Bertuccio

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Must have dropped out of strawman school...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You're definitely on the right track.

The only actual job of the police is to file crime reports.

They do not prevent crime. Protect innocents. Make people show up for court etc. They have no obligation to stop a crime in progress or protect someone being hurt, even if they're standing right there and could stop it.

Anything in the justice system that you value is either done by someone else, or actually isn't done at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Harris chose to do something immoral because "it was the law", or it benefited her, or whatever - and you can expect her to continue doing that.

You still have to vote for her, but you also have to be realistic about who you're actually voting for.

Republicans are the party who holds their candidates up without criticism - and Dems put up Kamala now exactly because Democrats were criticizing Biden - and even though she's one of the worst candidates they've put up in years, she's still far more electable than Biden.

So yes. You need to both vote for and criticize Harris. It's the least immoral choice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I got my prependix taken out as a kid due to an infection.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Now I've got 'er, boys.
The boss is on a roll!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Apparently it's not just an American thing, but maybe other countries have more sense not to do it anymore.

They're usually in "high end" restaurants in big cities like Las Vegas. The ones I recall usually have the sinks somewhat separated from the stalls with a partition or turn, but they're not wholly separate rooms. The motivations are probably more needing money, access to a fancy place, and being an extrovert than perversion - more windshield wiper gig than peeping Tom.

I think it's a combination of a holdover from another time that maybe was useful when they had an expanded role - they probably actually used to keep the bathroom clean, and some guys will shine shoes etc. - and tip-based service jobs they gave to poor people. I think they do get an hourly rate, but it's probably below minimum wage for the same reasons waiting tables is.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Bathroom attendants - since people got all the high value stuff.

I don't mean people that clean the bathroom etc.

I mean the guy that stands at the sink and makes awkward small talk before handing you a towel you could have got yourself and expects a tip.

EDIT: Y'all I'm pretty sure no one's having sex or shooting up in the bathroom at the fucking Eiffel Tower restaurant in Las Vegas ... Coke - probably. I don't know where anyone else has seen a bathroom attendant, but every place I've seen one at I've been wearing a suit...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'd say it also needs to be entirely optional and be opt-in only. Any service, program, whatever needs to work fully for anyone who doesn't allow their data to be sold or released with extremely few exceptions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Better solution.

Data are owned by the generator. Only they can sell it etc...

This also solves the privacy problem of law enforcement agencies applying warrants to phone companies etc. for access to your data, which has been an end-run around 4th Amendment rights for decades.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

My Thai girlfriend says penis size doesn't matter, but I still wish hers wasn't bigger than mine.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Remember way back when, when you could set icons to be whatever you want?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

This is literally the "You never know when my brother is coming" joke in real life.

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