He has a full load, according to the schedule, but he might be able to sneak you in somewhere
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ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Maryland to Become First US State to Ban Surveillance Pricing That Charges More After Mining Personal Data
2·3 days agoI believe only Delta has said they will eventually use that kind of pricing, but I dont think they actually started yet. Ive tried checking the price of airline tickets on different devices that are both mine or not mine, and the prices are always the same whether they know its me or not.
The only thing “dynamic” about airline ticket pricing is that it changes over time, but that is not personalized pricing where people get charged different amounts at the same time. The article is conflating those two things
Im not going to dispute the reality that doing whatever you want on your own property, assuming its large enough that youre basically alone, is kind of de facto legal in the sense that you most likely wont get in trouble for doing it.
But, that doesnt make it actually legal. The way that most state laws on DUIs are written you can get a DUI doing a lot of things that are nothing like driving a car on a public roadway.
One example: a Zamboni DUI in Fargo, ND where the defense contested that you cant get a DUI on a zam under state law
Defense attorney Lindsey Haugen said during the bench trial Tuesday that the law is not clear whether a Zamboni is considered a vehicle, or whether it is illegal to drive the machine on the ice while drunk. He also said witnesses are hazy on whether Anderson drove the Zamboni on a road behind the arena to dump ice or whether that road was accessible to other vehicles.
But Municipal Court Judge Stephen Dawson said state law is written to include vehicles “such as” a Zamboni.
Afterward, Haugen said his research of DUI law found specific vehicles such as tractors, snowmobiles, recreational vehicles and boats, but he found no references to a Zamboni.
Looking at this, you can clearly see that the law in ND outlines a ton of stuff that tends to happen on private (or otherwise closed) property and not on a roadway using a car. Boating is an obvious example since its in the water, but recreational vehicles definitely refers to ATVs and side by sides or whatever they call them. Tractors are driven on roadways sometimes but obviously most of their use is on private land. Snowmobiling also doesnt occur on open roadways, and at most occasionally crosses them.
If a snowmobiler is drunk and hits a snowshoer or crashes on a privately owned mountain, they still will get a DUI. If a guy operates a zamboni drunk in a private non-profit ice rink they still get a DUI. If you got drunk and went go-karting you could get a DUI.
If you get wasted and do donuts on your own private field, whether in a snowmobile, a truck, or a zamboni, legally you could definitely get a DUI. But you wouldn’t probably get one. There is a worthwhile distinction to be made there. If you and a friend get wasted and take the ‘boni out to whip shitties in your private field, but he flies off and dies, you’re definitely getting a DUI in the investigation of that death
It’s all very “if a tree drives drunk in the middle of a forest, but no one is around to see it, is it a DUI?” The answer is still yes, or at least it would be in a world where trees drive cars
You 100% can. People have gotten DUIs for operating a Zamboni while drunk, which is a vehicle that drives entirely in a closed environment not on the roadway.
You can get a DUI for driving anything while intoxicated that requires a drivers license to operate, regardless of where you are operating it. You can also get a DUI for operating anything on a roadway while intoxicated regardless of if it requires a license, like a bicycle, ATV, golf cart, etc.
That said, people who get blasted and drive around their own privately owned fields are not likely to get caught. That doesnt mean that just because they dont get caught that its not illegal to do
It was fundamentally founded in the concept of “a king having power over everyone is unfair, but obviously having a ruling class of oligarchs is okay”, and basically has never moved from that point. Just rich white dudes mad at one more powerful rich white dude. They never intended to give up an inch of their own power. They were just salty about the king
ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•‘Bullet doesn’t match’: Bombshell claim from lawyers of Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer Tyler Robinson
5·22 days agoWhen asked about the defense’s characterization of the ATF report, Christopher D. Ballard, a spokesperson for the Utah County Attorney’s Office, told USA TODAY ethical rules prohibit him from speaking publicly about forensic testing and test results.
“But I can say generally that when the results of a bullet fragment analysis come back as inconclusive, that means only that the fragment did not contain enough detail for the examiner to determine whether the characteristics on the fragment were consistent with having been fired by a particular firearm,” Ballard said.
Per USA Today article on the same topic

Id prefer to see a nice pair of boobies
All my axes live in taxis
The business end or the oopsie poopsie side of it?
Im more of a kōnane man myself
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Funny@sh.itjust.works•Just feels like further incentive, to be honest
14·1 month agoPeople who use public Venmo are stupid, prostitution aside. What an artifact of the “anything and everything should be social media somehow” era
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Funny@sh.itjust.works•Two authors from a fisheries report by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game
6·1 month agoWorking under the direction of a Dr. Charlie Tuna, PhD

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LinkedinLunatics@sh.itjust.works•Still going strong after 1 year of use
24·1 month ago20 years of no use but at least they look elegant (except that they look like shit)
The unergonomic handle design on every single knife seems like something I would actively avoid using if at all possible
Maybe Im weird, but when sleep sleeping I find it absolutely impossible to sleep in that position (or on my back at all for that matter). But every time I ever nap I sleep laying exactly like the guy is in the meme
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Memes@lemmy.ml•If you're suffering from constipation of your Strait of Hormuz, ask your doctor if Naloxegol is right for you.
2·1 month agoLotta gas backed up in there





Now we can dream that one day hoverboarding will move beyond being the premature ejaculation of recreational activities