeth don’t get much bigger. At some point the amount of metal and porcelain were putting into the mouth of this 82-year-old woman is a substantial weight of material not to mention its volume.

When one doctor refused to make any bigger teeth she went to other doctors who required her to pay up front. We got this lady’s case back a dozen times.

We’ve remade this thing from scratch at her expense and she looked downright cartoonish every time we’d get photos back.

The frame for her full arch mandibular implant retained PFM was the single largest cast of gold alloy anyone in the entire lab had ever poured or seen poured for dental work.

Some people have money and they’re addicted to the process. I can’t think of any other reason for this lady to have done that.

I’m hoping for regime change in Israel too. Really I wish the leadership of both of them to expire in their entirety.

The IDF is turning the civilian population into human shields. Here is to hoping the Israelis can find some shred humanity or responsibility and overthrow their genocidal government before they can expand their aggression even further.

Mass tourism is only a problem if you aren’t in the business of catering to tourists.

Seems like the actual problem is wages, staffing, and working conditions. The problem is greed at the top. Big fucking surprise.

I think a lot of people are glad that Israel is actually attacking somebody who can fight back now instead of more innocent defenseless children in their open air death camp.

It really will but not because it’s so functional that we can’t compete with it.

It’s going to cause mass unemployment because the imagined potential end of labor is so lucrative that it’s worth just about any price. Since the people who will own it don’t have to pay most of that price they are of course willing to force it into every single space out there to further externalize research and development costs onto an unwilling public.

They genuinely don’t care what is spent, broken, or lost in their pursuit of infinite wealth.

That’s a lot of words to use just to communicate that you like the taste of boots.

Are you serious?

They can’t voice their opinion.

If they voice their opinion they get kicked out Even faster, but only after they’ve been put into a holding cell for days to weeks to months and maybe left to die of exposure for the crime of checks notes exercising the first amendment…

People in America are being thrown into a gulag with no hope for release to work as slave labor until they die in a foreign country.

There’s no silver lining here. We are becoming more like China. It’s not a good thing.

A friend of mine noticed that a police car was coming up fast behind us so he told our friend with a joint to get rid of it. The police car had its lights flashing and though we were going probably 60 or 70 it was easily going 80 or 90.

The friend flicked it right out the window, and to my great horror it went right in the window of the cop car as it sailed by us. We could see it bounce into the back window like a hammer striking iron, The cab lit up brighter than I thought a single joint would shine against the glare of the cherries and berries.

We immediately got off the highway, took the first few turns we could and then parked in a driveway with all the lights off.

Two police cars drove down the street behind us with lights flashing but no sirens while we hunkered down trying to avoid being seen. We just kind of hid there for probably 40 minutes until we stop seeing police lights.

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What’s the opposite of white noise? Because it’s that. That’s what I hear.

If she’s using the money and her campaign feeds homeless people to attract attention then I can’t possibly imagine how it would be misappropriating money.

Should she be paying it as a salary to one of her cousin’s, maybe she should be buying ad spots on network television?

We’re talking about her and she used the money. What the hell do you want?

It’s more like bad comedy.

At some point in the show Gallagher runs out of watermelons to smash and has to tell some jokes.

Elon didn’t go anywhere. Him leaving was theater in the hopes that his stocks would stop cratering.